VOICE ONE: Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA in VOA Special English. I'm Steve Ember. VOICE TWO: And I'm Faith Lapidus. This week on our program, we have the third part of our series on living with a disability in America. In January we looked at education....
This is the VOA Special English Development Report. Nanotechnology uses matter at the level of molecules and atoms. Researchers are finding different uses for particles with a length of one nanometer, or one-billionth of a meter. These include things...
VOICE ONE: I'm Mary Tillotson. VOICE TWO: And I'm Steve Ember with the VOA Special English program, PEOPLE IN AMERICA. Today we tell about Billy Wilder. He was the director of some of the greatest American movies. (MUSIC) VOICE ONE: Many experts say...
This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. Financial markets around the world took investors on a shaky ride this week. Traders on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange Tuesday, February 27, 2007 On Tuesday, concerns about the health of Chinese m...
Welcome to AMERICAN MOSAIC, in VOA Special English. (MUSIC) I'm Doug Johnson. On our show this week: We answer a question about the state of Texas ... Play some music by world famous musician Yo-Yo Ma ... And report about the successful coffee stores...
TXU logo Big business deals do not often come with a promise to cut greenhouse gases. But that was part of a deal this week for TXU, the biggest electric company in Texas. Its board of directors agreed to a buyout offer led by two private equity grou...
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 period known as the Cold War. VOICE ONE: The Col...
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. The legal age for drinking alcohol in the United States is twenty-one. Underage drinking is a crime but also a common part of college social life. This week in our Foreign Student Series, we look at a...
