VOICE ONE: Welcome to This is America in VOA Special English. I'm Steve Ember. VOICE TWO: And I'm Barbara Klein. This week we tell about Philip Roth. It would be hard to pick an American writer with more published works, critical praise and honors t...
This is the VOA Special English Development Report. Robert Zoellick is President Bush's choice to head the World Bank. He is fifty-three years old and currently a vice chairman at Goldman Sachs, the New York investment bank. He has held a number of...
ANNOUNCER: Welcome to People in America in VOA Special English. Every week at this time, we tell the story of someone important in the history of the United States. Today, Steve Ember and Shirley Griffith tell about Mary Lyon. She was a leader in wo...
This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. What exactly is genocide? The word was invented by Raphael Lemkin, a Jewish lawyer who fled Poland at the start of World War Two and came to the United States. He lost almost every member of his family to...
HOST: Welcome to AMERICAN MOSAIC in VOA Special English. (MUSIC) I'm Doug Johnson. On our show this week: We answer a question about the Marshall Plan /P Play music from Mary Chapin Carpenter /P And report about a place that helps animals heal. Gent...
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. A question from Vietnam. Listener Nguyen Minh Tan wants to know more about the World Trade Organization and its history. Pascal Lamy is WTO director-general The World Trade Organization came into exi...
