VOA Special English Features - 2008
Text & MP3 Files

• [IN] MP3 - 2009-01-02 - Barack Obama's Election Voted Top News Story of 2008
• [EC] MP3 - 2009-01-01 - The Growing Credit Crisis Forces Many Companies to Seek Government Help 
• [EC] MP3 - 2009-01-15 - Economic Crisis Hits Exports
• [EC] MP3 - 2009-01-22 - Serious Discussions Set for Davos (but No Bono)
• [EC] MP3 - 2009-01-08 - Obama: 'If Nothing Is Done, This Recession Could Linger for Years'
• [AG] MP3 - 2009-01-21 - Project to Develop Electronic Maps of Soil in Africa
• [AG] MP3 - 2009-01-12 - India's Camel Population Drops
• [AG] MP3 - 2009-01-26 - Liberia Seeks Help as Caterpillars Attack Crops
• [HE] MP3 - 2009-01-20 - How Strangers Can Make You Happy
• [HE] MP3 - 2009-01-06 - City Has a Lot Fewer Heart Attacks After Smoking Ban
• [HE] MP3 - 2009-01-27 - Researchers Look Behind the Tears to Study Crying
• [DE] MP3 - 2009-01-31 - Getting Into a Job Market by Mobile Phone
• [AG] MP3 - 2009-01-05 - Giving Grasslands a Rest
• [??] MP3 - 2008-12-24 - White Christmas: One of the Best Loved Holiday Songs
• [SN] MP3 - 2008-12-01 - Adding Up the Many Dangers of Tobacco -- and Finding New Ones
• [IN] MP3 - 2008-12-26 - Oil Prices Collapse on Falling Demand
• [IN] MP3 - 2008-12-19 - Common Theme Ties Cases of Madoff, Siemens and 'Light' Cigarette Ads
• [IN] MP3 - 2008-12-12 - US State of Illinois Opens New Chapter in Its Corruption History
• [HE] MP3 - 2008-12-09 - Scientists See Progress on a Dengue Vaccine
• [HE] MP3 - 2008-12-17 - Simple Measures Can Prevent Injuries to Children
• [EC] MP3 - 2008-12-25 - Countrywide and Bear Stearns Started the Year's Slide into Financial Crisis
• [EC] MP3 - 2008-12-11 - Tribune, a Big US Media Group, Goes Bankrupt
• [EC] MP3 - 2008-12-04 - US Automakers Ask Congress for $34 Billion in Aid
• [EC] MP3 - 2008-12-18 - Fed Cuts Short-Term Rates to Nearly Zero; Now What?
• [DE] MP3 - 2008-12-13 - Zimbabwe's Cholera Epidemic
• [DE] MP3 - 2008-12-01 - Australia Aims for Cleaner Coal
• [AG] MP3 - 2008-12-01 - Looking for Energy in Algae
• [HE] MP3 - 2008-12-02 - Study Looks at Mental Health of College-Age Adults
• [??] MP3 - 2008-12-31 - The New Year Begins With Some Resolutions
• [IN] MP3 - 2008-12-06 - India Works to Gather Evidence in Deadly Attacks in Mumbai
• [AG] MP3 - 2008-12-29 - Finding Uses for Marginal Lands
• [AG] MP3 - 2008-12-15 - Getting Enough Food a 'Distant Dream' for Almost a Billion
• [AG] MP3 - 2008-12-08 - Soil Erosion Threatens Chinese 'Breadbasket'
• [SN] MP3 - 2008-11-24 - Neurologist Oliver Sacks Writes About Patients With Unusual Conditions
• [SN] MP3 - 2008-11-10 - Fat Cell Gene May Reduce Colon Cancer Risk
