VOA News Visiting the Homes of Patsy Cline, Babe Ruth and Edgar Allan Poe

• chanyi
• 2012-02-16
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From http://voaspecialenglish.com | http://facebook.com/voalearningenglish This small house in Winchester, Virginia, opened its doors to the public in August. It was home to singer Patsy Cline, who died at the age of 30. Judy Sue Huyett-Kempf is director of the Patsy Cline Historic House. "When she moved here, she was singing in local talent contests, church functions, anything that she could find at that point." "That piano she got when she was eight years old." Patsy's first cousin, Patricia B...

VOA News A Birth Procedure Does Little to Prevent Bleeding

• chanyi
• 2012-04-17
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This is the VOA Special English Health Report from http://voaspecialenglish.com | http://facebook.com/voalearningenglish Severe bleeding, also called hemorrhage, causes one-third of pregnancy-related deaths in Asia and Africa. The World Health Organization has been recommending several ways to reduce the risk of hemorrhage immediately after birth. These include giving the mother a hormone called oxytocin. It helps the uterus expel the placenta, or afterbirth. Another recommendation to help expel...

VOA News Golden Gate Bridge Still Shines

• chanyi
• 2012-07-03
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After 75 Years This is the VOA Special English Technology Report, from http://voaspecialenglish.com | http://facebook.com/voalearningenglish This year is the seventy-fifth anniversary of the Golden Gate Bridge in California. It opened to vehicle traffic on May twenty-eighth, nineteen thirty-seven. Since then, more than two billion vehicles have crossed the world-famous bridge linking San Francisco and Marin County. The bridge is named after the Golden Gate Strait. That narrow passage of water co...

VOA News Meeting Highlights Economic 'Dynamism' of Southeast Asia

• chanyi
• 2012-06-26
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This is the VOA Special English Economics Report, fromhttp://voaspecialenglish.com | http://facebook.com/voalearningenglish The World Economic Forum is an independent organization. Its job is to help businesses, governments and civil society groups find ways to work together to improve the world. The twenty-first World Economic Forum on East Asia recently took place in Thailand. Organizers wanted to bring attention to development in Southeast Asia. The event received extra attention because of t...

VOA News Deadly Maize Disease Threatens Food Supplies in Kenya

• sohee1004
• 2012-09-25
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This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report, fromhttp://voaspecialenglish.com | http://facebook.com/voalearningenglish Officials in Kenya are fighting a deadly disease attacking maize crops. Some Kenyan farmers say the disease has reduced crop production by as much as 60 percent. Last September, farmers in Bomet reported that a disease was destroying their maize or corn. The disease is called "maize lethal necrosis." It makes the plant turn yellow and dry up. By January, researchers found...

VOA News Another Look at Massive Online Open Courses

• chanyi
• 2012-04-17
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This is the VOA Special English Education Report from http://voaspecialenglish.com | http://facebook.com/voalearningenglish A class with tens or even hundreds of thousands of students might sound like a teacher's bad dream. But a big idea in higher education these days is the massive open online course, or MOOC. Some universities offer free, non-credit MOOCs available to anyone in the world. Others charge for courses and provide credits. The idea is still developing. The Massachusetts Institute ...

VOA News Worries Grow About Treating Gonorrhea

• chanyi
• 2012-07-11
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This is the VOA Special English Health Report, from http://voaspecialenglish.com | http://facebook.com/voalearningenglish Each year an estimated one hundred six million people get infected with gonorrhea. This sexually transmitted disease is getting harder and harder to treat. The World Health Organization says gonorrhea is increasingly resistant to antibiotics. The WHO warns that there are few treatment options available, and that the world is running out of ways to cure it. Manjula Lusti-Naras...

VOA News More US Cities Getting Aboard Idea of Streetcars

• chanyi
• 2012-02-16
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From http://voaspecialenglish.com | http://facebook.com/voalearningenglish Many American cities once had streetcars, but not anymore. Yet streetcars have been running in New Orleans for over 150 years. Anthony Falls has been driving streetcars for 10 years, and plans to keep doing so. ANTHONY FALLS: "First of all, it's one of the most, the oldest rail lines in the world. And second of all, you know, it's just part of being part of history, you know. Because at one time, you know, they didn't hav...

VOA News Microcredit Is Expanding to New Products for the Poor

• chanyi
• 2012-04-17
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This is the VOA Special English Economics Report from http://voaspecialenglish.com | http://facebook.com/voalearningenglish Modern microfinance started with economist Muhammad Yunus. In the nineteen seventies, he started what became the Grameen Bank in Bangladesh. He and the bank shared the Nobel Peace Prize in two thousand six for the idea of offering small loans to the poor to fight poverty. In twenty ten, reports of harmful micro lending methods and corruption shook the Indian state of Andhra...

VOA News Education Group Gives $170 Million to 7 Countries

• chanyi
• 2012-01-18
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A three-year effort in developing countries will seek to put twenty-five million children in school for the first time.(개발도상국 3년의 노력이 2500만명의 아이들을 처음으로 학교에 보내게 할 것으로 보인다.) Another goal of the Global Partnership for Education is to train six hundred thousand teachers. (글로벌 교육 파트너쉽의 또 다른 목표는 60만명의 교사들을 훈련시키는 것이다.) The partnership recently awarded nearly one hundred seventy million dollars in grants to seven countries.(이 파트너쉽은 ...

