This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. The fall meetings of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund just took place in Washington. Earlier, the bank used its latest World Development Report to call for more investment in agricult...
VOICE ONE: Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA in VOA Special English. Im Barbara Klein. VOICE TWO: And I'm Steve Ember. This week on our program we explore the history of Glen Echo Park in Glen Echo, Maryland. (SOUND) VOICE ONE: Glen Echo Park On a warm aut...
This is the VOA Special English Development Report. The United Nations says more than eight hundred fifty million people do not have enough food. For this year's World Food Day observance last week, VOA reporters examined the current causes of hunge...
VOICE ONE: Im Steve Ember. VOICE TWO: And Im Barbara Klein with PEOPLE IN AMERICA in VOA Special English. Today we tell about Wilma Rudolph, the first American woman to win three gold medals in one Olympics. (MUSIC) VOICE ONE: Wilma Rudolph They cal...
This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. The opening ceremony of the 17th Communist Party Congress in the Great Hall of the People China's Communist Party is meeting this week in Beijing. More than two thousand delegates are electing party leader...
HOST: Welcome to AMERICAN MOSAIC in VOA Special English. (MUSIC) I'm Doug Johnson. On our show this week: We listen to some music from a record company that helps listeners explore different musical traditions /P And we answer a question about Wal-M...
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. Many things perform effectively but not efficiently. To be efficient means to produce a desired effect with as little waste as possible. How can markets be designed to make them more efficient? This...
VOICE ONE: This is Rich Kleinfeldt. VOICE TWO: And this is Sarah Long with the MAKING OF A NATION, a VOA Special English program about the history of the United States. Today, we tell about the first permanent English settlements in North America. (...
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. We talked last week about a movement to build environmentally friendly school buildings in the United States. Today we look at the spread of green studies in higher education. Dominican University of...
VOICE ONE: I'm Steve Ember. VOICE TWO: And I'm Faith Lapidus with EXPLORATIONS in VOA Special English. Today we tell about some men and women who are members of the National Aviation Hall of Fame. They have been honored for what they did for flying....
This is the VOA Special English Health Report. This year's Nobel Prize in medicine will go to three researchers who found a way to learn about the duties of individual genes. They discovered how to inactivate, or knock out, single genes in laborator...
VOICE ONE: This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. I'm Bob Doughty. VOICE TWO: And I'm Faith Lapidus. Today, we examine a new report about the health of the world's many plants and animals. (MUSIC) VOICE ONE: The orangutan is among anima...
This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Rinderpest, foot-and-mouth disease and bluetongue disease are all animal viruses that can ruin a farmer. An outbreak of one disease is bad enough. Britain has been dealing with foot-and-mouth -- an...
VOICE ONE: Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA in VOA Special English. On June twenty-ninth, nineteen fifty-six, President Dwight Eisenhower signed a public works bill. The act of Congress provided federal aid to build the Interstate Highway System. I'm Stev...
This is the VOA Special English Development Report. October sixteenth is World Food Day. The campaign chosen for this year by the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization is The Right to Food. The aim is to demonstrate that human rights are increasing...
