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This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Cotton plants Bollworms are a traditional threat to cotton crops. Young ones feed on the boll, the part of the cotton plant that contains the seeds. A bacterium known as Bt is able to kill bollworm

VOA慢速英语 2008 1103b

VOICE ONE: Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA in VOA Special English. Im Steve Ember. VOICE TWO: Voting is expected to be unusually heavy on Tuesday. Millions voted early in states that permitted it. These people voted Saturday in Miami, Florida. And I'm Ba

VOA慢速英语 2008 1110a

This is the VOA Special English Development Report. Dye can bring a little color to life. Most clothing is colored with dyes. Modern, manufactured dyes can be costly. Natural dyes from plant and animal products have been used since ancient times. So

VOA慢速英语 2008 1115

This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. President-elect Barack Obama visited President Bush at the White House on Monday The most commonly heard advice for Barack Obama when he becomes president in January is to govern from the center. In Washin

VOA慢速英语 2008 1114b

HOST: Welcome to AMERICAN MOSAIC in VOA Special English. (MUSIC) I'm Doug Johnson. This week: We listen to music from Lucinda Williams Answer a listener question about actor Marlon Brando But first, we remember the popular writer Michael Crichton, w

VOA慢速英语 2008 1114a

This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson is making changes in the seven hundred billion dollar rescue plan for the financial industry. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson speaking to reporters Wednesday in Wash

VOA慢速英语 2008 1113b

Welcome to the MAKING OF A NATION American history in VOA Special English. Andrew Jackson served as president of the United States from eighteen twenty-nine to eighteen thirty-seven. His first term seemed to be mostly a political battle with Vice Pr

VOA慢速英语 2008 1113a

This is the VOA Special English Education Report. We are now ten weeks into our Foreign Student Series on higher education in the United States. So far we have talked about planning for school and about subjects like online education and diploma mil

VOA慢速英语 2008 1112b

VOICE ONE: I'm Steve Ember. VOICE TWO: And I'm Barbara Klein with EXPLORATIONS in VOA Special English. Today we tell about the trade in diamonds, a worldwide business worth billions of dollars. (MUSIC: Diamonds Are Forever) VOICE ONE: Diamonds have

VOA慢速英语 2008 1112a

This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Bethesda, Maryland, near Washington, D.C., is home to the National Institutes of Health. N.I.H. calls itself the Nation's Medical Research Agency. But it supports research worldwide with its budget of a

VOA慢速英语 2008 1117b

Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA in VOA Special English. I'm Shirley Griffith. If one album had to explain jazz, a strong candidate would be Kind of Blue by the trumpet player and bandleader Miles Davis. This week on our program, Steve Ember and Gwen Oute

VOA慢速英语 2008 1116

This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. President-elect Barack Obama visited President Bush at the White House on Monday The most commonly heard advice for Barack Obama when he becomes president in January is to govern from the center. In Washin

VOA慢速英语 2008 1118a

This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Scientists are working to develop crop plants that can reduce the amount of water used for agriculture. Almost sixty percent of the world's freshwater withdrawals from rivers, lakes and other water

VOA慢速英语 2008 1118b

VOICE ONE: This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. I'm Faith Lapidus. VOICE TWO: And I'm Bob Doughty. The work and theories of Sigmund Freud continue to influence many areas of modern culture. VOICE ONE: Today, we explore Freud's influen

VOA慢速英语 2008 1119a

This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Some people's ears produce wax like busy little bees. This can be a problem even though earwax appears to serve an important purpose. Experts say it protects and cleans the ear. It traps dirt and other

VOA慢速英语 2008 1119b

VOICE ONE: I'm Steve Ember. VOICE TWO: And I'm Barbara Klein with Explorations in VOA Special English. We received a special request in a letter from a listener in Nagano, Japan. Atsumi Shimoda asked for a report about what the Special English write

VOA慢速英语 2008 1120a

This is the VOA Special English Education Report. This week in our Foreign Student Series, we talk about applying to an American college or university. International admissions officers advise students to apply to at least three schools. You may be

VOA慢速英语 2008 1205b

HOST: Welcome to AMERICAN MOSAIC in VOA Special English. (MUSIC) I'm Doug Johnson. This week: We listen to music from Taylor Swift Answer a listener question about chess champion Bobby Fischer And report about blogs right here at VOA. (MUSIC) Blogs

VOA慢速英语 2008 1206

This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. India continues to investigate the terrorist attacks last week in Mumbai. More than one hundred seventy people were killed in two and a half days of violence. Taj Hotel in Mumbai burning Indian officials h

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VOICE ONE: I'm Phoebe Zimmermann. VOICE TWO: And I'm Steve Ember with People in America in VOA Special English. Today we tell about a man who made possible one of the most important communications devices ever created -- television. His name was Phi