This is the VOA Special English Education Report. Common sense would tell us that physically active children may be more likely to become active and healthy adults. A high school gym class In the United States, elementary and middle schools are advis

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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 growing food problems around the world. (MUSIC) VOICE ONE: Food prices are rising in many countries. Economic policy makers warn

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This is the VOA Special English Health Report. A Brazilian drug company and a nonprofit group have developed a new, simplified malaria treatment. A laboratory worker shows reporters the new combination drug for malaria Patients have to take only one

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VOICE ONE: This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. Im Bob Doughty. VOICE TWO: And Im Faith Lapidus. On our program this week, we discuss scientific findings about how intelligence develops in babies. (MUSIC) VOICE ONE: Not long ago, many

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This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Heparin is a blood-thinning medicine made from pig intestines, which often come from small farms in China. The drug is often used to prevent blockages during kidney dialysis treatment and different opera

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VOICE ONE: This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. I'm Barbara Klein. VOICE TWO: And I'm Steve Ember. This week, we will tell about a threat to North America's colorful monarch butterflies. We will tell about what is being called the olde

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This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. The United States Department of Agriculture has a program called Wildlife Services. Its job is to help protect agricultural and other resources from threats and damage by wildlife. Often that means

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VOICE ONE: Jazz musician Dave Brubeck Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA in VOA Special English. I'm Barbara Klein. This week on our program, we enter the world of jazz pianist Dave Brubeck. His group had the first jazz album to sell more than a million copi

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This is the VOA Special English Development Report. Whoever thought learning new words could feel socially responsible? A Web site called FreeRice.com is an English vocabulary game. It explains its purpose like this: For each word you get right, we d

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VOICE ONE: I'm Rich Kleinfeldt. VOICE TWO: Bella Abzug And I'm Shirley Griffith with the VOA Special English program PEOPLE IN AMERICA. Today, we tell about Bella Abzug. She was a member of the United States Congress in the nineteen seventies. She al

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This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. Hillary Clinton is still behind Barack Obama in the delegate count after the Pennsylvania primary on Tuesday. But her ten-point victory kept her supporters' hopes alive in the race for the Democratic presid

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VOICE ONE: This is Faith Lapidus. VOICE TWO: And this is Steve Ember with the VOA Special English program EXPLORATIONS. Today we visit the Indiana Dunes. These hills of sand are near Chicago, Illinois. They rise on the shores of Lake Michigan, one of

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