Grow It Yourself: Nothing To Cry About This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Onions come in different sizes, shapes, colors and flavors, from mild and sweet to hot and strong. A full-grown onion plant has roots, bulbs and leaves. The leaves are long, thin and hollow. They stand straight up and thicken at […]

Social Entrepreneurs This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. Small business entrepreneurs play an important part in American job growth. Small businesses have created almost two-thirds of new jobs in the last fifteen years. The economy has traditionally been divided into three sectors. One is the private sector, meaning businesses. The second is the […]

    Economy Pushes Spanish to Learn English This is the VOA Special English Education Report. Spain is struggling with a recession. More than one in five Spaniards are out of work. The unemployment rate is the highest of the seventeen nations that use the euro. But one area of the economy that seems to […]

  Ideas for Getting a Firm Grip on Weed Control This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Weeds compete with plantings for water and nutrients. So farmers and gardeners may have good reason to hate them. But weeds can also bring pretty flowers and wild beauty to places lacking either. British nature writer Richard […]

  Inventor of Weed Eater Started a Revolution This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. George Ballas of Houston, Texas, lived a long life. He was a businessman and property developer. A university lecturer and author. A dancer and dance studio owner whose son Corky and grandson Mark followed in his footsteps into the […]

Looking to Africa for Ideas About How to Fight Hunger I’m Alex Villarreal with the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Sub-Saharan Africa has the world’s highest hunger rate. The United Nations says thirty percent of the people were undernourished last year. But a new report says African farmers also have ideas that could help the […]

    Trying to Improve Food Safety With a Camera This is the VOA special English Agriculture Report. Europe’s deadly outbreak of a rare form of E.Coli bacteria has brought new attention to food safety issues. One of the problems when people get sick from food is that the simplest question is often difficult or […]

  Putting Worms to Work to Help Your Garden This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. What can you do with earthworms? Some people use the creepy crawlers to catch fish. But others put worms to work making compost. Compost looks and feels like good soil. Gardeners and farmers add it to soil to […]

  Lecture or Interactive Teaching? New Study of an Old Issue This is the VOA Special English Education. Professors have lectured for centuries. But how effective is lecturing to students compared to working with them? A new study compared two classes of a beginning physics course at the University of British Columbia in Thuyết giảng […]