MARIO RITTER: Welcome to THE MAKING OF A NATION -- American history in VOA Special English. The stock market crash of nineteen twenty-nine began a long and difficult period for the United States. President Herbert Hoover struggled to find solutions a...
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. 这里是美国之音慢速英语教育报道。 This week marks the fiftieth anniversary of the Peace Corps. President John Kennedy began the program in nineteen sixty-one. The Peace Corps sends Amer...
FAITH LAPIDUS: Im Faith Lapidus. CHRISTOPHER CRUISE: And Im Christopher Cruise with EXPLORATIONS in VOA Special English. Today we tell about an organization called Ashoka. It supports people who create new ways to solve social problems. (MUSIC) FAITH...
This is the VOA Special English Health Report. How important is your mobile phone, better known to Americans as a cell phone? MAN: I use my phone all the time. I'm always on my phone. WOMAN: It's kind of pretty much important to me because it's like...
This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. 这里是美国之音慢速英语农业报道。 White rice is the world's most popular form of rice. But it goes through a milling process that removes many nutrients. As a result, people who eat a...
This is the VOA Special English Technology Report. An IBM super computer named Watson has won the latest battle of man versus machine. 这里是美国之音慢速英语科技报道。一台名为沃森（Watson）的IBM超级计算机在最近的一次...
FAITH LAPIDUS: Now, the VOA Special English program AMERICAN STORIES. (MUSIC) Our story today is called The Boarded Window. It was written by Ambrose Bierce. Here is Shep ONeal with the story. SHEP ONEAL: In eighteen thirty, only a few miles away fro...
This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. 这里是美国之音慢速英语新闻报道。 Moammar Gadhafi came to power in Libya on September first, nineteen sixty-nine. He led a military overthrow while King Idris was away. Early relations with t...
DOUG JOHNSON: Welcome to AMERICAN MOSAIC in VOA Special English. (MUSIC) I'm Doug Johnson. This week we play music by Gorillaz. And answer a question from Vietnam about Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. But first, we tell about a Washington, D.C.,...
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. 这里是美国之音慢速英语经济报道。 Americans have been watching the protests in the Middle East and North Africa -- and closer to home. Workers in Wisconsin, and now some other states, h...
