Vacuum Company Dyson to Launch Electric Car by 2020 British company Dyson is known for inventing new vacuum cleaner technology and producing other devices for the home. 英国戴森公司以发明了新型吸尘器技术和生产其它家用设备而闻...
Bees are Carrying Pesticides into the Worlds Honey Bees are responsible for about 30 percent of the world's food supply. Our fruits and vegetables would not grow without bees. Many farmers use chemical products known as pesticides to protect food pla...
VOA Learning English presents Americas Presidents. Today we are talking about Harry S. Truman. He became president of the United States in 1945, a few weeks before the end of World War II in Europe. Truman took office after Franklin Roosevelt died su...
EU 'Ready to Welcome' Belarus President to Eastern Partnership Meeting The European Union is reportedly ready to welcome President Alexander Lukashenko of Belarus to its Eastern Partnership (EaP) meeting next month. It is the first time EU officials...
Kenyan Police Kill Two as Opposition Protests Presidential Revote Police in Western Kenya have killed two people during a protest against the planned revote of Augusts presidential election. The violence took place in Siaya County. The police chief o...
Indias High Court Temporarily Bans Firecrackers in New Delhi The air in the Indian capital, New Delhi, is among the most polluted of any city in the world. That is one reason Indias highest court has ordered a temporary ban on firecracker sales durin...
Study Finds Beliefs About Boy and Girl Differences Start at Early Age For VOA Learning English, this is the Health Lifestyle report. No matter where they live, children get a strong message about what is expected of them as they grow up. And, in most...
Current, Former Students Say Formal College Advice Not That Helpful Terri Tchorzynski works hard to help young people in the American state of Michigan succeed after they complete high school. Tchorzynski is a school counselor at a special public sch...
The 1995 film Dead Man has a strange opening scene. Actor Johnny Depp is sitting on a train. A man sits down across from Depps character, and speaks to him: Look out the window. And doesn't this remind you of when you were in the boat, and then later...
What Are the Best US High Schools? It Depends Sometimes, deciding the best is difficult. For example, deciding the 10 best public high schools out of 24,000 in America. Two publications put together lists of the top 10. But the website Niche.com and...
