欢迎来到“杂乱的书桌”每天准时为你带来的VOA听写，本期的慢速VOA是中年腹部肥胖的新闻第一部分，标准VOA则是关于布什谈伊拉克的新闻的第二部分。还犹豫什么，赶紧和Hugh一起加入到学习英语，锻炼听写的队伍中来吧！
今天早上没有来得及最后修改发布，所以又晚了一点。这几天有些混乱，好像事情有些杂乱，搞的心情不太好，尽管事情还是按部就班，不过感觉有些事情进步似乎很小，或者是自己根本感觉不到进步，这真的是挺郁闷的事情，当然不是指VOA听写了。今天的听写也不难，忽略掉那些非常奇怪的词汇的话，不过听多了写多了还是能记住几个的。
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题目: Study Links Midlife Belly Fat to Higher Risk of Dementia (1/2)
专有名词: Dementia, Alzheimer, Kaiser Permanente
原文
Being overweight can lead to high blood pressure, diabetes and heart attacks. But now there may be another reason to lose the fat, especially around the middle of the body. A recent study suggested that people in their forties with belly fat have an increased risk of dementia later in life. Dementia is the name for a group of brain disorders that affect memory, behavior, learning and language.
(Osihimer)Alzheimer’s disease is the most common cause. Dementia rarely appears before the age of sixty. The new study added to growing evidence that people with large stomachs can face greater health risks than others who are overweight. The study involved more than six thousand northern California members of(Kizer Permanenty)Kaiser Permanente, a health care organization.Researchers looked at the patients’ medical records from between nineteen sixty-four and nineteen seventy-three. The people were in their early to mid-forties at the time. They were all part of a long-term health study that included measurements of belly fat. The researchers compared the records with those from when the patients were in their seventies. By that time, almost one out of six of them
(have)had dementia. The researchers found that dementia was more common in those with wider bellies.
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题目: Bush Says Iraqi Security Improving (2/2)
专有名词: al-Qaida, Iran, Kentucky, John Yarmuth, Afghanistan
原文
Troops
(deployed)deploying to Iraq or Afghanistan after August 1st will have their tour of duty reduced from 15 months to 12 months. The war in Iraq is deeply unpopular in the United States. A majority of Americans now believe toppling Saddam Hussein was a mistake. A public opinion poll by the Associated Press this past week showed nearly two-thirds of Americans disapprove of how President Bush is handling the war. In the Democratic party’s radio address, Kentucky Congressman John(Yama)Yarmuth focused on the continuing cost of the war, which the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office says it is as much as 9 billion a month.(Yama)Yarmuth says Iraq’s government is enjoying a multi-billion dollar surplus while Americans pay the salaries of Iraqi security forces. President Bush this past week said there is no doubt the cost of the war is great, but he said it is a modest fraction of the nation’s wealth and is a burden worth bearing because Iraq is a focal point for what he called the greatest threat to America, al-Qaida and Iran.
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今天头一回慢速VOA没有出现错误，不知道是不是自己核对的不够仔细，因为沪江的对比器似乎有点问题，今天总是不能完全比对。而今天的标准VOA当中有些很奇怪的词，确实不知道是什么，专门上网上查了一下，象Shi’ites这个词，到wikipedia上查，也会redirect到Shia上，而且文中听得好像就是Shia啊，或者和阿拉伯语的发音有关系，不知道了。另外象al-Qaida这个词也有些奇怪，似乎按照我拼写的al-Qaeda也对，wikipedia上是这么说的。
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题目: Goldman Sachs Invests in Women Through Education (2/2)
专有名词: Goldman Sachs Group, Afghanistan, Cairo
原文
Dina Powell is the managing director of Goldman Sachs. She says that 10,000 Women is not a “one size fits all” program. Each university decides what to teach to fulfill local needs. At the American University of Afghanistan, for example, women will study the general ideas of business management. But at the American University in Cairo, Egypt, the partner school will offer beginning and higher-level business classes to the first 500 women. Such classes may include financial record keeping, market research and advertising. Women also could learn how to write a business plan, do business over the internet or gain investors.
