Tuesday, February 28, 2012

VOA Special English - Weekly Report

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College Students Get Into Microfinance Lending

Student groups at some schools become social entrepreneurs, providing loans to start small businesses | EDUCATION REPORT

Grinnell College in Iowa has a student-operated microfinance organization

NASA Celebrates Past While Facing Unsure Future

Also efforts to 'zone' the ocean and how massage can heal | SCIENCE IN THE NEWS

Friends With Benefits, in the Plant World

How companion plantings can help each other grow. Also, advice about how to ripen fruit faster | AGRICULTURE REPORT

Bananas too green? Add a tomato for quick ripening.

Taiwanese-American Basketball Hero Creates 'Linsanity'

Also this week, Cambodian-American singer Bochan Huy and a visit to the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute in Alabama | THIS IS AMERICA

Jeremy Lin

Obama Seeks Privacy Bill of Rights for Internet Users

The plan would give Americans more control over what information is collected about them and how it's used | TECHNOLOGY REPORT

Smartphone

Who Made Hollywood Into Hollywood?

How Cecil B. DeMille, Samuel Goldwyn and Louis Mayer built the motion picture industry | PEOPLE IN AMERICA

Historic Hollywood sign

Hollywood Holds Its Breath for Academy Awards

What are your choices for the Oscars? The ceremony is Sunday night | IN THE NEWS

Hollywood stage crewmen Shawn Schull, left, and John Shipton move an Oscar frame for the 84th Annual Academy Awards outside the Kodak Theatre in Los Angeles

American History: Bill Clinton's First Term as President

Clinton's Democratic Party controlled Congress until the 1994 elections | THE MAKING OF A NATION

President Bill Clinton in 1993

Building Begins on African-American Museum in Washington

Plus, writer Susan Orlean on her book about Rin Tin Tin. And new music from the Chieftains | AMERICAN MOSAIC

President Barack Obama at the groundbreaking ceremony of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture

European Ministers Agree to Loan Greece Another $172 Billion

But the rescue loan requires deep and unpopular cuts | ECONOMICS REPORT

Greek Prime Minister Lucas Papademos discusses Greece's second round of rescue loans.

Getting Paid to Play Sick at School

A look inside the world of "standardized patients" and the role they play in training health care providers | HEALTH REPORT

Ted Bell is a medical actor.

Words and Their Stories: Number Phrases (Part 2)

Two heads are better than one. Second of two stories about expressions that use numbers | WORDS AND THEIR STORIES

Working to Protect Plants for Future Generations

Experts say biodiversity is important, but not all agree that a decrease in cultivated food crops is a crisis | EXPLORATIONS

A  woman harvesting a crop in India

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Tuesday, February 21, 2012

VOA Special English - Weekly Report

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Hunting for Clues to Parkinson's Disease

Studies have shown a link between the disease and some chemicals like pesticides | SCIENCE IN THE NEWS

Michael J. Fox, center, at the  2011 New York City Marathon. Two hundred Team Fox runners participated in the race to raise money for Parkinson's disease research. The actor lives with the condition.

Putting Agriculture at the Center of Climate Talks

Farming produces greenhouse gases, but scientists say it can also help lessen their effects | AGRICULTURE REPORT

GIVE YOUR ADVICE: Relationship Problems and More

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Children's Story: 'Pecos Bill'

Legend has it that Pecos Bill invented the art of being a cowboy | AMERICAN STORIES

The city of Pecos, Texas, calls itself "Home of the World's First Rodeo"

Barbara Cooney, 1917-2000: She Created Many Popular Books for Children

One of her best loved books "Miss Rumphius," published in 1982, won the American Book Award | PEOPLE IN AMERICA

Her name appeared on more than one hundred books

Words and Their Stories: Number One

First of two programs about expressions that use numbers | WORDS AND THEIR STORIES

Some say singer Aaliyah was "one in a million"

US, EU Say Iran May Be Ready to Return to Nuclear Talks

Also, the leaders of Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan meet in Islamabad | IN THE NEWS

File photo of Iran's Uranium Conversion Facility near the city of Isfahan. 410 kilometers south of the capital, Tehran

Inspections at Apple's Suppliers in China

Apple officials ordered the inspections after reports of poor working conditions at factories | TECHNOLOGY REPORT

Workers at a Foxconn factory in China

American Helps Reunite Trafficked Nepalese Children With Families

Also, the Girl Scouts celebrate 100 years. And a look at the latest in pet care businesses | THIS IS AMERICA

Conor Grennan with Anga, one of the young children he came to know at the Little Princes Children's Home in Nepal

FOR TEENS AND KIDS: Stories for the Younger Crowd

Teens playing basketball

Getting Young Indians to Choose Tea Over Coffee

Entrepreneurs are opening tea houses to compete with growing numbers of cafes | ECONOMICS REPORT

A tea shop owner in Mumbai, India

Looking Back on the Life and Music of Whitney Houston

The six-time Grammy winner and actress died at the age of 48 after a life of success and struggles | AMERICAN MOSAIC

Whitney Houston

Linking Education and Employment in Africa

Groups seek ways to support economic growth by improving education and job training programs | EDUCATION REPORT

Delegates at the opening ceremony of the ADEA Triennial conference in Ouagadougou

American History: Clinton Wins 1992 Election

Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton became one of the youngest presidents in American history | THE MAKING OF A NATION

Bill Clinton takes the oath of office from Chief Justice William Rehnquist at the Capitol on January 20, 1993

Dating Sites' Claims; Female Voices and Fertility

Researchers dismiss "matching algorithms." And, when is a woman's voice least attractive to a man? | HEALTH REPORT

Online dating site

Travel Industry, Fisheries Depend on Threatened Coral Reefs

Also, studying the spread of plastic waste in oceans. And a scientist wants to know more about the lives of bees | EXPLORATION

Snorkelers swim with sharks on a reef in Bimini, Bahamas, in 1995
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