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1. Peace Prize for W omen基础施工
This is the VOA Special English Development Report.
Each year, 1. in Oslo, Norway announces the winners of its famous Nobel Prizes. Most winners of the Nobel Peace Prize have been men. Only 2. have been women since the prize was first prented in 3. .
Now 4. for Women and the human rights group International Alert have prented a new award to 5. . It is called the 6. Peace Prize for Women. Officials will prent the award every three years. The award 7. women's actions in building peace, protecting women's human rights and supporting community life during and after war.
Experts say women are usually not as 8. the peace process as men are. However, their work to 9. normal community life after peace has been reached is very 10. . Becau of this, International Alert says women also need to be recognized as leaders in peace building.
Earlier this month, 11. received the Millennium Peace Prize for Women. One of the winners is the Colo
mbian group Ruta Pacifica de las Mujeres - or Women's Road to Peace. This group has organized protests against the 12. between rebel groups and the Colombian government.
The group Leitana Nehan Women's Development Agency also won the peace prize. It helped in the peace process between the 13. and rebel forces in Papua New Guinea. Another winner is the group Women in Black. It is an international organization that organizes protests against 14. .
Flora Brovina also received the peace prize. She organized the League of Albanian Women of Kosovo. Doctor Brovina has taught 15. medical skills to people in Kosovo.
Asma Jahangir and Hina Jilani are also peace prize winners. They worked to support
16. and women's rights in Pakistan. And the leader of the
17. in Rwanda also won the Millennium Peace Prize, after her death. V eneranda Nzambazamariya helped re-build Rwanda after the mass killings in Nineteen-Ninety-Four. She died in a 18. last year.
This VOA Special English Development Report was written by Jill Moss.
2. Intel Science Talent Search
This is the VOA Special English Science Report.
A teen-age girl from the state of Connecticut has won 1. in the Intel Science Talent Search. The 2. was known as the Westinghou Science Talent Search until 3. . It is the oldest program in the United States that honors the science projects of high school students. The Intel Science Talent Search celebrated its sixtieth anniversary this year.nolonger
The winners receive money for a 4. and a new computer. More than 5. students entered projects for the competition. The students were from thirty-six states and 6. . Forty-nine percent were female and fifty-one percent were male. Their rearch projects involved every area of science, including基础美
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Forty students were invited to Washington, D.C. for 8. by well-known scientists. They judged the students on their 9. . They also questioned the students about scientific problems before deciding on the top ten winners.
The first place winner was Mariangela Lisanti of Westport, Connecticut. She received one-hundred-thousand dollars for her college 10. . Her physics project involved the u of single atoms or molecul
es to create 11. . She developed a new way to measure electron movement in tiny structures.
The cond place winner was Nathaniel Jay Craig of Sacramento, California. He received venty-five-thousand dollars for his college education for a 12. . He developed a method for expressing the strength of specially prepared glass by describing the super cooled liquid from which it was formed.
The third place winner was Gabriel Drew Carroll of Oakland, California. He received fifty-thousand dollars for his college education. His mathematics project involved the 13. .
The president of Intel, Craig Barrett, praid all the 14. as future leaders. He said their understanding of science and mathematics is important for 15. the technological world today. And it is important for making the best decisions in the future.
This VOA Special English Science Report was written by Nancy Steinbach.
3. EPA Rejects Arnic Limits in W ater
This is the VOA Special English ENVIRONMENT REPORT.
The United States Environmental Protection Agency says it plans to 1. a rule that would have 2. re
duced the amount of arnic permitted in drinking water. The new rule was approved at the end of the Clinton presidency. It was suspended after President Bush 3. in January.
The Bush 4. says the rule needs more study. The new rule would have reduced the acceptable level of arnic in 5. by eighty percent. It was designed to reduce the public health risk from arnic in drinking water.
Arnic is a 6. found naturally in rocks, soil, water, air, plants and animals. It also can be relead during mining operations.
