VOICE ONE: Im Shirley Griffith. VOICE TWO: And Im Steve Ember with EXPLORATIONS in VOA Special English. In the early eighteen hundreds, traveling in the United States was dangerous. Business and trading were limited. Then came the waterway called th...
This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Winter in many places means ice skating, sledding and snowball fights. But unless someone is prepared, outdoor fun can also mean frostbite and hypothermia. Today we talk about how to stay warm, dry and...
VOICE ONE: This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. I'm Steve Ember. VOICE TWO: And I'm Bob Doughty. On our program this week, we will tell about an environmental study of the recent wildfires in California. We will also tell how some wat...
This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. In the sea, at the base of what scientists call the food web, are single-celled plants. These microscopic algae provide the energy for the web that feeds higher forms of life. Algae-affected waters...
VOICE ONE: Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA in VOA Special English. I'm Steve Ember. VOICE TWO: And I'm Shirley Griffith. This week on our program, we visit a quilting exhibit at the Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D....
This is the VOA Special English Development Report. Pro-democracy activists in 2006 listen to parliament proceedings on a mobile phone in Katmandu, Nepal Activists fight for different things. But one thing many activists around the world hold in com...
Now, the VOA Special English program PEOPLE IN AMERICA. Today, Shirley Griffith and Steve Ember tell about the life of Barbara Cooney, the creator of many popular childrens books. She died in March two thousand. (MUSIC) VOICE ONE: For sixty years Ba...
HOST: Welcome to AMERICAN MOSAIC in VOA Special English. (MUSIC) I'm Doug Johnson. On our show this week: We listen to some music from a new album by Judy Kuhn /P Answer a question about the Space Race /P And tell about a new display of dinosaurs. D...
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. Last month, America's biggest bank, Citigroup, agreed to sell five percent of its shares to the government of Abu Dhabi. The deal, worth seven and a half billion dollars, was another example of growi...
VOICE ONE: This is Rich Kleinfeldt. VOICE TWO: And this is Sarah Long with the MAKING OF A NATION, A VOA Special English program about the history of the United States. (MUSIC) Today, we tell about relations between the American colonies and Britain...
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. Today we answer a question from a listener who wants to become a Spanish professor. Orlando Carvajal asks how much professors earn in the United States. Money from the sale of books written by profes...
VOICE ONE: I'm Steve Ember. VOICE TWO: And I'm Shirley Griffith with EXPLORATIONS in VOA Special English. This week, we tell about a system of planets orbiting a star called Fifty-Five Cancri. And we hear about a plan to harvest electricity from cro...
This is the VOA Special English Health Report. There are low-cost vaccines, taken by mouth, that can protect against cholera. The vaccine is commonly provided to international travelers, but not to communities that suffer cholera epidemics. There ar...
VOICE ONE: This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. I'm Steve Ember. VOICE TWO: File photo of embryonic stem cells in a laboratory dish And I'm Pat Bodnar. This week, we will tell about efforts to make what appear to be embryonic stem cel...
This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. A Yale student carries beets grown on an organic farm near the university in New Haven, Connecticut Beets are a tasty root vegetable that do not require much work to grow. People might think beets...
