VOA慢速英语 2007 0601a

This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. A question from Vietnam. Listener Nguyen Minh Tan wants to know more about the World Trade Organization and its history. Pascal Lamy is WTO director-general The World Trade Organization came into exi

VOA慢速英语 2007 0622a

This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. Bonds have been in the news a lot in the last few weeks. Yields on the ten-year United States Treasury note jumped to their highest level in five years, before easing. Bonds are debt owed by a govern

VOA慢速英语 2007 0622b

HOST: Welcome to AMERICAN MOSAIC in VOA Special English. (MUSIC) I'm Doug Johnson. This week on our show: We answer a question about the movie Titanic ... We also have music by three British singers who are popular in the United States ... And we lo

VOA慢速英语 2007 0625b

VOICE ONE: Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA in VOA Special English. I'm Steve Ember. VOICE TWO: And Im Barbara Klein. Our subject this week is women in the spy business. (MUSIC) VOICE ONE: Valerie Wilson before a US congressional committee Her husband cal

VOA慢速英语 2007 0625a

This is the VOA Special English Development Report. Officials from some of the worlds leading banks were in the Netherlands last week for a conference on microfinance lending. The Dutch government and the nonprofit organization Women's World Banking

VOA慢速英语 2007 0624

ANNOUNCER: Welcome to the VOA Special English program PEOPLE IN AMERICA. Today, William Randolph Hearst Steve Ember and Rich Kleinfeldt tell about American publisher . Mister Hearst created what was once the nation's largest newspaper organization.

VOA慢速英语 2007 0623

This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. A Hamas militant holds up a Hamas flag on a watch tower of the Preventive Security headquarters in Gaza City. Hamas captured the compound from Fatah forces. For a week now, Palestinians have had to deal wi

VOA慢速英语 2007 0626a

This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Someday, rice plants might not only provide food but also a way to prevent cholera and other diseases. Cholera is a bacterial infection of the intestines. Today it is found mostly in Africa, Asia a

VOA慢速英语 2007 0920a

This is the VOA Special English Education Report. Recently we talked about how some American schools have made changes in the traditional school year. Their goal is to improve student learning. A teacher and student at Barcroft Elementary in Arlingt

VOA慢速英语 2007 0921b

HOST: Welcome to AMERICAN MOSAIC in VOA Special English. (MUSIC) I'm Doug Johnson. On our show this week: We listen to some hip-hop music from Talib Kweli /P Answer a question about American slang /P And report about a famous parrot. Alex HOST: A ta

VOA慢速英语 2007 0925a

This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. American farmers are raising more goats for meat these days. The Department of Agriculture says the United States had about three million meat goats in July. That was a five percent increase from J

VOA慢速英语 2007 0925b

VOICE ONE: This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. Im Faith Lapidus. VOICE TWO: Magnolia trees at the National Arboretum And Im Bob Doughty. Washington, D.C. is home to famous buildings, memorials and museums that visitors love. But it i

VOA慢速英语 2007 0924a

This is the VOA Special English Development Report. UNICEF says a record low number of children are dying before the age of five. The United Nations Children's Fund has records back to nineteen sixty. It says the number has dropped below ten million

VOA慢速英语 2007 0923

VOICE ONE: Im Gwen Outen. VOICE TWO: And Im Steve Ember with People in America in VOA Special English. Today we tell about one of the greatest painters of the twentieth century, Georgia O'Keeffe. (MUSIC) VOICE ONE: Georgia O'Keeffe America has produ

VOA慢速英语 2007 0922

This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. Protesters in Jena, Louisiana Thousands of protesters from around the United States marched this week in the small town of Jena, Louisiana. They came in support of six black teenagers arrested for the beat

VOA慢速英语 2007 0924b

VOICE ONE: Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA in VOA Special English. I'm Steve Ember. VOICE TWO: And I'm Shirley Griffith. Today we complete the story and songs from the American musical play West Side Story. (MUSIC) VOICE ONE: Some of the greatest artists

VOA慢速英语 2007 0414

This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. Jackie Robinson Sunday will mark an important anniversary in American society. Sixty years ago, Jackie Robinson became the first black man to play in Major League Baseball. His uniform number, forty-two, w

VOA慢速英语 2007 0401

ANNOUNCER: People in America a program in Special English about famous Americans of the past. Now, Kay Gallant and Harry Monroe tell the story of nineteenth century poet Emily Dickinson. (MUSIC) Emily Dickinson VOICE ONE: Because I could not stop fo

VOA慢速英语 2007 0425a

This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Last year, researchers reported that breast cancer rates in the United States dropped in two thousand three. That was after about twenty years of rising. Many experts linked the drop to a sharp reductio

VOA慢速英语 2007 0422

VOICE ONE: Im Steve Ember. VOICE TWO: And Im Sarah Long with People in America in VOA Special English. Today, we tell about a woman who worked to make a difference in peoples lives, Barbara Jordan. (MUSIC) VOICE ONE: Barbara Jordan was a lawyer, edu