This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. A listener from Indonesia named Efendy asks why the Federal Reserve is so important and how it works. This week offered a good example. The Federal Reserve System is the United States central bank. I...
VOICE ONE: This is Faith Lapidus. VOICE TWO: And this is Steve Ember with THE MAKING OF A NATION, a VOA Special English program about the history of the United States. Today we tell about some important policy decisions during the first term of Pres...
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. Recently we talked about how some American schools have made changes in the traditional school year. Their goal is to improve student learning. A teacher and student at Barcroft Elementary in Arlingt...
VOICE ONE: I'm Steve Ember. VOICE TWO: And I'm Shirley Griffith with EXPLORATIONS in VOA Special English We begin a series of programs about efforts to keep alive old ways of doing things that are culturally important. Today we tell about a large ou...
This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Parents might tell teenagers, Act your age. But some scientists say that is exactly what teens are doing. They say that while teenagers can look all grown up, studies have found that their brains are st...
VOICE ONE: This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. Im Shirley Griffith. VOICE TWO: A NOAA satellite image of Hurricane Katrina, taken on August 29, 2005 And Im Steve Ember. Powerful storms are called hurricanes when they form over the At...
This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. American beekeeping operations have been hit hard by what scientists call colony collapse disorder. Almost half of their worker bees have disappeared during the past season. C.C.D. has also been re...
VOICE ONE: Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA in VOA Special English. I'm Steve Ember. VOICE TWO: And I'm Shirley Griffith. Today and next week we bring you the story and songs from the American musical play West Side Story. (MUSIC) VOICE ONE: Richard Beyme...
This is the VOA Special English Development Report. More than one billion people around the world do not have clean drinking water. Their water supplies are unsafe because of natural or man-made pollution, such as industrial chemicals or human and a...
ANNOUNCER: Welcome to People in America from VOA Special English. Today, Sarah Long and Rich Kleinfeldt tell the story of Wilbur and Orville Wright. The Wright Brothers made a small engine-powered flying machine and proved that it was possible for h...
This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. This week, President Bush said he will bring home almost six thousand American troops from Iraq by the end of the year. He also accepted the advice of his top commander in Iraq, General David Petraeus, for...
HOST: Welcome to AMERICAN MOSAIC, in VOA Special English. (MUSIC) I'm Doug Johnson. On our show this week: We listen to opera music by Luciano Pavarotti /P Answer a question about the most respected professions /P And report about the anniversary of...
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. In the last few years, many Americans have bought houses with ARMs: adjustable-rate A foreclosed home in Pasadena, California. mortgages. These loans usually begin with lower interest rates for the f...
This is Faith Lapidus. VOICE TWO: American troops prepare to invade Iraq from Kuwait And this is Steve Ember with THE MAKING OF A NATION, a VOA Special English Program about the history of the United States. George W. Bush became president in Januar...
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. An exciting start to the college football season: A team that many people never heard of defeats one of the best in the country. A Michigan player catches the ball, but Appalachian State captured the...
