SCIENCE IN THE NEWS - Progress Against Witchweed, a Killer of Sorghum Crops in Africa Researchers may someday copy proteins found in alligator blood to produce infection-fighting drugs for people. Transcript of radio broadcast: 19 May 2008 VOICE ONE

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Education Report - Recruiters Help US Colleges Find Foreign Students Placement companies may be paid by colleges or students -- or both, raising concerns about possible conflicts of interest. First of two parts. Transcript of radio broadcast 22 May

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This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Scientists may have found a way to reduce shortages of type O blood. Type O is the kind of blood that hospitals most often need. What the researchers are testing is an easier way to make type O blood ou

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This is the VOA Special English Education Report. We are going to talk again this week about higher education for disabled students who want to study in the United States. As we noted last time, the National Federation of the Blind says there are no

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This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Spreading mulch Mulch is important to farmers. Mulch is a protective cover of material that is spread on top of soil. It is usually made out of organic material, like crop waste. Farmers may keep t

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VOICE ONE: Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA in VOA Special English. I'm Faith Lapidus. VOICE TWO: And I'm Steve Ember. This week on our program, we have the last of our four-part series on living with a disability in America. Last month we talked about a

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This is the VOA Special English Education Report. Two listeners, Youngmin Kim in South Korea and Nestor Gastelo in Peru, would like us to talk about pharmacy education in the United States. This will be the subject today in our Foreign Student Serie

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This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. Economics and weather have a lot in common. Knowing what conditions will be like weeks or months in the future is not easy. One thing that helps economists predict the future is the index of leading

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This is the VOA Special English Development Report. Sudanese billionaire Mo Ibrahim believes there is nothing more important for Africa than good leadership. Mister Ibrahim has created the worlds richest prize, worth five million dollars over ten ye

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This is the VOA Special English Education Report. Some U.S. schools use money to try to improve attendance and test results Recently we asked for your opinions about paying students to improve school attendance or performance on tests. Some American

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This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. (MUSIC) Country singer and songwriter Adrienne Young brings together music and agricultural activism. (MUSIC) She even included seeds in the album cover of her first CD. Adrienne Young wants people

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This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. Today we have the second half of a report on the history of the World Trade Organization. The W.T.O. was created in nineteen ninety-five after the eighth round of world trade talks. The rounds began

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This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Today we have the second half of a report about some concerns with the use of drug- treated coronary stents. These are small metal tubes designed to be placed inside arteries in heart patients. The sten

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This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Farming means growing crops on a good-size piece of land in the country, right? Well, a farm can also produce food in small spaces in the city. Just ask Will Allen. Will Allen Will Allen is an urba

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This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Governments, businesses and other groups have promised to add three billion dollars to the fight against malaria. The promises came last week at a meeting at the United Nations in New York. The money wi

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This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Cattle graze in the western state of Oregon 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 f

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This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. A study from Canada says fish farms are a threat to some populations of wild salmon. It says the danger is from sea lice, which are small organisms that feed on fish. The researchers say these para

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VOICE ONE: Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA in VOA Special English. I'm Steve Ember. VOICE TWO: And I'm Shirley Griffith. This week on our program, we talk about learning English. (SOUND) VOICE ONE: We are listening to a class of English language learners

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This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. A Yale student carries beets grown on an organic farm near the university in New Haven, Connecticut Beets are a tasty root vegetable that do not require much work to grow. People might think beets

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This is the VOA Special English Education Report. So far in our series on learning disabilities we have talked about problems with reading, writing and movement. Today we talk about a problem that affects the brain's ability to process and understan

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