VOICE ONE: This is Rich Kleinfeldt. VOICE TWO: And this is Phil Murray with THE MAKING OF A NATION -- a VOA Special English program about the history of the United States. (MUSIC) John Fitzgerald Kennedy Our program today is about the beginning of t...
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. This week, in our series for students who want to study in the United States, we tell about the United States Military Academy at West Point. Cadet basic training West Point is a four-year school in...
VOICE ONE: Im Steve Ember. VOICE TWO: Detail from a drawing by Adolf Wolfli from 1910 And Im Barbara Klein with Explorations in VOA Special English. Today, we travel to several countries exploring the world of Outsider Art. This powerful form of cre...
This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Representative Patrick Kennedy speaks about health care in 2006,one week after he was sentenced for driving under the influence of prescription drugs. The United States Food and Drug Administration has...
VOICE ONE: March 2006: An Afghan Agricultural Ministry worker holds two chickens caught in a house in the Kabul area This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS, in VOA Special English. Im Doug Johnson. VOICE TWO: And Im Faith Lapidus. Today we continue a series of...
This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. The United States Department of Agriculture says high demand for ethanol fuel made from corn will mean higher meat prices. In its monthly crop report on March ninth, the department said feed costs...
VOICE ONE: Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA in VOA Special English. I'm Steve Ember. VOICE TWO: And I'm Faith Lapidus. Every family has a story. Today we travel to a farm in the Midwest, the center of American agriculture, to meet the Fitzpatrick family....
This is the VOA Special English Development Report. Seven women were honored last week in Washington for their efforts to expand democracy and womens rights in their countries. The seven from China, Guatemala, India and Sudan received awards from Vi...
ANNOUNCER: Welcome to the VOA Special English program, People in America. Today, Sarah Long and Bob Doughty tell about the inventor Thomas Alva Edison. He had a major effect on the lives of people around the world. Thomas Edison is remembered most f...
This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. Who will be the next person to live here? The next presidential election in the United States is in November of two thousand eight. But a crowd of candidates and possible candidates is forming early for wh...
HOST: Welcome to AMERICAN MOSAIC, in VOA Special English. (MUSIC) I'm Doug Johnson. On our show this week: We answer a question about advertising /P Play some music from Thievery Corporation /P And report about Saint Patrick's Day. Saint Patrick's...
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. Financial markets had a rough week again as investors grew more concerned about the United States housing market. Much of the concern is about home loans to people with poor credit or little history...
VOICE ONE: This is Richard Rael. VOICE TWO: And this is Doug Johnson with THE MAKING OF A NATION -- a VOA Special English program about the history of the United States. (MUSIC) VOICE ONE: Dwight Eisenhower Dwight Eisenhower was elected president in...
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. Our Foreign Student Series continues this week with two examples of military colleges in the United States. One is the Virginia Military Institute. V.M.I. is a public, four-year military college in L...
VOICE ONE: Im Steve Ember. VOICE TWO: Bungee jumping off the Victoria Falls bridge in Zimbabwe And Im Shirley Griffith with EXPLORATIONS in VOA Special English. Imagine standing at the edge of a tall bridge. Hundreds of meters below you, river water...
