U.S. Begins Chemical Weapons Burn

By Cynthia Kirk Broadcast: August 15, 2003 This is Bill White with the VOA Special English Environment Report. In the United States, the Army has started to destroy old chemical weapons at a base in t

World Bank Calls for Better Public Services

By Jill Moss Broadcast: September 29, 2003 This is Robert Covent with the VOA Special English Development Report. The World Bank says the poor quality of public services in developing countries is hur

UN Treaty Against Organized Crime

By Jill Moss Broadcast: October 6, 2003 This is Robert Covent with the VOA Special English Development Report. The first treaty to fight organized criminal groups around the world is now a part of int

Telemarketing

By Jill Moss Broadcast: October 13, 2003 This is Robert Covent with the Special English Development Report. People who sell goods and services over the telephone are called 1)telemarketers. India, the

VOA慢速英语2003年-发展与科学 World Sight Day

By Jill Moss Broadcast: October 20, 2003 This is Faith Lapidus with the VOA Special English Development Report. An estimated one-hundred-thirty-five million people have low vision. Forty to forty-five

Maternal Death Rates

By Jill Moss Broadcast: October 27, 2003 This is Doug Johnson with the VOA Special English Development Report. A study finds that one out of sixteen women in Africa will die during 1)pregnancy or 2)ch

Microcredit Summit Campaign

By Jill Moss Broadcast: November 10, 2003 This is Robert Covent with the VOA Special English Development Report. In many developing nations, more than fifty percent of workers are self-employed. They

Pfizer Adds to Fight to End Blindness from Trachoma

By Jill Moss Broadcast: November 17, 2003 This is Steve Ember with the VOA Special English Development Report. The drug company Pfizer says it will give enough medicine free of charge to treat about n

Old Chemical Weapons in the Baltic Sea

By Caty Weaver Broadcast: July 11, 2003 This is Bill White with the VOA Special English Environment Report. The 1)Baltic Sea is home to thousands of tons of old chemical weapons. Britain, the Soviet U

Babies and Intelligence

By George Grow Broadcast: September 2, 2003 VOICE ONE: This is Sarah Long. VOICE TWO: And this is Bob Doughty with SCIENCE IN THE NEWS, a VOA Special English program about recent developments in scien

Study Finds Huge Drop in Caribbean Coral

By Caty Weaver Broadcast: August 8, 2003 This is Bill White with the VOA Special English Environment Report. A new study shows an eighty percent decrease of hard coral in the Caribbean Sea over the pa

Working with Clay

By Gary Garriott Broadcast: September 15, 2003 This is Robert Covent with the VOA Special English Development Report. 1)Clay is found almost everywhere in the world. It is formed by the action of wind

Blackout in U.S., Canada

By Caty Weaver Broadcast: August: 22 2003 This is Steve Ember with the VOA Special English Environment Report. Last week millions of people in the United States and Canada suddenly found themselves in

Bush Chooses Utah Governor to Head the Environmental Protect

By Mario Ritter Broadcast: August 29, 2003 This is Steve Ember with the VOA Special English Environment Report. President Bush has nominated the governor of 1)Utah, Mike Leavitt, to head the Environmen

Recycling Scrap Metal

By Gary Garriott Broadcast: November 3, 2003 This is Steve Ember with the VOA Special English Development Report. People have been recycling metals for hundreds of years. Today, re-using metal waste o

VOA慢速英语2003年-发展与科学 America's Tree Defi

Broadcast: October 7, 2003 (THEME) VOICE ONE: I'm Bob Doughty with Sarah Long, and this is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS, from VOA Special English. VOICE TWO: This week -- new polio cases in Africa ... a tree d

VOA慢速英语2003年-发展与科学 Possible Treatm

Broadcast: September 16, 2003 (THEME) VOICE ONE: I'm Bob Doughty with Sarah Long, and this is the VOA Special English program, SCIENCE IN THE NEWS. VOICE TWO: This week -- reports about tuberculosis .

Small-Scale Bridge Building

By Gary Garriott Broadcast: September 8, 2003 This is Robert Covent with the VOA Special English Development Report. Bridges are an important part of transportation systems. They make it possible to t

Improving Literacy Worldwide

By Jill Moss Broadcast: September 22, 2003 This is Robert Covent with the VOA Special English Development Report. Literacy, by its most basic meaning, is the ability to read and write. The United Nati

Canning Food

By Gary Garriott Broadcast: September 1, 2003 This is Sarah Long with the VOA Special English Development Report. People have always had to find ways to keep food safe to eat. Methods to dry, smoke an