• [IN] MP3 - 2008-11-21 - Kenya Puts $150 Million Estimate on Payments to Somalia's Pirates
• [IN] MP3 - 2008-11-27 - Similarities, but Also Big Differences, Between Today's Crisis and 1930s
• [HE] MP3 - 2008-11-04 - Treating Anxiety Disorders in Children / Long-Term Risks of Teen Alcohol Use
• [EC] MP3 - 2008-11-26 - Obama Chooses Economic Team for 'Historic' Crisis
• [EC] MP3 - 2008-11-20 - Congress Delays Action on Auto Industry Loans
• [EC] MP3 - 2008-11-13 - US Treasury Changes Plans, Won't Buy Toxic Securities
• [DE] MP3 - 2008-11-17 - 'Rent-a-Light' Seen as a Bright Idea in Kenya
• [DE] MP3 - 2008-11-24 - Weather Experts to Aid Africa's 'Meningitis Belt'
• [AG] MP3 - 2008-11-24 - Vertical Farming: Potatoes? They're on the Fifth Floor
• [IN] MP3 - 2008-11-07 - Number of Foreign Policy Issues Will Test Next President From the Start
• [IN] MP3 - 2008-11-14 - Between Political Left and Right, Obama Is Urged to Seek the Middle Ground
• [HE] MP3 - 2008-11-11 - Obama Team Reviews Bush's Order on Stem Cells
• [EC] MP3 - 2008-11-06 - Obama Faces Difficult Financial Choices
• [AG] MP3 - 2008-11-10 - Food for Thought: Starting a Fish Farm
• [AG] MP3 - 2008-11-03 - Study Says Pest-Resistant Cotton May Help Other Crops
• [IN] MP3 - 2008-10-17 - With US Elections Near, 'Joe the Plumber' Enters Political Pipeline
• [IN] MP3 - 2008-10-24 - After Record Month, Obama Fund Raising Slowed in Early October
• [IN] MP3 - 2008-10-03 - Before Next McCain-Obama Debate, Palin and Biden Take Their Turn
• [IN] MP3 - 2008-10-10 - McCain Wants US to Buy Bad Home Loans; Obama Pushes for Tax Cuts
• [HE] MP3 - 2008-10-28 - Almost Half of All Deaths Are in People Under 60
• [HE] MP3 - 2008-10-01 - New Money for Malaria
• [HE] MP3 - 2008-10-14 - Hand Washing: So Important, It Gets a Day Of Its Own
• [HE] MP3 - 2008-10-07 - Fat Cell Gene Linked to Colon Cancer
• [EC] MP3 - 2008-10-09 - The Credit Crisis Spreads to Banks Around the World
• [EC] MP3 - 2008-10-02 - Credit and the Crisis of Confidence
• [DE] MP3 - 2008-10-18 - How Green Is My (Rooftop) Garden?
• [DE] MP3 - 2008-10-11 - UN Project Aims to Fight Hunger, Help Small Farmers
• [DE] MP3 - 2008-10-04 - At Home in a Shipping Container
• [SN] MP3 - 2008-10-27 - Continents and Ocean Floors Are Always Moving
• [SN] MP3 - 2008-10-20 - Elias Zerhouni Leaving as Head of US National Institutes of Health
• [SN] MP3 - 2008-10-06 - Storms of September: One Month, Three Hurricanes in the Atlantic
• [EC] MP3 - 2008-10-23 - Financial Crisis Summit Set for November 15 in Washington
• [IN] MP3 - 2008-10-31 - For the Candidates, a Last Weekend to Make Their Case to Americans
• [AG] MP3 - 2008-10-20 - Getting Farmers Back to the Land in D.R.C.
