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This is the VOA Special English Education Report. Some U.S. schools use money to try to improve attendance and test results Recently we asked for your opinions about paying students to improve school attendance or performance on tests. Some American

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This is the VOA Special English Development Report. Five women were honored last week in Washington for their efforts to increase the economic and political progress of women. Vital Voices, an international nonprofit organization, presented its Globa

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VOICE ONE: Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA in VOA Special English. I'm Barbara Klein. VOICE TWO: And I'm Steve Ember. Another baseball season is here. This will be the final season for one of the best-known ballparks in America. This week on our program,

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This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. A burning barricade in Port-au-Prince, Haiti Food inflation has led to growing protests in developing countries. In Haiti, the government fell Saturday after riots in which several people died. Some

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VOICE ONE: This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. I'm Bob Doughty. VOICE TWO: And I'm Faith Lapidus. This week, we will tell about a large piece of ice breaking away from Antarctica. We also tell about a study of human emotions and disco

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This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Researchers in China have reported on a rare human-to-human case of bird flu. They say it is likely that a twenty-four year old man in the eastern province of Jiangsu infected his father last December. T

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VOICE ONE: Im Steve Ember. VOICE TWO: And Im Barbara Klein with EXPLORATIONS in VOA Special English. Today we tell about five important building designers widely considered some of the top architects at work today. They are Robert Venturi, Frank Gehr

VOA慢速英语 2008 0417b

(MUSIC) ANNOUNCER: Welcome to THE MAKING OF A NATION American history in VOA Special English. He was the top planner and policy maker under President George Washington. He was also the nations first secretary of the Treasury. Today, Maurice Joyce and

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This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. High food and fuel prices. Housing and credit problems. Job losses. Worries about a recession. No wonder the economy is a top issue for American voters. John McCain speaking about his economic plan in

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HOST: Welcome to AMERICAN MOSAIC in VOA Special English. (MUSIC) Im Doug Johnson. Today we play music from Jack Johnson Answer a listener question about the Amish people And report on the winner of a major prize for architecture. (MUSIC) Pritzker Arc

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This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. Pope Benedict this week made his first visit to the United States since being elected leader of the Roman Catholic Church three years ago. Pope Benedict in New York before the United Nations General Assembl

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VOICE ONE: Im Shirley Griffith. VOICE TWO: Charlton Heston And Im Barbara Klein with People in America in VOA Special English. Today we tell about actor Charlton Heston. He is best known for playing powerful and heroic leaders in movies such as The T

VOA慢速英语 2008 0421a

This is the VOA Special English Development Report. This Tuesday is Earth Day. On April twenty-second, nineteen seventy, millions of Americans took part in activities to bring attention to the environment. Senator Gaylord Nelson from Wisconsin had ca

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VOICE ONE: Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA in VOA Special English. I'm Steve Ember. VOICE TWO: And I'm Barbara Klein. This week on our program, we take a look at Washington's newly opened museum of news, the Newseum. (SOUND) There's a big story breaking a

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This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Bovine tuberculosis is a progressive wasting disease. It affects mainly cattle but also sheep, goats, pigs and other animals. People who get bovine TB have to take strong antibiotics for up to nine

VOA慢速英语 2008 0412

This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. President Bush announced this week that he is not ready to order more troop withdrawals from Iraq. Fifteen months ago, he ordered a temporary increase of thirty thousand troops. The last of those troops ret

VOA慢速英语 2008 0411b

HOST: Welcome to AMERICAN MOSAIC in VOA Special English. (MUSIC) Im Doug Johnson. On our show this week: We play music from the new wave/punk band, the B-52s Answer a listeners question about the famous road called Route 66 And we shine a light on Ma

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This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. A house for sale in Cleveland, Ohio Investment banks have long played a part in the financial system. But the recent crisis over securities based on risky home loans has brought them new attention. In

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ANNOUNCER: Welcome to THE MAKING OF A NATION American history in VOA Special English. Today we begin the story of Alexander Hamilton, one of the nation's most important early policy makers. The first government of the United States was weak. It had m

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This is the VOA Special English Education Report. A committee has released its final report on ways to improve math education for American students. President Bush created the National Mathematics Advisory Panel two years ago. Students work on a math