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Aircraft Carriers

Being a super power, it’s not possession of nuclear weapons, it’s not having a large armed forces, it’s not having higher tech equipment than anyone else, if there’s one thing that defines bei

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November 5 is United Nations Tsunami Awareness Day. Tsunami is a Japanese word for a long, destructive ocean wave caused by an undersea earthquake. The goal of the observance is to learn from disasters of the past and to prepare for the future. Two t

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Animals’ Early Warning Systems

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歌词如下: Down by the station，Early in the morning， See the little puffer bellies all in a row， See the engine driver pull the little handle， Chut! Chut! Toot! Toot! Off we go， Down by the station，Early in the morning， See the littl

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歌词如下: Down by the station，Early in the morning， See the little puffer bellies all in a row， See the engine driver pull the little handle， Chut! Chut! Toot! Toot! Off we go， Down by the station，Early in the morning， See the littl

VOA慢速英语--Google Honors First Native American Woman Engineer

This is Whats Trending Today The search engine Google celebrated on Thursday what would have been the 110th birthday of the first Native American woman engineer. Google honored Mary Ross with a special Google Doodle on its homepage. Ross was born on

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Google Honors First Native American Woman Engineer This is Whats Trending Today The search engine Google celebrated on Thursday what would have been the 110th birthday of the first Native American woman engineer. Google honored Mary Ross with a speci

New Technology Provides Early Warning for Heart Attacks

Researchers say they have developed technology that could predict heart attacks years before they happen. The researchers report using mathematical algorithms to examine computed tomography, or CT, images of a patients heart. A CT scan uses X-rays an

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Broadcast: Mar 15, 2003 The U.S. space agency NASA is getting ready to resume shuttle flights as early as September or October. But the return to flight depends on whether the cause of the shuttle Col

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1. A battle for energy in the pursuit of the White House. In Iowa, President Obama blasts Mitt Romney for opposing tax supports for wind power. In Ohio, Romney came out in support of coal as a home-grown energy source. 2. An attorney for the family o

Japan’s Early Warning System One of the Best in the World

This is the VOA Special English Technology Report. A powerful earthquake struck the northeastern coast of Japan at two forty-six p.m. local time on March eleventh. Japans Meteorological Agency released its first tsunami warnings just three minutes la

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China's second aircraft carrier is scheduled to be launched later this year and is expected to enter service by 2020, according to Xu Guangyu, a retired Chinese military officer and consultant to the China Arms Control and Disarmament Association. 我国

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China's first aircraft carrier commissioned

DALIAN, Sept. 25 (Xinhua) -- China's first aircraft carrier was delivered and commissioned to the People's Liberation Army (PLA) Navy Tuesday after years of refitting and sea trials. Overseen by President Hu Jintao and Premier Wen Jiabao, the carrier

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The US Government is testing an early warning system for earthquakes, which could buy vital seconds of time in advance of a major incident. For years the US has lagged behind Japan in quake detection technology and it is hoped that this latest system

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The opening of Shanghai Disneyland is still several weeks away, but thousands have already visited the Disneytown complex via the new Disney Resort metro station on Line 11. The opening of Shanghai Disneyland is still several weeks away, but thousand