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VOICE ONE: Im Bob Doughty. VOICE TWO: And Im Steve Ember with EXPLORATIONS in VOA Special English. This week we look at an industry that is facing major changes -- the automobile industry. (MUSIC) On the road, near Yosemite, California Americans, pos

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This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Research suggests that the belly is the worst place to have fat Being overweight can lead to high blood pressure, diabetes and heart attacks. But now there may be another reason to lose the fat, especial

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VOICE ONE: This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. I'm Barbara Klein. VOICE TWO: And I'm Bob Doughty. This week, we will tell about icy material shooting up from a moon of the planet Saturn. We will also tell about an experimental drug fo

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This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Villagers plant trees in China's Gansu province last year in an effort to control the spread of deserts Desertification is a process. It changes productive land into useless land. One example of des

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VOICE ONE: Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA in VOA Special English. I'm Barbara Klein. VOICE TWO: And I'm Steve Ember. This week on our program, we visit the historic center of Philadelphia. (MUSIC) VOICE ONE: Philadelphia is a big city on the Delaware Riv

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This is the VOA Special English Development Report. Women students talk with their teacher at Kabul's University in Afghanistan Goldman Sachs Group, the international investment banking company, has launched a new program to provide ten thousand poor

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VOICE ONE: Im Mary Tillotson. VOICE TWO: And Im Steve Ember with the VOA Special English program, PEOPLE IN AMERICA. Today, we tell about writer Langston Hughes, who has been called the poet voice of African-Americans. (MUSIC) VOICE ONE: Langston Hug

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This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. Martin Luther King, Jr. Forty years ago, African American civil rights leader, the Reverend Doctor Martin Luther King, Junior, was shot and killed. He died on April fourth, nineteen sixty-eight in Memphis,

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HOST: Welcome to AMERICAN MOSAIC in VOA Special English. (MUSIC) Im Doug Johnson. On our show this week: We play music by singer/songwriter Emily Jane White Answer a listeners question about the place where America holds its gold And report about a d

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VOICE ONE: Im Mary Tillotson. VOICE TWO: And Im Steve Ember with the VOA Special English program PEOPLE IN AMERICA. Today we finish telling about the life of Langston Hughes, known as the poet voice of African Americans. He was one of the most import

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This is the VOA Special English EDUCATION REPORT. A new report says only about half of all students in the main school systems of America's largest cities finish high school. The report notes higher rates of graduation -- more than seventy percent --

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VOICE ONE: This is Steve Ember. VOICE TWO: And this is Bob Doughty with the VOA Special English program EXPLORATIONS. Today, we tell about how people learned an important piece of information necessary for safely sailing on the oceans. It is called l

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ANNOUNCER: Welcome to THE MAKING OF A NATION -- American history in VOA Special English. George Washington by artist Laugier The United States declared its independence from Britain on July fourth, seventeen seventy-six. The new nation was a loosely

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This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson announces the proposal on March 31, 2008 This week, the Bush administration proposed major changes to the way the financial system is supervised. Treasury Secretary He

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This is the VOA Special English Health Report. The W.H.O. says climate change has increased the risk of natural disasters, like this flooding that trapped hundreds of people near Xai-Xai, Mozambique in 2000 Next Monday is World Health Day, observed b

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This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Scientists say flies can spread bacteria in hen houses The common housefly is unwelcome around food because flies can carry disease-causing germs. Now, scientists have shown that the insects can al

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HOST: Welcome to AMERICAN MOSAIC in VOA Special English. (MUSIC) Im Doug Johnson. Today we play music from Dengue Fever Answer a listener question about the oldest university in America And report on four Kings of fiction writing. (MUSIC) The Kings o

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VOICE ONE: This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. Im Barbara Klein. VOICE TWO: A shark swims above a diver during a feeding demonstration at the Two Oceans Aquarium in Cape Town, South Africa, in 2006 And Im Shirley Griffith. This week,

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This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. The debate over free trade has intensified in this election year in the United States. Democrats Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama have both threatened to withdraw from NAFTA if they could not renegoti

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Welcome to THE MAKING OF A NATION American history in VOA Special English. George Washington became America's first president in seventeen eighty-nine. He had commanded the forces of the American colonies in their successful rebellion against Britain