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AS IT IS - Hunger is bad for your health Hello and welcome to another As It Is program. Im Jim Tedder in Washington. Today we examine your health. Doctors say you have got to get up out of that chair and move! Sitting for long periods is not good for

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Anti-Hunger Advocates Fast to Protest US Budget Cuts

Leading anti-hunger advocates are fasting to protest U.S. budget-cutting proposals that could threaten some of the world's most vulnerable people. The budget passed by the House of Representatives includes deep cuts to programs aimed at alleviating h

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We Profile Five Special People Who Died This Year Written by Katherine Gypson and Caty Weaver (THEME) VOICE ONE: Im Faith Lapidus. VOICE TWO: And Im Steve Ember with People in America in VOA Special English. Today we tell about five special people wh

World Hunger

Broadcast: Jan 13, 2003 By Jill Moss This is the VOA Special English Development Report. International experts are concerned about a growing humanitarian crisis - world hunger. Last year, the World Fo

2007年VOA标准英语-US Says North Korea Disarmament Action This Yea

By David Gollust Washington 23 July 2007 The U.S. envoy to the six-party talks on North Korea's nuclear program says completing the next phase of the disarmament process is still feasible by year's end, even though talks in Beijing last week failed t

2006年VOA标准英语-Museveni Wins Ugandan Poll, Extends 20-Yea

By VOA News Kampala, Uganda 25 February 2006 Police and opposition supporters clashed in Kampala Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has extended his 20-year rule, beating his chief rival, Kizza Besigye

voa标准英语2008年-Ethiopia to Withdraw Troops From Somalia by Yea

Ethiopia has announced its intention to withdraw its troops from neighboring Somalia by the end of this year. But as correspondent Peter Heinlein reports from Addis Ababa, Ethiopian officials have assured the African Union their forces will remain o

VOA标准英语2010年-Legendary Journalist Celebrates 50 Yea

Related Links The White House Award-winning journalist Helen Thomas has been covering Washington politics for more than 60 years. In 1961, she became the first woman to cover the White House during President John F. Kennedy's administration and has r

VOA标准英语2011--Mississippi Coast Still Rebuilding 6 Yea

Mississippi Coast Still Rebuilding 6 Years After Katrina When Hurricane Katrina raged across the Gulf of Mexico six years ago, it devastated the100 kilometers of the Mississippi coast. Houses, schools, libraries and hotels became piles of broken wood

Kids Cafe Fights Childhood Hunger

In the United States, many low income parents cannot afford to buy enough food for their children. A program called Kids Caf is helping some of these children by providing free nutritious(有营养的) snacks and meals during after-school programs. A

每日一词【312】hunger：饥饿/对某件事物的渴望

今天我们要学的词是hunger。 Hunger, 是饥饿的意思。10月16号是世界粮食日。The World Food Day is a worldwide event to fight hunger, 世界粮食日是一次世界范围的活动，目的是消除饥饿。Hunger strike, 是绝食抗

VOA标准英语10月-New Report Finds Hunger Rampant in India

India has the largest number of hungry people in the world, despite the strong economic growth witnessed in recent years. From New Delhi, Anjana Pasricha says a new report shows that India's economic boom has brought new prosperity to its middle cla

VOA常速英语2008年-Benin's President Faces More Opposition Two Yea

By Nico Colombant Dakar 04 April 2008 Benin's president Boni Yayi is facing increasing opposition two years after coming to power. Mr. Yayi, an independent banker and political outsider, succeeded Mathieu Kerekou who had ruled the small West African

2007年VOA标准英语-Independent US Panel Says Iraq More Than a Year

By Deborah Tate Capitol Hill 06 September 2007 A report by a panel of retired senior U.S. military officers has concluded that Iraq's security forces will not be able to take over the country's security from U.S. troops for 12 to 18 months. The repor

2007年VOA标准英语-Experts: Human Trafficking Increasing Every Yea

By Marissa Melton 09 February 2007 Child laborers in Benin Activists, U.S. government representatives and scholars gathered in Washington Thursday to discuss human trafficking, not sex-trafficking, which is the most talked-about aspect of the industr

VOA标准英语2010年-Violence Marks Somali Government's Yea

January 29 was supposed to have been a day of celebration. In the sprawling presidential compound known as Villa Somalia, preparations had been made to mark the one-year anniversary of the new transitional government with poetry readings and a milita

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"The Hunger Games" to be released in China

BEIJING, May 10 (Xinhuanet) -- Hollywood box-office smash The Hunger Games is set to be released here in China. Lionsgate has announced the film will open in early June in both dubbed and subtitled versions. The Hunger Games has proven to be a worldw

Experts say 53.5 mln suffer from hunger in L. America

LIMA, May 5 (Xinhua) -- A total of 53.5 million people in Latin America and the Caribbean suffer from hunger or malnutrition, experts said at an international forum here Thursday. Juan Garcia, coordinator of the 5th work-group meeting of the Latin Am