This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. Afghanistan's Independent Election Commission has a message: Pay no attention to competing claims of victory in the presidential election. The first ballot counts are not expected until Tuesday. Women line...
HOST: Welcome to AMERICAN MOSAIC in VOA Special English. (MUSIC) I'm Doug Johnson. This week on our program, we dive into the popularity of SpongeBob SquarePants. We also answer a question about soul singer Wilson Pickett. And here in Washington, we...
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. Stock prices took a roller-coaster ride this week -- down one day, up the next. Experts say the situation is likely to continue until investors feel more sure about signs of economic recovery. Some i...
Welcome to THE MAKING OF A NATION American history in VOA Special English. The shelling of Fort Sumter Years of disagreement between the North and the South finally burst into civil war in April of eighteen sixty-one. Seven states in the South had w...
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. The United States has lost almost seven million jobs since the recession began in December of two thousand seven. The good news: the central bank says economic activity appears to be leveling out. Th...
VOICE ONE: Im Steve Ember. VOICE TWO: Safari explorers on the Chobe River And Im Barbara Klein with EXPLORATIONS in VOA Special English. Today we go on safari to experience the sights and sounds of Africas rich wildlife. The word safari comes from t...
This is the VOA Special English Health Report. People since ancient times have used aspirin-like medicines to fight pain and reduce high body temperature. Boxes of aspirin at a drugstore in Chicago Modern research has found other uses for aspirin. T...
This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. I'm Faith Lapidus. VOICE TWO: And I'm Steve Ember. This week, we will tell about new concerns about the H1N1 virus. We will also tell about a study of socially unacceptable words. And we will repor...
This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Farmers in Afghanistan already struggle with the effects of drought and years of conflict. Now there is worry about a new threat headed in their direction in the wind -- a fungus that destroys whea...
VOICE ONE: Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA in VOA Special English. I'm Steve Ember. VOICE TWO: And I'm Faith Lapidus. Roanoke Island is off the mid-Atlantic coast of the United States, in North Carolina. In fifteen eighty-seven, more than one hundred peo...
This is the VOA Special English Development Report. A simple water pump is helping to improve the lives of poor families in several Asian and African countries. A treadle pump in vegetable fields in Bangladesh The treadle pump is based on a design d...
VOICE ONE: I'm Steve Ember. VOICE TWO: And I'm Shirley Griffith with PEOPLE IN AMERICA in VOA Special English. WALTER CRONKITE: And that's the way it is ... VOICE ONE: Walter Cronkite in 2005 speaking at Arizona State University For almost twenty ye...
This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. Family members, including daughter Maria Shriver and her husband, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger of California, rear center Thousands of mourners gathered Friday on Cape Cod, Massachusetts, for the funeral...
HOST: Welcome to AMERICAN MOSAIC in VOA Special English. (MUSIC) I'm Doug Johnson. Today, we answer a listener question from China about American lawmakers And we play music from singer Regina Spektor's latest album ... But first, we visit the natio...
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. President Obama is letting Congress write the details of his plan for what he calls health insurance reform. Congress is now on its August break. But members have been holding what are known as town...