• [AG] MP3 - 2008-10-06 - US Food Stores Must Identify More Foods by Country
• [EC] MP3 - 2008-10-30 - US Economy Shrinks 0.3 Percent
• [EC] MP3 - 2008-10-16 - In Time of Crisis, Candidates Present Economic Plans
• [AG] MP3 - 2008-10-27 - A Clean Farm Can Reduce Risk of Mastitis
• [IN] MP3 - 2008-09-26 - Financial Crisis Puts World Leaders at UN at the Center of the Action
• [IN] MP3 - 2008-09-05 - US Presidential Campaign Moves to Full Speed for Final Eight Weeks
• [IN] MP3 - 2008-09-19 - Quick Action Sought on Plan to Rescue Banks From Bad Debts
• [IN] MP3 - 2008-09-12 - Wars, Politics and Memories of a Day That Defined a Presidency
• [HE] MP3 - 2008-09-09 - Teenagers and Pregnancy
• [HE] MP3 - 2008-09-16 - New Findings on Children and Mental Illness
• [HE] MP3 - 2008-09-24 - New Findings Add to Health Concerns About a Chemical in Plastics
• [EX] MP3 - 2008-09-16 - Entrepreneurs Change the World
• [ED] MP3 - 2008-09-03 - School, and Family, Budgets Under Pressure
• [EC] MP3 - 2008-09-26 - Wall Street, Without the Big Investment Banks
• [EC] MP3 - 2008-09-04 - U.S. Health Spending: Looking for a Cure
• [EC] MP3 - 2008-09-11 - Too Big to Fail, the Next Step: US Seizes Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac
• [DE] MP3 - 2008-09-14 - For Rural Poor in India, a Better Rat Trap Makes a Big Difference
• [DE] MP3 - 2008-09-27 - Pedal-Powered Computers for Rural Villages
• [SN] MP3 - 2008-09-08 - 'Dead Zones' Expand in Coastal Waters Around the World
• [SN] MP3 - 2008-09-01 - Scientists Find an Explanation for the Northern Lights
• [SN] MP3 - 2008-09-29 - Progress Seen Toward Making Objects Invisible
• [SN] MP3 - 2008-09-22 - Dead Sea Scrolls Coming to the Internet
• [EC] MP3 - 2008-09-18 - US Developing Financial Rescue Plan
• [AG] MP3 - 2008-09-15 - Finding the Biological Roots of a Virus That Ruins Maize Crops
• [AG] MP3 - 2008-09-01 - Seeking a New Future for 'Lost' Fruits of Africa
• [AG] MP3 - 2008-09-29 - 'Catch Shares': A Better Way to Share the World's Fish?
• [IN] MP3 - 2008-08-08 - Summer Olympic Games Open in Beijing
• [IN] MP3 - 2008-08-15 - Georgia Attack Heightens Concerns About Wider Aims of Russia
• [IN] MP3 - 2008-08-29 - Sarah Palin, Governor of Alaska, Is McCain's Surprise Choice
• [IN] MP3 - 2008-08-02 - The Presidential Campaign Heats Up with Less Than One Hundred Days to the Election
• [HE] MP3 - 2008-08-05 - Got Milk? Why Not Bank It?
• [HE] MP3 - 2008-08-19 - Study Shows Limits in Helping Children Deal With Conflict / Alcohol Abuse and U.S. Troops Back From War
• [EC] MP3 - 2008-08-14 - An Unsettled Time for the Credit Card Industry
• [EC] MP3 - 2008-08-21 - What's Up -- or Down -- With Commodity Prices?
