Penelope Cruz - Volver

Amber: Hello, I'm Amber, and you're listening to bbclearningenglish.com. Today, we listen to parts of an interview with film star Penelope Cruz! She talks about her new movie, 'Volver', what she likes about working with Spanish director Pedro Almodo

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College Gardens Elementary is the kind of school where children are exposed to diversity at a young age, where students interact with children, whose families come from more than 40 different countries. College Gardens is an amazing school and we hav

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This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. A locavore is someone who eats foods produced locally. Locavores usually define local as within one hundred sixty kilometers. This new term grew out of a reaction to the long distances that food no

VOA标准英语2011--Politics Overtaking Science in Global Wa

Politics Overtaking Science in Global Warming Debate Polls in recent years show that fewer Americans believe global warming is a threat or that it is driven by human activities. Thats despite consensus among scientists that climate change is not only

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On a cold, dull, Winter day, I sometimes light a fire after picking the children up from school. We gather around and feel cozy. The lounge where we have the fireplace also has a computer and a Wii console, so there is plenty to do for everyone. Thou

Societe Generale chairman resigns

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By Mike O'Sullivan Los Angeles 19 September 2006 The Getty Center is one of the leading art institutions in the United States. It is also major center for restoration of damaged art works. The Getty museum has been embroiled in recent controversies

VOA标准英语2012--Wisconsin Community Mourns Victims of Sikh Temple Shooting

Wisconsin Community Mourns Victims of Sikh Temple Shooting As local and federal law enforcement officials combed through evidence at the temple, Milwaukees international community gathered in a downtown park to mourn the six people who died in the ra

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MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: I let you down. I should have acted faster and more decisively - the words of NPR CEO Jarl in an email to our newsroom. He met with NPR staff this afternoon two days after he asked for the resignation of senior vice president

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DAVID GREENE, HOST: Let's talk about what to call a fact that is not a fact. President Trump made a string of statements at the CIA over the weekend. Our correspondent Mary Louise Kelly used this language to describe some of them. (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHI

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The forestry industry in New Zealand is in trouble. Forestry has always been one of our major export industries but in recent years, it has been declining. Nineteen sawmills closed this year, two in the last month. New plantings of trees reached the

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By Lisa Schlein Geneva 12 May 2007 The World Food Program (WFP) says it will be able to restore food rations it was forced to cut for more than a million displaced people in northern Uganda. As Lisa Schlein reports for VOA from Geneva, the WFP says i

China reviews anti-dumping measures on Japanese chloroprene rubber

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BEIJING, Nov. 18 (Xinhua) -- Chinese State Councilor Ma Kai on Sunday met with visiting Comptroller General of the United States Gene L. Dodaro. Ma said the increase of communication on auditing between China and the United States will help promote t

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By Steve Herman New Delhi 22 October 2007 It has been one year since laws went into effect in India banning children from working in homes, hotels and restaurants. But as VOA correspondent Steve Herman reports from New Delhi, there appears to be litt

10 Benefits of Rising Early, and How to Do It

10 Benefits of Rising Early, and How to Do It Recently, reader Rob asked me about my habit of waking at 4:30 a.m. each day, and asked me to write about the health benefits of rising early, which I thought was an excellent question. Unfortunately, the