标签:2008年6月 相关文章
VOICE ONE: I'm Steve Ember. VOICE TWO: And I'm Barbara Klein with PEOPLE IN AMERICA in VOA Special English. Today we tell about Senator Edward Kennedy. He served in the United States Senate from the state of Massachusetts for almost forty-seven year
HOST: Welcome to AMERICAN MOSAIC in VOA Special English. (MUSIC) I'm Doug Johnson. This week on our program, we tell about a new set of Beatles CDs and a video game based on the British rock band ... And we visit the undersea world while staying on
This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. Two weeks of suicide bombings and other attacks have shaken Pakistan. The interior minister says, The enemy has started a guerrilla war. Pakistani soldiers surround buildings damaged by a suicide bombing i
VOICE ONE: Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA in VOA Special English. I'm Steve Ember. VOICE TWO: Aretha Franklin And I'm Faith Lapidus. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is celebrating its twenty-fifth anniversary with two concerts later this month in New Yor
This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. This was the surprise announcement Friday from Oslo, Norway: THORBJOERN JAGLAND, CHAIRMAN: The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided that the Nobel Peace Prize for two thousand nine is to be awarded to Pre
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. President Obama is letting Congress write the details of his plan for what he calls health insurance reform. Congress is now on its August break. But members have been holding what are known as town
VOICE ONE: Im Steve Ember. VOICE TWO: Safari explorers on the Chobe River And Im Barbara Klein with EXPLORATIONS in VOA Special English. Today we go on safari to experience the sights and sounds of Africas rich wildlife. The word safari comes from t
This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Companion planting is the idea that when some crops are planted together, they help each other grow. These compatible plants generally have similar needs for nutrients, soil and moisture. Advice fo
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. This week in Washington, Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood announced plans for a distracted driving summit in September. Transportation and law enforcement officials, safety activists and others wi
VOICE ONE: Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA in VOA Special English. I'm Steve Ember. Part of the cultural history of the baby boomers, the generation of Americans born after World War Two, is Woodstock. (MUSIC) The Woodstock Music and Art Fair took place
This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Strokes are a major cause of death and disability. A stroke is a loss of blood flow in the brain. There are two kinds. An ischemic stroke happens when a blood vessel in the brain gets blocked. A hemorrh
VOICE ONE: This is Bob Doughty. VOICE TWO: And this is Steve Ember with EXPLORATIONS in VOA Special English. Today we tell about Hoover Dam. It was the largest and most difficult structure of its kind ever built when work started in nineteen thirty-
VOICE ONE: I'm Doug Johnson. VOICE TWO: B.J. Adams in her studio And I'm Faith Lapidus with EXPLORATIONS in VOA Special English. At craft shows and corporate headquarters across the United States, you might see works by the artist B.J. Adams. She ma
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. America's economy has started to grow again. Now what about jobs? The government says productivity jumped in July, August and September. That meant companies produced more with fewer workers. Also, n
This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. November eleventh, nineteen eighteen, was the day Germany signed a cease-fire agreement with the Allies in World War One. Some countries observe November eleventh as Armistice Day or Remembrance Day. Firew
VOICE ONE: I'm Steve Ember. VOICE TWO: And I'm Shirley Griffith with EXPLORATIONS in VOA Special English. Today we continue our history of the American space program with the flight of Apollo Eleven. (SOUND) VOICE ONE: The launch of Apollo 11 A rock
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. We answered a question last week about how American college students find jobs after they graduate. Now, we discuss foreign graduates. The process for employing foreign workers in the United States i
HOST: Welcome to AMERICAN MOSAIC in VOA Special English. (MUSIC) I'm Doug Johnson. On today's program, we tell about Los Angeles Lakers basketball coach Phil Jackson Answer a question about folk singer John Denver And hear music by Madeleine Peyroux
Years of careful negotiation to repair relations between Libya and its former adversaries, Britain and the United States, have threatened to unravel because of the welcome home given to convicted Lockerbie bomber, Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi. The is
The defeat of the Tamil Tigers and the death of Velupillai Prabhakaran, the rebel group's leader, seemed to deepen the sense of confusion felt by many in Sri Lanka's Tamil population. What's next for them? Sri Lankans celebrate the military victory