AS IT IS 2013-06-27 Washington Monument Repairs Continue Hello, again. Im Jim Tedder in Washington. Today we report on the latest efforts to repair one of the most recognizable sites in the world. And well travel to Nepal to hear about one mans effor

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US Budget Breakthrough Ends Air Travel Delays Most flights were on schedule, as US air travel got back to normal. This came after a week of growing passenger frustration and airline delays caused by not having enough air traffic controllers on duty.

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Air pollution outside is easy to spot, hanging over the city, or sputtering from a tailpipe. But there's lot of indoor air pollution, too, even if it's not as obvious. It's caused by volatile organic compounds, or VOCs. They can come from building ma

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图片1 Everyone at Culips is a traveler. And if you are learning English, then maybe you also like to visit other countries and experience different cultures. Taking airplanes is part of the fun of traveling, and there is lots of special vocabulary

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She said that the hair on his head was growing back a little. He was surprised to hear that. He had never heard of hair growing back. Cancer victims who get chemotherapy often lose their hair. It often grows back. But he hadn't had chemotherapy. He a

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By Doug Levine Washington 19 June 2006 Offstage she's Mrs. Mindi Abair-Steele, but onstage fans still know her as jazz sax sensation Mindi Abair. As we hear from VOA's Doug Levine, getting married was just one of several life-changing events that fi

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By Michael Bowman White House 08 May 2006 President Bush has nominated Air Force General Michael Hayden to lead the Central Intelligence Agency, days after the surprise resignation of director Porter

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By Benjamin Sand Islamabad 14 January 2006 Pakistan says it has lodged a formal protest with the U.S. ambassador in Islamabad, following air strikes that killed 18 people in a tribal area on the Afgha

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General Motors will close four truck factories and move to make more cars. Also, airlines are retiring older planes and cutting flights and jobs. Transcript of radio broadcast: 05 June 2008 This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. There was

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By Challiss McDonough Qana, Lebanon 19 August 2006 Funeral procession in Qana In south Lebanon, mourners have buried the victims of the Qana airstrike. Most of the people killed in the July 30 attack were women and children. Their deaths sparked int

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Dallas Attacks West Nile Virus by Land, Air The aerial and ground fumigation programs are blanketing around 1,400 square kilometers of the county, but don't target all mosquitoes. Laura McGowan, who works with Clarke, the company contracted to carry

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SAF New Fire-Building Method Reduces Air Pollution With their megaphones and orange uniforms, these fieldworkers do not go unnoticed. This is Fine Town, a township south of Johannesburg. Every day, the fieldworkers walk around the townships to show t

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U.S soldiers wait after collecting the body of an insurgent from a vineyard near the Bagram airbase after insurgents launched a brazen pre-dawn assault against the giant U.S.-run Bagram Air Field, in Bagram, Afghanistan. At least 10 insurgents have b

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Airborne particles produced by automobile exhaust, industry and coal or oil fired power plants can cause blood pressure to rise to dangerous levels Medical researchers are finding out more about the health risks of air pollution. They say the world's

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The State Department said Thursday that the eviction of U.S. forces from the Manas air base in Kyrgyzstan will not adversely affect American and NATO military operations in Afghanistan. The Kyrgyz parliament has voted to end U.S. access to the base,

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Independent Ukrainian TV Station Struggles to Stay on the Air Ivan Artemenko is disappointed: The Kyiv students favorite channel - TVi - has vanished from the airwaves. I switched on my TV -- there is darkness on a channel TVi. The note says: 'The ch

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In India, trials have begun to select a fighter aircraft for the country's air force. Six aircraft manufacturers are in the race to win what will be one of the world's biggest defense contracts worth billions of dollars. dod fa-18c hornet fighter je

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The report, compiled by a panel of experts from the Chinese Academy for Environmental Planning and Nanjing University, comes after two years' field investigation, as well as data collection, analysis and calculation. Xie Hongxing, director of the Sec

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By Chad Bouchard Yogyakarta 08 March 2007 Forensic doctors are struggling to identify the bodies of at least 21 people killed when an Indonesian airplane skidded off the runway and exploded Wednesday. As Chad Bouchard reports from Yogyakarta, family

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Police officials in Pakistan's volatile northwest region say an improvised explosive device detonated under a vehicle carrying troops and civilian employees of a Pakistani air force base, killing at least 13 people. VOA's Barry Newhouse reports that

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