This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. This week in Washington, Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood announced plans for a distracted driving summit in September. Transportation and law enforcement officials, safety activists and others wi

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VOICE ONE: Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA in VOA Special English. I'm Steve Ember. Part of the cultural history of the baby boomers, the generation of Americans born after World War Two, is Woodstock. (MUSIC) The Woodstock Music and Art Fair took place

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This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Strokes are a major cause of death and disability. A stroke is a loss of blood flow in the brain. There are two kinds. An ischemic stroke happens when a blood vessel in the brain gets blocked. A hemorrh

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VOICE ONE: This is Bob Doughty. VOICE TWO: And this is Steve Ember with EXPLORATIONS in VOA Special English. Today we tell about Hoover Dam. It was the largest and most difficult structure of its kind ever built when work started in nineteen thirty-

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VOICE ONE: I'm Doug Johnson. VOICE TWO: B.J. Adams in her studio And I'm Faith Lapidus with EXPLORATIONS in VOA Special English. At craft shows and corporate headquarters across the United States, you might see works by the artist B.J. Adams. She ma

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This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. America's economy has started to grow again. Now what about jobs? The government says productivity jumped in July, August and September. That meant companies produced more with fewer workers. Also, n

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This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. November eleventh, nineteen eighteen, was the day Germany signed a cease-fire agreement with the Allies in World War One. Some countries observe November eleventh as Armistice Day or Remembrance Day. Firew

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VOICE ONE: I'm Steve Ember. VOICE TWO: And I'm Shirley Griffith with EXPLORATIONS in VOA Special English. Today we continue our history of the American space program with the flight of Apollo Eleven. (SOUND) VOICE ONE: The launch of Apollo 11 A rock

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This is the VOA Special English Education Report. We answered a question last week about how American college students find jobs after they graduate. Now, we discuss foreign graduates. The process for employing foreign workers in the United States i

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HOST: Welcome to AMERICAN MOSAIC in VOA Special English. (MUSIC) I'm Doug Johnson. On today's program, we tell about Los Angeles Lakers basketball coach Phil Jackson Answer a question about folk singer John Denver And hear music by Madeleine Peyroux

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By Scott Bobb Johannesburg 21 September 2009 Caster Semenya (File photo) South Africa's top athletics official is in danger of losing his job. The government's sports ministry and major political parties have called for him to be removed for lying a

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By Al Pessin Pentagon 22 September 2009 The publication Monday of a secret assessment by the new U.S. and NATO commander in Afghanistan has sparked a fresh round of debate about what the coalition strategy should be and how many troops are needed to

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By Sabina Castelfranco Thuwal, Saudi Arabia 23 September 2009 King Abdullah University of Science and Technology officials address invited guests and members of the media during a press conference in Thuwal, Saudi Arabia, 23 Sep 2009 A new internati

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By Brian Wagner Tegucigalpa 28 September 2009 Honduras ousted President Manuel Zelaya speaks at George Washington University's Latin American and Hemispheric Studies Program in Washington, 02 Sep 2009 The Honduran de facto government is pressing Bra

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Years of careful negotiation to repair relations between Libya and its former adversaries, Britain and the United States, have threatened to unravel because of the welcome home given to convicted Lockerbie bomber, Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi. The is

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By Anna Boiko-Weyrauch 26 September 2009 Monday is Yom Kippur - the holiest day of the year for Jews. The holiday will be marked in Jewish communities around the world, including Western Ghana. A small group of people from the Sefwi tribe in western

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By Scott Stearns Dakar 29 September 2009 Campaigning is under way in Niger for legislative elections that are being boycotted by the country's main opposition parties because President Mamadou Tandja has changed the constitution to extend his time i

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The defeat of the Tamil Tigers and the death of Velupillai Prabhakaran, the rebel group's leader, seemed to deepen the sense of confusion felt by many in Sri Lanka's Tamil population. What's next for them? Sri Lankans celebrate the military victory

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A group of Southeast Asian politicians is urging the Association of Southeast Asian Nations to suspend Burma's membership if it refuses to release democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi. Aung San Suu Kyi testified Tuesday against charges that could put h

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President Barack Obama has announced his plan to send about 4,000 more U.S. troops to Afghanistan and increase diplomacy with Pakistan. He said his strategy has a clear and focused goal. Pres. Obama, flanked by Sec. of State Clinton, Defense Sec. Ga

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