This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. Lawmakers in Pakistan will elect a new president on September sixth. Officials set the date Friday. Presidents are elected by parliament and the assemblies of the four provinces. President Pervez Musharraf

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Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA in VOA Special English. I'm Shirley Griffith. VOICE TWO: Barack Obama and Joe Biden Saturday in Springfield, Illinois, at their first appearance as running mates And I'm Steve Ember. This week, the Democrats meet to nomina

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VOICE ONE: This is Steve Ember. VOICE TWO: And this is Shirley Griffith with the VOA Special English program EXPLORATIONS. Today we present the first of two programs about the history of the English Language. (MUSIC) VOICE ONE: More people are tryin

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VOICE ONE: This is Steve Ember. VOICE TWO: And this is Shirley Griffith with the VOA Special English program EXPLORATIONS. Today we present the second of our two programs about the history of the English Language. (MUSIC) VOICE ONE: William the Conq

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This is the VOA Special English Education Report. Each new school year brings fresh reminders of what educators call the summer learning gap. Some call it the summer learning setback. Put simply, it means the longer kids are out of school, the more

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ANNOUNCER: Welcome to People in America in VOA Special English. At the beginning of the twentieth century, American laborers often worked long hours for little pay. Many worked under extremely dangerous conditions. About five hundred thousand worker

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This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. Alaska Governor Sarah Palin with her husband Todd and two of their daughters, Piper, center, and Bristol, at the gathering in Dayton, Ohio, where John McCain named Governor Palin his vice presidential choi

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This is the VOA Special English Health Report. We often hear the term brain aneurysm. Joe Biden had two of them twenty years ago. Doctors saved his life. Now the sixty-five year old senator from Delaware has just been named the vice presidential cho

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HOST: Welcome to AMERICAN MOSAIC in VOA Special English. (MUSIC) I'm Doug Johnson. Today we play music from the British band Coldplay ... Answer a question about the circus And tell about a wet and wild public art project in New York City. (MUSIC) N

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This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. Cargo containers are loaded onto a ship at the Port of Miami In the last thirty years, American businesses have increasingly used suppliers in China and all over the world. This helped fuel a current

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Welcome to THE MAKING OF A NATION American history in VOA Special English. Most recently in our series, we have been talking about the War of Eighteen Twelve between the United States and Britain. In the summer of eighteen fourteen, the two countrie

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