STEVE EMBER: Im Steve Ember. BARBARA KLEIN: And Im Barbara Klein with EXPLORATIONS in VOA Special English. Today we visit two museums housed in one building in Washington, D.C. The Smithsonian American Art Museum recently opened a show on the New Yor

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In the future days, which we seek to make secure, we look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms. The first is freedom of speech and expression everywhere in the world. The second is freedom of every person to worship God in hi

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STACEY VANEK SMITH, HOST: Marijuana is now legal in almost 30 states. But even in those states, it is still illegal to drive while impaired by the drug. But as NPR's Rae Ellen Bichell reports, that's left law enforcement and scientists struggling to

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10 December 2009 U.S. President Barack Obama delivers a speech after receiving the Nobel Peace Prize during a ceremony at the Oslo City Hall in Oslo, 10 Dec 2009 Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Distinguished Members of the Norwegian Nobel Comm

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Give me love like her Cause lately I've been waking up alone Paint spotted tear drops on my shirt told you I'd let them go And i'll fight my corner maybe tonight I'll call ya after my blood turns into alcohol no i just wanna hold ya Give a little tim

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The collapse of the Soviet Union left a complex mixture of ethnic groups in republics of the former empire. Their common language, Russian, expanded at the expense of native languages, which former Soviet republics are seeking to revive. Ukraine is

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Greeks Seek Shelter Overseas As Russians Move In Greece and park it in a safe haven, he said. They talk about German bonds, gold and property and I suppose their argument is you cant live in a bond or in gold. Figures show Greeks are moving their mon

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Kashmiri Muslim separatists have been fighting for two decades for independence from India or a merger with Muslim-majority Pakistan. More than 47,000 people have died in the conflict. Yet three years ago, a football coach from Argentina started the

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Victor Otazu, a aeroponic specialist with the International Potato Center, tends to some aeroponic potato plants in Nairobi, Kenya Kenyans love to eat maize. It's the country's favorite food. But researchers at the Kenya Agricultural Research Institu

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Putin's Challengers Seek Attention With TV Ads Vladimir Zhirinovsky is running for president of Russia for the fifth time since 1991. In his TV ads, he whips a stubborn donkey. He shouts: This lousy little donkey is a symbol of our country. The Carne

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Thanks to Hollywood, the word cowboy conjures up images of tough, independent men: solitary, weather-beaten and...white. But many of the Old West cowboys were African-American. Each October, the Black Cowboy Parade in Oakland, California celebrates t

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ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: One of the ingredients a successful Broadway show needs is a talented cast. That starts with talented casting directors, the people who can see a Tony-winning star in the making, say, when a performer walks into an audition as a co

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The speech of President Xi Jinping quoted a patriotic saying from a hero in Peru's independence war in the 19th century. He said the similarities between Chinese history and that of Latin America, in which both have struggled for national independenc

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Greek Finance Minister George Papaconstantinou leaves from a meeting with Prime Minister George Papandreou in Athens, 09 Apr 2010 Greece is facing more troubling news as it tries to get its growing debt under control. Fitch Ratings, one of the world'

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By Peter Fedynsky Moscow 26 November 2007 President Vladimir Putin has accused the United States of manipulating the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe to discredit upcoming Russian Parliamentary elections. VOA Correspondent Peter Fe

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By Cindy Saine Washington 11 February 2008 The U.S. Defense Department has charged six detainees being held at Guantanamo Bay detention center with murder and war crimes in connection with the September 11 terrorist attacks on the United States. The

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Boy Scouts trading patches at the Boy Scouts National Jamboree in Fort A.P. Hill, Virginia The Boy Scouts of America's National Jamboree wraps up on August 5 after a 10 day run at a U.S. Army base in northern Virginia, not far from Washington. The Sc

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Following a meeting with Laotian Foreign Minister Saleumxay Kommasith, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi says preparations for Septemer's summit in Vientiane are moving along well. We are looking to announce a Joint Statement for the Commemorative Sum

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Topic1 Rating TricksThe hit reality show Dad, where are we going and talent show the Voice of China both declare themselves the top rated program recently. However, these two shows are both aired on Friday night. How is possible? Is one of them is ly

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Topics: Famous Americans - Ansel Adams; Ben Jerry's; to find out versus to figure out versus to seek; too constructions; dummy versus idiot Words: from that point on to develop portfolio inspiring gift shop yummy correspondence course ice cream parlo

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