The Wright Brothers

By Marilyn Christiano Broadcast: November 30, 2003 (THEME) ANNCR: Welcome to People in America from VOA Special English. Today, Sarah Long and Rich Kleinfeldt tell the story of Wilbur and Orville Wrig

Margaret Mead

By Jerily Watson Broadcast: November 23, 2003 (THEME) ANNCR: Welcome to People in America from VOA Special English. Today, Sarah Long and Rich Kleinfeldt tell about one of the most influential social

John. F. Kennedy

By Nancy Steinbach Broadcast: November 16, 2003 (THEME) ANNCR: Welcome to the VOA Special program English People in America. Today, Steve Ember and Sarah Long tell the story of President John Fitzgera

Edgar Allan Poe

By Shelley Gollust Broadcast: October 26, 2003 VOICE ONE: I'm Steve Ember. VOICE TWO: And I'm Faith Lapidus with PEOPLE IN AMERICA from VOA Special English. Today, we tell about Edgar Allan Poe, a nin

John Wesley Powell

Broadcast: October 19, 2003 (MUSIC) VOICE ONE: I'm Shirley Griffith. VOICE TWO: And I'm Ray Freeman with the VOA Special English program People in America. Every week at this time we tell the story of

Ida Tarbell

By Paul Thompson Broadcast: October 12, 2003 (THEME) ANNCR: People in America, a program in Special English on the Voice of America. Every week we tell about a person who was important in the history

Johnny Cash

By Cynthia Kirk Broadcast: October 5, 2003 (THEME) VOICE ONE: I'm Faith Lapidus. VOICE TWO: And I'm Doug Johnson with the VOA Special English program PEOPLE IN AMERICA. Today we tell about world famou

Bob Hope

By George Grow Broadcast: September 14, 2003 (THEME) VOICE ONE: I'm Phoebe Zimmermann. VOICE TWO: And I'm Richard Rael with the VOA Special English program PEOPLE IN AMERICA. Today, we tell the story

Rachel Carson

By Lawan Davis Broadcast: September 7, 2003 (THEME) People in America, a program in Special English on the Voice of America. Today, Steve Ember and Rich Kleinfeldt tell about scientist Rachel Carson.

Katharine Graham

By Rochelle Gollust Broadcast: August 10, 2003 (THEME) VOICE ONE: I'm Shirley Griffith. VOICE TWO: And I'm Doug Johnson with the VOA Special English program, PEOPLE IN AMERICA. Today we tell about Kat

Johnny Appleseed

Broadcast: August 3, 2003 (THEME) VOICE ONE: I'm Faith Lapidus. VOICE TWO: And I'm Steve Ember with the VOA Special English program People in America. Today we tell about a man known as Johnny Applese

Cesar Chavez

by Robert Brumfield Broadcast: July 27, 2003 (THEME) VOICE ONE: I'm Nicole Nichols. VOICE TWO: And I'm Steve Ember with the VOA Special English Program, People in America. Today we tell about one of t

Sam Houston, Part. 1

By George Grow Broadcast: July 6, 2003 (THEME) VOICE ONE: I'm Steve Ember. VOICE TWO: And I'm Phoebe Zimmermann with the VOA Special English program, People in America. Today, we tell the story of Sam

Edwin Hubble

By Marilyn Christiano Broadcast: December 23, 2003 (THEME) ANNOUNCER: EXPLORATIONS -- a program in Special English by the Voice of America. (MUSIC) Today, Richard Rael and Tony Riggs tell the story of

Chief Joseph, Part 1

By Barbara Dash Broacast: December 22, 2003 (THEME) ANNOUNCER: People in America -- a program in Special English by the Voice of America. Every week at this time, we tell the story of a man or a woman

1)Conjoined Twins

By Nancy Steinbach Broadcast: October 29, 2003 This is Faith Lapidus with the VOA Special English Health Report. Some estimates say that one in as many as eighty-thousand of all births results in two

Anti-Aging Research

By Nancy Steinbach Broadcast: September 24, 2003 This is Phoebe Zimmermann with the VOA Special English Health Report. For many years, researchers have been studying ways to extend life and to improve

Cardiovascular Disease and Women

By Nancy Steinbach Broadcast: October 8, 2003 This is Faith Lapidus with the VOA Special English Health Report. The World Health Organization says that each year almost seventeen-million people die of

Efforts to Stop Measles

By Nancy Steinbach Broadcast: October 15, 2003 This is Phoebe Zimmermann with the VOA Special English Health Report. International health leaders meet in Cape Town, South Africa, this week to discuss

Gene Linked to Stroke Risk

By Nancy Steinbach Broadcast: October 1, 2003 This is Faith Lapidus with the VOA Special English Health Report. Scientists in Iceland say they have identified the first gene linked to common forms of