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AMERICAN MOSAIC - Young Navajos Leave Reservation Life Behind for Jobs DOUG JOHNSON: Welcome to AMERICAN MOSAIC in VOA Special English. (MUSIC) I'm Doug Johnson. This week on our show we play new music by Sarah Jarosz And we answer a question about c

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Every year some countries move their clocks forward in the spring only to move them back in the autumn. To the vast majority of the world who doesnt participate in this odd clock fiddling it seems a baffling thing to do. So whats the reason behind it

VOA标准英语2009年-Al-Shabab Militants Divided over Tacti

A rising dispute between militants in Somalia may have split the country's al-Qaida-linked al-Shabab group into two factions. Reports say the suicide bombing at a Mogadishu hotel earlier this month deepened divisions between an al-Shabab leader close

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This is the VOA Special English Development Report. An American named Malcom McLean invented a better box and changed the world. He designed the shipping containers that today carry most of the world's goods. Standardized containers can go on ships,

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This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. (SOUND) Rescue workers at the San Jose gold and copper mine in northern Chile had reason to sing this week. A small hole drilled into the earth became a passage to freedom for thirty-three trapped miners. T

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Young Navajos Study to Save Their Language 年轻的纳瓦霍人拯救他们母语 For part of her life, Sylvia Jackson stopped speaking her native language, Navajo. Like many Native American children, she had little chance to speak her language. We

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The Navajo tribal park called Monument Valley is a stunningly beautiful, yet also stark and forbidding, place. The largest tribe of American Indians lives on a 6-million-hectare patch of desert and scrub brush that covers much of northern Arizona and

VOA标准英语2011--Young Navajos Leave Reservation for Jobs

Young Navajos Leave Reservation for Jobs The hallways at Ganado High School are bustling in between classes. But they're not nearly as crowded as they were just three years ago. I'm looking at a high school that, in the mid 2000s, ran about 850 stude

VOA标准英语2011--Natural Spectacle Blooms in Texas

Spring has just sprung in the Northern Hemisphere, and that means an annual natural spectacular is just a couple of weeks away, deep in the heart of Texas. There are no other natural wonders in the rugged Texas Hill Country. No awe-inspiring canyons,

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DAVID GREENE, HOST: So getting calcium in your diet is essential to keeping your bones strong. Well, what do you do if you can't do dairy? A Navajo graduate student at Northern Arizona University got really interested in that question when he came ac

2006年VOA标准英语-Women's Health an Obstacle to Reducing Poverty

By Jordan Davis Dakar 17 October 2006 Nomad woman stand in a food line at a village near the small town of Dakoro, Niger As the international community marks World Poverty Day Tuesday, health experts say one of the keys to reducing poverty is improv

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By Ernest Leong Washington 19 March 2007 watch Vaccine report Some U.S. state lawmakers are fighting a mandate requiring certain vaccinations for children, saying it encourages undesirable behavior. Getting vaccinated has become a more complicated pr

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By Scott Stearns Dakar 11 November 2009 Liberian President Charles Taylor in court (file photo) U.N. prosecutors at the war crimes trial of former Liberian president Charles Taylor want to limit his access to defense lawyers during cross-examination

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