This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Egypt has fully banned the tradition that some call female circumcision and others call female genital mutilation. The government acted after a girl in southern Egypt died. Her mother took her to a docto...
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 a new airplane from the American company Boeing. We will also tell about warning signs for...
This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Heat and drought are threatening some of America's most productive farmland. The Department of Agriculture says an early summer heat wave across the West has increased demand for water to save dry c...
VOICE ONE: Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA in VOA Special English. I'm Steve Ember. VOICE TWO: And I'm Barbara Klein. This week on our program, come along to a high school reunion in Illinois. (MUSIC) VOICE ONE: A warm sun shines on Scammon Garden on th...
This is the VOA Special English Development Report. Indian child begs for money in New Delhi In September of two thousand, world leaders set eight goals for bringing millions of people out of poverty. These became known as the United Nations Millenni...
VOICE ONE: I'm Phoebe Zimmermann. VOICE TWO: And I'm Dick Rael with the VOA Special English program PEOPLE IN AMERICA. Today, we tell the story of Bob Hope. He was one of the world's most famous comedians. His life in show business lasted for more th...
Now, the VOA Special English program, Words and Their Stories. A persons nose is important for breathing and smelling. The nose is also used in many popular expressions. Some people are able to lead other people by the nose. For example, if a wife le...
This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. On Thursday, the Bush administration reported mixed results in Iraq since the recent addition of thirty thousand American troops. The report is based on eighteen goals known as benchmarks. Congress establis...
HOST: Welcome to AMERICAN MOSAIC, in VOA Special English. (MUSIC) I'm Faith Lapidus. On our show this week: We answer a question from a listener about the Great Lakes... Play music by Bright Eyes... And report about an event called The Big Draw. The...
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. Personal finance is an increasingly complex world. There are more ways to invest money, more ways to save it -- and more ways to lose it. Yet many people are more strangers to this world than they mig...
VOICE ONE: This is Rich Kleinfeldt. VOICE TWO: And this is Tony Riggs with THE MAKING OF A NATION -- a VOA Special English program about the history of the United States. (MUSIC) Today, we tell the story about the presidential election of nineteen ei...
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. Students in uniform at a Texas middle school A listener in Fukuoka, Japan, Shinji Abe, would like to know about school uniform policies in the United States. American schoolchildren often wear uniform...
VOICE ONE: I'm Steve Ember. VOICE TWO: And I'm Barbara Klein with EXPLORATIONS in VOA Special English. Two thousand five hundred years ago, the Greek historian Herodotus is believed to have made a list of what he thought were the most extraordinary s...
This is the VOA Special English Health Report. An allergy is an unusually strong reaction to a substance. Many things can cause allergies. The most common cause is pollen. Trees usually produce pollen in the spring, grasses in the summer and weeds in...
VOICE ONE: Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA in VOA Special English. I'm Barbara Klein. VOICE TWO: And I'm Steve Ember. This week, we tell about the history of one of the most popular and colorful toy products in America. Generations of American children ha...
