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Voa learning english - development report: a service group built on 'friendship'

This is the VOA Special English Development Report. Amizade means friendship in Portuguese. It is also the name of a service organization in the United States that places volunteers in projects mostly in developing countries. Amizade's executive director, Eric Hartman, thought of the idea in Brazil in nineteen ninety-four, which explains the Portuguese name. The Amizade Global Service-Learning and Volunteer Programs placed three hundred volunteers in nine countries last year. These American university students and others worked in thirteen communities. Amizade works with local groups and individuals on service and learning projects. The local groups define and direct the projects. The volunteers learn about local culture and make friends as they work in the community. Amizade charges college students as much as ten thousand dollars for three months of experience. Volunteers generally provide labor and do things like teach and assist at health centers. They can also do research. College students can earn work-study credits. Participants in programs have included a twelve-year-old boy and a man in his eighties. There are programs in Ghana, Tanzania, Brazil, Bolivia, Mexico and Jamaica. There are also programs in Germany, Poland, Northern Ireland and the United States. Recently, in Tanzania, thirteen Amizade volunteers worked on systems to harvest rainwater from the roofs of homes. They worked on the project in the Karagwe area, in the northwestern part of the country. Eric ... Category: Education Length: 00:03:21.750 Tags: .

 

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Are you learning english? these songs may help

I'm Alex Villarreal with the VOA Special English Education Report, from voaspecialenglish.com | http Songs teach language. Consider a song like "Tom's Diner" by Suzanne Vega. An American teaching English overseas once told us that students love that song.Recently we asked people on the Special English Facebook page to suggest other songs that English learners might like. Noemi Nito wrote: I'm one of those English students who love "Tom's Diner." I started learning English with "Lemon Tree" by Fool's Garden. Another favorite is "Truly Madly Deeply" by Savage Garden. Another person, Asi Tambunan, suggested the song "God Only Knows" by Orianthi. Gyongyi Jako wrote that ABBA's songs from Sweden are perfect for class work. Other good songs for learning English are songs by the Beatles and John Lennon, as well as Louis Armstrong's "Wonderful World." Paul Cifuentes says Bob Marley's songs are amazing for teaching. Another teacher, Joseph Deka, says songs by Johnny Cash have always worked in his classroom. He says his students can hear the words, plus the songs often have stories. He also likes "We Will Rock You" by Queen and "Beautiful Girls" by Sean Kingston. He says young children love "C Is for Cookie" by Cookie Monster from the TV show "Sesame Street." Nina John Smith suggested these songs: "It's My Life" and "We Weren't Born to Follow" by Bon Jovi. Also "Nothing Else Matters" by Metallica.Aurelio Lourenco Costa Gusmao says he began to like English after his teacher played ... Category: Education Length: 00:02:58.500 Tags: captioned subtitled videos voa learning special english report development agriculture food farming gardening health medicine international students .

 

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Iron, vitamin d may lead to smarter, healthier children

I'mAlex Villarreal with the VOA Special English Health Report, from voaspecialenglish.com | http Many people have low amounts of iron in their blood. But pregnant women need extra iron for their own health and their baby's health. Iron is important to the development of a baby's brain and central nervous system. In poor countries, however, providing all pregnant women with iron supplements can be a financial issue. Some experts say giving supplements to babies after they are born is enough. Someone who disagrees is Parul Christian, a nutritionist at the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health in Maryland. She and other scientists have been doing research in Nepal. She says their latest findings should settle any question about the value of making sure every pregnant woman receives iron supplements. Iron is a micronutrient. Micronutrients are important substances that are found in small amounts in foods. The researchers first completed a study among poor women in Nepal ten years ago. During pregnancy some of the women received supplements containing iron and another micronutrient, folic acid.Ms. Christian says that study showed the supplements could improve child survival. Now the children are older. The researchers returned to Nepal and tested their neurological development. They found improved abilities among those whose mothers had received iron and folic acid during pregnancy and for three months after. Another new study looks at levels of vitamin D in babies. It says ... Category: Science & Technology Length: 00:03:00.750 Tags: captioned subtitled videos voa learning special english report development agriculture food farming gardening health medicine international students .

 

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English can be difficult to learn (voa special english)

www.manythings.org Many teachers and students say English can be difficult to learn. It has more words than any other language. The biggest dictionaries contain about six-hundred-thousand words. Many people who come to the United States from foreign countries have already studied English. They may have done very well. But when they arrive here, they may not understand much of what they hear or read. English learned in classrooms sometimes seems very different from everyday spoken English. Studies show that it can take several years of living in the United States while studying English for a foreign person to speak the language well. Announcer: Mary Tillotson Writer: Jerilyn Watson Excerpt from: www.voanews.com/specialenglish/archive/2003-01/a-2003-01-17-2-1.cfm Video by: www.ManyThings.org Keywords: ESL EFL English Study ESOL TESOL TESL TEFL vocabulary listen and read along remedial reading 英会話英語英語教材 Category: Education Length: 00:00:49.500 Tags: .

 

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Living in a world with facial recognition

This is the VOA Special English Technology Report, from voaspecialenglish.com | http A new study looks at privacy in a world where computers can increasingly recognize faces in a crowd or online. Alessandro Acquisti at Carnegie Mellon University's Heinz College in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, led the study. Professor Acquisti says social networks like Facebook and LinkedIn represent some of the world's largest databases of identities. He sees increasing threats to privacy in facial recognition software and cloud computing -- the ability to store huge amounts of information in data centers. "The convergence of all these technologies -- face recognition, social networks, cloud computing -- and all these advances in ... data mining are creating this world where you can blend together online and offline data. You can start from an anonymous face and end up with sensitive inferences about that person." Recognition systems measure things like the size and position of a nose, the distance between the eyes and the shape of cheekbones. The software compares lots of images to try to identify the person. Facial recognition programs are used in police and security operations. But the software is increasingly popular in other uses, including social media sites.For the study, the Carnegie Mellon team used software from Pittsburg Pattern Recognition, or PittPat. Google bought that company last month. The software can recognize faces in photos and videos. The researchers did three ... Category: Science & Technology Length: 00:03:00 Tags: captioned subtitled videos voa learning special english report development agriculture food farming gardening health medicine international students .

