• 美国极贫人口比例升新高

    11-11-12 The ranks of America's poorest poor have climbed to a record high 1 in 15 people spread widely across metropolitan areas as the housing bust pushed many inner-city poor into suburbs and other outlying places and shriveled jobs and income. 美国极贫人...

  • 贫穷与国家公园之间的奇怪联系

    11-08-23 If so many poor people live around national parks in developing countries, does that mean that these parks are contributing to their poverty? Yes, according to the conventional wisdom, but no, according to a 10-year study of people living around Kib...

  • 小额贷款能消除贫困?

    11-06-12 Small loans, somewhere in the neighborhood of $100 to $500 dollars, are an increasingly popular weapon in the fight to reduce poverty. Called microcredit, institutions dole out(少量发放) these monetary advances to help extremely poor people engage...

  • 有不良行为的学生不一定有不良的成绩

    11-03-30 Los Angeles, CA (MARCH 2011) Despite popular belief, a new study published in the latest issue of the Journal of Positive Behavior Interventions (published by SAGE) finds that students who have poor behavior in the classroom do not always have poor...

  • 爱与微笑

    11-02-12 The poor are very wonderful people. One evening we went out and we picked up four people from the street. And one of them was in a most terrible condition,and I told the sisters: You take care of the other three. I take care of this one who looked...

  • A poor man 可怜的人

    10-11-08 Oh, my poor man, exclaimed the kind old lady, It must be dreadful to be lame. But it would be much worse if you were blind. You're absolutely right, said the beggar, obviously an old hand at the game. When I was blind, people kept giving me foreign...

  • 印度比非洲“更贫穷”

    10-07-13 Eight Indian states account for more poor people than in the 26 poorest African countries combined, a new measure of global poverty has found. 通过一项对全球贫困问题的新评估发现,8个印度省份的贫民总数比26个非洲最贫穷国家的人数还要多。 The new measur...

  • 贫穷比吸烟、肥胖面临更大的健康问题

    09-12-23 The average low-income person loses 8.2 years of perfect health, the average high school dropout辍学 loses 5.1 years, and the obese肥胖的 lose 4.2 years, according to researchers at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health. Tobacco cont...

  • Japan PM in gaffe on poor couples 日本首相失言调侃国内年轻人

    09-08-25 Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso has advised young people who are poor in his country not to get married. 日本首相麻生太郎建议国内贫穷的年轻人不要着急结婚。 Taro Aso's Liberal Democratic Party is heading for defeat, say pollsters He made the remark...

  • Poorest at risk of worst diabetes 贫穷的人患糖尿病几率较高

    09-07-27 The poorest people in the UK are more than twice as likely to have diabetes at any age than the average person, a charity has warned. 一个慈善机构警告道,英国最贫穷的人在任何年龄患糖尿病的几率是正常人的两倍之多。 Obesity is a major risk factor for t...