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THIS IS AMERICA - Making Music Together BARBARA KLEIN: Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA in VOA Special English. Im Barbara Klein. STEVE EMBER: And Im Steve Ember. This week, we explore music through the eyes of two married couples. One of them produces rec
Hawaii's Birds Threatened by Invasive Predators, Habitat Loss Many people think of the Hawaiian islands as a Pacific paradise, a string of tropical islands lush with exotic flora and fauna. But the islands' native species - especially birds - have be
Endangered Hawaiian Birds Get Second Chance 夏威夷濒危鸟类得到第二次机会 Of the world's nearly 9,900 bird species, 13 percent - one in eight - are threatened with extinction, according to BirdLife International. Among them are two Hawai
Experts Meet to Understand Decrease in Humpback Whales Off Hawaii Every winter, thousands of humpback whales migrate from Alaska to the warmer waters near the Hawaiian Islands. There, they have sex and give birth before making their return trip north
Mr. Alden left for Honolulu the next morning on business, and the children began their working vacation, too. First they tried on the rubber work boots Cousin Mary had given them. Theres a pair for each of us, even small ones for Benny and Soo Lee. H
Part 1 A Brief Introduction to Hawaii 夏威夷群岛简介 The Hawaiian island chain began around 10 billion years ago with the form ation of Kauai and Niihau. The islands are a result of the movement of the Pacific Plate, one of Earth's tectonic plates,
By Heidi Chang Hawaiian hula dancers usually wear skirts made of grass… but not the one advertising this year's Hawaii International Film Festival. Her skirt was fashioned of flowing strips of film
KELLY MCEVERS, HOST: In Hawaii, on the island of Kauai, the native forest birds are in danger. The island has lost more than half of those native species, and it could be an early warning for the other Hawaiian Islands. Gloria Hillard reports. GLORIA
VOICE ONE: This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. I'm Bob Doughty. VOICE TWO: And I'm Faith Lapidus. This week, we will tell about newly-found organisms that are said to be among the oldest living organisms on Earth. And, we will tell a
STEVE EMBER: This is Steve Ember. SARAH LONG: And this is Sarah Long with the VOA Special English program EXPLORATIONS. Today, we visit two of the most unusual national parks in the United States. They are Volcanoes National Park and Haleakala Nation
By Zulima Palacio Kauai, Hawaii 22 June 2007 Seabirds such as albatross, shearwaters and boobies are extraordinary animals that live at sea for most of their lives. They fly great distances and seldom come to land to remind us that they still exist.
Past Serves as Lesson in Sustainable Fishing Protect the catch While some of the steps the ancient Hawaiians took to protect their catch are extreme by todays standards, conservation experts would find many of them familiar. When the first Europeans
ManStruggleswithComatoseWife,FeistyTeenin'TheDescendants' Movie stars and fans descend on Toronto every September for the Canadian city's annual international film festival. One of this year's most acclaimed films, The Descendants, stars George Cloon
Smithsonian Folklife Festival Showcases Vanishing Languages As soon as she heard the music, festival goer Patricia Joseph knew she had to dance. I always felt like dancing when I heard this kind of music, and I always felt restrained. But this was so
Hawaiian Voyaging Canoe to Navigate World Without Instruments 夏威夷独木舟世界迅游 HONOLULU, HAWAII A Hawaiian voyaging canoe is set to sail around the world using the age-old art of wayfinding ? navigating without instruments ? as part of
371326198704242026 5 370687198602073872Mari: Hi, I'm Mari. I'm here with my friend Ron. Today, we're talking about food. So Ron, what's your favorite cuisine? Ron: My favorite cuisine has to be Hawaiian food. I grew up eating Hawaiian food so every s
In this edition, we head to Hawaii, home to some of the worlds most active volcanoes and if you measure from the bottom of the seafloor to the top of the peak, home to the worlds tallest mountain, too. Hawaii, a land cradled by the sea, a land born o
His presidency began before a crowd a million strong, but when the cheering stopped, he was one man dealing with overlapping crises: an economy in free fall and two unpopular wars. The typical president, I think, has two or three big problems; we've
Todd: So, Mitchell, you are Hawaiian, right, and Hawaii is part of the United States but, what would you say, that most Hawaiians are similar to people in the mainland or quite different to people in the mainland? 托德:米切尔,你是夏威夷人
Look at a map of Hawaii and you'll see volcanic islands strung out like pearls on a necklace. The biggest--and the youngest--is Hawaii, in the south-east corner. As the islands stretch away to the north-west they become older and more worn. While Haw