This is the VOA Special English Education Report. California has a new program called the Digital Textbook Initiative. ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER: Starting this fall with high school math and science, we will be the first state in the nation -- the first

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HOST: Welcome to AMERICAN MOSAIC in VOA Special English. (MUSIC) I'm Doug Johnson. This week we travel to Africa with the banjo player Bela Fleck. We hear music from his latest album, Throw Down Your Heart, and discuss a movie about his trip to Afri

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This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Smoking is the world's leading preventable cause of death. In the United States, smoking rates are down from the past, but cigarettes still cause about one-fifth of all deaths. Nonsmokers are also affec

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This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. We talked last week about growing beets. Today we have advice about growing another root vegetable, carrots. Carrots are easy to raise and easy to harvest. They taste good. And they contain a lot o

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This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. This week the world's lowest-priced passenger car was launched in Mumbai, India. The Nano, made by Tata Motors, is expected to cause a transportation revolution for millions of Indian families. Tata Chairm

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This is the VOA Special English Health Report. South Africa plans to test fifteen million people for H.I.V. by June of next year. That is almost one-third of its population. South Africa has the most people living with H.I.V. of any nation. The numbe

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Technology Report - Paying Tech Talents to Drop Out of College 科技报道 - 泰尔资助科技奇才辍学创业 This is the VOA Special English Technology Report. 这是美国之音慢速英语科技报道。 What do Bill Gates, Steve Jobs and Lar

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This is the VOA Special English Health Report. The next time you think about going without sleep, consider this: Laboratory animals that are kept awake for long periods of time ... die. Yet sleep scientist Ying-Hui Fu at the University of California

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This is the VOA Special English Development Report. In two thousand three, the government of Kenya established a program of free primary education for all children. But there are not enough public schools for all the children who live in the crowded

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This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Just because a plant looks nice does not mean you should eat it. Farmers learn this lesson tragically sometimes when their animals feed on wild plants. In fact, some of the nicest looking plants in

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This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. The book industry is trying to get a good read on its future. These days, instead of turning paper pages, many readers reach for handheld devices. These electronic readers not only store books to sho

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Economics Report - How an Allowance Helps Children Learn About Money This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. Many children first learn the value of money by receiving an allowance. The purpose is to let children learn from experience at an

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This is the VOA Special English Development Report. A few degrees can make a big difference when it comes to food storage. Foods can go bad if they get too warm. But for many of the world's poor, finding a good way to keep food cool is difficult. Re

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This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Human genes are normally organized along forty-six chromosomes in our cells, twenty-three from each parent. A school for people with Down syndrome in Mexico City But some people are born with an extra c

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This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Three scientists based in the United States have won the two thousand nine Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine. They are being honored for their work in the nineteen eighties about the health of cell

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This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Pruning makes no sense. You cut off parts of a plant. Yet the plant is supposed to grow back even better than before? This demands an answer. The explanation begins with the apical bud. This bud is

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This is the VOA Special English Education Report. Plagiarism is the act of representing another person's words or ideas as your own. The offense may be as small as a sentence copied from a book. Or it may be as extensive as a whole paper copied -- o

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This is the VOA Special English Education Report. American officials say they are working to reduce visa delays that have affected foreign science students, researchers and others. The delays involve a security clearance process called Visas Mantis.

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This is the VOA Special English Development Report. Bikes are delivered to San Jose, Honduras through the Bikes for the World program Americans bought an estimated eighteen and a half million bicycles last year. Some bikes never get much riding. Mos

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This is the VOA Special English Health Report. A question from Taiwan: Chung-Li wants to know why his face turns red when he drinks alcohol. A party in Tokyo This effect called facial flushing is a common reaction to alcohol among East Asians. It af

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