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...
Mark Hurd got credit for building Hewlett-Packard into the world's largest technology company. H-P is the top seller of personal computers and printers. It had sales last year of almost one hundred fifteen billion dollars. Mr. Hurd became chief execu...
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 twentieth century. It was a time of great technological progress in the United...
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. President Obama signed legislation Tuesday to provide twenty-six billion dollars to the states for education and healthcare. The measure includes ten billion dollars for education and sixteen billion...
STEVE EMBER: Im Steve Ember. SHIRLEY GRIFFITH: And Im Shirley Griffith with EXPLORATIONS in VOA Special English. Today we travel around the world listening to the music from six creative and exciting albums. Some artists are well known, while others...
This is the VOA Special English Health Report. A miscarriage is the natural loss of a pregnancy before the twentieth week. This happens to as many as twenty percent of known pregnancies. Experts say many pregnancies end before a woman even knows she...
BOB DOUGHTY: This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. I'm Bob Doughty. FAITH LAPIDUS: And I'm Faith Lapidus. Today we tell about threats to coral reefs and some new discoveries about these ancient, biological structures. (MUSIC) BOB DOUGHT...
This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. When is a plant considered a weed? Experts at Penn State University have a simple answer: When the undesirable qualities outweigh the good qualities. Consider that crops generally produce several hu...
KATHERINE COLE: Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA in VOA Special English. I'm Katherine Cole. MARIO RITTER: And I'm Mario Ritter. This week -- weddings in America. (MUSIC: Halleujah Chorus / Handel's Messiah) KATHERINE COLE: A very special wedding took plac...
This is the VOA Special English Development Report. A medical aid program in Kenya offers hope to women and girls suffering from a condition known as fistula. About two million women and girls worldwide have the condition. There are about one thousan...
GWEN OUTEN: And Im Gwen Outen with PEOPLE IN AMERICA in VOA Special English. Today we tell about a woman who became famous for her activities in government, the media and the arts. She was a member of Congress and an ambassador. She was a news report...
This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. Iraqis elected a new parliament in March. There was no clear winner. And five months later there is still no agreement on a coalition government. On Wednesday, the United Nations Security Council called on...
FAITH LAPIDUS: Welcome to American Mosaic in VOA Special English. (MUSIC) Im Faith Lapidus. Today we listen to a new album from pop star Miley Cyrus And answer a question about basketball star LeBron James. But first we visit some campers under the s...
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. BlackBerry service is facing limits or bans in some countries over the issue of government access to information on its network. Research in Motion, or RIM, based in Waterloo, Canada, makes BlackBerry...
BOB DOUGHTY: Welcome to THE MAKING OF A NATION American history in VOA Special English. In September of nineteen hundred and one, President William McKinley was assassinated. His vice president, Theodore Roosevelt, was sworn in to replace him. Roosev...
