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By Lisa Schlein Geneva 22 May 2006 Lee Jong-wook World Health Organization Director General Dr. Lee Jong-wook has died after undergoing surgery over the weekend for a blood clot in his brain. He was 6

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In hard economic times, like the Great Depression of the 1930s, cash-poor Americans did what they could to make a living. Craftspeople found that durable, practical and beautiful handmade items were always in demand. Something similar appears to be h

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NOEL KING, HOST: Ten years after the housing market collapsed, a different crisis has emerged. Back then, a decade ago, lots of people were losing their homes. Today people who want to buy or in a lot of cases even just rent are being priced out of t

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PEOPLE IN AMERICA - Lou Gehrig

PEOPLE IN AMERICA -June 30, 2002: Lou Gehrig By Jeri Watson ANNCR: Now, the VOA Special English program, PEOPLE IN AMERICA. A North American Major League baseball record was established in Nineteen-Th

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By Gary Thomas Washington 15 February 2008 The assassination of a top operative for the Lebanon-based group Hezbollah was both a surprise and a puzzle for many people. Imad Mugniyeh was a wanted man for some of the most spectacular terrorist attacks