PEOPLE IN AMERICA - December 15, 2002: Margaret Sanger By Doreen Baingana ((THEME) ) VOICE ONE: I’m Shirley Griffith. VOICE TWO: And I’m Sarah Long with the VOA Special English Program, People in

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This is the VOA Special English Development Report. Some mothers in Senegal are learning a new way to save the lives of babies born too soon. The idea is not really new. It borrows from the way mother kangaroos carry their young in front in a pouch.

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Secret Monitoring Clouds 9/11 Proceedings It was a bizarre twist in a case that has dragged on for years after the September 11 attacks in the effort to bring Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four other accused co-conspirators to justice. Prosecutors were

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Margaret Mead Influenced How Social Scientists Understood Native Cultures ANNOUNCER: Margaret Mead Welcome to People in America from VOA Special English. Today, Sarah Long and Rich Kleinfeldt tell about one of the most influential social scientists o

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Sometimes I cry for no good reason sometimes I fight when I ain't mad Sometimes it hurts and I ain't bleeding Sometimes I laugh when things go bad [Chorus:] But I'll always be the girl I am When life comes falling down on me I do the best I can I ne

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By Sophie Kanter Washington, DC 28 July 2006 watch Bowling for Soup report Bowling for Soup Bowling for Soup is one of the hottest new punk bands on the American music scene. The musicians met while attending Midwestern State University. They have r

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By Selah Hennessy Dakar 01 August 2007 After failing to meet a Wednesday deadline to return to the Democratic Republic of Congo, Senator and opposition leader Jean-Pierre Bemba now says he will return to the country by mid-September. Bemba fled to Po

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By Margaret Besheer Irbil 22 March 2007 Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, right,shakes hands with UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon ahead of their meeting in Baghdad, 22 Mar 2007 U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has paid a surprise visit to Bagh

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By Peta Thornycroft Harare 24 May 2008 Zimbabwe's opposition leader, Morgan Tsvangirai, has returned home from South Africa, vowing that he will defeat President Robert Mugabe in second round elections next month. Peta Thornycroft reports, Mr. Tsvang

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Duplicitous Boss Turns on Female Secret Agent in 'Haywire' MALLORY: This is your pitch? You want me to be 'eye candy?' MI-6 wants me to be eye candy? I don't even know how to play that. I don't wear the dress. When Mallory Kane does wear a dress it i

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US Secretary of State Hails Suu Kyi Film Although The Lady, a feature film on Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi, opened as scheduled, no one anticipated its release would coincide with the democracy leaders election to a seat in Burmas parlia

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Published reports say CIA officers are at work inside Libya. But just what they are doing is not clear and, in keeping with practice, the CIA would not comment on the reports. The Obama administration has said it has not yet decided whether to arm th

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Wounded Syrians Treated at Secret Clinic in Lebanon Amran, 6, is one of the youngest patients in this hospital. He has difficulty walking. When he shows his leg, its easy to see why. A chunk is missing from his shin. The hole is surrounded by red sca

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Brain Researchers Uncover Secrets of Memory In Memorial-Hermann hospital at the University of Texas Medical Center in Houston, Neurosurgeon Nitin Tandon visits 26-year-old epilepsy patient Tyler. Dr. Tandon has placed platinum electrodes on the surfa

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Secret Life of Egyptian Pigs A city of 18 million people produces a lot of trash. Much of Cairo's ends up in a Coptic Christian enclave called Garbage City, where people recycle just about everything. Lately, they are getting help from a secret sourc

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By Al Pessin Pentagon 11 March 2008 The senior U.S. military officer responsible managing the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and U.S. military engagement throughout the Middle East, Central Asia and East Africa, has decided to retire this month after

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今天我们要学的词是secretive。 Secretive, 是不公开的,遮遮掩掩的。最新研究发现,认为美国联邦政府对民众不够坦率的人两年来显著增加。Three out of four view the federal government as secretive, 四个人

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Wendi: I wanna know what goes on at the bachelorette party. Have you had to throw one - like having been a bridesmaid - have you ever thrown a bachelorette party for a girlfriend? Rachel: Yeah, but, I don't know if I want to talk about it. Wendi: I d

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Agriculture Report - Tomato's Genetic Secrets Are Peeled Away This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Scientists have made a genetic map of the tomato. Tomatoes are second only to potatoes as the world's most valuable vegetable crop. Eigh

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U.S. Treasury Secretary to stay through debt talks: White House WASHINGTON, Nov. 9 (Xinhua) -- U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner intended to stay until early next year to help U.S. President Barack Obama ink a deal with Republicans during the

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