AS IT IS - Getting a birth certificate in Indonesia can be an administrative nightmare 印尼儿童的出生证问题 Hello again, and welcome to AS IT IS from VOA Learning English. Im June Simms in Washington. Today, we celebrate the first graduatin...
World Prematurity Day Aims to Lower Rates of Premature Births This tiny newborn is one of more than 15 million babies who start their lives with a major disadvantage...being born too soon. Preterm birth is the greatest killer of newborns around the w...
EXPLORATIONS - Edwin Hubble Changed Our Ideas About the Universe and Its Birth EXPLORATIONS -- a program in Special English by the Voice of America. Today, Richard Rael and Tony Riggs tell the story of American astronomer Edwin Hubble. He changed our...
Cloud Atlas: A Tale of Birth, Death and Re-Birth From the travails of a young American in the mid-19th century on a vessel crossing the Pacific to a female clone who rises up against oppression in a futuristic society, Cloud Atlas is a grand tale abo...
Largest battle ever fought in North America took place in Pennsylvania 145 years ago this week. Transcript of radio broadcast: 29 June 2008 Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA in VOA Special English. I'm Steve Ember. VOICE TWO: And I'm Barbara Klein. This we...
Jason: I'm just saying that I wouldnt be going in to work tomorrow if I were two weeks over due. Maggie: Well thats because you are a better mother than I am. Mike: Heee Ben: Mike. Singing is for kids. Besides you promised no singing. Remember. Mike...
Section 33 Birth Of course, none of us can remember our own birth. If we could, I wonder what we would remember. For the mothers, it is a painful but usually a delightful experience. Hundreds of years...
The Birth of a Masterpiece -- Michelangelo's David If ever a work of art had a right to feel over exposed, it is Michelangelo's David, naked in the heart of Florence for nearly 5 centuries. In recent...
THIS IS AMERICA - Birth of Jazz: How an American Musical Form Came Into the World By Jerilyn Watson Broadcast: Monday, August 08, 2005 (MUSIC) ANNOUNCER: Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA in VOA Special Engl...
