VOA News Surviving a Drought: A Farmer's Old-Fashioned Lessons

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• 2012-10-03
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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 Tobacco Forces Still Strong

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• 2012-09-25
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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 Burma Places Hopes for Development in Foreign Investment

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• 2012-09-25
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This is the VOA Special English Economics Report, fromhttp://voaspecialenglish.com | http://facebook.com/voalearningenglish Burma is in a good position to make big gains in Asia's fast-growing markets. But development must include all of society and be sustainable for Burma to reach its goals. That is what the Asian Development Bank said in a recent report.Cyn-Young Park is an economist with the bank. She says Burma's economic position is strengthened by its natural resources, such as oil, gas a...

VOA News In the Garden: Growing Onions

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• 2012-09-25
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This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report, fromhttp://voaspecialenglish.com | http://facebook.com/voalearningenglish Onions come in different sizes, shapes, colors and flavors, from mild and sweet to hot and strong. A full-grown onion plant has roots, bulbs and leaves. The leaves are long, thin and hollow. They stand straight up and thicken at the bottom to form a bulb. Onions are biennials; their life cycle is two years long. But they are usually picked during their first year before f...

VOA News Finding the Right Match With Online Dating

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• 2012-09-25
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This is the VOA Special English Technology Report, fromhttp://voaspecialenglish.com | http://facebook.com/voalearningenglish Ten or 15 years ago, online dating was too new to be socially acceptable. Now, many people search for a partner online. Online dating is different from traditional dating where two people learn about each other in person. With online dating, people learn a lot about a possible partner before even meeting them. We spoke with Mario, who had recently moved to the city of Balt...

VOA News More Low-Cost AIDS Drugs Mean More People Treated

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• 2012-09-25
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This is the VOA Special English Health Report, fromhttp://voaspecialenglish.com | http://facebook.com/voalearningenglish An American program called the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief helps millions of people infected with HIV. PEPFAR is considered one of the most successful programs created during the presidency of George W. Bush. Its goal was to change HIV/AIDS from a death sentence to a disease that could be treated. And for millions of people around the world, that is just what ha...

VOA News Using Art to Make Summer School More Interesting

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• 2012-09-25
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This is the VOA Special English Education Report, fromhttp://voaspecialenglish.com | http://facebook.com/voalearningenglish June, July and August are vacation months for most American schoolchildren. But some students pay a high price for that long summer break. They may forget much of what they learned over the past year by the time they start the next grade. This problem is often called the summer learning gap. Growing efforts across the country aim to deal with this gap by offering more inter...

VOA News Experts Suggest Ways to Help International Students Make Friends with American Students

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• 2012-09-25
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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 US Postal Service Wants Congress to Make Changes to Its Business Model

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• 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 Deadly Maize Disease Threatens Food Supplies in Kenya

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• 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 India Defends Moves Against Social Media

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• 2012-09-25
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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 Calls From Pakistan, Afghanistan, Yemen, Turkey, Madagascar and More

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• 2012-09-22
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Avi Arditti from VOA Learning English and Kate Woodsome from VOA News take calls on Skype. Callers include a Pakistani who took part in protests against an anti-Islam video, a Yemeni who is optimistic although the revolution turned his life "upside down," and a young Turkish woman about to start college to study engineering. (Recorded live on Ustream.) 원문출처 : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EbHo4XkXiWI&feature=youtube_gdata

VOA News Call-In Show: Reaction to Protests Over Anti-Islam Film, and More

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• 2012-09-15
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Carolyn Presutti from VOA News and Avi Arditti from VOA Learning English also talk to an Algerian chef at an Italian restaurant in Malaysia as they take calls on Skype. (Recorded live on Ustream.) 원문출처 : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbOcoz4gRzc&feature=youtube_gdata

VOA News Voices of America: Azad Right, Iranian-American Hip-Hop Artist

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• 2012-09-12
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My name is Azad Naficy, I go by the name Azad Right. I'm from Los Angeles and I'm a song writer, producer, artist. Azad is actually my real first name. It means freedom in Farsi and it's something my parents didn't have. My father Majid Naficy is a well known poet from the Iranian community. He's also a political activist. Both my parents were exiled before the revolution. They traveled to France, to Turkey, and then finally ended up here. "Right." I always like to write. I didn't like the way w...

VOA News With Physical Activity, No Need to Be an Olympian

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• 2012-09-12
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This is the VOA Special English Health Report , fromhttp://voaspecialenglish.com | http://facebook.com/voalearningenglish Watching the Olympics probably made some people feel a little guilty about not exercising. The truth is, if physical inactivity were a sport, a lot of us could give a gold-medal performance. To mark the London Olympics, the Lancet, a British medical journal, published a series of papers about the problem of inactivity. Public health experts say physical inactivity is the worl...

VOA News British Bank Pays $340 Million Fine for Iran Dealings

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• 2012-09-12
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This is the VOA Special English Economics Report, fromhttp://voaspecialenglish.com | http://facebook.com/voalearningenglish The British bank Standard Chartered agreed to pay $340 million to a United States financial regulator in August. The agreement was to settle charges that the bank illegally hid financial business with Iranian interests. The wording of the agreement notes that the financial business in question amounted to at least $250 billion.Standard Chartered said it "strongly rejects" t...

VOA News Making Friends Not Always Easy for Foreign Students

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• 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 US Drought Renews Debate on Biofuel

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• 2012-09-12
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This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report , fromhttp://voaspecialenglish.com | http://facebook.com/voalearningenglish American officials have sharply reduced their expectations for this year's corn and soybean crops. Farmers in the Midwest are struggling with record heat and the worst drought in years. The United States is the world's largest producer of corn and soybeans. In August, the Agriculture Department predicted that corn production would total 10.8 billion bushels this year. Th...

VOA News Turning Industrial Waste-Heat Into Electricity

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• 2012-09-12
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This is the VOA Special English Technology Report , fromhttp://voaspecialenglish.com | http://facebook.com/voalearningenglish Scientists say enough energy is wasted in the oil and gas fields of Texas every year to provide electricity to 100,000 homes. Businessman Loy Sneary says he is using that wasted energy to create a profitable business called Gulf Coast Green Energy.Loy Sneary says 60 percent of all energy produced in the world today is being lost as wasted heat. He wants to capture some of...

VOA News Delay Pregnancy After a Miscarriage?

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• 2012-07-25
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This is the VOA Special English Health Report, fromhttp://voaspecialenglish.com | http://facebook.com/voalearningenglishAmiscarriage is the natural loss of a baby before the twentieth week of pregnancy. Experts say many pregnancies end before a woman even knows she was pregnant. Up to twenty percent of known pregnancies end in a miscarriage. Miscarriages are generally caused by genetic problems with the baby that prevent it from developing. But whatever the cause, the loss of a pregnancy can be ...