BEP72 Telephoning: Leaving a Voicemail Message

When you call someone but they arent there, often their voicemail picks up or answers the phone. Then you have to leave a message. Anyone who uses the phone in their job has to deal with voicemail. Have you ever started to leave a message on someones

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Many of the Burgess specimens have now been assigned to living phyla just where Walcott put them in the first place. 许多布尔吉斯标本现在已经归到活着的动物的门里就是沃尔科特最初放置它们的地方。 Hallucigenia and s

SSS 2011-03-29

This is Scientific Americans 60-Second Science. Im Steve Mirsky. Got a minute? To keep your car purring, you have to change the oil. Such maintenance produces eight billion gallons of used motor oil annually. Some waste oil does get re-refined to pro

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its time again for the A Moment of Science mailbag. A listener writes: Dear A Moment of Science, Ive always been fascinated by volcanoes. So I was wondering: How well can scientists predict when and where a volcano will erupt? Intersting question. Th

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Pete is schizophrenic. About one percent of people are schizophrenic. Schizophrenia is a mental condition. Its cause is unknown. There is no cure. Drugs can help a person live with the condition. But these drugs have side effects. Schizophrenia usual

SSS 2008-04-17

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I am Steve Mirsky.Got a minute? Talk about your vicious cycles. A new study finds that belly fat could be making you hungrier. Which would lead to more belly fat. The research was performed at the Univ

SSS 2009-11-13

Algae seem harmless enough. These precursors to plants thrive throughout the world's waters. But these single-celled plants have global consequences. We can thank them for oxygen in the atmosphere, oil in the lithosphere as well as dead zones in the

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By Ron Corben Bangkok 23 June 2006 Foreign ministers attending a meeting of the Organization of the Islamic Conference have raised concerns over continuing violence in Thailand's largely southern Muslim provinces. The Thai government has responded t

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By Benjamin Sand Islamabad 16 June 2007 A senior U.S. official in Pakistan provided the strongest indication yet that Washington will stand by embattled Pakistan leader Pervez Musharraf. U.S. Deputy Secretary of State John Negroponte, in Pakistan for

Researchers make sperm from stem cell in dish

WASHINGTON, Aug. 4 (Xinhua) -- Researchers have found a way to turn mouse embryonic stem cells into sperm and this finding opens up new avenues for infertility research and treatment, according to astudy published Thursday in the online edition of jo

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By Dan Robinson Washington 15 June 2007 As debate continues over Iraq, U.S. lawmakers have heard from a number of voices including U.S. military officials, and current and former U.S. and Iraqi diplomats. VOA's Dan Robinson was present during many of

ESL Podcast 433 – Describing People’s Voices

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U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon says he is deeply concerned about civilian casualties in Afghanistan. Mr. Ban called for closer cooperation between civilian and military leaders. U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, and Afghan President Hamid Karz