BOB DOUGHTY: Welcome to THE MAKING OF A NATION -- American history in VOA Special English. The United States Constitution guarantees freedoms such as freedom of speech, freedom of the press and freedom of religion. The Bill of Rights in the Constitut...
Birds and planes have been colliding since the Wright brothers first took to the air. There are dozens of bird strikes each day, causing hundreds of millions of dollars in damage to airplanes each year, and putting the lives of passengers and crew me...
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. Businesses are structured in different ways to meet different needs. The simplest form of business is called an individual or sole proprietorship. The proprietor owns all of the property of the busine...
RAY FREEMAN: And I'm Ray Freeman with the VOA Special English program PEOPLE IN AMERICA. Every week we tell about a person who was important in the history of the United States. Today, we tell about the great jazz musician, Edward Kennedy Ellington....
A protester with a bandana over her face confronts a riot police line-up on Bay Street during demonstrations at the G8 and G20 Summits, Saturday, June 26, 2010 in Toronto. Hundreds of demonstrators protesting the G-20 global economic summit in Toront...
This is Scientific Americans Sixty-Second-Science. I'm Karen Hopkin. This'll just take a minute. Social networking is all the rage. Seems the more people we know, the better we feel. But that drive for being connected may enrich more than our social...
The EPA is now telling BP to change the chemical dispersant. The government agency wants BP to choose something less toxic now. CNN's Ed Lavandera has more on one alternative that is already to go. Hundreds of containers are just sitting here in the...
