This the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Norman Borlaug led what was known as the Green Revolution. As a plant scientist, he may have saved more lives than anyone else in history -- as many as a billion, by some estimates. He traveled the wo

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This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. Many people think the search for cleaner energy leads only to renewable resources like sun, wind and water. But it also leads to a fossil fuel. Natural gas is considered the cleanest of the fossil fu

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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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VOICE ONE: This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. I'm Bob Doughty. VOICE TWO: And, I'm Barbara Klein. This week, we will tell about efforts against the H1N1 virus, often called swine flu. We will give a possible explanation for why some

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President Obama is set to visit Saudi Arabia on June 3 to meet with King Abdullah, just a day before visiting Cairo, and many Saudis are speculating about what the two men will discuss. As the guardian of Islam's holy sites and the author of a 2002

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Good morning, happy Thursday to you. From the CNN center in Atlanta, I'm Reggie Aqui. Thanks for checking in. Here is a quick look at what's making news right now. President Obama laid out an aggressive agenda for the nation on Tuesday night. And th

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Good morning, I'm Melissa Long here at the CNN center in Atlanta. It's a Thursday morning, the 13th of August. Here is a look at some of the stories happening NOW IN THE NEWS. Up to 3, 000 people are running from a huge wildfire in Northern Californ

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Good morning from the CNN center here in Atlanta, I'm Melissa Long with a look at some of the news happening. This morning on this Monday, top republicans are demanding an apology from House Speaker Nancy Pelosi for accusing the CIA of misleading Co

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Good morning from the CNN center in Atlanta, I'm Reggie Aqui, thanks for checking in. We are going to do a quick look at the headlines right now. Pirates have seized the cargo ship along with its crew of 20 Americans. A spokesman for the ship's owne

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President Teodoro Obiang, who has ruled Equatorial Guinea since 1979 coup, looks set for victory in Equatorial Guinea's presidential election Kate Thomas | Dakar 30 November 2009 President Teodoro Obiang is shown casting his vote for president at the

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VOICE ONE: Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA in VOA Special English. I'm Steve Ember. VOICE TWO: Union members and their supporters march during a Labor Day parade in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 2007 And I'm Barbara Klein. Most of the world observes Labo

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VOICE ONE: I'm Steve Ember. VOICE TWO: And I'm Barbara Klein with EXPLORATIONS in VOA Special English. At the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C. you might see two cowboy boots. They are painted with a design of clouds and stars. Two

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VOICE ONE: This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. I'm Bob Doughty. VOICE TWO: And I'm Faith Lapidus. This week, we will tell about an experimental vaccine against the disease AIDS. We also will tell about a newly found hiding place for

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This is the VOA Special English Development Report. A Question Box in India When you have a question about something, where do you go? For many people the answer is simple. They go online to a search engine like Google or Yahoo. But what about peopl

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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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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 IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. Former president Bill Clinton made a surprise visit to North Korea on Tuesday. He met with its leader to gain the release of two detained American journalists. Bill Clinton sits with North Korean Leader Ki

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Political opponents of Niger's President Mamadou Tandja say they are determined to block a referendum to extend his rule. The White House says it is concerned about President Tandja ruling by decree after dissolving a constitutional court that said

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By Al Pessin Washington 09 October 2009 President Obama (file photo) President Barack Obama is grappling with the difficult decision of whether to send even more U.S. troops to Afghanistan to reverse recent gains by the Taliban and help establish a

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By Selah Hennessy London 08 October 2009 The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization says major investment needs to be made in developing world agriculture. The FAO says that with rapid population growth and changing diets, agricultural pro

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