Little Albert came home from school with a new book under his arm. It's a prize, mother, he explained. A prize? What for, dear? For natural history. Teacher asked me how many legs an ostrich has, and I said three. But an ostrich has only two legs. I

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Broadcast: May 9, 2003 By Caty Weaver This is the VOA Special English Environment Report. Seven activists are this year's winners of the Goldman Environmental Foundation awards. The winners received t

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The world's biggest humanitarian prize has been awarded to BRAC, the largest non-profit organization in the developing world. The 2008 Hilton Humanitarian Prize of $1.5 million honors BRAC, a Bangladeshi-based NGO, for its achievements in helping to

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AGRICULTURE REPORT - World Food Prize Winners By Mario Ritter Broadcast: Tuesday, April 06, 2004 This is Steve Ember with the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Scientists from China and Sierra L

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Americans Thomas Sargent and Christopher Sims share the 2011 Nobel prize in economics for providing ways to understand the impact of policy changes on the economy. The prize is based on old research that is of great interest in the current global fin

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The world's top honor in food and agriculture this year goes to two former presidents who led dramatic reductions in hunger and poverty in their countries in the past decade. Ghana's President John Agyekum Kufuor and Brazilian President Luis Inacio L

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