It's bad enough that mosquitoes suck our blood, and sometimes pass on disease. But there's more. They can actually give you a disease and pee on you at the same time. Adding insult to injury if you will. Jerod Denton, a pharmacologist at Vanderbilt U

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The death of a 'king' and the birth of a star are just two events which shaped this year's pop music landscape. Ray McDonald | Washington 23 December 2009 April 11, 2009: 48-year-old Susan Boyle first appeared on the TV show Britain's Got Talent, del

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By Larry London Washington 14 November 2009 Few music stars have had the immediate impact of Lady Gaga. Over the past year, her debut CD, The Fame, has produced four Number One Billboard Pop Songs chart hits: Just Dance, Poker Face, LoveGame, and Pa

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SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Anne Fadiman's father was the very model of the modern, cultivated man. He quoted Shakespeare and Shaw, recited Homer and Sophocles, made clever wisecracks and pointed puns. He was a longtime judge of the Book of the Month Club, th

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By Jim Stevenson Elmont, New York 08 June 2008 Big Brown has fallen shot of winning horse racing's so-called Triple Crown, finishing last at the Belmont Stakes in New York. As VOA's Jim Stevenson reports, the race belonged to an unlikely winner. Da'

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