In recent years, Bill Gates has given financial support to improve American education. Late last year, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation launched the Measures of Effective Teaching project. The project tests new ways to recognize what makes a goo

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DOUG JOHNSON: Welcome to AMERICAN MOSAIC in VOA Special English. (MUSIC) Im Doug Johnson. This week on our program, we have music from Justin Bieber's latest album, My World 2.0. And we answer a question about National Teacher Day in America. Justin

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This is the VOA Special English Development Report. A nonprofit group in San Francisco, California, is trying to take bicycle-powered computers to rural villages around the world. The computer was developed with villagers in Laos. The group is the J

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The United Nations Foundation has raised over $20 million so far and supplied more than 700,000 treated bed nets to families. Transcript of radio broadcast: 27 July 2008 This is the VOA Special English Development Report. Malaria parasites are sprea

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A dramatic World Cup final is being played out in Johannesburg between Spain and the Netherlands. The match is going into extra time after the score was locked at nil all. Both sides are vying for their first-ever crown in the history of the sport. T

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Review Exercise 9: Ignorance on Parade CD 4 track 8 Now, let's dissect a standard paragraph, including its title, as we did in Review Exercise 1. Firstinthe boxes in the first paragraph, decide which is a descriptive phrase, which is a set phrase, an

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Cool, alright. He's always been around horses. I've had him ever since he was a 2-year-old, now he is 15. Lester Courtney has always loved to load up and head to the great outdoors. He and his wife Carol have spent a lot of time at their horses, not

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Saving Kids from HIV Sunday, December 1st, is World AIDS Day. In the more than 30 years of the epidemic, great progress has been made in reducing HIV infections among children. However, health officials and support groups say the number is still too

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DEVELOPMENT REPORT – May 27, 2002: Child Nutrition Program By Jill Moss This is the VOA Special English Development Report. A new program has been launched to provide children in developing countrie

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AS IT IS 2015-05-18 Blues Music Great B.B. King Dead at 89 蓝调之王B.B. King去世享年89岁 A great master of blues guitar, B.B. King, is dead. King died Thursday night at his home in Las Vegas, Nevada. He was 89 years old. B.B. King was in the

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After her son Jacob was killed by a roadside bomb in Iraq in 2003, Dorine Kenney searched for a way to keep his spirit alive. So she founded Jacob's Light Foundation, a volunteer group that has sent hundreds of thousands of kilograms of candy, socks,

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Youth Orchestra Bridges Worlds of Music There are high school students in the group as young as 15, and young professionals up to age 25, and conductor Roger Kalia says they all bring passion to their music. There is a certain amount of energy and ex

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[00:01]E:Wait, are you a student or something? [00:03]P:I'm a writer. I'm writing a book. I'm here doing some research about how technology affects third-world cultures. [00:10]I'm also looking for this guy David Drumlin. He's the new head-honcho

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So, graduates, it's now abundantly clear that we need to start doing things a little bit different. In your own lives, you'll need to continuously adapt to a continuously changing economy. You'll end up having more than one job and more than one care

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It takes a village to raise a child. Well, the same is true for finding what are called spaceworps. That's according to astophysicists who are calling for volunteers to aid in the search for gravitational lenses. Astronomical objects are so massive t

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Universities in Britain are a magnet for overseas students. There are currently over 200 000 from outside Britain studying at British universities. The largest single group is Chinese students. There are currently 50 000 in the UK. The British govern

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EDUCATION REPORT - SEED School Aims to Help Students Grow With Skills for Life By Dana Demange Broadcast: Thursday, December 29, 2005 I'm Faith Lapidus with the VOA Special English Education Report. T

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采访中国足球超级联赛推广大使的对话 A:感谢你作为中国足球超级联赛推广大使接受我们的采访。你访问北京有一周了,有什么感想? Thank you for having this interview as the ambassador for Chinese Prem

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Todd: Rob, when you first came to Japan you said you did construction. Rob: Yes, I was hired as a framer for 2x4 types of homes, so the same style of homes that are built in Canada or America. Todd: OK, so what do you mean by frames? Rob: Framing, th

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Topics: Make-a-Wish Foundation; American Cities: Key West and the Florida Keys; must versus ought to versus need to; nuts and bolts; to buy (something) Words: foundation wish to come true to grant to be (something) when one grows up honorary archipel

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