This is the VOA Special English Education Report. This week in our Foreign Student Series, we talk about applying to an American college or university. International admissions officers advise students to apply to at least three schools. You may be...
VOICE ONE: I'm Steve Ember. VOICE TWO: And I'm Barbara Klein with Explorations in VOA Special English. We received a special request in a letter from a listener in Nagano, Japan. Atsumi Shimoda asked for a report about what the Special English write...
This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Some people's ears produce wax like busy little bees. This can be a problem even though earwax appears to serve an important purpose. Experts say it protects and cleans the ear. It traps dirt and other...
VOICE ONE: This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. I'm Faith Lapidus. VOICE TWO: And I'm Bob Doughty. The work and theories of Sigmund Freud continue to influence many areas of modern culture. VOICE ONE: Today, we explore Freud's influen...
This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Scientists are working to develop crop plants that can reduce the amount of water used for agriculture. Almost sixty percent of the world's freshwater withdrawals from rivers, lakes and other water...
Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA in VOA Special English. I'm Shirley Griffith. If one album had to explain jazz, a strong candidate would be Kind of Blue by the trumpet player and bandleader Miles Davis. This week on our program, Steve Ember and Gwen Oute...
This is the VOA Special English Development Report. Charles Rioba is an engineer and inventor in Kenya. He and his company, Solar World Limited, have developed a product called the PowerPack. The PowerPack is a small solar-lighting system. The devic...
This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. President-elect Barack Obama visited President Bush at the White House on Monday The most commonly heard advice for Barack Obama when he becomes president in January is to govern from the center. In Washin...
This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. President-elect Barack Obama visited President Bush at the White House on Monday The most commonly heard advice for Barack Obama when he becomes president in January is to govern from the center. In Washin...
HOST: Welcome to AMERICAN MOSAIC in VOA Special English. (MUSIC) I'm Doug Johnson. This week: We listen to music from Lucinda Williams Answer a listener question about actor Marlon Brando But first, we remember the popular writer Michael Crichton, w...
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson is making changes in the seven hundred billion dollar rescue plan for the financial industry. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson speaking to reporters Wednesday in Wash...
Welcome to the MAKING OF A NATION American history in VOA Special English. Andrew Jackson served as president of the United States from eighteen twenty-nine to eighteen thirty-seven. His first term seemed to be mostly a political battle with Vice Pr...
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. We are now ten weeks into our Foreign Student Series on higher education in the United States. So far we have talked about planning for school and about subjects like online education and diploma mil...
VOICE ONE: I'm Steve Ember. VOICE TWO: And I'm Barbara Klein with EXPLORATIONS in VOA Special English. Today we tell about the trade in diamonds, a worldwide business worth billions of dollars. (MUSIC: Diamonds Are Forever) VOICE ONE: Diamonds have...
This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Bethesda, Maryland, near Washington, D.C., is home to the National Institutes of Health. N.I.H. calls itself the Nation's Medical Research Agency. But it supports research worldwide with its budget of a...
