HOST: Welcome to AMERICAN MOSAIC in VOA Special English. (MUSIC) I'm Doug Johnson. This week on our program, we dive into the popularity of SpongeBob SquarePants. We also answer a question about soul singer Wilson Pickett. And here in Washington, we

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This is the VOA Special English Education Report. The United States has lost almost seven million jobs since the recession began in December of two thousand seven. The good news: the central bank says economic activity appears to be leveling out. Th

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This is the VOA Special English Health Report. People since ancient times have used aspirin-like medicines to fight pain and reduce high body temperature. Boxes of aspirin at a drugstore in Chicago Modern research has found other uses for aspirin. T

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This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. I'm Faith Lapidus. VOICE TWO: And I'm Steve Ember. This week, we will tell about new concerns about the H1N1 virus. We will also tell about a study of socially unacceptable words. And we will repor

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VOICE ONE: Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA in VOA Special English. I'm Steve Ember. VOICE TWO: And I'm Faith Lapidus. Roanoke Island is off the mid-Atlantic coast of the United States, in North Carolina. In fifteen eighty-seven, more than one hundred peo

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This is the VOA Special English Development Report. A simple water pump is helping to improve the lives of poor families in several Asian and African countries. A treadle pump in vegetable fields in Bangladesh The treadle pump is based on a design d

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VOICE ONE: I'm Steve Ember. VOICE TWO: And I'm Shirley Griffith with PEOPLE IN AMERICA in VOA Special English. WALTER CRONKITE: And that's the way it is ... VOICE ONE: Walter Cronkite in 2005 speaking at Arizona State University For almost twenty ye

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VOICE ONE: Im Steve Ember. VOICE TWO: Safari explorers on the Chobe River And Im Barbara Klein with EXPLORATIONS in VOA Special English. Today we go on safari to experience the sights and sounds of Africas rich wildlife. The word safari comes from t

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This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. Family members, including daughter Maria Shriver and her husband, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger of California, rear center Thousands of mourners gathered Friday on Cape Cod, Massachusetts, for the funeral

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HOST: Welcome to AMERICAN MOSAIC in VOA Special English. (MUSIC) I'm Doug Johnson. Today, we answer a listener question from China about American lawmakers And we play music from singer Regina Spektor's latest album ... But first, we visit the natio

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This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. President Obama is letting Congress write the details of his plan for what he calls health insurance reform. Congress is now on its August break. But members have been holding what are known as town

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This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. Afghanistan's Independent Election Commission has a message: Pay no attention to competing claims of victory in the presidential election. The first ballot counts are not expected until Tuesday. Women line

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This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Just because a plant looks nice does not mean you should eat it. Farmers learn this lesson tragically sometimes when their animals feed on wild plants. In fact, some of the nicest looking plants in

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VOICE ONE: Im Faith Lapidus. VOICE TWO: Eunice Kennedy Shriver And Im Bob Doughty with PEOPLE IN AMERICA in VOA Special English. Today we tell about Eunice Kennedy Shriver. She was a member of one of the most famous families in American politics. Sh

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This is the VOA Special English Development Report. In two thousand three, the government of Kenya established a program of free primary education for all children. But there are not enough public schools for all the children who live in the crowded

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This is the VOA Special English Health Report. The next time you think about going without sleep, consider this: Laboratory animals that are kept awake for long periods of time ... die. Yet sleep scientist Ying-Hui Fu at the University of California

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VOICE ONE: Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA in VOA Special English. I'm Steve Ember. VOICE TWO: And I'm Shirley Griffith. Our subject this week is the teenage investigator in one of the most successful children's book series of all time -- Nancy Drew. SUS

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VOICE ONE: This is Phoebe Zimmerman. VOICE TWO: And this is Steve Ember with the VOA Special English program EXPLORATIONS. Today we visit one of America's great national parks. It is a place of strange and silent beauty. As beautiful as this place i

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VOICE ONE: This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. I'm Steve Ember. VOICE TWO: And I'm Shirley Griffith. This week, we will tell about evidence that something big struck the planet Jupiter. We will also tell about a long ignored organ in

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HOST: Welcome to AMERICAN MOSAIC in VOA Special English. (MUSIC) I'm Mario Ritter. This week on our program, we play some new music from the Dave Matthews Band ... And answer a question about the term yellow journalism ... But first, we report on a

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