VOICE ONE: I'm Faith Lapidus. VOICE TWO: And I'm Steve Ember with People in America in VOA Special English. Today we tell about the world's most famous doctor for children, Benjamin Spock. (MUSIC) VOICE ONE: Doctor Benjamin Spock with grand-daughter...
This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. More than six thousand people died last year in Mexico's drug wars. So far this year the violence has only gotten worse. More than one thousand people have already been killed. Police have become common ta...
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. Both the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund expect the world economy to shrink this year for the first time since World War Two. As recently as January, the I.M.F. had predicted growth of...
Welcome to AMERICAN MOSAIC in VOA Special English. (MUSIC) I'm Doug Johnson. This week ... A show about prizes, awards, honors -- and about some people who have won them recently. Plus, the answer to a listener question about an American Nobel laure...
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. This week in our Foreign Student Series, we continue our discussion about grades. Would you want a doctor who got high marks in medical school just for trying really, really hard? Apparently many col...
ANNOUNCER: Welcome to the MAKING OF A NATION American history in VOA Special English. General Zachary Taylor The Whig Party considered four candidates for the presidential election of eighteen forty-eight: Senator Henry Clay of Kentucky, General Zac...
This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Bad teeth can be painful -- and worse. They can even be deadly. Infections of the gums and teeth can release bacteria into the blood system. Those bacteria can increase the chances of a heart attack or...
VOICE ONE: I'm Faith Lapidus. VOICE TWO: And I'm Bob Doughty with EXPLORATIONS in VOA Special English. Today we visit the Arabesque festival at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. This three-week event brings eight hundred...
This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. True or false? Potatoes are root vegetables. False. Potatoes are underground stems called tubers. Most kinds of potatoes can be planted during cool weather. But John Masiunas of the University of I...
VOICE ONE: This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. Im Bob Doughty. VOICE TWO: Jesse Sullivan was an electrical worker who lost both of his arms while working on power lines And Im Barbara Klein. This week, we will tell about an American...