ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: The Navajo Nation is struggling with a problem. And here are two numbers that put it into perspective. Twelve hundred Navajo kids cycle through foster care each year, and there are only about two dozen licensed foster homes on the

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RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: The pharmaceutical giant Merck is pulling out of an agreement to sell a lifesaving vaccine to poor countries at a reduced cost. At the same time, the company has just started sending the vaccine to China, where it will likely be

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The Duchess of York has been caught on camera offering to sell access to her husband Prince Andrew. The News of the World says Sarah Ferguson was filmed by one of its reporters posing as a businessman. And it appears that she accepts 40,000 US dollar

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Scripts: Oil followed stock markets in their gains on Friday, jumping more than a dollar a barrel after that move by the US Federal Reserve, one company thats being benefiting from higher oil prices in recent times is the energy giant Petrobras. I a

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By Scott Stearns Washington 18 April 2006 President Bush President Bush says he is concerned about the affect rising gasoline prices will have on the U.S. economy. Some of the record increases come fr

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By Jim Teeple Jerusalem 22 January 2008 Israel has allowed a one-day delivery of food and fuel to the Gaza Strip, partially lifting a nearly week-long blockade of the territory. VOA's Jim Teeple has details from our Jerusalem bureau. Israeli official

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By Bill Gasperini Moscow 02 January 2006 watch Gas Dispute report Russia's energy company Gazprom says it will increase the amount of natural gas it sends to its European customers through Ukraine. Th

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NATO Trucks Remain Stalled in Pakistans Southern Port Some trucks and drivers have been waiting for months to return to the road. Entry points to Afghanistan were closed after the United States mistakenly killed 24 Pakistani soldiers in an airstrike

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Data from the US Census bureau, found that doctor's hours declined while at the same time their incomes dropped 25 percent between 1995 and 2006 In the U.S., doctors are known for working extraordinarily long hours, seeing patients in the office and

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The largest effort ever to protect global food supplies against climate change was announced Friday in Rome. One-fifth of the world's plants are threatened with extinction. It's Cary Fowler's mission to fight back. He's the executive director of the

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Writing Program Supplements US Public Education For almost 10 years, a unique non-profit organization called 826 has been helping students across the United States become better writers by tapping into their creativity. Founded in San Francisco by th

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Lesson 25 Fail 1.It never fails! 2.He failed me again. 3.She's failing in health. 4.Don't fial to ring me up! 5.No one failed in the exam. 6.I swear he'll fail me. 7.Be here at 8 o'clock without fail. 8.A pass or a fail?

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LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: They've made 40 trips around the sun. And that's the title of a new collection of greatest hits going back to 1978 by the pop superstars Toto. (SOUNDBITE OF SONG, HOLD THE LINE) TOTO: (Singing) Hold the line. Love isn't alw

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China's grain enterprises are turning to alternative sources for soybean imports, given the reduction of soybean imports from the United States amid the trade frictions between the two countries. China is the world's largest soybean importer, account

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By Greg Flakus Houston 29 February 2008 Leaders of the US energy industry met in Houston Thursday for what was billed as a presidential summit on energy issues, but they drew only one candidate, Senator Hillary Clinton. As VOA's Greg Flakus reports f

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We begin with an update of the death toll of a strong earthquake thats rocked Southwest Chinas Yunnan Province. So far 381 people have been confirmed dead. The quake struck Zhaotong city at 4:30 pm Sunday, Beijing Time. The epicenter is in Longtousha

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By Claudia Blume Hong Kong 11 December 2007 The Asian Development Bank says that governments in the region need to improve the management of water resources to avoid a crisis in water security. Claudia Blume reports from VOA's Asia News Center in Hon

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1.It's Election Day 2009. Voters in New Jersey and Virginia will head to the polls to elect governors. The results could be seen as an early test of President Barack Obama's political influence. President has spent considerable time in both New Jers

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Topics: American Presidents - Ronald Reagan; using suffixes; to persuade versus to convince; to bring around/round Words: to come to fame welfare incumbent whopping assassination supply-side economics laissez-faire trickle-down economics dtente to de

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My sister called me at the last minute to help her with my nephews birthday party. She was feeling really sick and couldnt get out of bed. Id never given a childrens party before, but how hard could it be? Well, I found out. First, I had to go to the

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