Semiconductors, or microchips, have been changing the way the world works for the past half-century. The technology has made radios, televisions and mobile devices commonplace. In advancing the technology, researchers are now focusing on superconduct

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By George Dwyer Washington 29 April 2008 Every year millions of unwanted dogs and cats in the U.S. are brought to animal shelters, where the hope is that they will be adopted. The reality is that about half of them will be euthanized, because there a

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US Budget Breakthrough Ends Air Travel Delays Most flights were on schedule, as US air travel got back to normal. This came after a week of growing passenger frustration and airline delays caused by not having enough air traffic controllers on duty.

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Breakthrough Movie Reveals Wondrous Underwater World Like his father, world-renowned undersea explorer and filmmaker Jacques Cousteau, Jean-Michel Cousteau has spent a lifetime exploring the oceans. Equipped with an IMAX camera, he and his crew filme

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What do you want to do in the future? I donot feel like daydreaming right now. It's not daydreaming. It's planning.You've got to have an aim and then you can strive for it. My life is uncertain, and things change quickly. I don't know what will happe

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By Stefan Bos Budapest 11 March 2007 A year of talks on the future of Kosovo has ended without agreement between Serbia's government and Kosovo's independence-seeking ethnic Albanian leadership. The U.N. mediator in the talks said he would present th

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By Michael Bowman Washington 07 June 2007 Scientists in the United States say they have for the first time been able to create stem cells from the ordinary skin cells of mice, a breakthrough that could lead to new medical breakthroughs and eliminate

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AMERICAN MOSAIC - 42 Tells the Story of Jackie Robinson's Major League Breakthrough Welcome to AMERICAN MOSAIC in VOA Special English. Im June Simms. On April 15, 1947 Jackie Robinson became the first African-American to play in a major league baseba

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By Lisa Schlein Geneva 01 July 2006 A ministerial summit at the World Trade Organization has failed to make a breakthrough in deadlocked global free trade negotiations. The so-called Doha Development Round, which is supposed to lift millions of peop

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SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Mikayla Sharrieff, India Skinner and Bria Snell should only be proud this week. The 17-year-old women, all juniors at Benjamin Banneker High School in Washington, D.C., created a simple way to use copper shards, drinking straws and

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The Lobotomy Of Patient H.M: A Personal Tragedy And Scientific Breakthrough ALLISON AUBREY, HOST: The story of Henry Molaison is a sad one. Known as Patient H.M. in the medical community, he lost the ability to create memories after he underwent a lo

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Chinese President Xi Jinping has announced the launch of the process to create a Free Trade Area for the Asia-Pacific. Speaking after the conclusion of this year's APEC leaders meeting in Beijing, Xi Jinping hailed the APEC members' endorsement of a

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Topics: Trouble with my car, Ask an American: Home Schooling, breakthrough versus to break through, to ride shotgun Words: to stick (something) into (something) ignition to turn over jumper cables to home-school to be better off primary character to

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By Steve Herman New Delhi 12 April 2007 Ministers from six key economies failed to clinch a world trade liberalization deal Thursday, but, after a meeting in New Delhi, have proposed a new deadline to complete the negotiations. VOA's Steve Herman rep

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Chinese scientists have successfully tested a self-developed brain pacemaker, which could radically improve the treatment of Parkinson's disease. Its being seen as a major breakthrough in Chinese medical technology, in an area long dominated by the U

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By Paul Sisco Washington, DC 02 August 2006 watch Viking report An illustration of a Viking landing on the red planet Thirty years after the first successful landing of a robotic probe on Mars by NASA's Viking spacecraft, the search for life on the

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Topics: Jaws; The Presidential Medal of Freedom, the Congressional Gold Star, and the Medal of Honor; to go in versus to go into versus to get in versus to get into; overwhelming; off-kilter Words: jaw shark resort town breakthrough score suspense se

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