Next year will mark the 110th anniversary of a U.S. government agency that is unknown to most Americans. Yet its work affects their everyday lives in countless ways. Generations knew the agency as the National Bureau of Standards. When it was founded...
American English Words: Business complex: 美国英语词语:商铺 Li: So where can you go to get medicine? Rogan: OK, yeah, well if you need to get medicine you get a prescription from yourdoctor and you go to the pharmacy andDaniel: Are you sure i...
Grammar Girl here. Todays topic is the complex-compound sentence. Guest writer Sal Glynn writes: Most writers worth their fingertip calluses begin as avid readers. We read books, magazines, and websites indiscriminately until we start to notice the w...
New book examines 'The Art of Choosing,' from marriage partners to candy bars Adam Philips | New York 29 March 2010 Related Links: Link to Book Sheena Iyengar Every human being makes thousands, perhaps millions, of choices over the course of a lifeti...
VOICE ONE: Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA in VOA Special English. I'm Steve Ember. VOICE TWO: And I'm Barbara Klein. This week on our program, we remember President Abraham Lincoln. This Thursday is the two hundredth anniversary of his birth. (MUSIC) VO...
By George Dwyer Washington 10 April 2008 On Friday, 11April, a major cultural and architectural event is set to take place in Washington: amassive new interactive museum complex dedicated to the profession of journalism will open its doors to the pub...