 

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A goal for 2012: learning english

This is the VOA Special English Education Report from voaspecialenglish.com | http Did you make a New Year's resolution? Some of you shared your goals at the VOA Learning English page on Facebook. And, no surprise, many of you said at least one of your goals for twenty-twelve is to speak English better. Daniel Kwon even went so far as to declare: I'm definitely going to try to study English at least an hour a day. Jose Antonio Velarde says: My first resolution is to speak English as fluently as my Spanish. And Tuti Riel says: My New Year's resolution is to be able to speak English and Mandarin fluently, and be a better person. Juwita Zulmi says she wants to improve her English and get a scholarship to study overseas. Another goal for twenty-twelve: a new boyfriend. Derly Johanna Barreto has these two resolutions: to speak English fluently and to get a job. Jiseon Kim also has two goals: to lose weight and improve speaking English. And Katie Chekalina has these resolutions: Don't eat meat. I'll take it easy. Then, to learn Spanish or Italian, and find my real love. The last ones will be the most difficult, she thinks. Rafa Mtz's main goal is finishing high school and getting into a university. Lola Wazqito Oktobrata says: I am going to get married and finish my undergraduate study with good results. And Uma Cherif is ready for the next step this year: a master's degree. Handri Permana has this resolution: Be more meaningful before my time's up on earth. And Handri has this ... Category: Education Length: 00:03:00.750 Tags: captioned subtitled videos voa learning special english report development agriculture food farming gardening health medicine international students .

 

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Educational technology: not just computers

This is the VOA Special English Education Report, from voaspecialenglish.com We received a question from a listener about how American schools use educational technology. There is not a simple answer. It depends on the subject and level of students, of course. But it also depends on the interest and training of the teachers, and the goals and budgets of the schools. Schools are almost all connected to the Internet. But some have more technology, and use it more, than others. For example, some schools use computers for activities like video conferencing, to bring the world into the classroom. And some classrooms are equipped with things like a Smart Board, a kind of interactive whiteboard. Interactive whiteboards are large displays for presentations. They connect to a computer and can operate by touch. They can be used for documents or writing or to project video. Some teachers are trying creative new ways to teach with devices like iPods and mobile phones. But educators say the most important thing, as always, is the content. Yet technology can have special importance in some cases. Cosmobot is a therapy robot. It stands about half a meter tall and has a blue body and a friendly face with big eyes. One child who works with it is six-year-old Kevin Fitzgerald. Kevin has developmental dyspraxia; he has difficulty moving his mouth and tongue. He works with Carole Semango-Sprouse as he uses a set of buttons attached to a computer. He can make the silent robot move forward ... Category: Education Length: 00:03:00 Tags: captioned subtitled videos voa learning special english report development agriculture food farming gardening health medicine international students .

 

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From ancient farmers, lessons for today's amazon

This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report , from voaspecialenglish.com | http South America's Amazon is the largest tropical rainforest and river system on Earth. But the Amazon is disappearing at the rate of about eight hundred thousand hectares a year. This deforestation is caused by an increase in agriculture and cattle ranching and the building of roads and dams. Another cause is the illegal cutting of trees for logging companies. Now, a new study says ancient Amazonian farming methods could offer valuable lessons for today. The study looks at the pre-Columbian period. Christopher Columbus and other European explorers began arriving in the Americas in the late fourteen hundreds. The researchers studied a coastal wetland area where ancient farm beds and canals remain unchanged. The site is in French Guyana. A widely held belief is that pre-Columbian farmers used a great deal of fire to manage Amazonian ecosystems. But the scientists say their study calls this idea into question. It shows that raised-field farmers limited their burning to improve agricultural production.Jose Iriarte from the University of Exeter in England was lead author of the study. Mr. Iriarte says fire results in the loss of important nutrients for crops. When land is not being used for farming, periods without fire are most effective in rebuilding soil organic matter and preserving soil structure. "So in this sense," he says, "we interpreted that they were limiting fires because it was ... Category: Science & Technology Length: 00:03:00 Tags: captioned subtitled videos voa learning special english report development agriculture food farming gardening health medicine international students .

 

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The making of the best-known bat in baseball, and pop culture

From voaspecialenglish.com | http A German immigrant family opened a wood-turning business on the Ohio River in 1856. JF Hillerich wanted to manufacture traditional products, like butter churns. His son Bud, a sports lover, wanted to make baseball bats. Today, the company, now called Hillerich and Bradsby, is world famous. PJ Shelley works at its headquarters in Louisville, Kentucky. PJ SHELLEY: "We make 2500 bats a day, on average. During peak production, around spring training time, we can make as many as 5000 bats a day. We make 1.8 million wood bats here every year. Fortunately for us, the young son prevailed and we're not making butter churns any longer." Hillerich and Bradsby makes the Louisville Slugger, a favorite of baseball players for more than a century. Baseball great Jackie Robinson used this bat. PJ SHELLEY: "When people think of baseball bats or especially, certainly wood baseball bats, they're thinking of a Louisville Slugger." The name Louisville Slugger has appeared in books, movies and popular music. Carrie Underwood sings of hitting a boyfriend's car with one in her song "Before He Cheats." Danny Luckett has worked at Hillerich and Bradsby for 40 years. In the past, the company could produce a hand-made bat in 15 minutes. With computers, it now takes only a few seconds. Every bat must pass Luckett's inspection before it leaves the factory. The company keeps 9000 copies of its most famous bats. DANNY LUCKETT: "Well, yeah, right here in hand's reach is ... Category: Education Length: 00:02:24.750 Tags: captioned subtitled videos voa learning special english report development agriculture food farming gardening health medicine international students .

 

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Dementia cases may triple by 2050 as world ages

This is the VOA Special English Health Report, from voaspecialenglish.com | http Dementia is the loss of mental abilities caused by brain disorders that affect memory, thinking, behavior and judgment. The most common cause of dementia, especially in older people, is Alzheimer's disease. It causes up to seventy percent of dementia cases. Worldwide an estimated thirty-six million people are living with dementia. A new report predicts that number will increase to more than one hundred fifteen million by twenty-fifty. The report is from the World Health Organization and Alzheimer's Disease International. The number of cases in the heavily populated developing world is expected to grow as more people live longer. The report says more than half of those with dementia now live in low- and middle-income countries. This number is likely to rise to more than seventy percent by twenty-fifty. People are living longer because of better health care and increasing wealth. But the report says dementia is not a normal part of growing old. Shekhar Saxena is the director of mental health and substance abuse research at the WHO. He says dementia is often not recognized. It is commonly mistaken for an age-related decline in functioning because it can mimic age-related problems, and also it progresses slowly. Even in high-income countries, only one-fifth to one-half of the cases of dementia are routinely recognized. This percentage is much lower in middle and low-income countries. Martin ... Category: Science & Technology Length: 00:03:02.250 Tags: captioned subtitled videos voa learning special english report development agriculture food farming gardening health medicine international students .

