People in America - John Wesley Powell, 1834-1902: Famous Explorer of the American West SHIRLEY GRIFFITH: I'm Shirley Griffith. RAY FREEMAN: And I'm Ray Freeman with the VOA Special English program People in America. Every week at this time we tell t...
LANZHOU, March 10 (Xinhua) -- Over the past few days, Rugur and his partners have been reconsidering how to help their village in northwest China's Gansu Province shake off poverty and make more money. Rugur is head of the remote Haikang village in t...
THIS IS AMERICA - Website Links People Across Continents Through Books BOB DOUGHTY: Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA in VOA Special English. I'm Bob Doughty. FAITH LAPIDUS: And I'm Faith Lapidus. This week on our program, we tell you about a website that c...
Indigenous People Vulnerable to Climate Change Researchers say indigenous people are among the most vulnerable to climate change. Theyre studying how extreme weather events can trigger more disease outbreaks. Scientists say extreme weather events hav...
Olympus camera scandal Vocabulary corporate scandals events which cause public disgust. Here connected to companies. under suspicion people think he is responsible violating breaking auditor person whose job is to examine business accounts orchestrat...
Racism in football summit Vocabulary issue topic, subject racism poor treatment or violence against people because of their race on the front pages one of the main stories in the news allegations accusations, claims faced by which the person will hav...
Interminable speeches Vocabulary delegates people attending the meeting had enough of didn't want any more interminable very long stuffy not enough air address speech capped stopped, limited to gatherings meetings a wake-up call an event that alerts...