Arnic is mainly transported by water. The highest levels of arnic are found mostly in the western American states. At unsafe levels, arnic can cau cancer and other dias.
7. groups have argued for years that arnic 8. should be reduced. They say studies show the limits are necessary for protecting millions of Americans from cancer and other health threats.
But the mining industry and some cities and states strongly 9. the rule on reducing arnic in drinking water. They said it would cost hundreds of millions of dollars to put into effect. The mining industry took 10. action in an attempt to block the rule. Environmental groups say the Bush administration is 11. to withdraw the rule becau of pressure by the mining industry.
The Environmental Protection Agency t the current limit for arnic in Nineteen-Seventy-Five. But a report by the National Academy of Sciences two years ago
found that the current limit does not meet the E-P-A's goal of protecting 12. . The group said the current limit should be 13. as soon as possible.
The limit approved by President Clinton also was approved by the European Union and the World Health Organization veral years ago.
But E-P-A officials say Mister Clinton's action was not supported by scientific 14. . They say arnic levels should be reduced, but not necessarily as low as the rule required.
The E-P-A will ek 15. scientific studies about the issue and the possible cost to 16. . A final decision is expected after a public comment period.
This VOA Special English ENVIRONMENT REPORT was written by Cynthia Kirk.
4. International Y ear of Mountains
This is the VOA Special English Environment Report.
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Mountains are about one-fifth of the world's land 1. area. Mountains are
a very important part of the earth's 2. and environment. They contain important
3. , such as forests. They provide the most important resources for about one-tenth of the world's population. Mountains also provide goods and rvices to more than half the people in the world.
4. snow from mountains provides water for hundreds of millions of people. For example, the Himalayan Mountains supply drinking water for the people of India. Mountains are also important areas for winter sports. Millions of people visit countries in Europe to
5. mountains every year.
Mountains are also important in the cultures of many people. For example, the ancient Incas of South America built their most important cities and 6. high in the mountains. Machu Picchu is an ancient Incan city in the Andes Mountains. It is one of the most popular places to visit in Peru.
Mountains are important to the world. But there are problems involving mountains in many places. People who live in mountain areas are usually poor. There is often very little 7. in the areas. Mountain environments are sometimes not 8. very well. When this happens, eco-systems supporting
plant and animal life suffer.
In some areas, too many trees are 9. n. When it rains heavily, water can rush down the sides of mountains and flood villages and cities. Serious flooding kills many people and animals every year. In addition, 10. can cau 11. to come crashing down in powerful 12. .
The United Nations wants to help more people learn about the importance of mountains as well as their problems. So 13. has named the year Two- Thousand- Two the "International Year of Mountains." Many activities including 14. have been planned for next year. The U-N Food and Agriculture Organization is leading this special 15. of mountains.
Y ou can get more information on mountains and the "International Y ear of Mountains" at the Internet address, w-w-w-dot- mountains-two-thousand-two-dot-org.
This VOA Special English Environment Report was written by Gary Garriott.
5. W orld Mothers Study
This is Bill White with the VOA Special English Development Report.
The international support group, Save the Children, has 1. a new study on the condition of mothers around the world. The report rates ninety-four countries on issues important to mothers. They include health care and family planning rvices, the health of their children, education and political involvement. Sweden, Norway and Denmark were rated the highest, followed by other 2. countries. The United States was rated eleventh. This is just one place ahead of Cuba, which was the highest rated developing country. Ethiopia, Burkina Faso, and Guinea Bissau were at the bottom of the list.
Beryl Levinger was the leading rearcher for the report. Mizz Levinger says the report 3. what Save the Children has been saying for more than venty years. The lives of children around the world will not improve 4. .
Mizz Levinger says there is a direct link between the health of children and the quality of health care, 5. rvices and education offered to mothers.
The ten countries rated worst in the study have problems with 6. . Less than one-third of the births in tho countries are attended by trained health care professionals. Also, only three percent of the women u a system to prevent 7. . In the countries, one in twelve women die during childbirth. In the top ten countries on the list, the 8. for women during childbirth is only one in 6,000.
