Health Report - For Smokers, Never Too Late to Quit; Diesel and Cancer This is the VOA Special English Health Report. There is new medical evidence for the expression better late than never. Researchers have found that smokers reduce their risk of dy

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BEIJING, March 1 (Xinhuanet) -- A biotechnology(生物技术) company says it can produce diesel using the same ingredients(配制成分) that make grass grow, media reported on Monday. The Massachusetts company Joule Unlimited has created a genetica

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BEIJING, Feb. 7 (Xinhua) -- China will raise the retail prices for gasoline and diesel by 300 yuan (47.53 U.S. dollars) per tonne starting Feb. 8, the country's top economic planner said Tuesday. The benchmark retail price of gasoline will be lifted

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Bryan Wilson works to cut pollution from cookstoves, two-stroke engines, diesel Shelley Schlender | Fort Collins, Colorado 10 May 2010 Engineer Bryan Willson is developing cleaner-running, more energy-efficient products for people in the developing w

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The World Health Organization, upgrading a previous warning, said June 12 that diesel exhaust causes cancer and called for tighter emissions standards, comparing the risk of exhaust to second-hand cigarette smoke. Tuesdays announcement comes after in

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BEIJING, Aug. 9 (Xinhua) -- China will raise the retail prices of gasoline by 390 yuan (62 U.S. dollars) per tonne and diesel by 370 yuan per tonne starting Friday, the country's top economic planner said Thursday. The move, which followed three cons

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