Local and Global Pressures Threaten Coral Reefs

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From http://voaspecialenglish.com |http://facebook.com/voalearningenglish The world's coral reefs are increasingly being threatened, mostly because of human activities. A group of environmental organizations released a report on the issue i...

A Campaign Against Alzheimer's Disease

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The United States government recently announced a major education and research campaign against Alzheimer's disease. The brain-wasting disease has no cure. The plan includes more efforts to develop drugs to prevent it. In the United States,...

Surviving a Drought: A Farmer's Old-Fashioned Lessons

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This summer, the remains of what had been Hurricane Isaac moved over the American Midwest. The storm brought rain to areas suffering from a severe drought. But the rain came too late to save many farmers' corn and soybean crops. Crop insura...

A Shelter for Abused Animals, Where Volunteers Also Find Healing

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Ellie Laks started the Gentle Barn Foundation in California. Her group gives a home to animals it rescued from abuse or in need of care. When recovered, the animals spend time with troubled young people and disabled adults. ANA GOLDBACH: "I...

Airport Security Could Go to 'Electronic Sniffer Dogs'

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Dogs are known for a strong sense of smell. Their noses can be trained to identify different odors. Dogs are often used in search and rescue operations and to sniff for things like drugs and explosives. Some dogs have even been trained to s...

Facial Recognition Systems Bring Privacy Concerns

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Today we take another look at facial recognition systems. These can tag friends in Facebook photos or help police identify suspects in the recent riots in Britain. Kurt Roemer is chief security strategist for Citrix Systems in Fort Lauderda...

Are You Learning English? These Songs May Help

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I'm Alex Villarreal with the VOA Special English Education Report, from http://voaspecialenglish.com |http://facebook.com/voalearningenglish Songs teach language. Consider a song like "Tom's Diner" by Suzanne Vega. An American teaching Engl...

Wising Up About Wisdom Teeth

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Wisdom teeth are normally the last teeth to appear. This usually happens when people are in their late teen years or early twenties -- in other words, when they are older and wiser. Wisdom teeth are molars, or chewing teeth, at the back of ...

Studying How Plastic Pollution Enters Ocean Food Supply

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Marcus Eriksen is not really fishing. He is catching plastic in the Atlantic Ocean. Eriksen wants to publicize the growing buildup of plastic waste in our oceans and to study its effects. MARCUS ERIKSEN: "These are five sub-tropical gyres i...

VOA Learning English - Development Report: A Service Group Built on 'Friendship'

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This is the VOA Special English Development Report. Amizade means friendship in Portuguese. It is also the name of a service organization in the United States that places volunteers in projects mostly in developing countries. Amizade's exec...

Using the Internet and Social Media to Search for a Job

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The job market is more competitive than ever for millions of workers around the world. In America, one reason for that right now is high unemployment after the worst recession since the nineteen thirties. But other reasons involve changes i...

How an Allowance Helps Children Learn About Money

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Many children first learn the value of money by receiving an allowance. The purpose is to let children learn from experience at an age when financial mistakes are not very costly. The amount of money that parents give to their children to s...

How to Make Your Own Solar Water Heater

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Solar water heaters are used around the world and are not very difficult to build. The system we are going to describe is based on a design developed some years ago in Afghanistan. Since then, it has been built and used in many countries. I...

Debating the Best Way to Learn a Language

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This is the VOA Special English Education Report, fromhttp://voaspecialenglish.com |http://facebook.com/voalearningenglish What is the best way to learn a new language? A small study of foreign language learning in adults compared two metho...

Saving Money for College

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This is the VOA Special English Economics Report, fromhttp://voaspecialenglish.com |http://facebook.com/voalearningenglish How much does a college education cost? In the United States, the College Board releases yearly reports on prices at ...