VOA (Voice of America) Special English Features
January, February & March 2005

March 2005

• Mixing Crops With Other Plants Can Cut Chemical Use *
• Are You Into Podcasting? / Music by Bobby Short / A Listener Asks About April Fool's Day *
• Walt Disney Company Names New Chief *
• Kofi Annan Proposes United Nations Reforms
• Choosing a U.S. College: Two Schools for Students with Hearing Disorders *
• The American Civil War: An Anti-War Movement Begins in the North *
• Prostate Cancer: What It Is and How Doctors Treat It *
• The Internet: Linking People in a Way Once Thought Impossible *
• Farmers Can Control Insects By Mixing Plants *
• TV's 'Extreme Makeover: Home Edition' / New Rock and Roll Hall of Famers / We Answer a Question About Disney World *
• From A to Zinc: The Story of Vitamins *
• Solar Cookers in Developing Countries *
• Penobscot Indians in Maine See New Hope for Economic Future *
• 'I Love Lucy': Lucille Ball and the Early TV Situation Comedy *
• Biltmore Estate: A Visit to the Historic Home in North Carolina *
• What is Insurance, Part 2
• Gwendolyn Brooks
• Wolfowitz Nominated to Lead World Bank
• Jessi Alexander's First Album / Weather in America / Top High School Scientists
• Foreign Student Series #29: Carnegie Mellon University
• Abraham Lincoln, Part 11
• Aspirin Found to Help Men and Women Differently
• Space Digest
• Avian Flu Could Force Changes for Asian Poultry Farmers
• Evolution and Intelligent Design
• International Women's Day Celebrated Worldwide
• Classical Music With a Modern American Sound
• Elvis Presley
• I.R.A. Ties Put Pressure on Sinn Fein in Northern Ireland Peace Efforts
• What Is Insurance, Part 1
• Music by Maroon 5 / Round-the-world flyer Steve Fossett / Question from Ethiopia
• Foreign Student Series #28: New York University
• Abraham Lincoln, Part 10
• Lead and Violence in Young People
• The Columbia River
• Raising Sheep
• International Treaty on Tobacco Control / Research Projects on Glaucoma
• U.N. Issues New World Population Estimate
• Kennedy Center to Expand Arts Education
• Arthur Miller
• Hong Kong Chief Executive Tung Chee-hwa
• Identity Theft
• A Listener Question / A Lost and Found Tree / Music by Eric Felton and his Jazz Orchestra
• Foreign Student Series #27: University of Southern California
• Abraham Lincoln, Part 9
• Plague Outbreak in Eastern Congo
• Koshland Science Museum
• Solar Food Dryers
• New Warnings About Avian Flu / U.S., Germany to Cooperate on Cleaner Energy Technologies / 60 Nations Agree to Link Earth Observation Systems

