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VOA News Cowboy Mounted Shooting Still Draws a Crowd
Tens of thousands of people attend the Livestock Show and Rodeo in Houston, Texas. Some come to see cowboys competing in events like Cowboy Mounted Shooting. Shooting while on horseback was uncommon in the historic Old West. But it is often seen in movies about the West. Those movies led Jim Rogers, the Chairman of the Cowboy Mounted Shooting Association, to start this event more than 20 years ago. JIM ROGERS: "Cowboys shooting off a horse is part of Americana that we wanted to capture." No one ...
VOA News What Is the Relationship Between Age and Happiness?
This is the VOA Special English Health Report, fromhttp://voaspecialenglish.com | http://facebook.com/voalearningenglish Are people less happy or more happy the older they get? If you answered more happy, then you were right, based on a study published two years ago. It found that people generally become happier and experience less worry after age fifty. In fact, it found that by the age of eighty-five, people are happier with their life than they were at eighteen. The findings came from a Gallu...
VOA News Philippines Looks to Geothermal Power to Address Energy Deficit
Philippines Looks to Geothermal Power to Address Energy Deficit The Philippines is one of the world's leading producers of geothermal energy. Located atop the Pacific Ocean's so-called Ring of Fire, the country has used volcanic heat to produce electricity... From: VOAvideo Views: 15 2 ratings Time: 02:28 More in News & Politics 원문출처 : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpAhSbj9sFc&feature=youtube_gdata
VOA News A New Education Center at Theater Where Lincoln Was Shot
Ford's Theatre in Washington has opened a new education center. It tells about President Abraham Lincoln, who was shot in the theater just after the civil war ended. The new center has a 10-meter-high tower of 7,000 books about the president. Tracey Avant says there are more books about Abraham Lincoln than about any other American. TRACEY AVANT: "He's just continued to be fascinating, and people throughout every generation seem to want to redefine who Abraham Lincoln is to them." The center has...
VOA News Big Investors, Small Farmers in Africa: a Fair Deal?
This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report, fromhttp://voaspecialenglish.com | http://facebook.com/voalearningenglish Foreign investment in African land is growing. Countries like China, Saudi Arabia and South Korea are leasing or buying millions of hectares to grow food for their people. Research shows that many large land deals lack protections for small farmers. Contracts may guarantee leases for up to ninety-nine years, leaving local people without land for generations. Better practi...
VOA News Picturing a Future for Kodak
From http://voaspecialenglish.com | http://facebook.com/voalearningenglish Jim Megargee is a traditional photographer. He struggles with how photography has changed from film to digital. JIM MEGARGEE: "There's a physical difference between a silver print and a digital print. There's just a physical difference to it. It's something not many people think of. And with a silver print, it's—that's actually an etching into paper into a silver layer. That's embedded in the paper. With a digital print i...
VOA News Young Haitians in Florida Learn About US Culture and Their Own
This is the VOA Special English Education Report , from http://voaspecialenglish.com | http://facebook.com/voalearningenglish The state of Florida is home to one of the largest populations of Haitians outside of Haiti. The city of Miami has a neighborhood known as Little Haiti. People who live there keep close ties to Haitian culture. Young Haitians can learn French at the Little Haiti Cultural Center. Haiti is a former French colony. French is the main language used in schools there. The center...
VOA News Obama Presses Congress on Student Loan Interest
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report, from http://voaspecialenglish.com | http://facebook.com/voalearningenglish Student loans and the interest that millions of Americans pay on them have been getting a lot of attention recently. Americans now owe more on student loans than on credit cards.Interest rates for Direct Subsidized Student Loans could double to almost seven percent on July first. Five years ago, Congress lowered the rates for these government loans. But that law is set to ...
