VOICE ONE: Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA in VOA Special English. I'm Steve Ember. VOICE TWO: An artist's drawing shows a lawyer giving his closing arguments to the jury during a federal court case in Washington, D.C. in 2007. And I'm Barbara Klein. Thi...
This is the VOA Special English Development Report. Workers clean up lead paint at a building in Providence, Rhode Island in 2006. A new study shows that lead-based paint remains a worldwide threat to public health. Paint containing lead is a major...
VOICE ONE: Im Steve Ember. VOICE TWO: And Im Barbara Klein with People in America in VOA Special English. Today we tell about Eugene McCarthy. His campaign for the presidency in nineteen sixty-eight increased popular opposition to the war in Vietnam...
This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. This week, Americans said goodbye to the last son of one of the nation's most politically influential families. Senator Edward Kennedy died Tuesday of brain cancer. He was seventy-seven. A visitor writes i...
HOST: Welcome to AMERICAN MOSAIC in VOA Special English. (MUSIC) I'm Mario Ritter. This week on our program, we play some new music from the Dave Matthews Band ... And answer a question about the term yellow journalism ... But first, we report on a...
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. The government says the United States economy shrank at an annual rate of one percent in April, May and June. The decrease was less than expected, and much less than at the start of the year. The imp...
Welcome to THE MAKING OF A NATION -- American history in VOA Special English. The battle between the North and the South spread in the summer of eighteen sixty-one. Union soldiers fought pro-southern rioters in the streets of Baltimore and Saint Lou...
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. California has a new program called the Digital Textbook Initiative. ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER: Starting this fall with high school math and science, we will be the first state in the nation -- the first...
VOICE ONE: This is Phoebe Zimmerman. VOICE TWO: And this is Steve Ember with the VOA Special English program EXPLORATIONS. Today we visit one of America's great national parks. It is a place of strange and silent beauty. As beautiful as this place i...
This is the VOA Special English Health Report. The next time you think about going without sleep, consider this: Laboratory animals that are kept awake for long periods of time ... die. Yet sleep scientist Ying-Hui Fu at the University of California...
VOICE ONE: This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. I'm Steve Ember. VOICE TWO: And I'm Shirley Griffith. This week, we will tell about evidence that something big struck the planet Jupiter. We will also tell about a long ignored organ in...
This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Just because a plant looks nice does not mean you should eat it. Farmers learn this lesson tragically sometimes when their animals feed on wild plants. In fact, some of the nicest looking plants in...
VOICE ONE: Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA in VOA Special English. I'm Steve Ember. VOICE TWO: And I'm Shirley Griffith. Our subject this week is the teenage investigator in one of the most successful children's book series of all time -- Nancy Drew. SUS...
This is the VOA Special English Development Report. In two thousand three, the government of Kenya established a program of free primary education for all children. But there are not enough public schools for all the children who live in the crowded...
VOICE ONE: Im Faith Lapidus. VOICE TWO: Eunice Kennedy Shriver And Im Bob Doughty with PEOPLE IN AMERICA in VOA Special English. Today we tell about Eunice Kennedy Shriver. She was a member of one of the most famous families in American politics. Sh...