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Speaking Protecting Intellectual Property Rights Richard: I understand why publishing houses have called for a crack down on illegal copies of books. Its a big loss for them if everyone buys pirated books instead of paying the full price. Nancy: I ag
People joke that no one in Los Angeles reads; everyone watches TV, rents videos, or goes to the movies. The most popular reading material is comic books, movie magazines, and TV guides. City libraries have only 10 percent of the traffic that car wash
[Video source: China Plus/Xu Fei, Wang Buwei] A new fantasy movie is coming! The film is called Jiao-zhu-zhuan in Chinese, or Legend of the Naga Pearls. Set in the fictional world of Novoland, it tells the story of a witty thief, a hardworking consta
Topics: Famous Authors: Laura Ingalls Wilder; college secret societies; no one versus nobody versus anybody; Do you feel as though...?; rent versus lease Words: pioneer homesteader deed to draw on (ones) experiences prairie drought rerun skull to tap
Topics: Famous Authors: Raymond Chandler; the Pony Express; to be involved in versus to be involved with; to make sense; hard on its heels Words: genre free time hobby to make ends meet screenwriter unsentimental cynical relay wiry orphan can-do trad
Topics: Famous authors: Maya Angelou; Universal Studios; wise versus savvy versus clever; delicatessen; to end up versus to wind up Words: cage racism highly acclaimed to ban honorary degree ritual lecture circuit studio theme park ride set fa?ade wi
Topics: Famous Authors: Edgar Allen Poe; womens colleges; business versus commerce versus trade; thank goodness; to be keen on Words: tale macabre to lament narrator knock raven nevermore descent into madness calculated model co-educational to questi
Call Me Melville, Based on New Word Use A study in the New Journal of Physics finds that writers leave a regular, distinct pattern of how frequently they use new words. Cynthia Graber reports Thieves may leave fingerprints at the scene of a crime. Bu
Researchers Propose New Polio Strategy 研究者提出新的脊髓灰质炎的策略 Researchers are calling for a different strategy to eradicate polio in countries where the disease remains endemic, namely, Nigeria, Pakistan and Afghanistan. They s
Victoria Zackheim is the author of one of those stories featured in The Other Woman as well as the editor of the entire anthology. And Argie Allen is a marriage and family therapist. Good morning to both of you. Good morning. Good morning. Now I'm j
The U.N. Human Rights council has postponed discussion of a highly critical report on the secret detention of terror suspects in dozens of countries. One of the report's authors tells VOA that government officials in the United States and elsewhere w
Topics: American Authors Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein and All the President's Men; Famous Songs Over There; to borrow versus to debit versus to lend versus to loan; using ago with since; ambivalence versus conflict Words: to cover implicated infor
Topics: American Authors - Ernest Hemingway; the United Nations; you lost versus youre lost; expert in versus expert on versus expert at; geez Words: foreign correspondent to shape expat to toll pithy concise emasculation filth to emulate to commit s
老爷子 David Bowie 复古新单《I'd Rather Be High(Venetian Mix)》!本次 MV 采用了第一次世界大战期间的多个珍贵视频镜头,其中包括军官与女士们戴着防毒面罩在舞池中翩翩起舞的片段。在那战火纷飞
Are you a bookworm? Is your head permanently stuck in a book? If so, that's a good thing. There are many benefits to reading. Getting into a good novel improves our literacy. But who or what encourages us to pick up a book and start reading? Of cours
Topics: Famous Authors - Stan and Jan Berenstain and the Berenstain Bears; getting married; to stand for versus to refer to (as); the past simple and the present perfect tenses; especially Words: illustrator anthropomorphic bumbling to backfire franc
Topics: American Authors: Toni Morrison; Homeboy/Homegirl Industries and Father Greg Boyle; screw versus bolt versus nut; to kidnap versus to abduct; to sharpen (ones) axe Words: African American experience to long social convention homeboy gang prie
Topics: American Presidents: Theodore Roosevelt; The Folk Tales of Uncle Remus; drug versus pill versus tablet; pronouncing ?; engagement versus commitment Words: sickly disillusioned spoils system to declare rough trust canal at odds with folk tale
Topics: The Lewis and Clark Expedition; Famous Authors: Anne Rice; to generate versus to create versus to make; a tad off target; run-on sentence Words: expedition corps to lay claim to navigable fur trapper to split up journal manifest destiny bicen
Topics: Famous Authors: Stephen King; Traffic School; cost versus charge versus fee; in a New York minute; couple Words: horror psychic clown series to follow the book lifetime achievement traffic school drivers ed to speed to lose (ones) drivers lic