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This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. This week, Russia buried its former president with full honors in Moscow. Boris Yeltsin died Monday at age seventy-six. He served from nineteen ninety-one to nineteen ninety-nine. He will always be remembe

VOA慢速英语 2007 0330a

This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. Buy now, pay later. Credit cards give people that choice. Those billions of small pieces of plastic in use all over the world make it easy to buy things. But people who use credit cards irresponsibly

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This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Egypt has fully banned the tradition that some call female circumcision and others call female genital mutilation. The government acted after a girl in southern Egypt died. Her mother took her to a docto

VOA慢速英语 2007 0926a

This is the VOA Special English Health Report. On September ninth, American football player Kevin Everett of the Buffalo Bills tried to bring down an opponent. There seemed to be nothing unusual about what he did. The twenty-five-year-old Everett pu

VOA慢速英语 200707170041

This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Heat and drought are threatening some of America's most productive farmland. The Department of Agriculture says an early summer heat wave across the West has increased demand for water to save dry c

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This is the VOA Special English Education Report. SOUND: Good morning, Discovery Center -- good afternoon. We're happy to be here with you. This is Al Drew, Clay Anderson, Dave Williams and I'm Barb Morgan. And we are ready for your first question. W

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VOICE ONE: I'm Barbara Klein. VOICE TWO: And I'm Bob Doughty with EXPLORATIONS in VOA Special English. This week, we tell about a project to identify images of one million galaxies that have been captured by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. We also tell

VOA慢速英语 2007 0330b

HOST: Welcome to AMERICAN MOSAIC, in VOA Special English. (MUSIC) I'm Doug Johnson. On our show this week: We answer a question about MP3 players/P Present some music from Elvis Perkins/P And report about something called March Madness. March Madnes

VOA慢速英语 2007 1128a

This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Scientists have discovered that stored blood loses a life-saving gas. This discovery may explain why a great number of people get sick after receiving stored blood. In recent years, experts have wondere

VOA慢速英语 2007 0926b

ANNOUNCER: EXPLORATIONS -- a program in Special English by the Voice of America. (MUSIC) Neil Armstrong with the X-15 Today, Doug Johnson and Frank Oliver tell about the first airplane that flew out of the Earth's atmosphere. It was designed to test

VOA慢速英语 2007 0929

HOST: Welcome to AMERICAN MOSAIC, in VOA Special English. (MUSIC) I'm Doug Johnson. On our show this week: We listen to some music from Van Halen /P Answer a question about child care in America /P And report about agricultural fairs held across the

VOA慢速英语 2007 1127a

This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. An American carrot farmer harvests his crop earlier this year Carrots are grown on farms and in family gardens throughout the world. Carrots are easy to raise and easy to harvest. They taste good.

VOA慢速英语 2007 1126b

VOICE ONE: Welcome to This Is America in VOA Special English. Im Steve Ember. VOICE TWO: And Im Barbara Klein. The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. is one of the official cultural centers of America. For the past th

VOA慢速英语 2007 0930

VOICE ONE: Im Shirley Griffith. VOICE TWO: And Im Steve Ember with PEOPLE IN AMERICA in VOA Special English. Today we tell about Frederick Douglass. He was born a slave, but later became one of Americas greatest leaders. He was an activist, a writer

VOA慢速英语 2007 1031a

This is the VOA Special English Health Report. The American Academy of Pediatrics says all children should be tested for autism by the age of two. Ryan Taylor was diagnosed with autism in 2004; he is shown with his father, Craig, at their home in Co

VOA慢速英语 2007 1030b

VOICE ONE: This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. I'm Bob Doughty. VOICE TWO: Researchers at Ohio State University studied exercise-induced asthma among top athletes at the school. Ohio State football players practice earlier this year.

VOA慢速英语 2007 1030a

This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Joe Jutras lives in a small state, Rhode Island, but he thinks big. This year he grew a pumpkin weighing seven hundred sixty kilograms. Joe Jutras and his winner His pumpkin broke the world record

VOA慢速英语 2007 1029b

VOICE ONE: Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA in VOA Special English. I'm Steve Ember. VOICE TWO: And I'm Barbara Klein. It is autumn in the northern part of the world. So it is time to play some of our favorite songs about this season. (MUSIC) VOICE ONE: P

VOA慢速英语 2007 0927a

This is the VOA Special English Education Report. More than half the teachers in the Houston Independent School District, the largest in Texas, have earned merit pay awards this year. Marjorie Hunt-Bluford is one of them. The idea seems reasonable.

VOA慢速英语 2007 1028

VOICE ONE: I'm Shirley Griffith. VOICE TWO: And I'm Ray Freeman with the VOA Special English program, PEOPLE IN AMERICA. Every week we tell about a person who was important in the history of the United States. Today, we tell about Walt Disney and th