VOAnews17

Mapping the Way to a Better Soybean
It could lead to better digestion for pigs and chickens, less water pollution and new ways to prevent crop disease.Soybeans are eaten by people and fed to animals.Some farmers grow them to replace lost nitrogen in the soil.
Soybeans were first grown in Asia thousands of years ago.
He says the kind of soybeans they studied have forty-six thousand genes.
Between seventy and eighty percent of them, however, are copies of other genes.

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I did not think that a bean had gene tens of thousands of. What will happen to the bean in our body eating a bean? I thought the bean to be very mysterious food. All the adzuki bean and the green soybeans can do it, and will one be different from a soy bean?

VOAnews16

Less Salt Can Mean Life
Even a small reduction in salt in the diet can be a big help to the heart.
Researchers found it could prevent one hundred thousand heart attacks and ninety-two thousand deaths every year. The American Heart Association advises no more than three grams for healthy people.

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Because I knew that I said, and it changed the life of the person more and knew what I made unhappy, I thought that I was concerned with life by taking a lot of salt that the salt was food scary at all.

VOAnews15

New Understanding of How Plants Use Water.
Plants naturally take in carbon dioxide they need for photosynthesis, the process of changing light energy to chemical energy. The carbon dioxide enters the plants through tiny holes or pores on the surface of leaves. However, each time a plant takes in one molecule of carbon dioxide gas, it loses hundreds of water molecules.
They say this suggests that changing plants to save more water will not affect plant growth. This method might be used to help engineer food crops that are resistant to extremely dry conditions.
The discovery could help farmers meet a growing demand for food as water supplies decrease.

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I knew that I cannot live if there were not water and carbon dioxide and solar light to the creature of grass and the tree. I thought that the creature resembled a person. I am worried about the creature of the world whether I value life.

VOAnews14

Steps Urged to Prevent Snakebites, Improve Treatments.
About 5.5 million people a year are bitten.
Experts say tens of thousands of people die from venom poisoning.
Each year around four hundred thousand amputations are the result of snakebites.
Snakebites are also common among fishermen, hunters and children.
Many victims live in areas with poor or non-existent health care systems and where antivenom treatments are often not available. Antivenom is the only cure.
They also suggest actions like providing protective boots to wear while working in fields, and not sleeping on the ground.
Also important is providing information about where dangerous snakes are most likely to live and when they are most active.
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When I am bitten by a snake, poison turns around to a body and wants to walk the place where a snake is not because I die and reach it. I want to go to the place where a snake is not.

VOAnews13

Words and Their Stories: Back, Shoulders and Chest
There are many American expressions that use parts of the body.
These include the eyes, ears, nose, mouth and even the heart.
Today we will tell you some expressions that use other body parts – the back, shoulders and chest.

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I think that there is much expression in music. I think how I take the expression to be up to the person. Because I was wide, I thought the world of the music to be able to enjoy it if I liked music.

VOAnews12

Obama Seeks Limits on Banks, Condemns Campaign Finance Ruling.
President Obama is proposing rules to limit the size of banks and the risks they can take.
He wants to prevent banks from using government-insured deposits to make risky investments.
Banks took big losses as they traded mortgage-related securities that went bad.
Many people are angry that they struggle while the government rescued big banks.
Some banks took losses last year but others earned record profits.

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Though a bank was the place that everybody used, I thought that there was not a meaning when I was taken in the government. The government does not understand it whether it is a bank for what what wants to do it.

VOAnews11

Getting Schools Not Just to Go Green but Teach It, Too
The Green Charter Schools Network in the U.S. seeks to produce young ''change agents'' to protect natural resources. Charter schools operate with public money but without many of the rules that govern traditional public schools. Forty-seven million students attend traditional public schools.But more than a million students attend charter schools. there are about two hundred "green" charter schools across the United States. Is your school doing anything special to "go green"?

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I do entirely different things such as environment or a class by a school, but green such as a flower or a tree thinks that there are few schools which there is a lot.There is that I bring up a tree and floral art very much and thinks that what become rich at all is reliable.

VOAnews10

Scientists Help Cut the Mystery Behind Pruning.
Teams in Canada and Europe talked last week about when and how to prune plants.
Researchers have known since the nineteen thirties that the actively growing tip of a plant releases a hormone called auxin. The research suggests that to grow, they have to be able to export the hormone into the main stem.
The new research shows that the buds on the side cannot export their auxin into the main stem because it is too full. They are no longer inhibited from growing.
Ottoline Leyser from the University of York says that after a plant is pruned, all the inhibited shoot tips compete with each other to grow.

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I am good at the form that is mystery of the grass; became it, and intended, but thought because should have made it among midnight that was serious at all.
I want to make mystery of the grass.

VOAnews9

Giving Grasslands a Rest.
Grasslands need time to rest when cattle and other animals feed on them.
Experts say rotational grazing is good for the land and the animals, and it can save money.
This form of grazing can reduce the need for pesticide treatments by reducing the growth of weeds. And it can limit the need for chemical fertilizers by letting animal waste do the job of natural fertilizer.
Intensively used grasslands are also harmed as the soil is continually crushed under the weight of heavy animals. And the animals usually avoid their own waste, so that reduces the amount of good grazing space even more. Experts say that while rotational grazing can save money over time, it also requires planning.

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I have not brought up an animal and a plant in a farmhouse, but hear it when I am very serious, and there is the fact in a disaster and the difficult time.
But I think that oneself wants to experience it.

VOAnews8

New Vaccine Joins Campaign to End Polio.
There are three types of polio virus.
Polio is highly infectious.
One victim in two hundred suffers permanent paralysis, usually in the legs.
Five to ten percent of those victims die when their breathing muscles fail.

