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HOST: Welcome to AMERICAN MOSAIC in VOA Special English. (MUSIC) I'm Doug Johnson. This week: We listen to music from Taylor Swift Answer a listener question about chess champion Bobby Fischer And report about blogs right here at VOA. (MUSIC) Blogs

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This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. India continues to investigate the terrorist attacks last week in Mumbai. More than one hundred seventy people were killed in two and a half days of violence. Taj Hotel in Mumbai burning Indian officials h

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VOICE ONE: I'm Phoebe Zimmermann. VOICE TWO: And I'm Steve Ember with People in America in VOA Special English. Today we tell about a man who made possible one of the most important communications devices ever created -- television. His name was Phi

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This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. The United States is already one year into a recession. That was the news this week from the National Bureau of Economic Research. The downturn is the longest since a recession that began in nineteen

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Welcome to the MAKING OF A NATION American history in VOA Special English. The national election of eighteen thirty-two put Andrew Jackson in the White House for a second term as president. One of the major events of his second term was the fight ag

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This is the VOA Special English Education Report. Many American colleges and universities require applications for the fall term to be completed by January first. But some have deadlines of December first. So this was a fitting week for a research g

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VOICE ONE: This is Steve Ember. VOICE TWO: And this is Shirley Griffith with the VOA Special English program EXPLORATIONS. Our story today tells of ships, explorers, pirate attacks and wars. It is the story of an old military base, the Castillo de S

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This is the VOA Special English Health Report. A new study in the United States says mental disorders appear to be common in college-age adults, but most do not seek treatment. Researchers at the New York State Psychiatric Institute and Columbia Uni

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This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. The search for new fuels has led some researchers to algae. Algae is a name for thousands of different organisms. They include single-celled plants as well as kelp and other large plants. Blue-gree

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VOICE ONE: Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA in VOA Special English. Im Shirley Griffith. VOICE TWO: And Im Steve Ember. The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C., is a major cultural center in America. For the past thirty year

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This is the VOA Special English Development Report. Australia wants to show that existing power stations can be refitted to burn coal in a much cleaner way. A demonstration project will seek to develop new technology over the next four years that ma

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This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. The search for new fuels has led some researchers to algae. Algae is a name for thousands of different organisms. They include single-celled plants as well as kelp and other large plants. Blue-gree

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This is the VOA Special English Development Report. One of the best ways to protect yourself and other people from getting sick is to wash your hands with soap. To make soap, you need three main things: oil, water and lye. The oil can come from anim

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Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA in VOA Special English. I'm Steve Ember. VOICE TWO: And I'm Barbara Klein. This week on our program, we turn our attention to the economy. (MUSIC) VOICE ONE: An employee loads a TV for a shopper at Circuit City, a major se

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VOICE ONE: This is Gwen Outen. VOICE TWO: And this is Steve Ember with People in America in VOA Special English. Every week we tell about a person who was important in the history of the United States. Today we tell the story of athlete Jesse Owens.

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VOICE ONE: This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS, in VOA Special English. I'm Bob Doughty. VOICE TWO: And I'm Barbara Klein. This week, we will tell about a genetic map for an animal that disappeared long ago. We will tell about an unusual-looking insect from

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This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. A new study says almost forty percent of China is losing soil because of wind and water erosion. The Chinese government recently announced the results of a three-year study. The study was the large

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VOICE ONE: This is Shirley Griffith. VOICE TWO: Carl Sagan And this is Steve Ember with the VOA Special English program Explorations. Today we tell about American scientist Carl Sagan. He spent much of his life helping make space travel possible far

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This is the VOA Special English Education Report. This week in our Foreign Student Series, we continue our discussion of college entrance tests in the United States. There are two competing admissions tests at the undergraduate level: the SAT and th

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This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Dengue fever is sometimes called break-bone fever. It produces intense pain in the muscles and joints and behind the eyes. People get severe headaches. There are no cures, but most people recover, thoug