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This is the VOA Special English Development Report. Robert Zoellick is President Bush's choice to head the World Bank. He is fifty-three years old and currently a vice chairman at Goldman Sachs, the New York investment bank. He has held a number of

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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. This week we tell about Philip Roth. It would be hard to pick an American writer with more published works, critical praise and honors t

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ANNOUNCER: Welcome to People in America in VOA Special English. Every week at this time, we tell the story of someone important in the history of the United States. Today, Steve Ember and Shirley Griffith tell about Mary Lyon. She was a leader in wo

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This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. What exactly is genocide? The word was invented by Raphael Lemkin, a Jewish lawyer who fled Poland at the start of World War Two and came to the United States. He lost almost every member of his family to

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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 the Marshall Plan /P Play music from Mary Chapin Carpenter /P And report about a place that helps animals heal. Gent

VOA慢速英语 2007 0613a

This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Today we have the second half of a report about some concerns with the use of drug- treated coronary stents. These are small metal tubes designed to be placed inside arteries in heart patients. The sten

VOA慢速英语 2007 0612b

VOICE ONE: This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS, in VOA Special English. I'm Barbara Klein. VOICE TWO: And I'm Steve Ember. On our program this week, we will tell about an animal that can reproduce without mating. We also will tell about a Swedish man who d

VOA慢速英语 2007 0612a

This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Rabbits in a cage Rabbits are easy to raise. The long-eared animals are clean and quiet. They do not need a lot of room. And you do not have to spend a lot of money to feed them. With rabbits, you

VOA慢速英语 2007 0611b

VOICE ONE: Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA in VOA Special English. I'm Steve Ember. VOICE TWO: And I'm Barbara Klein. We turn our attention this week to the NBA, the National Basketball Association, and its growing international reach. (SOUND) VOICE ONE:

VOA慢速英语 2007 0611a

This is the VOA Special English Development Report. The Asian Development Bank was created in nineteen sixty-six, two years after the African Development Bank. Today both of them are talking about needed reforms to better serve their member countrie

VOA慢速英语 2007 0610

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 someone important in the history of the United States. This week we tell about black singer and songwri

VOA慢速英语 2007 0609

This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. Forty years ago this week, Israel, fearing a threat of destruction, defeated three Arab Israeli soldiers stand at the Western Wall, Judaism's holiest place, which was captured by Israel 40 years ago from J

VOA慢速英语 2007 0608a

This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. Today we have the second half of a report on the history of the World Trade Organization. The W.T.O. was created in nineteen ninety-five after the eighth round of world trade talks. The rounds began

VOA慢速英语 2007 0607b

VOICE ONE: This is Rich Kleinfeldt. VOICE TWO: And this is Richard Rael with THE MAKING OF A NATION -- a VOA Special English program about the history of the United States. (MUSIC) Today, we tell about the presidential election of nineteen seventy-s

VOA慢速英语 2007 0607a

This is the VOA Special English Education Report. A Chinese woman studying business law in Japan has a question about studying a different kind of law. Wang Yuxian says she is a Christian and would like to know about theological seminary programs fo

VOA慢速英语 2007 0606b

VOICE ONE: I'm Steve Ember. VOICE TWO: And I'm Barbara Klein with EXPLORATIONS in VOA Special English. Today we tell about the National Wildlife Refuge System that protects wildlife in the United States. (MUSIC) VOICE ONE: In nineteen-oh-three, the

VOA慢速英语 2007 0606a

This is the VOA Special English Health Report. A coronary stent is a small tube that is used to treat heart patients. The tube is made of A stent is a tube of wire mesh wire mesh. Doctors place it inside an artery that has narrowed. They expand the

VOA慢速英语 2007 0605b

VOICE ONE: This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. I'm Bob Doughty. VOICE TWO: And I'm Faith Lapidus. On our program this week, we will tell about the new United Nations report on climate change. We will also tell about an ancient burial

VOA慢速英语 2007 0605a

This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Sorghum farmers in eastern Uganda, working with scientists, have tested some lower-cost ways to improve their soil. Little rain and poor soil fertility are problems in that area, as in other parts

VOA慢速英语 2007 0608b

HOST: Welcome to AMERICAN MOSAIC, in VOA Special English. (MUSIC) I'm Doug Johnson. On our show this week: We answer a question from a listener about Jim Carrey/P Play music from Miranda Lambert/P And report about a national spelling contest. Nation