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This is the VOA Special English Development Report. Workers clean up lead paint at a building in Providence, Rhode Island in 2006. A new study shows that lead-based paint remains a worldwide threat to public health. Paint containing lead is a major
New York University has been in the lead as study abroad programs have grown more popular for American students. Transcript of radio broadcast: 30 July 2008 This is the VOA Special English Education Report. The number of American students who study
DAVID GREENE, HOST: Fifty years ago this week, President Johnson's commission on civil disorders released the Kerner Report. This was an attempt to explain why so many of the country's cities erupted in riots. Now many observers say this report can t
约1/3运动员曾在重大运动赛事中通过服用药品作弊 An article in the British newspaper The Sunday Times claims that around a third of the world's top athletes at a major event cheated by using drugs. The newspaper says a study was car
DEVELOPMENT REPORT – December 16, 2002: UN Population Study By Jill Moss Broadcast: December 16, 2002 This is the VOA Special English Development Report. The United Nations Population Fund has relea
DEVELOPMENT REPORT - International Migration Reduces Poverty, but at a Price By Jill Moss Broadcast: Monday, October 31, 2005 I'm Steve Emberwith the VOA Special English Development Report. A new Worl
On Monday, Russian election officials formally barred anti-corruption activist Alexei Navalny from running for president in the March 18 election. Over the past year, Navalny has launched a grassroots campaign to challenge the current president, Vlad
Animals at Risk from Increased Arctic Shipping The polar bear may be the animal most often identified with climate change, but it is far from the only creature at risk from rising temperatures. The northernmost part of Earth is warming two to three t
By Scott Bobb Bangkok 05 June 2006 Anand Panyarachun In Thailand, a special commission on the violence in the Muslim-dominated south says that separatism and religious extremism are aggravating the st
By Nancy-Amelia Collins Bangkok 25 September 2006 The ruling military junta in Thailand has set up a powerful anti-corruption body to investigate allegations of graft in the administration of former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, who was overthr
The French National Assembly has agreed to set up a commission to study the wearing of the head-to-toe Islamic covering known as the burqa. The decision was made a day after the country's president, Nicolas Sarkozy, spoke out against the garment. A
Ensuring Food Security, Tackling Climate Change A high-level international panel has announced its recommendations for achieving food security while addressing the effects of climate change. The recommendations from the Commission on Sustainable Agri
SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Deborah Epstein has spent her professional life fighting for the victims of domestic violence. She's director of the Georgetown University Law Center's domestic violence clinic and in 2014 was asked to serve on the NFL Players Asso
ECONOMICS REPORT - EU Fines Microsoft for Anti-Competitive Actions By Mario Ritter Broadcast: Friday, March 26, 2004 This is Bob Doughty with the VOA Special English Economics Report. The European Uni
By Kari Barber Dakar 24 October 2007 Sierra Leone's new government has replaced the chief of the country's anti-graft body. Many say the commission has failed to stem rampant corruption which has crippled the post-conflict nation. Kari Barber has mor
By Margaret Besheer Irbil 04 December 2006 Former Secretary of State James Baker, co-chairman of Iraq Study Group, walks past with Vice President Dick Cheney, after meeting with President Bush, 13 Nov 2006 For weeks, the American media has been buzz
BEIJING, Oct. 18 (Xinhuanet) -- Some seaweeds can kill the reef-building corals around them by emitting anti-coral chemicals, a new study found. The study was published Monday in the online edition of the journal Proceedings of the U.S. National Acad
KINGSTON, Nov. 21 (Xinhua) -- Jamaican sprinter Steve Mullings received a life ban by the Jamaica Anti-Doping Commission (JADCO) on Monday. The decision came four days after Mullings, 29, was found guilty of taking the masking agent furosimide. He fi
The Chinese government is aiming to boost foreign trade in line with the country's economic expansion in 2013. Shen Danyang, spokesman of the Ministry of Commerce, made the remarks at the press conference on Wednesday. Shen said China's foreign trade
Yesterday, Christchurch experienced one of the strongest after-shocks, more than six weeks after the major earthquake of Sept 4th. Listen to Sept 4th 2010 and news stories the following two weeks. Although this after-shock was only 5.0 on the Richter