VOICE ONE:Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA in VOA Special English. I'm Steve Ember.VOICE TWO:And I'm Faith Lapidus. This week on our program, we turn our attention to the nine most important judges in the country.United States Supreme Court building in Washington, D.C.COURT CRIER: "The honorable, the chie...
Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA in VOA Special English. I'm Steve Ember with Shirley Griffith. This week on our program, we play some of our favorite songs about summer.(MUSIC)VOICE ONE:If you ask most Americans, they would say their favorite season of the year is summer. The weather is warm. They do not...
VOICE ONE:Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA in VOA Special English. I'm Steve Ember.VOICE TWO:And I'm Faith Lapidus. Our subject this week is the city of Saint Louis, Missouri.(MUSIC)VOICE ONE:Flooding along the Mississippi River in June was the worst in 15 yearsSaint Louis sits next to the Mississippi Riv...
VOICE ONE:Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA in VOA Special English. I'm Steve Ember.VOICE TWO:And I'm Barbara Klein. This week we tell about an important series of historical paintings created by the African-American artist Jacob Lawrence. This modernist painter was only twenty-four when his Migration Seri...
VOICE ONE:Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA in VOA Special English. I'm Bob Doughty.VOICE TWO:And I'm Faith Lapidus. This week on our program, we talk about foreign exchange students in the United States.(MUSIC)VOICE ONE:More than twenty-nine thousand foreign exchange students attended American high school...
VOICE ONE:Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA in VOA Special English. I'm Barbara Klein.VOICE TWO:And I'm Steve Ember. This week on our program, we play some favorite songs about spring.(MUSIC)VOICE ONE:On earlier shows, we have brought you some of our favorite songs about summer, autumn and winter. Now it i...
VOICE ONE:Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA in VOA Special English. I'm Steve Ember.VOICE TWO:Lincoln's CottageAnd I'm Barbara Klein. This week on our program, we take you to President Lincoln's Cottage in Washington.(MUSIC)VOICE ONE:Our story begins on the evening of Wednesday, September seventeenth, eigh...
Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA in VOA Special English. I’m Faith Lapidus.VOICE TWO:And I’m Steve Ember. Today we have the second of two programs on the issue of immigration in America.(MUSIC)VOICE ONE:An estimated eleven million or more people are living in the United States illegally. What ...
VOICE ONE:Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA in VOA Special English. I’m Faith Lapidus.VOICE TWO:And I'mSteve Ember.Our subject this week is immigration.(MUSIC)VOICE ONE:Many immigrant families entered the United States through Ellis Island in New York HarborJust about every family in the United State...
Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA in VOA Special English. I'm Bob Doughty.VOICE TWO:And I'm Barbara Klein. This week on our program, we look at the business of skiing and snowboarding in the United States.(MUSIC)VOICE ONE:A snowboarder catches air near Georgetown, ColoradoSnow sports are a big business. Sk...
VOICE ONE:Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA in VOA Special English. I'm Barbara Klein.VOICE TWO:And I'm Steve Ember. This week on our program, we tell about two skillful writers who tell stories about people living in the American West. Cormac McCarthy has been writing intense stories about love, life and ...
VOICE ONE:Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA in VOA Special English. I'm Faith Lapidus.VOICE TWO:And I'm Steve Ember. This week our subject is the presidential campaign, heading into the biggest day of the nominating season: Super Tuesday.(MUSIC)VOICE ONE:People wait in line to vote at a Hollywood, Florida ...
VOICE ONE:Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA in VOA Special English. I'm Shirley Griffith.VOICE TWO:And I'm Steve Ember. This week on our program, we tell about a list of American movies that recently received special recognition. For the past fifteen years, the Library of Congress has chosen twenty-five mo...
VOICE ONE:Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA in VOA Special English. I'm Barbara Klein.VOICE TWO:And I'm Steve Ember. This week on our program, we play some favorite songs about winter.(MUSIC)VOICE ONE:Winter hits Mount Hamilton in San Jose, CaliforniaIt is winter in many parts of the world. For some areas,...
Laughs from yesteryear with performances by Abbott and Costello, Jack Benny, Fred Allen and Bob Hope.VOICE ONE:Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA in VOA Special English. I'm Steve Ember.VOICE TWO:And I'm Shirley Griffith. This week on our program, we bring you some laughs from old-time American radio shows....
In her new book ''A Photographer's Life'' Leibovitz also includes photographs of her personal life.VOICE ONE:Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA in VOA Special English. I'm Bob Doughty.VOICE TWO:Annie Leibovitz with portrait of Susan Sontag in ''A Photgrapher's Life, 1990-2005'' at the Corcoran Gallery of Ar...
Traditional and new music to help ring in 2008.Happy New Year!!Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA in VOA Special English. I'm Steve Ember, and today we bring you music for the New Year.(MUSIC)In the United States and other countries, this old Scottish song, "Auld Lang Syne" is played when a new year begins....
Ten new holiday albums released in 2007.ANNOUNCER:Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA in VOA Special English. I'm Barbara Klein.Music is traditionally a big part of Christmas celebrations. This week on our program, we have songs from some of the new holiday albums that came out in two thousand seven.(MUSIC)T...
Ten new holiday albums released in 2007.ANNOUNCER:Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA in VOA Special English. I'm Barbara Klein.Music is traditionally a big part of Christmas celebrations. This week on our program, we have songs from some of the new holiday albums that came out in two thousand seven.(MUSIC)T...
Exploring some of the lakes of New York state, including Lake Champlain.VOICE ONE:Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA in VOA Special English. I'm Barbara Klein.VOICE TWO:And I'm Steve Ember. This week on our program, we tell you about Lake Champlain and the Finger Lakes in the northeastern United States.(MUS...
