This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Pope Benedict named five new saints on Sunday, including a Catholic clergyman who cared for people in a leper colony. A picture of Father Damien at the ceremony making him a saint in Vatican City Father...
VOICE ONE: This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. I'm Bob Doughty. VOICE TWO: And I'm Faith Lapidus. This week, we will tell about an experimental vaccine against the disease AIDS. We also will tell about a newly found hiding place for...
This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. We talked last week about when and how to prune plants. Today we tell you about some new understanding of why cutting the main branch of a plant or tree can lead to better development. The findings...
VOICE ONE: Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA in VOA Special English. I'm Steve Ember. VOICE TWO: More than one hundred thousand visitors attended the festival on the National Mall And I'm Barbara Klein. Today we tell about the National Book Festival in Was...
This is the VOA Special English Development Report. A Question Box in India When you have a question about something, where do you go? For many people the answer is simple. They go online to a search engine like Google or Yahoo. But what about peopl...
VOICE ONE: Im Sarah Long. VOICE TWO: And Im Steve Ember with the VOA Special English program PEOPLE IN AMERICA. Today, we tell the story of Jack Benny. He was one of Americas best-loved funnymen during the twentieth century. (MUSIC) VOICE ONE: Jack...
This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. This was the surprise announcement Friday from Oslo, Norway: THORBJOERN JAGLAND, CHAIRMAN: The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided that the Nobel Peace Prize for two thousand nine is to be awarded to Pre...
HOST: Welcome to AMERICAN MOSAIC in VOA Special English. (MUSIC) I'm Doug Johnson. This week on our program: We play new music by young movie star Scarlett Johansson and guitarist Pete Yorn And answer a question about the American automobile company...
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. Over half the world's people now live in cities. The latest Global Report on Human Settlements says the historic change took place last year. The report came out this week from U.N. Habitat, a United...
Welcome to THE MAKING OF A NATION American history in VOA Special English. The Civil War began in eighteen sixty-one as a struggle over the right of states to leave the Union. President Abraham Lincoln firmly believed that a state did not have that...
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. Last week, we discussed one problem for medical journals: the question of authorship. You would think that all the scientists who took part in a research study would be listed as authors. But that is...
VOICE ONE: I'm Steve Ember. VOICE TWO: And I'm Barbara Klein with EXPLORATIONS in VOA Special English. Today, we take you to one of the most popular and beautiful places in the United States. It is the Grand Canyon in the southwestern state of Arizo...
This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Three scientists based in the United States have won the two thousand nine Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine. They are being honored for their work in the nineteen eighties about the health of cell...
VOICE ONE: This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. I'm Bob Doughty. VOICE TWO: And I'm Shirley Griffith. Today we tell about efforts to save an island in the American state of Maryland. Poplar Island lies about fifty-five kilometers sout...
This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Pruning makes no sense. You cut off parts of a plant. Yet the plant is supposed to grow back even better than before? This demands an answer. The explanation begins with the apical bud. This bud is...
