Chinese Tourism to US Expected to Grow 中国人赴美旅游预计将大幅增长 SAN FRANCSICO San Francisco is a major stop for Chinese visitors, and an agreement between China and the United States, announced in Beijing this month, promises to dra

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(SOUNDBITE OF MUSIC) DAVID GREENE, HOST: And it is time for StoryCorps on this Friday. Today, two Vietnam War veterans who lost touch after the war. Kay Lee was a combat medic from San Francisco. John Nordeen was a soldier from Seattle. They were bot

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I can't believe I made it into San Francisco, at long last! This morning, I went to the airport to catch my 10 a.m. flight. I got there early to go through security. The folks at the TSA can really slow things down sometimes. Since I had an electroni

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lesson/ddmybkMy interview is today. It is with a marketing company. It is a large corporation with its headquarters in San Francisco, CA. It also has satellite offices across the U.S. and in Europe. I'm not sure if this would be the right fit for me,

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A cloud of dust billowed around Jack. He couldhardly breathe. He couldn't see. But he could hearAnnie coughing. Jack opened his mouth to dust filled his throat. Jack! Between coughs, Annie shouted his name. Jack!I'm here! he said hoarsely. I think I'

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By Liu Enming San Francisco, California 12 October 2007 The Golden Gate Bridge -- the iconic gateway to San Francisco Bay -- has withstood 70 years of rain and shine. A marvel of engineering, it is also sadly a site where people commit suicide by thr

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Wal-Mart is asking a federal appeals court in San Francisco to dismiss a sex discrimination lawsuit. A lower court ruling allowed a class-action case to move forward. It involves more than 1 million current and former female employees of the world's

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By David Byrd Washington 08 August 2007 San Francisco Giants slugger Barry Bonds has passed Hank Aaron for the Major League Baseball career home run record. But the achievement is under a cloud because of allegations of steroid use. As VOA's David By

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Joplins hits during the 1960s included Ball and Chain, Piece of My Heart, and Me and Bobby McGee. Transcript of radio broadcast: 12 July 2008 VOICE ONE: I'm Pat Bodnar. VOICE TWO: Janis Joplin And I'm Bob Doughty with People in America in VOA Specia

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Also: Hear about the National Museum of Crime and Punishment in Washington, D.C. And listen to music about crime and punishment from some famous performers.Transcript of radio broadcast: 19 June 2008 HOST: Welcome to AMERICAN MOSAIC in VOA Special E

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Agriculture Report - How Overfishing Threatens Asia's Wild Fish Stocks 农业报道 - 过度捕捞威胁亚洲鱼类资源 This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. 这里是美国之音慢速英语农业报道。 The pressure to feed Asia'

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Worries Grow About Decline in Asia's Fish Stocks In the southern Philippines fishing town of Sindangan a certain scene is becoming more common across Asia, with soaring fish prices and falling wild fish catches. A fisherman says more fishing boats ar

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A pair of unlikely league champions begin their duel for Major League Baseball supremacy Wednesday night in San Francisco, as the National League champion Giants host the American League's Texas Rangers at ATT Park (8pm EDT). Neither team was expecte

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Probably only one or two Americans in a hundred could tell you the name of the nation's toughest, seemingly most escape-proof prison. It's the Marion federal penitentiary in Illinois. But for the better part of three decades, from the mid-1930s to 19

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By Doug Levine Washington 03 June 2007 One of the today's busiest blues musicians is Joe Louis Walker, a guitarist from San Francisco, California, who's been honing his skills for the better part of 40 years. VOA's Doug Levine has more on this versat

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DAVID GREENE, HOST: And let's stay here in California, which is one of more than 20 states where marijuana is legal in some form, which, of course, means people can be exposed to marijuana on the street. So what about secondhand smoke? Is that a conc

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RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: NPR's Invisibilia has returned with a new season. And this week, they're investigating the way we look at reality - whether we can ever really see it and how we often have very different views of the same reality, which naturally

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On Monday, an earthquake in China measuring 7.9 on the Richter scale occurred along a fault where south Asia pushes against the Eurasian Landmass, smashing the Sichuan Plain into mountains, leading to the Tibetan highlands. In 1989, the Loma Prieta E

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By Savita Patel San Francisco, California 21 February 2008 A suburb of San Francisco, California was recently the kitty capital of the world as hundreds of cats came together at the 24th annual Tails and No Tales Cat Show. The two-day event was a fel

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By Paul Sisco Washington 01 August 2007 At the bank, the airport, paying a toll --Americans know they are probably being watched and have come to expect it. Increasingly, surveillance cameras are becoming even more commonplace. Paul Sisco reports. Su

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