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VOA News How Gold Became the Gold Standard for Trade
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report, from http://voaspecialenglish.com | http://facebook.com/voalearningenglish The best example of something is often called the "gold standard." It sets the standard against which other things are measured. In economics, the term describes how major trading nations once used gold to set currency values and exchange rates. Many nations continued to use the gold standard until the last century. In the United States, people could exchange paper money f...
VOA News New Findings About Loss of Bees
This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report, from http://voaspecialenglish.com | http://facebook.com/voalearningenglish Bees add an estimated eighteen billion dollars a year to the value of American crops. They pollinate flowers that become fruits, nuts and vegetables. But, in recent years, honeybee colonies in the United States and Europe have been shrinking. Scientists have proposed different theories to explain what is known as colony collapse disorder. New research suggests that a com...
VOA News Microsoft Takes On Zeus
This is the VOA Special English Technology Report, from http://voaspecialenglish.com | http://facebook.com/voalearningenglish Microsoft says it is making progress in efforts to stop the cybercrime operation known as Zeus. In March, federal officials in the United States raided office buildings in two states. They seized evidence related to the Zeus family of malicious software. Richard Boscovich is with Microsoft's Digital Crimes Unit. He says the objective of the raids was to seize evidence whi...
VOA News Ben Nichols of Lucero Performs in Our Studio
Lucero is a rock, country, blues and punk band based in Memphis, Tennessee. Their new album is called "Women and Work." Read and hear the full story: http://bit.ly/InR5lk 원문출처 : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOhGhz1TTlw&feature=youtube_gdata
VOA News For Burmese Rockers, What Will Fewer Limits Mean?
From http://voaspecialenglish.com | http://facebook.com/voalearningenglish The government in Burma is taking steps to reduce its controls over media and the arts. The musician who calls himself Darko C says he is pleased with the action, but unsure of the new limits. DARKO C: "Yeah, it's going to take some time to really change, you know. What, so now they reduced the rules a bit, but there are some lame rules about censorship still." Burma's Ministry of Information inspects the words of songs. ...
VOA News In Rural India, Medical Myths Spread
This is the VOA Special English Health Report, from http://voaspecialenglish.com | http://facebook.com/voalearningenglish Rural areas of India may have few doctors or other health resources. Instead, many people use traditional healers. These faith-based healers, or witch doctors, sometimes have strange theories about how the body works. In West Bengal, for example, some people have long believed that getting bitten by a dog leads to the birth of puppies. Dr. Kumar Kanti Ghosh is a psychiatrist....
VOA News Water Problems in a World of Insecurity
This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report, from http://voaspecialenglish.com | http://facebook.com/voalearningenglish An American intelligence report says water-related problems will likely increase tensions around the world in the next ten years. These problems include water shortages, poor water quality and floods. The report says the problems will increase the risk of instability and the failure of governments. However, countries are seen as unlikely to go to war over water. The repo...
VOA News Bahrain and Belarus Added to an 'Enemies of the Internet' List
This is the VOA Special English Technology Report, from http://voaspecialenglish.com | http://facebook.com/voalearningenglish A media rights group has added Bahrain and Belarus to its list of countries with the most restrictions on Internet freedom. At the same time, the group removed Libya and Venezuela from a list of countries considered under surveillance. Reporters Without Borders released the lists in its latest "Enemies of the Internet" report. The group notes the importance of the Interne...
VOA News Another Look at Massive Online Open Courses
This is the VOA Special English Education Report from http://voaspecialenglish.com | http://facebook.com/voalearningenglish A class with tens or even hundreds of thousands of students might sound like a teacher's bad dream. But a big idea in higher education these days is the massive open online course, or MOOC. Some universities offer free, non-credit MOOCs available to anyone in the world. Others charge for courses and provide credits. The idea is still developing. The Massachusetts Institute ...
