Health Benefits of Pumpkins From VOA Learning English, this is the Health Lifestyle report. There is one food that takes center stage during autumn the pumpkin! Many people use this orange gourd as a decoration at Halloween. But we also use it in man...
Too Much Tourism? Cities particularly in Europe are increasingly taking steps against tourists. 各个城市，尤其是欧洲的城市都开始越来越多地对游客采取措施。 Venice, Italy, for example, is planning to bar some large passenge...
North Korea Slowly Goes Online Slowly, North Korea is entering the online world. Thanks to technology, North Korean doctors can talk to patients through online video conferencing. Speeches given at Kim Il Sung University in Pyongyang, the capital, ca...
American Women Try to Break Barriers in Show Business Chelsea Shorte is telling jokes on a cold Wednesday night at an eatery in Alexandria, Virginia. Shorte tells the restaurant-goers, many of them women, about her decision to perform stand-up comedy...
Scientists: CO2 Levels Will Rise This Year International scientists think the amount of carbon dioxide emissions released into Earths atmosphere will rise by two percent in 2017. The number represents the first increase in worldwide carbon emissions...
VOA Learning English presents Americas Presidents. Today we are talking about Gerald Ford. Ford was the 38th president, but he was never elected to the position. Instead, an unusual series of events brought him there. Many historians have described F...
US Service Industry Workers Training to Stop Sexual Harassment Accusations of sexual wrongdoing by film producer Harvey Weinstein and other famous people are having an effect on American businesses. What is being called the Weinstein Effect has men i...
Daytime Wounds Heal Faster A new study suggests that the timing of a wound affects the speed at which it heals. 一项新研究表明，受伤的时间点会影响伤口愈合的速度。 Wounds suffered during the day heal around 60 percent faster t...
Now, its time for Words and Their Stories from VOA Learning English. In the United States, it is almost time for something else. In a few days, smells of roasting turkey, buttery mashed potatoes and pumpkin pie will fill homes from coast to coast. Wi...
US Universities Working Together to Help Poor Students Michigan State University has long worked with and competed against other colleges and universities in the United States. Michigan State, a public research university, often works on joint resear...
00:00:02 OPRAH WINFREY: Hattie Mae, this child is gifted, and I heard that enough that I started to believe it. 00:00:08 ROGER BANNISTER: If you have the opportunity, not a perfect opportunity, and you don't take it, you may never have another chance...
Zimbabwes President Robert Mugabe made his first public appearance since the military placed him under house arrest this week. Zimbabwes long-time leader attended a graduation ceremony at Zimbabwe Open University near Harare. The military, however, h...
Vietnams largest technology company may profit from a free trade deal agreed to at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation, or APEC, meetings in Da Nang this month. The new agreement replaces the Trans-Pacific Partnership, from which the United States...
Washington D.C. is a city full of museums. Visitors have a large choice of places to go to learn about United States history, culture and art. The latest one to open in Washington is the Museum of the Bible. The 40,000-square-meter building is locate...
It looked like a good thing. But wait till I tell you. We were down south, in Alabama Bill Driscoll and myself when this kidnapping idea struck us. There was a town down there, as flat as a pancake, and called Summit. Bill and I had about $600. We ne...
