VOA News Europe's Horse Meat Problems

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• 2013-03-26
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From VOA Learning English, this is the Agriculture Report in Special English. Ikea recently recalled frozen meatballs from its European stores after tests found some contained horse meat. Czech investigators said they found small amounts of horse meat in Swedish meatballs at an Ikea store in the Czech Republic. Ikea is the big Swedish company that sells furniture. But its stores also sell Swedish foods. The packaging said the meatballs contained beef and pork. Ikea said meatballs from the contam...

VOA News Small Change Can Improve a Child's Reading

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• 2013-04-01
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From VOA Learning English, this is the Education Report. Teachers and parents usually call attention to the pictures when they read storybooks to preschool children. But a study published in 2011 suggests that calling attention to the words and letters on the page may help a child's reading. The two-year study compared children who were read to this way in class with children who were not. The children whose teachers most often discussed the print showed clearly higher skills in reading, spellin...

VOA News US Brings Case Against Apple, 5 Publishers Over E-Books

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• 2012-05-09
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This is the VOA Special English Economics Report from http://voaspecialenglish.com | http://facebook.com/voalearningenglish The United States government says Apple and five book publishers illegally fixed prices of e-books. Three publishers -- Hachette, HarperCollins and Simon & Schuster -- agreed to a settlement announced April eleventh with the Justice Department. The agreement says they must repay millions of dollars and stop giving Apple special treatment. Attorney General Eric Holder sa...

VOA News Do It Yourself: Raising Angora Goats

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• 2012-06-07
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This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report, from http://voaspecialenglish.com | http://facebook.com/voalearningenglish Has anyone ever tried to get your goat? To "get your goat" is an expression. It means to make you mad. A good friend might tell you: "Don't worry about what that person said. He was just trying to get your goat." But there are plenty of good reasons to get a goat -- and not just for milk or meat. The animals can help control weeds. They can be friendly with children and ...

VOA News Going to Kenya to Seek Runners' Winning Formula

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• 2012-03-28
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Kenyan marathon runners are world-famous for winning races. So some foreign athletes are traveling to Kenya to learn their secrets. Many of them go to the small town of Iten - about 2,400 meters above sea level and about 350 kilometers north of Nairobi. Lornah Kiplagat was born in Kenya. She has won marathons throughout the world and holds several world records. She heads the High Altitude Training Center in Iten. LORNAH KIPLAGAT: "The altitude here is, is sorta like perfect. It's not too high. ...

VOA News Websites Cut Service to Protest US Antipiracy Bills

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• 2012-02-16
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This is the VOA Special English Economics Report , fromhttp://voaspecialenglish.com | http://facebook.com/voalearningenglish On January eighteenth, Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia, blacked out its English language website for twenty-four hours. The move was part of an organized protest against a proposed United States law to fight illegal copying of intellectual property on the Internet.Jay Walsh is head of communications for the Wikimedia Foundation which operates Wikipedia. He says the legi...

VOA News Facebook and Its Big Stock Offering

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• 2012-02-25
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This is the VOA Special English Economics Report, from http://voaspecialenglish.com | http://facebook.com/voalearningenglish Facebook says it aims to raise five billion dollars through its first public sale of stock. That would be one of the biggest initial public offerings ever. And it would be much bigger than Google's first public stock sale in two thousand four. That IPO raised almost two billion dollars. The world's biggest social media network filed documents with the Securities and Exchan...

VOA News Getting Young Indians to Choose Tea Over Coffee

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• 2012-03-13
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This is the VOA Special English Economics Report , from http://voaspecialenglish.com | http://facebook.com/voalearningenglish India is traditionally a tea-drinking country. But Indians are gaining a new taste for coffee. This has led international coffee companies to consider moving into the market. At the same time, local business people are looking for new ways to profit from the country's tea-drinking tradition. They are opening new places that offer tea. Coffee shops have spread from major c...

VOA News Obama Seeks Privacy Bill of Rights for Internet Users

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• 2012-03-27
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This is the VOA Special English Technology Report, from http://voaspecialenglish.com | http://facebook.com/voalearningenglish The Obama administration has announced a plan to protect Internet users in the United States. In February the administration proposed what it calls a Consumer Privacy Bill of Rights. The bill is meant to give Americans more control over their personal information. President Obama said that "never has privacy been more important than today, in the age of Internet, the Worl...

VOA News Activists: Nigeria Elections Should Be Postponed

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• 2015-01-24
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Activists: Nigeria Elections Should Be Postponed Nigerian expatriates, activists recently gathered in Washington to denounce deadly raids and massacres by militant group Boko Haram, and some urged that next month's presidential polls be... From: VOAvideo Views: 8 2 ratings Time: 03:03 More in News & Politics 원문출처 : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1WHoAPTN_k&feature=youtube_gdata

VOA News Is Your Computer Committing Cybercrimes?

