AMERICAN MOSAIC - What to Call a Storm? How Scientists Name Hurricanes By Dana Demange and Nancy Steinbach Broadcast: Friday, September 23, 2005 (MUSIC) HOST: Welcome to AMERICAN MOSAIC, in VOA Specia

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1. Law officials are questioning a man who they say has confessed to suffocating six-year-old Etan Patz in New York City in 1979. The man, Pedro Hernandez, was picked up late Wednesday in Camden, New Jersey. 2. Egyptians were at the polls again Thurs

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The term 500-year flood event basically means there`s a rare 1-in-500 chance that a particular flood would hit in a given year. Southeast Texas has seen two of these 500-year flood events in two months, what a CNN meteorologist described as very bad

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Satellites Study Weather Conditions, Predict Diseases 气象卫星研究天气变化可预测疾病 Meningitis is spreading across West Africa. The brain disease is a threat every year across 21 African countries. Health officials call this area, the

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STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: Hurricane Florence, which is approaching the Carolinas, is another strong storm. Hurricanes are measured by wind. This one has had recorded speeds of up to 140 miles per hour. But whenever it makes landfall, the real danger may b

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By Greg Flakus Fort Collins, Colorado 18 June 2007 We are now well into hurricane season in the western Atlantic area. The season lasts until November and forecasters say this year it will be active, producing as many as 17 named storms. They also sa

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