By Erika Celeste Highway 11, Mississippi 06 June 2008 For the past 11 years, there's been a yard sale in the United States like no other. For one weekend each spring, it runs for 808 kilometers 807.71800 to be exact starting in the southern state of

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Artist Creates Wood Sculptures With a Chainsaw Long shows off his skill, speed carving an owl in just 45 minutes. I love chainsaw carving. Its art. Its fun. People love it. It makes people smile, he said. Long began his career carving ice sculptures,

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World Series Provides Economic Boost to St. Louis The ultimate games in professional baseball, the World Series, can provide an economic boost to cities that host the championship. The St. Louis Cardinals' route to this year's World Series, where the

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Artist Pieces Life Back Together After Katrina Six years ago, on August 29, Hurricane Katrina devastated communities along the Gulf of Mexico. Images of New Orleans spread around the world, but east of the Louisiana border, much of the Mississippi co

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Charles Schulz wrote the popular comic stripPeanuts for fifty years Written by Jerilyn Watson (THEME) VOICE ONE: Im Barbara Klein. VOICE TWO: And Im Steve Ember with People in America in VOA Special English. Today we tell about Charles M. Schulz who

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By Noel King Juba 09 January 2006 Southern Sudanese dancing groups take part in peace celebrations in Juba, Sudan, Monday, Jan 10, 2005 Monday marked the one year anniversary of a peace agreement that

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By Peter Fedynsky Washington, D.C. 14 March 2007 watch Halliburton report Halliburton, an American oil services company and the largest private contractor in Iraq, is moving its corporate headquarters from Houston, in the U.S. state of Texas to Duba

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By Joe Bavier Abidjan 01 February 2006 Ivory Coast's popular northern opposition leader, Alassane Ouattara, has formally regained his position as leader of his party three years after he fled into exi

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US Takes Action Against Cyber Theft Threat From VOA Learning English, this is the Technology Report in Special English. The United States has announced a plan to fight the quickly growing threat from cyber spies and Internet attackers known as hacker

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THE MAKING OF A NATION - American History: George W. Bushs First Term STEVE EMBER: Welcome to THE MAKING OF A NATION American history in VOA Special English. I'm Steve Ember. GEORGE W. BUSH: America, at its best, matches a commitment to principle wit

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IN THE NEWS - Protests Against Big Business Spread in US 新闻报道 - 美国占领华尔街运动蔓延至全国 This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. 这里是美国之音慢速英语新闻报道。 Protests that began last month near Wall S

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By Greg Flakus St. Joseph, Missouri 27 March 2008 April 3 is an important date in the Midwestern city of St. Joseph, Missouri because two historic events happened there on that day, 22 years apart. One involved a short-lived, but thrilling chapter in

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By Selah Hennessy Dakar 30 May 2007 More than a quarter of the deaths of children under five in Senegal can be attributed to malaria. A U.S. government campaign to distribute mosquito nets and educate the population about treatment and prevention aim

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By Peter Fedynsky Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan 24 September 2007 It is said that it takes money to make money. Last year, an economist from Bangladesh won the Nobel Peace Prize for an innovative program called micro-lending that enables poor people to borrow

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Pills Offer New Hope in Fight Against Yaws Scientists have found that a medicine taken in pill form is just as effective in treating the neglected tropical disease yaws as the usual treatment, a shot of penicillin. The easier-to-use therapy raises ne

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Arrests Mark 1st Anniversary of Occupy Wall Street Demonstrators sought to occupy Wall Street only to find police already there. Nonetheless, protesters got within one block of the New York Stock Exchange to make their point that a wealthy one percen

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Ivory Coast Pushes for UN Military Action in Mali Islamist fighters say they now have full control of the north of Mali. In late June, a fierce battle in the town of Gao drove out the last of their Tuareg rivals, the separatist MNLA. The Islamist adv

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Ocean Levels Rising Fast on US Coasts Ocean levels are rising faster and higher on both coasts of the United States than in other parts of the globe, according to two new studies, and California could be especially hard hit. There will be about one m

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Stem Cell Therapy Effective Against HIV Virus in Mice The actual stem cells were injected in my arm, said Diana Souza. Diana Souza says stem cell therapy helped restore full use of her severely fractured arm. It is a miracle. It does work. And I have

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Activists Protest G8 Summit Several hundred Ethiopian activists came from across the United States to protest meetings involving Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi, who has been in power since 1991. The United States is a major aid contributor to

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