This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. People can get sick if they eat food touched by floodwaters. Floodwater may contain human and animal wastes, and other pollutants like agricultural and industrial chemicals. The University of Iowa...
Millions of Americans will celebrate Christmas on December twenty-fifth. It is the most widely celebrated religious holiday in the United States. For the past few weeks, Americans have been preparing for Christmas. I'm Bob Doughty. Shirley Griffith...
This is the VOA Special English Development Report. Microfinance is becoming a big business. It started as a way to provide very small loans to people in developing countries so they could begin to move themselves out of poverty. A few hundred dolla...
VOICE ONE: This is Gwen Outen. VOICE TWO: And this is Steve Ember with People in America in VOA Special English. Every week we tell about a person who was important in the history of the United States. Today we tell the story of athlete Jesse Owens....
This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. An individual, a company and an industry were all in the news this week for reasons unrelated except for the idea of dishonesty. Bernard Madoff was arrested last week The individual was seventy-year-old Be...
HOST: Welcome to AMERICAN MOSAIC in VOA Special English. (MUSIC) I'm Doug Johnson. This week: We listen to holiday music Answer a listener question about snowfall in the United States And, report about some special lights at a museum that help make...
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. The United States Federal Reserve says it will use all available tools to restart economic growth. The central bank's main interest rate is now the lowest in its history. This week the Fed cut its ta...
Welcome to the MAKING OF A NATION American history in VOA Special English. Texas won its independence from Mexico during the administration of President Andrew Jackson. Leaders of the territory then wanted to become part of the United States. Jackso...
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. For the past two weeks, we have talked about the SAT and ACT college admissions tests and the GRE for graduate school. This week in our Foreign Students Series, we move on to English language tests....
VOICE ONE: I'm Steve Ember. VOICE TWO: Anchovies swim above the glass dome of the Monterey Aquarium And I'm Barbara Klein with EXPLORATIONS in VOA Special English. For thousands of years, people have wanted to explore the world under the sea. Such a...
This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Every day, more than two thousand children worldwide die from accidental injury. Each year, as many as three million children are saved from one leading cause of child deaths -- drowning. Yet survivors...
VOICE ONE: This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS, in VOA Special English. I'm Bob Doughty. VOICE TWO: And I'm Faith Lapidus. Wintry conditions are returning to the northern part of the world. Winter brings cold weather and, with it, a danger as old as man's k...
This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. The United Nations says forty million more people around the world went hungry this year, mainly because of higher food prices. Early estimates from the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization show...
VOICE ONE: Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA in VOA Special English. I'm Steve Ember. VOICE TWO: A flag made of reflective tiles at the American History Museum And I'm Shirley Griffith. This week on our program, we visit Washington's new Capitol Visitor Ce...
This is the VOA Special English Development Report. American officials say Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will join talks on Zimbabwe this week at the United Nations. The State Department says the Security Council has failed to take meaningful...
