VOICE ONE: I'm Phoebe Zimmermann. VOICE TWO: And I'm Steve Ember with the VOA Special English program People in America. Today we tell about an unusual man who had many abilities. (MUSIC) VOICE ONE: R. Buckminster Fuller Building designer. Engineer....
This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. President Bush speaking to the nation about his new plan for Iraq President Bush told the American people this week that he plans to send more troops to Iraq. He called the situation there unacceptable and...
HOST: Welcome to AMERICAN MOSAIC, in VOA Special English. (MUSIC) I'm Doug Johnson. On our show this week: We answer a question about sales ... Play some music from a new movie ... And report about a famous American whose life is celebrated about thi...
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. Steve Jobs with the iPhone at MacWorld in San Francisco Apple Computer had a big week. Steve Jobs, the chief executive officer, announced the company would now just be called Apple. And, at its MacWor...
VOICE ONE: THE MAKING OF A NATION -- a program in Special English by the Voice of America. (MUSIC) Throughout history, power passes from one nation to another. Persia, for example, was the world's most powerful nation at the time of Alexander the Gre...
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. Students at the University of Iowa More than five hundred sixty thousand foreign students attended an American college or university during the last school year. It was the seventh straight year with...
VOICE ONE: I'm Barbara Klein. VOICE TWO: And I'm Steve Ember with EXPLORATIONS in VOA Special English. Today we begin a series about ways older Americans are keeping mentally active. We tell about Elderhostel, an organization that considers the world...
This is the VOA Special English Health Report. A mother in Tamil Nadu, India, recently had a question for our new series on children and parenting. This woman in Tuticorin has a son who is almost three years old. He attends a pre-kindergarten school....
VOICE ONE: This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. I'm Doug Johnson. VOICE TWO: Hammerhead sharks in the waters surrounding the small Pacific island of Malpelo, a Colombian wildlife sanctuary and a popular area for divers And I'm Faith La...
This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. The United States government wants to know what the public thinks about its findings on the safety of cloned animals. Cloned dairy cows Cyagra, left, and Genesis at a farm in Maryland The Food and D...
