VOA慢速英语2018 加州火灾受害者家属要求提供DNA协助确认身份

California Fire Victims Families Asked to Give DNA Officials in Northern California say a deadly wildfire that began two weeks ago is almost completely contained. 加州北部的工作人员表示，2周前烧起来的一场致命大火基本上已经全

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It is incredible, and it is incredibly hard to believe too, because although we've changed so much, we don't actually see any of those changes happening. Generation after generation, we just look the

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By David McAlary Scientists have discovered fossils of an ancient, tiny species of human in an isolated part of Indonesia. They are bones from what they say is a smaller version of the now extinct imm

SSS 2008-08-06

This is Scientific Americans 60-Second Science, Im Cynthia Graber. Thisll just take a minute. Clues about modern-day tuberculosis could be found in some 6,000 year old bones. Israeli, Palestinian and German scientists have teamed up to investigate th

UN Says Afghan Elections on Track

By Peter Heinlein United Nations officials say preparations for Afghanistan's October 9 presidential election are on track, despite expectations of violence. U.N. and Afghan diplomats reject warnings

VOA英语2010年-Clinton Urges Enhanced OSCE Role on Human Ri

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, at the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe Summit in Kazakhstan's capital, Astana, has urged an enhanced OSCE role in settling regional conflicts and promoting human rights. Clinton also sealed

2007年VOA标准英语-Ivory Coast Resumes Identification Project

By Phillip Wellman Dakar 25 September 2007 A program to issue identity papers to millions of undocumented northerners has begun in Ivory Coast, a step many say is necessary to reconcile the divided nation as elections draw closer. Phillip Wellman rep

英国科学家称已发现战争的最古老证据

AS IT IS 2016-01-25 Scientists Find Most Ancient Evidence of War British scientists say they have found the oldest known evidence of war. Researchers discovered the remains of 27 people near Lake Turkana in northern Kenya. Scientists say they believe

VOA标准英语2011--New Species Might be Human Ancestor

New Species Might be Human Ancestor Fossils found in a South African cave might belong to a new species of early humans that holds a unique place on the evolutionary road to modern man. On a 2008 mapping expedition in Malapa, South Africa, American p

VOA标准英语2009年-UN Special Rappoteurs: Human Rights Abuses

By Margaret Besheer United Nations 22 October 2009 Vitit Muntarbhorn The U.N. Special Rappoteur for North Korea warned Thursday that the human rights situation in that country remains abysmal because of the Pyongyang's repressive government. Vitit M

2007年VOA标准英语-Sudan Denies a United Nations Human Rights Team

By Jim Fry Washington, DC 13 February 2007 watch Sudan UN report The Sudanese government Monday said it would deny visas to a U.N. human rights mission due to arrive this week to investigate alleged abuses in Darfur. The team leader says it is in Su

2007年VOA标准英语-UN Officials Warn of Delays in Ivory Coast Peac

By Nico Colombant Dakar 19 June 2007 Visiting officials from the United Nations Security Council are warning of delays in the latest peace plan in divided Ivory Coast. Despite the presence of U.N. peacekeepers, the world body is playing a limited rol

VOA常速英语2007年-UN Rebukes Sudan Over Human Rights Abuses in Da

By Lisa Schlein Geveva 12 December 2007 A group of UN experts has criticized the government of Sudan for failing to implement most of the recommendations made by special investigators to the conflict-racked Darfur region. The group presented its repo

VOA常速英语2007年-UN Calls for Respect for Human Rights

By Lisa Schlein Geneva 10 December 2007 To mark Human Rights Day on 10 December, the United Nations kicked-off a year-long campaign leading up to the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in December 2008. The campaign aims to

voa标准英语2008-UN: Human Rights Abuses in Iraq Still Widespread

The United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq has released its 13th human-rights report, which covers the first six months of 2008 and shows a marked drop in violent attacks by militias or criminal gangs in the country. But Lisa Schlein reports for

Bird flu no threat to Australia: medical chief

CANBERRA, Aug. 31 (Xinhua) -- Australia's new chief medical officer, Professor Chris Baggoley, on Wednesday said Australian should not be worried about reports that a mutant strain of the deadly bird flu virus is spreading across Asia and beyond. On

VOA标准英语2009年-Scientists Unearth Earliest Pre-Human Skel

By Jessica Berman Washington 02 October 2009 Anthropologists from around the world have added another million or so years to the history of human evolution. Scientists say the latest fossil find - while not a direct ancestor of modern humans, may of

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People always say: life is nothing but a sum of moments. I suppose everyone has their own moments, either high or low, up or down, such as being born, first learning to walk, laughing hard, bursting into tears, being touched by a child's smile, losin

英闻天下——274 Remains of "Ape Woman" Returned to Mexico

The remains of a Mexican woman have now been buried in her home state of Sinaloa after 150 years at a research facility in Norway. She had been on display since Victorian-era Europe because of a rare genetic condition. The move puts an end to an era

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Yet, concerned by mounting inequality in America, he thought that more should be done to invest in early childhood education and improve the state of schools. 然而，出于对美国不断上升的不平等的担忧，他认为，应当加大在儿童