VOA News The Problem With Plagiarism in South Korea

• chanyi
• 2012-07-03
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This is the VOA Special English Education Report, from http://voaspecialenglish.com | http://facebook.com/voalearningenglish South Korea's education system is highly respected. But there are concerns that academic dishonesty could harm its image in the world. That dishonesty includes cases of falsified research. And in recent months, two South Korean lawmakers have faced accusations that they copied work for their doctoral dissertations.Of course, problems like these are not limited to South Kor...

VOA News A Room Where Nurses Learn How Not to Get Hurt

• chanyi
• 2012-01-07
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Nurses spend their lives helping other people recover from injuries and illnesses.(간호사들은 다른 사람들이 부상이나 질병으로 부터 회복하도록 도우며 그들의 삶을 보내고 있습니다.) Yet nurses suffer a surprising number of injuries and illnesses themselves because of their work.(그러나 간호사 자신들은 그들의 일 때문에 엄청난 수의 부상이나 질병을 겪고있습니다.) In fact, the United States Department of Labor says nursing is the second leading profession for on-the-job injuries.(사실 미국 노동부는 간...

VOA News US Postal Service Wants Congress to Make Changes to Its Business Model

• sohee1004
• 2012-09-25
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This is the VOA Special English Economics Report, fromhttp://voaspecialenglish.com | http://facebook.com/voalearningenglish The United States Postal Service has reported a loss of over $5 billion from April to June. The Postal Service says it expects to report a loss of $15 billion for the 12-month period ending in September. And it has warned of even bigger losses if Congress does not let mail service change the way it does business. The United States Postal Service, or USPS, has a history as l...

VOA News Gonorrhea Getting Harder to Treat

• sohee1004
• 2013-04-05
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From VOA Learning English, this is the Health Report. Each year an estimated 106 million people get infected with gonorrhea. This sexually transmitted disease is getting harder and harder to treat. The World Health Organization says gonorrhea is increasingly resistant to antibiotics. The WHO warns that there are few treatment options available. The world, it says, is running out of ways to cure the disease. Manjula Lusti-Narasimhan is a scientist in the Department of Sexually Transmitted Disease...

VOA News How Facebook Can Affect Your Sense of Happiness

• chanyi
• 2012-03-01
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From http://voaspecialenglish.com | http://facebook.com/voalearningenglish An American study suggests that social media can affect your thinking about other people. We asked young people how many friends they have on Facebook. COLLEGE STUDENTS: "I've never actually, like, stopped and looked at it. Probably somewhere between, like, 350 and 400 -- I don't know." "I would definitely be on Facebook all the time, like, 'Wow, she's here, he's there.'" "Yeah, I'm a heavy user. I rely a lot on it. I fin...

VOA News Looking at a Piece of U.S. History: the Amendment That Banned Slavery

• chanyi
• 2012-02-25
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The 13th amendment to the United States Constitution made slavery illegal. Recently, the New York Historical Society was showing a rare copy of the amendment. It is one of only 14 copies signed by Abraham Lincoln, America's Civil War president. David Rubenstein loaned it to the Society. DAVID RUBENSTEIN: "When it passed the House and Senate, he signed it, and although presidents of the United States aren't required to sign proposed Constitutional Amendments, Abraham Lincoln signed several copies...

VOA News Making Friends Not Always Easy for Foreign Students

• sohee1004
• 2012-09-12
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This is the VOA Special English Education Report , fromhttp://voaspecialenglish.com | http://facebook.com/voalearningenglish A recent story in the Chronicle of Higher Education said many foreign students report feeling lonely or unwelcome in Australia. Those feelings are one of the reasons why Australia is taking a close look at its international education industry. The government has formed an advisory council to help develop a five-year national strategy for the future of international educati...

VOA News Consumers' Online Petitions Put Pressure on Businesses

• chanyi
• 2012-01-31
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This is the VOA Special English Technology Report. The modern way to collect signatures on a petition requires no paper or pen or standing on a street for hours. Change.org and other websites let people start or sign online petitions. There are many different reasons why people start petitions at Change.org. The top causes range from animal protection to criminal justice to women's rights. Lauren Todd of New York started a petition a few months ago after she saw a picture of a girl's shirt on Fa...

VOA News Middle East Tensions Rise as Russian Warplanes Violate Turkish Airspace

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• 2015-10-06
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NATO member Turkey said Monday that Russian jets have violated its airspace near the border with Syria multiple times over the past two days. Analysts tell VOA that Russian airstrikes in Syria and its incursion into Turkey have changed the dynamics of the Syrian conflict. VOA's Sharon Behn reports. 원문출처 : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wTWfJp-bUA

VOA News Language Has Risks for Health Translators

• chanyi
• 2012-05-29
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This is the VOA Special English Health Report, from http://voaspecialenglish.com | http://facebook.com/voalearningenglish Translators Without Borders is an American nonprofit group. It provides language services to nongovernmental organizations such as, yes, Doctors Without Borders. The group recently trained some new translators in Nairobi in how to put health information into local languages for Kenyans. For health translators, finding the right words is not just about language, but also cultu...