FAITH LAPIDUS: This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS, in VOA Special English. Im Faith Lapidus. BOB DOUGHTY: And Im Bob Doughty. Today we tell about osteoporosis, a disease that can make bones weak so they break easily. (MUSIC) FAITH LAPIDUS: A new study shows...
This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Today we have a test for you -- a vocabulary quiz. The words are all related to agriculture. We start with two questions about terms for plants. Ready? First question: What do we call a plant that l...
BARBARA KLEIN: Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA in VOA Special English. Im Barbara Klein. STEVE EMBER: And Im Steve Ember. This week on our program, we tell you about Lake Champlain and the Finger Lakes in the northeastern United States. (MUSIC) BARBARA KL...
This is the VOA Special English Development Report. There are different ways to store fish. Two ways to keep fish for future use are canning and freezing. Two other methods are drying and smoking. Today we have the first of two reports describing, st...
MARIO RITTER: Im Mario Ritter with PEOPLE IN AMERICA in VOA Special English. Today Jim Tedder tells about modern dancer Isadora Duncan. (MUSIC) JIM TEDDER: Angela Isadora Duncan was born in San Francisco, California in eighteen seventy-seven. She was...
This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. The United States central bank is prepared to take further actions to support the economy if conditions get a lot worse. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke gave that message in a speech Friday in which h...
FAITH LAPIDUS: Welcome to American Mosaic in VOA Special English. (MUSIC) Im Faith Lapidus. Today, we listen to new music from pop singer Katy Perry And we answer a question about famous dancer, choreographer and teacher Isadora Duncan ... But first,...
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. America's biggest carmaker accepted fifty billion dollars in federal aid from the Obama and Bush administrations. People joked that GM meant Government Motors. Now, General Motors could be on the road...
BOB DOUGHTY: Welcome to the MAKING OF A NATION American history in VOA Special English. Theodore Roosevelt was president of the United States during the early years of the twentieth century. He was a forceful leader. His national policies led to soci...
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. More than half of young black men in the United States do not finish high school. Many grow up without fathers and in neighborhoods with gangs, drugs and violence. Sixty percent of those who drop out...
BOB DOUGHTY: Im Bob Doughty. FAITH LAPIDUS: And Im Faith Lapidus with EXPLORATIONS in VOA Special English. Today, we tell about a museum in New York City. It celebrates the people from different nations who came to the United States to live many year...
This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Health experts are calling for action to expand cancer care and control in the developing world. A paper published by the medical journal Lancet says cancer was once thought of mostly as a problem in the...
BARBARA KLEIN: This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS, in VOA Special English. Im Barbara Klein. BOB DOUGHTY: And Im Bob Doughty. Today we remember Hurricane Katrina and tell about the science of severe ocean storms. (MUSIC) BARBARA KLEIN: Many Americans are ob...
This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Russia's Pavlovsk Experimental Station houses one of the oldest seed and plant collections in the world. But this month a court agreed to let the Russian Housing Development Foundation take control...
VOICE ONE: Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA in VOA Special English. I'm Barbara Klein. VOICE TWO: And I'm Steve Ember. This week, we go for a ride through the colorful history of Route 66, a road that has been called The Main Street of America. ((MUSIC: Ro...