Goldman Sachs plans to give 100 million dollars to the 10,000 Women program over the next 5 years. It also will urge its employees to donate their time and knowledge in the classroom. The program is based on a Goldman Sachs research report called “women hold up half the sky”. The research shows the powerful effects that working women have on their nations’ economies and societies.
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题目: Bush Says Iraqi Security Improving (1/2)
专有名词: Sunnis, Shi’ites, al-Qaida, Nouri al-Maliki, Basra, David Petraeus
原文
In the 15 months since he ordered more US troops to Iraq, President Bush said there has been a major strategic shift, with many mainstream
(Suni)Sunnis and(Shia)Shi’ites now actively confronting extremists.“Fifteen months ago,
(al-Qaeda)al-Qaida was using bases in Iraq to kill our troops and terrorize Iraqis. Today, we have put(al-Qaeda)al-Qaida on(a defense)the defensive in Iraq, and now we are working to deliver a crippling blow. Fifteen months ago, Americans were worried about the prospect of failure in Iraq. Today, thanks to the surge,(we provide)we’ve revived the prospect of success in Iraq. ”In his weekly radio address, Mr. Bush said
(securing)sectarian violence, civilian deaths, and military deaths are down since he sent 30,000 reinforcements to Iraq last year. He said security improvements have helped clear the way for political and economic progress. However, violence has intensified in Iraq since Prime Minister(N-a-M)Nouri al-Maliki ordered a crackdown on(Shia)Shi’ite militias in Basra last month. This past week, President Bush accepted the recommendation of the top US commander in Iraq General David Petraeus and suspended the planned withdrawal of US troops after July, while the security situation is re-assessed.
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昨天第一次修改了听写文本的发布格式，今天又稍作修改，把错误del掉，正确的用红色展示出来，这样应该更清晰，更明白。不过自己的错误都被大家看到了，哈哈！敢于亮出自己的错误，这样才更加真实！反正自己平时写Blog，听写VOA都是用gvim，再加上html的插件，插入几个小小的tag还是很方便的，所以也耽误不了太多的时间。不知道你们觉得这样子如何呢？
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题目: Goldman Sachs Invests in Women Through Education (1/2)
专有名词: Goldman Sachs Group, Columbia, Harvard, Standford（都是dream school啊，可惜去不了）, Rwanda（卢旺达）, Kenya（肯尼亚）, Tanzania（坦桑尼亚）, Pan-African University, Lagos（拉各斯）, Nigeria（尼日利亚）, Peter Bamkoleh
原文
Goldman Sachs Group, the international investment banking company, has launched a new program to provide ten
(thousands)thousand poor women with business education. The program, called 10, 000 Women, will support partnerships between American and European universities and business schools in mostly developing countries. Partners will work together to establish or expand education programs lasting from five weeks to six months. Several partnerships may also offer full college degrees in business.The 10, 000 Women program hopes to expand into the Middle East, Asia, Latin America and throughout Africa. Sixteen schools have agreed to take part in the program so far. They include Columbia, Harvard and Stanford universities in the United States. Other schools are in India, Rwanda, Kenya, South Africa and Tanzania. The
(Pan Africa)Pan-African University in(Lagas)Lagos, Nigeria is also a partner. Peter(B#)Bamkoleh heads that university’s Enterprise Development Services. He says about fifty women will receive training at the school every year. The women will take classes several times a week, then use what they have learned.
