VOICE ONE: I'm Shirley Griffith. VOICE TWO: Marilyn Monroe And I'm Steve Ember with the VOA Special English program PEOPLE IN AMERICA. Today we tell about movie star Marilyn Monroe. She died many years ago, yet still is one of the best known American
This is the VOA Special English Development Report. Scientists are studying ways to make mosquitoes resist malaria-causing parasites Scientists continue to seek better weapons against malaria. Each year the number of cases is in the hundreds of milli
VOICE ONE: Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA in VOA Special English. I'm Bob Doughty. VOICE TWO: And I'm Barbara Klein. This week on our program, we explore a UNESCO World Heritage Site in the American Southwest, near the city of Carlsbad, New Mexico. Carls
This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. American forces in Afghanistan have launched their first offensive since President Obama announced more troops for the war. On Friday, military officials said more than one thousand NATO troops, mostly Amer
HOST: Welcome to AMERICAN MOSAIC in VOA Special English. (MUSIC) I'm Doug Johnson. Today, we play music from a new album by Rosanne Cash And answer a question about the strange secret language called Pig Latin But first, we tell about a business that
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. In recent years, a shining city grew in the desert of Dubai on -- and even off -- the Gulf coast. An island shaped like a palm tree was built for hotels, homes and entertainment. In October of last ye
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. Last week, we told you that the number of foreign students in the United States had reached an all-time high. More than six hundred seventy-one thousand foreign students attended an American college o
VOICE ONE: I'm Steve Ember. VOICE TWO: And I'm Barbara Klein with EXPLORATIONS in VOA Special English. Today, we travel far and wide to learn about some of the rarest languages in the world. Experts say over half of the world's seven thousand languag
This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Tuesday was World AIDS Day, and the latest report on the epidemic provided some reason to celebrate. Experts say new H.I.V. infections have fallen by seventeen percent since two thousand one. Estimates f
VOICE ONE: This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. I'm Bob Doughty. VOICE TWO: And I'm Doug Johnson. November twenty-fourth marked the one hundred fiftieth anniversary of one of the most influential books ever written. Naturalist Charles
This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Rice hulls, or husks, are the protective coverings on grains of rice. Rice with just its hull removed is brown rice. Rice without its hull or bran is white rice. Once rice is harvested, the hulls ar
Welcome to AMERICAN MOSAIC in VOA Special English. (MUSIC) I'm Doug Johnson. This week We travel to Louisiana for the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival ... And answer a question about a group of landscape painters. But first, we tell about the
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. The race to save two of America's big three carmakers is entering a new and intense period. In March, the government ordered Chrysler to cut costs and form an alliance with Italian carmaker Fiat by A
VOICE ONE: I'm Shirley Griffith. VOICE TWO: And I'm Steve Ember with the VOA Special English program, People in America. Today, we tell about one of America's greatest jazz musicians, Charlie Parker. He influenced the direction of jazz music during
This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. This week we look at President Obama's first one hundred days in office. The tradition of marking the first one hundred days of a new president began with Franklin Delano Roosevelt. He was sworn-in as pres
This is the VOA Special English Development Report. Every three weeks, a truck drives to a rural community in the Kingdom of Swaziland. The purpose of the trip is to buy the hand-made products of local women and place new orders. The Swazi women mak
VOICE ONE: Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA in VOA Special English. I'm Barbara Klein. VOICE TWO: And I'm Steve Ember. This week, our subject is mothers and how their image has changed over the years in film and television. (MUSIC) VOICE ONE: Anna Jarvis
This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Dominette, a Hereford cow whose genetic material was used in the study Researchers from twenty-five countries have made a genetic map of a cow. Better understanding of what makes a cow a cow could
VOICE ONE: I'm Faith Lapidus. VOICE TWO: And I'm Bob Doughty with EXPLORATIONS in VOA Special English. Today we tell about female scientists around the world and some of the problems they face. (MUSIC) VOICE ONE: Women have been making scientific di
This is the VOA Special English Health Report. A question from Taiwan: Chung-Li wants to know why his face turns red when he drinks alcohol. A party in Tokyo This effect called facial flushing is a common reaction to alcohol among East Asians. It af
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