 

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Defending free speech with a 'panic button'

This is the VOA Special English Technology Report, from voaspecialenglish.com | http Today we continue our report on efforts by the Obama administration to increase Internet freedom around the world. Alec Ross, a senior adviser to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, recently discussed these projects with VOA's Persian News Network. He says, "We're spending this money so that values that are centuries old -- that go to things like the freedom of expression, the freedom of the press and the freedom to organize -- are available in the digital age." The New York Times reported that the State Department expects to have spent about seventy million dollars on these efforts by the end of this year. Alec Ross says one project involves a so-called panic button. People could use it to quickly remove a list of contacts from a phone or computer. He says, "What's happening right now is people are being arrested and they are being forced to hand over their passwords a lot of the times for their social media accounts." Freedom House, an organization in Washington, released a "Freedom on the Net" report in April. The group studied thirty-seven countries. It found that twenty-three of them had arrested Internet users for content posted online. Nineteen of the countries at least partially controlled international connections to the Internet. And at least twelve had interfered with networks, listened in on people's communications or taken down websites. Iran has one of the most extensive ... Category: Science & Technology Length: 00:02:58.500 Tags: captioned subtitled videos voa learning special english report development agriculture food farming gardening health medicine international students .

 

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Teaching coffee farmers about the birds and the bees

This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report, from voaspecialenglish.com | http The University of Georgia is a respected research university. Thirty-five thousand students attend the main campus in Athens, Georgia, and extended campuses around the state. And among its areas of research is agriculture. UGA has a center in San Luis de Monteverde in Costa Rica. This center is for students and visitors who want to learn more about farming and living in environmentally friendly ways. Some students take a class called "Coffee: From Bean to Cup." Coffee is Costa Rica's most important agricultural product. Professor Valerie Peters teaches the class. Her students help her study coffee farms in an area called Finca la Bella. Farmers in this area agreed to grow their coffee sustainably, using methods that do less harm to the environment. Most coffee farms in Costa Rica have one or two different kinds of trees to help shade the coffee plants from the sun. In Finca la Bella most farms have at least twenty kinds of trees. Many of the farmers have also planted more flowers. When there are more flowers and more kinds of trees, more bees will come to pollinate the coffee plants. Coffee plants can pollinate themselves, but bees help increase the harvest.Professor Peters is working with her students to help teach farmers about the importance of bees and having more trees and flowers. She says, "Many of the farmers commented that they never even thought of bees as having a role in ... Category: Nonprofits & Activism Length: 00:03:01.500 Tags: captioned subtitled videos voa learning special english report development agriculture food farming gardening health medicine international students .

 

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Helping women continue their education after prison

This is the VOA Special English Education Report , from voaspecialenglish.com | http Some women's prisons in the United States offer classes for college credit. But when the prisoners are released, they may not have much chance to continue their education. In two thousand, a woman named Barbara Martinsons started a program to help these former prisoners. She established the College and Community Fellowship. Ms. Martinsons taught at Manhattan Marymount College in New York City. She has also taught college courses at a women's prison in New York state. The College and Community Fellowship provides advice to former prisoners. It also helps them gain admission to college. That process can be very difficult for anyone, let alone a person with a prison record. The group also provides financial aid to members attending college. Members of the College and Community Fellowship are called CCF Fellows. Some have earned not only college degrees but master's degrees and a doctorate. Selina Fulford has already earned one master's degree and is working on her second. She is now an adjunct professor at the College of New Rochelle in New York state. About seventy percent of those in the program work full time while studying. Nationally, one-third of women who have been in prison are later sent back for committing other crimes or violating the terms of their release. By comparison, almost none of the CCF fellows have been sent back behind bars. The Reverend Vivian Nixon, a minister, heads ... Category: Education Length: 00:03:01.500 Tags: captioned subtitled videos voa learning special english report development agriculture food farming gardening health medicine international students .

 

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'you are your brand:' using social media to find a job

This is the VOA Special English Economics Report, from voaspecialenglish.com | http Today we share some ideas for job hunters about presenting yourself online. Ben Kirshner is chief executive of a New York company he started in two thousand four. Elite SEM, or search engine marketing, has about twenty-five employees. Many companies use headhunters -- recruiting services that find workers for high-paying positions. But Mr. Kirshner says that would cost him probably ten to fifteen thousand dollars to find a one hundred fifty thousand dollar a year employee. He saves money by advertising jobs online and using social media. Sometimes finding the right person this way can take time. But recently Mr. Kirshner posted a job on the advertising site Craigslist. He says he had one hundred fifty good candidates within four hours.He says his company does not use sites that offer to search the Web for information about job candidates. His company does that itself. Social networks and other websites can provide a lot of details about people's lives. As Ben Kirshner points out, that may even include personal information that employment laws prevent employers from asking. He says: "Things we are not legally allowed to ask in an interview, we can find because they're publicly displaying it on the social networks." Leslie Stevenson directs the Career Development Center at the University of Richmond in Virginia. For young job-seekers, she says, the barrier between public and private is ... Category: Howto & Style Length: 00:03:00 Tags: captioned subtitled videos voa learning special english report development agriculture food farming gardening health medicine international students .

 

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Obama presses congress on student loan interest

This is the VOA Special English Economics Report, from voaspecialenglish.com | http 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 expire. The president has called for keeping the current 3.4 percent rate. The administration says more than seven million students will be affected without an extension of that lower rate.The government says the average cost of attending a public college was almost thirteen thousand dollars in twenty ten. The total for private schools was over thirty-two thousand. Americans owed eight hundred forty-five billion dollars in student loans in twenty-eleven. Some reports say the amount is now near one trillion dollars.President Obama has recently given speeches on several college campuses. He said when he and his wife, Michelle, graduated from college and law school, they had a "mountain of debt." He told students that college tuition and fees have more than doubled since most of them were born. He noted that the average student who borrows to pay for college now graduates with about twenty-five thousand dollars in student loan debt.An extension of the lower rate could cost the government six billion dollars. Republican ... Category: News & Politics Length: 00:03:01.500 Tags: captioned subtitled videos voa learning special english report development agriculture food farming gardening health medicine international students .

