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Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA in VOA Special English. I'm Steve Ember, and today we bring you music for the New Year. (MUSIC) T.J. MacDonald, left, and Stacey Fox, both of Syracuse, New York, welcoming 2008 in Times Square in New York City In the Unite
VOICE ONE: I'm Faith Lapidus. VOICE TWO: And I'm Steve Ember with PEOPLE IN AMERICA IN VOA Special English. Today we tell about jazz singer and pianist Shirley Horn. (MUSIC) VOICE ONE: Shirley Horn performing in 2003 Shirley Horn was considered one
This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. People can get sick if they eat food touched by floodwaters. Floodwater may contain human and animal wastes, and other pollutants like agricultural and industrial chemicals. The University of Iowa
This is the VOA Special English Development Report. American officials say Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will join talks on Zimbabwe this week at the United Nations. The State Department says the Security Council has failed to take meaningful
This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. An individual, a company and an industry were all in the news this week for reasons unrelated except for the idea of dishonesty. Bernard Madoff was arrested last week The individual was seventy-year-old Be
This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. The United Nations says forty million more people around the world went hungry this year, mainly because of higher food prices. Early estimates from the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization show
VOICE ONE: This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS, in VOA Special English. I'm Bob Doughty. VOICE TWO: And I'm Faith Lapidus. Wintry conditions are returning to the northern part of the world. Winter brings cold weather and, with it, a danger as old as man's k
This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Every day, more than two thousand children worldwide die from accidental injury. Each year, as many as three million children are saved from one leading cause of child deaths -- drowning. Yet survivors
VOICE ONE: I'm Steve Ember. VOICE TWO: Anchovies swim above the glass dome of the Monterey Aquarium And I'm Barbara Klein with EXPLORATIONS in VOA Special English. For thousands of years, people have wanted to explore the world under the sea. Such a
This is the VOA Special English Development Report. Microfinance is becoming a big business. It started as a way to provide very small loans to people in developing countries so they could begin to move themselves out of poverty. A few hundred dolla
This is Steve Ember with a VOA Special English holiday program. (MUSIC) A scene from the movie ''White Christmas,'' starring Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye and Rosemary Clooney Music fills the air. Colorful lights shine brightly in windows. Children and ad
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. We look back at this year's bad economic news in the United States. Economic growth was expected to slow in two thousand eight. Housing prices had been falling in the United States since two thousand
VOICE ONE: I'm Steve Ember. VOICE TWO: And I'm Shirley Griffith with THE MAKING OF A NATION American history in VOA Special English. Today we present a special program on Christmas traditions in the United States during the first half of the ninetee
This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. Rod Blagojevich This week, the governor of the American state of Illinois, Rod Blagojevich, was arrested on federal corruption charges. The case includes accusations that he tried to sell an appointment to
VOICE ONE: Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA in VOA Special English. I'm Steve Ember. VOICE TWO: A flag made of reflective tiles at the American History Museum And I'm Shirley Griffith. This week on our program, we visit Washington's new Capitol Visitor Ce
HOST: Welcome to AMERICAN MOSAIC in VOA Special English. (MUSIC) I'm Doug Johnson. This week: We listen to music from the Cold War Kids Answer a listener question about basketball superstar Michael Jordan And, report about a grand old flag's new hom
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. One of America's largest media companies has sought protection from its creditors in bankruptcy court. The Tribune Company owns the Los Angeles Times, the Chicago Tribune, the Baltimore Sun and other
This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Dengue fever is sometimes called break-bone fever. It produces intense pain in the muscles and joints and behind the eyes. People get severe headaches. There are no cures, but most people recover, thoug
VOICE ONE: This is Shirley Griffith. VOICE TWO: Carl Sagan And this is Steve Ember with the VOA Special English program Explorations. Today we tell about American scientist Carl Sagan. He spent much of his life helping make space travel possible far
Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA in VOA Special English. I'm Steve Ember. VOICE TWO: And I'm Barbara Klein. This week on our program, we turn our attention to the economy. (MUSIC) VOICE ONE: An employee loads a TV for a shopper at Circuit City, a major se