VOICE ONE: Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA in VOA Special English. I'm Barbara Klein. VOICE TWO: And I'm Faith Lapidus. This week, our subject is mothers and how their image has changed over the years in film and television. (MUSIC) VOICE ONE: In the Un...
This is the VOA Special English Development Report. A little money can go a long way, especially in the developing world. This is one of the main beliefs of the non-profit group GlobalGiving. Two former top officials at the World Bank launched Globa...
VOICE ONE: People in America, a program in Special English on the Voice of America. (MUSIC) VOICE ONE: She lived four hundred years ago in what became the American state of Virginia. She was the first Native American to marry a white person. I'm Shi...
This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. Nicolas Sarkosy and Tony Blair meet in Paris on May 11, 2007 Nicolas Sarkozy will take office Wednesday as president of France. He supports labor reforms, tax cuts and strong controls over crime and illega...
HOST: Welcome to AMERICAN MOSAIC in VOA Special English. (MUSIC) I'm Doug Johnson. This week on our show: We answer a question about the Web sites of American presidential candidates ... We also have music by Cortney Tidwell ... And we tell you abou...
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. Susan Athey, an economics professor at Harvard University, has won the John Bates Clark Medal. The American Economics Association awards the Clark Medal to the most promising economists. And it may b...
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 begin the story of America's thirty-seventh president, Richa...
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. A listener in Nigeria has a question about financial aid for blind and visually impaired college students in America. S.A. Ogunlowo in Ile-Ife wants to know if visually impaired foreign students can...
VOICE ONE: This is Steve Ember. VOICE TWO: And this is Sarah Long with the VOA Special English program EXPLORATIONS. Today, we visit two of the most unusual national parks in the United States. They are Volcanoes National Park and Haleakala National...
This is the VOA Special English Health Report. The medical term for a broken bone is a fracture. But there are different kinds of fractures. A single fracture is when a bone is broken in just one place. You may have heard the term hairline fracture....
VOICE ONE: This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. I'm Barbara Klein. VOICE TWO: And I'm Steve Ember. On our program this week, we will tell how fishing for sharks may affect other sea animals. We will also tell about a newly identified...
This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Coffee drinkers are not the only ones willing to pay more for products marked with the words Fairtrade or Fair Trade Certified. Fair-trade teas, bananas, nuts and other products are also available....
ANNOUNCER: Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA in VOA Special English. I'm Barbara Klein. This week on our program, we tell you about two islands in Massachusetts, in the New England area of the northeastern United States. Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket ar...
This is the VOA Special English Development Report. On April twenty-fourth, rebels in eastern Ethiopia attacked a Chinese-owned oil exploration field in the Ogaden area. They killed sixty-five Ethiopians workers and nine Chinese. Seven other Chinese...
VOICE ONE: I'm Shirley Griffith. VOICE TWO: And I'm Steve Ember with the VOA Special English program, People in America. Every week we tell about a person important in the history of the United States. Today, we tell about actor and dancer Gene Kel...