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题目: Angelina Jolie Discusses Plight of Iraqi Children (2/2)
专有名词: Amman（安曼，约旦首都）, Damascus（大马士革）, Jordan, Syria
重点总结: traumatize（使受创伤，精神创伤）
原文
“We met with these refugees, many of whom had been
(middle class)middle-class and educated citizens back in Iraq. We met with them in cold, crowded rooms in the(poor section)poorest sections of(#)Amman and(Damasks)Damascus, where they are(not)now concentrated.”He
(says)said Jordan and Syria have stretched their own already overcrowded schools to the limits and(their)that relief efforts to build more schools and provide more books should include local children in host countries. Jolie(says)said the vast majority of Iraqi children have been traumatized by the horrors of war and now have special needs.“
(Those)These children are also traumatized. One in every five Iraqi registered in Syria is registered as a victim of torture or extreme violence. There was also a study done, that find that not surprisingly, 92 percent of the children in Iraq had learning impediments, due to a climate of fear.”Jolie said there are no easy solutions to improve access to education in Iraq, but efforts should focus on improving education infrastructure for refugees in host countries, providing books and supplies, recruiting teachers and integrating school dropouts, especially girls.
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今天稍微改变了一下文章发表的方式。以前总是把修改好了的原文贴出来，这样倒不如把错误贴出来更好，免得给大家造成Hugh总是听对的假象，哈哈！所以从今天开始，尽管贴出来的仍然是原文，不过把错误用红色标注出来了，大家也可以了解到Hugh是什么水平。同样的，这样子更有利于Hugh自己观察进步，什么时候红色都没有了，就是perfect了！
不知道大家对于这样的改变有什么想法呢？个人觉得更真实可信了！
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题目: New Study Adds to Evidence That Too Many Americans Do Not Finish High School (2/2)
专有名词: American’s Promise Alliance, Colin Powell, Margaret Spellings
原文
Other studies have put the national graduation rate at about seventy percent. But experts agree that too many students are not completing high school. They estimate the number at more than one million each year.
The report was prepared for America’s Promise Alliance. The private group aims to help children receive services they need to succeed. General Colin Powell was chairman of America’s Promise Alliance when it was formed in nineteen ninety-seven. He attended the press conference Tuesday where the report was released. He said studies have shown that the United States must do more to educate the leaders and work force of the future.
Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings also spoke. She said the government will propose that states use the same methods when reporting graduation rates. Alliance officials also announced the start of a nationwide campaign to improve graduation rates. It is to include a series of meetings to be held in every state over the next two years. The meetings will bring together elected leaders, business owners, students, parents and education officials. They will develop plans to increase the number of Americans who finish high school.
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题目: Angelina Jolie Discusses Plight of Iraqi Children (1/2)
专有名词: Jolie, David Petraeus, Syria, Jordan, Egypt, Lebanon, George Rupp
原文
Jolie again used her star power to speak out for children in war zones, on the day the top U S military commander in Iraq, General David Petraeus testified before congressional committees. Asked about her view of how the surge of additional American troops has impacted Iraqi children, Jolie said military action must go hand in hand with aid.
“I would think even Petraeus would agree that a surge does not just mean it works if you get numbers of violence down. It works if humanitarian aid is starting to increase and changes are able to be made. ”
Half of the four million Iraqis forced out of their homes are internally displaced. Tens of thousands have fled to Syria and Jordan, and much smaller numbers of Iraqi refugees are in Egypt and Lebanon. The president of the International Rescue Committee, George Rupp, said he had met with many Iraqi families seeking shelter in Syria and Jordan. He said despite the tremendous efforts of those two countries, the situation for the refugees is deplorable.
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其实想多总结出写内容来，可是感觉尽管才听了大概40天的VOA，进步还是有一些的，听不出来的内容比刚开始的时候少了很多，所以总结也就越来越短了。前两天一个朋友建议我说既然以后准备去学金融，不妨听听Bloomberg看看，不是别人提醒，都忘了原来还听过一段时间的Bloomberg呢。
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题目: New Study Adds to Evidence That Too Many Americans Do Not Finish High School (1/2)
专有名词: Wichita, Kansas
重点总结: N/A
原文
A new report says only about half of all students in the main school systems of America’s largest cities finish high school. The report notes higher rates of graduation - more than seventy percent - in areas surrounding the cities.
