Archive for December, 2008
Foreign Student Series: Getting a US Education From Home
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. This week in our Foreign Student Series, we talk about getting an American education online. A student named Hendra has written to us from Indonesia asking about a good online university. Finding the right online program requires research, just like a traditional education. Talking to advisers and [...]
Probable Sale of America’s Largest Sugar Cane Grower Pleases Activists for Everglades
This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. The United States Sugar Corporation and the State of Florida are negotiating final sale of more than seventy-five thousand hectares of the company’s land to the state. The land is north of America’s famous Everglades National Park. The park is a protected wild area of wetlands [...]
Building a Windbreak to Protect Crops
This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. A windbreak Farmers use different kinds of soil conservation methods to protect their land from damage by farming and the forces of nature. One important form of soil conservation is the use of windbreaks. Windbreaks are barriers formed by trees [...]
