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Education Report - How a Small Change in Teaching May Create Better Readers This is the VOA Special English Education Report. Teachers and parents usually call attention to the pictures when they read storybooks to preschool children. But a new study
Economics Report - Hope of Profit, Social Change Meet in New College Programs This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. Small business entrepreneurs play an important part in American job growth. Small businesses have created almost two-third
By Jim Stevenson Indianapolis, IN 31 March 2006 LSU guard Darrel Mitchell The U.S. men's college basketball national championship tournament has surprises each year. But this year's competition has be
Today, there is a group of larger visitors here, too. A herd of mastodons led by the matriarch have just returned from their annual migration hundreds of miles to the north. Now the winter drought is over and the spring water has been topped up by re
Some of this ice age dung was found beneath the skull in the Aucilla. The dung contained plant remains that tell us what the mastodon was browsing on 13,000 years ago or morea mixture of trees and grasses. This suggests that ice age Florida was drier
It's likely giant ground sloths used their claws in a similiar way to hook branches and pull them within reach. Like tree sloths, they were vegetarians and probably not fussy about what they ate, chewing their way through leaves, fruits, twigs and al
By Doug Levine Washington 03 April 2007 A string quartet that plays jazz? How about a Grammy Award-winning string quartet that plays jazz? VOA's Doug Levine fills us in on the Turtle Island Quartet, whose latest album pays tribute to jazz legend Joh
By Luis Ramirez Hanoi 17 November 2006 Vietnam is preparing to host the summit of leaders of 21 economies of the Asia-Pacific region on Saturday. The meeting will culminate on Sunday with a pledge by leaders to push harder for a deal to liberalize g
If you're going to come up with a practical solution to any problem, Paul Polak observes, you have to first talk to the people who have the problem and listen to what they have to say. So that's what I did. Paul Polak is dedicated to developing pra
By Gilbert da Costa Abuja 23 September 2006 The European Union is providing nearly $700,000 to the Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) to look for cases of avian influenza in Nigeria. The surveillance program aims to help eradicate the disease
Education Report - Number of International Students Attending American Colleges and Universities 教育报道 - 美国高校留学生人数继续增长 From VOA Learning English, this is the Education Report in Special English. 这里是美国之音慢
By Sabina Castelfranco Rome 16 February 2007 An Italian judge Friday indicted 26 Americans and five Italians for their role in the abduction of an Egyptian terror suspect from Milan in 2003. The decision means that Italy will be the site of the first
By Doug Levine Washington 26 August 2006 After all these years, has jazzman George Duke finally mellowed out? We get the answer from VOA's Doug Levine who samples Duke's latest album, In A Mellow Tone. -------- George Duke In a Mellow Tone Considere
By Leta Hong Fincher Washington 01 May 2007 President Bush and European Union leaders have agreed to work together on the issue of climate change. In a wide-ranging meeting Monday, the leaders also agreed to continue pressuring Iran to give up its nu
Tunis Conference Aims to Pressure Syria's Assad on Aid, Political Change The officials are gathering for the first meeting of what is now called the Friends of the Syrian People -- a movement that came in reaction to the Russian and Chinese vetoes of
By Peter Heinlein Washignton 15 September 2006 George Clooney (left) and Elie Wiesel Actor George Clooney and Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel have met with the U.N. Security Council to plead for prompt action to save lives in Darfur. The Oscar-winning fi
By Cathrine Drew London 07 June 2007 The Italian-born, British architect Richard Rogers has been awarded this year's Pritzker Prize, the world's most prestigious prize in architecture. The jury cited the 73-year-old Rogers as a champion of urban lif