The editorial projects in education research center prepared the report. Researchers studied high school graduation rates from the 2003-2004 school year. They also identify the nations fifty largest cities. The largest New York city had a population of more than eight million. The smallest city was Wichita Kansas it had about three hundred sixty thousand people. Researchers used a system of measurement called the Cumulative Promotion Index to find graduation rates.
School official in many of the cities studied say the resulting numbers were too low. That is because different areas use different methods to find graduation rates. Critics say many methods do not give a true picture of the number of students who leave high school before finishing.
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题目: Five Honored for Women’s Leadership (2/2)
专有名词: Shan Women’s Action Network, Thailand, Burma, Kakenya, Ntaiya, Pittsburgh, Maasai
重点总结: solidarity（团结）, circumcision（割礼）
原文
She co-founded the Shan Woman’s Action Network which is based in Thailand and document rapes and other abuses by Burma’s military government against women and girls.
“For us, for the women of Burma, this award means a lot to us. Because every statement, every single action, every award like this, make sure it’s also a message of solidarity that the world has not given up on our hopes for future democratic and free Burma.”
Other award recipients included Kakenya in Ntaiya, a young Kenya woman who negotiated with her father, and agreed to undergo female circumcision, if he allowed her to go to school. She later won a scholarship to attend university in the United States and is now finishing her doctorate in education at the University of Pittsburgh. She plans to start a boarding school for girls and for her Maasai village in Kenya.
Vital Voices is a non-governmental organization that trains emerging women leaders and social entrepreneurs. Since 1997, the group has mentored more that 5,000 women leaders from 150 countries who later returned home to train more that 100,000 additional women in their communities.
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马萨诸塞大学(UMass)近日在北京签署了一份协议，从而将成为首个获准在中国提供在线教育课程以及学位课程的外国大学。根据该协议，UMass将与中国继续教育协会(China’s
Continuing Education Association)以及CerEdu公司共同努力，将UMassOnline这个远程教育课程，提供给中国的学生。
UMassOnline从自己的五个校区：Amherst, Boston, Dartmouth, Lowell, Worcester，通过在线以及面对面授课在中国范围内提供学分和非学分课程，认证项目以及学位课程。在一年之内，UMass预计会提供40门课程，4个认证项目以及一个硕士项目。
至于中国持续教育协会以及CerEdu，两者均隶属于清华大学，同时和教育部有着紧密的练习。在国内，因为教育对于审核远程教育课程有着决定权，所以国内并不承认在国外大学的远程教育项目中获得学分以及学位。在中国境内的大学也只有在于所被授权进行远程教育。
想更多的了解马萨诸塞大学的在线课程，可以扯看UMassOnline的主页，不过基本上都是收费的远程教育课程，如果你有这个学习需要的，可以查看一下。
新闻来源：
- UMassOnline to Launch Online Courses in China@ Boston Business Journal
- University of Massachusetts Signs Groundbreaking Agreement with China @ PR Web
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今天的听写也都不难，标准VOA中的几个国家的名字应该记住，尤其是后面两个，Burma和UAE，可能更陌生一些。其实每天听写可能花不了太多时间，但是能坚持住还真没有那么容易，不知道你尝试过没有？有兴趣的时候听几次很容易，不过每天做同样的事情还是会有些郁闷，不过加油！
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题目: WHO Targets Climate Change for World Health Day (2/2)
专有名词: N/A
重点总结: N/A
原文
The scientists also predict that climate change will lead in Canada to an increase and outbreak of diseases that can be carried in water and food. They know that flooding, heavy rains and warmer temperatures are linked to the spread of the bacteria, viruses and other organizms. This is true even in the presence of water treatment systems they say. The report by scientists at the hospital for sick children in Toronto was published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal.
