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VOA News Making Power From Coconut Shells, Mango Pits
This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report, from http://voaspecialenglish.com | http://facebook.com/voalearningenglish Seth DeBolt is a plant scientist at the University of Kentucky in the United States. He and other scientists wanted to find a source of fuel that poor people in rural areas of developing countries could use to make electricity. The United Nations Development Program says a billion and a half people have no electricity. A billion others have an undependable supply. Profes...
VOA News Syrian 'Citizen Journalists' Use Social Media to Spread News
This is the VOA Special English Technology Report, from http://voaspecialenglish.com | http://facebook.com/voalearningenglish Social media networks have come to play an important part in the political unrest in Syria. The Syrian government barred most media from the country after the unrest began a year ago. But that has not stopped Syrians from getting out information to the rest of the world. Many Syrians have turned to social media like YouTube, Facebook and Twitter to help spread reports abo...
VOA News More Young Americans Plant Themselves in Farming
From http://voaspecialenglish.com | http://facebook.com/voalearningenglish Many young Americans with no farming experience are entering agriculture. They are learning about agriculture in college. Emily Sloss is showing visitors around Duke University's new campus farm in North Carolina. EMILY SLOSS: "We don't use synthetic fertilizers or pesticides." Emily Sloss studied public policy at Duke. Now, she supervises the university's new campus farm. EMILY SLOSS: "Now I'm a farmer. Yeah. Believe it ...
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 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 The Appeal of Urban Farming
This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report, from http://voaspecialenglish.com | http://facebook.com/voalearningenglish Old properties and empty lots in cities and towns around the United States are finding new life as urban farms. EcoCity Farms in Edmonston, Maryland, is located near shopping centers, car repair shops and homes. The neighborhood is a working-class community. People do not have very much money, and they have limited access to fresh food in markets. Over the past two years...
VOA News Taking Medicine, With a Microchip Under the Skin
This is the VOA Special English Technology Report, from http://voaspecialenglish.com | http://facebook.com/voalearningenglish Call it medicine on a microchip. Researchers in the United States have developed the first wirelessly controlled device that can supply a drug directly into the body. A small chip is implanted under the skin. It contains the medicine, which it releases at preset times. The developers say the device could improve the lives of millions of people who take medicine for long-t...
VOA News Going to Kenya to Seek Runners' Winning Formula
Kenyan marathon runners are world-famous for winning races. So some foreign athletes are traveling to Kenya to learn their secrets. Many of them go to the small town of Iten - about 2,400 meters above sea level and about 350 kilometers north of Nairobi. Lornah Kiplagat was born in Kenya. She has won marathons throughout the world and holds several world records. She heads the High Altitude Training Center in Iten. LORNAH KIPLAGAT: "The altitude here is, is sorta like perfect. It's not too high. ...
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...
VOA News At Catholic University, a Growing Number of Muslims
The Catholic University of America has welcomed a growing number of Muslim students in recent years. It is not just Catholics who feel at home there. REEF AL SHABNAN: "Being in a religious environment where religion is practiced it makes it more understandable and easier to practice the religion itself." Reef Al Shabnan is a Muslim from Saudi Arabia. She likes Catholic University because of its conservative values. REEF AL SHABNAN: "Family values, I guess the nuclear family, pro-life the positio...
VOA News A Way to Make New Eggs in Women?
This is the VOA Special English Health Report, from http://voaspecialenglish.com | http://facebook.com/voalearningenglish New research could raise hope for women who are having trouble getting pregnant. For years, the thinking has been that women are born with all the eggs their bodies will ever produce. In fact, this has been the thinking not just about humans but all mammals. Then, in two thousand four, a researcher at Massachusetts General Hospital reported that adult female mice could produc...
VOA News Using National Parks as Classrooms
This is the VOA Special English Education Report, from http://voaspecialenglish.com | http://facebook.com/voalearningenglish The National Park Service in the United States will mark its one hundredth anniversary in twenty-sixteen. As it nears its second century, the Park Service plans to increase its educational programs for students and teachers. The plans include transportation support for one hundred thousand students each year to visit national parks to learn about nature and history. For ex...
VOA News Apple in Legal Battle Over iPad Name in China
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report , from http://voaspecialenglish.com | http://facebook.com/voalearningenglish Apple sold over fifteen million iPads just in the final three months of twenty-eleven. Now the popular tablet computer is in its third generation. But as Apple prepared to launch a new iPad on March seventh, it faced legal challenges in China over rights to the name of the device. A court in Guangdong province heard a case brought by the Chinese company Proview Technology...
VOA News Obama Seeks Privacy Bill of Rights for Internet Users
This is the VOA Special English Technology Report, from http://voaspecialenglish.com | http://facebook.com/voalearningenglish The Obama administration has announced a plan to protect Internet users in the United States. In February the administration proposed what it calls a Consumer Privacy Bill of Rights. The bill is meant to give Americans more control over their personal information. President Obama said that "never has privacy been more important than today, in the age of Internet, the Worl...
VOA News Oak Ridge Boys Still Going Strong
No band is more recognizable to country music lovers than the Oak Ridge Boys. They began performing more than 60 years ago. Joe Bonsall has been with the group since 1973. JOE BONSALL: "Yes, the Oak Ridge Boys are still here, we're still having fun, we're still making new music. Great things are going on." Recently, the four-member group released their 31st album, called "It's Only Natural." William Lee Golden is a member of the group. WILLIAM LEE GOLDEN: "Well it has, like, six songs that are s...
VOA News Getting Paid to Play Sick at School
This is the VOA Special English Health Report, from http://voaspecialenglish.com | http://facebook.com/voalearningenglish Some people act sick to get out of work. Others act sick to get work. For medical actors like Ted Bell, the stage is an examination room with a future doctor, nurse or other health care professional. On a recent day, he was playing a fifty-five-year-old patient with stomach pains that began three months ago. He was describing the problem to a nursing student at the University...
VOA News College Students Get Into Microfinance Lending
This is the VOA Special English Education Report, from http://voaspecialenglish.com | http://facebook.com/voalearningenglish Imagine that you have lost your job. You could start a sewing business at home if you had a better sewing machine and a little money to advertise. But you cannot get a loan from a bank. In recent times, many people in similar situations have received loans from student microfinance groups. Such groups make small loans for business or personal use. Twelve of the organizatio...
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 Putting Agriculture at the Center of Climate Talks
This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report, from http://voaspecialenglish.com | http://facebook.com/voalearningenglish This June in Brazil, delegates will mark the twentieth anniversary of what is commonly known as the Earth Summit. The United Nations Conference on Environment and Development took place in Rio de Janeiro in nineteen ninety-two. One of the issues that the delegates plan to discuss in June at Rio+20 is the role of agriculture in climate change. A recent article written by ...
VOA News Inspections at Apple's Suppliers in China
This is the VOA Special English Technology Report, from http://voaspecialenglish.com | http://facebook.com/voalearningenglish A labor group has begun investigating working conditions at the Chinese factories where many Apple products are made. Apple officials ordered the investigation after the New York Times described poor working conditions at the factories. The Foxconn Technology Group owns the manufacturing plants in Shenzhen, Chengdu and Zhengzhou. Angela Cornell is a professor at the Corne...
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