VOA慢速英语2009-Health Report - Study Says Smoking Bans Do Not H

This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Smoking is the world's leading preventable cause of death. In the United States, smoking rates are down from the past, but cigarettes still cause about one-fifth of all deaths. Nonsmokers are also affec

VOA慢速英语2009-SCIENCE IN THE NEWS - Ancient Footprints Let Exp

VOICE ONE: This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. I'm Barbara Klein. VOICE TWO: And I'm Bob Doughty. This week, we will tell about evidence of early human ancestors. We also will tell about the health effects of hopeful feelings. And, w

VOA慢速英语 2009 0114b

VOICE ONE: This is Faith Lapidus. VOICE TWO: Robert Edison Fulton And this is Steve Ember with EXPLORATIONS in VOA Special English. Today we tell about an unusual man who traveled alone around the world. He was an inventor and a filmmaker. He wrote

VOA慢速英语 2009 0115a

This is the VOA Special English Education Report. We answer some questions this week in our series on getting into an American college or university. The first question has to do with our recent discussion of English language tests. Vo Ngoc Toan fro

VOA慢速英语2009-Education Report - Studying in the US: A Lesson

This is the VOA Special English Education Report. We continue now with our discussion of personal finance for students. A study in the United States found that eighty-four percent of undergraduates last year had at least one credit card. Half had fo

VOA慢速英语 2009 0115b

Welcome to the MAKING OF A NATION American history in VOA Special English. In eighteen forty, as the administration of Martin Van Buren came closer to an end, there was a widespread feeling that he had not been a strong president. He seemed unable t

VOA慢速英语2009-EXPLORATIONS - Piracy Wave Hits Ships of All Fla

VOICE ONE: I'm Shirley Griffith. VOICE TWO: And I'm Steve Ember with EXPLORATIONS in VOA Special English. Today we tell about a wave of crime taking place in the warm waters off the east coast of Africa. (MUSIC) VOICE ONE: The weather was good on th

VOA慢速英语 THE MAKING OF A NATION - American History Series: Ka

Welcome to THE MAKING OF A NATION -- American history in VOA Special English. Now, we continue the story of America's fourteenth president, Franklin Pierce. Pierce was elected in eighteen fifty-two. He was a compromise candidate of the Democratic Pa

VOA慢速英语2009-Development Report - Service Organizations Help

This is the VOA Special English Development Report. Almost forty years ago, a community service organization started providing eye care in Gujarat State, in western India. The Rotary Club of Navsari operates an eye hospital and nine area eye centers

VOA慢速英语2009-People in America - Kay Yow and Betty Jameson: T

VOICE ONE: Im Steve Ember. VOICE TWO: And Im Faith Lapidus with People in America in VOA Special English. Today we tell about two women who helped change the world of sports, golfer Betty Jameson and basketball coach Kay Yow. Both women were founder

VOA慢速英语2009-Economics Report - US Treasury Details Plan to R

This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. This week American Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner announced details of a plan aimed at removing billions of dollars in bad debts from American banks. The government program has two parts. One involv

VOA慢速英语 Education Report - Studying in the US: Writing Colle

This is the VOA Special English Education Report. Today in our Foreign Student Series we discuss writing college papers. Writing a term paper, research paper or essay for a college class is a kind of academic writing. Academic writing among professi

VOA慢速英语2009-Agriculture Report - A Vegetable Garden Grows at

This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Earlier this month, Michelle Obama and twenty-three schoolchildren helped prepare the ground for an organic vegetable garden on the South Lawn of the White House. The first lady showed the young ga

VOA慢速英语 Development Report - Seven Activists Honored For Imp

This is the VOA Special English Development Report. Seven activists from around the world have received the Goldman Environmental Prize for two thousand nine. Former Vice President Al Gore presented the prizes in San Francisco, California last week.

VOA慢速英语 THIS IS AMERICA - The Spoken Word is Still Heard Aft

VOICE ONE: Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA in VOA Special English. I'm Faith Lapidus. VOICE TWO: 2008 Nuyorican National Slam Team And I'm Steve Ember. This week on our program, we go to New York City to visit the thirty-five year old Nuyorican Poet's Ca

VOA慢速英语2009-Economics Report - Obama Proposes $3.5 Trillion

This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. Copies of the budget plan at the Government Printing Office in Washington President Barack Obama on Thursday proposed his first budget to Congress. He wants to let the Bush administration's tax cuts

VOA慢速英语 EXPLORATIONS - Edwin Hubble Changed Our Ideas About

ANNOUNCER: EXPLORATIONS -- a program in Special English by the Voice of America. (MUSIC) Today, Richard Rael and Tony Riggs tell the story of American astronomer Edwin Hubble. He changed our ideas about the universe and how it developed. Edwin Hubbl

VOA慢速英语2009-The MAKING OF A NATION - American History Series

Welcome to the MAKING OF A NATION American history in VOA Special English. As we reported in our last program, slavery supporters failed to push through Congress a bill to make Kansas a slave state. Congress, instead, let the people of Kansas vote o

VOA慢速英语 SCIENCE IN THE NEWS - Osteoporosis Increases Danger

VOICE ONE: This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS, in VOA Special English. I'm Barbara Klein. VOICE TWO: And I'm Bob Doughty. Today we tell about osteoporosis, a disease that can make bones weak so they break easily. (MUSIC) VOICE ONE: An x-ray of a bone fract

VOA慢速英语 2009 013a

This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. Each December the editors and news directors of the Associated Press vote for the top ten news stories of the year. Barack Obama during his acceptance speech in Chicago, Illinois on November fourth They ch