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Class of 2009! First Id like you to get up, wave and cheer your supportive family and friends! Show your love! It is a great honor for me to be here today. Now wait a second. I know: thats such a clich. Youre thinking: every graduation speaker says t
President Anderson, members of the faculty, board of trustees, distinguished guests, my old colleague, Senator Bob Byrd, who has earned his degree through many years of attending night law school, while I am earning mine in the next 30 minutes, disti
What is going to be the future of learning? I do have a plan, but in order for me to tell you what that plan is, I need to tell you a little story, which kind of sets the stage. I tried to look at where did the kind of learning we do in schools, wher
This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. I'm Steve Ember. This week our program is about a mystery as old as time. Bob Doughty and Sarah Long tell about the mystery of time. If you can read a clock, you can know the time of day. But no one
FATIMA TLISOVA: Whatever you investigate in the North Caucasus is going to caught the attention of the authorities because corruption is widespread. So wherever you turn, you're going to be in the center of the attention if you are trying to do your
I'm a veteran of the starship Enterprise. I soared through the galaxy driving a huge starship with a crew made up of people from all over this world, many different races, many different cultures, many different heritages, all working together, and o
My search is always to find ways to chronicle, to share and to document stories about people, just everyday people. Stories that offer transformation, that lean into transcendence, but that are never sentimental, that never look away from the darkest
SCOTT SIMON, HOST: The debate on approving new drugs to treat pain can sometimes get as polarized as abortion or gun control, as the number of people who become addicted or who have died from overdoses of legal painkillers increases. Several states a
The Olympic motto is Citius, Altius, Fortius. Faster, Higher, Stronger. And athletes have fulfilled that motto rapidly. The winner of the 2012 Olympic marathon ran two hours and eight minutes. Had he been racing against the winner of the 1904 Olympic
So it was the fall of 1902, and President Theodore Roosevelt needed a little break from the White House, so he took a train to Mississippi to do a little black bear hunting outside of a town called Smedes. The first day of the hunt, they didn't see a
LYNN NEARY, HOST: Few people know the ins and outs of power politics in the nation's capital better than Richard A. Clarke. He served three presidents and as national coordinator for security and counterterrorism, he was instrumental in developing th
So I've been thinking about the difference between the rsum virtues and the eulogy virtues. The rsum virtues are the ones you put on your rsum, which are the skills you bring to the marketplace. The eulogy virtues are the ones that get mentioned in t
On some French trains, the conductor's whistle signals more than just a departure. For commuters traveling on an express train from Reims to Paris a 90-mile, 45-minute ride it means the beginning of English class. Before the course, we were sleeping
RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: There's a new religious statue in the town of Davidson, N.C., that's unlike anything you might see in a church. It depicts Jesus as a vagrant sleeping on a park bench. A few residents have complained, but most find the statue spi
STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: Next, we're going to tune into the radio, as heard in Syria. UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN #1: (Foreign language spoken) INSKEEP: It's Radio Watan. It's an opposition news source heard in parts of that country. Instead of being run by Syria
DAVID GREENE, HOST: OK, we reported yesterday that Apple, the most profitable tech company in the United States has found a loophole to keep down its U.S. tax burden. They store billions of dollars overseas, paying very little taxes on that money. Wh
MR. JAMES DUFFY lived in Chapelizod because he wished to live as far as possible from the city of which he was a citizen and because he found all the other suburbs of Dublin mean, modern and pretentious. He lived in an old sombre house and from his w
From VOA Learning English, this is Science in the News. Im Faith Lapidus. And Im Mario Ritter. Today we tell about herbs and spices, and some of their many uses. People have been using herbs and spices for thousands of years. Generally, herbs come fr
SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Some people in life can see whole worlds in small things. Hugh Rienhoff can see it in a molecule called transforming growth factor-beta 3. In 2003, his daughter, Beatrice, was born with a few noticeable abnormalities. Her eyes were