This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. What do young Americans think about the presidential candidates and social issues? A new public opinion study shows that the majority of young people support Democrats over Republicans. The young people al...
HOST: Welcome to AMERICAN MOSAIC, in VOA Special English. (MUSIC) I'm Doug Johnson. On our show this week: We answer a question from a listener about a place called Hell's Kitchen/P Play music by Chris Daughtry and his new rock group/P And report ab...
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. United States Secretary of Agriculture Mike Johanns at World Trade Organization headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, Friday, June 22, 2007. Talks meant to end disagreement over international trade fa...
VOICE ONE: This is Rich Kleinfeldt. VOICE TWO: And this is Warren Scheer with THE MAKING OF A NATION -- a VOA Special English program about the history of the United States. (MUSIC) Today, we continue the story of America's fortieth president, Ronal...
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. Summer means the end of another school year in America. May and June are graduation season. A group of Brown University undergraduates before Brown's graduation ceremony in Providence, Rhode Island....
VOICE ONE: Im Steve Ember. VOICE TWO: And Im Barbara Klein with EXPLORATIONS in VOA Special English. Today we tell about a program in the nineteen sixties to train women as astronauts. Today they are known as the Mercury Thirteen. They never reached...
This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Hand washing is a powerful way to prevent the spread of disease. The World Bank, the United Nations and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine did a study to urge hand washing around the wor...
VOICE ONE: This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS, in VOA Special English. I'm Steve Ember. VOICE TWO: And I'm Barbara Klein. This week, we tell about America's Food and Drug Administration. (MUSIC) VOICE ONE: The Food and Drug Administration is an agency of t...
This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Someday, rice plants might not only provide food but also a way to prevent cholera and other diseases. Cholera is a bacterial infection of the intestines. Today it is found mostly in Africa, Asia a...
VOICE ONE: Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA in VOA Special English. I'm Steve Ember. VOICE TWO: And Im Barbara Klein. Our subject this week is women in the spy business. (MUSIC) VOICE ONE: Valerie Wilson before a US congressional committee Her husband cal...
This is the VOA Special English Development Report. Officials from some of the worlds leading banks were in the Netherlands last week for a conference on microfinance lending. The Dutch government and the nonprofit organization Women's World Banking...
ANNOUNCER: Welcome to the VOA Special English program PEOPLE IN AMERICA. Today, William Randolph Hearst Steve Ember and Rich Kleinfeldt tell about American publisher . Mister Hearst created what was once the nation's largest newspaper organization....
This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. A Hamas militant holds up a Hamas flag on a watch tower of the Preventive Security headquarters in Gaza City. Hamas captured the compound from Fatah forces. For a week now, Palestinians have had to deal wi...
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 movie Titanic ... We also have music by three British singers who are popular in the United States ... And we lo...
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. Bonds have been in the news a lot in the last few weeks. Yields on the ten-year United States Treasury note jumped to their highest level in five years, before easing. Bonds are debt owed by a govern...
