This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Today we have the second half of a report about some concerns with the use of drug- treated coronary stents. These are small metal tubes designed to be placed inside arteries in heart patients. The sten...
VOICE ONE: This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS, in VOA Special English. I'm Barbara Klein. VOICE TWO: And I'm Steve Ember. On our program this week, we will tell about an animal that can reproduce without mating. We also will tell about a Swedish man who d...
This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Rabbits in a cage Rabbits are easy to raise. The long-eared animals are clean and quiet. They do not need a lot of room. And you do not have to spend a lot of money to feed them. With rabbits, you...
VOICE ONE: Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA in VOA Special English. I'm Steve Ember. VOICE TWO: And I'm Barbara Klein. We turn our attention this week to the NBA, the National Basketball Association, and its growing international reach. (SOUND) VOICE ONE:...
This is the VOA Special English Development Report. The Asian Development Bank was created in nineteen sixty-six, two years after the African Development Bank. Today both of them are talking about needed reforms to better serve their member countrie...
VOICE ONE: I'm Shirley Griffith. VOICE TWO: And I'm Ray Freeman with the VOA Special English program, People in America. Every week we tell about someone important in the history of the United States. This week we tell about black singer and songwri...
This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. Forty years ago this week, Israel, fearing a threat of destruction, defeated three Arab Israeli soldiers stand at the Western Wall, Judaism's holiest place, which was captured by Israel 40 years ago from J...
HOST: Welcome to AMERICAN MOSAIC, in VOA Special English. (MUSIC) I'm Doug Johnson. On our show this week: We answer a question from a listener about Jim Carrey/P Play music from Miranda Lambert/P And report about a national spelling contest. Nation...
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. Today we have the second half of a report on the history of the World Trade Organization. The W.T.O. was created in nineteen ninety-five after the eighth round of world trade talks. The rounds began...
VOICE ONE: This is Rich Kleinfeldt. VOICE TWO: And this is Richard Rael with THE MAKING OF A NATION -- a VOA Special English program about the history of the United States. (MUSIC) Today, we tell about the presidential election of nineteen seventy-s...
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. A Chinese woman studying business law in Japan has a question about studying a different kind of law. Wang Yuxian says she is a Christian and would like to know about theological seminary programs fo...
VOICE ONE: I'm Steve Ember. VOICE TWO: And I'm Barbara Klein with EXPLORATIONS in VOA Special English. Today we tell about the National Wildlife Refuge System that protects wildlife in the United States. (MUSIC) VOICE ONE: In nineteen-oh-three, the...
This is the VOA Special English Health Report. A coronary stent is a small tube that is used to treat heart patients. The tube is made of A stent is a tube of wire mesh wire mesh. Doctors place it inside an artery that has narrowed. They expand the...
VOICE ONE: This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. I'm Bob Doughty. VOICE TWO: And I'm Faith Lapidus. On our program this week, we will tell about the new United Nations report on climate change. We will also tell about an ancient burial...
This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Sorghum farmers in eastern Uganda, working with scientists, have tested some lower-cost ways to improve their soil. Little rain and poor soil fertility are problems in that area, as in other parts...
