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This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Twenty-five percent of all smokers are in China The World Health Organization is urging countries to follow six policies to prevent millions of tobacco-related deaths. The six policies are known as MPOW

VOA慢速英语 2008 0219b

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 a visit to the planet Mercury. We will tell about the dangers of products for making skin lighter. And, w

VOA慢速英语 2008 0219a

This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Back in the year two thousand, big producers of poplar trees in the American Pacific Northwest needed help. Their hybrid poplars, nearly ten years old, were under threat. Young insects were getting

VOA慢速英语 2008 0218b

VOICE ONE: Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA in VOA Special English. Im Bob Doughty. VOICE TWO: And I'm Barbara Klein. In the United States, the third Monday in February is a federal holiday. Federal law calls it Washington's Birthday, honoring the nation'

VOA慢速英语 2008 0218a

This is the VOA Special English Development Report. The United States Center for Citizen Diplomacy is a nonprofit group started in Iowa in two thousand six. It says every American has the right, and even the responsibility, to help shape foreign rel

VOA慢速英语 2008 0217

VOICE ONE: This is Faith Lapidus. VOICE TWO: Cole Porter And this is Steve Ember with People in America in VOA Special English. Today we bring you the second part of our program about American songwriter Cole Porter. Porter wrote his songs from the

VOA慢速英语 2008 0216

This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. An early celebration in Pristina, the capital of Kosovo Kosovo is expected to declare its independence from Serbia in the coming days, possibly on Sunday. Serbia's newly re-elected President Boris Tadic sa

VOA慢速英语 2008 0215b

HOST: Welcome to AMERICAN MOSAIC, in VOA Special English. (MUSIC) I'm Doug Johnson. On our show this week: We play music by Devendra Banhart /P Answer a question about finding a job ... And report on a new Web site that gets you to think big.BR (MUS

VOA慢速英语 2008 0215a

This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. The competition between Microsoft and Google took a new turn on February first. Microsoft made a public offer to buy the Internet company Yahoo. Microsoft says the combined companies would be in a be

VOA慢速英语 2008 0214b

ANNOUNCER: Welcome to THE MAKING OF A NATION American history in VOA Special English. In May of seventeen eighty-seven, a group of America's early leaders met in Philadelphia. Over a period of four months, they worked on a document that would establ

VOA慢速英语 2008 0214a

This is the VOA Special English Education Report. We continue our series on learning disabilities with a look this week at a condition called dyspraxia. An estimated six percent of children, mainly boys, show signs of dyspraxia Dyspraxia is a moveme

VOA慢速英语 2008 0213b

VOICE ONE: Im Faith Lapidus. VOICE TWO: And Im Steve Ember with EXPLORATIONS in VOA Special English. Today, we tell about the first attempts to settle what is now the western state of California. These attempts began with Spanish settlers who built

VOA慢速英语 2008 0213a

This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Every year, malaria sickens about five hundred million people. More than one million of them die, mostly young children and pregnant women in Africa. A Nigerian mother with an insecticide-treated bed ne

VOA慢速英语 2008 0220b

VOICE ONE: Im Bob Doughty. VOICE TWO: And Im Faith Lapidus with EXPLORATIONS in VOA Special English. For thousands of years, people have been debating the meaning of happiness and how to find it. One big happy family -- or are they really? From the

VOA慢速英语 2008 0201b

HOST: Welcome to AMERICAN MOSAIC in VOA Special English. (MUSIC) I'm Doug Johnson. On our show this week: We tell about the state-of-the-art sports center that will hold this years Super Bowl /P Answer a listener's question about the band Aerosmith

VOA慢速英语 2008 0201a

This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. Last week, France's second largest bank, Societe Generale, announced that a single, middle-level trader had caused the bank to lose over seven billion dollars. It was the largest trading loss by an i

VOA慢速英语 2008 0203

VOICE ONE: This is Mary Tillotson. VOICE TWO: Lucille Ball And this is Steve Ember with the VOA Special English Program PEOPLE IN AMERICA. Today, we tell about the much-loved performer Lucille Ball. Her famous television series, I Love Lucy,was firs

VOA慢速英语 2008 0202

This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. (SOUND) President Bush giving his speech before a joint session of Congress. Vice President Dick Cheney and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi sit behind him. This week, George W. Bush gave his seventh and final S

VOA慢速英语 2008 0204a

This is the VOA Special English Development Report. The earliest process of making paper was done almost five thousand years ago in Egypt and the Nile Valley. In those days, paper was made from strips of the papyrus plant. Modern paper-making began

VOA慢速英语 2008 0211a

This is the VOA Special English Development Report. Some actors and rock stars use their star power for social activism. But how much power do they really have? Daniel Drezner is a professor of international politics at the Fletcher School at Tufts