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PEOPLE IN AMERICA -January 13, 2002: Isaac Stern By Shelley Gollust VOICE ONE: I’m Sarah Long. VOICE TWO: And I’m Steve Ember with the VOA Special English program, PEOPLE IN AMERICA. Today we tell
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Asashoryu is a sumo grand champion and one of the most successful sumo fighters in history. His real name is Dolgorsurengiin Dagvadorj; Asashoryu is his fighting name. He was born in Mongolia in 1980 and is the first Mongolian to reach sumos top posi
Broadcast: Jan 10 2003 The Pentagon has issued a statement 2) asserting the military is prepared to protect its personnel from possible biological weapons attack. On the surface, the Pentagon's assert
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Luisa Diogo was born in 1958 in western Mozambique. She was 17 and in high school when civil war broke out. She studied economics at university and began working in the finance ministry. She quickly worked her way up to be her nations first ever fema
Todd: So, Katia and Fred, we're talking about your dance school, and before we were talking about the belly dance, and Katia you do the belly dance, but you also do Salsa. Fred: That's right, Todd. Todd: And that takes two? Fred: That takes two. It t
A doctor examines a pregnant woman at a government run hospital in Nepal. The number of abortions worldwide has fallen significantly in tandem with increased use of contraceptives, but unsafe abortion remains a persistent problem killing 70,000 women
Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe, left, walks past Prime Minster Morgan Tsvangirai, during Defense Force Day Commemorations in Harare, 10 Aug 2010 The Southern African Development Community is expected to discuss the political progress in Zimbabwe
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Luiz Gonzaga you can compare him with Bob Marley in reggae, because he really did the melting of the style, you know. And it became very well known because he recorded it, he played it on the radio in the 40s, / 50s, so he came up with the new rhythm
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