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Israeli, Palestinian Women Tour US to Speak Out Against Isra

By Suzanne Presto Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's plan to withdraw from the Gaza Strip and parts of the West Bank is facing strong opposition in parliament. As the prime minister tries to garner

VOA慢速英语2013 AS IT IS - The struggles and successes of ordinary women

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Why Men Are Becoming More Like Women

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By Carol Pearson Washington 07 May 2008 The World Health Organization expects the number of women who smoke to triple over the next generation, if current trends continue. As a result, it expects more than 200 million women to die from tobacco induce

HEALTH REPORT - Tuberculosis and Women

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Despite official U.S. policy banning women from military jobs that could put them into direct combat, women have increasingly been part of the ground operations - and seen fighting - in Iraq. A special team of female soldiers has accompanied male tr

Rabo Cycling presents ambitions, women's team

UTRECHT, the Netherlands, Dec. 6(Xinhua) -- The Rabo Cycling teams for 2012 were presented on Tuesday at the head-quarters of sponsor Rabobank in Utrecht, the Netherlands. Besides the Pro Team, the Continental Team and the Offroad Team, a women's tea

Women Talk More Than Men

A husband, proving to his wife that women talk more than men, showed her a study which indicated that men use on the average only 15,000 words a day, whereas women use 30,000 words a day. She thought about this for awhile and then told her husband th

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BEIJING, March 4 (Xinhuanet) -- Well-educated and well-paid single Chinese women were at the forefront of a boom in travel by the country's women in 2010. According to the 2010 Trend Report of Women's Travel, the amount of travel by Chinese women inc

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CCTV9英语新闻：International Women’s Day: Leadership roles for women

March 8 is International Women's Day. In the past decades, more and more women have entered into political and business leadership positions. But the number of women leaders still lags behind men, and the path to leadership is also often different fo