• [EC] MP3 - 2008-08-07 - No Money Down: Give-and-Take Sites and Bartering Exchanges
• [EC] MP3 - 2008-08-28 - High Fuel Prices Drive Manufacturing Closer to Home
• [IN] MP3 - 2008-08-22 - Pakistani Lawmakers to Elect New President on September 6
• [ED] MP3 - 2008-08-06 - Former Teach for America Member Says The Program Changed Her Life
• [ED] MP3 - 2008-08-20 - Interest Grows in International High Schools in US
• [ED] MP3 - 2008-08-13 - Young Voices in the Fight Against AIDS
• [DE] MP3 - 2008-08-17 - Simple Technologies with High Aims
• [DE] MP3 - 2008-08-10 - Farming Techniques That Will Feed a Family
• [DE] MP3 - 2008-08-03 - 2008 AIDS Conference Opens in Mexico City
• [AG] MP3 - 2008-08-11 - Special Feed for Swine May Help Farmers' Crops, the Environment
• [AG] MP3 - 2008-08-25 - Locavores Like Their Food Close to Home
• [IN] MP3 - 2008-07-05 - Just What Does Patriotism Mean in America? Issue Enters Into Campaign
• [IN] MP3 - 2008-07-11 - Lack of Details in G8 Agreement on Climate Change Brings Criticism 
• [HE] MP3 - 2008-07-01 - Safety Checklist Aims to Reduce Mistakes in Surgery
• [HE] MP3 - 2008-07-29 - How the Heart Works
• [HE] MP3 - 2008-07-08 - Hand Washing by Birth Attendants, Mothers Saves Lives
• [EX] MP3 - 2008-07-22 - Going for the Gold at the Olympics in Beijing
• [EX] MP3 - 2008-07-01 - Technology Increases Income, Reduces Poverty in Developing Countries
• [EC] MP3 - 2008-07-24 - 'Naked' Short Selling Gets a Close Eye
• [EC] MP3 - 2008-07-31 - The US Housing Rescue Plan: What It Includes
• [EC] MP3 - 2008-07-03 - Bill Gates Steps Aside at Microsoft
• [EC] MP3 - 2008-07-11 - Data Centers Power a Big Change in Computing
• [SN] MP3 - 2008-07-14 - This Year May Set Record for Tornado Deaths in US
• [SN] MP3 - 2008-07-28 - A New Way to Help Predict Earthquakes
• [IN] MP3 - 2008-07-18 - Rescuing Fannie, Freddie as US Economy Faces 'Numerous Difficulties'
• [ED] MP3 - 2008-07-02 - Debating Eighth-Grade Graduations
• [ED] MP3 - 2008-07-24 - Schools Look to Save Money With Four-Day Week
• [ED] MP3 - 2008-07-16 - High Fuel Prices Mean a Hard Road for School Buses
• [EC] MP3 - 2008-07-17 - Learning Business Skills Through Junior Achievement
• [DE] MP3 - 2008-07-20 - A Gift of Clear Vision in Developing Countries
• [DE] MP3 - 2008-07-13 - Chicago Goes Green in Its Alleys
• [DE] MP3 - 2008-07-06 - Architecture for Humanity Helps Poor Communities
• [AG] MP3 - 2008-07-21 - Probable Sale of America's Largest Sugar Cane Grower Pleases Activists for Everglades
• [AG] MP3 - 2008-07-07 - Reports of Gains Bring Attention to Rice-Growing Method
• [AG] MP3 - 2008-06-30 - Study Sees Risk to California Plants From Climate Change
• [IN] MP3 - 2008-06-20 - New Estimate Triples Number of War Deaths Over Past 50 Years
• [IN] MP3 - 2008-06-13 - Why the Search for a Running Mate Has Become a Bigger Deal
• [IN] MP3 - 2008-06-27 - Supreme Court Rules American Citizens Have Right to Own Guns
• [IN] MP3 - 2008-06-07 - Obama Has to Make Sure Clinton Voters Do Not Leave With Her
• [HE] MP3 - 2008-06-03 - More People Get HIV Drugs, but Even More Get Infected
• [EX] MP3 - 2008-06-10 - The Way People Communicate Has Changed Over Time
• [EX] MP3 - 2008-06-17 - The Information Age: The Internet
• [EX] MP3 - 2008-06-24 - Teaching With Technology in the Information Age
• [EC] MP3 - 2008-06-19 - Throwing Light on High Oil Prices and 'Dark Markets'
• [EC] MP3 - 2008-06-12 - Talking Up the Dollar
• [EC] MP3 - 2008-06-05 - Automakers, Airlines Hit by Sky-High Fuel Prices
• [EC] MP3 - 2008-06-26 - Officials Target Mortgage Mess in U.S.
