PEOPLE IN AMERICA - James Rouse was a land developer who built shopping malls and a planned city near Washington, D.C. By Jerilyn Watson Broadcast: Sunday, November 13, 2005 (THEME) VOICE ONE: I'm Ste

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Trump Push For 'Energy Dominance' Boosts Drilling On Public Land SACHA PFEIFFER, HOST: In parts of the West, the Trump administration is opening up millions of acres of public land to oil and gas leases. That's fueling a drilling boom in places like

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Voice 1 Welcome to Spotlight. Im Liz Waid. Voice 2 And Im Colin Lowther. Spotlight uses a special English method of broadcasting. It is easier for people to understand, no matter where in the world they live. Voice 1 The five minute film begins with

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A Fruitful Experiment in Land Conservation 橘子皮的神奇作用 In the fight to conserve tropical rainforests, here's a tool you don't often hear about: orange peels. Specifically, 12,000 tons of them, dumped on the land. You don't usually associ

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Burma Legal Advisers Help Land Grab Victims 缅甸的政治和经济开放已吸引大量的外国投资者和刺激了房地产繁荣。 Land values are soaring in parts of Burma, even in ethnic states, where fighting has left thousands homeless. Th

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By Jill Moss DEVELOPMENT REPORT - January 21, 2002: Clearing Land Mines in Afghanistan This is the VOA Special English Development Report. Each year, thousands of people are killed or injured by explo

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Cheaters Prospered in Historic US Land Rush A couple of boundaries between U.S. states have special historical significance. The Mason Dixon Line between Pennsylvania and Maryland, for instance, informally divided the slaveholding South from the anti

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UN Warns Against Land Degradation A top U.N. advisor said on Friday that every minute, 23 hectares of land are degraded by drought and desertification. He said its damaging the economic, social and environmental pillars needed for sustainable develop

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Landmine Report: Record Clearance and Funding The latest report on landmines has both good and bad news. It says governments have provided a record level of funding to remove the weapons. But at the same time the use of antipersonnel mines has increa

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Land Disputes Rise Amid Uganda Oil Boom HOIMA, UGANDA More than 1,000 people living in a makeshift camp called Rwamutonga, in the Hoima district in western Uganda, say they have been kicked off their land without any warning because it has been earma

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Lesson 119 Land 1.He has visited many different lands. 2.My parents work on the land. 3.He had a lot of land. 4.Are you going by land or by sea? 5.The airliner landed safely. 6.I landed a blow on his nose. 7.How did he land himself in such a situatio

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AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: Writer and director Damien Chazelle's new movie La La Land is very different from his first one, Whiplash. That was about a jazz drummer's struggles with his abusive mentor. Now, La La Land is also about struggle and jazz. But in

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RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Louisiana is losing its coast faster than any place in the world. That's because of sea level rise, development and sinking marshland. Officials are trying to rebuild those marshes and the wetlands, but much of the coast can't be

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LYNN NEARY, HOST: For the past decade, Boko Haram has been killing thousands across northeastern Nigeria, causing millions to flee from their homes. But now there's another conflict in Nigeria that's killing more people than Boko Haram and threatenin

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ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: Rhode Island is about to offer bargain prices on real estate. Of course there is a catch, as Stephanie Leydon from member station WGBH reports, this deal is only for farmers. STEPHANIE LEYDON, BYLINE: Ben Torpey's kneeling in the d

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By Shahnawaz Khan Srinigar 29 October 2007 The International Committee to Ban Land Mines has been urging nations around the world to ban land mines. While India has resisted the ban because of security issues on its borders, an alliance of insurgents

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By Sabina Castelfranco Rome 03 June 2008 Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe has defended the land policies of his government which have been blamed for devastating the country's agricultural sector. Addressing delegates at a U.N. summit on world foo

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Humanitarian Guidelines Help Refugees Get Back Land, Property 人道主义指南帮助难民收回土地及财产 Their name is long but precise: The UN Principles for Housing and Property Restitution for Refugees and IDPs. Relief groups and lawyers

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By Scott Bobb Harare 11 November 2009 Zimbabwe farm Zimbabwe's few remaining commercial white farmers report they are under increasing pressure, some of it violent, to leave their land. It is the latest surge in farm seizures since the Zimbabwean go

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LEILA FADEL, HOST: We've been hearing a lot about overflowing trash bins and unsafe conditions at national parks due to the partial government shutdown. But other critical works on public lands has also stopped. NPR's Kirk Siegler reports. KIRK SIEGL

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