This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. A beetle invasion in the United States has killed at least twenty million ash trees. The invasion of the emerald ash borer was first discovered near Detroit, Michigan, in two thousand two. Experts b...
VOICE ONE: Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA in VOA Special English. I'm Barbara Klein. VOICE TWO: Academy Awards ceremony, which takes place Sunday in Los Angeles, California. It is the most exciting event of the year for people who make movies and for peo...
This is the VOA Special English Development Report. The Sahel is the area of Africa that lies between the Sahara desert to the north and more fertile land to the south. The dry plains of the Sahel are mostly treeless. Yet in Niger, one of the nations...
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 and play music by songwriter Jerome Kern. He was the man who helped invent the modern musical play. (MUSIC) VOICE ONE: Jer...
Now, the VOA Special English program, Words and Their Stories. (MUSIC) Baloney is a kind of sausage that many Americans eat often. The word also has another meaning in English. It is used to describe something 鈥?usually something someone says 鈥?tha...
This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. Drew Gilpin Faust will be the first president since 1672 without a Harvard degree On July first, America's oldest university will get its twenty-eighth president but, most notably, its first female presiden...
HOST: Welcome to AMERICAN MOSAIC, in VOA Special English. (MUSIC) I'm Doug Johnson. On our show this week: We answer a question about an American television show ... Play some music from a new album by Norah Jones ... And report about an extremely po...
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. The United States has put new pressure on Japan to import more farm goods from American companies. The American ambassador to Japan said if Japan does not open its markets, then we will just put our r...
VOA慢速，VOICE ONE: This is Doug Johnson. VOICE TWO: And this is Phil Murray with THE MAKING OF A NATION -- a VOA Special English program about the history of the United States. (MUSIC) Today we tell about the Korean War. VOICE ONE: President Dwight Eisenhow...
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. A college is more than just classrooms and laboratories. It represents a working community with a population that can be greater than that of many towns. And college communities have to deal with many...
VOICE ONE: I'm Barbara Klein. VOICE TWO: And I'm Steve Ember with EXPLORATIONS in VOA Special English. Today we tell about freedom of the press around the world. (MUSIC) VOICE ONE: Reporters in Harare, Zimbabwe, march last year as part of World Press...
This is the VOA Special English Health Report. A woman wears a face mask to protect her from polluted air in Lanzhou, China, in December A new study shows that air pollution may be more of a risk for heart disease than scientists have thought. The re...
VOICE ONE: This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. I'm Bob Doughty. VOICE TWO: A chicken trader holds up a bird to be sold at a market in Lagos, Nigeria And I'm Faith Lapidus. Today we begin a series of reports about the disease bird flu....
This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Goats are raised not just for their milk and meat, and their ability to control weeds and help renew grasslands. They can also be valuable for their hair. Cashmere comes from cashmere goats and ango...
VOICE ONE: Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA in VOA Special English. I'm Barbara Klein. VOICE TWO: And I'm Steve Ember. George Washington won the Revolutionary War and was the first president of the United States. But can the man known as the father of his...
