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This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. Competition often means waiting for people to make a choice. That was the case with VCRs, video cassette recorders. During the nineteen eighties, people had two choices: VHS and Betamax. The VHS form

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Welcome to THE MAKING OF A NATION -- American history in VOA Special English. I'm Doug Johnson with Richard Rael. This week in our series, we begin the story of a document that defined a nation: the United States Constitution. (MUSIC) VOICE TWO: Del

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This is the VOA Special English Education Report. An endowment is money from donations and investments. Colleges use endowment money for student aid and campus improvements, and for financial security. But college costs in the United States have bee

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VOICE ONE: This is Faith Lapidus. VOICE TWO: And this is Steve Ember with EXPLORATIONS in VOA Special English. Today, we finish our series of programs about the Wonders of the World. In earlier programs, we told about ancient structures and beautifu

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This is the VOA Special English Health Report. The single largest killer of children under age five is pneumonia. This lung infection kills about two million children each year, mostly in developing countries. A boy with pneumonia at a camp for eart

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VOICE ONE: This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS, in VOA Special English. Im Bob Doughty. VOICE TWO: And Im Shirley Griffith. This week, we tell about vitamins. (MUSIC) VOICE ONE: Rey Salazar and his daughter, Aketzalli, 4, plant lettuce seeds at the Nutritio

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This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Cattle graze in the western state of Oregon Grasslands need time to rest when cattle and other animals feed on them. Moving animals from one area of pasture to another can provide the time needed f

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This VOA Special English Development Report. A windbreak of trees Farmers use different kinds of soil conservation methods to protect their land against damage from farming and the forces of nature. One important form of soil conservation is the use

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Welcome to THE MAKING OF A NATION American history in VOA Special English. The United States became a nation in seventeen seventy-six. Less than a century later, in the eighteen sixties, it was nearly torn apart. A civil war took place, the only one

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This is the VOA Special English Education Report. A recent decision by Harvard University to expand financial aid is putting pressure on other schools to do the same. Graduation ceremonies at Harvard in June The full price for one year at Harvard in

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VOICE ONE: This is Faith Lapidus. VOICE TWO: And this is Steve Ember with EXPLORATIONS in VOA Special English. Today we bring you the second of three programs about beautiful and unusual places in our world. Last week, we told about structures built

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This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, or C.O.P.D., affects more than two hundred million people around the world. The World Health Organization says at least five million people died from it in two tho

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VOICE ONE: This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. I'm Bob Doughty. VOICE TWO: Emergency hospital during 1918 influenza epidemic, Camp Funston, Kansas And I'm Faith Lapidus. This week, our subject is influenza, commonly called the flu. W

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This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. A round barn in Illinois American farmers traditionally keep their animals and equipment in barns that are rectangular, longer than they are wide. But as many as one thousand barns in the Midwest a

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VOICE ONE: Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA in VOA Special English. I'm Bob Doughty. VOICE TWO: Annie Leibovitz with portrait of Susan Sontag in ''A Photgrapher's Life, 1990-2005'' at the Corcoran Gallery of Art And I'm Faith Lapidus. This week we tell ab

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This is the VOA Special English Development Report. Sometimes it takes an engineer to help a village. In poor communities, that help may come from volunteers with a group called Engineers Without Borders. A civil engineering professor in the United

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VOICE ONE: This is Phoebe Zimmermann. VOICE TWO: And this is Steve Ember with People in America in VOA Special English. Today we tell about Shel Silverstein. He was a poet, writer, composer, singer, musician and artist. (MUSIC) VOICE ONE: Shel Silve

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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 Alice Smith /P Answer a question about two American actors /P And tell about an art museum in Miami, Florida. Marg

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This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. McDonald's, the fast-food company, is heating up competition with the Starbucks Coffee Company. McDonald's plans to put coffee bars in its fourteen thousand restaurants in the United States. Fewer th

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This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. The American presidential campaign took a surprising turn this week. Hillary Clinton Senator Hillary Clinton won the Democratic vote in the first primary state, New Hampshire, on Tuesday. That was after sh