This is the VOA Special English Development Report. The earliest process of making paper was done almost five thousand years ago in Egypt and the Nile Valley. In those days, paper was made from strips of the papyrus plant. Modern paper-making began...
VOICE ONE: This is Mary Tillotson. VOICE TWO: Lucille Ball And this is Steve Ember with the VOA Special English Program PEOPLE IN AMERICA. Today, we tell about the much-loved performer Lucille Ball. Her famous television series, I Love Lucy,was firs...
This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. (SOUND) President Bush giving his speech before a joint session of Congress. Vice President Dick Cheney and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi sit behind him. This week, George W. Bush gave his seventh and final S...
HOST: Welcome to AMERICAN MOSAIC in VOA Special English. (MUSIC) I'm Doug Johnson. On our show this week: We tell about the state-of-the-art sports center that will hold this years Super Bowl /P Answer a listener's question about the band Aerosmith...
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. Last week, France's second largest bank, Societe Generale, announced that a single, middle-level trader had caused the bank to lose over seven billion dollars. It was the largest trading loss by an i...
