Technology Report - Can Social Media Improve Voter Turnout? 科技报道 - 社交网络提升选举投票率 This is the VOA Special English Technology Report. 这里是美国之音慢速英语科技报道。 We have all witnessed the power of social...
Technology Report - Turning Industrial Waste-Heat Into Electricity This is the VOA Special English Technology Report. Scientists say enough energy is being wasted in the oil and gas fields of Texas every year to provide electricity to one hundred tho...
Syrian Forces Turn to Air Power as Insurgency Gains Nearly a quarter of a million Syrians have fled their homes in recent weeks, as government bombs and mortar shells have begun targeting heavily-populated areas. Last week, amateur video on a social...
'Silent Spring' Turns Fifty In the 1950s, the U.S. Department of Agriculture was spraying more than a quarter-million kilograms of pesticides each year. Silent Spring, by Rachel Carson, revealed that pesticides like DDT were lethal not only for insec...
Young Americans Turn to Old-Fashioned Domestic Lifestyle Shannon Kline and her daughter Alice are picking the last of the summer harvest from the family's vegetable garden while her husband Geoff Delanoy prepares the soil for their fall crops. Life f...
Technology Report - Turning Industrial Waste-Heat Into Electricity 科技报道 - 利用工业废热发电 This is the VOA Special English Technology Report. 这里是美国之音慢速英语科技报道。 Scientists say enough energy is being waste...
Turning the Tide against AIDS Next month, the United States will host the worlds largest AIDS conference for the first time in more than 20 years. More than 20-thousand people are expected to gather in Washington, D.C. for AIDS 2012. The top U.S. off...
THE MAKING OF A NATION - American History: War on Terror Turns to Iraq STEVE EMBER: Welcome to THE MAKING OF A NATION American history in VOA Special English. I'm Steve Ember. GEORGE W. BUSH: Trusting in the sanity and restraint of Saddam Hussein is...
Occupy Movement Turns Anger Towards Individual Corporations Pfizer, the worlds biggest pharmaceutical company, is among the activists' targets. Protesters rallied at Pfizer world headquarters in New York this week, alleging it sometimes charges $50 f...
Nixon's China Visit Marked Turning Point in Sino-American Relations Nixon's trip to China was such a grand drama on the world stage that years later, it, indeed, became an opera. The historical record is much simpler: He arrived on February 21, 1972...