VOA News A Life Lesson From the Rodeo

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• 2012-05-09
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From http://voaspecialenglish.com | http://facebook.com/voalearningenglish The Livestock Show and Rodeo in Houston helps to educate people about farm life and agriculture. For families from farms, being around cows is part of everyday life. But the Houston rodeo's Joel Cowley says that is not true of most Americans. JOEL COWLEY: "Less than two percent of the U.S. population is involved in production agriculture, directly involved, and of the six million people that live in the Houston Metro area...

VOA News A Fountain of Chocolate, a Rush of Joy

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• 2012-02-25
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Hillary Bradley is putting together a chocolate fountain for a private party. HILLARY BRADLEY: "It's definitely level on the bottom ... and level on the top." Ms. Bradley makes and sells chocolates. She says people love her chocolate fountains. HILLARY BRADLEY: "A chocolate fountain is a catering equipment that you put melted chocolate in that flows through and then you dip wonderful things into it. And then I melt it down and 'cause it has to be at a certain viscosity to go through the fountain...

VOA News College Students Get Into Microfinance Lending

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• 2012-03-20
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This is the VOA Special English Education Report, from http://voaspecialenglish.com | http://facebook.com/voalearningenglish Imagine that you have lost your job. You could start a sewing business at home if you had a better sewing machine and a little money to advertise. But you cannot get a loan from a bank. In recent times, many people in similar situations have received loans from student microfinance groups. Such groups make small loans for business or personal use. Twelve of the organizatio...

VOA News These People Really See the Point in Body Ink

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• 2012-02-21
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Tattoo artist Matt Knopp loves what he does. MATT KNOPP: "My job is: I come to work; I hang out with my friends, and I draw. When you're, you know, that big, I mean isn't that the job you'd wanna have?" Mr. Knopp owns Tattoo Paradise in Washington, DC. MATT KNOPP: "Those are the people I usually hang out with. You know, if I worked with a bunch of guys that were doctors I'd be hangin' out with those guys all the time. We're not all saints, but I mean, you come in and I'm going to treat you with ...

VOA News 'Hunger Games' Is Right On Target With Fans

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• 2012-03-27
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From http://voaspecialenglish.com | http://facebook.com/voalearningenglish Related story: http://bit.ly/GHj4vQ "The Hunger Games" is capturing the attention of moviegoers. The film is set in the future, in the ruins of what was once North America. Teenage boys and girls are forced to compete in a televised event in which they must fight to the death until only one survives. "Primrose Everdeen!" "Prim! I volunteer! I volunteer as Tribute." Katniss Everdeen has spent all her life hunting to feed h...

VOA News Helping Women Continue Their Education After Prison

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• 2012-05-18
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This is the VOA Special English Education Report , from http://voaspecialenglish.com | http://facebook.com/voalearningenglish Some women's prisons in the United States offer classes for college credit. But when the prisoners are released, they may not have much chance to continue their education. In two thousand, a woman named Barbara Martinsons started a program to help these former prisoners. She established the College and Community Fellowship. Ms. Martinsons taught at Manhattan Marymount Col...

VOA News Studying the World's Deepest Volcanic Vents

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• 2012-02-03
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British scientists in January reported details of the world's deepest volcanic vents. These passageways were discovered in 2010 in a narrow valley at the bottom of the Caribbean Sea. The vents release very hot liquid minerals. But they are surrounded by sea creatures, including shrimp and snails. The volcanic vents were discovered near the bottom of the Cayman Trough -- an undersea area south of the Cayman Islands. Jon Copley is a marine biologist at the University of Southampton in England. He ...

VOA News For Meat Lovers, the Challenge of Faking It

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• 2012-04-17
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This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report from http://voaspecialenglish.com | http://facebook.com/voalearningenglish Some people in the Netherlands are spending three hundred thirty thousand dollars -- on a hamburger. The people are scientists at the University of Maastricht. They want to prove that they can make a hamburger that tastes good and does not require an animal to be killed.Researcher Mark Post and his team have been growing muscle-tissue cells in a laboratory with muscle tak...

VOA News The Limits to Organic Farming in Feeding the World

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• 2012-05-29
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This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Reportt, from http://voaspecialenglish.com | http://facebook.com/voalearningenglish Organic farming avoids the use of chemical pesticides and manmade fertilizers. Supporters say organic farming is better for the environment than other methods. But studies have shown that organic farming often produces less food per hectare. That lower yield means feeding the world organically would require more land. But good farmland is limited. And scientists say def...

