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VOA News A Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Then 'Crack'
Donald Walsh is stepping back in time at the National Museum of the United States Navy. DONALD WALSH: "Our job was to maintain and operate the bathyscaphe. The scientists at the Navy lab would decide what kind of research projects we have and what kind of equipment we put on it to make measurements and sampling under the sea." In 1960, Mr. Walsh was a young Navy lieutenant. He co-piloted a free-diving vehicle called the Trieste to the deepest part of the Pacific Ocean. DONALD WALSH: "What better...
VOA News Consumers' Online Petitions Put Pressure on Businesses
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 Tobacco Forces Still Strong
This is the VOA Special English Health Report, fromhttp://voaspecialenglish.com | http://facebook.com/voalearningenglish The Australian High Court ruled in August to support a law barring tobacco companies from putting their advertising logos on cigarette packages. The European Union is considering a similar ban. But a recent international study showed that some countries do little to control tobacco use. It found that the tobacco industry still has strong influence around the world.Researchers ...
VOA News Looking at a Piece of U.S. History: the Amendment That Banned Slavery
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 Debating the Best Way to Learn a Language
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 methods. One is known as the explicit or classroom method. This is the kind of traditional classroom teaching where students are taught a lot of information about grammar rules. The other method is known as the implicit or immersion method. The idea here is to lea...
VOA News Ready to Save Like There's No Tomorrow?
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report, fromhttp://voaspecialenglish.com | http://facebook.com/voalearningenglish Are you a saver or a spender? "A penny saved is a penny earned." This old saying calls attention to the wisdom of saving money. "Putting money away for a rainy day" is another way to talk about saving for the future. People who hate to spend money are known as "tightwads," while those who like to get the most value for their money are called "thrifty." A thrifty person is d...
VOA News Turning Yoga Upside Down With Moves Like Cirque de Soleil
Some health clubs offer a kind of exercise called AntiGravity Yoga. MARIE BICE: "When I first saw people hanging upside down from hammocks and calling it yoga, I kinda thought they were crazy. But it ended up being a lot of fun, and just the swinging, and it felt very playful." Yoga student Marie Bice says AntiGravity Yoga has been good for her. MARIE BICE: "I don't have a lot of flexibility in my back, and doing this work has really helped with that." Heather Blair is an AntiGravity Yoga traine...
VOA News US Considers Approving Drug to Prevent HIV
This is the VOA Special English Health Report, from http://voaspecialenglish.com | http://facebook.com/voalearningenglish Studies show that a drug called Truvada can prevent HIV infections. The pill is taken once a day. Studies showed it was ninety percent effective when people took it every day. It was only half as effective when people did not take it every day. Currently, in the United States, the drug is only approved for use as a treatment for people already infected with HIV, the virus tha...
VOA News The Legal Battle Between Apple and Samsung
This is the VOA Special English Technology Report, fromhttp://voaspecialenglish.com | http://facebook.com/voalearningenglish Samsung Electronics won a case in its battle with the American technology company Apple over property rights. A court in Japan ruled in a case involving Samsung's Galaxy series of smartphones and tablet computers. A three-judge panel in Tokyo said the products did not violate an Apple patent for organizing music and video on several devices. The court also ordered Apple to...
VOA News Fighting Mandatory Sentences for Drug Crimes
Watch this video without captions: http://youtu.be/rtHhIkg6hLM In 1998, Lawrence Garrison and his brother Lamont were students at Howard University in Washington. They both worked for the Justice Department, and planned to attend law school. But a man who had fixed their car was arrested on drug charges. He told investigators that the Garrisons had been involved. LAWRENCE GARRISON: "And they questioned me. That's when they showed me pictures of Tito Abea. They asked, 'Have you ever seen this guy...
VOA News A Room Where Nurses Learn How Not to Get Hurt
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 In the Garden: Getting Started With Roses
This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report, fromhttp://voaspecialenglish.com | http://facebook.com/voalearningenglish Most kinds of rose plants are native to Asia. But roses also grow in other parts of the world including northwest Africa, Europe and the United States. In nineteen eighty-six, Congress and President Ronald Reagan declared the rose as America's "national floral emblem." They proclaimed it the national flower, in other words. But whatever the name, the choice of the rose di...
VOA News Education Group Gives $170 Million to 7 Countries
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 More US Cities Getting Aboard Idea of Streetcars
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 India Defends Moves Against Social Media
This is the VOA Special English Technology Report, fromhttp://voaspecialenglish.com | http://facebook.com/voalearningenglish The government in India is defending itself against charges of Internet censorship. The move comes after the government last week asked companies like Facebook and Twitter to block more than three hundred websites. Officials accused the websites of posting edited images and videos of earthquake victims. They said the websites falsely claimed that the images were Muslim vic...
VOA News What Rio Conference Means to Farmers
This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report, from http://voaspecialenglish.com | http://facebook.com/voalearningenglish Leaders and officials from governments and nongovernmental groups recently met in Brazil for the Rio+20 Conference. The full name was the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development. It marked the twentieth anniversary of the Earth Summit, the UN Conference on Environment and Development, held in Rio de Janeiro. It also came ten years after the World Summit on S...
VOA News Surviving a Drought: A Farmer's Old-Fashioned Lessons
This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report , fromhttp://voaspecialenglish.com | http://facebook.com/voalearningenglish 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 insurance will help limit financial losses. But crop insurance is a tool that is not available to most growers in the developing world. The...
VOA News Can Brain Scans of Young Children Predict Reading Problems?
This is the VOA Special English Education Report, from http://voaspecialenglish.com | http://facebook.com/voalearningenglish Dyslexia is a problem that interferes with the ability to recognize words and connect sounds with letters when people read. People with this learning disorder may also have problems when they write. Dyslexia is not related to eyesight or intelligence. The problem involves areas of the brain that process language. Brain scientists are studying whether they can predict which...
VOA News Experts Suggest Ways to Help International Students Make Friends with American Students
This is the VOA Special English Education Report, fromhttp://voaspecialenglish.com | http://facebook.com/voalearningenglish Last week, we told you how some international students have few friends in their host countries when they study overseas. One study in the United States found that 38 percent of foreign students said they had no close American friends. Communications specialist Elisabeth Gareis studied more than 450 foreign students.VOA's Jessica Stahl also investigated the issue in her blo...
VOA News Saving Bonobos, the 'Make Love Not War' Apes
Bonobos live deep in the forest of the African Congo. Bonobos look like chimpanzees, but are a completely different species. Sally Coxe heads the Bonobo Conservation Initiative. SALLY COXE: "Chimpanzees have a male-dominated society, whereas bonobos are matriarchal. The females are in charge. They have a more egalitarian and cooperative society than chimpanzees, and they are the only primate other than humans that has sex not just for procreation. So that's earned them the moniker as the 'make l...
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