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VOA News Drive for 'Green' Cars Leave Some Auto Workers Behind
From http://voaspecialenglish.com | http://facebook.com/voalearningenglish Nicole Current has worked 15 years in the automobile industry, but she is losing her job. NICOLE CURRENT: "I make truck axles, so as the auto industry tries to get away from the larger size vehicles, and tries to get to more fuel efficient, more economical vehicles, and gas prices being where they are with what product we make, it makes it extremely difficult when, the actual economy, people aren't buying trucks." People ...
VOA News Google Faces Heat Over New Privacy Policy
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 Greece and the Euro
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report , from http://voaspecialenglish.com | http://facebook.com/voalearningenglish The Olympic flame was lit in Greece on May tenth. The ceremony marked the beginning of a long trip through Greece and Britain, which holds the Summer Olympics this year. Greece has been at the center of a political and economic struggle that also threatens other European economies. It remains unclear if Greece will continue using the euro, or if its eurozone partners can ...
VOA News European Ministers Agree to Loan Greece Another $172 Billion
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...
VOA News China, Mexico and Brazil Lead Gains in US Graduate School Applications
This is the VOA Special English Education Reportfrom http://voaspecialenglish.com | http://facebook.com/voalearningenglish Graduate schools in the United States are reporting a nine percent increase in applications from international students this year. The increase is the same as two years ago. Last year's gain was eleven percent.China, Mexico and Brazil showed the biggest increases in applications to enter master's and doctoral programs this fall.Engineering is the top area of study for intern...
VOA News Using Student Writing to Teach Global Issues
This is the VOA Special English Education Report, from http://voaspecialenglish.com | http://facebook.com/voalearningenglish One World Education is a nonprofit group based in Washington. The group has a program in which teachers develop curriculum based on student writing. The students are in middle and high school and write essays about culture and international issues. Students are invited to write about an issue they find important. Then professionally developed learning materials based on ch...
VOA News Film Project Aids US Veterans With PTSD
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 A Call for Equal Rights for Women Farmers
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 North Korea Eases Mobile Limits for Foreigners
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 High Dropout Rate a Problem for South Africa
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 'Kony 2012': The Success, and the Criticism
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 How Did Crisis Affect U.S. Standing in the World? [2]
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 Energy as an Issue in US Presidential Campaign
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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VOA News Itzhak Perlman: A Citizen of the World, With His Violin as a Passport
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VOA News The Limits to Organic Farming in Feeding the World
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 For Meat Lovers, the Challenge of Faking It
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 A Tablet Computer That Touches You Back
From http://voaspecialenglish.com | http://facebook.com/voalearningenglish The Consumer Electronics Association holds a show every year in Las Vegas. This year, the show offered everything from dancing robots and singer Justin Bieber to ski-jumpers wearing some kind of technology. The association's Chris Ely says the direction of electronics is clear. CHRIS ELY: "The shift is more towards mobile connected devices. We are seeing an incredible amount of energy and products and volume into products...
VOA News Farmers Learning Limits of Popular Herbicide
Pigweed is a weed that spreads fast and grows up to two meters tall. It can overpower cotton and other crops. It comes from the amaranth family and is also known as Palmer amaranth or Palmer's pigweed. A cultivated version of amaranth is grown for food and medicine in Africa and Asia. In the United States, some people buy amaranth as a gluten-free substitute for wheat flour. But wild pigweed is a big problem in cotton-growing states in the South. And now the plant is spreading into the Midwest. ...
VOA News 'Hunger Games' Is Right On Target With Fans
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...
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