This is the VOA Special English Education Report. We answer some questions this week in our series on getting into an American college or university. The first question has to do with our recent discussion of English language tests. Vo Ngoc Toan fro

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VOICE ONE: This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. I'm Steve Ember. VOICE TWO: And I'm Barbara Klein. This week, we will tell about cancer. Health experts say it will soon become the world's leading killer. We also will present evidence

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This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Farmers with their camels near Jammu, India, last year India had more than one million camels during the middle of the nineteen nineties. But the population of the animals known for their ability t

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VOICE ONE: Chicago, along Lake Michigan, is known as the Windy City Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA in VOA Special English. I'm Steve Ember. VOICE TWO: And I'm Barbara Klein. This week our subject is the city, Chicago, Illinois. (MUSIC) VOICE ONE: Chicag

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What Is Your Achilles' Heel? 词汇典故:什么是你的致命弱点? Hello! And welcome to Words and Their Stories, a VOA Learning English program about American expressions. The Greek poet Homer has given us many phrases. A famous one is Achilles

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The Foreign Ministers of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, or ASEAN, reiterated their grave concerns over the escalation of tensions in the Korean Peninsula, including the most recent testing by North Korea of intercontinental ballistic mis

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VOICE ONE: This is Phoebe Zimmermann. VOICE TWO: Half Dome in Yosemite National Park And this is Steve Ember with EXPLORATIONS in VOA Special English. Today, we tell about one of the most famous national parks in the United States. You can find it h

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This is the VOA Special English Development Report. This week in our report we are going to talk about adobe. No, not the information technology company in California, Adobe Systems. We mean the traditional building product made of soil and other ma

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This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. There were fierce battles in Gaza on Friday as Hamas and Israel both rejected a United Nations call for an immediate cease-fire. The densely populated area faces shortages of food, medicine, water and elec

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This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. President-elect Barack Obama is calling on Congress to pass an economic recovery plan in the next few weeks. He warned about the deepening recession in a speech in Virginia on Thursday, less than two

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PEOPLE IN AMERICA - Janis Joplin: One of the Most Famous Voices in American Rock Music By Dana Demange Broadcast: Sunday, December 04, 2005 (MUSIC) VOICE ONE: I'm Pat Bodnar. VOICE TWO: Janis Joplin A

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This is the VOA Special English Health Report. More than twenty of the fifty American states ban smoking in public places. Many other states have partial bans. And many local governments have their own restrictions. A new study has found the stronge

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This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Grasslands need time to rest when cattle and other animals feed on them. Moving animals from one area of pasture to another can provide the time needed for new growth. This is called rotational gra

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VOICE ONE: This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. I'm Faith Lapidus. VOICE TWO: And I'm Bob Doughty. This week, we tell about the disease multiple sclerosis. (MUSIC) VOICE ONE: Joan Molenaar helps her husband Larry, a victim of multiple

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This is the VOA Special English Education Report. Twelve-year-old AIDS activist Keren Dunaway-Gonzalez spoke at the opening ceremony in Mexico City. The Honduran girl is HIV-positive. One thousand young people from around the world attended the Inte

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First Shots of the Civil War Fired at Fort Sumter 美国内战暴发于萨姆特堡 From VOA Learning English, this is The Making of a Nation. Im Kelly Jean Kelly. And Im Christopher Cruise. In late 1860 and early 1861, South Carolina and other south

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AS IT IS 2014-12-10 A Love of Wine Grows in India Indians who like alcohol usually choose whiskey as their drink. But, slowly, wine is growing more popular in the country. India's first vineyard, a farm where grapes used to make wine are grown, is na

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This aerial photo shows a plume of ash rising from the volcano in southern Iceland's Eyjafjallajokull glacier, 19 Apr, 2010 Flight cancellations from the Iceland volcano eruption are creating costs and inconveniences all the way to Asia. The Internat

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Officials in Hawaii say 35 buildings, including at least 26 homes, have been destroyed in the latest eruption of the Kilauea volcano. New fissures have formed in the ground, and though volcanic activity in these cracks slow down yesterday, scientists

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AS IT IS 2016-04-28 Iraq Declares Fallujah Free of Islamic State 伊拉克宣布费卢杰脱离伊斯兰政权 Iraqi forces recaptured the city of Fallujah from Islamic State fighters after a month of fighting. On Sunday, Iraqi Lieutenant General Abd

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