AS IT IS 2014-08-21 For President Obama, Race Is a Personal Issue 对奥巴马总统来说,种族暴力是个人问题 The racial violence in the city of Ferguson, Missouri is an important issue for Barack Obama, the first African-American president....
While You Sleep, Your Brain Works 睡眠时大脑并未停止工作 From VOA Learning English, this is the Health Report. Why do we need sleep? 为什么人们需要睡眠？ Is bedtime just a time for dreaming? Do our brains turn off for the night?...
More Than 70 Arrests in Missouri Protests 70多人在密苏里抗议中被捕 Police arrested more than 70 protestors and reporters Monday night and early Tuesday in the central U.S. town of Ferguson, Missouri. The demonstrators were protesting the s...
AS IT IS 2014-08-20 Learning to Grow Traditional Foods in Uganda 学着在乌干达种植传统食物 The Slow Food movement is growing in most of the western world. The movement supports small, local farms. It works against huge farms led by interna...
AS IT IS 2014-08-20 Diners Increase Business with Healthy Food Restaurants called diners can be found throughout the United States. They make simple, low-cost food. But traditional diner food is often unhealthy. One group of diners is cooking healthi...
AS IT IS 2014-08-19 Police Actions Cause Anger 美国警方行动引起众怒 Many Americans are angry about the police use of military practices and equipment, like rubber bullets and tear gas, against protestors in Ferguson, Missouri and New York C...
AS IT IS 2014-08-19 Green Loans Help Kenyas Farmers 绿色贷款帮助肯尼亚农民 One quarter of the 40 million people who live in Kenya are farmers. But few of them have ever been shown how to increase their crops or use loans to make their farm...
US Investigates, National Guard Arrives in Ferguson 美国调查人员和国民警卫队到达弗格森 President Barack Obama says the United States Justice Department has opened a civil rights investigation into the shooting of a teenager in Missou...
AS IT IS 2014-08-19 Ebola Kills More Than Humans 埃博拉病毒所杀害的不仅仅是人类 The Ebola virus has killed more than 1,000 people in West Africa. But it also threatens wildlife, like the severely endangered western lowland gorilla. VOA...
Biltmore Estate Takes Visitors Back in Time 比特摩尔庄园让游客进入历史 From VOA Learning English, welcome to This is America. Im Katherine Cole. And Im Jonathan Evans. Today on our program, we take you to the Biltmore Estate. This huge h...
AS IT IS 2014-08-18 A Big Step Forward in Artificial Intelligence Research 人工智能研究获大突破 The American computer company IBM says it has developed a microprocessor -- a computer chip -- that works much like the human brain. IBM calls t...
AS IT IS 2014-08-18 Tobacco Plant to Make Jet Fuel 烟叶能制成喷气材料 An airplane maker, an airline and a biofuel company are working together to make fuel from tobacco plant seed oil. The companies are Boeing, South African Airways and SkyN...
English at the Movies: Robin Williams 英语电影:罗宾威廉姆斯 Welcome to American Mosaic from VOA Learning English. Im Caty Weaver. People around the world were shocked and saddened by the death of entertainer Robin Williams. Many of you comm...
With Sentencing of Khmer Rouge Leaders, Memories Return 红色高棉领导人获刑 The recent court decision and sentencing of two aging Khmer Rouge leaders holds deep personal meaning for survivors of the 1970s genocide in Cambodia. Two of these su...
Iraq Changes Top Leadership at a Difficult Time 在困难时期,伊拉克改变最高领导层 From VOA Learning English, this is In the News. Nouri al-Maliki said Thursday that he would leave his position as prime minister of Iraq. His decision open...
