This is the VOA Special English Health Report. The word metastasize means to change form, state or position. It is not a word cancer patients want to hear. Cancer can spread in a body two ways. As a tumor grows it may invade neighboring tissue or or...
VOICE ONE: This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. I'm Barbara Klein. VOICE TWO: And I'm Bob Doughty. Today, we will tell about some disorders of the skin, and ways to treat them. (MUSIC) VOICE ONE: Skin. It is the largest organ of the b...
This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Spreading mulch Mulch is important to farmers. Mulch is a protective cover of material that is spread on top of soil. It is usually made out of organic material, like crop waste. Farmers may keep t...
VOICE ONE: Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA in VOA Special English. I'm Faith Lapidus. VOICE TWO: And I'm Steve Ember. This week on our program, we have the last of our four-part series on living with a disability in America. Last month we talked about a...
This is the VOA Special English Development Report. Recently we talked about Voxiva, a provider of information technology systems for health workers in poor countries. This Washington-based company has been working for three years with the government...
ANNOUNCER: People in America a program in Special English about famous Americans of the past. Now, Kay Gallant and Harry Monroe tell the story of nineteenth century poet Emily Dickinson. (MUSIC) Emily Dickinson VOICE ONE: Because I could not stop fo...
