People around the World Against the Plan

Broadcast: Jan 25, 2003 By Cynthia Kirk This is Steve Ember with the VOA Special English program, In the News. Last Saturday, people around the world demonstrated1 against President Bush's plan to tak

Emergency Medical Methods

Broadcast: Feb 18, 2003 By George grow VOICE ONE: This is Phoebe Zimmerman. VOICE TWO: And this is Doug Johnson, with science in the news, VOA Special English program about recent developments in scie

Middle School Recommendations

By Jerilyn Watson Broadcast: November 27, 2003 This is Steve Ember with the VOA Special English Education Report. More than nine-million children in the United States attend public middle schools. Mid

Head Start Testing

By Jerilyn Watson Broadcast: November 13, 2003 This is Steve Ember with the VOA Special English Education Report. Four-year-old children in Head Start programs throughout the United States are taking

College Costs in U.S.

By Jerilyn Watson Broadcast: November 6, 2003 This is Steve Ember with the VOA Special English Education Report. A new report says the cost of studies at public colleges in the United States increased

Virtual Learning

By Jerilyn Watson Broadcast: October 30, 2003 This is Steve Ember with the VOA Special English Education Report. Many people remember the day in school when they had to 1)cut up a dead frog. Students

Parent-Teacher Associations

By Jerilyn Watson Broadcast: October 23, 2003 This is Steve Ember with the VOA Special English Education Report. Six-million people in the United States belong to 1)parent-teacher associations, or PTA

Homework

By Jerilyn Watson Broadcast: October 16, 2003 This is Steve Ember with the VOA Special English Education Report. Students often say their teachers give them too much homework. Now, reports by two rese

Improving High School Reading and Writing

By Jerilyn Watson Broadcast: October 9, 2003 This is Bob Doughty with the VOA Special English Education Report. An American expert has suggestions for helping high school students read and write bette

'MegaSkills' for Children

By Jerilyn Watson Broadcast: October 2, 2003 This is Doug Johnson with the VOA Special English Education Report. MegaSkills is a program used in schools across the United States. This program trains a

Reading Recovery

By Jerilyn Watson Broadcast: September 25, 2003 This is Steve Ember with the VOA Special English Education Report. More than one-million school children in the United States have gone through a progra

Schoolyard Habitats

By Jerilyn Watson Broadcast: November 20, 2003 This is Steve Ember with the VOA Special English Education Report. Educational gardens called

Public Library of Science

By Nancy Steinbach Broadcast: August 13, 2003 This is Bill White with the VOA Special English Health Report. Health news and other scientific information generally comes from research published in the

Adherence to Long-term Therapies Report

By Nancy Steinbach Broadcast: August 20, 2003 This is Bill White with the VOA Special English Health Report. The World Health Organization says medical progress against disease will have no effect if

Animal Fats and Breast Cancer

By Nancy Steinbach Broadcast: August 27, 2003 This is Bill White with the VOA Special English Health Report. The World Health Organization says more than one-million people this year will discover the

Walking to Better Health

By Lawan Davis Broadcast: September 3, 2003 This is Bob Doughty with the VOA Special English Health Report. Intense physical exercise is not the only way to better health. Studies show that walking se

WTO Drug Agreement

By Nancy Steinbach Broadcast: September 10, 2003 This is Phoebe Zimmermann with the VOA Special English Health Report. The World Trade Organization has agreed to permit poorer nations to import low-co

Agroecology, Part 2

By Mario Ritter Broadcast: October 7, 2003 This is Doug Johnson with the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Today we finish a two-part series. A listener in Brazil asked about 1)agroecology. This

'G22' Developing Nations

By Mario Ritter Broadcast: October 14, 2003 This is Steve Ember with the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. In September, the World Trade Organization meeting in Cancun, Mexico, ended without an

Snap Beans

By Mario Ritter Broadcast: October 21, 2003 This is Steve Ember with the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Snap beans possess the good qualities of other beans, but they may be less well known.