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This is the VOA Special English Development Report. Imagine a world without manufacturers. Or at least not as we now think of them. Instead, we as individuals control the technology to design and make most anything we want. That world exists now in t

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VOICE ONE: I'm Steve Ember. VOICE TWO: And I'm Barbara Klein with People in America in VOA Special English. Today we tell about James Brown, the musician called The Godfather of Soul. (MUSIC) VOICE ONE: James Brown That was James Brown singing his fa

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This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. This week -- new developments in two stories we reported on last year. In August, a federal judge tried to stop what the Bush administration calls the Terrorist Surveillance Program. A presidential order le

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HOST: Welcome to AMERICAN MOSAIC in VOA Special English. (MUSIC) I'm Doug Johnson. This week on our show: Getting ready for the newest members of the Baseball Hall of Fame. A question from Nigeria about the Sears Tower in Chicago ... And a report on

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This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. Companies combined or bought other businesses at record levels last year. Almost four trillion dollars in deals worldwide represented an increase of nearly forty percent from the year before. So far i

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This is the VOA Special English Education Report. We come to the twentieth week of our series on higher education in the United States. Today we answer two e-mails from Thailand. A refugee from Burma and another listener in Thailand both want to know

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This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Our subject this week is children and AIDS. A baby sleeps in her mother's arms next to the anti-AIDS drug nevirapine The United Nations Children's Fund, UNICEF, has just released a report on a campaign l

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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 Faith Lapidus. Today we tell about Alzheimer's disease. One century after its discovery, the cause of the disease is still unknown. (MUSIC) VOICE ONE:

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This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. In the United States, the term organic has a legal meaning set by the Department of Agriculture. The department has an official label to mark products that have met the requirements of its National

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VOICE ONE: Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA. I'm Steve Ember. VOICE TWO: And I'm Faith Lapidus. Today we begin a series of reports about living with a disability in America. VOICE ONE: Our series will explore a number of subjects. These include laws that a

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This is the VOA Special English Development Report. Fifty years ago, most people lived in rural areas. But the world has changed. By some point next year, more than half of all people will live in cities, for the first time in history. So says the mo

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VOICE ONE: THE MAKING OF A NATION -- a program in Special English by the Voice of America. (MUSIC) The surrender of Japan in August nineteen forty-five ended the Second World War. Americans looked to their new president, Harry Truman of the state of

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This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. A lot of American farmers have had a rough early winter. In California, frozen oranges In California, citrus growers are facing hundreds of millions of dollars in losses from a freeze earlier this m

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VOICE ONE: THE MAKING OF A NATION -- a program in Special English by the Voice of America. (MUSIC) Throughout history, power passes from one nation to another. Persia, for example, was the world's most powerful nation at the time of Alexander the Gre

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VOICE ONE: I'm Phoebe Zimmermann. VOICE TWO: And I'm Steve Ember with the VOA Special English program People in America. Today we tell about an unusual man who had many abilities. (MUSIC) VOICE ONE: R. Buckminster Fuller Building designer. Engineer.

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This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. President Bush speaking to the nation about his new plan for Iraq President Bush told the American people this week that he plans to send more troops to Iraq. He called the situation there unacceptable and

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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 sales ... Play some music from a new movie ... And report about a famous American whose life is celebrated about thi

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This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. Steve Jobs with the iPhone at MacWorld in San Francisco Apple Computer had a big week. Steve Jobs, the chief executive officer, announced the company would now just be called Apple. And, at its MacWor

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VOICE ONE: I'm Barbara Klein. VOICE TWO: And I'm Steve Ember with EXPLORATIONS in VOA Special English. Today we begin a series about ways older Americans are keeping mentally active. We tell about Elderhostel, an organization that considers the world

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This is the VOA Special English Health Report. A mother in Tamil Nadu, India, recently had a question for our new series on children and parenting. This woman in Tuticorin has a son who is almost three years old. He attends a pre-kindergarten school.