• [SN] MP3 - 2008-06-02 - Alaska Disputing Federal Move to List Polar Bears as Threatened
• [SN] MP3 - 2008-06-24 - Pollution in China's Air Creates Concern About Beijing Olympic Games
• [SN] MP3 - 2008-06-16 - A Genetic Map for One of the World's Most Unusual Animals: the Platypus
• [ED] MP3 - 2008-06-25 - Online Learning Grows, but Research Finds Mixed Results
• [ED] MP3 - 2008-06-18 - Book Predicts Jump in High School Courses Online
• [DE] MP3 - 2008-06-23 - Fighting Witchweed in African Sorghum
• [DE] MP3 - 2008-06-16 - Getting Weather Reports to Rural Communities
• [DE] MP3 - 2008-06-29 - Using Personal Computers to Solve Humanitarian Problems
• [DE] MP3 - 2008-06-01 - Could Women Farmers Solve the Food Crisis?
• [AG] MP3 - 2008-06-09 - World Gets a Call to Raise Food Production
• [AG] MP3 - 2008-06-24 - Adding Up Crop Losses From Midwest Floods
• [AG] MP3 - 2008-06-02 - Researchers Seek Drought-Resistant Crops
• [AG] MP3 - 2008-06-16 - Climate Change Meets American Agriculture
• [IN] MP3 - 2008-05-23 - California Ruling Opens New Front in Fight Over Same-Sex Marriage
• [IN] MP3 - 2008-05-30 - Why Child Abuse by Peacekeepers and Aid Workers Often Goes Unreported
• [IN] MP3 - 2008-05-02 - Terrorism Deaths Rose in 2007, Including a Big Jump in Pakistan
• [IN] MP3 - 2008-05-16 - In China, Number of Earthquake Deaths Is Expected to Top 50,000
• [IN] MP3 - 2008-05-09 - UN Seeks $187 Million in Aid for the Victims of Cyclone in Burma
• [HE] MP3 - 2008-05-20 - WHO Chief Says World Faces Three Growing Threats
• [HE] MP3 - 2008-05-13 - Need Your Appendix Out? Let Me Reach Down Your Throat
• [HE] MP3 - 2008-05-27 - Why Brain Cancers Like Kennedy's Are Difficult to Treat
• [EX] MP3 - 2008-05-27 - Film Festivals Around the World Celebrate the Art and Industry of Movies
• [EX] MP3 - 2008-05-20 - International Red Cross Helps Victims of Natural Disasters
• [EC] MP3 - 2008-05-08 - Why Oil Continues Its Climb
• [EC] MP3 - 2008-05-16 - For Fans of Anarchy, Grand Theft Auto IV Is a Big Smash
• [EC] MP3 - 2008-05-01 - Behind the Price of Rice
• [SN] MP3 - 2008-05-19 - Progress Against Witchweed, a Killer of Sorghum Crops in Africa
• [SN] MP3 - 2008-05-05 - Science Talent Searches: One Way to Earn Money to Go to College
• [ED] MP3 - 2008-05-07 - From Forester to National Teacher of the Year
• [ED] MP3 - 2008-05-14 - Study Raises Questions About Reading Program in US
• [DE] MP3 - 2008-05-25 - Three Water and Sanitation Projects in India Win Online Search
• [DE] MP3 - 2008-05-18 - Feeding the Hungry, but Not With Pigeons
• [DE] MP3 - 2008-05-04 - Curriki.org: A Place for Teachers to Share Materials
• [AG] MP3 - 2008-05-26 - UN Aims to Raise Potatoes' Appeal
• [AG] MP3 - 2008-05-05 - Using Charcoal to Make Soil Into Black Gold
• [AG] MP3 - 2008-05-12 - Honey Bee Losses Still a Problem in US
• [HE] MP3 - 2008-04-22 - New Malaria Drug Launched in Latin America, Southeast Asia
