IN THE NEWS - After Five Years of War, Attention Turns to What New President Would Do Obama and Clinton both promise withdrawal, but differ on timing. McCain supports the Iraq policies of President Bush, who says this is a fight America can and must

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Education Report - Study Raises Questions About Reading Program in US In schools using Reading First, researchers find more time being spent on skills, but without higher test scores on average. Also, a look at the book reading habits of students in

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This is the VOA Special English Education Report. We are going to talk again this week about higher education for disabled students who want to study in the United States. As we noted last time, the National Federation of the Blind says there are no

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VOICE ONE: Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA in VOA Special English. I'm Faith Lapidus. VOICE TWO: And I'm Steve Ember. This week on our program, we have the last of our four-part series on living with a disability in America. Last month we talked about a

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This is the VOA Special English EDUCATION REPORT. A new report says only about half of all students in the main school systems of America's largest cities finish high school. The report notes higher rates of graduation -- more than seventy percent --

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This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Villagers plant trees in China's Gansu province last year in an effort to control the spread of deserts Desertification is a process. It changes productive land into useless land. One example of des

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This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. President Bush announced this week that he is not ready to order more troop withdrawals from Iraq. Fifteen months ago, he ordered a temporary increase of thirty thousand troops. The last of those troops ret

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VOICE ONE: Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA in VOA Special English. I'm Steve Ember. VOICE TWO: And I'm Barbara Klein. This week on our program, we take a look at Washington's newly opened museum of news, the Newseum. (SOUND) There's a big story breaking a

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This is the VOA Special English Education Report. An exciting start to the college football season: A team that many people never heard of defeats one of the best in the country. A Michigan player catches the ball, but Appalachian State captured the

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This is the VOA Special English Development Report. The United States has accused several of its Arab allies of being among the worst offenders of human trafficking. The State Department last week released its Trafficking in Persons Report for two t

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This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. Today we have the second half of a report on the history of the World Trade Organization. The W.T.O. was created in nineteen ninety-five after the eighth round of world trade talks. The rounds began

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This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. Weak or strong. Which is better? If the question is about the American dollar, the answer depends on whom you ask. The dollar has been weakening against several major currencies. One euro is currentl

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THIS IS AMERICA - For Veterans, Pride in Service, and Health Systems Pushed to Limits By Jerilyn Watson / Broadcast: Sun, 4 Nov 2007 16:00:00 UTC VOICE ONE: Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA in VOA Special English. I'm Steve Ember. Mary Robles (age 5) stan

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This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. This week, the two major presidential candidates gave new details of their plans to help Americans deal with the economic crisis. On Monday, Democrat Barack Obama offered proposals totaling sixty bil

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VOICE ONE: This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. Im Bob Doughty. VOICE TWO: And Im Barbara Klein. Our subject today: severe ocean storms. (MUSIC) VOICE ONE: September is usually the worst month for hurricanes in the Atlantic Ocean. At

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VOICE ONE: Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA in VOA Special English. I'm Bob Doughty. VOICE TWO: A stagecoach like ones used by the Butterfield company And I'm Barbara Klein. Last week on our program, we described the underground world of Carlsbad Caverns

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This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Governments, businesses and other groups have promised to add three billion dollars to the fight against malaria. The promises came last week at a meeting at the United Nations in New York. The money wi

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VOICE ONE: This is Faith Lapidus. VOICE TWO: And this is Steve Ember with EXPLORATIONS in VOA Special English. Today we present the first of three programs about some of the most interesting, beautiful and unusual places on Earth. We begin with a li

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This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. McDonald's, the fast-food company, is heating up competition with the Starbucks Coffee Company. McDonald's plans to put coffee bars in its fourteen thousand restaurants in the United States. Fewer th

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This is the VOA Special English Education Report. A recent decision by Harvard University to expand financial aid is putting pressure on other schools to do the same. Graduation ceremonies at Harvard in June The full price for one year at Harvard in

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