Twelve states had poverty rates above 17 percent, up from five in 2009, while poverty rates in 10 metropolitan areas topped 18 percent, the data showed.

数据显示，全美有12个州的贫困率高于17%，2009年时则只有五个州；此外，有10个大都会地区的贫困率超过18%。

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About 90% of all deaths from malaria occur in Africa, in the areas south of the Sahara, and the great majority of these are in children under the age of five.

在疟疾造成的所有死亡，约有90%发生在非洲，在撒哈拉以南地区，并且这些死亡中的绝大多数是5岁以下儿童。

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HIV targets immune cells and in laboratory tests the virus reproduced three to five times faster in tissue from the healed sites as in tissue from other areas.

艾滋病毒攻击免疫细胞，在实验室试验中，病毒在愈后皮肤组织的繁殖速度，要比其他皮肤组织快3到5倍。

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"It's also a wonderful concept to reward a woman from each of the five major regional areas in which science is being conducted around the world, in a celebration of not only women in science, but also the importance of science in a world community."

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The data was collected from five states and four major metropolitan areas, representing less than 10 percent of the U.S. population.

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Spanish home prices have fallen 30% from their peak five years ago, and prices have halved in some areas along the Mediterranean coast.

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He spoke in a conference call with several reporters on the eve of his Clinton Global Initiative University this weekend in San Diego, where 1, 100 students from 300 schools around the world and in every state will gather to create problem-solving pr0jects in five areas: education, environment and climate change, peace and human rights, poverty alleviation, and public health.

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