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内容介绍：A team reports progress on a way to control the disease through genetic engineering of the insects that spread it.This is the VOA Special English Development Report.Malaria is spread by mosquitoesScientists say they have made more progress in develop... >>详细内容

内容介绍：A nonprofit group, Women's World Banking, is working with lenders to go beyond just offering loans to start businesses.This is the VOA Special English Development Report.Officials from some of the world's leading banks were in the Netherlands last we... >>详细内容

内容介绍：The State Department releases its 2007 "Trafficking in Persons Report."This is the VOA Special English Development Report.The United States has accused several of its Arab allies of being among the worst offenders of human trafficking. The State Depa... >>详细内容

内容介绍：Clay is formed by the action of wind and water on rocks over thousands of years.This is the VOA Special English Development Report.Clay is found almost everywhere in the world. It is formed by the action of wind and water on rocks over thousands of y... >>详细内容

内容介绍：ADB officials debate how to deal with the economic success of many countries yet continued high levels of poverty in others.This is the VOA Special English Development Report.The Asian Development Bank was created in nineteen sixty-six, two years aft... >>详细内容

内容介绍：There are many calls for reform in the bank's operations and lending policies. But rebuilding relations and respect after the resignation of Paul Wolfowitz could be the new president's first job.President Bush looks on as Robert Zoellick speaks at th... >>详细内容

内容介绍：Both the African and Asian Development Banks discussed reforms at their yearly meetings this month. But, one expert believes the two lenders must reform differently because they serve completely separate parts of the world.This is the VOA Special Eng... >>详细内容

内容介绍：Advice about dyeing wool with onionskins.This is the VOA Special English Development Report.Dye can bring a little color to life. Most clothing is colored with dyes. Modern, manufactured dyes can be costly. Natural dyes from plant and animal products... >>详细内容

内容介绍：This non-profit organization has raised about five million dollars in the last seven years. The money has paid for or helped finance about seven hundred projects around the world.This is the VOA Special English Development Report.A little money can g... >>详细内容

内容介绍：This is the VOA Special English Development Report.In Pakistan, a company called Saiban creates housing communities for the poor. About thirty percent of the country's population is estimated to live in unplanned settlements without legal right to th... >>详细内容

内容介绍：This is the VOA Special English Development Report.Fifty years ago, most people lived in rural areas. But the world has changed. By some point next year, more than half of all people will live in cities, for the first time in history. So says the mos... >>详细内容

内容介绍：This is the VOA Special English Development Report.Imagine a world without manufacturers. Or at least not as we now think of them. Instead, we as individuals control the technology to design and make most anything we want.That world exists now in the... >>详细内容

内容介绍：This is the VOA Special English Development Report.The World Bank lends money to developing countries but also considers itself a "knowledge bank." Its advice can influence government policies as well as its own future policies. An Indonesian woman a... >>详细内容

内容介绍：This is the VOA Special English Development Report.The traditional definition of an entrepreneur is a person who organizes and accepts the risks of a new business. Entrepreneurs may have a new product or service to offer. Or they may have ideas for n... >>详细内容

内容介绍：This is the VOA Special English Development Report. Every day, millions of people around the world drink water from wells that are polluted with high levels of arsenic. Arsenic is an element that can be released into groundwater by soil and rocks. Ov... >>详细内容

内容介绍：This is the VOA Special English Development Report.The Sahel is the area of Africa that lies between the Sahara desert to the north and more fertile land to the south. The dry plains of the Sahel are mostly treeless. Yet in Niger, one of the nations ... >>详细内容

内容介绍：This is the VOA Special English Development Report. Before refrigerators, homes usually had ice boxes. But another way to keep food cool without the need for electricity is to use an evaporative cooler. This is easy to make and does not even use ice.... >>详细内容

内容介绍：This is the VOA Special English Development Report. Nanotechnology uses matter at the level of molecules and atoms. Researchers are finding different uses for particles with a length of one nanometer, or one-billionth of a meter. These include things... >>详细内容

内容介绍：This is the VOA Special English Development Report.A fisherman in India speaking on his mobile phoneWireless phones are connecting the developing world at a rate of about one million new phones each day. And with them come important new uses for the ... >>详细内容

内容介绍：This is the VOA Special English Development Report.Seven women were honored last week in Washington for their efforts to expand democracy and women's rights in their countries. The seven from China, Guatemala, India and Sudan received awards from Vit... >>详细内容