This is the VOA Special English Health Report. We talked last week about ways to avoid cold-weather injuries. Today we are going to talk about emergency treatment of hypothermia. Hypothermia can be mild, moderate or severe. Mild hypothermia is someth

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The Federal Opposition is demanding the government inspect all homes insulated under its failed scheme. More than one million homes have been insulated under the program. But the government's paying for just 200,000 of them to be checked. The Opposit

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在排球、乒乓球等比赛中,经常会出现双方前几场持平,最后“一局定输赢”的情况。在英语中,“决胜局”就叫做rubber game。 为什么要用rubber来表示“打

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The fridge is one of your homes biggest energy hogs. Better insulation can make refrigerators much more efficient. And a panel encasing a vacuum is one of the best insulators known. But vacuum-insulated panels are too pricy for widespread use. Enter

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If you visit upland areas of Britain places like the mountains of Scotland, or Wales, or the Pennine Hills in northern England you will see a lot of sheep. Many of the sheep are in places where there are no walls or hedges to keep them in their field

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RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Now, let's talk about something deeply philosophical - tickling; more specifically, why you can tickle someone else, but you can't tickle yourself. JAKOB HOHWY: It's a very basic kind of phenomenon that every child knows. MARTIN:

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