VOA慢速英语2009年-Education Report - Educational Technol

This is the VOA Special English Education Report. A question from the West Bank: Zuheir Khlaif wants to know how American schools use educational technology. There is not a simple answer. It depends on the subject and level of students, of course. Bu

The New Age of Nuclear Power

The New Age of Nuclear Power By Spencer Reiss / Originally published in Wired . Get ready for the mass-produce, meltdown -proof future of nuclear energy 1 A team of Chinese scientists advising the Bei

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M: Would you go to the bookstore with me? W: It sounds a good idea. Lets go. M: Do you know Jeffery has published his second detective novel? W: Yes. I heard about that. And I know you want to buy it, but Im not interested in detective novels. M: So

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Iran insists on full nuclear rights within NPT: nuclear negotiator

TEHRAN, Feb. 23 (Xinhua) -- Iran's chief nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili said Saturday that the Islamic republic insists on its full nuclear rights within the framework of Nuclear Non- Proliferation Treaty (NPT). Making the remarks at an annual confe

N. Korea Nuclear Talks May Start Soon, say US Officials

N. Korea Nuclear Talks May Start Soon, say US Officials Amy Bickers Diplomatic efforts to resolve the North Korean nuclear crisis continue in Tokyo and Seoul, where two top U.S. officials have been me

Bush Warns of Nuclear Weapons Threat

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New Explosion Heard at Japanese Nuclear Plant

Workers at a nuclear plant in Japan are battling to prevent a meltdown in one of the reactors, following the massive earthquake that struck the north-east part of the country on Friday. The latest government figures figures put the death toll from th

eter Lindbergh to hold solo exhibition in China

BEIJING, March 31 (Xinhuanet) -- Peter Lindbergh, the prominent fashion photographer, will have his first solo(独奏 ) exhibition in China that opens on April 1 at the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art in Beijing. The Unknown, as the exhibition is

Pakistan, India swap nuclear sites lists

ISLAMABAD, Jan. 1 (Xinhua) -- Pakistan and India exchanged lists of nuclear installations（核设施） and facilities on Saturday in spite of a tension over the 2008 Mumbai attacks that has disrupted the dialogue process between the two countries,

VOA标准英语2009年-Robot Helps Children with Disabilities

Julie Taboh | Washington 08 December 2009 Watch: Taboh report Windows Media | MP4 Cosmobot has made speech therapy fun for Kevin Fitzgerald, 6. He has developmental dyspraxia, a condition which makes it difficult for him to move his mouth and tongue.

Japan's Crisis Batters Global Nuclear Industry

U.S. President Barack Obama says he believes nuclear power is an important source of energy in the United States. Mr. Obama said in a television interview Tuesday that nuclear plants are designed to withstand certain levels of natural disasters, incl

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Time again for our Website of the Week, when we showcase interesting and innovative online destinations. On Monday [18 January], Americans observe the annual holiday honoring slain civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Dr. King's widow, Cor

Japan nuclear fears spread to China

Japan nuclear fears spread to China BEIJING, China By mid-afternoon Thursday, Fang Zhiming had already rummaged through three supermarkets in the Chinese capital searching for salt. She found none, but was on her way to a fourth shop, where her frien

Brown move to cut UK nuclear subs

The prime minister is to tell the United Nations that he is willing to cut the UK's fleet of Trident missile-carrying submarines from four to three. Gordon Brown will make the offer at a meeting of the UN Security Council on halting the spread of nuc

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Modern Geiger counters don't click. As is the case with so many other devices, they have gone digital. At least that is true for the high-tech Japanese Geiger counters here. But they still measure radiation（放射） exposure in the quaint-sounding

China announces nuclear fuel breakthrough

BEIJING, Jan. 3 (Xinhuanet) -- Chinese scientists have made a breakthrough(重大突破) in spent fuel reprocessing technology that could potentially（潜在的） solve China's uranium supply problem, Chinese television reported on Monday. The tech

Iran unlikely to stop nuclear fuel enrichment

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