Agriculture Report - The Appeal of Urban Farming 农业报道 - 生态城市农场的魅力 This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. 这里是美国之音慢速英语农业报道。 Old properties and empty lots in cities and towns around

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2012 Americana Music Award Nominees Announced Jason Isbell and the 400 Units Here We Rest earned the onetime member of the Drive-By Truckers an Artist of the Year nomination, along with nods for Album of the Year, Duo/Group of the Year and Song of th

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Urban Farm Takes Root Amid Strip Malls EcoCity Farms grows vegetables in winter. The Edmonston, Maryland, farm near Washington is an unlikely place to harvest produce in any season. Its four climate-controlled greenhouses stand out in an otherwise bl

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Number of Bicyclers Soars Along with US Gas Prices With gasoline prices prices in the United States hovering around $1 per liter, the number of bicyclers is increasing, especially in cities, according to the AAA Fuel Gauge Report. Sales of road bikes

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LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: As the 2018 midterms approach, there's one issue that threatens to separate President Trump from his base - tariffs. (SOUNDBITE OF COWS MOOING) GARCIA-NAVARRO: Those are the cows of Vision-Aire Farms in Eldorado, Wis. This

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Lesson 45 The typical English gentleman Yesterday morning gretel went to the City of London. She wanted to see St.Paul's Cathedral. She was surprised to see so many Englishmen who looked alike. They were all wearing dark suits and bowler hats. They w

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The Prime Minister, Helen Clark, went to Germany after the Commonwealth Heads of Government conference. In Germany she made a speech about the environment and what New Zealand is doing to reduce carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. Even though New Zeala

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This is AP News Minute. President Donald Trump is threatening to hold up the trade agreement his administration just finalized with South Korea to provide more leverage for talks with North Korea. Speaking in Ohio, Trump said he may hold up the agree

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By Alan Silverman Hollywood 01 July 2006 The original comic book super-hero is back on the big screen in a rip-roaring adventure directed by Bryan Singer, who made the first two X-Men movies. Alan Silverman spoke with the director and his stars for

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Nigeria's leading militant group, the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta, has declared a unilateral ceasefire in the oil-rich region. Gilbert da Costa in Abuja reports for VOA. MEND warned in its statement that it would end the ceasefi

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Americana Music Industry Hands Out Honors Booker T. Jones of Booker T The MGs fame opened the two-and-a-half-hour-long awards ceremony by performing his classic hit Green Onions with a star-studded band that included Richard Thompson on electric guit

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Researchers Record Iceberg Breaking Loud as an Earthquake The sound can be mistaken as a stringed instrument like a double bass, or maybe some kind of truck on the highway. But it actually is an iceberg, in the Antarctic Weddell Sea, grinding slowly

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Anti-Establishment Candidates Popular on Iowa Campaign Trail GRINNELL, IOWA One of the biggest surprises in the race for the White House in 2016 is the surge in popularity of anti-establishment candidates in both parties. In towns across Iowa, the cr

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ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: South by Southwest also showcases art, the type of art you'd expect at a tech-focused conference. One installation features counter-surveillance fashion by a group of women of color. They first caught the eye of NPR arts correspo

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MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: Video of the death of Stephon Clark in Sacramento has rekindled anger over police shootings of unarmed people. Some are asking whether the protests and media attention of the last few years really made any difference in how p

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On Wednesday this week, the Prime Minister, Helen Clark, apologised to soldiers who served in the Vietnam War between 1964 and 1972. She apologised for the way they were treated when they returned from the war and for the pain and suffering they expe

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By Mandy Clark Belfast 26 February 2008 Northern Ireland was once torn by centuries of sectarian violence, and even now after 10 years of relative peace, entrenched divisions remain. Protestants and Catholics rarely even play the same games, and even

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Bugler at President Kennedys Funeral Remembered 50 Years Later 总统肯尼迪葬礼上的号兵五十年后仍被铭记 ARLINGTON NATIONAL CEMETERY Military and state funerals include the playing of Taps, usually by a lone bugler. There is a shortag

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By Mandy Clark London 19 March 2008 The global human rights organization, Amnesty International says that HIV and AIDS are devastating poor women and children in South Africa. In a report released in London, Amnesty says that poverty, gender inequali

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More Children Fall Victim To Street Shootings Amid Spike In Chicago DAVID GREENE, HOST: So far this year, nearly 370 children in the United States who are 12 years old or younger have been harmed or killed by gunfire. This is according to the non-pro

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