Film Recounts Cantor Fitzgerald's 9/11 Tragic Losses, Recovery Television cameras captured the imploding towers. But the images do not show the almost 1,000 children of Cantor Fitzgerald employees who lost parents. Nor the 38 pregnant wives who becam...
Hawaii's Birds Threatened by Invasive Predators, Habitat Loss Many people think of the Hawaiian islands as a Pacific paradise, a string of tropical islands lush with exotic flora and fauna. But the islands' native species - especially birds - have be...
US Bank Executive Apologizes for Loss It was four years ago that a cascading failure of Americas biggest financial institutions triggered massive federal bailouts and legislation designed to curb risk-taking and, it was hoped, avoid another economic...
SCIENCE IN THE NEWS - Getting to the Root of Hair Loss SHIRLEY GRIFFITH: This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS, in VOA Special English. Im Shirley Griffith. JUNE SIMMS: And Im June Simms. Today we talk about hair. We will tell what hair is, how it grows, and s...
WASHINGTON, Nov. 14 (Xinhua) -- Nearly a fifth of all Americans 12 years or older have hearing loss so severe that it may make communication difficult, according to a new study led by Johns Hopkins University researchers and published Monday in the A...
The hardest-hit state is Iowa, the leading corn state and last year's top soybean producer. Transcript of radio broadcast: 24 June 2008 This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Farmers in parts of the American Midwest face a difficult rec...
By Melinda Smith Washington 12 March 2008 For some time now we have been telling you about the global trend toward obesity, even in low and middle-income countries. The World Health Organization says billions of people are getting fat. By 2015, the W...
By VOA News 15 January 2008 A group of climate researchers says there is evidence that global warming is causing the Antarctic ice cap to melt more quickly than it did 10 years ago. The scientists said Monday they used satellite data to monitor the A...
By Caty Weaver IN THE NEWS -January 19, 2002: Ford Motor Co. Re-organizes; Big Loss in 2001 This is Steve Ember with the VOA Special English program, IN THE NEWS. Last week, the second-largest America...
By Caty Weaver Broadcast: September 12, 2003 This is Bob Doughty with the VOA Special English Environment Report. Scientists in the United States have reported some good news about the 1)ozone in the...