This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. This year's World Food Prize will honor two leaders of hunger-fighting groups based in the United States. The winners are David Beckmann of Bread for the World and Jo Luck of Heifer International. T...
BARBARA KLEIN: Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA in VOA Special English. I'm Barbara Klein. STEVE EMBER: And I'm Steve Ember. This week on our program, we look at musical diplomacy, past and present. And we talk to an actor whose most recent role came from...
This is the VOA Special English Development Report. Member countries of the International Criminal Court met this month in Kampala, Uganda. They were there to examine the court's progress for the first time. Observers, human rights activists and civi...
STEVE EMBER: And Im Steve Ember with the VOA Special English program, PEOPLE IN AMERICA. Today, we complete our story about songwriter and singer Woody Guthrie. (MUSIC) MARY TILLOTSON: Woody Guthrie grew up in Oklahoma and Texas during the nineteen t...
This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. Attention turned to Washington this week over the continuing oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. On Thursday, the chief executive officer of BP faced hours of intense questioning at a House of Representatives...
DOUG JOHNSON: Welcome to American Mosaic in VOA Special English. (MUSIC) Im Doug Johnson. Today we listen to music from Gershwin Prize winner Paul McCartney And we answer a question about what American college students do over summer vacation. But fi...
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. Factory labor built China into the world's third largest economy, after the United States and Japan. Now something else is building: labor tensions. China bars labor unions independent of the Communis...
BOB DOUGHTY: Welcome to the MAKING OF A NATION -- American history in VOA Special English. In March of eighteen eighty-nine, Grover Cleveland left the White House after four years as president. He had been defeated by Benjamin Harrison.s As they were...
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. In the last ten years, hundreds of American schools have begun to offer a new way to teach foreign languages. This method is called dual or two-way immersion. Here is how it works at London Towne Elem...
STEVE EMBER: Im Steve Ember. BARBARA KLEIN: And Im Barbara Klein with EXPLORATIONS in VOA Special English. Today we talk about a method that helps provide low-income people with the financial services they need to improve their lives. Organizations a...
This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Being a patient in certain hospitals in the month of July can be dangerous or even deadly. That was the finding of sociology professor David Phillips at the University of California, San Diego, and his s...
BOB DOUGHTY: This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS, in VOA Special English. Im Bob Doughty. BARBARA KLEIN: And Im Barbara Klein. This week, we talk about a sickness called lupus and other autoimmune diseases. Autoimmune diseases affect the immune system, the b...
This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Most kinds of rose plants come from Asia. But roses are also native to other areas including northwest Africa, Europe and the United States. In nineteen eighty-six, Congress chose the rose as Americ...
Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA in VOA Special English. Im Doug Johnson. VOICE TWO: And Im Barbara Klein. This week on our program, we take you to the summer movies. This year's crop includes vampires, talking toys, an Iron Man and, of course, love. (MUSI...
Each year since two thousand one, the American State Department has published a Trafficking in Persons Report. It measures efforts by countries to fight human trafficking. This year's report, out Monday, adds the United States for the first time. The...
