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By Delia Robertson Changing the demographics of land ownership in South Africa is an ongoing and enormous challenge. Under apartheid, 87 percent of the land mass was earmarked for whites who comprised

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First listen to November 12th 2012 and January 17th 2010 to hear about NCEA. More than 163,000 students received their NCEA results today. The results were available online and each student had their own password to see their own results. There are t

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Imer still has pieces of a bullet in his back. The 43-year-old Mexican immigrant fled the Mexican state of Guerrero more than 20 years ago after he was shot in the back by drug dealers. Imer asked VOA to use only his first name in this story. He ente

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By Lisa Schlein Geneva 01 January 2006 An elderly woman carries part of the food ration she received from the World Food Program in the drought-stricken southern Somali town of Wajid The World Food Pr

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This 29 Mar 2010 file photo from Lahore, Pakistan shows a poster of Pakistani nuclear scientist A.Q. Khan, glorified by many of his countrymen, but reviled by Western governments As the two-day nuclear summit ends Tuesday in Washington, foreign leade

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ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: There's a lot of money to be made in affordable housing. Banks and developers are making millions of dollars by building housing for the poor under a federal incentive program. And at the same time, each year, fewer poor people a

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MONA ISKANDER: Every year, thousands of young people around the country celebrate this important rite ofpassage: college graduation. For generations it's been the traditional route to adulthood and success. So how did 21-year-old Sebastian Stant, a c

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By George Dwyer Washington 24 April 2008 Every year on the last Friday in April Americans observe National Arbor Day. Tree plantings and other events are held all across the United States to focus attention on the importance of trees in our communiti

Drop-In Program Gives Drop-Outs a Second Chance

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RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Over the past decade, many teachers who got federal grants for teaching in the nation's most vulnerable public schools say they have had those grants unfairly taken away and turned into loans. NPR reporters Chris Arnold and Cory