Archive for January, 2009
At Home in a Shipping Container
This is the VOA Special English Development Report.
An American named Malcom McLean invented a better box and changed the world. He designed the shipping containers that today carry most of the world’s goods. Standardized containers can go on ships, trains or trucks and are easy to load and unload.
Malcom McLean was a truck driver [...]
New Developments Against TB
This is the VOA Special English Development Report.
An estimated one-third of all people are infected with tuberculosis. Most have latent, or inactive, cases. They do not suffer coughing, increased body temperature or other signs of active TB.
A tuberculosis patient looks at a TB awareness poster in a 2007 photo
But each year, about nine million people [...]
UN Project Aims to Fight Hunger, Help Small Farmers
This is the VOA Special English Development Report.
The United Nations says more than nine hundred million people worldwide do not have enough to eat. Officials say one hundred million more could go hungry this year because of the food, fuel and financial crises.
To deal with the situation, the U.N. World Food Program has launched a [...]
