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This is the VOA Special English Economics Report, from voaspecialenglish.com America's economy has started to grow again. Now what about jobs? The government says productivity jumped in July, August and September. That meant companies produced more with fewer workers. Also, new claims for unemployment aid fell at the end of October to the lowest number since January. But eight million jobs have disappeared since the recession began in December of two thousand seven. Jack Strauss at Saint ...

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This is the VOA Special English Education Report, from voaspecialenglish.com An American nonprofit organization helps young people around the world to understand important issues, and each other. The Global Nomads Group organizes educational videoconferences. Students and speakers discuss subjects like AIDS, world religions, nuclear weapons, immigration, climate change and politics. For example, students from at least eight schools in Ghana talked with American students about the election ...

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This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report, from voaspecialenglish.com Alternate bearing is a widespread problem for growers of citrus and other fruit trees. It can affect a large area or just individual trees or even part of a tree. No, it is not a disease. Alternate bearing is when a tree produces a heavy crop one year, called an "on-crop," followed by an "off-crop" the next year. On-crop trees produce a large number of small fruit with little value. Off-crop trees produce no fruit ...

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This is the VOA Special English Development Report, from voaspecialenglish.com Diarrhea kills one and a half million children each year one in five child deaths worldwide. The only disease that kills more children under age five is pneumonia. Experts say diarrhea causes more child deaths than AIDS, malaria and measles combined. New findings show it also kills more than a million adolescents and elderly people every year. Therese Dooley is a senior adviser at UNICEF, the United Nations ...

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NEIL ARMSTRONG: "Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed." History was made on July twentieth, nineteen-sixty-nine. That is when Americans Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first people to land on the moon. Aldrin is now seventy-nine years old. Six crews of astronauts visited the moon from nineteen sixty-nine to nineteen seventy-two. BUZZ ALDRIN: "And I think those stories need to be told over and over again." The American space agency turned to other projects, including the ...

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Nazareth is an old industrial town in eastern Pennsylvania. For years, Nazareth had two large employers. One of them, Bethlehem Steel, failed in two thousand one. Today, the only major company is Martin Guitar. Dick Boak designs guitars. DICK BOAK: "I love music. I would listen to music under my pillow with my transistor radio, the Top 10, especially when the Beatles played on Ed Sullivan. I really wanted to learn guitar. My father was a wood worker. We had a nice wood shop with tools in the ...

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This is the VOA Special English Health Report, from voaspecialenglish.com In nineteen eighty-seven, HIV joined a list of diseases that could keep a person out of the United States. The government later tried to cancel its decision. But Congress made the travel ban a part of immigration law. People with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, could seek an exception, but that meant extra work. Last year, Congress and President George W. Bush began the process of ending the travel ban. Now President ...

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This is the VOA Special English Economics Report, from voaspecialenglish.com Early estimates show that the United States economy began to grow again in July, August and September. The three-and-a-half percent growth was the first expansion in more than a year, and the strongest in two years. The government said increases in consumer spending and exports and improvements in business investment led the growth. So did increased federal spending and housing investments. But high unemployment ...

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This is the VOA Special English Education Report, from voaspecialenglish.com Twenty-six thousand foreign exchange students are in American high schools this year. We asked four teenagers who arrived in August to discuss their experience so far. All but one are attending public schools in Fairfax County, Virginia, outside Washington. Johanna is from Germany. She says the biggest difference is the relationship to the teachers. She says here the teachers are more like friends, and in Germany ...

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This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report, from voaspecialenglish.com Each year a million cows in Africa die from East Coast fever. The disease is spread by tick bites. Young cows are most at risk; they can die within days. Farmers and herders can lose up to half or more of their calves to East Coast fever. The disease is widespread in eleven countries. And experts say it now threatens ten million more animals in new areas including southern Sudan. Researchers first developed an ...

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