VOICE ONE: Im Shirley Griffith. VOICE TWO: And Im Steve Ember with PEOPLE IN AMERICA in VOA Special English. Today we tell about Frederick Douglass. He was born a slave, but later became one of Americas greatest leaders. He was an activist, a writer...
HOST: Welcome to AMERICAN MOSAIC, in VOA Special English. (MUSIC) I'm Doug Johnson. On our show this week: We listen to some music from Van Halen /P Answer a question about child care in America /P And report about agricultural fairs held across the...
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This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. Labor relations in the American auto industry took a new turn this week with a deal that many are calling historic. An employee returns to work at the General Motors factory in Warren, Michigan Gener...
VOICE ONE: This is Faith Lapidus. 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 tell about the presidential election of two thousand four. (MUSIC) VOIC...
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. More than half the teachers in the Houston Independent School District, the largest in Texas, have earned merit pay awards this year. Marjorie Hunt-Bluford is one of them. The idea seems reasonable....
ANNOUNCER: EXPLORATIONS -- a program in Special English by the Voice of America. (MUSIC) Neil Armstrong with the X-15 Today, Doug Johnson and Frank Oliver tell about the first airplane that flew out of the Earth's atmosphere. It was designed to test...
This is the VOA Special English Health Report. On September ninth, American football player Kevin Everett of the Buffalo Bills tried to bring down an opponent. There seemed to be nothing unusual about what he did. The twenty-five-year-old Everett pu...
VOICE ONE: This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. Im Faith Lapidus. VOICE TWO: Magnolia trees at the National Arboretum And Im Bob Doughty. Washington, D.C. is home to famous buildings, memorials and museums that visitors love. But it i...
This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. American farmers are raising more goats for meat these days. The Department of Agriculture says the United States had about three million meat goats in July. That was a five percent increase from J...
VOICE ONE: Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA in VOA Special English. I'm Steve Ember. VOICE TWO: And I'm Shirley Griffith. Today we complete the story and songs from the American musical play West Side Story. (MUSIC) VOICE ONE: Some of the greatest artists...
This is the VOA Special English Development Report. UNICEF says a record low number of children are dying before the age of five. The United Nations Children's Fund has records back to nineteen sixty. It says the number has dropped below ten million...
VOICE ONE: Im Gwen Outen. VOICE TWO: And Im Steve Ember with People in America in VOA Special English. Today we tell about one of the greatest painters of the twentieth century, Georgia O'Keeffe. (MUSIC) VOICE ONE: Georgia O'Keeffe America has produ...
This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. Protesters in Jena, Louisiana Thousands of protesters from around the United States marched this week in the small town of Jena, Louisiana. They came in support of six black teenagers arrested for the beat...
HOST: Welcome to AMERICAN MOSAIC in VOA Special English. (MUSIC) I'm Doug Johnson. On our show this week: We listen to some hip-hop music from Talib Kweli /P Answer a question about American slang /P And report about a famous parrot. Alex HOST: A ta...
