VOICE ONE: Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA. Im Barbara Klein. VOICE TWO: And I'm Steve Ember. Next month is the four hundredth anniversary of Britain's first permanent settlement in America. Today, we tell the story of Jamestown. (MUSIC) VOICE ONE: Arti...
This is the VOA Special English Development Report. This year is the thirtieth anniversary of the Program for Appropriate Technology in Health, or PATH. PATH is a nonprofit organization based in Seattle, Washington. A Young HIV positive orphan lies...
VOICE ONE: Im Phoebe Zimmerman. VOICE TWO: And Im Steve Ember with the VOA Special English program People in America. Today we tell about the life and work of the greatest American building designer of the twentieth century, Frank Lloyd Wright. (MUS...
This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. This week, Russia buried its former president with full honors in Moscow. Boris Yeltsin died Monday at age seventy-six. He served from nineteen ninety-one to nineteen ninety-nine. He will always be remembe...
HOST: Welcome to AMERICAN MOSAIC, in VOA Special English. (MUSIC) I'm Doug Johnson. On our show this week: We answer a question about cowboys ... Play music by the Pine Leaf Boys ... And tell about a new kind of cat. Toyger Cats Breeder Judy Sugden...
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. Imagine this: An official in a position of trust helps you choose a company for a service important to your future. You expect that the advice will be in your best interest. What you do not know is t...
VOICE ONE: This is Rich Kleinfeldt. VOICE TWO: And this is Stan Busby with THE MAKING OF A NATION -- a VOA Special English program about the history of the United States. (MUSIC) Today, we tell about life in the United States during the nineteen six...
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. April 23, 2007: A moment of silence observed for each of the 32 Virginia Tech shooting victims Classes began again at Virginia Tech on Monday, one week after the shootings by a student. Seung-Hui Cho...
VOICE ONE: Im Steve Ember. VOICE TWO: And Im Barbara Klein with Explorations in VOA Special English. Today, we tell about the Tuskegee Airmen who served in World War Two. They were the first group of The first class of Tuskegee cadets African-Americ...
This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Last year, researchers reported that breast cancer rates in the United States dropped in two thousand three. That was after about twenty years of rising. Many experts linked the drop to a sharp reductio...
VOICE ONE: This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. Im Barbara Klein. VOICE TWO: And Im Steve Ember. On our program this week, we tell about the disease tuberculosis. It is one of the world's leading infectious diseases. We also tell abou...
This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Melamine is an industrial chemical. So how and why did it get into pet food that caused kidney failure in cats and dogs? And what might be the risk to the human food supply? These are questions tha...
ANNOUNCER: Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA IN VOA Special English. I'm Faith Lapidus. White Sands National Monument One of the worlds great natural wonders is in the state of New Mexico, in the American Southwest. Nature has created huge moving hills of...
This is the VOA Special English Development Report. American officials have been warned that climate change presents a serious threat to national security. The warning came from a group of formermilitary leaders from all of the United States armed s...
VOICE ONE: Im Steve Ember. VOICE TWO: And Im Sarah Long with People in America in VOA Special English. Today, we tell about a woman who worked to make a difference in peoples lives, Barbara Jordan. (MUSIC) VOICE ONE: Barbara Jordan was a lawyer, edu...
