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Life Grows in the Soil of Time by Thomas Mann What I believe, what I value most, is transitoriness. But is not transitoriness - the perishableness of life - something very sad? No! It is the very soul of existence. It imparts value, dignity, interest

VOA标准英语2010年-Displaced Haitians Strain Resources

Plans for Haiti's recovery from the devastating earthquake are on the agenda at the United Nations donors' conference, March 31 in New York. Among the country's top priorities are the estimated 600,000 people who fled the capital, Port-au-Prince, for

VOA标准英语2012--Malaria Programs at Risk From Funding Cuts

Malaria Programs at Risk From Funding Cuts Ami Diabate, has brought her three children to a rural clinic to get the latest anti-malarial drugs. The aid agency Mdecins Sans Frontires - or Doctors Without Borders - is rolling out the pilot program acro

VOA慢速英语2010年-Agriculture Report - A Cotton Plant Ki

This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. In two thousand eight, scientists reported on a study of cotton grown in six provinces in northern China. The study involved bollworms, a major threat to cotton farmers. It also involved Bt cotton,

VOA标准英语2012--Studies Link Bee Decline to Insecticide

Studies Link Bee Decline to Insecticide Billion-dollar bees Bees pollinate the flowers that become fruits, nuts and vegetables. The work these insects do is worth about $18 billion a year to U.S. farmers. But honeybee colonies in the United States ha

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It's bad enough that mosquitoes suck our blood, and sometimes pass on disease. But there's more. They can actually give you a disease and pee on you at the same time. Adding insult to injury if you will. Jerod Denton, a pharmacologist at Vanderbilt U

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本讲为2006年下半年新的教学内容，请对照讲义听声音！ Students(researcher/scholar) of Nature are not satisfied with guessing, but they observe, day after day, the changes which tak

2006年VOA标准英语-President Hosts White House Summit on Malaria

By Zulima Palacio Washington, D.C. 15 December 2006 watch Malaria Summit report President Bush and his wife Laura hosted a White House summit on Malaria Thursday. The conference brought together health ministers from countries affected by malaria, h

蚊帐成为抗疟疾最重要的武器

To Fight Malaria, Bed Nets Are the Most Important Weapon 蚊帐成为抗疟疾最重要的武器 From VOA Learning English, this is the Health Lifestyle report. United Nations researchers are reporting progress in the fight against the disease malari

VOA标准英语2011--Malaria Drugs Add to Bed Net Protection

New studies confirm that giving anti-malaria drugs to children who are already sleeping under insecticide-treated bed nets provides additional protection in helping control the disease. Smallpox was conquered with a single vaccine. The fight against

TED演讲:怎样选择适合你的防晒霜(1)

Sunscreen comes in many forms, each with its own impacts on your body and the environment. 防晒霜有很多种，每种对你的身体和环境影响各有不同。 With so many options, how do you choose which sunscreen is best for you? 有了这么

李克强总理鼓励科技创新

Premier Li Keqiang says China should consider science and technology as a primary productive force. Scientific and technological innovation to a large extent determines the future of China's development strategy. In history, we have missed several te

万物简史 第471期:生命在前进(13)

Sprigg submitted a paper to Nature, but it was turned down. 斯普里格给《自然》杂志写了一篇论文，但是没有被采用。 He read it instead at the next annual meeting of the Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement

万物简史 第132期:基本物质(4)

Although chemistry had come a long way in the century that separated Newton and Boyle from Scheele and Priestley and Henry Cavendish, it still had a long way to go. Right up to the closing years of the eighteenth century (and in Priestley's case a li

VOA常速英语2007年-Global Fund Says Insecticide-Treated Bed Nets R

By Lisa Schlein Geneva 27 November 2007 The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria reports nearly every family with children in Africa soon could have a bed net to protect against malaria. The Geneva-based Global Fund says it has delive

康宁发布第五代Gorilla Glass玻璃 手机屏幕将更耐摔

Dropping your smartphone when taking a selfie could soon be less risky, says specialist glass maker Corning. 专业玻璃制造商康宁日前表示，自拍的时候不慎掉落手机可能不再会碎屏了。 Shattered or cracked screens are the n

VOA标准英语2011--Spraying Insecticide Indoors Reduces Spr

Spraying Insecticide Indoors Reduces Spread of Malaria Researchers in West Africa have shown that spraying insecticide indoors can dramatically reduce malaria transmission. Efforts to develop a malaria vaccine have so far been disappointing, so progr

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Finally, and perhaps a little unexpectedly, readings can be thrown out by seemingly unrelated external factorssuch as the diets of those whose bones are being tested. One recent case involved the long-running debate over whether syphilis originated i

Sweet Bait Lures Malaria Mosquitoes

Israeli(以色列) researchers say they have developed a powerful bait that effectively attracts and kills malaria-infected mosquitoes but is completely harmless to humans and other animals. The toxic sugar bait developed by scientists at Hebrew Univ

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How to get rid of procrastination? 如何摆脱拖延症？ Just take the first step. 只需迈出第一步。 When you start to look too far into the future any task or project can seem close to impossible. And so you shut down because you become ov