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ANNOUNCER: This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS, in VOA Special English. Im Bob Doughty. Today we present the last part of our series on the disease bird flu. It is a story for young people called Zandi's Song. It was shortened and taken from a book written

VOA慢速英语 2007 0522a

This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. This season, American farmers expect to plant their biggest corn crop since World War Two. Growing demand for ethanol fuel is the driving force, along with strong export sales. Based on March estim

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VOICE ONE: Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA in VOA Special English. I'm Steve Ember. VOICE TWO: And I'm Barbara Klein. What do you get when the people who design buildings ask members of the public to choose their favorites? You get the subject of our pr

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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

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This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. Conservative Christians, known in America as the religious right, lost one of their best-known leaders this week. Jerry Falwell died Tuesday shortly after being found unconscious in his Virginia office. He

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HOST: Welcome to AMERICAN MOSAIC, in VOA Special English. (MUSIC) I'm Doug Johnson. On our show this week: We answer a question about global warming /P Play music from Paul Simon /P And tell about American Indian tribes in the state of Virginia as t

VOA慢速英语 2007 0518a

This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. Employers in the United States expect to hire almost twenty percent more college graduates this year than last year. So says the National Association of Colleges and Employers. The group says employe

VOA慢速英语 2007 0517b

VOICE ONE: This is Rich Kleinfeldt. VOICE TWO: And this is Doug Johnson with THE MAKING OF A NATION -- a VOA Special English program about the history of the United States. (MUSIC) Today, we continue the story of the thirty-seventh president of the

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This is the VOA Special English Education Report. We are going to talk again this week about higher education for disabled students who want to study in the United States. As we noted last time, the National Federation of the Blind says there are no

VOA慢速英语 2007 0516b

ANNOUNCER: EXPLORATIONS -- a program in Special English by the Voice of America. Today, Richard Rael and Shep O'Neal tell the story of one of America's most famous pilots, Charles Lindbergh. (MUSIC) VOICE ONE: Charles Lindbergh is probably one of th

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VOICE ONE: Im Faith Lapidus. VOICE TWO: And Im Steve Ember with the VOA Special English program People in America. Today we tell about a man known as Johnny Appleseed. Many people considered him a hero. (MUSIC) VOICE ONE: Johnny Appleseed Johnny App

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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 2007 0516a

This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Research is often a slow, maddening search for answers where each new finding only seems to raise more questions. This is the case with a story we told you about last month. It offers a good example of

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This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Red imported fire ants cause billions of dollars a year in US farm damage Farmers in parts of the United States have struggled for years with an invasion of red imported fire ants from Brazil. Thes

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This is the VOA Special English Education Report. We continue our Foreign Student Series this week with two questions that we received. Anatolii Artamonov, a university student in Ukraine, would like to know about student exchange programs in the Un

VOA慢速英语 2007 0505

This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. White House officials have begun talks with Congress on a war spending bill in place of the one President Bush vetoed on Tuesday. President Bush speaking at the White House after he vetoed a $124 billion s

VOA慢速英语 2007 0504a

This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. Robert Nardelli For Robert Nardelli, two thousand seven might seem like a bad year. After all, he resigned in January as chief of the world's largest operator of home-improvement stores. Sales and pr

VOA慢速英语 2007 0503b

VOICE ONE: This is Stan Busby. VOICE TWO: And this is Rich Kleinfeldt with THE MAKING OF A NATION -- a VOA Special English program about the history of the United States. (MUSIC) VOICE ONE: Nineteen sixty-eight was a presidential election year in th

VOA慢速英语 2007 0502b

VOICE ONE: I'm Barbara Klein. VOICE TWO: And I'm Steve Ember with Explorations in VOA Special English. Today we tell about new discoveries near Stonehenge, the famous ancient circle of stones in southern England. (MUSIC) VOICE ONE: For thousands of

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This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Scientists may have found a way to reduce shortages of type O blood. Type O is the kind of blood that hospitals most often need. What the researchers are testing is an easier way to make type O blood ou