THE MAKING OF A NATION - American History: Life in the 1970s and '80s STEVE EMBER: Welcome to THE MAKING OF A NATION -- American history in VOA Special English. I'm Steve Ember. This week in our series, we look back at some of the social issues and c

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She was 31 years old, a seamstress and the mother of two children. Her husband is a mechanic. On a sunny morning, Vicky was walking to work. While in the crosswalk at Wilshire and Hamilton near Koreatown, Vicky was run over by a yellow school bus. An

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Hank liked to drink beer. He drank beer every day. He drank 12 cans of beer every day. He liked to drive his truck. He liked to drive his truck and drink his beer. He threw the empty beer cans on the floor of his truck. Empty beer cans were on the pa

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It seems to me that today's prime-time leader needs a top-10 list that clearly lays out his or her priorities. Whether you're running a department, a large corporate division, or a multinational with a market cap, the leadership principles that guide

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A lawyer named Strange was shopping for a tombstone. After he had made his selection, the stonecutter asked him what inscription he would like on it.

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ENVIRONMENT REPORT - September 20, 2002: Jordan and Israel Seek to Help Dead Sea By Cynthia Kirk This is the VOA Special English ENVIRONMENT REPORT. Israel and Jordan recently announced that they woul

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Leaders of the world's 20 major economies get down to work Thursday as they meet in London to try to find common ground for greater cooperation to stem the global economic crisis. Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel (l) and President Barack Obama dur

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FBI Heads Investigation into Wisconsin Shooting Prakash Singh, 39 years old, male. A member of the Sikh Temple of Wisconsin read the names of those who lost their lives in Sundays shooting. Ranjit Singh, 49 years old, male. Harpreet Singh could not h

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Support System, Determination Help Autistic Man Lead Full Life 26-year-old Kevin Gibson is one of those success stories. He loves living in his own apartment. Its a great feeling, to like, be able to live on your own, he said. That is a rare accompli

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Virginia City Tops Amazon's 'Well Read' List Americans love lists - of the top 50 colleges, the top 10 recording artists, the top 100 movies of the millennium, and on and on. These lists sell a lot of magazines, because theres always room for disagre

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Bruce Springsteen Headlines Jazz Fest Its been six years since Springsteen made his first appearance at Jazz Fest. New Orleans was still reeling from Hurricane Katrina which had devastated much of the city eight months earlier. His latest excursion m

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UN Spearheads Drive to Protect Journalists After Deadly 2012 When shells fell on the Syrian city of Homs in February 2012, a building used by foreign media took a direct hit - killing renowned Sunday Times correspondent Marie Colvin, along with Frenc

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Kyoto Protocol Winds Down As Delegates Head To Doha As delegates from 190 countries head for Doha to try to forge a new deal on tackling global warming, the Kyoto Protocol - signed in 1997 - is due to expire at the end of the year. That deal sets bin

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Discovery Could Lead to New Drugs to Block Deadly Viruses Viruses are strange things. Though there is some scientific question about whether viruses are alive or not, they do have a basic genetic structure that allows them to be biologically active.

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Pakistan Voters Head to Polls in Landmark Elections The nationwide poll for a new national assembly and government leadership follows the bloodiest election campaign in Pakistans history. For weeks, militants and extremists bombed, shot at, killed, k

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By Sonja Pace Heiligendamm 07 June 2007 G-8 Summit host German Chancellor Angela Merkel says leaders have reached what she described as a substantial compromise on climate change, by agreeing on the need for substantial cuts in greenhouse gas emissio

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penny-pincher cheapskate 有些人花钱很小心。花钱小心是很明智的,但是,要是一个人太过份了,把钱看作是生活中最重要的东西,那他和他周围的人就会产生

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By Franz Wild Abidjan 12 May 2006 Local youths walk on oil pipeline belonging to the Shell Oil company in Nigeria Nigerian police say a pipeline explosion has killed as many as 200 people on the outsk

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By Phuong Tran Dakar 19 January 2007 Leaders have gathered for the 31st summit of the Economic Community of West African States on Friday. Leading the agenda was the deadlock in the U.N.-backed peace process in the Ivory Coast. Phuong Tran reports f

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By Greg Flakus Merida, Mexico 14 March 2007 President Bush wrapped up his trip to Latin America in Merida, Mexico Wednesday, where he and his host, Mexican President Felipe Calderon, went before reporters. VOA's Greg Flakus was there and has this rep

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