日期：2009-06-16 This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. A study has warned that seafood supplies from the world's oceans could be almost gone by the middle of the century. The researchers say there has already been a collapse in wild populations of almo... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-06-16 This is the VOA Special English Development Report. The United Nations Development Program says the world is facing a water crisis. It says each year, more than 2 million children die from diseases caused by unclean water. Most of these deaths are f... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-06-16 This is the Special English Agriculture Report. A big redbarnis probably one of the first things most Americans would think of if you asked them to imagine a farm. And not a modern metal barn, but a building made of wood like the ones in the old day... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-06-16 This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Scientists say they have strong evidence that a biological problem could explain why some babies die suddenly in their sleep. Researchers from Children's Hospital Boston and Harvard Medical School exami... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-06-16 This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. The United States produces 25 percent of the world's cheese. A trade group, the Dairy Export Council, says producers made more than four million metric tons of it from cow's milk last year. And the... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-06-16 This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. The United States will hold local, state and national elections this Tuesday. Opinion studies suggest that the Democrats may be in a position to end Republican control of one or both houses of Congress. Al... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-06-16 This is the VOA Special English Health Report. A panic attack is a sudden feeling of terror. Usually it does not last long, but it may feel like forever. The cause can be something as normallyuneventfulas driving over a bridge or flying in an airpla... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-06-16 This is the VOA Special English Education Report. American colleges and universities consider a number of things about a student who wants to be admitted. Experts on the subject say the most important thing is the student's high school record. Admis... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-06-16 This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Doctors say very few children survived cancer before the 1970s. Improved treatments now offer hope of long-term survival for almost 80 percent of young cancer patients. Yet thechemotherapy drugsand radi... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-06-16 VOICE ONE: Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA. I'm Steve Ember. VOICE TWO: And I'm Faith Lapidus. Our subject this week is American politics. National elections are one week away. (MUSIC) VOICE ONE: The United States holds national elections every two years... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-06-16 This is the VOA Special English Education Report. This week, we talk about the application process for American colleges and universities. This is part eight in our Foreign Student Series. Earlier, we explained how to begin a search for schools by g... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-06-16 VOICE ONE: This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS, in VOA Special English. Im Bob Doughty. VOICE TWO: And Im Faith Lapidus. This week, we tell about efforts to defeat the diseasepolio. Polio is spreading again after almost disappearing. (MUSIC) VOICE ONE: Expe... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-06-15 This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Conditions for growing pumpkins were poor in some areas of the United States this year. The East and parts of the Midwest suffered heavy rains and extreme heat. So the supply for sale has decreased... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-06-15 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：2009-06-15 This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. This week, the national population clock at the United States Census Bureau reached 300 million. This is only an estimate -- the next official count is 2010. But the Census Bureau says the United States is... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-06-15 This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. International trade does not just happen. It is the result of developing relationships and processes to ease the flow of goods and services. This week, we spoke with David Good in Washington, D.C. He... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-06-15 This is the VOA Special English Education Report. Last week, we discussed rules for getting permission to enter the United States to study at a college or university. Now, in part seven of our Foreign Student Series, we discuss a computer system tha... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-06-15 VOICE ONE: This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. I'm Bob Doughty. VOICE TWO: And I'm Faith Lapidus. This week we tell about the Nobel Prizes. We also tell about the winners of the 2006 prizes in chemistry, physics and medicine. (MUSIC)... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-06-15 This is the VOA Special English Development Report. October 16th is World Food Day. This day is also the anniversary of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization. The UN agency leads international efforts to defeat world hunger. It was cr... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-06-15 I'm Steve Ember with IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. North Korea this week announced it carried out its first-ever nuclear test. North Korean officials said they exploded a nuclear weapon under the ground. International testing equipment confirm... 阅读全文>>