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[Vahed]

DEVELOPMENT REPORT - October 7, 2006: AIDS Increasing in Five Countries

This is the VOA Special English DEVELOPMENT REPORT.
A new American report warns that rates of infection from the AIDS virus will rise sharply by the year two-thousand-ten. The National Intelligence Council prepared the report for the United States Central Intelligence Agency. It says the increase will result mainly from the spread of AIDS in five countries. They are China, India, Ethiopia, Nigeria and Russia.
The report estimates that the number of people infected in those countries could increase to between fifty-million and seventy-five-million. That is three times the number currently estimated. It also is far more than the number of AIDS cases expected in central and southern Africa. That number is expected to increase to as many as thirty-five-million people.
China, India, Ethiopia, Nigeria and Russia have more than forty percent of the world's population. Officials warn that the increase of AIDS could harm the economic, social, political and military systems in these countries.
The report estimates that India might have as many as twenty-five-million AIDS victims by two-thousand-ten. That is the highest estimate of any country.
The report says the AIDS virus is spreading at different rates in the five countries. It says that risky sexual activity is increasing infection rates in all five. The problem is reported to be most severe in Nigeria and Ethiopia.
For example, the report notes that in Nigeria the virus has spread from high-risk groups to the general population. Nigeria's government has attempted to increase public understanding of the virus that causes AIDS. The report warns that the disease could affect one-fourth of all adults in the country within eight years.
In Ethiopia, the release of soldiers from the armed forces has greatly influenced the spread of the disease. The report says many Ethiopian soldiers and --- workers became infected during the civil war in the nineteen-eighties. It says Ethiopia and Nigeria have few public health services to fight the disease.
The report says that the main cause of rising AIDS infections in Russia is illegal drug use. It says the release of large numbers of infected prisoners and rising numbers of --- workers are helping the disease to spread. In China, one reason the disease is increasing is because of unsafe methods in the collection and sale of blood.

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ENVIRONMENT REPORT
June 14, 2006
Global Warming Threatens Himalayas

This is the VOA Special English ENVIRONMENT REPORT.
A new report says the Himalayan Mountains of south Asia are threatened by the warming of the Earth's climate. The report says human activities are partly responsible for the warming temperatures. The climate changes threaten people's lives, the local economy and the environment.
The United Nations Environment Program produced the report with the International Center for Integrated Mountain Development, based in Nepal. It was released June fifth in connection with World Environment Day and the United Nations Year of the Mountain.
The Himalayas are the highest mountain system in the world. They extend from Pakistan across Nepal and Bhutan. The Himalayas include Mount Everest, the world's highest mountain.

Mount Everest
A team of mountain climbers from Britain, New Zealand and Chile recently traveled to the Himalayas. They gathered information about the environment. They spoke to Buddhist monks, local people and other travelers about the condition of the world's most famous mountains. Their findings confirmed the U-N report. The mountain climbers found that warmer weather has been melting huge mountains of ice in the Himalayas. These melting glaciers are creating lakes that could overflow and flood wide areas.
Temperatures in the area have risen one degree Celsius during the past thirty years. Satellite maps show that the glaciers are shrinking at a rate of thirty to forty meters each year.
The study identified almost five-thousand glacier lakes in Nepal and Bhutan. Researchers say forty-four of these lakes could overflow during the next five years. U-N officials say this flooding could have serious effects on local communities and the environment. However, they say it may be possible to remove water from the lakes before they overflow and use that water to create energy.

[Vahed]

Round And Around

Ooh, give me freedom and light, give me reason and right,
All I need's a little time to get by,
Turn my face to the wind, hear the nightingale sing,
And wonder at the stars in the sky,

So many things I don't know, so many ways I won't go,
So many secrets that will never be found,
But as long as you're with me with loving to give me,
We can watch the world going round...

Ooh, around and around and around and around,
Everything in the world goes around,
Yes around and around and around and around,
And around, everything goes around...

From the moment of birth till you go back to the earth,
Your life is like a circle of gold,
And everything you begin, every song that you sing,
Sooner or later must go...

Another time, another place, another life, another face,
Oh my love I know I'll see you again,
And the circle that starts with the beat of your heart,
Takes you back to the beginning again...

Oh around and around...
Everything in the world goes around,
Oh around and around...
Everything goes around,
Yes around and around...
Oh around and around...
Everything in the world goes around...

Round and around, round and around, round and around...

[Parnyan]

Hi Dears
Protostar
Protostar, an embryonic star in the process of formation. The protostar stage begins when a cloud of gas in space collapses under the inward pull of its own gravitation to form a dense ball, and ends when nuclear fusion begins at the centre of the gas ball, releasing energy that turns it into a true star.

As the gas ball contracts it heats up and can be detected at infrared wavelengths. Infrared observations have revealed numerous protostars in large nebulae such as the Great Nebula in Orion. The protostar may be surrounded by a disc of surplus gas and dust, which could in time form a planetary system. After about a million years, depending on the mass of the protostar, the central temperature reaches 10 million K, sufficient to trigger the nuclear reactions that will power the star for the rest of its life. When the star “switches on”, its radiation disperses the remains of the surrounding cloud.

Dark, round nebulae known as Bok globules, not much larger than our own solar system, are believed to be examples of protostars in the early stages of formation. In 1995 the Hubble Space Telescope photographed the Eagle Nebula (also known as M16), a site of star formation in the constellation Serpens. The photographs revealed protostars being stripped bare as ultraviolet light from nearby stars heated and dispersed the surrounding gas. Astronomers termed these objects “EGGs”, short for “evaporating gaseous globules”.

[Parnyan]

Hi gays
i need some VOA (audio)news.but i can't find anyone who can help me?

[Vahed]

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[Vahed]

Hi My Friends
pleas prey for my grandmother! she is ill and she is in hospital ...i need your help. for god prey for she

[amintnt]

Hi gays

Hi My Friends
please pray for my grandmother! she is ill and she is in hospital ...i need your help. for god pray for she

oh, I really feel sorry. God willing she'd be fine all the sooner. be patient dear

[misagh_uk]

Hey guys, Whats happening? did you guys miss me? well, same here
I have had a quite busy week moving out of my place and comin back to mom and dad, (NO MORE HOUSE WORK FOR ME ) but evrey thing is almost sorted and I am setteled down now.
Now its time for me to look for a new job as my company is shutting down and taking all the back office wrok to India ( they say its cheaper to pay the staff in rupees rather than pound which is fair but not on me and people like me who came here to england for a better life If I knew all the companies are moving down to India from England I would probably go and applied to become a refugee over there in DELHI
But back to the main subject of being in England It is so cold here that you are not going to belive (NOW THAT I AM TALKING IS ALMOST -5 OUTSIDE )and I don't really want to talk about it
apart from that evrey thing else is normal and I am happy that I have had a chance to check out the topics and it is even more facinating to see it on the first page
OK Folks. I bestow my mercy upon you all and let you go to read rest of the topic ( just kidding ) but hope you all doing good with your life. I wish you have done ok with the exams Shahrzad ( I hope I've said it right ) and your grandma gets well soon VAHED. now you all take care of yourself and have fun

[Vahed]

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