Country and Western Singer Roger Miller Had Many Hit Songs Written by Paul Thompson (THEME) VOICE ONE: Im Shirley Griffith. VOICE TWO: And Im Sarah Long with the VOA Special English program, PEOPLE IN AMERICA. Today we tell about music writer and per

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Country Music Album Sales Up in 2011 In 2011, Country album sales increased more than four percent over the previous year and a number of Country artists enjoyed crossover success on the pop charts. In 2011, the Eli Young Band earned its first Number

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Syrian Government Forces Continue Crackdown Witnesses say that Syrian security forces moved into the Damascus suburb of Kaswah Saturday, a day after they surrounded the area and swooped down on protesters. A Syrian rights group says at least 20 peopl

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THIS IS AMERICA - The State of Vermont: Fertile Farmland, Green Mountains and Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA in VOA Special English. I'm Christopher Cruise. This week on our program, Steve Ember and Barbara Klein take you on a trip through the northeaste

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By Larry London Washington, D.C. 26 June 2007 Watch Relient K Report Relient K is a band from Canton, Ohio. They are considered to be part of the alternative, punk pop and Christian rock genres. The group formed in 1998 and has received numerous awar

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Non-count Nouns I'd like to buy some ____________. How much do you need? Let's see. Five ____s* should be enough. All right. Five____s of ________. Anything else? No, that will be all for today. *Use measure words with non-count nouns. For example: T

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A young woman who is a nursing student at Pasadena College has disappeared. She had just started her final semester, and was planning to graduate two weeks before Christmas. She is one of our best students, said Mrs. Nelson, an instructor. Its certai

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SCIENCE REPORT - March 28, 2002: Intel Science Talent Search By Nancy Steinbach Starting April 3, two new programs will take the place of Science Report: -- On Wednesdays, Health Report will describe

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By Derek Kilner Nairobi 16 June 2008 A battalion composed of troops from Sudan's northern and southern armies is set to deploy Tuesday to the disputed Abyei area on the country's north-south border. As Derek Kilner reports for VOA's East Africa bure

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By George Dwyer Washington, D.C. 24 August 2006 watch UNIFEM report A new report from UNIFEM -- the United Nations Development Fund for Women -- finds that violence against women in post-Taleban Afghanistan remains widespread, and that much of it co

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By Al Pessin Guantanamo Bay 01 February 2006 This week, the U.S. military is starting a second round of hearings at the Guantanamo detention center to determine whether any of the detainees can be rel

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By Greg Flakus Mexico City 06 July 2006 Mexico's Federal Electoral Institute, known as the IFE, on Wednesday began its official final vote count in an effort to determine who won Sunday's presidential election. Outside IFE's headquarters in Mexico C

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By Gary Thomas Washington 22 March 2007 Sign at entrance of Camp Delta On March 26 Australian terror suspect David Hicks will become the first detainee held by the United States to be tried in the new military commissions created by the Bush administ

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By Michael Drudge London 07 July 2006 Londoners pause in central London's Tavistock Square, site of bombed No. 30 bus one year ago, in London, Friday Britain has commemorated the first anniversary of the terrorist bombings that killed 52 passengers

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This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Evidence is increasing that common influenza viruses are becoming resistant to the main drug used to treat them. The drug is oseltamivir, also known as Tamiflu. The most common seasonal flu virus found

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VOICE ONE: This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. I'm Doug Johnson. VOICE TWO: And I'm Faith Lapidus. This week, we will tell about ice loss in the Arctic Sea. We also will tell about a campaign to improve treatment of snakebites. And w

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STEVE EMBER: Im Steve Ember. SHIRLEY GRIFFITH: And Im Shirley Griffith with PEOPLE IN AMERICA in VOA Special English. Today we tell about the Carter Family, the First Family of country music. STEVE EMBER: It was August second, nineteen twenty-seven.

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Education Report - A Blog With Answers for Foreign Students This is the VOA Special English Education Report. International students have a lot of questions about studying in the United States. But what do you suppose is the most common question? We

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By David McAlary Washington 21 April 2006 New research adds more evidence that chronic fatigue syndrome is a real disease, with a biological basis. U.S. health officials have released several studies

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By Cathy Majtenyi Nairobi 28 May 2006 The government of Burundi and the country's remaining rebel group are to meet Monday for peace talks in Tanzania. The National Liberation Forces rebel group is the last holdout against efforts to end Burundi's c

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