VOA慢速英语 2008 1220

This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. An individual, a company and an industry were all in the news this week for reasons unrelated except for the idea of dishonesty. Bernard Madoff was arrested last week The individual was seventy-year-old Be

CNN 2011-10-29

The campaign season is heating up. We are hearing some candidates and law makers talk about something called a flate tax. what is a flat tax? Well, the US currently has something called a progressive income tax system, means the more money you make,

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Privacy in the Information Age Imagine a small plastic card that holds all manner of information about you on a tiny memory chip (芯片): your date of birth, Social Security Number, credit and medical histories. And suppose the same card lets you dr

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Every month new fitness products are hitting the market. The latest craze? Fitness shoes that claim to build muscles. But do they work? Sports medicine expert Doctor Amadeus Mason says probably not. The main thing that makes one shoe better-off is th

VOA双语新闻 - 中国加息引起市场震荡

Stocks in Hong Kong and Japan fell and the U.S. dollar rose a day after China raised interest rates for the first time since December 2007. Economists interpret the move as a sign that authorities are taking a more aggressive stance against inflation

CNN 美国有线新闻 2014-09-23

Welcome to the 10 minutes current events with no commercials. This is CNN student news. Im Carl Azuz. Thank you for watching. First of all, president Obama made promise yesterday to US troops. He says he wont get them involved in another ground war i

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DEVELOPMENT REPORT - An Olympic Winner Turns His Victory Into Child's PlayBy Jill Moss Broadcast: Monday, February 27, 2006 I'm Steve Ember with the VOA Special English Development Report. The twentie

DEVELOPMENT REPORT - Selling Kidneys

DEVELOPMENT REPORT -October 14, 2002: Selling Kidneys By Jill Moss Urinary tract (Image - www.4women.gov ) This is the VOA Special English Development Report. Kidneys are important organs in the human

ECONOMICS REPORT - When Companies (and Sometimes Individuals

ECONOMICS REPORT - When Companies (and Sometimes Individuals) Have to Give Back Money By Mario Ritter Broadcast: Friday, February 25, 2005 I'm Gwen Outen with the VOA Special English Economics Report.

VOA标准英语2009年-US Lawmakers Demand Details About Bank Bailout

U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner returned to the U.S. Congress Wednesday, a day after he announced the Obama administration's plan for continuing efforts to rescue the nation's ailing banking system. He faced lawmakers frustrated that few de

VOA标准英语2011--Saving Lives, Saving Money With Childhoo

Saving Lives, Saving Money With Childhood Vaccines Efforts are underway to speed vaccine development and delivery in 72 countries over the next 10 years. New studies say that would save the lives of more than six million children and save billions of

VOA标准英语2010年-Asian Markets Mixed After Surprise Chi

Stocks in Hong Kong and Japan fell and the U.S. dollar rose a day after China raised interest rates for the first time since December 2007. Economists interpret the move as a sign that authorities are taking a more aggressive stance against inflation

美国国家公共电台 NPR Investigation: Patients' Drug Options Under Medicaid Heavily Influenced By Drugmakers

NOEL KING, HOST: We have a story now about something called the preferred drug list. It's a powerful tool that states use to try to control spending on prescription drugs in their Medicaid programs. Now, the Center for Public Integrity and NPR conduc

2006年VOA标准英语-US Lawmakers Urge Greater Efforts to Curb

By Deborah Tate Washington 09 February 2006 In Washington, key lawmakers have introduced legislation aimed at boosting U.S. efforts to curb the threat posed by conventional weapons, including shoulder

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There has been a great deal of discussion and controversy about funding the drug Herceptin for women suffering from breast cancer. It is a very expensive drug made by the Roche company. Pharmac is the organisation which buys drugs and provides them f

2006年VOA标准英语-US Lobbying Efforts Influence Policy in Middle

By Ron Corben Bangkok 14 September 2006 Thailand's new election commission has postponed general elections scheduled for October for at least a month. The announcement comes amid uncertainties over whether Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra will stay

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Your choice of running shoe is a very personal decision. You've got to balance how well they protect your feet and legs with how they fit, how heavy they are and, yes, even how they look. I've run in almost nothing but Asics for many years, and I bet

2007年VOA标准英语-Lawmakers Press Former US Iraq Administrator on

By Dan Robinson Washington 06 February 2007 Paul Bremer The former head of the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq has testified before a congressional oversight committee investigating how more than eight billion dollars in Iraqi development fun

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9. Is there any place selling the medicine? 有卖药的地方吗？ 还能这样说： Could you show me how to get to the drugstore? Can you tell me where the drugstore is? 应用解析： sell sb. down the river 欺骗某人； sell under the coun

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IBM sent to Palo Alto a 125-page contract. Jobs tossed it down without reading it. IBM给NeXT发送了一份125页的合同。乔布斯读都没读就扔掉了。 You don't get it, he said as he walked out of the room. 别来这一套。他边说边走