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This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. Bonds have been in the news a lot in the last few weeks. Yields on the ten-year United States Treasury note jumped to their highest level in five years, before easing. Bonds are debt owed by a govern

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This is the VOA Special English Education Report. Financial aid is the subject this week in our Foreign Student Series on higher education in the United States. High school students who may be interested in attending Princeton University in New Jerse

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This is the VOA Special English Education Report. The American biotechnology industry recently did a study of bioscience education across the country. The biosciences are biology and other sciences that deal with living organisms. Paul Hanle is pres

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AS IT IS 2015-12-14 Diaspora Finance Powers Global Development Luis Lopez-Ramirez, a 30-year old Honduran immigrant, makes pizza. He has worked two jobs over 16 hours each day. He carefully saves his money and rents a small room in Washington, DC. He

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I spoke earlier to Bob Parker who's the deputy chairman of Credit Suisse asset management. I asked him whether he's impressed by the new highs in Asia and whether those numbers can be sustained. Well certainly it's justified by the high levels of gr

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By Michael Bowman Washington 10 June 2008 The Bush administration says the United States and China face daunting energy challenges that the two nations should confront together. VOA's Michael Bowman reports from Washington, where Treasury Secretary

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