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This is the VOA Special English Health Report. We talked last week about ways to avoid hypothermia and other cold-weather injuries. Today we are going to talk about emergency treatment. Hypothermia can be mild, moderate or severe. Mild hypothermia i

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EDUCATION REPORT - Accrediting Agencies Play Important Part in U.S. Higher EducationBy Nancy Steinbach Broadcast: Thursday, October 05, 2006 This is the VOA Special English Education Report. And this

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This is the VOA Special English Education Report. A listener from China named Walker would like information about agricultural programs in the United States. This is our subject today in week number thirty of our Foreign Student Series. About one hu

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This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Hand washing is a powerful way to prevent the spread of disease. The World Bank, the United Nations and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine did a study to urge hand washing around the wor

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This is the VOA Special English Development Report. May 17, 2007: Delegates at the yearly meeting of the African Development Bank in Shanghai, China. The African Development Bank held its yearly meeting in Shanghai, China earlier this month. The ban

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This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. The United States has urged China to accept new safety rules for its food and drug exports. American officials said the rules would include a new list of Chinese exporters. Agriculture Secretary Mi

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This is the VOA Special English Education Report. Summer means the end of another school year in America. May and June are graduation season. A group of Brown University undergraduates before Brown's graduation ceremony in Providence, Rhode Island.

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This is the VOA Special English Education Report. This Thursday is Thanksgiving Day in the United States. Americans traditionally gather for a large holiday meal with family and friends. Most schools are also closed Friday for Thanksgiving break. So

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This is the VOA Special English Education Report. This week in our Foreign Student Series, we talk about getting an American education online. A student named Hendra has written to us from Indonesia asking about a good online university. Finding the

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This is the VOA Special English Education Report. We continue our series on learning disabilities with a problem that is not considered a learning disability by itself, but it can af fect learning. Our subject is attention deficit disorder, A.D.D.,

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This is the VOA Special English Development Report. Whoever thought learning new words could feel socially responsible? A Web site called FreeRice.com is an English vocabulary game. It explains its purpose like this: For each word you get right, we d

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This is the VOA Special English Development Report. Patients suffering from tuberculosis in Hyderabad, India World Tuberculosis Day was March twenty-fourth. It was also the one hundred twenty-fifth anniversary of the discovery of the bacterium that

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THIS IS AMERICA - Songs About Spring Can Be Happy or Sad Most of these songs have been around a long time but are still popular today.Transcript of radio broadcast: 23 March 2008 VOICE ONE: Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA in VOA Special English. I'm Barb

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This is the VOA Special English Education Report. Common sense would tell us that physically active children may be more likely to become active and healthy adults. A high school gym class In the United States, elementary and middle schools are advis

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This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. With oil around one hundred dollars a barrel, this may be a good time for a short history of petroleum. Petroleum has been important since ancient times. The Greek historian Herodotus told of its use

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This is the VOA Special English Development Report. Starting a business is never easy. But an organization like TechnoServe can make it easier. A businessman in the American state of Connecticut, Ed Bullard, launched this nonprofit group forty years

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This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Wednesday, October fifteenth, is the first Global Handwashing Day. Activities are planned in more than twenty countries to get millions of people in the developing world to wash their hands with soap. F

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HOST: Welcome to AMERICAN MOSAIC in VOA Special English. (MUSIC) I'm Bob Doughty. On our show this week: We listen to some jazz music by Oscar Peterson /P Answer a question about the nicknames of American states /P And tell about a campaign to save

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This is the VOA Special English Health Report. The single largest killer of children under age five is pneumonia. This lung infection kills about two million children each year, mostly in developing countries. A boy with pneumonia at a camp for eart

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This is the VOA Special English Education Report. People who have unusual difficulty with reading, writing, listening or working with numbers might have a learning disability. We talked last week about a reading disorder, dyslexia. Today we discuss