 

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'caine's arcade' video brings fame to creative boy

This is the VOA Special English Technology Report, from voaspecialenglish.com | http "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 the first to pay to play Caine's games. He is also responsible for the "Caine's Arcade" video. In the video he explains how he met Caine. The filmmaker had to get a door handle for his nineteen ninety-six Toyota Corolla. So he pulled into this used auto parts store and came across this elaborate cardboard arcade. He asked Caine how much it cost to play. "He's like, 'For one dollar you get four turns, but for two dollars you get a fun pass.'" He asked Caine how many turns you get with a fun pass. "He goes, 'Five hundred turns for a fun pass.'" So Mr. Mullick got a fun pass -- and the idea for the video. Caine's Arcade has basketball and soccer, game tokens and tickets, and colorful bags of cotton candy. It even has one of those machines where you try to pick up a prize with a mechanical claw. Like at most arcades, the claw game is hard to win. But, at two dollars for a fun pass worth five hundred plays, it's well worth the effort.Nirvan Mullick says his visit to Caine's cardboard arcade gave him much more than he expected ... Category: Gaming Length: 00:02:58.500 Tags: captioned subtitled videos voa learning special english report development agriculture food farming gardening health medicine international students .

 

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Mouth x-rays and the brain; infected gums do not cause heart attacks

This is the VOA Special English Health Report, from voaspecialenglish.com | http 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 it found that those with the tumors were about twice as likely to report having had a common kind of X-ray, called a bitewing. The link was greater with a kind of imaging called a panoramic X-ray. There was up to five times the risk, depending on age or how often the X-rays were taken.Dr. Claus points out that in this study, the people were generally in their fifties or older. They were asked to remember X-rays they might have had many years earlier. So there is a chance they might have under-reported or over-reported how many dental X-rays they had. Dr. Claus says she does not want to scare people away from dental visits. In her words: "The big take-home message is, keep going to the dentist. But have a conversation with your dentist about whether you might be able to reduce the number of X-rays that you receive." Her research paper appears in the American Cancer Society's journal, Cancer.During dental procedures, and even when people brush their teeth, mouth bacteria often enter the blood system. A popular belief is that ... Category: Science & Technology Length: 00:03:00 Tags: captioned subtitled videos voa learning special english report development agriculture food farming gardening health medicine international students .

 

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Game over for limits on violent video games

This is the VOA Special English Technology Report, from voaspecialenglish.com | http America's video game industry was the winner in a decision by the United States Supreme Court. In late June the justices rejected a law in California that banned the sale or rental of violent video games to people under eighteen. They said the two thousand five law violated the free speech guarantee in the First Amendment to the Constitution. The vote was seven to two.The court decided that video games are a protected form of creative expression like books, plays and movies. Paul McGreal, dean of the University of Dayton law school in Ohio, says California did not see gaming that way. "The state of California tried to argue that this was not speech, it was more of an activity because children interact and play with the video games, and so it's not traditional speech like a book or like a magazine."California lawmakers argued that violent games were especially harmful to children. But the court said they were no more harmful than the violence in other forms of media. Justice Antonin Scalia wrote the majority opinion. He pointed to the violence in fairy tales like "Snow White" and "Cinderella" and in cartoons. Professor McGreal says the court sees its job as only to decide what is and is not legally protected speech. "We don't want to get the Supreme Court into making fine distinctions about what is better than others, because that will lead us down a slippery slope. Once you start deciding ... Category: Gaming Length: 00:03:00 Tags: captioned subtitled videos voa learning special english report development agriculture food farming gardening health medicine international students .

 

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Astronomers still look to hubble space telescope

This is the VOA Special English Technology Report, from voaspecialenglish.com | http The Hubble Space Telescope continues to make valuable discoveries after more than twenty years in orbit around Earth. Hubble recently showed a fourth moon orbiting Pluto. Astronomers temporarily named it P4. The moon is the smallest to be discovered around the icy dwarf planet. Astronomers estimate that the moon is from thirteen to thirty-four kilometers across. They first saw it in a Hubble photo taken on June twenty-eighth. The American space agency NASA launched the Hubble Space Telescope in nineteen ninety. Reaching that day took years of work. Ed Weiler is NASA's chief astronomer. Mr. Weiler has worked closely with the Hubble program since nineteen seventy-nine. He says that when the Hubble was launched, it represented an increase in the ability of other telescopes on Earth by a factor of ten. He says the last time in astronomy that something like this happened was when Galileo put the first telescope to his eye. NASA's first chief of astronomy was Nancy Grace Roman. Ms. Roman joined NASA in nineteen fifty-nine. She led the effort that resulted in the creation of the Hubble Space Telescope.She says astronomers had been wanting to get observations from above the atmosphere for a long time. Looking through the atmosphere is somewhat like looking through a piece of old, stained glass. The glass has defects in it, so the image is blurred from that.The Hubble telescope orbits about five ... Category: Science & Technology Length: 00:03:00 Tags: captioned subtitled videos voa learning special english report development agriculture food farming gardening health medicine international students .

 

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The rough road that gave the edsel a bad name

This is the VOA Special English Technology Report, from voaspecialenglish.com | http The Ford Motor Company built several versions of the Edsel from nineteen fifty-eight to nineteen sixty. Ford ended production of the car after just three model years because of weak sales. The Edsel has been described as a "colossal failure" -- that is what the name has even come to mean in popular language. But the Edsel has also been described as "a car ahead of its time." John Heitmann is a history professor at the University of Dayton in Ohio and vice president of the Society for Automotive Historians. He says: "It was a car that was controversial in styling. Its horseshoe-shaped grill is still remembered today. The Edsel is kind of the example of the car that never caught on."Professor Heitmann says the biggest problem was that the Edsel arrived around the same time as a recession. He says Americans were beginning to question their values. "It's a really curious kind of economic episode. It was actually quite severe but also rather short. But it was at a time when many Americans were reacting to the dinosaur in the driveway. These very heavy, chrome-laden Buicks and other cars -- the fifty-eight Buick had fifty-eight pounds of chrome on it. The Edsel was also a very heavy, very fuel-inefficient vehicle." Even so, some people say the Edsel's technology more than made up for what it lacked in looks and fuel efficiency. "Shamrock" Shelly Cleaver is the public relations director for the ... Category: Autos & Vehicles Length: 00:03:00 Tags: captioned subtitled videos voa learning special english report development agriculture food farming gardening health medicine international students .