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I recovered from a disease by vaccine, but vaccine heard few things in the poor countries of Afghanistan or the Middle East and thought that I was sad very in the world.

VOAnews7

A Military Education at West Point
Cadets at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point celebrate graduation West Point is a college for future Army officers. It has more than four thousand students, called cadets.
The school is located about eighty kilometers north of New York City.
West Point is the oldest continuously occupied military post in the United States.
Not all the young men and women at West Point are American.
This year, fifty-eight are from other countries. Up to sixty cadets can be international students.
They must satisfy physical and educational requirements and do well on the Test of English as a Foreign Language.
After graduation, they return home to serve in their nation's armed forces.

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physical strength was very necessary for the armed forces as for me, and the head should have been good, I thought that great.

VOAnews6

A Race Against Time to Get Help to Haitians.
Food. Water. Medicine. Hope. All that and more is urgently needed after a powerful earthquake wrecked much of Haiti's capital on Tuesday.
The agency has changed over the years -- it now does its work largely through private contractors.
The Obama administration wants to raise development to the same level of importance as defense and diplomacy. Rajiv Shah says he plans to hire more experts. USAID now provides twenty billion dollars a year to development projects around the world. The plan is to increase that to fifty billion a year by two thousand twelve.

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Many people enter a crisis by an earthquake, and I think that a dying person appears a lot if there are few people helping it to suffer. I think that I should increase people helping it.

VOAnews5

Words and Their Stories: Nicknames for Chicago .
A nickname is a shortened version of a person's name. A nickname also can describe a person, place or thing. Many American cities have interesting nicknames.
In nineteen sixteen, the city gained two more nicknames from a poem called “Chicago,” written by Carl Sandburg. Here is the first part of the poem:Hog Butcher for the World,Tool Maker, Stacker of Wheat,Player with Railroads and the Nation’s Freight Handler;Stormy, husky, brawling,City of the Big Shoulders.
Chicago was called Hog Butcher for the World because of its huge meat-processing industry. And, it was called The City of the Big Shoulders or City of Broad Shoulders because of its importance to the nation.
There are several songs about Chicago. “My Kind of Town” was made popular by Frank Sinatra in nineteen sixty-four.

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Because a town or a person used the nickname in U.S.A.
I felt it to be interesting, but was worried how I did it if there was the same name.

VOAnews4

Electronics Industry Hopes for a Reset in 2010.
This year's Consumer Electronics Show opened Thursday in Las Vegas. The event is the world's biggest technology trade show.
More than three hundred companies are presenting more than twenty thousand new products.
The Consumer Electronics Show has an area for companies to demonstrate products that save energy, reduce waste and use recycled materials. Show spokeswoman Jennifer Bemisderfer says the Sustainable Planet Tech Zone is four times bigger than last year.
Interest is also growing in energy management systems for the home and safe driving technologies for the car. These include voice-activated systems that let drivers make calls and send text messages without using their hands. Other products warn drivers if they are falling asleep or in danger of an accident.

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Though technology progresses in the days of a thing of now as for me, people do not do the measures that can save a lot life alone. I think from now on that such measures should have increased.

VOAnews3

Health: Now, an Update on Those New Year's Resolutions.
Type two diabetes is common in people who eat too much and exercise too little and those with a family history of it. Smoking is another risk factor. But quitting smoking may carry a temporary risk.
The study found that smokers who quit had a seventy percent increased risk of developing the disease in the first six years. That was compared to those who had never smoked.
The risks were highest in the first three years. And the risk returned to normal after ten years of not smoking.
The researchers say weight gain is probably to blame for the increase. But they say smokers should stop anyway -- and the real message is not to even start.
Type two diabetes interferes with the body's use of insulin. The substance produced by the pancreas normally lowers blood sugar during and after eating. Over time, high blood sugar can lead to blindness, kidney failure, heart disease and nerve damage.
He says even if people have a healthy body weight, sitting for long periods of time still has an unhealthy influence on blood sugar and blood fats.

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There become very many people that a lot of smokers die of lung cancer in the present generation. The people of the corpulence increase, and the world becomes only the dead. I want to be careful not to become such.

VOAnews2

Keeping Plants and Trees Warm When Temperatures Drop .
Florida, in the southeastern United States, is called the Sunshine State.
The unusually long period of cold weather has shown how even warm climates can sometimes freeze over.
Ice protects these oranges during an overnight freeze last week in Apopka, Florida Sudden cold can be the biggest threat, especially after a warm period.
Cold weather is most likely to damage or kill plants that do not have enough moisture.
University of Arizona extension experts say covering plants and small trees with cloth or paper can help prevent frost damage. A one-hundred watt light bulb designed for outdoor use can also provide warmth.
He explains that as the water freezes, it produces heat, and the ice forms a protective blanket around the tree.You can also wrap a tree in palm tree frond leaves, cornstalks or fiberglass.
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I thought that it was hard to raise a plant by a cold climate.
But the people living in Florida think that I am terrible because I have technology to bring up without giving a plant cold wind by knowledge and an action.

VOAnews 1

John Dewey, 1859-1952 born in Burlington,Vermont,in eigteen fifty-nine.
He was active in many fields,including education philosophy,psychology and also humanistic and humanitarian affairs.
John Dewey was an influential thinker and educator.The New York Times once called him "America's philosophea."
"Dewey was perhaps the best known philosopher,educator and public intellectual of the twentieth century.
John Dewey died in nineteen fifty-two.
Celebrations took place not only in the United States,but also at two universities in Beijing and in Croatia,Italy and Poland.

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I say an impression about "John Dewey" today because there is nothing in particular.
John Dewey with a famous person, it was trusted very much by all and thought that it was a splendid person.I do my best John Dewey, and want to study.