Tuesday, May 8, 2012

VOA Special English - Weekly Report

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How to Help an Endangered Language

Also, songs for the baseball season | THIS IS AMERICA

Alfred

Language Has Risks for Health Translators

They need to know what a culture will accept in finding the right words for things like body parts and sex | HEALTH REPORT

Health education translators like Susan Mwangi, right, in Kenya have to choose their words carefully to avoid offending cultural sensitivities

Event Aims to Build Interest in Science, Engineering

Second of two reports on Microsoft's Imagine Cup problem-solving competition, now in its tenth year | TECHNOLOGY REPORT

Team Drexel Dragons of Drexel University Wins Microsoft Imagine Cup for Mobile Game Design

Do It Yourself: Raising Angora Goats

The U.S. is a top producer of mohair. Cashmere goats are another source of income | AGRICULTURE REPORT

An Angora goat at a farmer's market in the state of Maine

Volunteers Find New Ways to Put Their Helping Hands to Work

Meet some people who are giving their time and energy to unusual projects | EXPLORATIONS

Sarah Dynia, left, of Stuffed Love and Christine Olson

Six Researchers Who Gave All to Their Work

The stories of Jesse Lazear, Clara Maass, Joseph Goldberger, Matthew Lukwiya, Carlo Urbani and Anita Roberts | SCIENCE IN THE NEWS

Researcher Jesse Lazear

Teens Get a History Lesson From History Makers

Mikhail Gorbachev, Jimmy Carter, Shirin Ebadi and other Nobel Peace Prize winners visit Chicago schools | EDUCATION REPORT

High school student Manal Saleh introduces Mikhail Gorbachev at the 12th World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates, in Chicago

American History: Hurricane Katrina, Iraq and the Great Recession

Flooding in New Orleans, a surge in Iraq and a collapse in the U.S. housing market | THE MAKING OF A NATION

Hurricane Katrina flooded eighty percent of New Orleans, Louisiana

China's Blind Lawyer May Come to the US

Chen Guangcheng's flight to the US Embassy brings attention to rights, abuses | IN THE NEWS

A pop-art representation of blind Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng in Hong Kong, May 4, 2012.

US-China Meeting Starts With Call for Fair Exchange Rate

Meeting seeks cooperation at a time when the two countries deal with the issue of a Chinese activist | ECONOMICS REPORT

Blind Chinese legal activist Chen Guangcheng last month someplace in Beijing

Six Environmental Activists Win Goldman Prize

Also, music from Santigold. And your advice for an extremely shy engineering student in Brazil | AMERICAN MOSAIC

2012 Goldman Prize winner Caroline Cannon
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