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ANNOUNCER: People in America, a program in Special English on the Voice of America. (MUSIC) Today, Shep O'Neal and Warren Scheer finish the story of civil right's leader Martin Luther King, Junior. (MUSIC) VOICE ONE: Martin Luther King was born in A

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Now, a Special English program for the New Year. I'm Faith Lapidus. The New Year is the time for new beginnings. It is also the time to buy a new calendar. Yet it can take a lot of time just to choose the right one. There are lots and lots of choice

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VOICE ONE: I'm Steve Ember. VOICE TWO: And I'm Shirley Griffith with EXPLORATIONS in VOA Special English. This week, we hear some unusual sounds from space. Scientists created them by taking radio wave observations and turning them into sound waves

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This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. News of the American central banks interest rate cut this week was the top story in financial markets around the world. In a surprise announcement Tuesday, the Federal Reserve lowered the federal funds rat

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Welcome to THE MAKING OF A NATION American history in VOA Special English. Im Doug Johnson. Today, Tony Riggs and I continue the story of the United States Constitution. (MUSIC) VOICE ONE: In May of seventeen eighty-seven, a group of America's early

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This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. I'm Steve Ember. This week our program is about a mystery as old as time. Bob Doughty and Sarah Long tell about the mystery of time. (MUSIC) VOICE ONE: A sundial at the state Capitol in Olympia, Wa

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VOICE ONE: Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA in VOA Special English. I'm Barbara Klein. VOICE TWO: And I'm Steve Ember. This week on our program, we play some favorite songs about winter. (MUSIC) VOICE ONE: Winter hits Mount Hamilton in San Jose, Californi

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This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Cloned dairy cows at a farm in Maryland The United States government has decided that food from cloned cattle, pigs and goats is safe to eat. The Food and Drug Administration also says it found no

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VOICE ONE: This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. I'm Steve Ember. VOICE TWO: And I'm Barbara Klein. On our program this week, we look at how people become medical doctors in the United States. (MUSIC) VOICE ONE: A medical student in th

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This is the VOA Special English Health Report. We talked last week about a series of new studies of hunger in mothers and children in developing countries. The Lancet medical journal published the series. In it, researchers said poor nutrition in th

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VOICE ONE: Im Bob Doughty. VOICE TWO: And Im Faith Lapidus with EXPLORATIONS in VOA Special English. At the British Museum in London, millions of people every year visit a famous collection of marble statues from the ancient Greek building called th

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This is the VOA Special English Development Report. The Internet search engine company called Google has announced it will give more than twenty-five million dollars in money and investments to help the poor. The money will be spent over the next fi

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Welcome to THE MAKING OF A NATION -- American history in VOA Special English. In May of seventeen eighty-seven, a group of America's early leaders met in Philadelphia. They planned to make changes in the Articles of Confederation. Those articles pro

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This is the VOA Special English Education Report. Today we have the second in a series of reports about the group of disorders known as learning disabilities. Different ones affect reading, writing, listening, speaking or working with numbers. The m