This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Beets soaking in water Beets are a tasty root vegetable that do not require much work to grow. People might think beets are always dark red. But they can also be pink, yellow or white. Beets with c
This is the VOA Special English Development Report. Some young engineers from the United States have brought the Internet to several areas of rural Kenya. Their idea was to connect the communities to the Web by satellite. But there was a problem. Th
This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Researchers say more than half of young people who use MySpace often discuss high-risk behaviors. Two studies of the social networking site recently appeared in the Archives of Pediatric and Adolescent
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. This week in our Foreign Student Series, we look at financial aid that comes in ships. Scholarships, fellowships and assistantships. But first we talk about financial aid of another kind: grants. A g
This is the VOA Special English Health Report. A new study suggests that the more teenagers watch television, the more likely they are to develop depression as young adults. But the extent to which TV may or may not be to blame is a question that th
VOICE ONE: Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA in VOA Special English. I'm Steve Ember. VOICE TWO: Edgar Allan Poe And I'm Shirley Griffith. This year is the two hundredth anniversary of the birth of writer Edgar Allan Poe. The United States Postal Service i
VOICE ONE: Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA in VOA Special English. Im Faith Lapidus. VOICE TWO: And I'm Steve Ember. Today we travel to the mountains of Wyoming for a trip to Jackson Hole. VOICE ONE: This beautiful valley was named after the nineteenth-c
VOICE ONE: I'm Steve Ember. VOICE TWO: And I'm Barbara Klein with EXPLORATIONS in VOA Special English. Today we tell about the reporter and food expert Michael Pollan. Mister Pollan is a professor of journalism at the University of California, Berke
VOICE ONE: This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. I'm Faith Lapidus. VOICE TWO: And I'm Bob Doughty. Our subject this week is sports doping. (MUSIC) VOICE ONE: Sports have long been part of popular culture. In the United States, some pl
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. President Barack Obama has a plan to deal with a central cause of the economic crisis: America's troubled housing market. PRESIDENT OBAMA: Through this plan, we will help between seven and nine milli
This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. This week marked Barack Obama's first month as president -- and his first major action as commander-in-chief. He approved seventeen thousand more troops for Afghanistan. The security situation is getting w
VOICE ONE: I'm Mary Tillotson. VOICE TWO: And I'm Steve Ember with the VOA Special English program PEOPLE IN AMERICA. Today, we tell about writer Zora Neale Hurston. She was one of the most recognized black women writers. She wrote seven books and m
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 one explanation for many trees dying in the western United States. We will tell about a project to make e
This is the VOA Special English Development Report. Health officials in the Democratic Republic of Congo have declared the end of an outbreak of Ebola virus. Cases were first identified in December in the southern province of Kasai Occidental. The W
HOST: Welcome to AMERICAN MOSAIC in VOA Special English. (MUSIC) Workers finish the preparation and mailing of final Oscar ballots in January I'm Doug Johnson. On our show this week -- the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences presents its yea
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 tell about pets in the United States. (MUSIC) VOICE ONE: Stump was winner of Best in Show at this year's We
This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. President Richard Nixon used to say that the first civil right of every American is the right to be free from domestic violence. That was forty years ago, a time of civil disorder and high crime. Domestic
VOICE ONE: I'm Steve Ember. VOICE TWO: Charles Darwin And I'm Barbara Klein with EXPLORATIONS in VOA Special English. This month is the two hundredth anniversary of the birth of one of the most influential thinkers in science history. Charles Darwin
This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. We talked last week about growing beets. Today we have advice about growing another root vegetable, carrots. Carrots are easy to raise and easy to harvest. They taste good. And they contain a lot o
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. Copies of the budget plan at the Government Printing Office in Washington President Barack Obama on Thursday proposed his first budget to Congress. He wants to let the Bush administration's tax cuts
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