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VOICE ONE: I'm Mary Tillotson. VOICE TWO: And I'm Steve Ember with the VOA Special English program, PEOPLE IN AMERICA. Today we tell about Billy Wilder. He was the director of some of the greatest American movies. (MUSIC) VOICE ONE: Many experts say

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Welcome to AMERICAN MOSAIC, in VOA Special English. (MUSIC) I'm Doug Johnson. On our show this week: We answer a question about the state of Texas ... Play some music by world famous musician Yo-Yo Ma ... And report about the successful coffee stores

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HOST: Welcome to AMERICAN MOSAIC, in VOA Special English. (MUSIC) I'm Doug Johnson. On our show this week: We answer a question about rivers /P Play some music by My Brightest Diamond /P And report about a new time change in the United States. Dayli

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VOICE ONE: Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA in VOA Special English. I'm Steve Ember. VOICE TWO: And I'm Shirley Griffith. Our subject this week is sailing. (MUSIC: Sail On, Sailor/Beach Boys) VOICE ONE: The United States has two ocean coasts and countles

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This is the VOA Special English Development Report. A fisherman in India speaking on his mobile phone Wireless phones are connecting the developing world at a rate of about one million new phones each day. And with them come important new uses for t

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VOICE ONE: I'm Steve Ember. VOICE TWO: And I'm Barbara Klein with People in America in VOA Special English. Today we tell about the life and writings of Ayn Rand. (MUSIC) VOICE ONE: Ayn Rand Although she died more than twenty-five years ago, many A

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This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. Army Specialist Jeremy Duncan and Annette McLeod, wife of a wounded soldier, appear at a hearing at Walter Reed Both houses of Congress held hearings this week on conditions at Walter Reed Army Medical Cen

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This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. A US fuel pump for 85 percent ethanol, 15 percent gasoline What happens when a food crop becomes a fuel crop? This is a question many people are trying to answer as demand for ethanol increases. The

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VOICE ONE: This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. I'm Doug Johnson. VOICE TWO: David Massey, a student at the West Virginia Autism Training Center at Marshall University, works with Stephanie Hurley, a Marshall senior. New findings about

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This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. To call something marginal means it is not very good. Farmers have their own way to define marginal land: It is the last to be planted under good conditions, and the first to be avoided under poor c

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VOICE ONE: This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. I'm Bob Doughty. VOICE TWO: Horses are seized from a Maryland farm in December. Officials accused the owner of hoarding about 70 horses, many of them sick and hungry. She denied mistreat

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This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. For Chinese, this is the Year of the Pig. So this is probably as good a time as any to talk about the different kinds of production systems for raising pigs. Technician Adam Lewis, left, and suppor

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This is the VOA Special English Health Report. It might seem hard to imagine that a bad tooth could be deadly. More than 41,000 students in the Philippines brushed their teeth at the same time last month to set a world record, organizers said. The r

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This is the VOA Special English Education Report. Not all college teachers are professors. In fact, not even all professors are full professors. Many are assistant or associate or adjunct professors. This week in our Foreign Student Series, we sort o

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VOICE ONE: I'm Steve Ember. VOICE TWO: Garment workers in Takoe province, Cambodia, sing a song Monday during a campaign to celebrate International Women's Day. Campaigners marched for the right to food for all people living with HIV/AIDS, especially

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VOICE ONE: I'm Shirley Griffith. VOICE TWO: Billie Holiday And I'm Steve Ember with the VOA Special English program, PEOPLE IN AMERICA. Every week we tell about a person important in the history of the United States. This week, we tell about Billie

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This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. A plane carrying eleven people aiding the African Union peacekeeping force in Somalia crashed Friday near the capital, Mogadishu. Officials say it was shot down by a missile shortly after takeoff from the

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HOST: Welcome to AMERICAN MOSAIC, in VOA Special English. (MUSIC) I'm Doug Johnson. On our show this week: We answer a question about an advertising expression/P Play some music from Sonya Kitchell/P And report about the World Almanac. The World Alm

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VOICE ONE: This is Phil Murray. VOICE TWO: And this is Rich Kleinfeldt with THE MAKING OF A NATION -- a VOA Special English program about the history of the United States. (MUSIC) Today, we tell about the race to explore outer space. VOICE ONE: On a

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This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. More and more people are considering the social and environmental results of their investments. Socially responsible investing has become a fast-growing part of the investment industry. Over two trill