This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Even a small reduction in salt in the diet can be a big help to the heart. A new study used a computer model to predict how just three grams less a day would affect heart disease in the United States. Th...
Initially the problems they face are probably of an academic nature, for example they go to lectures and they find that they cant understand, or they cant take notes very quickly. They have quite a lot of reading to do and don't know how to cope with...
Todd: So, Simon, I have to congratulate you. I hear you have new child. Simon: That's right. Todd: Wow. You're a papa. (Yeah) So what's it like being a father? Simon: Well, it is a completely different lifestyle than before - Papahood, parenthood. Ye...
Todd: So, Mitchell, you are Hawaiian, right, and Hawaii is part of the United States but, what would you say, that most Hawaiians are similar to people in the mainland or quite different to people in the mainland? Mitchell: Ah, that's a tough questio...
Todd: Now Norman, you've lived in Japan for awhile. Have you lived in any other countries? Norman: Yes, I've lived in Germany as well. Todd: Germany! Norman: Yes, I lived for five years. I had two contracts in Germany. The first one in the seventies,...
Todd: OK. I'm back here with Kanade. Kanade: Yes. Todd: So, Kanade, why don't you talk about where you're from! Kanade: OK. I'm from Akita, which is Northern Japan. And there is a lot of mountains and you can see changing color in the fall and in my...
