This is the VOA Special English Health Report. A new study examines and compares adult death rates worldwide over the last forty years. For each country, researchers estimated the probability that a fifteen-year-old today will die an early death befo...
BOB DOUGHTY: This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. Im Bob Doughty. STEVE EMBER: And Im Steve Ember. Today we tell about developments in pain control. (MUSIC) BOB DOUGHTY: As recently as the nineteen seventies, little research existed ab...
This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. American officials have suspended all fishing in parts of the Gulf of Mexico for at least ten days because of the huge oil spill. The restrictions will give scientists time to study the effects on s...
FAITH LAPIDUS: Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA in VOA Special English. Im Faith Lapidus. BOB DOUGHTY: And Im Bob Doughty. This week on our program, we tell you about three people who are working to make a difference in the world. (MUSIC) FAITH LAPIDUS: He...
This is the VOA Special English Development Report. Sending and receiving money by text message. Sharing crop prices. Just talking to a loved one far from home. These are some of the ways that mobile phones have changed lives in developing countries....
MARY TILLOTSON: PEOPLE IN AMERICA, a program in Special English on the Voice of America. Today we tell about one of the most successful writers of childrens books. Sarah Long and Steve Ember tell about Doctor Seuss. (MUSIC) SARAH LONG: Doctor Seuss w...
This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. Five years ago this August, Hurricane Katrina struck. Now, American states along the Gulf of Mexico are fearing a different kind of environmental disaster. Oil is flowing from a damaged well one thousand fi...