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• 2012-05-09
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This is the VOA Special English Technology Reportfrom http://voaspecialenglish.com | http://facebook.com/voalearningenglish Last time, we told you about efforts by Microsoft to stop the cybercrime operation known as Zeus. Zeus hackers use a network of infected computers, known as botnets, to steal personal information from computer users.On March twenty-third, officials seized computer servers in two states, Pennsylvania and Illinois. The servers were said to be operating some of the worst known...

VOA News New Findings About Loss of Bees

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• 2012-05-02
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This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report, from http://voaspecialenglish.com | http://facebook.com/voalearningenglish Bees add an estimated eighteen billion dollars a year to the value of American crops. They pollinate flowers that become fruits, nuts and vegetables. But, in recent years, honeybee colonies in the United States and Europe have been shrinking. Scientists have proposed different theories to explain what is known as colony collapse disorder. New research suggests that a com...

VOA News The Appeal of Urban Farming

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• 2012-04-03
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This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report, from http://voaspecialenglish.com | http://facebook.com/voalearningenglish Old properties and empty lots in cities and towns around the United States are finding new life as urban farms. EcoCity Farms in Edmonston, Maryland, is located near shopping centers, car repair shops and homes. The neighborhood is a working-class community. People do not have very much money, and they have limited access to fresh food in markets. Over the past two years...

VOA News World Bank and IMF Meet in Washington

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• 2012-05-18
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This is the VOA Special English Economics Report , from http://voaspecialenglish.com | http://facebook.com/voalearningenglish Representatives of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank met in Washington in late April. This was the last time Robert Zoelick attended the spring meetings of the two organizations as World Bank president. Earlier, Jim Yong Kim was officially chosen as the bank's twelfth president.Mr. Zoellick said developing countries are now engines of growth. "Developing ...

VOA News Tired of That Tattoo? Get It Removed

• chanyi
• 2012-03-13
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About a third of Americans between the ages of 18 and 40 have at least one tattoo. As they grow older, some of them are having their tattoos removed. KEN SALER: "Voila!" DAVID: "Yay!" David served with the United States Army in Iraq. He says this large tattoo protected him in battle during his deployment. DAVID: "It's just a double-headed eagle with a shield in the middle." But today, David is the father of three young children. And his feelings about tattoos have changed. So he has been coming ...

VOA News Making Power From Coconut Shells, Mango Pits

• chanyi
• 2012-04-10
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This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report, from http://voaspecialenglish.com | http://facebook.com/voalearningenglish Seth DeBolt is a plant scientist at the University of Kentucky in the United States. He and other scientists wanted to find a source of fuel that poor people in rural areas of developing countries could use to make electricity. The United Nations Development Program says a billion and a half people have no electricity. A billion others have an undependable supply. Profes...

VOA News More Young Americans Plant Themselves in Farming

• chanyi
• 2012-04-03
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From http://voaspecialenglish.com | http://facebook.com/voalearningenglish Many young Americans with no farming experience are entering agriculture. They are learning about agriculture in college. Emily Sloss is showing visitors around Duke University's new campus farm in North Carolina. EMILY SLOSS: "We don't use synthetic fertilizers or pesticides." Emily Sloss studied public policy at Duke. Now, she supervises the university's new campus farm. EMILY SLOSS: "Now I'm a farmer. Yeah. Believe it ...

VOA News Internet Change Makes Way for Dot-Anything

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• 2011-12-08
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This is the VOA Special English Technology Report , from http://voaspecialenglish.com | http://facebook.com/voalearningenglish A top-level domain is the part of an Internet address after the dot.(인터넷 최상위 도메인이란 점(dot) 다음에 오는 인터넷 주소의 부분이다.) The most common of what are called generic top-level domains are dot-com, dot-net and dot-org.(일반 최상위 도메인이라 불리는 것 중 가장 흔한 것은 .com, .net 및 .org이다.) There are twenty-two generic top-level domain names currently a...

VOA News For Burmese Rockers, What Will Fewer Limits Mean?

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• 2012-04-25
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From http://voaspecialenglish.com | http://facebook.com/voalearningenglish The government in Burma is taking steps to reduce its controls over media and the arts. The musician who calls himself Darko C says he is pleased with the action, but unsure of the new limits. DARKO C: "Yeah, it's going to take some time to really change, you know. What, so now they reduced the rules a bit, but there are some lame rules about censorship still." Burma's Ministry of Information inspects the words of songs. ...

VOA News 'FlashFood' App Wins US Finals in Imagine Cup for Students

• chanyi
• 2012-05-29
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This is the VOA Special English Technology Report, from http://voaspecialenglish.com | http://facebook.com/voalearningenglish Students from Arizona State University won top honors this spring at the Imagine Cup finals in the United States. Microsoft Corporation organizes the competition every year. The Imagine Cup asks students to use their imaginations and their love of technology to solve some of the world's biggest problems. More than one hundred thousand students in the United States alone r...