The American television series Seinfeld was famous for its unusual and often strange conversations. These conversations often took place in a diner - a kind of small, informal restaurant. In one program, the character George is sad about where he is...
Experimental Therapy Saves Boy With Rare Disease From VOA Learning English, this is the Health Lifestyle report. It is one of the worst things a parent can imagine. Your child is sick, and suffering in terrible pain. No medical treatments seem to hel...
Flu Virus Can Be Deadlier Than War From VOA Learning English, this is the Health Lifestyle report. The year 2018 will mark the 100th anniversary of the deadliest influenza outbreak in history. Scientists estimate that the influenza pandemic of 1918 k...
Doctors Use Virtual Reality to Prepare for Surgeries Felicia Luna had a really bad headache. She said the painful pressure felt like someone was squeezing my head really tight. The pain became so bad that the 41-year-old woman could not lie down and...
A law that permits Indians to get information about their government is helping a group of women in Delhi get needed services. The women have led a successful campaign demanding that city officials improve access to water, waste removal services and...
Every year as southern Arizona cooled, architect Frank Lloyd Wright and his students would travel there to escape the cold of winter in Wisconsin. Wrights students built shelters at a place he called Taliesin West, northeast of the state capital, Pho...
A new study suggests that dark markings on the planet Mars represent sand not water. Research in 2015 had suggested that lines on some Martian hills were evidence of water. Yet American scientists now say these lines appear more like dry, steep flows...
Now, Words and Their Stories from VOA Learning English. The United States is a big country with many, many roads. Many, if not most, of Americans depend on motor vehicles to get from place to place. It goes without saying that, when talking or writin...
Kara Rowells enjoys hard work. The native of Tarpon Springs, Florida learned to love being busy from her father. My dad always had a lot of different jobs at once, and so thats the model that I saw, she told VOA. My dad will often work a job all day...
Strong Winds Continue to Fuel California Wildfires Firefighters continue to fight wildfires in southern California, including a new fire just north of San Diego. In the past five days, the fires have destroyed at least 500 buildings and forced 190,00...
