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Houston is an industrial city, central to the nation's oil and gas industry, and home to one of the busiest ports in the country. It's also home to more than a dozen of the 41 superfund sites in Texas. Those are areas contaminated with toxic waste th

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By Nancy Steinbach Broadcast: October 1, 2003 This is Faith Lapidus with the VOA Special English Health Report. Scientists in Iceland say they have identified the first gene linked to common forms of

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France has opened what it claims to be the world's first solar panel road. 法国近日开通了号称世界首条的太阳能电板公路。 The 1 km stretch of road in the small Normandy village of Tourouvre-au-Perche is paved with 2,880 solar pane

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BEIJING, May 10 (Xinhuanet) -- Researchers from California, Unated States, found that sexual orientation could play a role in cancer and more gay men are reported being cancer survivors(幸存者) than straight men, according to findings in the journ

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By Dan Robinson Capitol Hill 11 July 2006 Republicans and Democrats in Congress continue to put forward conflicting assessments of the situation in Iraq. Lawmakers also considered a new report from the nonpartisan Government Accountability Office re

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Russian President Vladimir Putin has met with US Secretary of State John Kerry in Sochi. Kerry, who has also held talks with his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov, says his discussions with Putin have been frank and productive, adding that the US and

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Lou Jiwei made the remarks Friday in Washington in the wake of the recent downgrading of China's outlook by two U.S. credit rating agencies. He says the outlook fails to reflect the real picture of the Chinese economy. We have just published the data

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Small and micro-sized companies in China are seeing their corporate income tax cut by half. Chinese tax authorities have announced companies with annual incomes of less than 200-thousand yuan are going to see their rates cut down to 10-percent. The t

世卫将加工肉制品列为致癌物

PARIS, Oct. 26 (Xinhua) -- The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) of the World Health Organization (WHO) classifies the consumption of red meat as probably carcinogenic to humans, the IARC said Monday. The conclusion was made based on

More gov't subsidies for rural medical insurance system

BEIJING, Jan. 7 (Xinhua) -- The Chinese government will raise its subsidies for rural residents' medical insurance in 2013, Minister of Health Chen Zhu announced on Monday. Under the new rural cooperative medical program, the annual government subsid

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Sudden Exercise Poses Heart Risk for Sedentary People

If you don't exercise regularly（有规律的）, a sudden bout of energetic activity can trigger a heart attack, and may even kill you, according to a new study published in JAMA, the journal of the American Medical Association. It sounds like the

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Are you good enough, clever enough, good looking enough? If you think not, would you consider your answer to be objective? Are you one of those people who has an inner critic that Satan would be jealous of? Well it's time to see yourself as you reall

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When I was told last year that my 2－year－old son had an illness that threatened his life, I tried to strike a bargain with fate――I would do anything, I would trade my old life away, if only he would get better. We learned that our son would n

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Slovenia has warned that it cannot accept unlimited numbers of migrants raising concerns of a backlock in neighboring countries. Thousands of migrants have been diverted through Croatia to Slovenia after Hungary closed its border to them. Gideon Long