VOICE ONE: Im Mary Tillotson. VOICE TWO: And Im Steve Ember with the VOA Special English program PEOPLE IN AMERICA. Today we finish telling about the life of Langston Hughes, known as the poet voice of African Americans. He was one of the most import...
This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. President Bush announced this week that he is not ready to order more troop withdrawals from Iraq. Fifteen months ago, he ordered a temporary increase of thirty thousand troops. The last of those troops ret...
HOST: Welcome to AMERICAN MOSAIC in VOA Special English. (MUSIC) Im Doug Johnson. On our show this week: We play music from the new wave/punk band, the B-52s Answer a listeners question about the famous road called Route 66 And we shine a light on Ma...
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. A house for sale in Cleveland, Ohio Investment banks have long played a part in the financial system. But the recent crisis over securities based on risky home loans has brought them new attention. In...
ANNOUNCER: Welcome to THE MAKING OF A NATION American history in VOA Special English. Today we begin the story of Alexander Hamilton, one of the nation's most important early policy makers. The first government of the United States was weak. It had m...
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. A committee has released its final report on ways to improve math education for American students. President Bush created the National Mathematics Advisory Panel two years ago. Students work on a math...
VOICE ONE: Im Bob Doughty. VOICE TWO: And Im Steve Ember with EXPLORATIONS in VOA Special English. This week we look at an industry that is facing major changes -- the automobile industry. (MUSIC) On the road, near Yosemite, California Americans, pos...
This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Research suggests that the belly is the worst place to have fat Being overweight can lead to high blood pressure, diabetes and heart attacks. But now there may be another reason to lose the fat, especial...
VOICE ONE: This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. I'm Barbara Klein. VOICE TWO: And I'm Bob Doughty. This week, we will tell about icy material shooting up from a moon of the planet Saturn. We will also tell about an experimental drug fo...
This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Villagers plant trees in China's Gansu province last year in an effort to control the spread of deserts Desertification is a process. It changes productive land into useless land. One example of des...
VOICE ONE: Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA in VOA Special English. I'm Barbara Klein. VOICE TWO: And I'm Steve Ember. This week on our program, we visit the historic center of Philadelphia. (MUSIC) VOICE ONE: Philadelphia is a big city on the Delaware Riv...
This is the VOA Special English Development Report. Women students talk with their teacher at Kabul's University in Afghanistan Goldman Sachs Group, the international investment banking company, has launched a new program to provide ten thousand poor...
VOICE ONE: Im Mary Tillotson. VOICE TWO: And Im Steve Ember with the VOA Special English program, PEOPLE IN AMERICA. Today, we tell about writer Langston Hughes, who has been called the poet voice of African-Americans. (MUSIC) VOICE ONE: Langston Hug...
This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. Martin Luther King, Jr. Forty years ago, African American civil rights leader, the Reverend Doctor Martin Luther King, Junior, was shot and killed. He died on April fourth, nineteen sixty-eight in Memphis,...
HOST: Welcome to AMERICAN MOSAIC in VOA Special English. (MUSIC) Im Doug Johnson. On our show this week: We play music by singer/songwriter Emily Jane White Answer a listeners question about the place where America holds its gold And report about a d...
