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New Award Could Become Nobel for Engineering At Buckingham Palace, Queen Elizabeth presented her first ever Prize for Engineering, including one million British pounds, to Americans Robert Kahn and Vincent Cerf, and Frenchman Louis Pouzin for inventi

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Technology Report - Golden Gate Bridge Still Shining Strong After 75 Years This is the VOA Special English Technology Report. The Golden Gate Bridge is celebrating its seventy-fifth anniversary. The bridge opened to vehicle traffic on May twenty-eigh

CNN 2011-11-09

First up, Greece is forming a new government, its current leader is not expected to be a part of it. Greece has a political system made of a lot of different political parties. A member of several of those parties are putting together a coalition, ki

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I think the idea of genetic engineering is fascinating. Its also quite dangerous. Fiddling around with what makes us human might make us less human. We could end up creating a Frankensteins monster. The idea of genetic engineering has been around for

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I think the idea of genetic engineering is fascinating. Its also quite dangerous. Fiddling around with what makes us human might make us less human. We could end up creating a Frankensteins monster. The idea of genetic engineering has been around for

Take Away English-Sichuan Earthquake 四川地震

Relief workers remembering those who died Flags are flying at half-mast across China. China is coming to the end of an official period of mourning for those who died in last weeks earthquake. For three days, there have been no entertainment events a

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The earthquake came as a surprise to people in Britain On 27th February 2008, something very unusual happened in the UK; there was a rather large earthquake. It was the biggest earthquake in 25 years in the UK. There have been very small tremors in

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Broadcast: May 16, 2003 By George Grow This is the VOA Special English Environment Report. Scientists in the United States have developed a computer program that they say could provide an early warnin

VOA慢速英语2018 阿拉斯加继续进行地震恢复工作

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Japan’s Early Warning System One of the Best in the World

This is the VOA Special English Technology Report. A powerful earthquake struck the northeastern coast of Japan at two forty-six p.m. local time on March eleventh. Japans Meteorological Agency released its first tsunami warnings just three minutes la

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Earthquakes continue to surprise you. ... You can learn something new from each of them that will benefit future designs and future generations. Brady Cox The January 12 Haiti earthquake and its aftershocks killed or injured hundreds of thousands of

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Japan is the United States' fourth-largest trading（贸易） partner, and trade had increased the first two months of this year -- before the earthquake and tsunami. Now the two busiest container ports in the United States are seeing the effects of

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Businesses in Haiti are struggling to recover from the devastating earthquake January 12. Many workers have lost their jobs, and employers are trying to get their businesses up and running. Mike O'Sullivan visited one large Haitian company, Acra Indu

SW China earthquake injures 8

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MILAN, Italy, Jan. 22 (Xinhua) -- European Commission（委员会） President Jose Manuel Barroso said Saturday Europe could no longer postpone fiscal consolidation and structural reforms in order to return to growth after the economic crisis. In a

VOA标准英语2009年-Earthquake Cripples Indonesian City of Pad

By Brian Padden Padang, Indonesia 03 October 2009 Aerial image of buildings destroyed by earthquake in Padang, West Sumatra, Indonesia, 03 Oct 2009 Foreign emergency rescue teams are working to reach areas in and around Indonesia's port city, Padang

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Hundreds of soldiers from the Chinese Navy, as well as students from the Naval University of Engineering in Wuhan city, Hubei province, are involved in the rescue mission for the Eastern Star ship, which sank in the Yangtze River Monday night. Navy d