This is the VOA Special English Development Report. Workers clean up lead paint at a building in Providence, Rhode Island in 2006. A new study shows that lead-based paint remains a worldwide threat to public health. Paint containing lead is a major

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This is scientific American sixty seconds science. I'm Christopher Intagliata. Got a minute? Camouflage face paint can make a soldier invisible to enemy in eyes. But it won't shield him from the shearing heat of a roadside bomb, a lethal eleven hundr

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Did you know that there could be more bacteria living in your mouth than there are people on earth? 你知道吗,寄居于你口中的细菌有可能比全世界的人口数还多? Bacteria love our mouths because the livin is easytheres plenty o

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Heat-Resistant Glassware Celebrates 100th Anniversary 耐热玻璃器皿诞生100周年 One hundred years ago, a new kind of cookware entered the American market. It was called Pyrex. Today the Pyrex name is well known in the United States. The heat-

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In January 2015, a fire in one of Russia's largest university libraries damaged more than 1 million historical documents, an incident which some media described as a cultural Chernobyl. 2015年1月,俄罗斯最大的大学图书馆之一发生了火灾

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