This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. A lot of American farmers have had a rough early winter. In California, frozen oranges In California, citrus growers are facing hundreds of millions of dollars in losses from a freeze earlier this m...
VOICE ONE: Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA in VOA Special English. I'm Steve Ember. VOICE TWO: And I'm Faith Lapidus. Women in American politics is our report this week. (MUSIC) VOICE ONE: Nancy Pelosi won her first election to Congress twenty years ago t...
This is the VOA Special English Development Report. Imagine a world without manufacturers. Or at least not as we now think of them. Instead, we as individuals control the technology to design and make most anything we want. That world exists now in t...
VOICE ONE: I'm Steve Ember. VOICE TWO: And I'm Barbara Klein with People in America in VOA Special English. Today we tell about James Brown, the musician called The Godfather of Soul. (MUSIC) VOICE ONE: James Brown That was James Brown singing his fa...
This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. This week -- new developments in two stories we reported on last year. In August, a federal judge tried to stop what the Bush administration calls the Terrorist Surveillance Program. A presidential order le...
HOST: Welcome to AMERICAN MOSAIC in VOA Special English. (MUSIC) I'm Doug Johnson. This week on our show: Getting ready for the newest members of the Baseball Hall of Fame. A question from Nigeria about the Sears Tower in Chicago ... And a report on...
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. Companies combined or bought other businesses at record levels last year. Almost four trillion dollars in deals worldwide represented an increase of nearly forty percent from the year before. So far i...
VOICE ONE: THE MAKING OF A NATION -- a program in Special English by the Voice of America. (MUSIC) The surrender of Japan in August nineteen forty-five ended the Second World War. Americans looked to their new president, Harry Truman of the state of...
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. We come to the twentieth week of our series on higher education in the United States. Today we answer two e-mails from Thailand. A refugee from Burma and another listener in Thailand both want to know...
VOICE ONE: I'm Shirley Griffith. VOICE TWO: And I'm Mario Ritter with EXPLORATIONS in VOA Special English. We continue our series about ways older Americans are keeping mentally active. Today, we tell about lifelong learning programs. (MUSIC) VOICE O...
This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Our subject this week is children and AIDS. A baby sleeps in her mother's arms next to the anti-AIDS drug nevirapine The United Nations Children's Fund, UNICEF, has just released a report on a campaign l...
VOICE ONE: This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS, in VOA Special English. I'm Bob Doughty. VOICE TWO: And I'm Faith Lapidus. Today we tell about Alzheimer's disease. One century after its discovery, the cause of the disease is still unknown. (MUSIC) VOICE ONE:...
This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. In the United States, the term organic has a legal meaning set by the Department of Agriculture. The department has an official label to mark products that have met the requirements of its National...
VOICE ONE: Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA. I'm Steve Ember. VOICE TWO: And I'm Faith Lapidus. Today we begin a series of reports about living with a disability in America. VOICE ONE: Our series will explore a number of subjects. These include laws that a...
This is the VOA Special English Development Report. Fifty years ago, most people lived in rural areas. But the world has changed. By some point next year, more than half of all people will live in cities, for the first time in history. So says the mo...
