By Mario Ritter 2009-10-15 This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. Economists usually study markets. Now, two Americans have won the Nobel Prize in economics for not studying markets. They will share almost one and a half million dollars fo...
By Shelley Gollust, Dana Demange and Caty Weaver 2009-10-15 HOST: Welcome to AMERICAN MOSAIC in VOA Special English. (MUSIC) I'm Doug Johnson. This week on our program: We play music by Anjulie ... And answer a question about actress Audrey Hepburn ....
By VOA 2009-10-14 This is the VOA Special English Education Report. The American biotechnology industry recently did a study of bioscience education across the country. The biosciences are biology and other sciences that deal with living organisms. P...
By Frank Beardsley 2009-10-14 Welcome to THE MAKING OF A NATION -- American history in VOA Special English. In the early weeks of eighteen sixty-three, the American Civil War took a new political direction. President Abraham Lincoln had announced the...
By Caty Weaver 2009-10-13 This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Pope Benedict named five new saints on Sunday, including a Catholic clergyman who cared for people in a leper colony. A picture of Father Damien at the ceremony making him a sai...
By Kim Varzi 2009-10-13 VOICE ONE: I'm Barbara Klein. VOICE TWO: And I'm Steve Ember with EXPLORATIONS in VOA Special English. Today we tell about hip-hop music with a message. (MUSIC) VOICE ONE: Hip-hop music started in the South Bronx area of New Y...
By Jerilyn Watson 2009-10-12 This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. We talked last week about when and how to prune plants. Today we tell you about some new understanding of why cutting the main branch of a plant or tree can lead to bett...
By June Simms, Jerilyn Watson and Caty Weaver 2009-10-12 VOICE ONE: This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS, in VOA Special English. I'm Bob Doughty. VOICE TWO: And I'm Faith Lapidus. This week, we will tell about an experimental vaccine against the disease AIDS...
By Brianna Blake 2009-10-9 This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. This was the surprise announcement Friday from Oslo, Norway: THORBJOERN JAGLAND, CHAIRMAN: The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided that the Nobel Peace Prize for two thousand ni...
By VOA 2009-10-7 Welcome to THE MAKING OF A NATION American history in VOA Special English. The Civil War began in eighteen sixty-one as a struggle over the right of states to leave the Union. President Abraham Lincoln firmly believed that a state di...
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