By Brianna Blake 2009-12-11 This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. In Copenhagen, Denmark, the United Nations Climate Change Conference opened this week. Around fifteen thousand delegates and observers from nearly two hundred countries are there...
By Mario Ritter 2009-12-10 This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. Dubai's recent debt problems have brought attention to the growth of Islamic finance. A government-owned group of companies, Dubai World, has been seeking to restructure twe...
By June Simms and Caty Weaver 2009-12-10 HOST: Welcome to AMERICAN MOSAIC in VOA Special English. (MUSIC) I'm Doug Johnson. Today, we play music from a new album by Animal Collective ... And answer a question about funeral traditions in the United St...
By Nancy Steinbach 2009-12-9 This is the VOA Special English Education Report. Bess Lomax Hawes was an American folk musician, singer and teacher who died last month at the age of eighty-eight. She came from a family of music historians. She helped h...
By Frank Beardsley 2009-12-9 Welcome to THE MAKING OF A NATION American history in VOA Special English. In eighteen sixty-four the Union of northern states and the Confederacy of southern states were still fighting.The Civil War began in eighteen six...
By Caty Weaver and Marisel Salazar 2009-12-8 VOICE ONE: I'm Doug Johnson. VOICE TWO: Climbing in the Adirondack Mountains in New York State And I'm Bob Doughty with EXPLORATIONS in VOA Special English. Some people say the higher you climb, the harder...
By Jerilyn Watson 2009-12-7 This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Some pirates catch fish instead of ships. The problem is known as illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing. Such fishing harms the productivity of fisheries, and hurts...
By Jerilyn Watson and Caty Weaver 2009-12-7 VOICE ONE: This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS, in VOA Special English. I'm Doug Johnson. VOICE TWO: And I'm Mario Ritter. Today, we will tell about the two thousand nine Nobel Prizes for discoveries in science. We...
By June Simms 2009-12-6 This is the VOA Special English Development Report. Scientists are studying ways to make mosquitoes resist malaria-causing parasites Scientists continue to seek better weapons against malaria. Each year the number of cases is...
By Nancy Steinbach 2009-12-6 VOICE ONE: Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA in VOA Special English. I'm Bob Doughty. VOICE TWO: And I'm Barbara Klein. This week on our program, we explore a UNESCO World Heritage Site in the American Southwest, near the city o...
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