World Health Day marks the establishment of the World Health Organization on April 7,1948. One goal this year is to call for local and international partnerships that will seek to improve health through efforts to stablelize climate change. The W.H.O. says it aims to put public health at the Center of UN efforts on climate change. A major message of this World Health Day is that the health of poor people will be hurt the most. The W.H.O. says different areas of the world will experience different problems from climate change. But it says countries with high levels of poverty and underdevelopment will be the least prepared to deal with them.
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题目: Five Honored for Women’s Leadership (1/2)
专有名词: Argentina（阿根廷）, Kenya（肯尼亚）, Burma（缅甸）, United Arab Emirate（阿联酋）（四个国家的名字）, Sheikha Lubna al Qasimi, Charm Tong, Burmese
重点总结: honoree（荣誉）, refugee（难民）, dialogue between western nations and the Middle East（dialogue用在这）
原文
The honorees included the pro-democracy activist in Argentina, a young proponent for women’s education in Kenya, a critic of Burma’s military government and the first female government minister in the United Arab Emirates. Senator Clinton said all these honorees are working to ensure the rights of citizenship are available to all people.
“They’re leading us toward that brighter future, a future in which the voices of women are heard and their talents and contributions recognized and respected.”
Sheikha Lubna al Qasimi, treated in her career as a business executive in information technology companies to become the head of the UAE’s Ministry of Foreign Trade. As the first female finance minister in the Middle East, she says she hopes her award will work to improve the dialogue between western nations and the Middle East. Charm Tong, a woman who has worked as an advocate for Burmese refugees since she was 16 years old, accepted the 2008 Human Rights Award on behalf of the women of Burma.
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整天感觉今天的两篇难度都不是很大，相对来说标准VOA当中几个人名，以及采访过程中的话可能有一点困难。听得还是非常不错的！
昨天发现PR被清零了，开始以为是付费评论的问题，今天chada留言说可能是VOA的问题，我宁愿相信是前者。不过就算是因为VOA听写的原因，那我还是要继续听写下去。毕竟写博客不是为了Google写的，听写也不是为了Google听的。听写VOA，让Google惩罚去吧:-)
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题目: Who Targets Climate Change for World Health Day 2008 (1/2)
专有名词: N/A
原文
Next Monday is World Health Day, observed by the World Health Organization. The objective chosen for this year is to get people involved in the campaign to protect against the health effects of climate change.
The World Health Organization is a United Nations agency. The W.H.O. says there is already evidence of health problems related to climate change. It says more people are dying from extreme heat, and that diseases spread by insects are also on the rise. And it says climate change has increased the risk of natural disasters, especially severe dry weather, wildfires, major storms and floods. Disasters like these can kill directly or indirectly. People can die or get sick from food shortages or conditions like the spread of disease.
Several years ago, the W.H.O. blamed climate change for 2% of diarea cases worldwide in the year 2000. Last month, researchers in Canada predicted that temperature increases there will spread insects like ticks and mosquitoes farther north. These insects can carry disease.
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题目: Memphis, Kansas Advance to NCAA Baxketball National Championship (2/2)
专有名词: Jayhawks, North Carolina, Kansas, Brandon Rush, Donald Jackson, Syracuse, Alamodome
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The Jayhawks led by 17 at the break but North Carolina was able to come back to within 4 points. However Kansas never surrendered the lead. Kansas coach Bill Self says the semifinal was almost like 3 games.
“First game we were great, and second game we weren’t very good, and they were great . The last game you know obviously we played super down the stretch. But you know guys were in attack mood right for the outset, and I thought we just did a really good job of being aggressor early which set the tune for the game.”
Brandon Rush led the Jayhawks with 25 points, teammate Donald Jackson says that his team knows that beating Memphis will be tough.
“A lot of guys are talking about this and Coach Self has been doing a great job in helping us to stay focused, and telling us not to be satisfied. And we’ve been playing so hard as a team together and not playing selfishly, and now we’ve got an opportunity to make history at our Kansas.”
Kansas last went to the final in 2003, but the Jayhawks lost to Syracuse. Kansas and Memphis meet for the national title Monday night at the Alamodome.
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