VOA News Itzhak Perlman: A Citizen of the World, With His Violin as a Passport

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• 2012-07-10
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VOA News Energy as an Issue in US Presidential Campaign

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• 2012-04-03
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This is the VOA Special English Economics Report, from http://voaspecialenglish.com | http://facebook.com/voalearningenglish Energy has become an important issue in the American presidential campaign. And gasoline prices, costs that affect almost all Americans, have risen sharply in recent months. For example, former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney has criticized President Obama's energy policy. In a newspaper commentary, he said the president has let prices rise while placing too many requir...

VOA News What Moves America? Transportation Trends in the US

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• 2012-07-10
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VOA News How Did Crisis Affect U.S. Standing in the World? [2]

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• 2013-10-19
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How Did Crisis Affect U.S. Standing in the World? On TALK2US, callers practice their English by commenting on the short-term deal that ended a 16-day partial government shutdown and extended the nation's debt limit. Avi Arditti hosts. Subscribe to the VOA Learning English Channel: http://youtube.com/voalearningenglish | Like us on Facebook: http://facebook.com/voalearningenglish From: VOA Learning English Views: 7 0 ratings Time: 07:45 More in News & Politics 원문출처 : http://www.youtube.co...

VOA News 'Kony 2012': The Success, and the Criticism

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• 2012-04-17
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This is the VOA Special English Technology Reportfrom http://voaspecialenglish.com | http://facebook.com/voalearningenglish Have you ever heard of Joseph Kony? Chances are, you have at least heard about a video called "Kony 2012." An American nonprofit group posted it on YouTube in early March. The half-hour video quickly went viral with tens of millions of views. The group Invisible Children created "Kony 2012" to bring attention to Joseph Kony and his Lord's Resistance Army in central Africa. ...

VOA News High Dropout Rate a Problem for South Africa

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• 2012-04-03
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This is the VOA Special English Education Report, from http://voaspecialenglish.com | http://facebook.com/voalearningenglish Since the nineteen nineties, education has been required for all South Africans from age seven to fifteen. Last December, the government announced that seventy percent of students passed their final examination to finish high school. In two thousand eight the passage rate was about sixty-three percent. There have been increases each year since then. Professor Shireen Motal...

VOA News North Korea Eases Mobile Limits for Foreigners

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• 2013-04-19
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North Korea Eases Mobile Limits for Foreigners From VOA Learning English, this is the Technology Report.Foreigners in North Korea can now use Twitter, Facebook, and other social media on their mobile phones. A steady flow of tweets and Instagram pictures has been observed since the mobile service provider Koryolink launched its third generation, or 3G, network last week. The move came weeks after the North Korean government announced that it would let foreigners bring their mobile phones into th...

VOA News A Call for Equal Rights for Women Farmers

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• 2012-05-09
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This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report, from http://voaspecialenglish.com | http://facebook.com/voalearningenglish A new report says if women farmers had the same rights as men, more could be done to reduce world hunger. The report, "Empowering Women in Agriculture," is from the anti-hunger group Bread for the World. Bread for the World says equal access to agricultural resources would help increase food security and economic growth. Faustine Wabwire is the group's foreign assistance...

VOA News Film Project Aids US Veterans With PTSD

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Film Project Aids US Veterans With PTSD A new hands-on film project is helping American soldiers overcome post-traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD - a mental health condition caused by the violence of war. With the Veterans Day holiday... From: VOAvideo Views: 0 0 ratings Time: 02:53 More in News & Politics 원문출처 : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4PbeHtdzb8&feature=youtube_gdata

VOA News Google Faces Heat Over New Privacy Policy

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• 2012-03-06
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This is the VOA Special English Technology Report, from http://voaspecialenglish.com | http://facebook.com/voalearningenglish Privacy activists are concerned about Google's new privacy policy as of March first. The company says one main policy is replacing more than sixty separate policies for different products. Activists say the changes will make it easier to track the activities of users across Google's many products -- from Gmail to YouTube. Marc Rotenberg heads the Electronic Privacy Inform...

VOA News European Ministers Agree to Loan Greece Another $172 Billion

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• 2012-03-20
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This is the VOA Special English Economics Report, from http://voaspecialenglish.com | http://facebook.com/voalearningenglish European finance ministers agreed to loan Greece about one hundred seventy-two billion dollars at a meeting in February in Brussels. Luxembourg's Prime Minister Jean-Claude Juncker announced the agreement. "After a meeting of at least, I think, thirteen or fourteen hours, we have reached a far-reaching agreement on Greece's new program and private sector involvement that w...