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VOA News Mouth X-Rays and the Brain; Infected Gums Do Not Cause Heart Attacks
This is the VOA Special English Health Report, from http://voaspecialenglish.com | http://facebook.com/voalearningenglish A new study suggests that dental X-rays may increase the risk of the most common kind of brain tumor. However, experts say the risk of these mostly non-cancerous growths is still very small. The study compared about fourteen hundred patients with a brain tumor called a meningioma to a group without brain tumors. Dr. Elizabeth Claus of Yale University led the study. She says i...
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 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 The Limits to Organic Farming in Feeding the World
This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Reportt, from http://voaspecialenglish.com | http://facebook.com/voalearningenglish Organic farming avoids the use of chemical pesticides and manmade fertilizers. Supporters say organic farming is better for the environment than other methods. But studies have shown that organic farming often produces less food per hectare. That lower yield means feeding the world organically would require more land. But good farmland is limited. And scientists say def...
VOA News 'FlashFood' App Wins US Finals in Imagine Cup for Students
This is the VOA Special English Technology Report, from http://voaspecialenglish.com | http://facebook.com/voalearningenglish Students from Arizona State University won top honors this spring at the Imagine Cup finals in the United States. Microsoft Corporation organizes the competition every year. The Imagine Cup asks students to use their imaginations and their love of technology to solve some of the world's biggest problems. More than one hundred thousand students in the United States alone r...
VOA News Teens Get a History Lesson From History Makers
This is the VOA Special English Education Report, from http://voaspecialenglish.com | http://facebook.com/voalearningenglish Students at some high schools in Illinois recently had some famous visitors. Among them were Jimmy Carter, the former American president, and Mikhail Gorbachev, the last president of the Soviet Union. Other speakers included former South African president F.W. de Klerk and Shirin Ebadi, the Iranian human rights activist. They were all in Chicago for an event in late April,...
VOA News Language Has Risks for Health Translators
This is the VOA Special English Health Report, from http://voaspecialenglish.com | http://facebook.com/voalearningenglish Translators Without Borders is an American nonprofit group. It provides language services to nongovernmental organizations such as, yes, Doctors Without Borders. The group recently trained some new translators in Nairobi in how to put health information into local languages for Kenyans. For health translators, finding the right words is not just about language, but also cultu...
VOA News Event Aims to Build Interest in Science, Engineering
This is the VOA Special English Technology Report, from http://voaspecialenglish.com | http://facebook.com/voalearningenglish Last week we told you about the Imagine Cup finals in the United States. Team FlashFood from Arizona State University won top honors at the Microsoft event. The team developed a mobile application and website to help restaurants, hotels and farmers markets donate food to people who need it. The businesses enter information about the food they would like to donate. A notif...
VOA News Do It Yourself: Raising Angora Goats
This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report, from http://voaspecialenglish.com | http://facebook.com/voalearningenglish Has anyone ever tried to get your goat? To "get your goat" is an expression. It means to make you mad. A good friend might tell you: "Don't worry about what that person said. He was just trying to get your goat." But there are plenty of good reasons to get a goat -- and not just for milk or meat. The animals can help control weeds. They can be friendly with children and ...
VOA News Greece and the Euro
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report , from http://voaspecialenglish.com | http://facebook.com/voalearningenglish The Olympic flame was lit in Greece on May tenth. The ceremony marked the beginning of a long trip through Greece and Britain, which holds the Summer Olympics this year. Greece has been at the center of a political and economic struggle that also threatens other European economies. It remains unclear if Greece will continue using the euro, or if its eurozone partners can ...
VOA News A Blog Where Foreign Students Can Get Answers
This is the VOA Special English Education Report, from http://voaspecialenglish.com | http://facebook.com/voalearningenglish International students have a lot of questions about studying in the United States. But what do you suppose is the most common question? We asked an expert right here in our building. Jessica Stahl is editor of VOA's Student Union blog. Jess blogs for international students interested in American higher education. She says the number one question she gets is about financia...
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 Worried That People Are Laughing at You?
This is the VOA Special English Health Report , from http://voaspecialenglish.com | http://facebook.com/voalearningenglish Imagine this situation. You pass a group of people. The people are talking to each other. You cannot hear what they are saying. But suddenly they start laughing. What would you think? Would you think they were laughing at something funny that one of them said? Or -- be honest with yourself -- would you think they were laughing at you? Yes, you.Being laughed at is a common fe...
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 Rice Production Grows, but Not Everywhere
This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report, from http://voaspecialenglish.com | http://facebook.com/voalearningenglish A United Nations report predicts that world rice production will be higher this year than last year. The report is from the Food and Agriculture Organization. The FAO says the global rice harvest should be almost two percent higher this year, mainly because of increased production in Asia. Large gains are expected in Bangladesh, Burma, China, India, Pakistan, the Philipp...
VOA News Facebook Stock Goes on Sale
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report, from http://voaspecialenglish.com | http://facebook.com/voalearningenglish Facebook is the world's biggest social network. It has over nine hundred million users worldwide. And it reported $3.7 billion in sales for last year. The company has been privately held since two thousand four. That was when Mark Zuckerberg and several classmates at Harvard University started Facebook as a business. But on May eighteenth, Facebook becomes a publicly trade...
VOA News New Rules for Sina Weibo Users in China Take Effect May 28
This is the VOA Special English Technology Report , from http://voaspecialenglish.com | http://facebook.com/voalearningenglish Recent developments in China and India put the issue of Internet censorship back in the news. In China, the country's largest microblogging service announced new policies to restrict what its users can put online. Sina Weibo is a Twitter-like service that lets users publish short messages and pictures. There are about three hundred million Sina Weibo users. The service h...
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 US Considers Approving Drug to Prevent HIV
This is the VOA Special English Health Report, from http://voaspecialenglish.com | http://facebook.com/voalearningenglish Studies show that a drug called Truvada can prevent HIV infections. The pill is taken once a day. Studies showed it was ninety percent effective when people took it every day. It was only half as effective when people did not take it every day. Currently, in the United States, the drug is only approved for use as a treatment for people already infected with HIV, the virus tha...
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 ...
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