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Six Medical Researchers Who Lived, and in Some Cases Died, for Their Work
VOICE ONE :
This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS in VOA Special
English. I’m Bob Doughty.
VOICE TWO:
And
I’m Faith Lapidus. This week, the
stories of some medical heroes.
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VOICE ONE:
At
the start of the twentieth century, the United States Army had a Yellow Fever
Commission. The Army wanted medical
experts to study yellow fever and find a way to stop the disease. [...]
America Welcomes a New President
This is IN THE NEWS in VOA
Special English.
The
United States got a new president this week. President Barack Obama quickly got to work in
his first days in office. In one of his
first official actions, he ordered the closure of the American detention center
at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, within a year.
He also ordered a study of [...]
Milky Way Is a Lot Bigger Than Scientists Thought
VOICE
ONE:
This is
SCIENCE IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. I’m Steve Ember.
VOICE
TWO:
And I’m
Barbara Klein. This week, we will tell you
about new measurements of our own Milky Way galaxy. We will tell about a study linking diamonds to climate change
nearly thirteen thousand years ago. We
also will tell about efforts to grow crops with less water. [...]
