The Lives of Peter Safar and Louis Lasagna

By Caty Weaver Broadcast: August 19, 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 -- the medical worl

VOA慢速英语2003年-发展与科学 Food Crisis

Two Women and a Deadly Complication of Childbirth Broadcast: September 9, 2003 (THEME) VOICE ONE: I'm Bob Doughty with Sarah Long, and this is the VOA Special English program, SCIENCE IN THE NEWS. VOI

Depression

Broadcast: July 8, 2003 (THEME) VOICE ONE: I'm Sarah Long with Doug Johnson, and this is the VOA Special English program, SCIENCE IN THE NEWS. VOICE TWO: This week -- we look at some recent news about

Nanotechnology

By Mario Ritter Broadcast: July 29, 2003 (THEME) VOICE ONE: I'm Bob Doughty with Phoebe Zimmermann, and this is the VOA Special English program, SCIENCE IN THE NEWS. VOICE TWO: This week -- a special

VOA慢速英语2003年-发展与科学 On AIDS

Broadcast: August 5, 2003 (THEME) VOICE ONE: I'm Bob Doughty with Phoebe Zimmermann, and this is the VOA Special English program, SCIENCE IN THE NEWS. VOICE TWO: This week -- a report about the proble

Diabetes in Developing Countries

By Jill Moss Broadcast: November 24, 2003 This is Robert Covent with the VOA Special English Development Report. The World Health Organization says it expects two times as many cases of 1)diabetes in

Medical News

Broadcast: July 15, 2003 (THEME) VOICE ONE: I'm Sarah Long with Bob Doughty, and this is the VOA Special English program, SCIENCE IN THE NEWS. VOICE TWO: This week -- a report on the problem of drug r

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

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

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

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