US Labor Day Arrives Five Months Late September 7 is Labor Day in the U.S., a national holiday that began more than 100 years ago to honor low-paid factory workers. Labor Day also informally marks the end of summer. Many children return to school aft...
Should Hillary Clinton Be Worried? On the surface, the news is not good for Hillary Clinton, the former Secretary of State and U.S. Senator. Her popularity as a presidential candidate is dropping in opinion polls. At the same time, her competition is...
AS IT IS 2015-09-07 Vending Machines Dispense Free Books to Children 自动售货机分发免费儿童书籍 A vending machine is usually where a person buys snacks and drinks. 自动售卖机通常是人们购买饮料和零食的地方 In Washingto...
AS IT IS 2015-09-07 Providing Electricity to Poor Communities in Kenya 向肯尼亚贫困地区提供电力援助 In 2013, President Barack Obama launched a campaign called the Power Africa Initiative. Its goal is to increase the availability of elec...
AS IT IS 2015-09-07 Survivors Remember Guatemalan Genocide 视频幸存者讲述危地马拉种族灭绝恐怖 Researchers are recording the stories of survivors of the Guatemalan civil war and genocide. Fighting in Guatemala started in the 1960s and...
Feel the Pinch 感到经济拮据 Hello, I'm Anna Matteo with the Learning English program Words and Their Stories. In the 1930s, a song, Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? was very popular in the United States. It was the time of the big Depression. The...
Diseases Jump Borders to Infect African Livestock 疾病跨境感染非洲牲畜 The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization is urging farmers to be on guard against transboundary animal diseases. Officials warn that ticks, lice and other pe...
Country Music Ladies Put Men in Their Place American country music lyrics often describe women as they might appear in mens dreams. This is especially true of songs by many male artists. But the songs by Maddie Marlow and Tae Dye are different. The t...
Rare Pictures Capture Native Americans in Late 1800s 19世纪末罕见的美国土著居民照片 Over a century ago, Walter McClintock captured rare images of Native Americans and their culture. McClintock was the son of a wealthy businessman from P...
AS IT IS 2015-09-06 Are They Migrants or Refugees? Young and old, they walk along the highway, weary and struggling. Others lay down on the train tracks in Hungary. A small lifeless body of a boy washes up at a beach resort in Turkey. Seventy-one bod...
Fewer Creatures in Future Oceans Could Provide Less Food 海洋生物大量减少在未来只能提供更少的食物 Warming oceans will cause big changes in the biodiversity of sea life. That is a finding from the largest study ever of marine plant...
AS IT IS 2015-09-05 With US Tie, Cubans Have Better Access to Internet The United States and Cuba officially re-established diplomatic relations two months ago. The re-establishment of ties had led to better access of the Internet across Cuba. Until...
US College Students Using More Marijuana, Less Tobacco Marijuana use among college students is on the rise in the United States. Studies of American college students show that daily marijuana use was more popular than cigarette smoking for the first...
Everyday Grammar: Three Reasons to Learn Relative Adverbs From VOA Learning English, this is Everyday Grammar. In an earlier program, we talked about the relative pronouns who, that, and which. We promised to give you more details about how to use re...
Pigs Is Pigs by Ellis Parker Butler 英语短篇小说:艾利斯帕克巴特勒《猪就是猪》 Our story today is called Pigs is Pigs. It was written by Ellis Parker Butler. Mike Flannery, the agent of the Interurban Express Company, leaned over t...
