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By Tony Budny Washington 31 August 2007 The Labor Day holiday in the United States falls annually on the first Monday of September. It is meant to commemorate the hard work and dedication of individuals in the American workforce. Since it became a na

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A recent report confirms what Native Americans have always known: Most people in the United States know little, if anything, about American Indians. And what they do know is based on questionable information spread by traditional media. At the same t

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A U.S. official says Washington wants to cooperate with China to help Africa develop. China has been criticized for its dealings with abusive African governments, but has also won applause for encouraging dialogue between Sudan and the international

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By Nico Colombant Abidjan 23 May 2006 Hawker with little skyscrapers in background in Abidjan A new term being used to describe economic realities in West Africa is de-development. Life in cities buil

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By Aya Batrawy Cairo 11 February 2008 Hundreds of thousands of Egyptians staged a noisy celebration across the country following their soccer team's one-zero victory over Cameroon in the African Cup of Nations finals. Aya Batrawy has more for VOA fro

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By Scott Bobb Johannesburg 29 December 2006 Authorities in South Africa say traffic fatalities on the nation's roads have declined during the December holiday period in comparison with last year. They credit the drop to a program of road checks, dri

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By William Eagle Washington 27 September 2006 A first of its kind conference meant to outline the challenges and potential of investing in areas that will lead to economic growth in Africa is being held near Washington this week. American investors

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By Cathy Majtenyi Nairobi 28 June 2006 Sauri, in western Kenya, is one of a dozen so-called Millennium Villages set up across the continent by American and African development experts and funded by governments and private donors. Local committees wi

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Millions of South Africans stayed up late Tuesday night to watch live broadcasts of the inauguration of Barack Obama. In cafes, restaurants and private homes, they discussed the message and significance of the event. The inauguration of Barack Obama

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The South African organization, the Homecoming Revolution, hosts a job fair to lure London-based ex-patriots back to South Africa Tens of thousands of South Africans have made Britain their home over the past two decades, attracted by higher wages an

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G-8 leaders in Italy pledged to cut global emissions 50 percent by 2050. But advocacy organizations say that the commitment is much too weak and too vague for sub-Saharan Africa, which is already facing serious challenges due to a changing climate.

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Photo: AP Photo taken by an individual not employed by the Associated Press and obtained by the AP outside Iran shows a female Iranian protestor holding a poster of opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi, during anti-government protest in Tehran, Iran

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Not too long ago, Justin Silbaugh worked in California's high-tech industry. Today, the 40-year-old lives, works and volunteers in the East African nation of Uganda. For the last two years, he has been the country director of an arts education projec

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By Efam Dovi Accra 15 November 2006 A conference of African population experts in Ghana says unless deep-rooted cultural practices, ignorance, and war are addressed, efforts to save the lives of thousands of women who die each year from complication

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By Nancy Palus Dakar 21 April 2008 Throughout West Africa gold, bauxite, uranium and other lucrative minerals are being extracted from the land, but local communities benefit little or in many cases lose out. Human-rights and development experts at a

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By Delia Robertson Johannesburg 28 February 2008 A video circulating on the Internet depicting the humiliation of older black workers by white students has outraged and sickened South Africans. As VOA's Delia Robertson reports from our bureau in Joha

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By Scott Bobb Johannesburg 17 April 2007 Experts say global warming is likely to affect people living in Africa more than on any other continent and warn that African policymakers must begin to prepare for such an event. An international panel of exp

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By Scott Bobb Johannesburg 11 June 2007 President Bush's nominee to be the next head of the World Bank is on a three-continent trip aimed at familiarizing himself with some of the Bank's financiers and customers. Robert Zoellick is in Europe after vi

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By Roger Hsu Washington, DC 06 February 2008 On a number of islands off the coasts of the southern states of South Carolina, Georgia and Florida, live the Gullahs, a group many believe is the most authentic African-American community in the U.S. The

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Is Less Reading Making Americans Less Empathetic? A new study from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor shows that Americans' levels of empathy have dropped significantly in the last three decades. Using a questionnaire called The Interpersonal Re

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alumina crucible
amenage
androlatrous
arrow prayers
automatic line switching
biolistics
bore witness
car body coupler
cardiac tamponades
cash-to-revenue ratio
cat scratch diseases
closed suction-irrigation
coal washability
compression strut
conductor rail gauge
connectionless data integrity service
contributory negligent navigation
csutcb
cultivation technique
decentralized summary
degreez
depastion
discolorise
drive one's hogs to market
eccritics
electron-phonon interaction
ellipsoidal structure
eyestripes
fit-up
flash synchronization
front end basestation controller
Gault's reflex
GM_at-in-and-to-movement
heterocyclic dyes
Hidenori
high-spirits
impulse blaster
investment assets
Kashmiri language
Kelly, R
Khan, Nam
labiomancy
Levopraid
littraire
low light sextant
meat jobbers
membrane-forming
mixed culture
momentary interests of the day
music track
myotonia motor neuron
Naryan-Mar
net-laying ship
noily
online information service
open account buying on
orchio-
oxidized-decomposition catalyst
parkish
pendant post
polar integral equation
polypedilum bellipes
porosity measurement
post tunnel portal
PPI, p.p.i.
pseudo reduced compressibility
quadruple point
queenlikest
quefrency spectrum
radiation transfer
radiological scanning
red-throated loon
Redisc
Rhaetinopsis
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ringstone
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satsuma polymorpha
saturated calomel electrode
Serres' glands
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speculative position
stillaguamish
straight collet
strategic oligopoly
strike attack
thermostabilization of shell eggs
throughput of system
tousy
tri hydroxyethyl rutoside troxerutin
trifoliolata
ultraionization potential
venae sciatica
verbal advice
wandering sailor
warmouths
wet damage accident
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Woodridge
x-ray short
zooscopy