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ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: Team USA won the prestigious Bocuse d'Or cooking competition in Lyon, France, this week. It was the first time the USA has won in the contest's 30-year history. It's like the World Cup for chefs, bringing together teams from Guat
OrleansJack was asleep. He was dreaming that he wassleeping on a boat. It was rocking back and forth,back and forth.... Jack.Jack opened his eyes. It was just getting lightoutside. Rain was tapping against the window-pane. Tappity -tap-tap.Jack close
LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: Do you remember the movie Precious? There were all these big names attached to the film. Oprah was the executive producer. Lee Daniels directed it. But the young woman at the center of the Oscar-nominated movie was far from
Todd: So Julia, I was looking at your website and I noticed that you did a bike trip in Cambodia. Julia: Yes, that's right. I joined an organization called Pepi and we did a ride from Siem Reap to Vietnam, Ho Chi Minh City. Todd: Wow, that's pretty c
Todd: What were the road conditions like that you were riding on? Julia: I'd say at least half, maybe more than half were unpaved roads. Thankfully Cambodia is very flat so it wasn't so difficult. We averaged about seventy, eighty kilometres a day bu
have probably learned from my podcasts, that the region where I live is agricultural. It is rural, the communities are small, and its post native american indian roots lie in the apple tree. I realised the other day how I take the apple tree for gran
AMERICAN MOSAIC -April 19, 2002: Jazz Violinist Regina Carter / Question about the Washington Monument / Museum Show on Wood Turning Broadcast: HOST: Welcome to AMERICAN MOSAIC — VOA’s radio magaz
By Lisa Bryant Paris 31 October 2007 A Spanish court found 21 people guilty and acquitted seven others of involvement in 2004 train bombings in Madrid, closing a trial on the most deadly Islamist terrorist attack to date in Europe. Lisa Bryant has mo
By Doug Levine Washington 19 June 2006 Offstage she's Mrs. Mindi Abair-Steele, but onstage fans still know her as jazz sax sensation Mindi Abair. As we hear from VOA's Doug Levine, getting married was just one of several life-changing events that fi
By Delia Robertson Johannesburg 03 July 2007 Welfare organizations say there has been a dramatic increase in the number of abandoned babies in South Africa in the past year. VOA's Delia Robertson reports from our bureau in Johannesburg. HIV-positive
I never read food labels until I started going out with Wendy. Shes studying to be a nutritionist . When we go grocery shopping, she reads every label. _____________ Wendy: Youre not buying that, are you? Ichirou: Well, I was thinking about it. Why?
By Dorian Jones Istanbul 28 March 2008 Turkey's predominantly Kurdish southeast has been the center of a bloody 20-year conflict between the Turkish state and Kurds fighting for autonomy. For decades, the region has remained one of the poorest in the
By Gilbert da Costa Abuja 24 June 2007 People stand next to their motor bikes as they await fuel to arrive during a nationwide general strike in Lagos, Nigeria, 21 Jun 2007 Nigeria's labor unions have suspended a four-day general strike after reachin
Somali Refugees Face Insecurity Inside Dadaab Refugee Camp Inside Kenyas Dadaab refugee camp, 20-year-old Basharah speaks of violence in Somalia. She fled five months ago to create a better home for her child. Now, she worries Dadaab is not the chang
AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: People who live in places with lots of Chinese immigrants are receiving robocalls that sound like this one. (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING) COMPUTER-GENERATED VOICE #1: (Speaking Mandarin). CORNISH: A person who doesn't speak M
SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Bobi Wine says the people who tortured him in an ambulance last month unscrewed an overhead light bulb to hide the beatings from the press. Bobi Wine is a politician and a pop star in Uganda, where he's been an outspoken critic of
By Steve Baragona Washington 16 September 2009 Norman Borlaug Photo courtesy Texas AM University Norman Borlaug, an American plant breeder credited with saving millions from starvation in the 1960s and '70s, died September 12 at the age of 95. Borla
By Dorian Jones Istanbul 19 November 2007 Turkey is still massing tens of thousands soldiers on the Iraqi border, a response to a series of attacks by Kurdish militants that have claimed the lives of more than 50 soldiers and civilians. Rebels of the
By Barry Newhouse Irbil 16 March 2007 Friday March 16 marks the 19th anniversary of Saddam Hussein's chemical weapons attack on the Kurdish village of Halabja. For the first time, Iraq's central government has marked the occasion by calling for a min
By Brian Wagner Medellin, Colombia 03 June 2008 U.S. Deputy Secretary of State John Negroponte is calling on Colombia's neighbors to help stop Colombian guerrillas from cross-border operations in jungle regions of South America. VOA's Brian Wagner h