VOICE ONE: This is Rich Kleinfeldt. VOICE TWO: And this is Doug Johnson with THE MAKING OF A NATION -- a VOA Special English program about the history of the United States. (MUSIC) Ronald Reagan Today, we tell about the campaign for president in nin...
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. A student at Xinjiang Normal University in China has a question for our Foreign Student Series. Akbar Mamat wants to go overseas after graduation and would like some information about Washington Univ...
VOICE ONE: I'm Barbara Klein. VOICE TWO: And I'm Steve Ember with EXPLORATIONS in VOA Special English. Today, we tell Mount Everest about efforts to climb Mount Everest. Last month, an eighteen-year-old American became one of the youngest people to...
This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Ovarian cancer is known as a silent killer because it is usually discovered too late to save a woman's life. But three cancer groups in the United States have now agreed on a list of possible early sign...
VOICE ONE: This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. I'm Barbara Klein. VOICE TWO: And I'm Bob Doughty. Scientists who study the Earth tell us that the continents and ocean floors are always moving. Sometimes, this movement is violent and...
This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. (MUSIC) Country singer and songwriter Adrienne Young brings together music and agricultural activism. (MUSIC) She even included seeds in the album cover of her first CD. Adrienne Young wants people...
VOICE ONE: Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA in VOA Special English. I'm Steve Ember. VOICE TWO: And I'm Shirley Griffith. Summer begins this week in the northern part of the world. To celebrate, we play some of our favorite songs about summer. (MUSIC) VOI...
This is the VOA Special English Development Report. The United States has accused several of its Arab allies of being among the worst offenders of human trafficking. The State Department last week released its Trafficking in Persons Report for two t...
VOICE ONE: I'm Phoebe Zimmermann. VOICE TWO: And I'm Doug Johnson with the VOA Special English program, People in America. Every week we tell about a person who was important in the history of the United States. Today, we tell about writer Edith Wha...
This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. This week, the World Health Organization released its first country-by-country look at Smoke from wood fires creates pollution in the home environmental health risks. These include pollution, dangers in th...
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 failed rebellion in American history /P Play music from an award winning Broadway play ... And re...
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. Leaders at the Group of Eight meeting last week in Heiligendamm, Germany, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and German Chancellor Angela Merkel at the G8 Summit in Heiligendamm, Germany discussed is...
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 the administration of the thirty-ninth president...
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. We continue our Foreign Student Series this week with questions from three listeners. Thu Ya Naing from Burma wants to know how many colleges and universities are in the United States. Alexander Roma...
VOICE ONE: Im Steve Ember. VOICE TWO: And Im Barbara Klein with EXPLORATIONS in VOA Special English. At La Colombe coffee A capuccino made by Doug Wolfe at La Colombe shop in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, you can enjoy a tasty cup of coffee as you rea...