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A statue on Main Street in Enterprise, Alabama, features a woman holding a large, black boll weevil above her head. While many U.S. cities have suffered because of the recession, one town in the southern state of Alabama, has fared surprisingly well.

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This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. The United States is proposing a big conference on Afghanistan and wants to invite Iran, one of its neighbors. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton says dealing with extremism in Afghanistan and Pakistan requ

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