Yakima is a small city located an hour and a half's drive(1) from Wenatchee. It is a wide valley, famous for its grapes and apples. We were there last weekend for a baseball tournament, the first of the season(2). One interesting fact about Yakima is

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By Steve Herman Okinawa, Japan 09 March 2006 The United States pledges to move 8,000 of its Marines off the southern Japanese island of Okinawa. But U.S., Japanese and Okinawan officials are strugglin

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By Pat Harris Washington 12 April 2006 Watch Fat Virus report Obesity is a growing problem around the world. In the United States, for example, almost one-third of the adult population is overweight.

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By Cathy Majtenyi Nairobi 23 April 2007 Two media watchdogs are condemning recent attacks against print and broadcast media organizations in Somalia's capital. Cathy Majtenyi reports for VOA from Nairobi they are calling for a full investigation by

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By Robert Berger Jerusalem 26 May 2007 Israeli air strikes against Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip are now in their tenth day. At least five militants have been killed. But as Robert Berger reports from VOA's Jerusalem bureau, ceasefire effor

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Independent Ukrainian TV Station Struggles to Stay on the Air Ivan Artemenko is disappointed: The Kyiv students favorite channel - TVi - has vanished from the airwaves. I switched on my TV -- there is darkness on a channel TVi. The note says: 'The ch

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