The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. The most you can do is live inside that hope, running down its hallways, touching the walls on both sides. Let me begin that way: with an invocation of your own best hopes, th...
DAVID GREENE, HOST: On the night of October 19th, 1984, Erik Vogel was uneasy about flying. But the young pilot was behind schedule and he felt like his job was on the line. So he took off, as he did most days, shuttling between remote communities do...
Don't talk to strangers. You have heard that phrase uttered by your friends, family, schools and the media for decades. It's a norm. It's a social norm. But it's a special kind of social norm, because it's a social norm that wants to tell us who we c...
SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Open up your email. On any given morning, you might get two or three notes from friends, six or seven from people trying to sell you energy pills, offshore real estate or virility enhancers. And the good news, you've just won the L...
From VOA Learning English, this is THE MAKING OF A NATION American history in Special English. I'm Steve Ember. This week in our series, we continue the story of the American Revolution. The year was seventeen seventy-five. Colonists in Massachusetts...
This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. I'm Barbara Klein. STEVE EMBER: And I'm Steve Ember. Today we tell about headaches, the pain that strikes almost everyone at some time. (MUSIC) BARBARA KLEIN: Have you had a headache recently? If yo...
MRS. OBAMA: Thank you so much. (Applause.) Oh, my goodness. Good evening. Thank you. I am just overwhelmed. And as an honorary degree holder, it is now my pleasure to say, Go Colonels! (Applause.) I want to start by thanking President Whitlock for th...
Welcome to This Is America with VOA Learning English. Today we visit one of Americas great national parks. It is a place of strange and silent beauty. As beautiful as this place is, its name provides evidence of very real danger. Come with Phoebe Zim...
From VOA Learning English, this is IN THE NEWS in Special English. A new American intelligence report this week predicted Asias economic power rising in the coming years. The report says that by the year 2030, the United States will no longer be the...
So I grew up in East Los Angeles, not even realizing I was poor. My dad was a high-ranking gang member who ran the streets. Everyone knew who I was, so I thought I was a pretty big deal, and I was protected, and even though my dad spent most of my li...
Araby - read by Colm Meaney NORTH RICHMOND STREET, being blind, was a quiet street except at the hour when the Christian Brothers' School set the boys free. An uninhabited house of two storeys stood at the blind end, detached from its neighbours in a...
PRESIDENT OBAMA: Well, thank you so much. Everybody, please be seated. Thank you, Dr. Gee, for the wonderful introduction. I suspect the good President may have edited out some other words that were used to describe me. (Laughter.) I appreciate that....
From VOA Learning English, this is Science In The News. Im Mario Ritter. And Im Jeri Watson. Today we tell about an experimental way to cure drug dependency in rats. We also tell about a health threat to one third of all adults. We have a report on a...
Hi again. Nice to have you with us on As It Is. I'm Kelly Jean Kelly. Today we are talking about a man named Shin Dong-hyuk. He spent the first 23 years of life inside a labor camp in North Korea. Hes the only individual born in the labor camp to esc...
This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS, in VOA Special English. I'm Mario Ritter. And I'm Faith Lapidus. Today we tell about Compulsive Hoarding Syndrome. It is both a mental disorder and an issue of public safety. Many people in the United States are looking f...
