DOUG JOHNSON: Welcome to AMERICAN MOSAIC in VOA Special English. (MUSIC) I'm Doug Johnson. Today on our program, we report on the money makers in a marriage ... We answer a question about professional wrestling in America ... And we play music from c
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. It has been one year since President Obama signed the economic recovery bill aimed at pulling the country out of recession. The new bill promised jobs -- including many in the nuclear energy industry.
VOICE ONE: This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. I'm Faith Lapidus. VOICE TWO: And I'm Bob Doughty. This week, we look at the newest devices demonstrated at the recent International Consumer Electronics Show. The show offered a look at
This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Scientists have discovered more details about how plants use water. Their findings could help to engineer plants that grow better and more effectively in conditions with higher levels of carbon diox
VOICE ONE: Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA in VOA Special English. I'm Doug Johnson. VOICE TWO: And I'm Barbara Klein. This week on our program, we finish the story of the Lomax family. They were an influential family of musical folklorists. (MUSIC) VOICE
This is the VOA Special English Development Report. A Western Diamondback rattlesnake in Cave Creek, Arizona Snakes bite an estimated five and a half million people worldwide each year. Experts say tens of thousands of people die from venom poisoning
VOICE ONE: Im Steve Ember. VOICE TWO: And Im Barbara Klein with PEOPLE IN AMERICA in VOA Special English. Today we tell about the life and work of one of Americas greatest music writers: Scott Joplin, the King of Ragtime. (MUSIC) VOICE ONE: That song
HOST: Welcome to AMERICAN MOSAIC in VOA Special English. (MUSIC) I'm Doug Johnson. This week on our program We visit New Orleans, Louisiana, to learn about the recovery efforts since Hurricane Katrina And play music from several of the city's many ja
This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. President Barack Obama has begun his second year in office. The forty-fourth president, and first African-American president, was inaugurated last January twentieth. BARACK OBAMA: Today I say to you that th
VOICE ONE: I'm Faith Lapidus. VOICE TWO: And I'm Bob Doughty with EXPLORATIONS in VOA Special English. The Environmental Film Festival in Washington, D.C., has been bringing movies to America's capital for seventeen years. This year, the twelve-day f
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. March Madness is the name for the busy championship season in American college basketball. But March also means another kind of madness -- the nervous wait for admissions letters from colleges and uni
SHIRLEY GRIFFITH: Im Shirley Griffith. STEVE EMBER: And Im Steve Ember with PEOPLE IN AMERICA in VOA Special English. Today we tell about Lady Bird Johnson. She is best known for being the wife of President Lyndon Baines Johnson who led the nation du
DOUG JOHNSON: Welcome to American Mosaic in VOA Special English. (MUSIC) Im Doug Johnson. Today, we listen to Wake Up, a new album from John Legend and the Roots. And we answer a question about a famous Tennessee Williams play. But first, we tell abo
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. Businesses are still slow to hire and unemployment remains near ten percent. But an economic research group reported this week that the recession in the United States ended in June of last year. It wa
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. Next year, the Peace Corps will celebrate its fiftieth anniversary. Peace Corps volunteers are Americans who teach and work on projects in developing countries. The United States created the Peace Cor
STEVE EMBER: Im Steve Ember. BARBARA KLEIN: And Im Barbara Klein with EXPLORATIONS in VOA Special English. Once a year, the National Geographic Society honors a group of scientists, activists, wildlife experts and artists for their work as explorers
This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. When did the problems begin between the United States and Iran? Many Iranians say it was nineteen fifty-three. That year the United States supported the military overthrow of Mohammed Mossadeq. He was the n
This is the VOA Special English Technology Report, formerly called the Development Report. Before we changed the name, we went on our Facebook page and asked for story ideas. Some of you suggested that we talk about ICT, information and communication
STEVE EMBER: Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA in VOA Special English. I'm Steve Ember. BARBARA KLEIN: And Im Barbara Klein. This week on our program, we take you on a trip through the northeastern state of Vermont, part of the area known as New England. (M
PHOEBE ZIMMERMANN: I'm Phoebe Zimmermann. DOUG JOHNSON: And I'm Doug Johnson with the VOA Special English program PEOPLE IN AMERICA. Every week we tell about a person who was important in the history of the United States. Today, we tell about writer
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