EXPLORATIONS - Lighthouses Keep Watch Over the North Carolina Coast This is Shirley Griffith. And this is Steve Ember with the VOA Special English program, EXPLORATIONS. Today we tell about the lighthouses that protect ships sailing along the coast o

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How do you like a behind-the-scenes look at one of the nature's most luxurious full service, hippos' spas. Our dominant male hippo customer has already arrived here at the Mezima Spring in Kenya, Africa. The carp goes right to work. It uses its wide,

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Lighthouses Keep Watch Over the North Carolina Coast This is Shirley Griffith. And this is Steve Ember with the VOA Special English program, EXPLORATIONS. Today we tell about the lighthouses that protect ships sailing along the coast of North Carolin

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Wildlife Experts Worry About Lack of Newborn Right Whales Wildlife researchers in Georgia and Florida are concerned about the population of endangered whales. The winter birthing season just ended, but no newborn sightings have been reported. There a

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By Jeffrey Young Washington 30 May 2008 With only three relatively minor primary elections for U.S. president left - Puerto Rico, South Dakota, and Montana, Democratic White House-hopeful Senator Hillary Clinton continues to campaign aggressively for

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1. President Bush says he wants to keep the pressure on Iran even if a new intelligence says it stopped work on the nuclear bomb years ago, halted because of international pressure. Bush said in a news conference that Iran could still pursue nuclear

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By Paul Sisco Washington 20 August 2007 Student gather for a classroom lesson from Shuttle Endeavour Twenty young students gathered at the Challenger Space Center outside Washington DC last week for a firsthand lesson in space science, all the way fr

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One of Haiti's most well known exports and a symbol of national pride is back in business. Barbancourt's rum was first distilled in Port au Prince in the 1860's by Dupre Barbancourt, a French cognac maker. The company maintained production through Ha

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By Paul Sisco Key Largo, Florida 23 August 2006 watch Coral report It may not be romantic, but it really is quite fascinating. Generally a few days after the full moon in August, an amazing event takes place off the Florida Keys. Coral growing off t

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By Al Pessin Pentagon 20 March 2007 A senior U.S. military officer says insurgents in Iraq used two children to help them pass a coalition checkpoint in Baghdad in recent days, and then detonated a car bomb, killing the children. The officer reporte

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By Al Pessin Washington 20 March 2007 A senior U.S. military officer says he expects Afghan Taleban insurgents to launch a new series of attacks starting Wednesday to mark the Afghan New Year. The officer spoke at a news conference at the Pentagon, a

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SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Stunt work is a tough trade - almost as tough as writing our theme music like BJ Leiderman does. Stunt people have to know how to take a poke in the schnoz, get thrown off of buildings and smolder in fiery car crashes. Sure sounds

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SCOTT SIMON, HOST: The Dakota Winters isn't a novel set on frozen prairies but in the rarified precincts of maybe the most famous apartment house in New York, the Dakota on the Upper West Side, the place in which luminaries lived and, perhaps the mos

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September 4th, 1957In Little Rock, Arkansas, the first major fight over racial integration of Americas schools. Arkansas governor Orval Faubus orders states National Guard to block nine black students from entering the all white central high school.

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September 4th, 1957In little Rock, Arkansas, the first major fight over racial integration of America`s schools. Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus orders State`s National Guard to block nine black students from entering the all white central high school

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The snail appears to release chemicals that paralyse its victim. The goatfish seems powerless to escape as it's swallowed alive. Moments later, a venomous barb inside the snail puts the fish out of its misery. In a place where even seashells are dead

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September 4th, 1957In little Rock, Arkansas, the first major fight over racial integration of America`s schools. Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus orders State`s National Guard to block nine black students from entering the all white central high school

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September 4th, 1957In little Rock, Arkansas, the first major fight over racial integration of America`s schools. Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus orders State`s National Guard to block nine black students from entering the all white central high school

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September 4th, 1957In little Rock, Arkansas, the first major fight over racial integration of America`s schools. Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus orders State`s National Guard to block nine black students from entering the all white central high school

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What you heard is not true, because General Prat always says the Thai Army belongs to the people, to all the people, not just one group. Throughout what happened in the past six months, the Army tried for reconciliation; we tried to get the two sides

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