By Caty Weaver 2009-11-17 This is the VOA Special English Health Report. On Monday, an influential group of medical experts released new guidelines on testing for breast cancer. The guidelines are from the United States Preventive Services Task Force...

By Dana Demange 2009-11-17 VOICE ONE: I'm Doug Johnson. VOICE TWO: And I'm Faith Lapidus with EXPLORATIONS in VOA Special English. Jane Goodall is one of the most well known scientists in the world. She has spent most of her career studying wild chim...

By Jerilyn Watson 2009-11-16 This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. For the past year, the World Food Program has operated a project to prevent hunger in twenty-one countries in Africa. In the project, the United Nations agency works wit...

By June Simms and Jerilyn Watson 2009-11-16 VOICE ONE: This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. I'm Bob Doughty. VOICE TWO: And I'm Barbara Klein. Today, we will tell about a plan to fight a leading killer of children in developing countri...

By June Simms 2009-11-15 This is the VOA Special English Development Report. Bikes are delivered to San Jose, Honduras through the Bikes for the World program Americans bought an estimated eighteen and a half million bicycles last year. Some bikes ne...

By Paul Thompson 2009-11-15 ANNOUNCER: Biltmore Estate Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA in VOA Special English. This week, Rich Kleinfeldt and Shirley Griffith are your guides as we take you to the Biltmore Estate. This huge home was built more than a cent...

By VOA 2009-11-14 Now, the VOA Special English program, Words and Their Stories. (MUSIC) Every people has its own way of saying things, its own special expressions. Many everyday American expressions are based on colors. Red is a hot color. Americans...

By VOA 2009-11-13 This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. November eleventh, nineteen eighteen, was the day Germany signed a cease-fire agreement with the Allies in World War One. Some countries observe November eleventh as Armistice Day or Remem...

By Karen Leggett 2009-11-11 This is the VOA Special English Education Report. An American nonprofit organization helps young people around the world to understand important issues, and each other. The Global Nomads Group organizes educational videoco...

By Frank Beardsley 2009-11-11 Welcome to THE MAKING OF A NATION -- American history in VOA Special English. In November of eighteen sixty-three, President Abraham Lincoln traveled to Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. He went there to make a speech at a cerem...