DOUG JOHNSON: Welcome to AMERICAN MOSAIC in VOA Special English. (MUSIC) I'm Doug Johnson. This week, a special year-end show, we answer a question about the famous New Years Eve party in New York Citys Times Square. Play some music we missed. And ta

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WORDS AND THEIR STORIES - Tinpan Alley By Susan Kelen Broadcast: Sunday, October 10, 2004 Now, the VOA Special English Program Words and Their Stories. Today, we tell about the expression, tinpan alle

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HOST: Welcome to AMERICAN MOSAIC in VOA Special English. (MUSIC) I'm Doug Johnson. This week: We play music by the comedian, actor and singer Wayne Brady ... And answer a listener question about the most literate cities in the United States ... But f

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Little Women is still one of America's best loved children's books. Transcript of radio broadcast: 31 May 2008 VOICE ONE: I'm Steve Ember. VOICE TWO: And I'm Shirley Griffith with the VOA Special English program People in America. Every week we tell

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AMERICAN MOSAIC - Grammy Organization Honors Bruce Springsteen with Humanitarian Award Welcome to AMERICAN MOSAIC in VOA Special English. Im June Simms. It is February, you know what that means! Entertainment awards season has opened in the United St

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ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: Thirty years ago, a new face debuted on daytime television. (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING) OPRAH WINFREY: Hi there. My name is Oprah Winfrey. SHAPIRO: That's from an audition tape that Oprah submitted for her first talk show cal

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Though they were long separated when he died, Rebia Mixon-Clay still has fond memories of her first husband Time now for StoryCorps. This project is collecting stories from everyday people across the country. Today we hear from Rebia Mixon-Clay in C

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在最近举行的美国科学促进会会议上,石溪大学的Robert Crease谈到了世界末日的恐慌,涉及《科学美国人》和RHIC。 At the recent AAAS meeting, Stony Brook Universitys Robert Crease talked about a doomsday scare invo

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VOICE ONE: I'm Barbara Klein. VOICE TWO: And I'm Steve Ember with People in America in VOA Special English. Today we tell complete our report about photographer Margaret Bourke-White. She helped create the modern art of photojournalism. (MUSIC) VOIC

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AMERICAN MOSAIC - Summer Ramadan; Old News; Fleetwood Mac Tribute Album FAITH LAPIDUS: Welcome to AMERICAN MOSAIC in VOA Special English. (MUSIC) Im Faith Lapidus. This week, we play some older music recorded by newer bands We also report on Old News

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AMERICAN STORIES - Short Story: The Exact Science of Matrimony by O. Henry STEVE EMBER: Now, the VOA Special English program AMERICAN STORIES. Our story today is called The Exact Science of Matrimony. It was written by O. Henry. Here is Barbara Klein

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Khmer Rouge Labor Camp Survivor Learns to Cry Arn was only a child when the Khmer Rouge came to power in Cambodia. Sent to the labor camps, he survived by learning how to play revolutionary songs on his flute. He watched as those around him were murd

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A film called For Love of Liberty tells a little-known story of African Americans in the wartime military. The documentary aired this year on the US Public Broadcasting System, and a newly released CD features music from the film. Director Frank Mart

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(SOUNDBITE OF MUSIC) DAVID GREENE, HOST: It's Friday and time for StoryCorps - and today, a story about a woman who was attacked in public and who found support from an unlikely source. In 2015, Asma Jama was out to dinner with her family at an Apple

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DACA, A Student's Story: 'They Are The Types Of Immigrants You Want In Your Country' MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: Recently, we heard from a young immigrant from Mexico - the country from which the vast majority of DACA recipients arrived. Some 79 percent are

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SCOTT SIMON, HOST: A writer who's acclaimed as a genius of the short story has written his first novel. It reads like part Our Town, part ghost story, even part Ken Burns. It's a story that gives voice to a child who's died and resonance to the silen

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Somali Refugee Abdi Nor Iftin: 'I Am Here To Make America Great' LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: What does it take to become an American? In 2015, This American Life told the story of a Somali refugee who was finally issued a visa to come and live in the

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It's been 50 years since the classic novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, was published. Set in a fictional town in the American South in the 1930s, Mockingbird is one of the best-loved books in the United States. Its story of a failed quest for racial just

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By Saqib ul-Islam Washington 12 October 2009 Amreeka's stars, pictured on the movie's promotional poster What is it like for a mother and her teenage son to settle in America? And what if they are Palestinian and their arrival coincides with the ons

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Finally, a wink and a nod today to some media that matters. First, a tragic story, a searing piece of video and some remarkable journalism as a train derails horribly in Spain, killing at least 78 people. The Associated Press took the video and went

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