Archive for September, 2010
Lady Bird Johnson, 1912-2007: First Lady Worked to Make America Beautiful
SHIRLEY GRIFFITH: I’m Shirley Griffith. STEVE EMBER: And I’m 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 during the nineteen sixties. But Mrs. Johnson was also an influential environmental [...]
New Findings on Surgery for Women With Cancer Genes
This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Every year, one million women around the world are found to have breast cancer. Almost two hundred thousand others are told they have ovarian cancer. The decisions for treatment are more difficult when the women have abnormal versions of two genes called BRCA1 and BRCA2. The mutations [...]
Peace Corps Volunteers Find a Wired World
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 Corps during the cold war with the Soviet Union. Today, technology has changed how the volunteers do [...]
