VOA慢速英语2009年-AMERICAN MOSAIC - Pets2Vets Group Is H

HOST: Welcome to AMERICAN MOSAIC in VOA Special English. (MUSIC) I'm Doug Johnson. Today, we play music from a new album by Animal Collective And answer a question about funeral traditions in the United States But first, we tell about a new organizat

VOA慢速英语2009年-Economics Report - Where Every Day Is

This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. (MUSIC) There is a place where Christmas lives all year long. It is called Bronner's CHRISTmas Wonderland in Frankenmuth, Michigan. The family-owned business calls itself the world's largest Christmas

VOA慢速英语2009年-Economics Report - US Banks Under Pres

This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. President Obama with members of the financial industry at the White House on Monday President Obama told some of the nation's top bankers Monday that they need to explore every responsible way to make

VOA慢速英语2009年-Development Report - Disabilities in O

This is the VOA Special English Development Report. A new study says the leading cause of disability in older people in low and middle income countries is dementia. The researchers disagree with the World Health Organization which says blindness and

VOA慢速英语2009年-THIS IS AMERICA - Saying Goodbye to 20

VOICE ONE: Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA in VOA Special English. I'm Steve Ember. VOICE TWO: Numbers arrive, on pedicabs, to be placed atop Times Square in New York for the New Year's Eve ball drop welcoming 2010 And I'm Shirley Griffith. This week on o

VOA慢速英语2009年-Agriculture Report - Circular Thinking

This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. A round barn in Illinois American farmers traditionally keep their animals and equipment in barns that are rectangular. But there are hundreds of barns in the Midwest and other parts of the country

VOA慢速英语2009年-Health Report - Slow and Gentle Are Be

This is the VOA Special English Health Report. We talked last week about ways to avoid cold-weather injuries. Today we are going to talk about emergency treatment of hypothermia. Hypothermia can be mild, moderate or severe. Mild hypothermia is someth

VOA慢速英语2009年-EXPLORATIONS - 2009: A Year of Discove

VOICE ONE: I'm Mario Ritter. VOICE TWO: And I'm Steve Ember with EXPLORATIONS in VOA Special English. This week, we tell about some of the biggest space stories of two thousand nine. First, there was the American space agency's discovery of water on

VOA慢速英语2009年-Education Report - A Review of Educati

This is the VOA Special English Education Report. Early this year, Special English began receiving comments about all the stories on our Web site. The Education Reports have received many comments. We began the year in the middle of our Foreign Stude

VOA慢速英语2009年-SCIENCE IN THE NEWS - Time -- One of t

HOST: This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS, in VOA Special English. I'm Steve Ember. This week our program is about a mystery as old as time. Bob Doughty and Sarah Long tell about the mystery of time. (THEME) VOICE ONE: If you can read a clock, you can know t