VOICE ONE: This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. I'm Bob Doughty. VOICE TWO: And I'm Barbara Klein. This week, we will tell about evidence that some people can be both fat and healthy. We will also tell about brain aneurysms -- a rare...
This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Too much fishing has reduced many fishery populations by ninety percent or more from their highest recorded numbers. Some fishing seasons last only a few days because the catch limit is quickly rea...
VOICE ONE: Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA in VOA Special English. I'm Bob Doughty. And I'm Barbara Klein. Today on our program, we visit the Bureau of Engraving and Printing in Washington, D.C. to learn about how American dollars are made. Last year, th...
This is the VOA Special English Development Report. A nonprofit group in San Francisco, California, is trying to take bicycle-powered computers to rural villages around the world. The computer was developed with villagers in Laos. The group is the J...
VOICE ONE: This is Gwen Outen. VOICE TWO: And this is Steve Ember with People in America in VOA Special English. Today we tell about Louis Armstrong, one of the greatest jazz musicians. His voice, trumpet-playing skill and creativity continue to inf...
This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. The United Nations General Assembly at UN headquarters in New York Friday Leaders from the one hundred ninety-two members of the United Nations gathered in New York this week for the new General Assembly....
HOST: Welcome to AMERICAN MOSAIC in VOA Special English. (MUSIC) I'm Doug Johnson. This week, a special poetry show: We hear some songs of famous poems by France's First Lady Carla Bruni ... Answer a question about American poet Emily Dickinson And...
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. Many financial companies have moved to other New York streets. But Wall Street still holds its place in the language as the capital of American finance. Now Wall Street is being reshaped by the crisi...
Welcome to THE MAKING OF A NATION American history in VOA Special English. James Monroe In the spring of eighteen twenty, President James Monroe was coming to the end of his first four years as president. He wanted to be elected again. But he faced...
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. Americans use the term college students to mean students either in colleges or universities. Not only that, Americans almost never say going off to university or when I was in university. That sounds...
VOICE ONE: This is Mary Tillotson. VOICE TWO: And this is Steve Ember with the VOA Special English program EXPLORATIONS. Today we visit a small museum in the state of Maryland. It is called the National Cryptologic Museum. It is filled with informat...
This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Bisphenol A is a chemical widely used to make hard, polycarbonate plastic. Food storage containers, reusable water bottles and baby bottles are among the many different products that may contain BPA. BP...
VOICE ONE: This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. I'm Barbara Klein. VOICE TWO: Scientists are bringing the Dead Sea Scrolls to the Internet And I'm Steve Ember. This week, we will tell about an effort to place two thousand year old doc...
This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. A burro is a small donkey. Donkeys are related to horses; both are part of the equine family. Another way people say it is BOOR-oh. The name comes from Spanish and, before that, from a Latin term f...
ANNOUNCER: Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA IN VOA Special English. I'm Faith Lapidus. One of the world's great natural wonders is in the state of New Mexico, in the American Southwest. Nature has created huge moving hills of pure white sand. These sand d...
