VOICE ONE: This is Mary Tillotson. VOICE TWO: And this is Steve Ember with THE MAKING OF A NATION -- a VOA Special English program about the history of the United States. (MUSIC) Gerald Ford is sworn-in by Chief Justice Warren Burger. At center is F...
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. We continue our Foreign Student Series this week with a question from a doctor at a hospital in Vietnam. Tran Kinh Thanh in Ho Chi Minh City asks how a foreign doctor can become an American doctor. O...
VOICE ONE: Im Steve Ember. VOICE TWO: And Im Barbara Klein with Explorations in VOA Special English. Today, we complete our story about the influential English writer William Shakespeare. He wrote plays and poems during the late fifteenth and early...
This is the VOA Special English Health Report. A recent study in Tanzania found that when pregnant women took vitamins every day, fewer babies were born too small. Babies that weigh less than two and one-half kilograms at birth have a greater risk o...
VOICE ONE: This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS, in VOA Special English. I'm Barbara Klein. VOICE TWO: And I'm Steve Ember. On our program this week, we will tell about a new study of the Arctic Ocean. Amur leopard We will also tell about a big cat that ani...
This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. The United States has urged China to accept new safety rules for its food and drug exports. American officials said the rules would include a new list of Chinese exporters. Agriculture Secretary Mi...
VOICE ONE: Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA in VOA Special English. I'm Faith Lapidus VOICE TWO: And I'm Steve Ember. Memorial Day two thousand seven is our subject this week. (MUSIC) VOICE ONE: Personal sacrifice and service to a nation might seem like...
This is the VOA Special English Development Report. May 17, 2007: Delegates at the yearly meeting of the African Development Bank in Shanghai, China. The African Development Bank held its yearly meeting in Shanghai, China earlier this month. The ban...
ANNOUNCER: Now, the VOA Special English program, People in America. Today, Shirley Griffith and Steve Ember tell about the jazz singer, Ella Fitzgerald. She was known as America's first lady of song. (MUSIC: How High The Moon) VOICE ONE: Ella Fitzge...
This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. This week in Washington, Congress approved a war spending bill that President Bush said he would sign. There was debate on an immigration bill. And hearings continued into why the Justice Department dismis...
HOST: Welcome to AMERICAN MOSAIC in VOA Special English. (MUSIC) I'm Doug Johnson. On our show this week: We answer a question about racial separation laws of the past /P Play music from Josh Groban /P And report about musical composer Mason Bates....
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. Top officials from the United States and China held two days of trade talks this week in Washington. Chinese Finance Minister Jin Renquing, Vice Premier Wu Yi and US Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson...
VOICE ONE: This is Rich Kleinfeldt. VOICE TWO: And this is Stan Busby with THE MAKING OF A NATION -- a VOA Special English program about the history of the United States. (MUSIC) Today, we complete the story of the thirty-seventh president of the Un...
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. A student at Vietnam National University has a question for our Foreign Student Series. Phuong Lan wants to earn a master's degree in the United States and would like to know about journalism program...
VOICE ONE: Im Steve Ember. VOICE TWO: And Im Barbara Klein with Explorations in VOA Special English. Today, we tell about one of the most influential and skillful writers in the world. For more than four hundred years, people all over the world have...
