This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Years ago, a young forester took an unusual new job. Earl Cooley became one of the first smokejumpers. Smokejumpers parachute from airplanes. They fight fires that crews cannot reach quickly or eas

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Right now, several thousand people are on the ground here in Tianjin, working to clean up the chemical disaster that is unfolding here. And you can see some of the crews right here behind me. They actually had to throw out the hazmat suits that they

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Thousands of firefighters have worked through a second night to try to bring dozens of blazes under control across the southern states. Crews have taken advantage of the cooler weather to carry out back burning, but high temperatures are scheduled to

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By David McAlary Washington 02 June 2006 The two U.S. and Russian International Space Station crewmen stepped outside the outpost for a spacewalk to perform maintenance chores as the U.S. space agency

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This is AP News Minute. A strong earthquake caused panic on Indonesia's island of Lombok on Thursday. At least 220 people are known dead from an earthquake that hit the island last Sunday. Immigration agents raided Minnesota and Nebraska businesses a

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VOICE ONE: This is Steve Ember. VOICE TWO: And this is Faith Lapidus with People in America in VOA Special English. Today we tell about Red Adair. He was famous for putting out dangerous oil well fires around the world. (MUSIC) VOICE ONE: Red Adair

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By Carolyn Weaver New York City 19 July 2007 A new documentary by director Benson Lee, Planet B-Boy , is about a dance form called b-boying, or break dancing. Invented on the streets of New York in the early 1970s by black and Latino youths, its beco

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Cleanup Crews Roll Through Baton Rouge After Louisiana Flooding play pause stop mute unmute max volume 00:0000:00repeat repeat off Update Required To play the media you will need to either update your browser to a recent version or update your Flash

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Voice 1 Thank you for joining us for todays Spotlight. Im Joshua Leo. Voice 2 And Im Sara DeKoster. Spotlight uses a special English method of broadcasting. It is easier for people to understand no matter where in the world they live. Voice 1 The tow

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By Michael Bowman Washington 06 July 2006 After a successful docking, the crews of the Space Shuttle Discovery and the International Space Station are working side-by-side some 350 kilometers above the Earth. ----------- German astronaut Thomas Reit

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Most of the northeastern US ground to a halt as a huge winter blizzard struck vast areas of the region with high winds and record snow falls Carolyn Weaver | New York 10 February 2010 Road crews removing snow in the U.S. capital, 10 Feb 2010 Another

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The U.S. state of Florida has 1300 kilometers of beaches, all of which officials fear are at risk from the Gulf of Mexico oil spill. Our correspondent reports that military and wildlife officials are being deployed across the state, scouring for sign

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A large, fast-moving fire is burning out of control in the Baw Baw ranges, east of Melbourne. The blaze is now bearing down on rural properties near Seaton, Hayfield and Glen Maggie. Residents have been warned that it's now too late to leave and surv

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