凯特斯蒂文斯(原名:Steven Demetre Georgiou 斯蒂文德米特乔治乌;艺名:Cat Stevens 凯特斯蒂文斯),1948年7月21日出生于英国伦敦,民谣唱作人、社会活动家、慈善家。是二十世纪七十年代英国民

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DEVELOPMENT REPORT - Buffett's Gift of Wealth Will Aid Efforts to Cure DiseasesBy Brianna Blake Broadcast: Sun, 2 Jul 2006 16:00:00 UTC This is Shep O'Neal with the VOA Special English Development Rep

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DEVELOPMENT REPORT - New Efforts Aim to Get More H.I.V. Drugs to Poor CountriesBy Jill Moss Broadcast: Monday, January 23, 2006 I'm Steve Ember with the VOA Special English Development Report. The fig

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Mary had just returned from her school. She was thirsty. Mary, you can have a cup of milk, called her mother. Mary went into the dinning hall. Mummy, the milk is spoilt, she cried out. Her mother came in. Let me see. Yes. This milk is spoilt, her mot

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This is the VOA Special English Health Report. A boy waits to be tested for malaria in Mozambique in 2000 Malaria infects as many as five hundred million people worldwide each year and kills more than one million of them. The ones who die are mostly

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VOICE ONE: This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. Im Barbara Klein. VOICE TWO: And Im Steve Ember. On our program this week, we tell about the disease tuberculosis. It is one of the world's leading infectious diseases. We also tell abou

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The Journal of the American Medical Association doesnt usually report autopsy results. But they make an exception this week: for King Tut. The study of the boy king involved DNA analysis and CAT scans. Researchers used genetic fingerprints from Tut a

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IN THE NEWS - W.H.O. Members Mourn Death of Agency Chief Lee Jong-wookBy Nancy Steinbach Broadcast: Saturday, May 27, 2006 I'm Steve Ember with IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. Lee Jong-wook Health

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DEVELOPMENT REPORT - WHO Warns Against Misuse of Malaria DrugBy Jill Moss Broadcast: Monday, January 30, 2006 This is Shep O'Neal with the VOA Special English Development Report. The World Health Orga

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HEALTH REPORT - Increased Efforts Urged to Fight TuberculosisBy Cynthia Kirk Broadcast: Wednesday, March 29, 2006 I'm Shep O'Neal with the VOA Special English Health Report. Almost two million people

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EXPLORATIONS - Doc Holliday and the Old West By Paul Thompson Broadcast: Wednesday, April 21, 2004 (THEME) VOICE ONE: This is Phoebe Zimmermann. John Henry Holliday. VOICE TWO: And this is Doug Johnso

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1. The Atlanta lawyer quarantined with a rare strain of tuberculosis is said to be doing well at a Denver hospital. The attending physician says Andrew Speaker has a very low level of contagion. Meantime friends of Speaker's are coming to his defens

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1. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says it's searching for 80 people who may have come in contact with the man infected with a dangerous form of tuberculosis. The man is now quarantined but he took two trans-Atlantic flights beforehan

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1. A man with a rare and dangerous form of tuberculosis may have spread the disease to passengers and crew on two trans-Atlantic flights from Paris and from Prague earlier this month. We have no suspicion that this patient was highly infectious. In f

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BBC Learning English6 Minute EnglishAcademic to Activist Yvonne: Hello - this is '6 minute English', I'm Yvonne Archer - and thanks to WilliamKremer for joining me today. William: Hello Yvonne. Yvonne: Hello William! Today, we hear from a very impre

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This is the VOA Special English Development Report. Recently we talked about Voxiva, a provider of information technology systems for health workers in poor countries. This Washington-based company has been working for three years with the government

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This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Bovine tuberculosis is a progressive wasting disease. It affects mainly cattle but also sheep, goats, pigs and other animals. People who get bovine TB have to take strong antibiotics for up to nine

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This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. Leaders at the Group of Eight meeting last week in Heiligendamm, Germany, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and German Chancellor Angela Merkel at the G8 Summit in Heiligendamm, Germany discussed is

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This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Every year, malaria sickens about five hundred million people. More than one million of them die, mostly young children and pregnant women in Africa. A Nigerian mother with an insecticide-treated bed ne

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Hi everyone. I'm Naomi Shah, and today I'll be talking to you about my research involving indoor air quality and asthmatic patients. 大家好,我是劳伦霍奇,今天我要跟你们讲讲我关于室内空气质量和哮喘病人的研究。 1.

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