DOUG JOHNSON: Welcome to AMERICAN MOSAIC in VOA Special English. (MUSIC)I'm Doug Johnson. This week, we play songs from two new albums from music greats Elton John and Leon Russell and Elvis Costello. We also answer a question about the faces found o...
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. Microfinance is a fast-growing part of the financial industry in many developing countries. Micro lenders give small loans to poor people to start or expand businesses. Microcredit offers a chance to...
BOB DOUGHTY: Welcome to THE MAKING OF A NATION American history in VOA Special English. In nineteen eighteen, on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month, a truce took effect between the Allies and Germany. But not until seven mont...
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. A program in the eastern United States invites young people into a prison to try to scare them away from prison. The goal is to teach them to avoid bad choices and bad influences that could put them b...
BARBARA KLEIN: Im Barbara Klein. STEVE EMBER: And Im Steve Ember with EXPLORATIONS in VOA Special English. A blue hole is a flooded sea cave with a hole that opens up at the lands surface. These cave systems form in carbonate rock, often on islands....
This is the VOA Special English Health Report. An outbreak of cholera in Haiti continues to spread sickness and worry. Health officials are worried that the capital could suffer a major outbreak of the disease. So far most cases in Port-au-Prince hav...
BOB DOUGHTY: This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS, in VOA Special English. Im Bob Doughty. FAITH LAPIDUS: And Im Faith Lapidus. Today, we will tell about a ten-year study of the worlds oceans. We will also tell about four American women who are being honored...
This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Farmers know that if you reduce harmful insects and diseases in your crops, you have a chance for a better harvest. Today, many farmers and experts praise Integrated Pest Management, or IPM. IPM is...
FAITH LAPIDUS: Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA in VOA Special English. Im Faith Lapidus. BOB DOUGHTY: And I'm Bob Doughty. November eleventh is Veterans Day. A veteran is anyone who has served in the armed forces. Veterans Day honors the living. A separat...
This is the VOA Special English Technology Report. The world has almost seven billion people. At least two billion are expected to be on the Internet by January. New growth is mostly from developing countries. Yet only twenty-one percent of their pop...
SHIRLEY GRIFFITH: PEOPLE IN AMERICA, a program in Special English by the Voice of America. (MUSIC)He was one of the greatest saxophone players of all time. He wrote jazz music. He recorded new versions of popular songs. And, he helped make modern jaz...
This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. A shellacking is an especially bad defeat. And that was how President Obama described the elections on Tuesday. His Democratic Party lost control of the House of Representatives. The Democrats retook the Ho...
DOUG JOHNSON: Welcome to AMERICAN MOSAIC in VOA Special English. (MUSIC)I'm Doug Johnson. This week we play new music from Taylor Swift And, answer a question about Veterans Day But first, a report on a group that has built hundreds of playgrounds in...
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. The Federal Reserve calls Americas economic recovery disappointingly slow. So the Federal Reserve decided Wednesday to add six hundred billion dollars to the financial system by the middle of next yea...
BOB DOUGHTY: Welcome to THE MAKING OF A NATION American history in VOA Special English. On November eleventh, nineteen eighteen, a truce was signed ending the hostilities of World War One. The Central Powers -- led by Germany -- had lost. The Allies...
