Placebo Effect Update

By Nancy Steinbach Broadcast: November 19, 2003 This is Phoebe Zimmermann with the VOA Special English Health Report. When scientists want to test the effectiveness of a new drug, they usually divide

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Belief in Cause and Effect

Benjamin Frankin wondered about(at) lightning. He combined his curiosity with imagination and carried out his well-known experiment to show that lightning and an electric spark are the same thing. Cur

Pentagon Still Concerned about Possible Iraqi Use of Weapons

Broadcast: Apr 04, 2003 Top defense officials at the Pentagon say they are still concerned that Iraqi troops may use weapons of mass destruction, even though coalition soldiers have seized Baghdad's i

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今年7月，14岁的美国华裔少年刘继打破老虎伍兹的纪录，成为美国青少年高尔夫锦标赛史上最年轻的冠军，同时刷新老虎伍兹保持了19年的纪录。刘继出生在纽约州一个只有11万人口的小城市史

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TED演讲:探索世界最深洞穴(5)

You need an AUV, an autonomous underwater vehicle. 你需要个AUV，一个自行式水下航行器。 It needs to be one smart puppy, able to navigate and make decisions on its own in an alien ocean. 它必须很聪明，能够自己导航在陌生的

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Business TCS in America From Mumbai to the Midwest 商业 塔塔在美国 从孟买到美国中西部 Far from home, Tata Consultancy Services strives to move upmarket 塔塔咨询服务公司力争向高端市场转型 DRIVE up the leafy Leadership

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Let me buy the next one, old man, Paddy said genially to his son. I've got to take Auntie Mary to the Picnic Races luncheon, and I need moral sustenance if I'm going to get through the ordeal without Mum. Habit and awe are harder to overcome than peo

异类之不一样的成功启示录 第152期:灾难降临

The flight engineer says, Eh. in an astonished tone of voice. 飞行工程师以惊讶的音调说啊？ You can imagine them all thinking furiously, trying to square their assumption of where the plane is with what their instruments are telling them

狗狗为何光脚不怕冷

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星巴克将欧洲总部迁往英国

LONDON, April 16(Xinhua) -- Coffeehouse company Starbucks Corporation announced Wednesday to move its European headquarters from Amsterdam to London by the end of the year. According to a statement from the company, some senior executives based in Am

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今天我们要学的词是side effect。 Side effect, 副作用。一项最近民调显示，Most Americans want health reform but fear its potential side effects, 大多数美国人都希望看到医疗改革，但是又担心改革可能带来的副

温室效应 The Greenhouse Effect

As the development of the society, people want to conquer the environment, they use the high technology to change the environment, when people are satisfied with what they did to the nature, the nature is starting to teach human being a lesson. In th

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Of course you want to sleep with your pet. She is cuddly and warm and (usually) takes up less room than a human. 你当然想和你的宠物一起睡啦，它那么可爱，又暖和，（通常）还比人占地儿少。 But the sad truth is that sh

也门和平谈判在日内瓦举行

Long-anticipated peace talks on the conflict in Yemen are due to start in Geneva on Monday. The talks were originally scheduled for last month, but were postponed after the main warring parties failed to agree on the terms of the talks. The talks are

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VATICAN CITY, Feb.28 (Xinhua) -- The resignation of Pope Benedict XVI came into effect at 8 pm local time (1900 GMT) on Thursday, who had left the Vatican by helicopter for the papal vacation retreat in south Rome earlier in the afternoon. The pope h

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The rollout of the gleaming craft marks Virgin Galactic's return to the race to become the world's first major private space tourism company. The new passenger spacecraft is expected to take thrill-seekers, researchers and commercial customers on sho