Youth Group in Nairobi Illuminates Homes, Schools A youth group in one of Nairobi's many teeming slums has found a brilliant way to light up dark houses. Drawing upon an innovation from Brazil, the young people have installed so-called water bulbs in

发表于:2018-12-08 / 阅读(36) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2011年(十二月)

70% of Chinese millennials (the people born in the 1980s and 90s) are already home-owners, and more than 90% of those that haven't bought a home yet say they intend to do so in the next five years, a new survey by HSBC showed. 英国银行巨头汇丰的

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Touring Celebrity Homes and Filming Locations Tour guide: Welcome to Hollywood Tours, everybody. Im your tour guide for today, and Ill be showing you some of the most memorable locations in Hollywood history. Every seat in this double-decker bus is a

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Bill told Jimi to look up at the ridge, near the park. Bill thought he saw flames. Jimi went outside with his binoculars. He could see a suspicious glow. Using the binoculars, he could see flames. God damn it! he yelled. He called Bill back. Then he

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Peter Heinlein U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan is urging Israel to stop bulldozing Palestinian homes in the Gaza Strip. As Israeli troops backed by tanks and bulldozers converged on the Palestinian

发表于:2019-01-03 / 阅读(53) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA2004(上)--巴以冲突

Habitat for Humanity builds houses for people who would not have the chance to own one any other way. Erika Santiestepan is a single mother of two young children. She helped a group of volunteers build her new home in Mishawaka, Indiana recently. I f

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By Deborah Block Baghdad 15 February 2008 Thousands of people who fled Iraq because of sectarian violence, after the fall of Saddam Hussein in 2003, have been returning in recent months. But the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees says 2.5 million pe

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By Mil Arcega Washington, DC 30 August 2006 watch Microhome report The latest government reports indicate the U.S. housing market is cooling off. But builders say there's a mini-boom going on for a different kind of house. VOA's Mil Arcega reports o

发表于:2019-01-13 / 阅读(121) / 评论(0) 分类 2006年VOA标准英语(八月)

By Tendai Maphosa Harare 24 May 2006 In May 2005 the Zimbabwean government launched a blitz on informal businesses and unauthorized housing, making thousands homeless when their houses were razed. A year later some are still homeless, despite govern

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Custom Homes Set New Standard for Injured US Soldiers A pretty, yellow house in a residential suburb of Northern Virginia may look like a typical American home from the outside. But inside, it's anything but. Almost every aspect of this light and spa

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AILSA CHANG, HOST: The nation's epidemic of opioid abuse has created new opportunities for insurance fraud. Health care insurance pays for the costs of recovery. That's led to a boom in residential treatment programs for addicts, some of which use de

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AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: People complain about nursing homes a lot - the staffing, the food. The list goes on. But this story is about the top complaint, involuntary discharge - people getting kicked out. NPR's Ina Jaffe covers aging. She brings us this

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A Small Town Struggles With A Boom In Sober Living Homes DAVID GREENE, HOST: Today in Your Health - addiction recovery. This is a multibillion dollar industry. And one of the fastest-growing treatment models is the so-called sober-living home, a plac

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AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: A chat room for bird lovers, a summit on genocide, a superstore with an abandoned baby - these are the settings for just a few of the short stories in A.M. Homes' new collection, her first in more than 15 years. It's called Days

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Sun Xiang, 24, a video editor for Hong Kong Satellite TV in Shenzhen, moved into a new one-bedroom apartment at the end of last year. She pays only 600 yuan per month for the 30-square-meter flat in downtown Shenzhen. At a time of rent rising in Chin

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Statistics New Zealand uses the census information to tell us about many different aspects of our society. The 2011 census had to be cancelled because of the Christchurch earthquake so the last census was in 2006. This information is therefore six ye

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A Tour of Homes. Welcome back to our tour where we discover each and every room and object in the home. Remember, if you can learn and remember this vocabulary, you will have the advantage of being able to use words and phrases that make you sound na

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图片1 A Tour of Homes 3, the lounge/ family room. Join me again as we walk through a typical house, and observe all the every day objects that native speakers can name so easily. Before we get started, do you remember any of the vocabulary from the

发表于:2019-02-07 / 阅读(71) / 评论(0) 分类 英语博客 A cup of English

SINGAPORE, July 3 (Xinhua) -- The over 60 nursing homes in Singapore, especially those run by voluntary welfare organizations, are facing a bed crunch, local daily Straits Times reported on Sunday. The newspaper found in a check with 20 homes that mo

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AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on WORDMASTER some ways to help you improve your memory. ELDH: We don't forget, we just haven't learned it in the first place.RS: That's Wendi Eldh. She's a communications trainer who teaches me

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