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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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By Heda Bayron Kuala Lumpur 25 July 2006 Southeast Asian foreign ministers have opened their annual meeting with the political stagnation in Burma casting a shadow over their goal of regional integration, and damaging ASEAN's credibility with the in

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South Korean investigators have released what they call interim findings in a probe of this month's shooting of a South Korean tourist by North Korea's military. However, amid the North's total refusal to cooperate in an investigation, serious infor

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