日期：2009-06-17 A string of bomb attacks hit Kuqa county in the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region yesterday, killing one security guard and injuring several civilians, said the regional government. The attacks against a range of government facilities saw eight bombe... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-06-17 As well as being the eve of the Olympics, yesterday was Double Seventh Festival day, an ancient celebration similar to Valentine's Day. The Qixi Festival, as it is known in Mandarin, falls on the 7th day of the 7th lunar month each year. Keen to cel... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-06-16 This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. These days, if we hear about two different plants being combined, the first thing we think of might is modern biotechnology. But the low-technology process of grafting remains an extremely importan... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-06-16 This is the VOA Special English Development Report. Today we tell you about the LifeStrawwater-purifying device. Then learn about a wood-burning cookstove that scientists hope will reduce the loss of forests in poor countries. The LifeStraw is a thi... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-06-16 HOST: Welcome to AMERICAN MOSAIC, in VOA Special English. (MUSIC) I'm Bob Doughty. 2006 is almost over. On this special show, Shirley Griffith and I look back at some trends from the past year. VOICE ONE: The dictionary says a trend is a kind of mov... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-06-16 This is the VOA Special English Health Report. New York City wants to fight fat. The Board of Health has passed a ban ontrans fatsin all restaurants. Eating places have until July to stop frying foods in oils high in trans-fatty acids. And they have... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-06-16 This is the VOA Special English Education Report. We talked last week about the costs of higher education for students who want to study in the United States. Today, as our Foreign Student Series continues, we discuss a cost that students may not al... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-06-16 This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. Peter Drucker, who died a year ago, was an expert on the ways of modern organizations. He was someone who truly earned the name of managementguru. He liked to share his knowledge not by answering que... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-06-16 This is the VOA Special English Health Report. AIDS researchers had important news last week. Two studies in Africa confirmed that men who arecircumcisedgreatly reduce their risk of infection with HIV during sex with women. The United States Nationa... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-06-16 This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. Crime ratesin the United States have been dropping for a number of years. Rates of violent crime have fallen to their lowest levels since the 1970s. President Bush noted this in his declaration in April fo... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-06-16 This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. The winter gift-giving season is responsible for 20 percent of all retail spending at American businesses. But how and when people buy holiday gifts is changing. Record numbers of Americans are turni... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-06-16 This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Americans are still split in their opinions aboutgenetically engineered foods. The finding is from one thousand adults questioned for the Pew Initiative on Food and Biotechnology. This is a project... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-06-16 VOICE ONE: Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA in VOA Special English. I'm Barbara Klein. VOICE TWO: And I'm Steve Ember. (MUSIC) VOICE ONE: For millions of Americans, the most wonderful day of the year is December 25-- Christmas. For one thing, it marks the... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-06-16 This is the VOA Special English Education Report. This week in our Foreign Student Series: the cost of higher education in the United States. Students who want to attend an American college or university must explain how they will pay for their educ... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-06-16 This is the VOA Special English Health Report. We continue the first in a new series of reports from time to time on raising children. Today we discuss some ways to helpbed-wettersstay dry all night long. First of all, health experts say bed-wetting... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-06-16 This is the VOA Special English Development Report. The Bush administration has announced a new program to support local efforts to controlmalariain Africa. Laura Bush said thirty million dollars will go to African and American nongovernmental organ... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-06-16 This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Tall or short. Fat or thin. Real or plastic, or metal. Whatever the choice, 2,000 million dollars worth of Christmas trees were sold last year in the United States. Christmastime in the city brings... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-06-16 This is the VOA Special English Education Report. And this is fifteen of our Foreign Student Series on higher education in the United States. Next week our subject will be the cost of attending an American college or university. But today we are goi... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-06-16 This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Potatoes are a traditional part of American meals. But people are not eating as many potatoes as they did in the past. The United States Department of Agriculture reports that it expects potato use... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-06-16 VOICE ONE: I'm Shirley Griffith. VOICE TWO: And I'm Steve Ember with the VOA Special English program, People in America. Today we tell about movie star Marilyn Monroe. She died many years ago, yet still is one of the best known American women. (MUSI... 阅读全文>>