DAVID GREENE, HOST: Next, a New Year's toast from a bartender in the most populated city of the most populated country on the planet. NPR's Rob Schmitz reports from Shanghai. ROB SCHMITZ, BYLINE: The bartender's name is spelled M-O-E. (SOUNDBITE OF T

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The joint study published today by the Health Care Commission, the National Audit Office and Audit Commission says that without clear leadership from government departments, the target of halting obes

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By Phuong Tran Fatick, Senegal 18 December 2006 Anta Mbow, left, and Gueye Ndao Seck make couscous by hand, in Thiaroye, Senegal, 17 Sept 2006 Young rural women in Africa face harsh circumstances, as they prepare for adulthood. In this first part of

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Romney, Santorum Court Republican Voters Ahead of Illinois Primary In his small shop on one of the main streets in downtown Pontiac, Illinois, Jon Sear is hard at work fixing computers. He says he runs his business by following a basic principle. You

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A new report highlights a brief period of early childhood as the most critical time to fight hunger -- and also reduce poverty. The 2010 Global Hunger Index report was released Monday by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). It no

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ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: When the film Beach Rats won the best directing prize at Sundance in January, there was snow on the ground. The film's suntanned teenagers are more in sync with the season now. Critic Bob Mondello says one of them is still not comf

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SCOTT SIMON, HOST: There's a big green tinsel warning label across the cover of Martha Brockenbrough's new book Love, Santa. It's a series of letters between a mother and a daughter. A little girl named Lucy begins to write Santa Claus when she's 7.

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KELLY MCEVERS, HOST: At the Library of Congress today, Gene Luen Yang officially ended his tenure as national ambassador for young people's literature and handed the baton to Jacqueline Woodson. She is the sixth children's book author to hold the pos

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ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: Thomas Vinterberg is not an easy filmmaker to pin down. In English, he's leapt from science fiction to the costume drama Far From The Madding Crowd. In his native Denmark, he tends to make intensely intimate films, like his Oscar n

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By Jeff Swicord Sarah Creek, Maryland 07 June 2006 watch Oyster report Chespeake Bay The Chesapeake Bay, on the Atlantic coast, is the largest estuary in the United States. It is famous for its seafoo

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The characters in Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis (co-directed with Vincent Paronnaud) are simple, friendly black-and-white line drawings, as uncomplicated as characters in a children's book. Which is precisely what throws you when they get themselves p

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Mighty carnivores ruled a dangerous world in the Cretaceous Period. But being a super predator like Tyrannosaurus Rex is not easy. Just surviving to adulthood is a major feat, one that takes a decade or more of killing and eating some of the meanest

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By Wajid Ali Syed Washington, DC 12 September 2006 watch Afghan Boy's Heart Surgery Stories of love and hope emerge amid the violence of every war. For writer Wajid Ali Syed, VOA's Jim Bertel (narrator) introduces us to a young Afghan boy who has ta

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By Song Lin and Xiao Hong Atlanta, Georgia 06 April 2006 watch Georgia Aquarium report Atlanta, the home of Coca Cola and cable news giant CNN, now has another landmark: the Georgia Aquarium. Since it

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By Lisa Schlein Geneva 14 May 2008 Scientists say new evidence links certain chemicals to the development of obesity. About 2,500 international experts are attending the 16th European Congress on Obesity in Geneva. Lisa Schlein reports for VOA the pa

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By Melinda Smith Washington 01 October 2009 Child with cancer A childhood cancer foundation based in the U.S. estimates that 160,000 children around the world are diagnosed each year with cancer. The odds of survival are better in developed countrie

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Dear Annie: My wife has been having an affair and I have filed for divorce. Our children do not know about the infidelity yet, but I'm sure it will come out. I am the husband who cooks, cleans and cares for our children. I massaged her feet. I sent f

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