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This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson is making changes in the seven hundred billion dollar rescue plan for the financial industry. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson speaking to reporters Wednesday in Wash

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Welcome to the MAKING OF A NATION American history in VOA Special English. Andrew Jackson served as president of the United States from eighteen twenty-nine to eighteen thirty-seven. His first term seemed to be mostly a political battle with Vice Pr

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This is the VOA Special English Education Report. We are now ten weeks into our Foreign Student Series on higher education in the United States. So far we have talked about planning for school and about subjects like online education and diploma mil

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VOICE ONE: I'm Steve Ember. VOICE TWO: And I'm Barbara Klein with EXPLORATIONS in VOA Special English. Today we tell about the trade in diamonds, a worldwide business worth billions of dollars. (MUSIC: Diamonds Are Forever) VOICE ONE: Diamonds have

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This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Bethesda, Maryland, near Washington, D.C., is home to the National Institutes of Health. N.I.H. calls itself the Nation's Medical Research Agency. But it supports research worldwide with its budget of a

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Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA in VOA Special English. I'm Shirley Griffith. If one album had to explain jazz, a strong candidate would be Kind of Blue by the trumpet player and bandleader Miles Davis. This week on our program, Steve Ember and Gwen Oute

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This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. President-elect Barack Obama visited President Bush at the White House on Monday The most commonly heard advice for Barack Obama when he becomes president in January is to govern from the center. In Washin

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This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Scientists are working to develop crop plants that can reduce the amount of water used for agriculture. Almost sixty percent of the world's freshwater withdrawals from rivers, lakes and other water

VOA慢速英语 2008 1118b

VOICE ONE: This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. I'm Faith Lapidus. VOICE TWO: And I'm Bob Doughty. The work and theories of Sigmund Freud continue to influence many areas of modern culture. VOICE ONE: Today, we explore Freud's influen

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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 2008 1119b

VOICE ONE: I'm Steve Ember. VOICE TWO: And I'm Barbara Klein with Explorations in VOA Special English. We received a special request in a letter from a listener in Nagano, Japan. Atsumi Shimoda asked for a report about what the Special English write

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This is the VOA Special English Education Report. This week in our Foreign Student Series, we talk about applying to an American college or university. International admissions officers advise students to apply to at least three schools. You may be

VOA慢速英语 2008 1117a

This is the VOA Special English Development Report. Charles Rioba is an engineer and inventor in Kenya. He and his company, Solar World Limited, have developed a product called the PowerPack. The PowerPack is a small solar-lighting system. The devic

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This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Dickson Despommier is a public health professor at Columbia University in New York City. His area is environmental health sciences. One design for a vertical farm One day nine years ago, he and his

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This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. Congress faced a big question this week, but the answer will have to wait. Auto executives at hearings this week in Congress The heads of the Big Three American automakers came to Washington to ask f

VOA慢速英语 2008 1124b

VOICE ONE: Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA in VOA Special English. I'm Steve Ember. VOICE TWO: Incredible Hulk in July at the Comic-Con 2008 convention in San Diego, California And I'm Barbara Klein. This week on our program, we take a break from the new

VOA慢速英语 2008 1124a

This is the VOA Special English Development Report. Bacterial meningitis must be treated with antibiotics as soon as possible or the infection can cause hearing loss and brain damage. It can also kill. File photo of a girl being vaccinated against m

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Welcome to the MAKING OF A NATION American history in VOA Special English. The question of continuing the Bank of the United States became a serious political issue in the national election of eighteen thirty-two. The head of the bank, Nicholas Bidd

VOA慢速英语 2008 1121b

HOST: Welcome to AMERICAN MOSAIC in VOA Special English. (MUSIC) I'm Doug Johnson. This week: We listen to a new album from James Taylor Answer a listener question about native American Indians And talk to some Americans about the Thanksgiving holid

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VOICE ONE: This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. I'm Barbara Klein. VOICE TWO: Oliver Sacks And I'm Bob Doughty. This week, we tell about the doctor and writer Oliver Sacks. He has spent most of his adult life treating patients in New