Mary Morningstar Cross Canadian Ragweed formed in 1994, and spent the next eight years building a regional fan base in the southwestern U.S. The Oklahoma-based band released four albums on its own lab

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By Mary Morningstar Washington 20 December 2007 Veteran performers and newcomers contributed to the success of Country music in 2007. Although record sales overall continued to fall as digital downloads increased, several Country acts celebrated mult

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AMERICAN MOSAIC -June 7, 2002: Who Is Uncle Sam / Digital Movies / Country Music Awards HOST: Welcome to AMERICAN MOSAIC — VOA’s radio magazine in Special English. (THEME) This is Doug Johnson. On

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This is the VOA Special English Development Report. Two new discoveries could offer easier ways to identify infectious diseases in developing countries. Red Maasai hair sheep, native to East Africa, in a photo from the International Livestock Resear

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By Jim Malone Washington 25 March 2008 The cases of two Americans held by the military in Iraq went before the U.S. Supreme Court Tuesday. The two men argue that they should have access to American courts to block their transfer into the control of t

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By Gary Thomas Washington 22 August 2007 The Central Intelligence Agency has released a report sharply critical of the CIA's senior leadership in the years and months leading up to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. As VOA correspondent Gar

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Pakistan's Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani is expected to meet with top U.S. officials in Washington this week, including President George Bush. His visit comes during new tensions among Afghan, Pakistani and U.S. officials over how to counter a g

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Pakistan's president and British Prime Minister Gordon Brown have pledged to increase counter-terrorism cooperation following the Mumbai terrorist attacks. Mr. Brown arrived after another tense diplomatic exchange between the region's nuclear-armed

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CancerSurvivorsFindInformation,EncouragementatHoustonConference Cancer patients face many challenges - but there is also a lot of good news. That was the message in Houston, Texas recently, as one of the world's top cancer hospitals and research cent

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The JaneDear Girls are one of the most talked about new acts in Country music. Wildflower was the first single from their self-titled debut album. The song climbed to Number 15 to become the highest-charting track by a new Country act in 2010. The Ja

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The Senate Judiciary Committee has approved the nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court of the United States. The largely party line 13 to 6 vote sends the nomination of Sotomayor, who would be the nation's first Hispanic Supreme Co

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SCOTT SIMON, HOST: The duo of Bob Cousy and Bill Russell was one of the greatest. They were the Tracy and Hepburn, the Rocky and Apollo of the basketball court. They could anticipate each other's play. They could put themselves into each other's mind

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By Tom Rivers London 26 February 2008 A man described as one of Britain's top terrorist recruiters has been found guilty of training young followers in rural camps in England. For VOA, Tom Rivers reports from London. Tanzanian-born Mohammed Hamid, wh

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When I was eight years old I went to Girl Scout camp with my best friend Lauren. It was for two weeks and it was in the middle of July so it was really hot. We had no air conditioning. We actually slept in Tee Pees like the native Americans. It was a

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March 8 is International Women's Day, a national holiday in Burkina Faso. One way of celebrating is by making new clothes from Women's Day cloth that is designed with a new pattern every year. Burkina Faso is Africa's largest cotton producer, but the

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By Heda Bayron Hong Kong 19 November 2007 The ailing former Khmer Rouge president, Khieu Samphan, has been arrested for his role in Cambodia's mass killings in the 1970's and charged with war crimes and crimes against humanity . This is the latest mo

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By Al Pessin Lima 06 October 2007 U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates discussed the fight against drug trafficking and other international crime during a visit to Peru Friday. VOA's Al Pessin reports from Lima. A Peruvian defense ministry official sa

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Hours after the Mauritanian president fired top military officials on Wednesday morning, three of the fired officials seized the presidential palace and established a new state council. They have announced that President Sidi Mohamed Ould Cheikh Abd

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A wet Sunday in a country inn! Whoever has had the luck to experience one can alone judge of my situation. The rain pattered against the casements; the bells tolled for church with a melancholy sound. I went to the windows in quest of something to am

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Today, a United Nations court sitting in Cambodia, found one of Pol Pots leaders guilty of war crimes. The man called Duch was the chief of Khmer Rouges main prison, S-21, where around 16,000 people were tortured and then murdered. He was sentenced t

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