HOST: Welcome to AMERICAN MOSAIC, in VOA Special English. (MUSIC) I'm Doug Johnson. On our show this week: We play music by Will Downing Answer a question about the meaning of the American dream And explain Leap Day, February twenty-ninth. (MUSIC) L...
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. This year, something happened at the Academy Awards that had not happened since nineteen sixty-four. All the winners for best acting were from outside the United States. From left, Daniel Day-Lewis,...
ANNOUNCER: Welcome to THE MAKING OF A NATION -- American history in VOA Special English. The history of the United States Constitution is a long and interesting story that we have been telling now for several weeks. Today w e continue with the conve...
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. We continue our series on learning disabilities with a problem that is not considered a learning disability by itself, but it can af fect learning. Our subject is attention deficit disorder, A.D.D.,...
VOICE ONE: This is Phoebe Zimmermann. VOICE TWO: Doc Holliday And this is Doug Johnson with EXPLORATIONS in VOA Special English. Many stories have been told about the old American West. Some are true. Many more are just interesting stories. Today we...
This is the VOA Special English Health Report. A new study shows that unhappiness in middle age, also known as midlife crisis, is a universal experience. Two economists did the study: Andrew Oswald of the University of Warwick in England and David B...
VOICE ONE: This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. I'm Barbara Klein. VOICE TWO: And I'm Bob Doughty. Today we tell about headaches, the head pain that strikes almost everyone at some time. (MUSIC) VOICE ONE: Have you had a headache rece...
This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Wheat supplies around the world are at their lowest level in thirty years. Wheat supplies in the United States are at their lowest in sixty years. But the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organi...
Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA in VOA Special English. I'm Bob Doughty. VOICE TWO: And I'm Barbara Klein. This week on our program, we look at the business of skiing and snowboarding in the United States. (MUSIC) VOICE ONE: A snowboarder catches air nea...
This is the VOA Special English Development Report. Starting a business is never easy. But an organization like TechnoServe can make it easier. A businessman in the American state of Connecticut, Ed Bullard, launched this nonprofit group forty years...
VOICE ONE: Im Steve Ember. VOICE TWO: And I'm Barbara Klein with PEOPLE IN AMERICA in VOA Special English program. Today we report about Annie Oakley, a woman who became famous for her ability to shoot a gun and hit very small objects. (MUSIC) VOICE...
This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. One of the world's longest serving leaders announced this week that he is leaving office after just short of fifty eventful years. Fidel Castro of Cuba is eighty-one years old and in poor health. He named...
HOST: Welcome to AMERICAN MOSAIC in VOA Special English. (MUSIC) I'm Doug Johnson. On our show this week, we tell about the movies, actors and music nominated for Academy Awards. The eightieth Academy Awards ceremony takes place Sunday at the Kodak...
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. Usually we think about material qualities when we think about the pleasure we will get from a product. When something costs a lot, we might think about all the fine work that went into it. But can pr...
ANNOUNCER: Welcome to THE MAKING OF A NATION -- American history in VOA Special English. Detail from ''Washington as Statesman at the Constitutional Convention,'' by Junius Brutus Stearns, 1856 In May of seventeen eighty-seven, a group of America's...