VOA News Women in the Navy: Aboard an Aircraft Carrier
From http://voaspecialenglish.com | http://facebook.com/voalearningenglish The United States Department of Defense has announced plans to open 14,000 more military positions to women. Lieutenant Megan Donnelly is one of the 770 women on the aircraft carrier U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln. LT. MEGAN DONNELLY: "Managing 15 - 20 people on the bridge at a time, and it's my job to manage all of them for the captain so that he doesn't have to -- he can focus on the big picture." Lieutenant Donnelly studied at...
VOA News How the Tuskegee Airmen Broke Racial Barriers
From http://voaspecialenglish.com | http://facebook.com/voalearningenglish Before World War II, the United States did not let African-Americans serve as pilots in military aircraft. A group known as the Tuskegee Airmen helped to end that policy. BEVERLY DUNJILL: " Information about the pilots in the news is - was a big secret to - as far as this country was concerned." Stories about the Tuskegee Airmen were a reason why Kenyatta Ruffin decided to become a pilot in the Air Force. CAPTAIN KENYATTA...
VOA News A Birth Procedure Does Little to Prevent Bleeding
This is the VOA Special English Health Report from http://voaspecialenglish.com | http://facebook.com/voalearningenglish Severe bleeding, also called hemorrhage, causes one-third of pregnancy-related deaths in Asia and Africa. The World Health Organization has been recommending several ways to reduce the risk of hemorrhage immediately after birth. These include giving the mother a hormone called oxytocin. It helps the uterus expel the placenta, or afterbirth. Another recommendation to help expel...
VOA News Microcredit Is Expanding to New Products for the Poor
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report from http://voaspecialenglish.com | http://facebook.com/voalearningenglish Modern microfinance started with economist Muhammad Yunus. In the nineteen seventies, he started what became the Grameen Bank in Bangladesh. He and the bank shared the Nobel Peace Prize in two thousand six for the idea of offering small loans to the poor to fight poverty. In twenty ten, reports of harmful micro lending methods and corruption shook the Indian state of Andhra...
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 '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 Superstitions / Friday the 13th
Callers to VOALearningEnglish on Skype talk about their superstitions with VOA's Carolyn Presutti and Avi Arditti. (Watch for the funny looking black cat that makes an appearance.) 원문출처 : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkhkNfuUBqI&feature=youtube_gdata
VOA News Death Valley: Beauty and Danger in One Place
PHEOBE ZIMMERMAN: This is Phoebe Zimmerman. STEVE EMBER: And this is Steve Ember with the VOA Special English program Explorations. Today we visit one of America’s great national parks. It is a place of strange and silent beauty. As beautiful as this place is, its name provides evidence of very real danger. Come with us as we visit Death Valley. (MUSIC) PHEOBE ZIMMERMAN: Death Valley is a land of beautiful yet dangerous extremes. There are mountains that reach more than three thousand meters int...
VOA News New Findings on Sleep in Children, Older Adults
This is the VOA Special English Health Report, from http://voaspecialenglish.com | http://facebook.com/voalearningenglish "Sleep-disordered breathing" is a term for a group of conditions that can interfere with normal breathing while people sleep. These include snoring, mouth-breathing and sleep apnea. Sleep-disordered breathing can do more than just leave people feeling tired the next day. It can also affect people's health. In children the effects can include behavioral and emotional problems....
VOA News These Pirates Help Children Learn to Write
This is the VOA Special English Education Report, from http://voaspecialenglish.com | http://facebook.com/voalearningenglish A group called Story Pirates goes into schools and performs shows for children. But these shows are based on stories written by the children themselves. The grown-ups are there to help them become better writers. The Story Pirates are active in more than two hundred schools across the United States. Their method is designed to help children learn about the purpose and stru...
VOA News Limits on Rare Earth Exports Get China in Trade Dispute
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report , from http://voaspecialenglish.com | http://facebook.com/voalearningenglish The United States, the European Union and Japan have called for talks with China under the dispute settlement system of the World Trade Organization. They want to discuss China's export limits on rare earth metals and two other minerals. WTO rules give talks sixty days to work. If they do not settle the dispute, a WTO panel can then be requested to help reach a settlement...
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