This is the VOA Special English Education Report. Each new school year brings fresh reminders of what educators call the summer learning gap. Some call it the summer learning setback. Put simply, it means the longer kids are out of school, the more

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VOICE ONE: Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA in VOA Special English. I'm Steve Ember. VOICE TWO: And I'm Barbara Klein. Visitors to Washington, D.C., in the summer often want to stay inside air-conditioned museums. The cooler days of fall are a good time t

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Daniel: Excuse me, doc. I am not feeling well. Can you help me? Doctor 1: Yes, but not here. Have you got registered yet? Daniel: No, I haven't. Where do I go for that? Doctor 1: The registration office. Did you bring your records with you? Daniel: Y

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By Carol Pearson Washington, DC 09 February 2007 watch Diet Drug report A diet drug that now is only available by prescription will soon be available over the counter. In the United States and other countries it is expected to be on drug store shelv

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英语作文 A few days ago, I saw one of my classmates cheating on the accounting exam. I was so surprised that she did such a thing. It made me feel sad and confused. Why did she cheat? Maybe she just wanted to get higher grades and didn't want to los

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Commentator and personal finance advisor Liz Pullian Weston says Congress could pass other laws that would mean fewer people would need to file for bankruptcy. First, we need to reinstate usury laws. It seems almost quaint now. But thirty years ago

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By Ted Landphair Washington, DC 09 June 2008 In the United States, the regulation of alcoholic beverages is the job of state governments. And each of them often delegates responsibility to its smaller divisions called counties. For instance, some co

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By Jim Malone and Kathy Scarrah Washington, DC 16 February 2006 view War on Terror report Politics and the War on Terror, al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden President Bush continues his push to rally dom

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By Slobodan Svrzo and Alen Mlatisuma Washington, DC 23 January 2006 watch Ratko Mladic report The chief United Nations prosecutor says war crimes suspect Ratko Mladic is hiding in Serbia under the pro

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This is the VOA Special English Development Report. Guinea worm disease usually does not kill, but it is extremely painful. It prevents people from caring for their farms, their homes and sometimes even themselves. Guinea worms can grow up to one me

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By Kari Barber Dakar 26 August 2007 Analysts in Nigeria are applauding the government for halting a plan by the Central Bank to change the nation's currency, the naira. On Saturday, Nigerian President Umaru Yar'Adua said the Central Bank's governor h

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As Congress and the Bush administration continued negotiations on a $15 billion loan for U.S. auto companies, a group of autoworkers traveled to Washington to draw attention to their concerns about the future of the American auto industry. Autoworke

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Ugandan police inspect the destroyed Ethiopian Village restaurant in Kampala after twin bomb blasts tore through crowds of football fans, killing 64 people, 11 Jul 2010 The bodies of seven Ethiopian and Eritrean victims of the Uganda bomb attacks hav

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Ecology is becoming more and more a question of economy: how much would it cost to reduce emissions; how much would we save by weatherproofing buildings. But analysts meeting in Bali for a summit on the environment say that, to save the planet, human

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美国之音 VOA Standard English Latest Updates VOA Standard EnglishVOA Standard English VOA Standard English Archives VOA Special EnglishTechnology ReportThis is AmericaAgriculture ReportScience in the NewsHealth ReportExplorationsEducation ReportT

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HIV Trial Yields Disappointing Results A large-scale HIV prevention trial among African women has yielded disappointing results. But the outcome may be more the fault of behavior than the prevention methods used in the study. The trial is known as VO

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By Tendai Maphosa London 04 December 2007 The British teacher jailed for letting her students name a teddy bear Muhammad as part of a writing project arrived in Britain after being pardoned - ending a case that set off an international outcry and ang

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By Carol Pearson Washington 13 March 2008 Only three people worldwide have received partial face transplants, two in France and one in China. But now a hospital in Boston is ready to do the next one. VOA's Carol Pearson has more.

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人类的大脑是一个迷 对于我们的身体来说,它是出奇地大。它的重量和那一个奇形怪状的密集的大脑皮层消耗了大量的能量。但是:为什么?神经学家苏珊娜带上她的侦探帽,带领我们探索这

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By Scott Stearns Dar es Salaam 16 February 2008 President Bush is in Africa at the start of a five-nation trip focusing on economic development and the fight against HIV/AIDS and malaria. VOA White House Correspondent Scott Stearns reports, Mr. Bush

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