NEW YORK, Jan. 11 (Xinhua) -- The U.S. stocks snapped a 3-day losing streak to close higher on Tuesday as strong earnings reports helped inject confidence into the market. Alcoa, the aluminum(铝) manufacturer which is traditionally the first com...
This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. True or false? Potatoes are root vegetables. False. Potatoes are underground stems called tubers. Most kinds of potatoes can be planted during cool weather. But John Masiunas of the University of I...
This is the VOA Special English Development Report. Alison Des Forges was an American-born human rights expert and historian. She was one of fifty people killed in a plane crash on February twelfth near her hometown of Buffalo, New York. She was six...
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. Leaders of the European Union met Sunday in Brussels to discuss measures to deal with the world financial crisis. But the emergency meeting showed growing divisions between western European countries...
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. This week in our Foreign Student Series the subject is grades. Most American colleges and universities use the grading system of A, B, C, D and F. An A is worth four points, a B three points, a C two...
This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Evidence is increasing that common influenza viruses are becoming resistant to the main drug used to treat them. The drug is oseltamivir, also known as Tamiflu. The most common seasonal flu virus found...
This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. We have talked about growing carrots and beets. This week, we move from root vegetables to a leafy vegetable. Cabbage is related to mustard, turnips, kale and collards. The leaves that form a head...
This is the VOA Special English Development Report. Health experts predict that soon, more people will die from cancer than from AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria combined. They expect that by two thousand ten, cancer will become the world's leading ca...
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. Copies of the budget plan at the Government Printing Office in Washington President Barack Obama on Thursday proposed his first budget to Congress. He wants to let the Bush administration's tax cuts...
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. This week, we visit four Web sites where students can learn about higher education in the United States. Cappex.com -- c-a-p-p-e-x -- matches students with colleges and universities. Students create...