February 2005

• Annan Seeks New Head of U.N. Refugee Agency
• National Zoo / Wild Animal Care in U.S.
• Julia Ward Howe
• Thefacebook.com / History of VOA / Oscar-Nominated Songs
• When Companies (and Sometimes Individuals) Have to Give Back Money
• Foreign Student Series #26: Ohio State
• Abraham Lincoln, Part 8
• India Begins AIDS Vaccine Study / Unusual AIDS Case in New York
• Albert Einstein
• Integrated Pest Management
• A Warning About Wireless Internet / Broken Heart Syndrome / A Question About Science and Engineering
• U.S. Approves Foreign-Made AIDS Treatment for Developing Nations
• Academy Awards
• Shirley Chisholm
• Hewlett-Packard Ousts 'Most Powerful Woman in Business'
• Einstein's Year / Museums / Grammy Winners
• Foreign Student Series #25: M.I.T.
• Abraham Lincoln, Part 7
• Space Digest
• Update on Tsunami Survivors: Mental Health a Big Concern
• Growing Unusual Vegetables
• Reforms at NIH / Tobacco Smoke a Danger to Children / A New Way to Add Iron to the Diet
• Cloth Filters Fight Cholera
• Dating
• Frank and Jesse James
• Israeli-Palestinian Truce; Historic Elections in Saudi Arabia
• Business Organizations
• The Killers / A Question about Valentine's Day / Chronicles, Volume One by Bob Dylan
• Foreign Student Series #24: Harvard University
• Abraham Lincoln, Part 6
• New Warnings About Tobacco Smoke and Children
• Satellite Photos of Mayan Ruins
• Controlling Garden Insects with Spiders
• Parkinson's Disease
• Gates Foundation Gives $750 Million to Vaccines Alliance; $43 Million Goes to Malaria Drug Project
• New Orleans and Mardi Gras
• Artie Shaw
• Bush Discusses Middle East Policy in State of the Union Speech
• The Black Eyed Peas / Question about the American Flag / An Old Washington State Law
• Social Security, Part 2
• Foreign Student Series #23: Medical School
• Abraham Lincoln, Part 5 *
• Study of Older Women Finds Moderate Alcohol Use May Help Mental Abilities
• Cassini-Huygens at Titan *

January 2005

• Red Tides
• The Valley of the Golden Mummies
• Riecken Foundation Libraries in Central America *
• California and Its People
• Barbara Cooney
• Iraqi Elections
• Diseases Spread by Mosquitos
• Cancer Survival Rates Up in U.S.
• Social Security, Part 1
• Along the Mississippi River
• Foreign Student Series: MBA Programs in the U.S.
• 'Freshman 15' Defined / Ray Charles' Last Album / Black History Month
• Abraham Lincoln The Legend
• Foreign Student Series #22: MBA Programs
• Abraham Lincoln, Part 4
• Cancer Survival Rates Up in U.S.
• Along the Mississippi River
• Diseases Spread by Mosquitoes
• Locust Swarms in North Africa Ease, but Mauritania Faces a Food Shortage
• Music for Little People
• Ann Veneman, U.S. Agriculture Chief, Nominated to Lead UNICEF *
• Martin Luther King Jr., Part 2
• Bush Describes Second Term Goals
• Strengthening the U.S. Agency that Protects Pensions
• Music from Los Lonely Boys / Question about Helen Keller / A new place for Cereal Lovers
• Strengthening the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation
• Foreign Student Series #21: Agriculture Studies
• Abraham Lincoln, Part 3
• Heart Disease and C-Reactive Protein
• The National Museum of Natural History
• Tsunami's Effect on Agriculture
• World Conference on Disaster Reduction / The Fight Against Polio / Prostate Cancer
• Energy-Saving Way to Recycle Bottles into Drinking Glasses
• Writers and the Immigrant Experience: Middle East, Europe and Africa
• Martin Luther King Jr., Part One
• Middle East Peace Prospects
• Carbon Trading
• Green Day / Presidential Inaguration / Pale Male
• Additional Frequencies and Times to Hear Special English in Iraq, Kuwait, Kabul and Moscow - 2005-01-14
• Foreign Student Series #20: Military Colleges
• Abraham Lincoln, Part 2
• Caffeine Withdrawal
• Space Digest
• Growing Vegetables in the Shade
• Millions Suffer From Asthma
• Helping Children After the Tsunami
• Presidential Exhibits at the National Archives
• The Marx Brothers
• Aid for Tsunami Victims
• U.S. Agency Moves to Take Over Pilots' Pension at United Airlines
• Popular Books, Movies and Music in 2004
• Foreign Student Series #19: Teaching Assistants
• Abraham Lincoln, Part 1
• New Tuberculosis Drug
• Puppets Teaching Children Around the World
• 2004 Good Year for U.S. Farmers
• All About Snow
• Miles Davis and 'Kind of Blue'
• Canning Food *
• Singer Nat King Cole
• Top News Stories of 2004