Google Faces Heat Over New Privacy Policy

05 February 2012

This is the VOA Special English Technology Report.

Google is preparing for changes in its privacy policy beginning March first. The company says it plans to replace more than sixty separate policies for different products with one main policy.

New Photography Shows Different Side of Annie Leibovitz

05 February 2012

SHIRLEY GRIFFITH:Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA in VOA Special English. I'm Shirley Griffith.

JUNE SIMMS: And I'm June Simms. This week on our program, we visit a new exhibit of work by photographer Annie Leibovitz. Then, we tell you about a collection of works by women performing traditional American music. And, later, we go under the streets of New York City to hear the work of subway musicians.

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Stephen Vincent Benet, 1898-1943: Popular Writer of the Early 1900s

04 February 2012

SHIRLEY GRIFFITH: People in America -- a program in Special English by the Voice of America.

Each week at this time, we bring you a story about people who were important in the history of the United States. Today, Doug Johnson and Larry West begin the story of Stephen Vincent Benet.

He was one of the most popular American writers of the first part of the nineteen-hundreds.

Words and Their Stories: Apple Pie

04 February 2011

Now, the VOA Special English program WORDS AND THEIR STORIES.

Today we tell about the expression, "apple pie order." It means in perfect order, very well organized.

Rains End Famine in Somalia, but Millions Remain at Risk

03 February 2012

This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English.

This week, the United Nations declared an official end to the famine in southern Somalia. Recent rains, an improved harvest and a major humanitarian aid effort during the past six months helped reduce the threat of starvation.