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REPORTER: Since a team of doctors in the USA did the first kidney transplant in 1954, hundreds of thousands of people have had organ transplants. But whether it was kidneys, heart, liver or lungs, there are still a world-wide shortage of organs avail
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The United States President Barack Obama has arrived in Trinidad for a summit with leaders from across the Americas. United States policies are expected to come under renewed criticism at the gathering with the challenge likely to be led by President
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英国新闻听力 Omega-3脂肪酸与学习能力的关系
HOST: In 2005, Physiologist Alex Richardson set up a detective hypothesis that the low level of omega-3 were detrimental. She devised a clinical trial amongst a group of school children suffering mood and behavioral disorders. She believed they might
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英国新闻听力 物理学家霍金病重住院
Many delegates have walked out of a United Nations conference on racism held in Geneva, because of a speech in which the Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad called Israel a racist country. Mr. Ahmadinejad accused Israel of exploiting the Holocaust
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英国新闻听力 IMF要求各国采取进一步行动稳定全球金融体系
The International Monetary Fund has told governments across the world that further action is needed to help return the global financial system to stability. In a fresh estimate of the scale of the problem, the IMF says global losses on toxic assets c
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英国新闻听力 苹果公司第一季度盈利上升15%
The American Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has said the situation in Pakistan poses what she described as a mortal threat to the security of the United States and the world. She also criticized Pakistan's judicial system, saying it was corrupt a
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英国新闻听力 债务转换与森林保护
REPORTER: In this edition of One Planet on the BBC World Service, I'll be looking at the role debt swaps can play in trying to help conserve some of the world's most valuable forests. CLAUDIA MCMURRAY: The effort was to take forgiven debt and put it
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英国新闻听力 文莱达鲁萨兰国破旧的供水系统
REPORTER: Mother of three, Mariam Umpina collects water from a small well outside her two room shack in Thandarli, one of Darussalam's poorest neighborhoods. This is the city's dusty underbelly, an unplanned settlement where people try to make a meag
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英国新闻听力 美国防部将公开大量虐囚照片
United States officials say the Pentagon is to release hundreds of previously unpublished photographs showing the alleged abuse of prisoners in Iraq and Afghanistan by US personnel during President Bushs time in office. The move is in response to a F
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英国新闻听力 财长盖特纳呼吁IMF给中国更大发言权
The World Health Organization has called an outbreak of human cases of swine flu in Mexico and the United States a public health emergency of international concern. Doctors say that at least 8 students at a school in New York City probably have swine
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英国新闻听力 “千年发展目标”的实现更加艰难
The President of the World Bank Robert Zoellick has warned of a human catastrophe unless urgent action is taken on the global economic crisis, which he described as unprecedented. Mr. Zoellick was speaking after a meeting of the main policy-making co
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英国新闻听力 世卫组织将猪流感警告级别上升至5-6级
The World Health Organization has raised its alert level for a possible swine flu pandemic to the third highest, which means there is sustained human-to-human transmission. It now stands at Level 4 out of 6. A senior WHO official Keiji Fukuda said co
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英国新闻听力 飓风伊万
人们怀着敬畏的心情观看飓风卡特里娜给新奥尔良市带来的巨大毁坏，但是却鲜少有人知道，最近另一场具有相似能量和强度的飓风袭击了遥远的马达加斯加东部。飓风伊万摧毁了成百上千人
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Less than a week after the World Health Organization first warned of an outbreak of swine flu in Mexico, the agency has raised the international level of alert, indicating that a pandemic is imminent. After an emergency meeting in Geneva, the head of
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英国新闻听力 猪流感并没有想象的那么可怕
The authorities in Hong Kong have isolated 300 guests and staff of a hotel after a Mexican visitor who arrived from Shanghai was confirmed as a carrier of swine flu. It's the first confirmed case of the virus in Asia, which the World Health Organizat
