VOA慢速英语 2008 1029a

This is the VOA Special English Health Report. A new study from the World Health Organization says fifty-nine million people died from all causes in two thousand four. Ten million of them were children. The report says almost half of all the people

VOA慢速英语 2008 1029b

This is the VOA Special English Health Report. A new study from the World Health Organization says fifty-nine million people died from all causes in two thousand four. Ten million of them were children. The report says almost half of all the people

VOA慢速英语-Development Report - Pedal-Powered Computers for Rur

This is the VOA Special English Development Report. A nonprofit group in San Francisco, California, is trying to take bicycle-powered computers to rural villages around the world. The computer was developed with villagers in Laos. The group is the J

VOA慢速英语 2008 1030a

This is the VOA Special English Education Report. This week in our Foreign Student Series, we talk about getting an American education online. A student named Hendra has written to us from Indonesia asking about a good online university. Finding the

VOA慢速英语 2008 1030b

Welcome to the MAKING OF A NATION American history in VOA Special English. Andrew Jackson Andrew Jackson became president of the United States in March of eighteen twenty-nine. Thousands of his supporters came to Washington to see him sworn-in. Many

VOA慢速英语 2008 1126a

This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Anesthesia is used during operations and other medical procedures to block pain signals from traveling through the nervous system. The kind of anesthesia that patients receive depends on their condition

VOA慢速英语 2008 1028b

VOICE ONE: This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS, in VOA Special English. I'm Steve Ember. VOICE TWO: A massive earthquake in China's Sichuan province earlier this year was the country's worst in more than 30 years. And I'm Barbara Klein. Scientists who study

VOA慢速英语 2008 1031a

This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. Early estimates show that the United States economy shrank by three-tenths of one percent from July through September. Economists had predicted a five-tenths drop. But Thursday's report from the Comm

VOA慢速英语-Education Report - NYU Pushes Foreign Study

New York University has been in the lead as study abroad programs have grown more popular for American students. Transcript of radio broadcast: 30 July 2008 This is the VOA Special English Education Report. The number of American students who study

VOA慢速英语-THE MAKING OF A NATION - American History Series: Re

President James Madison wanted the warring British and French to honor American neutrality. Transcript of radio broadcast: 30 July 2008 Welcome to THE MAKING OF A NATION American history in VOA Special English. James Madison James Madison of Virgini

VOA慢速英语-EXPLORATIONS - How English Became a Modern Language

VOICE ONE: This is Steve Ember. VOICE TWO: And this is Shirley Griffith with the VOA Special English program EXPLORATIONS. Today we present the second of our two programs about the history of the English Language. (MUSIC) VOICE ONE: William the Conq

VOA慢速英语 2008 1028a

This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Cows, sheep, goats and other animals can get mastitis, an inflammation in the udder, the organ where milk is produced. Milk from an untreated cow is still relatively safe to drink. But the milk is

VOA慢速英语-Agriculture Report - 'Catch Shares': A Better Way to

This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Too much fishing has reduced many fishery populations by ninety percent or more from their highest recorded numbers. Some fishing seasons last only a few days because the catch limit is quickly rea

VOA慢速英语-SCIENCE IN THE NEWS - Progress Seen Toward Making Ob

VOICE ONE: This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. I'm Bob Doughty. VOICE TWO: And I'm Barbara Klein. This week, we will tell about evidence that some people can be both fat and healthy. We will also tell about brain aneurysms -- a rare

VOA慢速英语 2008 1031b

HOST: Welcome to AMERICAN MOSAIC in VOA Special English. (MUSIC) I'm Doug Johnson. This week: We listen to music from the Four Tops, whose lead singer, Levi Stubbs, died recently Answer a listener question about the electoral college in the United S

VOA慢速英语-AMERICAN MOSAIC - For Kay Ryan, Poetry Is 'the Most

HOST: Welcome to AMERICAN MOSAIC in VOA Special English. (MUSIC) I'm Doug Johnson. This week, a special poetry show: We hear some songs of famous poems by France's First Lady Carla Bruni ... Answer a question about American poet Emily Dickinson And

VOA慢速英语 2008 1130

VOICE ONE: I'm Faith Lapidus. VOICE TWO: And I'm Bob Doughty with People in America in VOA Special English. Today we tell about the research scientist and broadcasting leader Henry Loomis. Mister Loomis held many interesting communications positions

VOA慢速英语 2008 1129

This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. What began more than a year ago is often described as the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression. The downturn is bad, but it would have to get much worse to compare to the nineteen thirties. In

VOA慢速英语 2008 1128b

HOST: Welcome to AMERICAN MOSAIC in VOA Special English. (MUSIC) I'm Doug Johnson. This week: We listen to a new album from Darius Rucker Answer a listener question about vegetarians And tell about people who ride their bicycles to work. (MUSIC) Bik

VOA慢速英语 2008 1128a

This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. President-elect Barack Obama named the top members of his economic team in a series of announcements this week in Chicago, Illinois. His nominee for secretary of the Treasury is Tim Geithner, preside