This is the VOA Special English Development Report. Every day, millions of people around the world drink water from wells that are polluted with high levels of arsenic. Arsenic is an element that can be released into groundwater by soil and rocks. Ov...
ANNOUNCER: People America, a program in Special English on the Voice of America. Today, Steve Ember and Rich Kleinfeldt tell about scientist Rachel Carson. Her work started the environmental protection movement in the United States. (MUSIC) VOICE ONE...
This is Phil Murray with WORDS AND THEIR STORIES, a program in Special English on the Voice of America. We tell about some common expressions in American English. (MUSIC) A leatherneck or a grunt do not sound like nice names to call someone. Yet men...
This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. A Greenpeace activist dressed as a polar bear outside the Canadian Parliament in Ottawa on January 29 to bring attention to global warming Last week, a United Nations report said humans are very likely the...
Welcome to AMERICAN MOSAIC in VOA Special English. (MUSIC) I'm Doug Johnson. On our show this week: We answer a question about an American naval base ... Play some music nominated for a Grammy Award ... And report about a world-famous duck. Perky the...
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. This week, President Bush sent Congress his spending plan for two thousand eight. His budget proposes almost three trillion dollars in government spending, a four percent increase over this year. The...
VOICE ONE: This is Doug Johnson. VOICE TWO: And this is Phil Murray with THE MAKING OF A NATION -- a VOA Special English program about the history of the United States. (MUSIC) VOICE ONE: Harry Truman America's presidential election campaign of ninet...
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. EDUCATION REPORT This week in our Foreign Student Series, we return to a subject we have discussed before: financial aid. This time we are going to talk about financial aid in the form of assistantshi...
VOICE ONE: I'm Doug Johnson. VOICE TWO: Art Workshops in Guatemala offers students a chance to learn about art while experiencing Guatemalan culture And I'm Barbara Klein with EXPLORATIONS in VOA Special English. Today in our series about continuing...
This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Researchers find stroke victims who easily quit smoking after suffering injury to a part of the brain. Chemical dependency can result from many things: alcohol, caffeine, illegal drugs like cocaine, lega...
VOICE ONE: This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. I'm Bob Doughty. VOICE TWO: A new blood test can tell if a person with heart disease is likely to suffer a heart attack And, I'm Faith Lapidus. This week, we tell about a new test for pat...
This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. The parasites can spread from chicken to chicken through infectious droppings The chicken industry loses billions of dollars worldwide because of a disease called coccidiosis. Coccidiosis is caused...
VOICE ONE: Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA. I'm Steve Ember. VOICE TWO: And I'm Faith Lapidus. Last month we began a series of reports on living with a disability in America. We started with education. Today, in Part Two, we look at employment. (SOUND) VO...
This is the VOA Special English Development Report. The traditional definition of an entrepreneur is a person who organizes and accepts the risks of a new business. Entrepreneurs may have a new product or service to offer. Or they may have ideas for...
VOICE ONE: I'm Steve Ember. VOICE TWO: And I'm Sarah Long with the VOA Special English program PEOPLE IN AMERICA. Today we tell about W.E.B. Du Bois. He was an African-American writer, teacher and protest leader. (MUSIC) VOICE ONE: William Edward Bur...