Save the Children says more educational programs for mothers and girls will improve the ability of women to 9. . The group says millions of lives could be saved if more money was invested in 10. . Mizz Levinger says family planning alone could prevent one-fourth of all deaths among new-born babies and their mothers. It would teach women to 11. . In addition, Mizz Levinger says education about the 12. at home are also needed.
The study by Save the Children is part of a new 13. aimed at improving the health and education of mothers around the world. The group hopes to pressure 14. to increa international aid for women's programs.
This VOA Special English Development Report was written by Jill Moss.
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This is Bill White with the VOA Special English ENVIRONMENT REPORT.
Rearchers are planning to u 1. to stop the spread of a harmful tree in the American state of Florida. The melaleuca tree 2. to spread throughout the Everglades. The Everglades is 3. that is home to many kinds of plants and animals.
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Scientists with the Agricultural Rearch Service have been 4. to control the melaleuca. The tree is native to Australia. In that country, more than one-hundred kinds of incts feed on it and 5. . The melaleuca was first brought to the United States 6. . But it had no natural inct enemies in its new environment. So melaleuca trees spread 7. across the southern United States.
The tree kills and replaces other plant life in the Everglades. It is now blamed for environmental loss of up to 8. dollars a year.
The Fergusonina fly is a natural enemy of the melaleuca. An 9. small worm, called a nematode, lives inside the fly. A team of American scientists is working with the 10. . They collected Fergusonina flies from Australia. The scientists put the flies on test plants to e if they attacked them. They found that the flies are likely to 11. only on the melaleuca trees in Florida. The flies would not harm other plants. This information was important for officials who 12. to nd thousands of flies to the University of Florida for additional tests. Ted Center is the chief of the Agriculture Department's Invasive Plant Rearch Laboratory. He says tests show that the Fergusonina fly and the nematode are 13. different from other incts that attack other plants. He says this means that they 14. only in one kind of plant. The scientists now are planning more testing before proposing the relea of the incts in the Everglades.
Four years ago, scientists from Florida and Australia 15. another natural enemy of the melaleuca, the snout beetle. Scientists have relead 16. of tho incts in 17. . The scientists believe the Fergusonina fly and nematode would help the beetle and 18. against the melaleuca trees.
This VOA Special English Environment report was written by George Crow
7. Health Care Training for Native Villages
This is Bill White with the VOA Special English DEVELOPMENT REPORT.加尔默罗
Many countries have a 1. to provide health care in distant villages. The Medical Mission Sisters is an 2. that helps with this. It began venty-five years ago. The Roman Catholic workers help provide health care training for people who are not rved by modern hospitals, doctors and medicines.
Isabel Harmon has been a 3. for fifty years, many of them in Africa. She is living in Oaxaca, Mexico, now. Sister Isabel helps with a training program in the city of Oaxaca for 4. from villages of native people. It teaches the 5. how to help themlves and others in the villages improve their health.
Sister Isabel spends about three days a week, much of the year, traveling to the distant villages 6. . There she continues the training.
For example, she teaches people how to 7. their bodies need to be healthy. Their villages are too high in the mountains to 8. that usually provide the vitamins. So she teaches people to cook a common plant, garlic 9. . Then the yellow part of eggs is added and the mixture 10. in the sun. Next, the nuts, almonds and pecans, 11. . The mixture then is put into small vitamin capsules that 12. . People take one each day with their usual diet of tortillas and beans.
During the training program, the health care promoters are taught 13. . Such knowledge as the medical u of 14. is often lost when local medicine men and women die. For example, basil is ud in many countries to add taste to foods. But traditionally the leaves of the plant have been ud to help heal 15. . For stomach pain, the leaves are cooked in water and the liquid drunk. For an earache, the oil from the leaves is dropped in the ear.
Sister Isabel has helped produce a book that describes common plants in the Oaxaca
