Todd: So on your bike trip, how did you feed yourself. What did you eat? Julia: Hydration was a thing that we worried about. We were able to stop every few kilometres and get fresh young coconuts with the straw in the top. Did you remember doing that

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VOICE ONE: I'm Bob Doughty. VOICE TWO: And I'm Faith Lapidus with EXPLORATIONS in VOA Special English. Today we travel south to one of the coldest, windiest and least populated places in the world, Antarctica. The word Antarctica comes from a Greek

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VOICE ONE: This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. I'm Barbara Klein. VOICE TWO: And I'm Doug Johnson. Today we tell about the American plant scientist Norman Borlaug. He won the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to increase food product

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By Delia Robertson Johannesburg 01 November 2006 Former South African president, P.W. Botha, has died at his home in Wilderness on the country's southern coast. He was 90. VOA's Delia Robertson has this profile on the man who introduced some reforms

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US four-man bobsled team, captured gold medal Saturday at Vancouver Winter Games Parke Brewer | Whistler Sliding Center, BC, Canada 28 February 2010 Photo: ASSOCIATED PRESS The United States' USA-1,' with Steven Holcomb, Justin Olsen, Steve Mesler, a

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U.S. lawmakers expressed outrage in a congressional hearing on Wednesday about tens of millions of dollars in employee bonuses paid by the troubled insurance conglomerate, American International Group, or AIG. Testimony by AIG's chief executive came

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今天我们要学的词是limbo。 Limbo, 是指不确定的状态。纽约州长施皮策的召妓丑闻爆发后,大家都在观望,看他是否会辞职。与此同时,The questions about Spitzer's future put the state in limbo, 施皮策的去

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ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: Olympic sports have their own special vernacular, slang terms that NPR's Melissa Block has been collecting throughout the games. MELISSA BLOCK, BYLINE: Seems a lot of the lingo has to do with disaster, which strikes often in these

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AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: The Florida gubernatorial election has started out with issues of race at the center. The morning after the primary last week, Republican nominee Ron DeSantis told voters not to monkey up the state by electing his Democratic oppo

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Chinese vice Premier Zhang Gaoli attended and delivered a keynote speech at the opening ceremony of the Boao Forum for Asia (BFA) Annual Conference 2017 in China's southern island province of Hainan on Saturday, March 25, 2017. With the theme, Global

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President Xi Jinping addresses 2018 Boao Forum Chinese President Xi Jinping delivered a keynote speech at the opening of the 2018 Boao Forum for Asia on Tuesday. The theme of this year's forum is An Open and Innovative Asia for a World of Greater Pro

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By Doug Levine Washington 02 June 2008 Early rock 'n' roll guitar wizard Bo Diddley died near Jacksonville, Florida, Monday, 2 June, of heart failure. He was 79 years old. One of the most primitive of the early rockers, Bo took the blues and folk mu

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By Delia Robertson Johannesburg 01 February 2007 Adelaide Tambo, wife of the late Oliver Tambo and South African former President Nelson Mandela attend the unveiling of the O.R Tambo International Airport 27 Ocr 2006 in Johannesburg Adelaide Tambo, w

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Author Mark Twain's boyhood home is now preserved as a museum in Hannibal, Missouri. Related Links Mark Twain Museum The American writer Ernest Hemingway once said, All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called, Huckleberry

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By Jim Malone 06 November 2006 US Supreme Court, Washington DC The U.S. Supreme Court takes up the divisive issue of abortion Wednesday in a legal challenge that is being closely watched by abortion rights supporters and opponents. ---- At issue are

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By Phil Mercer Sydney 11 November 2007 Australian cricket authorities are locked in a dispute with major news organizations over coverage of test matches. Cricket Australia, the game's governing body, has demanded that news groups hand over rights to

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By Deborah Block Irbil, Iraq 20 October 2007 Thousands of Kurds in the Iraqi border town of Zakho protested Saturday against Turkey's threat of possible cross-border military action. Turkey has threatened to attack Kurdish rebel bases in Iraq, which

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Chinese President Xi Jinping has pledged to expand opening-up and promote global prosperity in a keynote speech at this year's Boao Forum for Asia annual conference, winning praise from world leaders in attendance. International Monetary Fund Managin

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SARAH MCCAMMON, HOST: As the name of our show suggests, we do like to consider all things on this program, which is why we want to warn listeners that the conversation we're about to have might not be appropriate for all listeners because we'll be sp

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