This is the VOA Special English Health Report. illustration of brain Alzheimer's disease affects millions of people around the world. American researchers say the disease will affect more than one hundred million people worldwide by the year twenty f...
VOICE ONE: This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. I'm Faith Lapidus. VOICE TWO: Sigmund Freud And I'm Bob Doughty. The work and theories of Sigmund Freud continue to influence many areas of modern culture. VOICE ONE: Today, we explore Fr...
This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Beans are a popular choice for home gardens. The University of Illinois Extension service says bush bean plants need the least amount of work. They stand without support. Green bush beans used to be...
VOICE ONE: Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA in VOA Special English. I'm Faith Lapidus. VOICE TWO: And I'm Steve Ember. Today we travel to the mountains of Wyoming for a trip to Jackson Hole. VOICE ONE: This beautiful valley was named after the nineteenth-c...
This is the VOA Special English Development Report. The HIV virus can be transmitted through breastfeeding The World Health Organization says that breastfeeding is the best way to provide babies with the nutrients and protection against infection the...
VOICE ONE: I'm Shirley Griffith. VOICE TWO: And I'm Steve Ember with People in America in VOA Special English. Today we tell about Lady Bird Johnson. She is best known for being the wife of President Lyndon Baines Johnson who led the nation during th...
Now, the VOA Special English program, Words and Their Stories. (MUSIC) A person's name is very important. Some names also have special meanings in popular American expressions. To better understand what I mean, sit back and listen. You might even wan...
Now the Special English program--American Stories. Our story this week is Keesh. It was written by Jack London. Here is Shep O'Neal to tell you the story. Keesh lived at the edge of the Polar Sea. He had seen 13 suns in the Eskimo way of keeping time...
This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. For the last several weeks, professional athletes have been on the first page of newspapers as much as in the sports pages. Some news stories are about extraordinary careers. Others are about athletes behav...
HOST: Welcome to AMERICAN MOSAIC in VOA Special English. (MUSIC) I'm Doug Johnson. On our show this week: Music from a Canadian singer known as Feist ... A question from Brazil about UFOs ... And watch out -- millions of Crocs are out walking the str...
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. One of the top stories in business news this week was -- business news. Dow Jones agreed to be bought by News Corporation. This means the publisher of the Wall Street Journal will be owned by the medi...
VOICE ONE: This is Mary Tillotson. VOICE TWO: And this is Steve Ember with THE MAKING OF A NATION -- a VOA Special English program about the history of the United States. Today, we continue telling about Bill Clinton, America's forty-second president...
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. More than three hundred secondary school students competed in the thirty-eighth International Physics Olympiad last month in Iran. They came from seventy-three countries, including the United States....
VOICE ONE: EXPLORATIONS -- a program in Special English by the Voice of America. (MUSIC) Members of the US Army Golden Knights parachute team at a performance in North Carolina Have you ever wondered what it would be like to jump out of an airplane w...
This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Itchy skin is a common problem. Severe itching can interfere with sleep or lead to Scratching an itch painful damage from scratching. Now, scientists may have a way to develop new treatments for severe i...