 

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'passive' homes save energy, money

This is the VOA Special English Economics Report, from voaspecialenglish.com | http Heating and cooling equipment are the biggest users of energy in American homes. And homes are responsible for about one fourth of the nation's total energy use. But there are surprisingly simple ways to deeply cut energy use, its effect on the environment and its cost. David Peabody and his team at Peabody Architects design passive homes. He says the design of a passive house aims to reduce energy demand to its lowest possible level. Passive houses use no solar, geothermal or wind energy equipment. But they are extremely energy efficient.Mr. Peabody says passive houses cut heating and cooling costs by about ninety percent. But what sets his design apart from other "green homes" is that it looks like any other home."That is the beauty of the passive house approach is that you don't have to build in a particular way with any particular materials or to any particular style. That's why in our case we decided to try to do something to prove that point to make something that was very traditionally American."Peabody Architects says it is building the first passive home in the Washington, DC, area. In Arlington, Virginia, Roger Lin and his brother Eric are also building one. Roger Lin of Southern Exposure Homes explains that windows are sealed against leaks and have three layers of glass. The windows are airtight. On a cold winter day, the temperature inside the unfinished home is a comfortable ... Category: Science & Technology Length: 00:02:58.500 Tags: captioned subtitled videos voa learning special english report development agriculture food farming gardening health medicine international students .

 

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High food prices, revolutions, and the future

This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report, from voaspecialenglish.com | http Food prices are down from their record highs in February of twenty-eleven. But prices are still higher than they were a year ago. In a year of Arab protests, high food prices helped fuel the anger against oppression, corruption and poverty. Many experts think the political fires in Egypt and other countries started in the summer of twenty-ten in Russia. Heat, drought and wildfires destroyed one-third of Russia's winter wheat crop. World food prices rose after Russia halted wheat exports. The last time food prices jumped was in two thousand eight. At that time, Egypt was also was among the countries where food riots and demonstrations took place.Ghiyath Nakshbendi is a professor in the Department of International Business at American University in Washington. He agrees that food prices played a part in the Arab revolutions. "At the end of the day, the most crucial reason for the Arab Spring is basically economic. And so consequently when a citizen cannot have enough money to purchase food and feed his family, definitely that will create a kind of upset with the system." Professor Nakshbendi says an event like climate change can affect food production in many countries. But in a globally connected economy, even an event in one country can be felt worldwide. Cornell University economist Chris Barrett says another problem is that gains in farm production have slowed. He says, "What we are ... Category: News & Politics Length: 00:02:57.750 Tags: captioned subtitled videos voa learning special english report development agriculture food farming gardening health medicine international students .

 

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Business english speakers can still be divided by a common language

I'm Alex Villarreal with the VOA Special English Economics Report, from voaspecialenglish.com | http Business is the most popular subject for international students in the United States. At last count, twenty-one percent of foreign students at American colleges and universities were studying business and management. The Institute of International Education in New York says engineering is the second most popular field, in case you were wondering.Thomas Cosse is a professor of marketing and business at the University of Richmond in Virginia. He says international students who want to study business need to have good English skills -- and not just to study at his school.But the world has more non-native speakers of English than native speakers. As a result, Americans working with foreign companies may need to learn some new English skills themselves. At the University of Richmond, teams of graduate students work with companies seeking to enter the American market. The students learn about writing market entry studies. The reports are written in English. But Professor Cosse tells his students to consider who will read them.He said his students have to write the report so that it can be understood by someone who is an English speaker but not a native English speaker. For example, he tells his students to avoid jargon and other specialized terms that people might not know in their own language. This can be good advice even when writing for other native speakers. But effective ... Category: Education Length: 00:03:00.750 Tags: captioned subtitled videos voa learning special english report development agriculture food farming gardening health medicine international students .

 

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"voice of america" enhanced demo for esl viewers - part 1/2

The is a Voice of America Special English enhanced video from their radio broadcasts. In VOA special English the reader speaks slower than native English, and the sentence structure is more simple. When enhanced with Tertia's technology it can be understood by millions more second language speakers. Enhanced captioning by Tertia Category: News & Politics Length: 00:06:51.750 Tags: special english captioned subtitled .

 

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Paying tech talents to drop out of college

This is the VOA Special English Technology Report from voaspecialenglish.com | http What do Bill Gates, Steve Jobs and Larry Ellison have in common? They all made billions of dollars in technology. And they all left college. Now, a wealthy businessman is paying other technologically talented young people to follow that same path. Peter Thiel is paying them to drop out or at least to "stop out" of higher education temporarily to work on their interests. He and his Thiel Foundation have announced the first group of what they call 20 Under 20 Thiel Fellows. He says: "We selected people on the basis of a combination of having demonstrated intense passion about science and technology and then having the drive to try to carry it forward in the years ahead." There are twenty-four people to be exact, because a couple of projects involve more than one person. One of the youngest is Laura Deming. At twelve she began researching ways to extend human life. Now, at seventeen, she has already graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Eighteen-year-old John Marbach just finished high school. He hopes to use Web tools to bring classrooms into the digital age. He plans to attend one semester of college before he begins his fellowship. Each of the fellows will receive one hundred thousand dollars over two years to continue their research. They will also receive help from experts. Peter Thiel has a lot of experience with technology start-up businesses. He helped create the ... Category: Science & Technology Length: 00:02:57.750 Tags: captioned subtitled videos voa learning special english report development agriculture food farming gardening health medicine international students .

