Agriculture Report - US Farmers Struggle With Drought This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. A drought across much of the United States is forcing farmers to make difficult decisions. Damage to corn and soybeans is already severe in the

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By Kane Farabaugh Chicago 13 May 2008 Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter has never been one to mince words. And he has said he does not care about what people think of him. Recently, he defied U.S. policy by traveling to the Middle East for meetings

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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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Simon: Yeah, I got a job interview coming up and I know they're gonna ask me about what are your strong points and your weak points. You know. Todd: Yeah, that's tough, because like I know my strong points and my weak points. Simon: Yeah, well, let's

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By Nico Colombant Abidjan 23 May 2006 Hawker with little skyscrapers in background in Abidjan A new term being used to describe economic realities in West Africa is de-development. Life in cities buil

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英文歌词: Strange foreign beauty I'll never know what's in your heart Does anyone know how it feels to hold you does anyone know the secret of your mind Strange foreign beauty I'll never come to share your world Does anyone know how it feels to liv

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By Lisa Schlein Geneva 13 October 2007 The Human Rights Committee of the Inter-Parliamentary Union says the cases of more than 250 parliament members in 32 countries who have been imprisoned, killed or disappeared remain unresolved and continue to be

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This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS, in VOA Special English. I'm Bob Doughty. VOICE TWO: And, I'm Shirley Griffith. This week, we will tell about what is said to be the largest study yet of a treatment for Parkinson's disease. We will also tell about a stud

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A U.N. official reveals that recent drug arrests in Guinea Bissau are the result of a two-month-long investigation. The country's judicial police have arrested five people suspected to be involved with cocaine trafficking through the West African na

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Office blocks modeled on termite nests and buildings that can resist climate change have been the focus at a conference by some of Australia's most influential designers in Melbourne. They are calling for radical changes to the way that buildings ar

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Syrian Refugees Struggle on Lebanese Border The men are clamoring for a signature on their ration cards. For them, it is the difference between feeding their families tonight, and not. The refugees here support the Syrian revolution, and they have fl

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Emergency Aid Being Sent to Stranded Chadians Emergency aid is being sent this week to about one thousand people mostly children stranded in a remote area of Chad. The International Organization for Migration says the Chadians fled violence in neighb

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The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has announced an initiative called the Blue Campaign to fight human trafficking. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, which is part of DHS, is the largest investigator of human trafficking in the U.S. governme

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Syrian Refugees Struggle in Jordanian Camps Up until August of this year, Ahmad was a colonel in the Syrian Army. But when his village in Daraa was attacked by the Syrian air force, he decided to cross the border into Jordan with his wife and five ch

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By Joe Bavier N'Djamena 15 May 2006 It has been three years since Chad became an oil-exporting nation. The promise of petroleum revenues had fueled hope that the central African country, long one of t

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By Barry Wood Washington 22 October 2007 World Bank President Robert Zoellick says that, three months into the job, he is confident that the lender organization is getting back on track following the turmoil that led to the resignation of his predece

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By Gilbert da Costa Abuja 21 June 2007 A general strike has brought much of Nigeria to a standstill and paralyzed economic activity for a second day. For VOA, Gilbert da Costa in Abuja reports on worries about the economic impact of the shutdown. Peo

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Easter Sunday, a day of family, celebration, and fun. Today, after church, my family and I got together with my in-laws in the East Wenatchee Country Club for lunch. The club is actually for golf, but even if you don't golf, you can go to the restaur

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By Phil Mercer Tamworth, Australia 15 January 2007 Australia's most-famous musical town, Tamworth, is beset by a dispute over the city council's decision to reject refugees from Sudan. City councilors have voted down a request by the Department of I

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Australia's wool industry faces a chronic lack of sheep shearers. They are being lured to better paid jobs in the booming mining sector, just as demand from China, which buys about 60 percent of Australian wool, is soaring. 澳大利亚的羊毛业长期

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