FAITH LAPIDUS: Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA in VOA Special English. Im Faith Lapidus. STEVE EMBER: And Im Steve Ember. This week on our program, we look at the new Congress in Washington. (MUSIC) FAITH LAPIDUS: The one hundred twelfth Congress opened l...
Abby: hi, my name's Abby. What's your name? Colin: I'm colin. It's nice to meet you. What do you do? A: I'm a freelance English teacher. How about you? C: I'm in between jobs at the moment. A: what kind of job are you looking for? C: I'd like to find...
A small group of villages in Senegal is slowly reversing the migration of workers to urban areas by creating community-driven employment opportunities at home. In 1988, Yanhobah Sy did the opposite of what hundreds of thousands of other Senegalese we...
Think of What You Have Instead of What You Want In over a dozen years as a stress consultant1)，one of the most pervasive2) and destructive3) mental tendencies4) I've seen is that of focusing on what we want instead of what we have．It doesn't seem...
By Terry FitzPatrick Cape Town 21 April 2008 A new type of business consultant is emerging in South Africa. They help companies complete racial scorecards the government now requires under its black economic empowerment program. Some observers say th...