 

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Aids study called 2011 'breakthrough'

This is the VOA Special English Health Report, from voaspecialenglish.com | http The journal Science chose an AIDS study as the twenty-eleven "Breakthrough of the Year." The study found that antiretroviral drugs can greatly lower the risk of spreading HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. It showed that infected people with early treatment were ninety-six percent less likely to infect their partners.The study was a clinical trial known as HPTN 052. Myron Cohen led an international team that began the study in two thousand seven. But Dr. Cohen says the work really began twenty years ago: "We had a strong suspicion based on all the biological studies we had done that when we treat people and lower the concentration of HIV in the blood and secretions, we were rendering them less contagious. But we didn't understand the magnitude of the benefit."Dr. Cohen heads the Institute for Global Health and Infectious Diseases at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases paid for the study.It involved heterosexual couples in nine countries in Africa, Asia and the Americas. The results have already had an effect on government policies. Those changes include treating HIV-infected people when their immune systems are still relatively healthy. Dr. Cohen says the study "has generated policy changes at the level of the United States and the World Health Organization and UNAIDS. And it's inspired new community-based clinical trials ... Category: Science & Technology Length: 00:03:00.750 Tags: captioned subtitled videos voa learning special english report development agriculture food farming gardening health medicine international students .

 

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Obama appoints financial protection chief

This is the VOA Special English Economics Report from voaspecialenglish.com | http In early January, President Obama appointed Richard Cordray as director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. This new government agency says it has already made home loans and credit card agreements easier for Americans to understand. But the Obama administration said the bureau cannot supervise financial products like home loans without a director. The president used a measure known as a recess appointment to fill the position. He nominated Mr. Cordray last July. But the opposition Republican Party blocked a vote in the full Senate.Mr. Obama announced the appointment during a visit to Ohio. It was his first political campaign trip of the year. He told the crowd that the severe economic crisis three years ago did not happen because of too many financial rules. Mr. Obama said: "Does anyone think the reason why we got into such a financial mess, the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression, the worst economic crisis in a generation, that the reason was because of too much oversight of the financial industry? Of course not. We shouldn't be weakening oversight, we shouldn't be weakening accountability, we should be strengthening it!"Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell criticized the president's appointment. Many Republicans oppose the new agency, saying its goals are not clear. They also want a group of people to lead the agency instead of a single director. The Consumer ... Category: News & Politics Length: 00:03:02.250 Tags: captioned subtitled videos voa learning special english report development agriculture food farming gardening health medicine international students .

 

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A kitchen that talks? this one teaches you french

This is the VOA Special English Technology Report , from voaspecialenglish.com | http A "talking kitchen" teaches students how to cook French and speak French. Researchers at New Castle University in Britain have developed the French Digital Kitchen. Professors Paul Seedhouse and Patrick Olivier led the project. Professor Seedhouse says it works like a satellite navigation system in a car. "The sat nav speaks to you and it tells you, for example, to turn left. And if you turn left then it continues with the program. If, for example, you turn right, then it's a mistake, so it loops back and it gives you further instructions."The kitchen equipment and tools use motion sensor technology similar to the Nintendo Wii game system. The sensors help a computer guide the students through instructions in French. "The system can tell whether you've done what you were asked to do or not. So let's say, for example, the system tells you to take some butter and cut it with a knife ... The sensor in the knife not only knows that the knife is moving, but it also knows what motion the knife is making."Students can ask the computer to repeat the instructions or translate them into English. There are vocabulary lessons before and after the cooking.Professor Seedhouse became interested in the idea after he visited a talking kitchen designed for a different purpose. "It was actually for communicating with people who suffer from dementia ... It can tell them, for example, that they've left the ... Category: Science & Technology Length: 00:03:00.750 Tags: captioned subtitled videos voa learning special english report development agriculture food farming gardening health medicine international students .

 

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Greece's debt crisis and the future of europe

This is the VOA Special English Economics Report, from voaspecialenglish.com | http Finance ministers from the euro area met in Poland in the middle of September to discuss the Greek debt crisis. American Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner joined them. Fabian Zuleeg, chief economist at the European Policy Center in Brussels, said the United States was right to get involved. "The intervention from the US has also shown at least a risk that the stability of the financial system as a whole -- the global financial system -- might be under threat again." Earlier, the leaders of France, Germany and Greece held a conference call to discuss how to contain Europe's deepening financial crisis. Germany and France are Europe's two largest economies. Seventeen European Union countries use the euro as their currency. On September fifteenth, five major central banks agreed to lend additional dollars to European banks in the euro zone. The European Central Bank says the three-month loans will provide as many dollars as the banks need. The operations will end in December. The European Central Bank is acting with the United States Federal Reserve, the Bank of England, the Bank of Japan and the Swiss National Bank. The announcement helped lift European bank shares and major European stock lists.The Paris-based Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development has lowered its growth estimates for the euro area. In Greece the economy has shrunk this year. German Chancellor Angela Merkel ... Category: News & Politics Length: 00:02:59.250 Tags: captioned subtitled videos voa learning special english report development agriculture food farming gardening health medicine international students .

 

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Special a episode 19 part 2 english sub

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Kingdom hearts 3d dream drop distance english special trailer (hd 720p, e3 2012)

Copyright Square and Disney. Visit kh13.com for everything Kingdom Hearts. This is the first English trailer for Kingdom Hearts 3D Dream Drop Distance, released on the game's official website. It is in HD 720p, based on the Japanese Special Trailer, and may be shown at E3 2012. Category: Gaming Length: 00:07:12.750 Tags: 2012 .

 

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Internet change makes way for dot-anything

This is the VOA Special English Technology Report , from voaspecialenglish.com | http A top-level domain is the part of an Internet address after the dot. The most common of what are called generic top-level domains are dot-com, dot-net and dot-org. There are twenty-two generic top-level domain names currently available. But get ready for many, many more.The international organization that controls these names will begin accepting applications for new ones in January. This will open the door to dot-just-about-anything. Brad White is with ICANN, the International Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers. He says: "What we're talking about doing with the new generic top-level domain program is blowing the lid off that ceiling of twenty two. The interest is there to expand that. We no longer have to keep this to twenty-two. It can be almost any word combination. It can be in non-Latin characters, which is extremely important if you happen to speak Russian because of the Cyrillic alphabet, or Arabic, or Chinese." ICANN officials met in October in Dakar, Senegal. Brad White says they discussed the new program for what are known as gTLDs. "This marks one of the biggest changes in the Internet's domain name system, the addressing system of the Internet, that has ever occurred. We want to make sure that the process of getting these gTLDs into the Internet's root is methodical, careful and thoughtful." Anyone can apply, including businesses, governments and individuals. The cost ... Category: Science & Technology Length: 00:02:58.500 Tags: captioned subtitled videos voa learning special english report development agriculture food farming gardening health medicine international students .

