This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. A locavore is someone who eats foods produced locally. Locavores usually define local as within one hundred sixty kilometers. This new term grew out of a reaction to the long distances that food no

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This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Years ago, a young forester took an unusual new job. Earl Cooley became one of the first smokejumpers. Smokejumpers parachute from airplanes. They fight fires that crews cannot reach quickly or eas

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US Group Calls for Greater Care for Military Dogs Animal rights advocates in the United States say the country not only needs to take care of its veterans but also the military dogs that have risked their lives on the battlefield. Some members of Con

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AA: I'm Avi Arditti and this week on WORDMASTER: we get the inside story on English teaching in Azerbaijan. RAGSANA MAMMADOVA: I'm Ragsana Mammadova from Azerbaijan. I am executive director of the Azerbaijan English Teachers Association. AA: How many

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IN THE NEWS - East Asian Leaders Form New Group to Improve Area's Future By Nancy Steinbach Broadcast: Saturday, December 17, 2005 I'm Steve Ember with IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. Two meetings

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By Mil Arcega Washington 21 May 2008 The Air Transport Association predicts fewer domestic airline passengers in the U.S. this summer, between June 1 and August 31. The airline trade group says higher fuel prices and a weak economy have reduced airli

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By Melinda Smith Washington 24 October 2007 The World Health Organization reports that at least ten million children under the age of five die every year. And a new international study of childhood mortality confirms that children would live longer

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This is the VOA Special English Education Report. Too much eating. Too many unhealthy foods. Too many advertisements for food. Too little activity. Different explanations are offered for America's weight problem -- a problem increasingly shared by o

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Education Report - Linking Education and Employment in Africa This is the VOA Special English Education Report. More than six hundred delegates have been meeting in Burkina Faso this week to discuss education in Africa. The aim is to find ways to sup

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By Catherine Makino Tokyo 25 October 2006 Shinto priests lead a Japanese couple to an altar at the famed Meiji Shrine in Tokyo (File photo) The National Chauvinistic Husband's Association is trying to change the way Japanese men treat their wives, s

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Syria Crisis Hurts Lebanese Farmers In the Bekaa Valley, a wide variety of fruits and vegetables are grown for domestic consumption and export to Jordan, Egypt and the Gulf countries. But as the conflict in Syria intensifies, Antoine Howayek, the pre

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Controversy Surrounds Muslim-American Reality TV Show A new controversy over Islam has arisen in the United States, this time over a reality TV show that profiles Muslim Americans and a home improvement chain's decision to pull its advertising from t

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Stem Cell Treatment Boosts Heart Function A stem cell treatment for patients with heart failure significantly improved their heart function in a small but promising new study. In heart failure, the heart loses its ability to efficiently pump blood. I

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Air Pollution Linked to Cognitive Decline Several years ago a massive survey of women called the Nurses' Health Study began collecting data on memory, thinking skills and other cognitive measures. Jennifer Weuve of the Rush Institute of Healthy Aging

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In India's main tea-growing region, scientists say tea production is being impacted by climate change. India produces nearly one third of the world's tea. The rolling Himalayan hills in India's northeastern state, Assam, are carpeted with lush tea bu

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Delegates from 171 countries and several hundred civic groups are meeting next week in Uruguay to discuss ways to reduce tobacco consumption around the world. A controversial report published on the eve of the meeting says some of the proposed measur

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AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: Immigration courts are so overwhelmed that their backlog is approaching 700,000 unresolved cases. Unlike other courts, immigration judges report to the attorney general, and Jeff Sessions wants to impose quotas on them to tackle

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The biggest bank in the US JP Morgan Chase has revealed that information on 76 million household customers and 7 million business customers was compromised in a data breach a few months ago. It says the hackers accessed names, addresses, phone number

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By Katherine Cole Washington 29 October 2007 More than 6,000 people who work in fields related to bluegrass music recently gathered in Nashville for the annual World of Bluegrass conference and tradeshow hosted by the International Bluegrass Music As

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By Barbara Schoetzau New York 13 November 2007 A new study shows significant increases in foreign language study in the United States since 2002. From VOA's News York bureau, correspondent Barbara Schoetzau reports Arabic is leading the surge. The su

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