VOA News 'Caine's Arcade' Video Brings Fame to Creative Boy
This is the VOA Special English Technology Report, from http://voaspecialenglish.com | http://facebook.com/voalearningenglish "Caine's Arcade" is one of the latest videos to go viral on the Internet. Since early April the video has been viewed millions of times on Vimeo and YouTube. It tells the story of nine-year old Caine McCoy in Los Angeles. He used cardboard boxes, scissors, tape and other materials to build a game center in his father's used car parts store. Filmmaker Nirvan Mullick was th...
VOA News Helping Premature Babies Survive
From http://voaspecialenglish.com | http://facebook.com/voalearningenglish Premature birth is the second-greatest killer of babies worldwide, after pneumonia. A report called "Born Too Soon" says one in ten babies throughout the world is born before the 37th week of pregnancy. As a midwife, Carole Presern assists women who are giving birth. She also has seen newborns die. CAROLE PRESERN, PARTNERSHIP FOR MATERNAL, NEWBORN AND CHILD HEALTH: "It's a devastating experience. And it touches you. You r...
VOA News Progress in Race to Save Cheetahs
From http://voaspecialenglish.com | http://facebook.com/voalearningenglish Cheetahs are beautiful and speedy. They can run as fast as 110 kilometers an hour. There once were more than 100,000 cheetahs living in Africa and Asia. Today only about 10,000 of the animals remain. Most are in 24 African countries. Laurie Marker is working to keep cheetahs from disappearing. LAURIE MARKER: "I started working with cheetahs when I lived in Oregon -- and I ran a wildlife park there; this was back in the ea...
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 Egypt Election, Paddle Tennis, Air Traffic Control and More
Carolyn Presutti from VOA News and Avi Arditti from VOA Learning English take Skype calls from around the world. 원문출처 : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSAmjM3mIQs&feature=youtube_gdata
VOA News A Living Science Exhibit Grows at a Museum
This is the VOA Special English Education Report , from http://voaspecialenglish.com | http://facebook.com/voalearningenglish Outdoors, in the open air, seems like a natural place to study natural science. It also makes sense in a place like Southern California where people like to be outside a lot. Now the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County is working to bring the indoors to the outdoors for its visitors. The museum has redesigned an outdoor space into a living exhibit. This is a big ...
VOA News People Get Happier With Age
People Get Happier With Age From VOA Learning English, this is the Health Report.Do people get happier with age? If you said "Yes," then you were right. A recent study found that people generally become happier and worry less after the age of 50. A team at Stony Brook University in New York asked people between the ages of 18 and 85 about their happiness. The researchers found that levels of stress were highest in adults between the ages of 22 and 25. Stress levels dropped sharply after people r...
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 The Historic Flight of the Dragon
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report, from http://voaspecialenglish.com | http://facebook.com/voalearningenglish Space Explorations Technologies, or Space X, may be a company to watch in the coming years. On Tuesday, May twenty-second, Space X successfully launched its Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral in Florida. The privately-built and owned Dragon spacecraft was loaded with more than five hundred kilograms of supplies for the International Space Station. The Dragon linked up wit...
VOA News The Day That Horses Rule the Streets of Houston
From http://voaspecialenglish.com | http://facebook.com/voalearningenglish Every year, a big parade is held in Houston, Texas. On parade day, horses -- not cars -- control the streets of the fourth-largest city in the United States. FAMILY: "We've never seen so many cowboys and cows and horses all together with all the trail wagons." Since 1938, the parade of horses, cowboys and cowgirls has marked the beginning of the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo. FATHER WITH SON: "Lots of horses, you like ...
VOA News US-China Meeting Starts With Call for Fair Exchange Rate
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report, from http://voaspecialenglish.com | http://facebook.com/voalearningenglish American Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner recently urged China to let the exchange value of its money rise. Mister Geithner was among top officials from both countries who gathered in Beijing for the U.S.-China Strategic Dialogue. Their goal was to increase cooperation on security and economic issues.Secretary of State Hillary Clinton spoke as the meeting opened on May thir...
VOA News Call-In Show: Reaction to Protests Over Anti-Islam Film, and More
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
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