日期：2009-07-03 This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. The chicken industry loses billions of dollars worldwide because of a disease calledcoccidiosis. Coccidiosis is caused byparasites. The single-cell organisms infect and destroy cells in the intesti... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-07-03 This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Chemical dependency can result from many things: alcohol, caffeine, illegal drugs like cocaine, legal drugs like pain killers. But one of the most difficult dependencies to break is also one of the most... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-07-03 VOICE ONE: Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA in VOA Special English. I'm Barbara Klein. VOICE TWO: And I'm Mario Ritter. Every society has its heroes. This week on our program, we present several stories of heroism in action. (MUSIC) VOICE ONE: We start in... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-07-03 This is the VOA Special English Development Report. The traditional definition of an entrepreneur is a person who organizes and accepts the risks of a new business. Entrepreneurs may have a new product or service to offer. Or they may have ideas for... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-07-03 This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. This week, with dancers and other events, Microsoft launched the general release of its new operating system for personal computers. Windows Vista became available in more than 70 countries. This is... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-07-03 This is the VOA Special English Education Report. We continue our Foreign Student Series this week with a report on the International Student Handbook. This publication can be a useful guide if you are interested in attending a college or university... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-07-03 VOICE ONE: This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. I'm Bob Doughty. VOICE TWO: And I'm Faith Lapidus. On our program this week, we discuss recent findings about how intelligence develops in babies. (MUSIC) VOICE ONE: Not long ago, many p... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-07-03 VOICE ONE: I'm Steve Ember. VOICE TWO: And I'm Barbara Klein with EXPLORATIONS in VOA Special English. Today we present another in our series about continuing education programs for older Americans. We tell about theSmithsonian Associates. (MUSIC) V... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-07-03 This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Looking for some reading material about farming? One place to look is the science magazine of the United States Department of Agriculture. The descriptions of work by the department's Agricultural... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-07-03 This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. President Bush gave his two thousand seven State of the Union speech to Congress and the American people Tuesday night. On the nation's most pressing issue, he said America must not fail in Iraq. He defend... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-07-03 This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. One of the top issues this week at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, was climate change. But the business and political leaders gathered for the yearly event in the Swiss Alps were not... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-07-03 This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Measles is one of the most infectious viruses known. It spreads through the air when people infected with the disease cough or sneeze. Children in wealthier countries are usually vaccinated to protect a... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-07-03 This is the VOA Special English Education Report. Graduate students often work as teaching assistants while they study in the United States. Teaching assistants may get money or get to take classes for free, or both. A T.A. usually works about 20 ho... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-07-03 VOICE ONE: This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. I'm Steve Ember. VOICE TWO: And I'm Barbara Klein. Today, we tell you everything you ever wanted to know about snow. (MUSIC) VOICE ONE: Winter weather has returned to northern areas of t... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-07-03 This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. A lot of American farmers have had a rough early winter. In California, citrus growers are facing hundreds of millions of dollars in losses from a freeze earlier this month. Oranges and lemons in C... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-07-03 VOICE ONE: Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA in VOA Special English. I'm Steve Ember. VOICE TWO: And I'm Faith Lapidus. Women in American politics is our report this week. (MUSIC) VOICE ONE: Nancy Pelosi won her first election to Congress twenty years ago... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-07-03 This is the VOA Special English Development Report. Imagine a world without manufacturers. Or at least not as we now think of them. Instead, we as individuals control the technology to design and make most anything we want. That world exists now in... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-07-03 This is the VOA Special English Education Report. We come to the twentieth week of our series on higher education in the United States. Today we answer two e-mails from Thailand. A refugee from Burma and another listener in Thailand both want to kno... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-07-03 This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. Companies combined or bought other businesses at record levels last year. Almost four trillion dollars in deals worldwide represented an increase of nearly forty percent from the year before. So far... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-07-03 Our subject this week is children and AIDS. The United Nations Children's Fund, UNICEF, has just released a report on a campaign launched in October of 2005. UNICEF, the U.N. AIDS program and other groups wanted to bring greater attention to the nee... 阅读全文>>