This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. Pumping oil in Bahrain When we think of oil, the part of the world that comes to mind first may be the Middle East. But petroleum development takes place worldwide. Nigeria, for example, is the large...
VOICE ONE: This is THE MAKING OF A NATION in VOA Special English. I'm Steve Ember VOICE TWO: And I'm Barbara Klein. This week, we tell about the conflicts among the nations in Europe during the eighteenth century and how they affected North America....
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. A high school student in Pennsylvania works on a math question Recently we asked how you feel about calculators in school. We heard from about thirty people in twelve countries, including a large num...
VOICE ONE: Im Steve Ember. VOICE TWO: And Im Barbara Klein with EXPLORATIONS in VOA Special English. We continue our series of reports about efforts to keep alive some traditional ways of doing things. Today we tell about preserving stories, experie...
This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Scientists have discovered that stored blood loses a life-saving gas. This discovery may explain why a great number of people get sick after receiving stored blood. In recent years, experts have wondere...
VOICE ONE : This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS, in VOA Special English. I'm Bob Doughty. VOICE TWO: And I'm Faith Lapidus. This week, the stories of some medical heroes. (MUSIC) VOICE ONE: At the start of the twentieth century, the United States Army had a...
This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. An American carrot farmer harvests his crop earlier this year Carrots are grown on farms and in family gardens throughout the world. Carrots are easy to raise and easy to harvest. They taste good....
VOICE ONE: Welcome to This Is America in VOA Special English. Im Steve Ember. VOICE TWO: And Im Barbara Klein. The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. is one of the official cultural centers of America. For the past th...
This is the VOA Special English Development Report. A few degrees can make a big difference when it comes to food storage. Foods can go bad if they get too warm. But for many of the world's poor, finding a good way to keep food cool is difficult. Re...
VOICE ONE: Im Phoebe Zimmermann. VOICE TWO: Ray Kroc And Im Steve Ember with PEOPLE IN AMERICA in VOA Special English. Today, we tell about Ray Kroc, the man who helped make the fast food industry famous. He expanded a small business into an interna...
This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. From time to time we are answering questions about the American election process. Today, from Jigawa, Nigeria, Mustapha Aminu Gumel asks why Super Tuesday is so special in the presidential campaign. Super...
HOST: Welcome to AMERICAN MOSAIC, in VOA Special English. (THEME) I'm Doug Johnson. On our show this week: We listen to some music from the group Green Day/P Report about an art show by some very special young artists/P And explain why the day after...
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. With oil around one hundred dollars a barrel, this may be a good time for a short history of petroleum. Petroleum has been important since ancient times. The Greek historian Herodotus told of its use...
VOICE ONE: This is Rich Kleinfeldt. VOICE TWO: And this is Sarah Long with THE MAKING OF A NATION, a VOA Special English program about the history of the United States. Today, we tell about slavery, and how it affected the history of the United Stat...
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. The fourth Thursday in November is Thanksgiving Day in the United States. Tradition says early English settlers known as the Pilgrims held the first celebration in sixteen twenty-one in Plymouth, Mas...
