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VOA News Can Pollution Make Vaccines Less Effective?
From http://voaspecialenglish.com | http://facebook.com/voalearningenglish Some researchers are warning about industrial chemicals called perfluorinated compounds, or PFCs. A new study found that PFCs weakened the effectiveness of vaccines designed to protect children from diseases like polio, measles and diphtheria. The protection is supposed to last a lifetime. PHILLIPE GRANDJEAN: "This was quite serious because we could also see that some of the children were so low in antibody concentrations...
VOA News Drones: Not Just for Military Use
This is the VOA Special English Technology Report, from http://voaspecialenglish.com | http://facebook.com/voalearningenglish In late January, for the first time, President Obama publicly confirmed the American use of drone strikes in tribal areas in Pakistan. He answered a question on the subject during a Google video conference with people around the United States. He said, "I want to make sure that people understand that actually, drones have not caused a huge number of civilian casualties. F...
VOA News Dating Sites' Claims; Female Voices and Fertility
This is the VOA Special English Health Report, from http://voaspecialenglish.com | http://facebook.com/voalearningenglish As sure as honey attracts bees, Valentine's Day attracts scientific reports on human relations. For example, in early February, researchers announced new findings about online dating sites. Many of these popular sites say they have a special formula to find the perfect partner. But the researchers say these claims are unsupported and likely false. Lead author Eli Finkel at No...
VOA News Linking Education and Employment in Africa
This is the VOA Special English Education Report, from http://voaspecialenglish.com | http://facebook.com/voalearningenglish More than six hundred delegates recently met in Burkina Faso to discuss education in Africa. The aim is to find ways to support economic growth by improving education and job training programs.The delegates included education ministers and representatives of civil society, business, labor and youth groups. The meeting, held every three years, is known as the Triennial. Ahl...
VOA News Getting Young Indians to Choose Tea Over Coffee
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 Will Cost of Cocoa Raise the Price of Valentine's Day?
This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report, from http://voaspecialenglish.com | http://facebook.com/voalearningenglish Valentine's Day, February fourteenth, is one of the biggest days of the year for lovers of chocolate. Americans were expected to spend more than one billion dollars on chocolates and other candies for their sweethearts this year. But the chocolate industry worries that prices for its sweets could rise in the years ahead. Susan Smith is a spokeswoman for the National Conf...
VOA News Tired of That Tattoo? Get It Removed
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 ...
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VOA News Vinyl Records Go for a New Spin
From http://voaspecialenglish.com | http://facebook.com/voalearningenglish For many Americans, vinyl records bring back memories of growing up in the '60s and '70s. At that time, people listened to Elvis Presley and The Beatles on black discs spinning on a turntable. Today's younger generation did not grow up with vinyl records. But for them, vinyl is cool. Fourteen-year-old Jack Lowenstein visited Crooked Beat Records in Washington, DC. JACK LOWENSTEIN: "I prefer to buy vinyl records over CD." ...
VOA News By Skype: Iranian actor Arash Hamedian
VOA's Julie Taboh and Avi Arditti talk with Arash Hamedian, a 27-year-old Iranian actor currently studying at a university in Greece. He discusses his newest film, "Voiceless," which will be shown at the Rome Independent Film Festival in April. He also talks about the excitement in Iran when the film "A Separation" won an Academy Award last month. And he explains how VOA's programs for English learners helped him learn the language. 원문출처 : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yieMP6Ydh6A&featu...
VOA News Telling Stories Through Totem Poles
David Boxley is a Native American artist from the Tsimshian tribe in Alaska. He is a dancer, songwriter, and wood carver. He also is an ambassador for Tsimshian culture. DAVID BOXLEY: "We call it art now, but it was a way for people to say this is how I am. This belongs to me, or this is my clan, or this is my crest, this is my family history, carved and painted on wood." Mr. Boxley says Christian missionaries were a strong influence in his community while he was growing up. As a result, he lear...
VOA News New Effort to Fight 10 'Neglected' Tropical Diseases
This is the VOA Special English Health Report, from http://voaspecialenglish.com | http://facebook.com/voalearningenglish A new campaign aims to fight ten diseases that affect many of the world's poorest people but do not get much attention. At the end of January officials announced the London Declaration on Neglected Tropical Diseases. The diseases include conditions like sleeping sickness, guinea worm and leprosy. They affect more than a billion people worldwide. The effort involves thirteen d...
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 A Quick Lesson in Ways Businesses Are Organized
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report, from http://voaspecialenglish.com | http://facebook.com/voalearningenglish Businesses are structured in different ways to meet different needs. The simplest form of business is called an individual or sole proprietorship. The proprietor owns all of the property of the business and is responsible for everything. For legal purposes, with this kind of business, the owner and the company are the same. This means the proprietor gets to keep all of the...
VOA News Really, It's OK to Pinch Mums
This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report, from http://voaspecialenglish.com | http://facebook.com/voalearningenglish People have been growing chrysanthemums for more than two thousand years. Mums make bright and colorful gardens. People in China and other Asian cultures make tea with the flowers. Giacomo Puccini, the great Italian composer, even named one of his works after chrysanthemums, "Crisantemi." One basic kind of mum is the hardy or garden mum. The other basic kind is the flori...
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 How Facebook Can Affect Your Sense of Happiness
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 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 Houston Welcomes Scarlet Spider, Marvel Comics Crime Fighter
Comic book creators are working to increase readership. One way is to bring comic book characters and their stories to different parts of the United States. Recently, comic book fans filled the 8th Dimension comic book store in Houston, Texas. They wanted to meet the creator of the new Marvel Comics series Scarlet Spider. The series takes place in Houston. WOMAN: "On behalf of the city of Houston, thank y'all for incorporating us." Eighteen-year-old Stephanie Burgess recognizes some areas pictur...
VOA News A Fountain of Chocolate, a Rush of Joy
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...
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