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Sue: This medication Im taking is messing with my vision. Everything is blurry. Hamed: Thats a good reason for you to stay home from work today. Sue: I cant. I have to give a presentation this afternoon and I cant flake out on my coworkers. Hamed: Wh
THE MAKING OF A NATION - American History: The Civil Rights Movement STEVE EMBER: Welcome to THE MAKING OF A NATION American history in VOA Special English. Im Steve Ember. Today, we tell about the movement for civil rights for black Americans. (SOUN
Agriculture Report - A Call for Equal Rights for Women Farmers 农业报道 - 呼吁在农业上赋予女性农民平等权利 This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. 这里是美国之音慢速英语农业报道。 A new report says if w
Shedding Light on Extraction Industries Europe is a step closer toward curbing corruption in extraction industries in developing countries. A European Parliamentary committee has approved proposed legislation that would require European companies to
Global Fund and Big Business Partner against AIDS As donor countries tighten budgets to reduce debt, organizations like the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria are feeling the effects. The fund announced last November it would not make any new
Defense Secretary Robert Gates (l) accompanied by Joint Chiefs Chairman Adm. Mike Mullen hold a press briefing at the Pentagon, 29 Jul 2010 U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates says he has asked the Federal Bureau of Investigation, or FBI, to assis
New Libya Leadership Pledges to Respect Human Rights 利比亚新领袖承诺尊重人权 In Libya, forces opposed to former leader Moammar Gadhafi, backed by NATO air strikes, continued their attacks Tuesday on the Gadhafi strongholds of Sirte and B
Kasey Chambers' 'Little Bird' Takes Flight Kasey Chambers was just 11 years old when she began her career as a member of The Dead Ringer Band, a group led by her parents. In 1999, at the age of 23, Kasey released her first solo album to considerable
Every Night is Fright Night at Elegant Theater In many American cities, one can find beautifully restored movie houses from the Golden Age of Motion Pictures in the 1920s and 30s. Many boast classical dcor, complete with crystal chandeliers, velvet d
Philadelphia Strives For Digital Equality The United Nations recently declared Internet access to be a human right. But in the United States, as in many other countries, millions of people do not have access to the wealth of information found online.
Recording Rights Abuses in Northern Mali The French-led military intervention in northern Mali has enabled a rights group to gather evidence of alleged abuses, killings and disappearances in the region. Human Rights Watch has been interviewing victim
Rights Group: Prosecute Alleged Arms Dealer A human rights group is calling on Sierra Leonean authorities to investigate a suspected arms dealer. U.N. investigators have alleged Ibrahim Bah supplied arms to rebels during Sierra Leones civil war. The
Gates Foundation Continues to Fight Tuberculosis WASHINGTON By Abigail Martin Tuberculosis, or TB, is spread when an infected person coughs or sneezes, dispersing the germmycobacterium TBinto the air. The World Health Organization says there were an
Secret Life of Egyptian Pigs A city of 18 million people produces a lot of trash. Much of Cairo's ends up in a Coptic Christian enclave called Garbage City, where people recycle just about everything. Lately, they are getting help from a secret sourc
HRW: Make Rights Priority in Somalia International donors are being called on to place human rights at the top of the agenda when they meet Tuesday on Somalia. Representatives of more than 50 countries are gathering in London to discuss Somalias futu
It's a brutal, month-long migration, up to 5 miles, an ultra-marathon for a crab. The cruel sun makes its appearance, threatening them with dehydration. And they face a gauntlet of roads, crisscrossing the island. They stop only to nourish themselves
Apprentice killers wait for their taste of the chase. But they're about to learn that hell has no fury like a zebra protecting her foal. Older cheetahs know the value of patience. Soon, the herd will move on. Hungry eyes turn to one of the last-born
They're born to move, to move or die, forging ahead against terrifying odds, navigating the first of millions of miles, spanning continents on fledgling wings, clattering ever onwards. Right now, our planet is on the march, on the wing, on the run, a
Many will drown in their frenzy to launch their eggs seaward. Most years, only a handful of their offspring survive. But sometimes, if wind and sea and luck are with them, a tidal wave of tiny crablings will return to these shores. There is no way to
The merciless yellow crazy ants take a terrible toll. But by sheer force of numbers and the inexorable will of their genes, they prevail. That is the fierce logic of migrations. But what is logical for the many can be madness for the few. At the Mara