Birbal Stories: Birbal The Child

Birbal arrived late for a function and the emperor was displeased. My child was crying and I had to placate him, explained the courtier. Does it take so long to calm down a child? asked the emperor. It appears you know nothing about child rearing. No

Birbal Stories: Birbal The Servant

One day Akbar and Birbal were riding through the countryside and they happened to pass by a cabbage patch. Cabbages are such delightful vegetables! said Akbar. I just love cabbage. The cabbage is king of vegetables! said Birbal. A few weeks later the

Birbal Stories: Birbal Identifies Thief

One fine morning, a minister from Emperor Akbar's court had gathered in the assembly hall. He informed the Emperor that all his valuables had been stolen by a thief the previous night. Akbar was shocked to hear this because the place where that minis

Birbal Stories: Birbal Is Brief

One day Akbar asked his courtiers if they could tell him the difference between truth and falsehood in three words or less. The courtiers looked at one another in bewilderment. What about you, Birbal? asked the emperor. I'm surprised that you too are

科学美国人60秒 SSS Pregnancy Primes the Brain for Motherhood

Pregnancy brings big physical changes to a woman's body. But what three neuroscientists were more interested in was, what does it do to the womans brain? We were in our 30s, and we were thinking I'd like to have a baby, but look at this, look at this

VOA慢速英语2012 Health Report - Delay Pregnancy After a Miscarriage?

Health Report - Delay Pregnancy After a Miscarriage? This is the VOA Special English Health Report. A miscarriage is the natural loss of a baby before the twentieth week of pregnancy. Experts say many pregnancies end before a woman even knows she was

美国国家公共电台 NPR Rethinking Bed Rest For Pregnancy

RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Doctors send thousands of pregnant women to bed each year, some for just a few days, some for months. The idea is that laying still may help women with complicated pregnancies carry their babies to term. But the practice is quest

事实：怀孕测试使用青蛙-Frogs Were Used In Pregnancy Tests

Frogs Were Used In Pregnancy Tests Between 1930-1950, African clawed frogs were in great demand. These frogs were imported all over the world and used in labs for pregnancy tests. Technicians injected a sample of a womans urine into a female frogs hi

听一分钟英文：Pregnancy-怀孕

Pregnancy is a time of great emotion, and a bit of pain and discomfort. For most people, the news that a woman is pregnant brings great joy. I remember being too happy to speak. I phoned everyone I knew. From that very minute, your life changes. You

精美英文欣赏:If I Had My Life to Live Over　如果我能

If I Had My Life to Live Over I would have gone to bed when I was sick instead of pretending the earth would go into a holding pattern if I weren't there for the day. I would have burned the pink candle sculpted like a rose before it melted in storag

VOA标准英语2012--Study Says Pregnant Women Should Get Flu Shot

Study Says Pregnant Women Should Get Flu Shot During the 2009 H1N1 influenza pandemic, pregnant women faced a greater risk of life-threatening complications and many were hospitalized. Dr. Michael Katz from the March of Dimes says influenza is a seri

VOA标准英语2010年-Malnutrition in Pregnancy May Set Stag

A new study suggests that extreme malnutrition early in pregnancy may put a child at risk for Alzheimer's Disease decades later. The study begins not in the laboratory, but in the Netherlands during World War II. At the end of 1944, Nazi occupation f

VOA慢速英语-Health Report - Teenagers and Pregnancy

This is the VOA Special English Health Report. A 16-year-old mother receives care for her baby at a mobile health clinic in Garland, Texas, in a 2006 photo More than seven hundred thousand teenagers a year get pregnant in the United States. The teen

VOA慢速英语2012 Health Report - The Global Problem of Preterm Births

Health Report - The Global Problem of Preterm Births This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Premature or preterm births are defined as live births before a woman completes thirty-seven weeks of pregnancy. A new study found that about fifteen

VOA标准英语2010年-Haitians See Pregnancies Rise in Quake

Since a January earthquake in Haiti, tent camps have become home to hundreds of thousands of people, including newly pregnant women. Some Haitians fear unplanned pregnancies in the camps may fuel a baby boom in the capital. Denise Cheristal, 35, know

美国国家公共电台 NPR Pregnancy Is Personal, Not Political, In 'The Mothers'

Pregnancy Is Personal, Not Political, In 'The Mothers' play pause stop mute unmute max volume 00:0005:45repeat repeat off Update Required To play the media you will need to either update your browser to a recent version or update your Flash plugin. S

World Population Day Themed Adolescent Pregnancy

Today is the World Population Day. The theme of this year's World Population Day is Adolescent Pregnancy. Experts point out that more effective sex education and tolerance is key to keeping adolescents away from the threat of accidental pregnancy. Li

纯正英语一分钟-Pregnancy

Pregnancy is a time of great emotion, and a bit of pain and discomfort. For most people, the news that a woman is pregnant brings great joy. I remember being too happy to speak. I phoned everyone I knew. From that very minute, your life changes. You

2007年VOA标准英语-Study Links Global Warming, Severe Droughts in

By Chad Bouchard 2-337522 21 January 2007 A farmer carries buckets of water collected from a drying pond in Rembang, Central Java, Indonesia As Indonesia copes with one of its driest rainy seasons on record, a climate change study indicates global wa

环球英语 — 93：Smoking During Pregnancy

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