Arab-Americans Unhappy with Republican Party Some 300,000 Arab Americans live in Michigan, many of them in the Detroit area. They are part of a close-knit community, built on conservative social values. In the 1990s, more than one-third of Arab-Ameri...
PEOPLE IN AMERICA - Stephen Vincent Benet, 1898-1943: Popular Writer of the Early 1900s, Part Two SARAH LONG: PEOPLE IN AMERICA -- a program in Special English by the Voice of America. Each week at this time, we bring you a story about people who wer...
Gaza Strip runs its first marathon Vocabulary only just barely to hold to stage or host covered it travelled or completed it in relays in teams: each person ran part of the distance distance amount of space between places took it pretty seriously sho...
AMERICAN STORIES - Short Story: The Open Boat Part Two by Stephen Crane BARBARA KLEIN: Now, the VOA Special English program AMERICAN STORIES. (MUSIC) We continue the story of The Open Boat by Stephen Crane. As we told you last week, the story is base...
[00:00.00]5 We all have genius within us [00:04.35]For years,scientists have speculated [00:06.66]that the talents possessed by [00:08.13]so-calledidiots savants- [00:10.46]as depicted by Dustin Hoffman in the film [00:12.97]Rain Man-may be accessibl...
Mon, 3 Jan 11 Duration: 6 mins Listen to the second part of our pantomime. This week, Cinderella meets the charming Prince Stephen. But he only speaks in English idioms! The final part of the pantomime is next week....
