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This is the VOA Special English Health Report. New York City wants to fight fat. The Board of Health has passed a ban on trans fats in all restaurants. Kentucky Fried Chicken sells a fried chicken fre

Mineral Smuggling Losses Said to Cost

By David Lewis A natural resources watchdog group issued a report Tuesday warning that smuggling and corruption are costing the Democratic Republic of Congo millions of dollars a month in lost revenue

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11 Nations Sign Trans-Pacific Trade Deal Without US

Eleven countries in the Pacific region have signed a major Asia-Pacific free trade agreement in Santiago, Chile. The deal is a new version of the Trans-Pacific Partnership from which the U.S. withdrew last year. The agreement is called the Comprehens

WHO Wants to Remove Trans Fats from Food

From VOA Learning English, this is the Health Lifestyle report. There may be something in your food that you cannot see and cannot taste. But it could be killing you. It is an artificial oil commonly called trans fat. Trans fat is a toxic chemical th

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This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Weather does not discriminate between large and small farms. If it rains too much or too little, crop insurance can pay for losses. Yet insurance usually costs too much for a farmer with as little a

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Anna Boiko-Weyrauch | Sikoro, Mali 26 March 2010 In the West African nation of Mali, villagers are cutting firewood to pay their medical bills. But in an ironic twist that is making their environment more unhealthy. In the village of Kabe, about 50 k

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Two adorable red pandas appeared to be playing a game of cops and robbers in the snow. 雪地里，两只憨态可掬的小熊猫似乎在玩警察抓小偷的游戏。 One seems to tell the other one: 'Freeze, show me your hands up!' as the pair fac

The Art of Fiction

The Art of Fiction: A Guide for Writers and Readers is a nonfiction book by Ayn Rand,published posthumously. Edited by Tore Boeckmann, it was published by Plume in 2000. The book is based on a 1958 series of 12 four-hour lectures about fiction which

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We're really more into Batman. 我们通常都更偏爱蝙蝠侠（Batman）。 But this guy is really into Red Skull, the supervillain from Captain America. 不过有人却偏偏痴迷于《美国队长》（Captain America）里的大反派红骷髅（

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Part 2. Green Transporation Festival. Keywords. Green Transporation Festival, oil, environment, reduce, other kinds of fuels. Vocabulary. hydrogen, propane, scooter, hybrid, ethanol. A. You are going to hear a report on green transporation festival.

National standard for trans fat labeling

BEIJING, Nov. 4 (Xinhuanet) -- The amount of trans fat and other nutritional information will be marked on the labels of prepackaged food, according to the country's first national standard for food nutrition. The labeling will take effect on Jan 1,

The Art of Doing Nothing

The Art of Doing Nothing Sure, we all know how to do nothing. We all know how to lay around and waste time. But many of us are too busy to do it much, and when we do it, our minds are often on other things. We cannot relax and enjoy the nothingness.

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Both metaphorically and in reality, the translucency connected the inner engineering of the computer to the outer design. 无论是比喻还是现实，这种半透明都把内部的工程学构造和外壳设计联系在了一起。 Jobs had always

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By the next showing Ive had refined the playful model. 在下一次展示之前，艾弗又完善了这个模型。 This time Jobs, with his binary view of the world, raved that he loved it. 这一次，乔布斯带着他那不是杰作就是狗屎的评

The Art of Cry

The Art of Cry When Mrs Johnson entered Belli's room, she found that he was binding up his thumb. What's the matter with you? she asked. It is because of that hammer. Belli answered. But I didn't hear you cry. Oh, I thought you were not in just now.

The art of living

The art of living is to know when to hold fast and when to let go. For life is a paradox: it enjoins us to cling to its many gifts even while it ordains their eventual relinquishment. The rabbis of old put it this way: A man comes to this world with

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July Skies是Antony Harding的个人乐队，从开始至今的大部分时间里都是Anthony Harding的个人计划。此外，在演出和录制作品时，另一支氛围后摇乐队Epic 45也往往参与。两队音乐的确有相近之处，只不

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