Welcome to THE MAKING OF A NATION American history in VOA Special English. Just before sunrise on April twelfth, eighteen sixty-one, the first shot was fired in the American Civil War. A heavy mortar roared, sending a shell high over the harbor at C...
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. Last week, we discussed a new study of injuries in physical education classes in American schools. The number of students taken to hospitals increased one and a half times from nineteen ninety-seven...
VOICE ONE: This is Bob Doughty. VOICE TWO: And this is Steve Ember with EXPLORATIONS in VOA Special English. Today we tell about Hoover Dam. It was the largest and most difficult structure of its kind ever built when work started in nineteen thirty-...
This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Strokes are a major cause of death and disability. A stroke is a loss of blood flow in the brain. There are two kinds. An ischemic stroke happens when a blood vessel in the brain gets blocked. A hemorrh...
VOICE ONE: This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. I'm Bob Doughty. VOICE TWO: And I'm Pat Bodnar. Today, we will provide a short guide to first aid. (MUSIC) VOICE ONE: Bystanders give first aid to victims hit by a speeding car during Qu...
This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Three years ago, a study of overfishing led to sharp debate. It warned that the world's ocean fish could be almost gone by the middle of the century. Now, a new study offers more hope. It shows tha...
VOICE ONE: Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA in VOA Special English. I'm Steve Ember. Part of the cultural history of the baby boomers, the generation of Americans born after World War Two, is Woodstock. (MUSIC) The Woodstock Music and Art Fair took place...
This is the VOA Special English Development Report: In two thousand five, Tanya Pinto was a successful young businesswoman in Dallas, Texas. But she decided to take three months off from work at an advertising company to visit her birthplace, India....
VOICE ONE: Im Faith Lapidus. VOICE TWO: And Im Steve Ember with PEOPLE IN AMERICA in VOA Special English. Today, we tell about Diane Arbus, a revolutionary modern photographer. (MUSIC) VOICE ONE: Diane Arbus' photo of a giant man at home with his pa...
This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. Former president Bill Clinton made a surprise visit to North Korea on Tuesday. He met with its leader to gain the release of two detained American journalists. Bill Clinton sits with North Korean Leader Ki...
HOST: Welcome to AMERICAN MOSAIC in VOA Special English. (MUSIC) I'm Doug Johnson. Today, we play music from the new band the Dead Weather And we tell you about a film featuring three greats of the guitar. But first, we answer a question about colle...
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. This week in Washington, Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood announced plans for a distracted driving summit in September. Transportation and law enforcement officials, safety activists and others wi...
Welcome to THE MAKING OF A NATION American history in VOA Special English. On a cold and cloudy day in March of eighteen sixty-one, Abraham Lincoln became the sixteenth president of the United States. In his inaugural speech, the new president annou...
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. Too much eating. Too many unhealthy foods. Too many advertisements for food. Too little activity. Different explanations are offered for America's weight problem -- a problem increasingly shared by o...
VOICE ONE: I'm Faith Lapidus. VOICE TWO: And I'm Steve Ember with EXPLORATIONS in VOA Special English. Today we travel to the boundaries of artistic production by visiting fringe festivals around the world. Something that is on the fringe means it i...
