VOICE ONE: I'm Steve Ember. VOICE TWO: And I'm Barbara Klein with EXPLORATIONS in VOA Special English. Today, we complete our story about the influential English writer William Shakespeare. He wrote plays and poems during the late fifteenth and early...
This is the VOA Special English Health Report. People who stop smoking often replace cigarettes with food. A new study says the weight they gain may increase their diabetes risk in the short term. Type two diabetes is common in people who eat too muc...
VOICE ONE: This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. I'm Bob Doughty. VOICE TWO: And I'm Steve Ember. Scientists who study the Earth tell us that the continents and ocean floors are always moving. Sometimes, this movement is violent and mig...
This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Florida, in the southeastern United States, is called the Sunshine State. It grows more oranges than anyplace except Brazil. But Arctic air has damaged some Florida oranges and strawberries in recen...
VOICE ONE: Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA, in VOA Special English. I'm Shirley Griffith. VOICE TWO: And I'm Faith Lapidus. This week, travel back in time to explore the history of transportation in the United States. (MUSIC) VOICE ONE: In eighteen-hundre...
This is the VOA Special English Development Report. Harvest in Benin A new study in West Africa shows how farm irrigation systems powered by the sun can produce more food and money for villagers. The study in Benin found that solar-powered pumps are...
VOICE ONE: I'm Faith Lapidus. VOICE TWO: And I'm Steve Ember with PEOPLE IN AMERICA in VOA Special English. Today, we finish the story of the writer William Faulkner. He created an area and filled it with people of the American South. (MUSIC) VOICE O...
This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. Yemen is the poorest Arab nation. Poverty can help breed extremism -- al-Qaida is a growing concern for the Yemenis. But the government also faces an armed rebellion in the north and a separatist movement i...
HOST: Welcome to AMERICAN MOSAIC in VOA Special English. (MUSIC) I'm Doug Johnson. This week on our program we tell all about the very popular American television series Glee. And we play music from the show's many stars. But first we answer a questi...
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. This year's Consumer Electronics Show opened Thursday in Las Vegas. The event is the world's biggest technology trade show. More than three hundred companies are presenting more than twenty thousand n...
Welcome to THE MAKING OF A NATION -- American history in VOA Special English. Abraham Lincoln President Abraham Lincoln led the Union of northern states in four years of civil war against the southern Confederacy. But he did not live to see the end o...
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. We have a question from China. Feng Tianqiang says I want to know something about John Dewey. John Dewey John Dewey was an influential thinker and educator. The New York Times once called him America'...
VOICE ONE: I'm Steve Ember. VOICE TWO: William Shakespeare And I'm Barbara Klein with EXPLORATIONS in VOA Special English. Today, we tell about one of the most influential and skillful writers in the world. For more than four hundred years, people al...
This is the VOA Special English Health Report. A demonstration last May against loneliness in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Signs read in Portuguese Tired of being alone, Couple now and I want to be in love. Loneliness has been linked to depression and oth...
VOICE ONE: This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. I'm Shirley Griffith. VOICE TWO: And I'm Steve Ember. Today, we tell you everything you ever wanted to know about snow. (MUSIC) VOICE ONE: Justin Snow of the Indianapolis Colts stands in...
