This is the VOA Special English Development Report. The World Health Organization says obesity rates are rising in Pacific island countries. So, too, are health problems linked to being overweight. The WHO says a major reason for the rising obesity r...
RICHARD RAEL: I'm Richard Rael. RAY FREEMAN: And I'm Ray Freeman with the VOA Special English program PEOPLE IN AMERICA. Every week we tell about a person who was important in the history of the United States. Today, we finish our report about the gr...
This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. American officials are preparing for Israel and the Palestinians to restart direct peace talks. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton announced the plans on Friday in Washington. HILLARY CLINTON: I've invited...
DOUG JOHNSON: Welcome to American Mosaic in VOA Special English. Im Doug Johnson. Today, we visit a bluegrass music festival that has a special activity for children ... And we explain how to get a job at Americas space agency, NASA ... But, first, a...
Last week, Verizon and Google proposed a plan they say could keep the Internet open while supporting investment in high-speed Internet service. Verizon has the nations biggest wireless network while Google is the biggest Internet search engine. The p...
BOB DOUGHTY: Welcome to the MAKING OF A NATION American history in VOA Special English. Theodore Roosevelt became president of the United States at the beginning of the nineteen hundreds. He firmly believed in expanding American power in the world. T...
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. (MUSIC: Cabaret) The word cabaret brings to mind images of singers in nightclubs, or maybe Liza Minnelli performing years ago in the movie Cabaret. What the word does not bring to mind is college dorm...
BARBARA KLEIN: Im Barbara Klein. STEVE EMBER: And Im Steve Ember with EXPLORATIONS in VOA Special English. Visit any airport, train station, or coffee shop in the United States this summer, and chances are you will find someone reading a book by the...
This is the VOA Special English Health Report. A mother in Washington noticed something unusual one day, just before her daughter's eighth birthday. MOTHER: I noticed around the end of two thousand eight, I think she's getting breasts. This is ridicu...
BOB DOUGHTY: Doctors in hospital emergency rooms often see accidental poisonings. A frightened parent arrives with a child who swallowed a cleaning liquid. Or perhaps the harmful substance is a medicine. Or it might be a product meant to kill insects...
This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Advice on how much fertilizer to use will soon be just a phone call away for rice farmers in the Philippines. The Philippine Department of Agriculture and the International Rice Research Institute p...
MARIO RITTER: Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA in VOA Special English. I'm Mario Ritter. Many Americans take their summer vacations in August. President Obama and his family are among them. This past weekend the first family visited the Florida Gulf coast....
This is the VOA Special English Development Report. Humanitarian aid groups have promised to continue their work in Afghanistan after militants murdered ten medical aid workers August fifth. Officials say the seven men and three women worked for the...
RAY FREEMAN: And I'm Ray Freeman with the VOA Special English program PEOPLE IN AMERICA. Every week we tell about a person who was important in the history of the United States. Today, we tell about the great jazz musician, Edward Kennedy Ellington....
DOUG JOHNSON: Welcome to American Mosaic in VOA Special English. (MUSIC) Im Doug Johnson. Today we celebrate our thirteen-hundredth show on Friday the thirteenth with music from the band Arcade Fire, and a story about a huge shopping center in Minnes...
