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VOICE ONE: This is Sarah Long. VOICE TWO: And this is Rich Kleinfeldt with THE MAKING OF A NATION, a VOA Special English program about the history of the United States. (MUSIC) Today, we tell about the start of the American colonies' war for indepen

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VOICE ONE: Im Steve Ember. VOICE TWO: Kurt Vonnegut And Im Shirley Griffith with People in America in VOA Special English. Today we tell about Kurt Vonnegut, a writer and thinker who shook up the country with his unusual writing style and subjects.

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This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. Imagine that you want to buy a house but are not sure you could meet the monthly payments. Your credit history is considered subprime -- not good enough for the lowest interest rates available. But a

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VOICE ONE: Im Faith Lapidus. VOICE TWO: And Im Doug Johnson with the VOA Special English program PEOPLE IN AMERICA. Today we tell about world famous country music performer Johnny Cash. (MUSIC: I Walk The Line) VOICE ONE: Johnny Cash That was Johnny

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VOICE ONE: This is Rich Kleinfeldt. VOICE TWO: And this is Sarah Long with THE MAKING OF A NATION, a VOA Special English program about the history of the United States. Today, we continue the story of the American Revolution against Britain in the l

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This is the VOA Special English Education Report. One of our listeners has a question about college athletes in the United States. Amni Garcia in Mexico would like to know how much they study. Well, we suppose that like any other students, there are

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VOICE ONE: Im Bob Doughty. VOICE TWO: Choe U-Rams mechanical flower And Im Pat Bodnar with EXPLORATIONS in VOA Special English. Today, we travel to the warm and sunny city of Miami, Florida to visit the largest modern art show in the United States.

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VOICE ONE: This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. I'm Faith Lapidus. VOICE TWO: Doctors say people can reduce the risk of some kinds of diabetes by increasing exercise and eating a healthy diet And I'm Bob Doughty. Today, we tell about

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This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Exotic Newcastle disease is a bird virus found in many parts of the world. Many kinds of birds carry it. But it especially affects chickens and a few others. It spreads very fast and there is no tr

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VOICE ONE: Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA in VOA Special English. Im Barbara Klein. VOICE TWO: And Im Steve Ember. This week on our program, we tell you about Lake Champlain and the Finger Lakes in the northeastern United States. (MUSIC) VOICE ONE: Iceb

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This is the VOA Special English Development Report. Books are a high cost of higher education. But the Global Text Project hopes to create a free library of one thousand electronic textbooks for students in developing countries. The Global Text Proj

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HOST: Im Shirley Griffith with a VOA Special English program for the Christmas holiday. Mormon Tabernacle Choir Christians around the world are celebrating the birth of Jesus Christ. In the United States, people are observing the Christmas holiday i

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This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. Abe Mirza is an American, fifty-nine years old and retired. He was trained as an accountant. In fact, he has three degrees in financial record keeping. And he has over twenty years of experience as a

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This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. Thousands of members of the Writers Guild of America and their supporters march in Los Angeles last month More than ten thousand film and television writers in the United States have been on strike since N

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This is the VOA Special English Health Report. We talked last week about ways to avoid hypothermia and other cold-weather injuries. Today we are going to talk about emergency treatment. Hypothermia can be mild, moderate or severe. Mild hypothermia i

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This is the VOA Special English Health Report. What do you think of health in your country? Researchers asked people in forty-seven countries around the world. They also asked them what they think of the efforts of donor nations. The findings are in

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This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. December twenty-fifth is Christmas. The holiday has many traditions. Some special trees and plants are part of the Christmas tradition. One of the most popular is the evergreen tree. It is usually

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Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA in VOA Special English. I'm Barbara Klein. Music is traditionally a big part of Christmas celebrations. This week on our program, we have songs from some of the new holiday albums that came out in two thousand seven. (MUSI

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This is the VOA Special English Development Report. Canning and freezing are not the only ways to keep fish for future use. Today we have the first of two reports describing, step by step, how to prepare dried or smoked fish. Begin with fish that ar

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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 some music from Melissa Etheridge /P Answer a question about the White House /P And tell about the results of a recent high school