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HOST: Welcome to AMERICAN MOSAIC in VOA Special English. (MUSIC) I'm Doug Johnson. On our show this week: We answer a question about American lawmakers ... Play some music from the North Mississippi Allstars ... .And report about a world famous exper

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This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. One of the top issues this week at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, was climate change. But the business and political leaders gathered for the yearly event in the Swiss Alps were not t

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This is the VOA Special English Education Report. Graduate students often work as teaching assistants while they study in the United States. Teaching assistants may get money or get to take classes for free, or both. A T.A. usually works about twenty

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SCIENCE IN THE NEWS - Searching for Answers About What Harms Coral Reefs, and What May Protect Them A look at recent studies of coral reefs. Some scientists say rising temperatures have damaged almost half around the world. Yet many reefs stay color

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THIS IS AMERICA - Songs About Spring Can Be Happy or Sad Most of these songs have been around a long time but are still popular today.Transcript of radio broadcast: 23 March 2008 VOICE ONE: Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA in VOA Special English. I'm Barb

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People in America - Ernest Hemingway, 1899-1961: He created a New Kind of Writing. He Was Able to Paint in Words What He Saw and Felt. His first novel, The Sun Also Rises, made Hemingway famous at the age of 25. Transcript of radio broadcast: 08 Mar

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EXPLORATIONS - Tenement Museum Recreates Old Immigrant Life in New York City A visit to the apartments of the Gumpertz family, the Baldizzis, the Rogarshevskys, the Levines and the Confinos. Transcript of radio broadcast: 25 March 2008 VOICE ONE: Im

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Health Report - New Drug Shows Promise Against Worm Disease Experts worry that the parasite that causes schistosomiasis could become resistant to an existing treatment. Transcript of radio broadcast: 25 March 2008 This is the VOA Special English Hea

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People in America - Shirley Chisholm, 1924-2005: The First Black Woman Elected to the U.S. Congress She was an activist who worked to improve the lives of others. Transcript of radio broadcast: 01 March 2008 VOICE ONE: Im Steve Ember. VOICE TWO: And

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Agriculture Report - Parsley: Not Just Another Pretty Green Advice for growing parsley. And don't think there are only two kinds. (Heard of Hamburg parsley?) Transcript of radio broadcast: 24 March 2008 This the VOA Special English Agriculture Repor

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PEOPLE IN AMERICA - Mary Kay Ash, 1918-2001: She Started a Skin Care Company That Has Sales of More Than Two Billion Dollars a Year Independent representatives sell products in peoples' homes in more than 30 countries. Transcript of radio broadcast:

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Development Report - HIV and Life for Rural Women in South Africa Amnesty International says those already infected face abuses, while others face a higher risk of becoming infected. Transcript of radio broadcast: 23 March 2008 This is the VOA Speci

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SCIENCE IN THE NEWS - An International Appeal to Cut Smoking Rates Through Six Policies Also: An effort to find evidence of climate change in plants. And researchers develop a kind of rubber that can repair itself. Transcript of radio broadcast: 17

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IN THE NEWS - American Orchestra Performs in North Korea More than 100 musicians traveled to Pyongyang for historic first performance by an American symphony orchestra. Transcript of radio broadcast: 29 February 2008 This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Speci

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HOST: Welcome to AMERICAN MOSAIC, in VOA Special English. (MUSIC) I'm Doug Johnson. On our show this week: We listen to music from singer Andrew Bird... Answer a question about International Left-Handers' Day... And in sports, a home run record for B

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This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. Liquidity is the ease with which an investment can be sold and turned into money. For example, when a stock is traded easily, the market for it is said to be liquid. Liquidity can also suggest the eas

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VOICE ONE: I'm Shirley Griffith. VOICE TWO: And I'm Steve Ember with Explorations in VOA Special English. Today, we tell about the Galapagos Islands in the Pacific Ocean and the unusual creatures that live there. (MUSIC) VOICE ONE: A Galapagos Giant

2007年VOA慢速英语special200708090041

This is the VOA Special English Education Report. Public schools in New York, America's biggest city, commonly have numbers for names. But this is unusual. In the United States, the process of naming a school often involves parents and the community

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VOICE ONE: This is Mary Tillotson. VOICE TWO: And this is Shirley Griffith with THE MAKING OF A NATION -- a VOA Special English program about the history of the United States. Today, we tell about the second administration of Bill Clinton, America's

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This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. On Wednesday, China celebrated the one-year mark until the start of the two thousand eight Summer Olympic Games in Beijing. The celebration included sporting events and ceremonies across China. The Chinese