 

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Baba ramdev - special pranayamas to cure diabetes - english - yoga health fitness

Watch Baba Ramdev - Special Pranayamas To Cure Diabetes - English - Yoga Health Fitness. Your eyes are often called the windows to your soul. The only time this organ gets rest is when we sleep. We work our eye muscles all the time, yet fail to exercise them. Here, Baba Ramdev shows some easy ways to exercise your eyes and keep them healthy. Also, some home remedies to soothe and lubricate tired eyes are mentioned in this video. Yoga helps to strengthen vision, relax and tone eye muscles and alleviate stress. Click on www.rajshri.com to watch more Baba Ramdev Yoga videos and bring fitness and spirituality into your lives. Category: Entertainment Length: 00:11:00 Tags: .

 

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Bigger ships, so a bigger panama canal

This is the VOA Special English Technology Report, from voaspecialenglish.com | http The Panama Canal opened almost one hundred years ago. More than one million ships have passed through the waterway since nineteen fourteen. The Panama Canal connects the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. It reduces travel by thirteen thousand kilometers. It avoids the need for ships to sail around Cape Horn at the bottom of South America. More than forty ships pass through the canal each day -- more than fourteen thousand each year. Now, a major expansion project will permit more ships -- and bigger ships -- to pass through the canal. Jorge Luis Quijano is the Panama Canal's executive vice president of engineering. He says: "The present canal has a total capacity of about three hundred and forty million tons a year that it can handle, that's the maximum capacity. With the expansion we expect to double that, over six hundred million tons that we can handle in a year." Ships pass through a series of locks. These locks raise a ship to the level of Gatun Lake at the canal entrance on the Atlantic side. They lower the ship back to sea level on the Pacific side. For years, shipbuilders limited the size of many ships so that they could fit through the Panama Canal. But now many shipping companies use bigger ships to transport more goods as a way to reduce costs. Jorge Luis Quijano says the expansion project will allow many of these larger ships to use the canal. "This new canal actually is offering a ... Category: Science & Technology Length: 00:03:00.750 Tags: captioned subtitled videos voa learning special english report development agriculture food farming gardening health medicine international students .

 

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What do you know about the common cold?

This is the VOA Special English Health Report, from voaspecialenglish.com | http Do you think getting cold can give you a cold? Is it bad to drink milk when you have a cold? Can chicken soup cure a cold? Ranit Mishori is a family medicine doctor at Georgetown University Medical Center in Washington. She says colds are more common in winter, but not because of low temperatures. The cold weather just means people stay inside more, often with other people. "And the way the common cold virus is transmitted from one person to another is through handshakes, through sneezing, or through coughing on one another." Adults generally get two to three colds a year. Children are likely to catch four or five. Dr. Mishori says some people mistakenly believe they can become resistant to colds. She says, "There are about two hundred different viruses that cause the common cold. People think that once you get infected one time you develop immunity for the rest of your life. This is wrong."There is still no cure for the common cold. But Dr. Mishori says there are ways to feel better sooner. "So if you catch a cold and on day one you start taking about two grams of vitamin C a day, there is evidence you might shorten the number of days that you will be suffering with these symptoms." She says honey can also help. There is evidence that it can shorten the length of the common cold sometimes even by two to three days. She says honey seems to be especially effective in children with colds. But ... Category: Science & Technology Length: 00:02:57 Tags: captioned subtitled videos voa learning special english report development agriculture food farming gardening health medicine international students .

 

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Seeking cleaner and greener electronics

This is the VOA Special English Technology Report, from voaspecialenglish.com | http Technology experts, government officials, policy makers and engineers recently met in Italy. They gathered in Rome for the first Green Standards Week conference. Italy's Ministry of Economic Development and the International Telecommunications Union organized the conference. The event called attention to the need for information and communication technologies to fight climate change and to build greener, more environmentally friendly economies. In recent years, the world has changed because so many people now use computers, mobile phones and other kinds of electronic devices. But the increasing use of information and communication technologies, also known as ICTs, also has led to more pollution, especially greenhouse gas emissions. This is mostly because of the energy used to manufacture, transport and operate such equipment. Still, many experts say ICTs offer the best chance for reducing greenhouse gases. The Global Information Society Watch reported last year that ICTs could help to cut total production of greenhouse gases by as much as fifteen percent by twenty twenty. Alan Finlay is with the Association for Progressive Communications. He also helped to prepare the GISWatch report. He says the effect of using ICTs to build cleaner environments is far more powerful than their harmful effects. "When you're look at greening with ITs, you're looking at the impact of ICTs on the environment ... Category: Science & Technology Length: 00:02:58.500 Tags: captioned subtitled videos voa learning special english report development agriculture food farming gardening health medicine international students .

 

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Comparing american and chinese parents

I'm Mario Ritter with the VOA Special English Education Report, from voaspecialenglish.com | http Some American parents might think their children need better educations to compete with China and other countries. But how much do the parents themselves need to change? A new book called "Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother" by Amy Chua has caused a debate about cultural differences in parenting. Ms. Chua is a professor at the Yale Law School in New Haven, Connecticut, and the mother of two daughters. She was raised in the American Midwest by immigrant Chinese parents. In the Chinese culture, the tiger represents strength and power. In her book, Ms. Chua writes about how she demanded excellence from her daughters. For example, she threatened to burn her daughter's stuffed animals unless she played a piece of music perfectly. She would insult her daughters if they failed to meet her expectations. Ms. Chua says she had a clear list of what her daughters, Sophia and Louisa, were not permitted to do. They could not attend a sleepover, have a play date, watch TV or play computer games, be in a school play or get any grade less than an A.Many people have criticized Amy Chua. Some say her parenting methods were abusive. She even admits that her husband, who is not Chinese, sometimes objected to her parenting style. But she says that was the way her parents raised her and her three sisters. Ms. Chua makes fun of her own extreme style of parenting. She says she eased some of the pressure ... Category: Education Length: 00:03:02.250 Tags: captioned subtitled videos voa learning special english report development agriculture food farming gardening health medicine international students .

