This is TALK OF THE NATION. I'm Neal Conan, in Washington. Technology's already changed our lives in ways we couldn't have imagined just a few years ago, and now seems ready to reinvent our future. As we continue our series of conversations looking a...
From VOA Learning English, This is AS IT IS. Welcome back! Im Caty Weaver. Growing marijuana and marijuana use are illegal in the United States under federal law. However, eighteen states and the nations capital, Washington, DC, permit the use of mar...
read by Frank McCourt. THERE was no hope for him this time: it was the third stroke. Night after night I had passed the house (it was vacation time) and studied the lighted square of window: and night after night I had found it lighted in the same wa...
I want to talk a little bit today about labor and work. When we think about how people work, the naive intuition we have is that people are like rats in a maze -- that all people care about is money, and the moment we give people money, we can direct...
From VOA Learning English, this is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS in Special English. Im Christopher Cruise. And Im June Simms. Today we tell about evidence that early humans were meat-eaters much earlier than scientists have thought. We also tell about an anci...
STEVE EMBER: Im Steve Ember. SHIRLEY GRIFFITH: And Im Shirley Griffith with EXPLORATIONS in VOA Special English. Every year, the National Geographic Society honors scientists, wildlife experts and others for their work. Each honoree receives a ten th...
This is the VOA Special English Technology Report. Children can spend hours a day looking at computer screens and other digital devices. Some eye care professionals say all that screen time has led to an increase in what they call computer vision syn...
ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: In China, these days, the rapidly growing middle class is boosting demand for foreign goods and retailers are responding. More and more foreign products are showing up in shopping centers. But when it comes to one foreign product...
This is the VOA Special English HEALTH REPORT. This month, the Australian High Court ruled in support of a law that bars tobacco companies from putting their logos or colors on cigarette packages. The European Union is considering a similar ban. But...
This is TALK OF THE NATION. I'm Jennifer Ludden. Don't email the professor, never friend the teacher on Facebook, those are just some of the rules A.J. Jacobs was surprised to learn when he joined millions of other students worldwide who've registere...
SHE sat at the window watching the evening invade the avenue. Her head was leaned against the window curtains and in her nostrils was the odour of dusty cretonne. She was tired. Few people passed. The man out of the last house passed on his way home;...
As a kid, I spent my summers with my grandparents on their ranch in Texas. I helped fix windmills, vaccinate cattle, and do other chores. We also watched soap operas every afternoon, especially Days of our Lives. My grandparents belonged to a Caravan...
RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: So, what's your first memory? You're a baby or a toddler. Maybe it's a specific experience, maybe an impression. Maybe someone's face or just a kind of feeling or sense, or maybe it's a compilation of stories over years. And mayb...
This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. I'm Bob Doughty. And Im Faith Lapidus. This week, we will tell the story of aspirin. People have known since ancient times that aspirin lessens pain and lowers high body temperature. But that is not...
CELESTE HEADLEE, HOST: This is TALK OF THE NATION. I'm Celeste Headlee in Washington. In the summer of 2002, Brian Banks was a promising high school football player with a verbal agreement to play college ball on a scholarship at USC. But when anothe...
