This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. American forces in Afghanistan have launched their first offensive since President Obama announced more troops for the war. On Friday, military officials said more than one thousand NATO troops, mostly Amer...
HOST: Welcome to AMERICAN MOSAIC in VOA Special English. (MUSIC) I'm Doug Johnson. Today, we play music from a new album by Rosanne Cash And answer a question about the strange secret language called Pig Latin But first, we tell about a business that...
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. In recent years, a shining city grew in the desert of Dubai on -- and even off -- the Gulf coast. An island shaped like a palm tree was built for hotels, homes and entertainment. In October of last ye...
Welcome to THE MAKING OF A NATION -- American history in VOA Special English. In eighteen sixty-four, the battle at Cold Harbor in Virginia ended a month of fighting by the Union Army of the Potomac. The campaign had brought the army almost to the ed...
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. Last week, we told you that the number of foreign students in the United States had reached an all-time high. More than six hundred seventy-one thousand foreign students attended an American college o...
VOICE ONE: I'm Steve Ember. VOICE TWO: And I'm Barbara Klein with EXPLORATIONS in VOA Special English. Today, we travel far and wide to learn about some of the rarest languages in the world. Experts say over half of the world's seven thousand languag...
This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Tuesday was World AIDS Day, and the latest report on the epidemic provided some reason to celebrate. Experts say new H.I.V. infections have fallen by seventeen percent since two thousand one. Estimates f...
VOICE ONE: This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. I'm Bob Doughty. VOICE TWO: And I'm Doug Johnson. November twenty-fourth marked the one hundred fiftieth anniversary of one of the most influential books ever written. Naturalist Charles...
This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Rice hulls, or husks, are the protective coverings on grains of rice. Rice with just its hull removed is brown rice. Rice without its hull or bran is white rice. Once rice is harvested, the hulls ar...
