[00:07.34]Last Tuesday was World Population Day. [00:12.98]The message this year was Saving Women's Livers. [00:18.91]The director of the United Nations Population Fund, [00:24.27]Nafis Sadik,released a statement in ovservance of the day. [00:30.59]D...
[00:06.32]On Thursday,about three hundred American law enforcement agents [00:13.37]raided the small Puerto Rican island of Vieques. [00:18.23]The agents removed 216 demonstrators who had been camped [00:24.66]at a United States military base for alm...
[00:06.87]OPEC,the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries agreed [00:13.30]this week to increase oil production. [00:17.42]The increase is aimed at lowering oil prices, [00:22.15]which went up after OPEC and several other nations cut productio...
[00:07.68]Palestinian and Israeli negotiators plan to re-start [00:13.71]their peace talks on Sunday. [00:16.88]The goal is to reach a final peace agreement before September thirteenth [00:24.08]That is the day Palestinian President yasser Arafat say...
[00:08.20]Protests have been taking place this week in Washington [00:13.45]against the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank. [00:19.10]Major actions are planned Sunday and Monday. [00:24.11]The aim is to stop the meeting of finance ministe...
[00:08.59]This week,two important committees in Congress approved legislation [00:14.84]to give permanent normal trade rights to China. [00:19.70]The bill faces a close vote in the House of Representatives next week [00:26.12]but it is expected to pa...
[00:08.12]Passage 65 Child Soldiers [00:13.56]Representatives of governments and organizations from about twenty countries [00:21.50]met in Kathmandu Nepal recently [00:26.02]for a four-day conference on child soldiers. [00:30.98]The conference was o...
[00:07.52] You probably know a famous saying about the importance of eating apples [00:14.58]It is,An apple a day keeps the doctor away. [00:19.83]Now,a new American study shows eating apples may help fight cancer,too. [00:28.16]Research scientists a...
[00:05.54]The American Heart Association is advising people to exercise [00:13.27]by lifting weights.One of the writers of that advisory [00:19.20]is Barry Franklin of William Beaumont Hospital in Royal Oak,Michigan. [00:25.97]Mister Franklin directs...
[00:07.39]Researchers in the United States have shown that prayer [00:14.32]may help speed the recovery of people with heart problems. [00:19.96]The researchers found that heart patients did better [00:25.31]when someone was praying for them. [00:28....
