VOICE ONE: This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. I'm Barbara Klein. VOICE TWO: And I'm Bob Doughty. This week, we will tell about evidence of early human ancestors. We also will tell about the health effects of hopeful feelings. And, we...
This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Earlier this month, Michelle Obama and twenty-three schoolchildren helped prepare the ground for an organic vegetable garden on the South Lawn of the White House. The first lady showed the young gar...
VOICE ONE: Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA in VOA Special English. I'm Barbara Klein. VOICE TWO: A modern sign marks the Santa Fe Trail. Behind, an example of adobe architecture. And I'm Steve Ember. This week on our program, we take you to a city in the...
This is the VOA Special English Development Report. Almost forty years ago, a community service organization started providing eye care in Gujarat State, in western India. The Rotary Club of Navsari operates an eye hospital and nine area eye centers...
VOICE ONE: Im Steve Ember. VOICE TWO: And Im Faith Lapidus with People in America in VOA Special English. Today we tell about two women who helped change the world of sports, golfer Betty Jameson and basketball coach Kay Yow. Both women were founders...
This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. This week the world's lowest-priced passenger car was launched in Mumbai, India. The Nano, made by Tata Motors, is expected to cause a transportation revolution for millions of Indian families. Tata Chairma...
HOST: Welcome to AMERICAN MOSAIC in VOA Special English. (MUSIC) I'm Doug Johnson. This week: We play music by the comedian, actor and singer Wayne Brady ... And answer a listener question about the most literate cities in the United States ... But f...
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. This week American Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner announced details of a plan aimed at removing billions of dollars in bad debts from American banks. The government program has two parts. One involve...
Welcome to the MAKING OF A NATION American history in VOA Special English. During the first half of the nineteenth century, leaders of the United States could find no answer to the question of slavery. The dispute grew more threatening after the war...
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. March Madness is the name for the busy championship season in American college basketball. But March also means another kind of madness -- the nervous wait for admissions letters from colleges and uni...
VOICE ONE: I'm Faith Lapidus. VOICE TWO: And I'm Bob Doughty with EXPLORATIONS in VOA Special English. The Environmental Film Festival in Washington, D.C., has been bringing movies to America's capital for seventeen years. This year, the twelve-day f...
This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Tuberculosis killed one million three hundred thousand people around the world in two thousand seven. In addition, almost half a million people who were infected with tuberculosis and with H.I.V. also di...
VOICE ONE: This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. I'm Barbara Klein. VOICE TWO: Dwayne Speller, 22, waits to talk to a job adviser in Las Vegas, Nevada, earlier this month. The nation's unemployment rate rose to 8.1 percent in February,...
This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Beans are a popular choice for home gardens. Specialists at the University of Illinois Extension say bush beans need the least work. The plants do not need supports to stand. Green bush beans used t...
VOICE ONE: Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA in VOA Special English. I'm Steve Ember. VOICE TWO: And I'm Barbara Klein. Today we visit two art exhibits in Washington, D.C. that tell about life in America during two different periods. 1934: A New Deal for Ar...
