This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Dominette, a Hereford cow whose genetic material was used in the study Researchers from twenty-five countries have made a genetic map of a cow. Better understanding of what makes a cow a cow could...
VOICE ONE: Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA in VOA Special English. I'm Barbara Klein. VOICE TWO: And I'm Steve Ember. This week, our subject is mothers and how their image has changed over the years in film and television. (MUSIC) VOICE ONE: Anna Jarvis...
This is the VOA Special English Development Report. Every three weeks, a truck drives to a rural community in the Kingdom of Swaziland. The purpose of the trip is to buy the hand-made products of local women and place new orders. The Swazi women mak...
VOICE ONE: I'm Shirley Griffith. VOICE TWO: And I'm Steve Ember with the VOA Special English program, People in America. Today, we tell about one of America's greatest jazz musicians, Charlie Parker. He influenced the direction of jazz music during...
This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. This week we look at President Obama's first one hundred days in office. The tradition of marking the first one hundred days of a new president began with Franklin Delano Roosevelt. He was sworn-in as pres...
Welcome to AMERICAN MOSAIC in VOA Special English. (MUSIC) I'm Doug Johnson. This week We travel to Louisiana for the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival ... And answer a question about a group of landscape painters. But first, we tell about the...
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. The race to save two of America's big three carmakers is entering a new and intense period. In March, the government ordered Chrysler to cut costs and form an alliance with Italian carmaker Fiat by A...
