Welcome to the MAKING OF A NATION American history in VOA Special English. In eighteen forty, as the administration of Martin Van Buren came closer to an end, there was a widespread feeling that he had not been a strong president. He seemed unable t...
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. We answer some questions this week in our series on getting into an American college or university. The first question has to do with our recent discussion of English language tests. Vo Ngoc Toan fro...
VOICE ONE: This is Faith Lapidus. VOICE TWO: Robert Edison Fulton And this is Steve Ember with EXPLORATIONS in VOA Special English. Today we tell about an unusual man who traveled alone around the world. He was an inventor and a filmmaker. He wrote...
This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Wisdom teeth are normally the last teeth to appear in the mouth. It usually happens when people are older and wiser. That is, when they are in their late teenage years or early twenties. Wisdom teeth ar...
VOICE ONE: This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. I'm Steve Ember. VOICE TWO: And I'm Barbara Klein. This week, we will tell about cancer. Health experts say it will soon become the world's leading killer. We also will present evidence...
This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Farmers with their camels near Jammu, India, last year India had more than one million camels during the middle of the nineteen nineties. But the population of the animals known for their ability t...
VOICE ONE: Chicago, along Lake Michigan, is known as the Windy City Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA in VOA Special English. I'm Steve Ember. VOICE TWO: And I'm Barbara Klein. This week our subject is the city, Chicago, Illinois. (MUSIC) VOICE ONE: Chicag...
This is the VOA Special English Development Report. This week in our report we are going to talk about adobe. No, not the information technology company in California, Adobe Systems. We mean the traditional building product made of soil and other ma...
VOICE ONE: I'm Steve Ember. VOICE TWO: And I'm Barbara Klein with PEOPLE IN AMERICA in VOA Special English. Today we tell about the art collector and cultural supporter, Isabella Stewart Gardner. During the late nineteenth century, she traveled arou...
This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. There were fierce battles in Gaza on Friday as Hamas and Israel both rejected a United Nations call for an immediate cease-fire. The densely populated area faces shortages of food, medicine, water and elec...
HOST: Welcome to AMERICAN MOSAIC in VOA Special English. (MUSIC) I'm Doug Johnson. This week: We listen to new music from the Killers Answer a listener question about the famous book and movie Gone With the Wind ... And, tell about America's first V...
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. President-elect Barack Obama is calling on Congress to pass an economic recovery plan in the next few weeks. He warned about the deepening recession in a speech in Virginia on Thursday, less than two...
Welcome to the MAKING OF A NATION American history in VOA Special English. Martin Van Buren was sworn-in as the eighth president of the United States in eighteen thirty-seven. Not long after he took office, the United States suffered an economic dep...
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. What do you think is the most popular subject of study for international students at colleges and universities in the United States? How many of you thought of engineering? Seventeen percent of forei...
VOICE ONE: This is Phoebe Zimmermann. VOICE TWO: Half Dome in Yosemite National Park And this is Steve Ember with EXPLORATIONS in VOA Special English. Today, we tell about one of the most famous national parks in the United States. You can find it h...
