This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. President Obama is proposing rules to limit the size of banks and the risks they can take. He wants to prevent banks from using government-insured deposits to make risky investments. He also wants to...
Welcome to THE MAKING OF A NATION -- American history in VOA Special English. In the spring of eighteen sixty-five, the American Civil War was over. And the president who had led the Union during that war was dead. Abraham Lincoln had been murdered b...
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. Charter schools operate with public money but without many of the rules that govern traditional public schools. In the United States the rules for charter schools differ from state to state. But in ge...
VOICE ONE: I'm Steve Ember. VOICE TWO: And I'm Shirley Griffith with EXPLORATIONS in VOA Special English. Today we get to know more about a famous creature known for its pale skin, pointy teeth and big hunger for human blood. Vampires have held an im...
This is the VOA Special English Health Report. A new study suggests that the brain is even more complex than scientists have recognized A new study of the brain is helping scientists better understand how humans process language. The study is being d...
VOICE ONE: This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. I'm Bob Doughty. VOICE TWO: Protesters on the last day of the climate change conference last month in Copenhagen And I'm Faith Lapidus. This week, we will tell about an agreement to limit...
This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Grasslands need time to rest when cattle and other animals feed on them. Moving animals from one area of pasture to another can provide the time needed for new growth. This is called rotational graz...
VOICE ONE: Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA in VOA Special English. I'm Shirley Griffith. VOICE TWO: And I'm Steve Ember. Lomax is a name well known to historians of American musical culture. Today we have the first of two programs about how the Lomax fami...
This is the VOA Special English Development Report. An Afghan girl receives a dose of polio vaccine The World Health Organization has begun to use a new vaccine against polio. Officials say it will become a major tool in the campaign to end a disease...
VOICE ONE: I'm Steve Ember. VOICE TWO: Margaret Mead And I'm Shirley Griffith with PEOPLE IN AMERICA in VOA Special English. Today we tell about one of the most influential social scientists of the last century -- the cultural anthropologist Margaret...
This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. Food. Water. Medicine. Hope. All that and more is urgently needed after a powerful earthquake wrecked much of Haiti's capital on Tuesday. A Spanish rescuer carries 2-year-old Redjeson Hausteen Claude from a...
Welcome to AMERICAN MOSAIC in VOA Special English. (MUSIC) I'm Doug Johnson. This week on our program we listen to music from superstar Whitney Houston ... And answer a question about the Old Believers religious group ... But first, we meet a new amb...
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. China says it has passed Germany and become the world's top exporter. Exports totaled more than one trillion dollars last year. That was down from two thousand eight, but about thirty billion more tha...
Welcome to THE MAKING OF A NATION -- American history in VOA Special English. President Abraham Lincoln Abraham Lincoln did not live to see the final surrender of the armies of the Confederacy. A Confederate sympathizer shot the president at Ford's T...
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. Today we answer a question from Brazil. Claudio Messias Gentil wants to know about the United States Military Academy at West Point. Cadets at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point celebrate graduat...
