This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. President Obama is back from his first trip to Asia since becoming what he called America's first Pacific president. The president, born in Hawaii, began his eight-day trip in Japan, then visited Singapore...
HOST: Welcome to AMERICAN MOSAIC in VOA Special English. (MUSIC) I'm Mario Ritter. Today: music, photographs and a basketball star, all brought to you from the City of Angels, Los Angeles, California. (MUSIC) 21st Century Family of Man HOST: Over fi...
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. Women are on their way to holding more than half of all American jobs. The latest government report shows that their share of nonfarm jobs nearly reached fifty percent in September. Not only have mor...
Welcome to THE MAKING OF A NATION -- American history in VOA Special English. In eighteen sixty-three, Union forces defeated Confederate forces in the bloodiest battle of the American Civil War -- the Battle of Gettysburg. Soon after that, the Union...
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. College enrollment has reached an all-time high in the United States. About forty percent of all eighteen- to twenty-four-year-olds -- or almost eleven and a half million -- were in school in October...
VOICE ONE: I'm Doug Johnson. VOICE TWO: And I'm Faith Lapidus with EXPLORATIONS in VOA Special English. Jane Goodall is one of the most well known scientists in the world. She has spent most of her career studying wild chimpanzees in a protected are...
This is the VOA Special English Health Report. On Monday, an influential group of medical experts released new guidelines on testing for breast cancer. The guidelines are from the United States Preventive Services Task Force. Its members are appoint...
VOICE ONE: This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. I'm Bob Doughty. VOICE TWO: And I'm Barbara Klein. Today, we will tell about a plan to fight a leading killer of children in developing countries. We will tell about a new way to recogni...
This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. For the past year, the World Food Program has operated a project to prevent hunger in twenty-one countries in Africa. In the project, the United Nations agency works with small farmers to grow more...
ANNOUNCER: Biltmore Estate Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA in VOA Special English. This week, Rich Kleinfeldt and Shirley Griffith are your guides as we take you to the Biltmore Estate. This huge home was built more than a century ago near the mountains...
This is the VOA Special English Development Report. Bikes are delivered to San Jose, Honduras through the Bikes for the World program Americans bought an estimated eighteen and a half million bicycles last year. Some bikes never get much riding. Mos...
VOICE ONE: I'm Ray Freeman. VOICE TWO: And I'm Shirley Griffith with PEOPLE IN AMERICA - a program in Special English by the Voice of America. Every week we tell about someone who was important in the history of the United States. This week we finis...
This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. November eleventh, nineteen eighteen, was the day Germany signed a cease-fire agreement with the Allies in World War One. Some countries observe November eleventh as Armistice Day or Remembrance Day. Firew...
HOST: Welcome to AMERICAN MOSAIC in VOA Special English. (MUSIC) I'm Doug Johnson. This week on our program, we report on several events marking American Indian Heritage Month. We listen to music by the Cherokee National Youth Choir Talk about Presi...
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. A major reform of the American system of health care and insurance has moved farther in Congress than ever before. President Obama wants a final bill passed by the end of the year. But a difficult ro...
