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Lesson 32 Galileo reborn 伽利略的复生 First listen and then answer the following question. 听录音，然后回答以下问题。 What has modified out traditional view of Galileo in recent times? In his own lifetime Galileo was the centre of v

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Cluster balloonists tie a bunch of helium balloons to a lawn chair, sit in the chair, cut the anchor rope, and go flying into the wild blue yonder. To land, they cut some of the cords attaching the balloons to the chair. A small group of daredevils h

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This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Steve Mursky. Got a minute? Orbiting around stars far far away is sand. Astronomers have found sandy particles circling a pair of stars about 2,400 light years from us. And they think they might be

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This is Scientific Americans 60-Second Science. Im Karen Hopkin. This will just take a minute. If youve ever wondered where the Earth came from, the answer, it seems, is blowin in the windthe solar wind. Or so say scientists who, after examining sola

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By Lisa Schlein Geneva 12 November 2006 A Cluster Bomb Unit, dropped by Israeli warplanes, sits in southern village of Ouazaiyeh, Lebanon, November 9, 2006 A new international treaty aimed at reducing the deaths and injuries from cluster bombs, land

2006年VOA标准英语-Israeli-Dropped Cluster Bomblets Threaten South

By Margaret Besheer Beirut 27 August 2006 Lebanese Sobhi Abbas, top, comforts his son Abbas Abbas, 6-years-old, who was injured while playing with a cluster bomb in Blida, on Saturday August 26, 2006 Two weeks ago, a U.N. brokered truce ended 34 day

VOA标准英语2012--Hundreds of Thousands of Cluster Munitions Destroyed

Hundreds of Thousands of Cluster Munitions Destroyed A new report says governments that joined the treaty banning cluster munitions have destroyed nearly 750-thousand of the weapons since 2008. However, it also says there are credible allegations of

VOA标准英语2013--VOA Finds Evidence of Syrian Cluster Bomb Use

VOA Finds Evidence of Syrian Cluster Bomb Use In Azaz, Syria, in late January, Syrian government forces used what arms experts say is a particularly deadly weapon. Residents say a plane dropped nine large cluster bombs on this neighborhood on the out

VOA标准英语2013--Cluster Munitions Have Prolonged Impact

Cluster Munitions Have Prolonged Impact Mohamed is 13 years old. Two years ago, he played with a shiny metal object he found outside his home in Benghazi, Libya. He didn't know it was a cluster munition until it exploded. Cluster munitions release sm

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The Aeneid by Virgil 《埃涅阿斯纪》维吉尔 Mark first read the Aeneid while he was studying Latin in high school, and he recounted the story of Aeneass quest and his desire to build a city that, he said, quoting the text in English, knows no

2007年VOA标准英语-Study: Millions Affected by Cluster Bombs

By Lisa Schlein Geneva 16 May 2007 In a just released report Wednesday, Handicap International says hundreds of millions of people worldwide face a daily risk of death or maiming by cluster bombs. Lisa Schlein has more for VOA from Geneva, where the

China Lands Spacecraft on 'Dark' Side of Moon

Chinas space program has become the first to land a spacecraft on the so-called dark side of the moon. The landing on Thursday brought the country closer to its goal of becoming a space power. The China National Space Administration said the landing

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Oxygen therapy can bring drug-free relief to many Vidushi Sinha | Washington, DC 15 December 2009 A new study shows that breathing pure oxygen can considerably lessen the agony experienced with severe headaches Cluster headaches are described by suff

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Shortly after Copernicus, in the 1580s, an Italian friar, Giordano Bruno, 哥白尼死后不久，在十六世纪80年代，意大利修道士焦尔达诺布鲁诺提出， suggested the stars were suns that likely had their own planets and that the

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How old is the Earth? 地球的年龄有多大？ Well, by counting the number of isotopes in a sample of rock that's undergone radioactive decay, 通过对岩石样品中正经历着放射衰变的同位素计数， geologists have estimated the Ear

太空惊现“上帝之手”

It looks like a hand of God reaching out into the cosmos, but NASA says the display is caused by a young and powerful pulsar. Taken by NASA's Chandra X-ray observatory from it's orbiting 360 miles above the Earth, the recently released photo of Pulsa

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Now as we pull away from this world -- we're going to keep pulling away from the star now. 现在，我们将视线从这个世界里移出来--我们从这个星球移出来了 One of the things that always frustrated me a little bit about astronomy

环球英语 — 290：Cluster Bombs

Voice 1 Welcome to Spotlight. I'm Ruby Jones. Voice 2 And I'm Ryan Geertsma. Spotlight uses a special English method of broadcasting. It is easier for people to understand, no matter where in the world they live. Voice 1 Soraj Ghulam Habib is a young