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STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: Hard work is going on at a Washington, D.C., museum. A man tightens a bolt with a wrench. A farm worker fills his sack with cotton. Rosie the Riveter rolls up her sleeve for a factory job. To be precise, these are depictions of h
Technology Report - Event Aims to Build Interest in Science, Engineering This is the VOA Special English Technology Report. Last week we reported on Microsoft Corporations Imagine Cup finals in the United States. Team FlashFood from Arizona State Uni
By Paula Wolfson Washington 24 December 2006 President Bush is spending the long Christmas weekend in seclusion with his family at Camp David - the presidential mountain retreat. VOA's Paula Wolfson reports on Christmas Eve, he paid tribute to the m
By Kevin Billinghurst Uppsala, Sweden 26 May 2007 Celebrations this week in Sweden marked the 300th anniversary of the birth of Carl Linnaeus, the 18th-century Swedish scientist known as the father of taxonomy. On Saturday, the University of Uppsala,
By Sabina Castelfranco Rome 22 January 2006 Swiss Guards in their blue-yellow bloomered dress uniforms attend a special mass in the Sistine Chapel at the Vatican, Sunday, Jan. 22, 2006 Pope Benedict t
The U.S. military has paid its formal farewell to President George Bush, as he prepares to step down as commander-in-chief. Representatives from all branches of the armed forces took part in a ceremony honoring the president at an army base near Was
At his last ceremonial appearance as U.S. President, George Bush honored three men who have been among his staunchest allies abroad during his eight years in office. Former Prime Ministers Tony Blair, former Australian Prime Minister John Howard and
National Day of Service Honors Civil Rights Leader Martin Luther King Jr. Stephanie Garlick is fighting hunger. She's volunteering at the Capital Area Food Bank in Washington, doing what she can to help the less fortunate. There is so much depression
By Paula Wolfson White House 28 October 2009 House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (l), Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and President Barack Obama, present the Congressional Gold Medal to former Massachusetts Sen. Edward Brooke on Capitol Hill in Washington,
MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: If you went to the post office this past week, you might have noticed something new - a forever stamp collection featuring illustrations from the children's book The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats. (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING)
(SOUNDBITE OF BO DIDDLEY SONG, WHO DO YOU LOVE?) SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Chess Records catalogue is an American institution. It was founded in Chicago by Phil and Leonard Chess in the 1950s and became the label that launched Howlin' Wolf, Muddy Waters, Ch
ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: The late Jim Henson is the subject of a new permanent exhibition at the Museum of the Moving Image in New York City. Henson created the Muppets. And unlike some other collections devoted to his work, this one makes the case for Hen
MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: The very first page of Meg Wolitzer's new book describes a chance meeting between two women. One is very young, 18, a freshman on a college campus where the other, who's in her 60s, a famous feminist, has come to give a talk.
标准英语,VOA,America,civil,leaderBy Paula Wolfson Washington 16 January 2006 President Bush, foreground, views the the Emancipation Proclamation at the National Archives building Monday Americans honor the life and legacy of the slai
By David Gollust State Department 10 December 2007 Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice marked International Human Rights Day Monday by honoring a Zimbabwe lawyers group that has defended democracy activists in that country. Rice also met with leaders
By Mike O'Sullivan Los Angeles 14 February 2006 Hollywood's motion picture academy honored nominees for the Oscars Monday, as the countdown gets under way for the annual film awards. A luncheon gave n
By Suzanne Chislett London 11 October 2006 watch Chislett report The forgotten role that black South Africans played in World War I is finally being told. Almost 90 years after the sinking of a ship carrying black South African troops, the story has