This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. On Wednesday, President Obama signed into law the Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act. BARACK OBAMA: These reforms represent the strongest consumer financial protections in history -- in hi...
SHIRLEY GRIFFITH: Welcome to THE MAKING OF A NATION American history in VOA Special English. The Spanish-American War took place in the late eighteen hundreds during the administration of President William McKinley. On December tenth, eighteen ninety...
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. Americans have never had national education standards. Goals for what public schools should teach are set by state and local school boards. Their members are often elected. But some Americans say the...
STEVE EMBER: Im Steve Ember. FRITZI BODENHEIMER: And Im Fritzi Bodenheimer with EXPLORATIONS in VOA Special English. Today we tell about one of the most important scientific discoveries of the last century -- the development of HeLa cells. Reporter R...
South African researchers at the international AIDS conference in Vienna, Austria have announced major progress in the fight against the disease. The researchers say their study shows a vaginal gel substance reduced the risk of HIV infection among wo...
BOB DOUGHTY: This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS, a program in VOA Special English. Im Bob Doughty. SHIRLEY GRIFFITH: And Im Shirley Griffith. Today we tell about the development of what scientists are calling a synthetic cell a cell produced by people inste...
This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Mike Henry has a two-hectare farm in Palmer, Alaska. About a year and a half ago, his goat Millie was giving him a hard time. She did not want to be milked. She kicked her back legs and stepped into...
BARBARA KLEIN: Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA in VOA Special English. I'm Barbara Klein. STEVE EMBER: And I'm Steve Ember. Today we present the second of two programs about contemporary classical music written by composers working in the United States. W...
This is the VOA Special English Development Report. Food that has come in contact with floodwaters can sicken anyone who eats it. Water from floods may contain animal and human waste. It can also contain other pollutants like chemicals from agricultu...
SHIRLEY GRIFFITH: Im Shirley Griffith with PEOPLE IN AMERICA in VOA Special English. Today we tell about nineteenth century poet Emily Dickinson. (MUSIC) READER: Because I could not stop for Death He kindly stopped for me The carriage held but just o...
This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. (SOUND) Ugandans buried their dead this week after bombings that killed more than seventy people in Kampala. The victims, including an American, were watching the World Cup final on television Sunday at two...
Im Doug Johnson. Today: Some new music from Christina Aguilera. And a report on vocational education in the United States. But first, we talk to some Americans who have retired from their professional lives but still work hard to help others. (MUSIC)...
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. Recently, the United States Supreme Court decided a case on the property rights of inventors. The question was whether a business method is enough of an invention to receive a patent. Patents are a fo...
SHIRLEY GRIFFITH: Welcome to THE MAKING OF A NATION American history in VOA Special English. The Spanish-American War took place in the late eighteen hundreds during the administration of President William McKinley. This week in our series, Harry Mon...
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. One job of an athletic trainer is to treat injured athletes. But does it make a difference if the trainer is male or female? Sometimes, yes , if an injury or condition is a male problem or a female pr...
