This is the VOA Special English Development Report. Some mothers in Senegal are learning a new way to save the lives of babies born too soon. The idea is not really new. It borrows from the way mother kangaroos carry their young in front in a pouch.

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PEOPLE IN AMERICA - Margaret Mead, 1901-1978: One of the Most Famous Anthropologists in the World STEVE EMBER: Im Steve Ember. SHIRLEY GRIFFITH: And Im Shirley Griffith with PEOPLE IN AMERICA in VOA Special English. Today we tell about one of the mos

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Pythons Unlock Human Heart Health Secrets Studying snakes might seem like an unlikely way to help people with heart disease, but a pythons remarkable ability to quickly enlarge its heart during digestion has Colorado medical researchers looking towar

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By Peter Fedynsky Washington, DC 08 June 2006 watch Secret Prisons report There have been vehement rejections in Europe and the United States of a report asserting the existence of secret U.S prisons in Europe. A Council of Europe investigation alle

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VOICE ONE: I'm Barbara Klein. VOICE TWO: And I'm Steve Ember with People in America in VOA Special English. Today we tell complete our report about photographer Margaret Bourke-White. She helped create the modern art of photojournalism. (MUSIC) VOIC

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VOICE ONE: I'm Barbara Klein. VOICE TWO: And I'm Steve Ember with People in America in VOA Special English. Today we tell about photographer Margaret Bourke-White, one of the leading news reporters of the twentieth century. (MUSIC) VOICE ONE: A youn

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By Selah Hennessy Dakar 01 August 2007 After failing to meet a Wednesday deadline to return to the Democratic Republic of Congo, Senator and opposition leader Jean-Pierre Bemba now says he will return to the country by mid-September. Bemba fled to Po

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By Margaret Besheer Irbil 22 March 2007 Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, right,shakes hands with UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon ahead of their meeting in Baghdad, 22 Mar 2007 U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has paid a surprise visit to Bagh

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By Peta Thornycroft Harare 24 May 2008 Zimbabwe's opposition leader, Morgan Tsvangirai, has returned home from South Africa, vowing that he will defeat President Robert Mugabe in second round elections next month. Peta Thornycroft reports, Mr. Tsvang

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By Scott Bobb Johannesburg 18 September 2009 Experts in the battle against HIV/AIDS and other infectious diseases have met in Pretoria, South Africa to discuss ways to more effectively deliver Anti-Retroviral (ARV) medicine. Many believe improving A

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Secret Service Agents Open Up About Kennedy Assassination President John F. Kennedys trip to Dallas on November 22, 1963 was intended to boost support in Texas for his 1964 re-election campaign. An assassins bullet ended his life, however, remaining

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Kennedy Assassination Transformed US Secret Service The assassination of President John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963, 48 years ago, stunned the world. It was the first time since 1901- when President William McKinley was killed - that a U.S. presi

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Wounded Syrians Treated at Secret Clinic in Lebanon Amran, 6, is one of the youngest patients in this hospital. He has difficulty walking. When he shows his leg, its easy to see why. A chunk is missing from his shin. The hole is surrounded by red sca

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Obama Defends Secret Surveillance Programs Obama put forward his defense of the secret surveillance programs when asked by a reporter during a health care event in California. My assessment and my team's assessment was that they help us prevent terro

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By Al Pessin Pentagon 11 March 2008 The senior U.S. military officer responsible managing the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and U.S. military engagement throughout the Middle East, Central Asia and East Africa, has decided to retire this month after

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By Peter Fedynsky Moscow 18 June 2007 Former U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell told an international investors' conference in Moscow that Russia must observe the rule of law, if it hopes to attract the capital needed to further develop the country

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今天我们要学的词是secretive。 Secretive, 是不公开的,遮遮掩掩的。最新研究发现,认为美国联邦政府对民众不够坦率的人两年来显著增加。Three out of four view the federal government as secretive, 四个人

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Wendi: I wanna know what goes on at the bachelorette party. Have you had to throw one - like having been a bridesmaid - have you ever thrown a bachelorette party for a girlfriend? Rachel: Yeah, but, I don't know if I want to talk about it. Wendi: I d

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Early returns from the presidential election in Zambia indicate opposition leader Michael Sata is ahead with 44 percent of the vote while Acting President Rupiah Banda trails with 34 percent. But observers say that with results in from nearly one-ha

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Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Tuesday that an Iranian nuclear scientist, who Iran claims was abducted by U.S. agents, is in the United States on his own free will and is free to leave. The Iranian, Shahram Amiri, turned up at the Iranian in

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