 

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Italy moves to satisfy creditors

This is the VOA Special English Economics Report, from voaspecialenglish.com | http The economic situation in Italy is worrying investors and may have cost its prime minister his job. Like Greece, Italy is facing pressure to make unpopular cuts in government spending. Silvio Berlusconi sought to enact measures meant to satisfy his country's creditors. On early November eighth, Mr. Berlusconi won a budget vote in Italy's lower house of parliament. But the prime minister lost something else. A majority of lawmakers in the lower house refused to vote. It appeared Mr. Berlusconi had lost their support. He announced that he would resign after parliament passed budget cutting measures. Italian government debt is about one hundred twenty percent the size of the country's economy. That is second only to Greece in Europe. Greece, Ireland and Portugal have all required rescue loans to help them pay creditors. But unlike those nations, Italy has the third largest economy using the euro. And it is among the ten largest economies in the world. On November seventh, European finance ministers met in Brussels to discuss the deepening debt crisis among nations using the euro. European Union Economic and Monetary Affairs Commissioner Olli Rehn said Italy needed to enact reforms. "[It is] essential now that Italy will stick to its fiscal targets, ensure their implementation and intensify the structural reforms that can boost growth and job creation." Italy recently faced an increase in ... Category: News & Politics Length: 00:03:01.500 Tags: captioned subtitled videos voa learning special english report development agriculture food farming gardening health medicine international students .

 

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Kingdom hearts 3d [dream drop distance] - english special trailer

It's definitely not April nor are we fooling you! The official North American Kingdom Hearts 3D [Dream Drop Distance] website just updated with the first ever English trailer! Watch the special trailer that originally debuted online in its 10 minute glory on Valentines Day in fully voiced English wonder! Category: Gaming Length: 00:07:12.750 Tags: .

 

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Anh ngữ đặc biệt 484 economics (voa)

Chương trình học tiếng Anh của VOA: Special English Economics Report - Nuclear Energy. Xin hãy vào www.youtube.com để xem các bài kế tiếp. I'm Alex Villarreal with the VOA Special English Economics Report. The crisis at Japan's Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear energy center has raised questions about the future of the nuclear energy industry. Arjun Makhijani is president of the Institute for Energy and Environmental Research in the United States. He says the disaster in Japan is historic. He said there have never been three reactors in the same place at the same time that have had a severe accident. The chairman of America's nuclear agency said there is little chance that harmful radiation from Japan could reach the United States. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Chairman Gregory Jaczko also said America has a strong program in place to deal with earthquake threats. No new nuclear power centers have been built in the United States since nineteen seventy-nine. That was when America's worst nuclear accident happened at the Three Mile Island center in Pennsylvania. The accident began to turn public opinion against nuclear energy. To support more clean energy production, the Obama administration has been seeking billions of dollars in government loan guarantees to build new centers. Currently, about twenty percent of electricity in the United States comes from nuclear energy. But critics say nuclear power is too costly and dangerous to be worth further expansion. German Chancellor ... Category: Education Length: 00:03:15 Tags: special english .

 

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A stock market big enough to stretch across the atlantic

I'm Alex Villarreal with the VOA Special English Economics Report, from voaspecialenglish.com | http A ten-billion-dollar deal aims to create the world's largest exchange company. The plan would combine the operators of the New York Stock Exchange and Germany's Frankfurt Stock Exchange.The two companies, NYSE Euronext and Deutsche Borse, announced the agreement in February. Deutsche Borse shareholders would own about sixty percent of the combined group. One thing it still needs is a name. The new company would have headquarters in Frankfurt and New York City. The New York Stock Exchange is the world's most famous stock market and a symbol of American capitalism. Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner says New York will remain at the heart of the world's financial system for a long time to come. But the exchange business has changed in these days of high-speed trading by computers in a globally connected economy. The Big Board now has to compete with smaller exchanges. Where stocks are traded has become less important than how much those trades cost.NYSE Euronext and Deutsche Borse had profits of almost four and a half billion dollars last year. They expect to save four hundred million dollars a year by combining their operations. These savings could lower the cost of stock orders. But the size of the company could raise concerns about competition in the exchange industry. The new company would also have trading operations in Britain, France and other European countries.Stock ... Category: News & Politics Length: 00:03:00.750 Tags: captioned subtitled videos voa learning special english report development agriculture food farming gardening health medicine international students .

 

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Studying in the us: a free year at a community college

www.manythings.org === This is an excerpt from Part 39 of VOA's Special English Foreign Student Series. It looks at a job training program for people from certain countries. === This video alternates the TV version and the radio version of the same VOA story. It is designed for ESL students. === Keywords ESL EFL English language study listening listen 英語英語教材=== This is the VOA Special English Education Report. Two-year colleges in the United States are also known as community colleges. Students earn an associate degree. Or they can train for a job for a year or two and get a certificate. Community colleges are less costly than other schools. Some international students can even get a year of education for free. The United States government and the colleges pay the costs in a program called the Community College Initiative. Six countries took part during the first two years: Brazil, Egypt, Indonesia, Pakistan, South Africa and Turkey. Now those countries are joined by Cuba, Ghana and most of Central America. Local Fulbright committees generally nominate the students. The program provides job training for people who otherwise could not attend college. They learn skills their countries need, like agriculture and health care. Vocational school teachers and administrators from Egypt can also receive professional development through the program. The program began two years ago with eighty-four students and six colleges. State Department officials say more than five ... Category: Education Length: 00:03:23.250 Tags: .

 

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Who finding adds to debate over mobile phones, brain cancer

This is the VOA Special English Technology Report, from voaspecialenglish.com | http The World Health Organization has added to the debate over the risk of brain cancer from mobile phone use. The WHO's International Agency for Research on Cancer recently listed the signals from wireless devices as "possibly carcinogenic." This finding puts cell phones in the same risk group as the pesticide DDT -- but also in the same group as coffee. A group of thirty-one scientists from fourteen countries made the finding. The announcement came at the end of a meeting at the agency's headquarters in Lyon, France. The concern is that extended contact with radiofrequency electromagnetic fields may increase a user's risk for glioma. Glioma is the most common form of brain cancer.The scientists spent a week examining existing research. Dr. Jonathan Samet from the University of Southern California led the group. He says the finding that there could be some risk means scientists need to keep a close watch for a link between cell phones and cancer. The statement noted that the number of mobile phone users is large and growing, especially among young adults and children. Mobile phone subscriptions are estimated at five billion worldwide. The scientists called for more research into long-term, heavy use of mobile phones. They also suggested taking measures to reduce exposure to the signals, like hands‐free devices or texting.Camilla Rees from an American group called Electromagnetic Health ... Category: Science & Technology Length: 00:02:42 Tags: captioned subtitled videos voa learning special english report development agriculture food farming gardening health medicine international students .

 

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