This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. White House officials have begun talks with Congress on a war spending bill in place of the one President Bush vetoed on Tuesday. President Bush speaking at the White House after he vetoed a $124 billion s...
HOST: Welcome to AMERICAN MOSAIC, in VOA Special English. (MUSIC) I'm Doug Johnson. On our show this week: We answer a question about two famous American women /P Play music by Akon /P And tell about a craft show in Washington, D.C. Smithsonian Craf...
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. Robert Nardelli For Robert Nardelli, two thousand seven might seem like a bad year. After all, he resigned in January as chief of the world's largest operator of home-improvement stores. Sales and pr...
VOICE ONE: This is Stan Busby. VOICE TWO: And this is Rich Kleinfeldt with THE MAKING OF A NATION -- a VOA Special English program about the history of the United States. (MUSIC) VOICE ONE: Nineteen sixty-eight was a presidential election year in th...
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. We continue our Foreign Student Series this week with two questions that we received. Anatolii Artamonov, a university student in Ukraine, would like to know about student exchange programs in the Un...
VOICE ONE: I'm Barbara Klein. VOICE TWO: And I'm Steve Ember with Explorations in VOA Special English. Today we tell about new discoveries near Stonehenge, the famous ancient circle of stones in southern England. (MUSIC) VOICE ONE: For thousands of...
This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Scientists may have found a way to reduce shortages of type O blood. Type O is the kind of blood that hospitals most often need. What the researchers are testing is an easier way to make type O blood ou...
VOICE ONE: This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. Im Faith Lapidus. VOICE TWO: Health officials in Kuwait bury hundreds of chickens earlier this year after several cases of bird flu were confirmed And Im Bob Doughty. Today we present th...
This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. A boy carries cassava in the Democratic Republic of Congo A new project will try to protect twenty-one of the world's most important food crops by securing their seeds. Organizers say the project w...
