This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. University of Delaware scientists say trees can reduce emissions of dust, ammonia and odor from poultry farms Planting trees around poultry farms can improve air and water quality -- and please the
VOICE ONE: Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA in VOA Special English. I'm Faith Lapidus. VOICE TWO: Maurice Sendak And I'm Barbara Klein. This week on our program, we tell about Maurice Sendak, an award winning writer and illustrator of more than one hundre
This is the VOA Special English Development Report. Millions of people around the world cook their food over a smoky fire every day. It is often difficult to find wood for the fire. People who do not have wood must spend large amounts of money on co
This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. Barack Obama shakes hands with supporters in Duryea, Pennsylvania, on Friday Elections in the United States are now less than two months away. The political conventions are over, and campaigning will inten
HOST: Welcome to AMERICAN MOSAIC in VOA Special English. (MUSIC) I'm Doug Johnson. Today we play music from the band Death Cab for Cutie ... Answer a question about American astronaut Neil Armstrong And report on an interesting satellite radio progr
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. Health care costs are a major concern of Americans. The percentage of people covered by private health insurance dropped last year. Yet more people had insurance than the year before. A nurse helps a
VOICE ONE: I'm Shirley Griffith. VOICE TWO: And I'm Rich Kleinfeldt with the Special English program, People in America. Today, we tell the story of Jessica Tandy who died in nineteen ninety-four. She won many awards for her acting during the almost
Welcome to THE MAKING OF A NATION American history in VOA Special English. James Monroe President James Madison retired after two four-year terms. His Republican Party chose another Virginian, James Monroe, as its next presidential candidate. The op
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. This week, the government took control of America's two biggest housing finance companies. Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are under conservatorship. This process of supervision will continue until the ne
HOST: Welcome to AMERICAN MOSAIC in VOA Special English. (MUSIC) I'm Doug Johnson. This week on our show: Music from Wynton Marsalis and Willie Nelson performing together ... And a question from a listener about America's purchase of Alaska from Rus
This is the VOA Special English Development Report. A better rat trap has led to a better life for the Irula tribe in Tamil Nadu state in southeastern India. The improved design has a 95 percent success rate The Irulas are one of the lowest groups i
ANNOUNCER: EXPLORATIONS, a program in Special English on the Voice of America. Today Shirley Griffith and Frank Oliver tell about a famous World War Two pilot, Jimmy Doolittle. (SOUND) VOICE ONE: Jimmy Doolittle He was a scientist, an airplane engin
This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. We have a question from a health worker -- and longtime listener -- in Nigeria. James Uwaifoh says there are many food crops that were grown in the past but not any longer. He wants to know if it w
This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. Thursday marked seven years since the attacks of September eleventh. Americans and others remembered the day al-Qaida terrorists crashed hijacked planes into New York's World Trade Center. A third plane hi
Welcome to THE MAKING OF A NATION American history in VOA Special English. James Monroe In the spring of eighteen twenty, President James Monroe was coming to the end of his first four years as president. He wanted to be elected again. But he faced
ANNOUNCER: Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA IN VOA Special English. I'm Faith Lapidus. One of the world's great natural wonders is in the state of New Mexico, in the American Southwest. Nature has created huge moving hills of pure white sand. These sand d
This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Bisphenol A is a chemical widely used to make hard, polycarbonate plastic. Food storage containers, reusable water bottles and baby bottles are among the many different products that may contain BPA. BP
This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. A burro is a small donkey. Donkeys are related to horses; both are part of the equine family. Another way people say it is BOOR-oh. The name comes from Spanish and, before that, from a Latin term f
VOICE ONE: This is Mary Tillotson. VOICE TWO: And this is Steve Ember with the VOA Special English program EXPLORATIONS. Today we visit a small museum in the state of Maryland. It is called the National Cryptologic Museum. It is filled with informat
VOICE ONE: I'm Shirley Griffith. VOICE TWO: And I'm Steve Ember with People in America in VOA Special English. Today we tell about one of the greatest American presidents, Franklin Delano Roosevelt. (MUSIC) VOICE ONE: Franklin Delano Roosevelt Frank
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