How People Like Levi Strauss Put Their Mark on the American West

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Many men and women helped to shape popular images of the American West. Some of these people can be seen in a show at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C. FRANK GOODYEAR: The individuals who you see pictured along this wall are...

Advice for Staying Warm and Safe in Freezing Weather

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Advice for Staying Warm and Safe in Freezing Weather Freezing weather can mean frostbite and hypothermia unless a person is prepared. Today we talk about how to stay warm, dry and safe. Frostbite is damage that happens when skin is exposed t...

Flying Car Moves Closer to Reality

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You could fill the sky with all the ideas people have had for flying cars. "But at this point the Transition is the closest to actually getting to the marketplace." So says Carl Dietrich, head of Terrafugia. His company in Massachusetts is ...

Teaching Children How to Think Internationally

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I'm Carolyn Presutti with the VOA Special English Education Report, from http://voaspecialenglish.com |http://facebook.com/voalearningenglish The International Primary Curriculum is an idea that began in Britain eight years ago. Today this ...

Iron, Vitamin D May Lead to Smarter, Healthier Children

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I'm Alex Villarreal with the VOA Special English Health Report, from http://voaspecialenglish.com |http://facebook.com/voalearningenglish Many people have low amounts of iron in their blood. But pregnant women need extra iron for their own ...

Building Art Out of Legos

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Legos are not just for children. They can become works of art in the hands of adults like Nathan Sawaya. NATHAN SAWAYA: I dont notice the time passing. I just, this is what I do and I enjoy it. So I can just work for hours without being int...

A Whole New World, Brought to Us by Gizmos and Gadgets

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I'm Alex Villarreal with the VOA Special English Technology Report, from http://voaspecialenglish.com |http://facebook.com/voalearningenglish Today we tell about some of the top technology developments of the last ten years. The technologic...

Does Physical Activity Lead to Higher Grades? [1]

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Recently we told you about a finding that more years of school could help students get higher scores on intelligence tests. That was the finding of a study of teenage males in Norway. Now, other research shows that physical activity may hel...

A Goal for 2012: Learning English

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This is the VOA Special English Education Report fromhttp://voaspecialenglish.com |http://facebook.com/voalearningenglish Did you make a New Year's resolution? Some of you shared your goals at the VOA Learning English page on Facebook. And,...

What Happens When the Living Race With the Undead

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Hundreds of people are preparing for an unusual race in Alexandria, Virginia. "Don't get touched by zombies." "Run really fast. Don't get bit." "Kill Zombies!" The race is called "Survive Alexandria." SALIL MANITAHLA: "You have to keep your...

A False Sense of Security on the Internet?

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This is the VOA Special English Technology Report, fromhttp://voaspecialenglish.com |http://facebook.com/voalearningenglish Sony officials held a news conference in early May in Tokyo. They apologized for the theft of personal information f...

'Walking Miracle' Inspires Others

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Pat Rummerfield spends a week every month with patients in the International Center for Spinal Cord Injury at Maryland's Kennedy Krieger Institute. He works as a spokesman and raises money for the institute. He also provides moral support. ...

For Many People, First the Doctor's Office, Then the Web

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A new survey finds that more than eighty percent of Internet users in the United States search for health information online. The survey is from the Pew Research Center's Internet and American Life Project and the California HealthCare Foun...

Comparing American and Chinese Parents

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I'm Mario Ritter with the VOA Special English Education Report, from http://voaspecialenglish.com |http://facebook.com/voalearningenglish Some American parents might think their children need better educations to compete with China and othe...

New Findings on Sleep in Children, Older Adults

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"Sleep-disordered breathing" is a term for a group of conditions that can interfere with normal breathing while people sleep. These include snoring, mouth-breathing and sleep apnea. Sleep-disordered breathing can do more than just leave peo...