• [IN] MP3 - 2008-04-18 - Pope Says World Must Intervene If Nations Do Not Protect Human Rights
• [IN] MP3 - 2008-04-04 - 40th Anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr's Death
• [HE] MP3 - 2008-04-29 - Deaths in Blood-Thinner Patients Bring Calls for Answers
• [HE] MP3 - 2008-04-15 - Chinese Say Son With Bird Flu Likely Infected Father
• [EX] MP3 - 2008-04-22 - World Food Crisis Could Push Millions of People Into Poverty
• [EX] MP3 - 2008-04-08 - The World of Cars Is Changing Fast
• [EX] MP3 - 2008-04-15 - Five Building Designers Who Are Redefining Modern Architecture
• [EC] MP3 - 2008-04-10 - Loan Crisis Throws New Light on Investment Banks
• [EC] MP3 - 2008-04-24 - NAFTA, Free Trade and the Presidential Campaign
• [EC] MP3 - 2008-04-03 - The Treasury Proposes a Plan to Change the Way the Financial System is Supervised
• [EC] MP3 - 2008-04-17 - The Candidates on the Economy
• [SN] MP3 - 2008-04-28 - Illegal Clearing of Forests Threatens Monarch Butterflies' Winter Home
• [SN] MP3 - 2008-03-31 - Scientists Seek a Better Understanding of How Babies Learn
• [SN] MP3 - 2008-04-14 - Rising Temperatures Blamed for Antarctic Ice Shelf Collapse
• [SN] MP3 - 2008-04-21 - Shark Diving and Feeding Raises Concerns, for Sharks and Divers
• [IN] MP3 - 2008-04-11 - Bush Gives General 'All the Time He Needs' to Decide on Iraq Troop Reductions
• [HE] MP3 - 2008-04-01 - WHO Targets Climate Change for World Health Day 2008
• [ED] MP3 - 2008-04-16 - Your Reaction to the Idea of Paying Students
• [ED] MP3 - 2008-04-24 - Physical Education Aims for Active Lives, Fewer Painful Memories
• [ED] MP3 - 2008-04-09 - Searching for Better Ways to Teach Math in US
• [ED] MP3 - 2008-04-02 - New Study Adds to Evidence That Too Many Americans Do Not Finish High School
• [ED] MP3 - 2008-04-30 - Applicants Ask Colleges: Why Should I Accept You?
• [DE] MP3 - 2008-04-13 - Five Women Honored in Washington for Global Leadership
• [DE] MP3 - 2008-04-20 - Seven Win Goldman Environmental Prize
• [DE] MP3 - 2008-04-06 - Goldman Sachs Invests in Women Through Education
• [AG] MP3 - 2008-04-28 - Damage Control on the Farm
• [AG] MP3 - 2008-04-14 - Fighting a Food Crisis That Threatens to Spread Hunger and Unrest
• [AG] MP3 - 2008-04-07 - The Danger of Desertification
• [AG] MP3 - 2008-04-21 - When Tuberculosis Hits Animals
• [IN] MP3 - 2008-04-25 - Pennsylvania Win Helps Clinton Raise Millions, Adds to Obama Questions
• [DE] MP3 - 2008-04-27 - Learning Words, Donating Rice
• [IN] MP3 - 2008-03-08 - McCain Can Launch National Campaign; Democrats Still Stuck
• [HE] MP3 - 2008-03-25 - New Drug Shows Promise Against Worm Disease
• [EX] MP3 - 2008-03-18 - Cities Around the World Are 'Going Green'
• [ED] MP3 - 2008-03-12 - A Way to Help Students Before They Fail
• [HE] MP3 - 2008-03-18 - Vaccine a Big Success Against Meningitis in Uganda
• [SN] MP3 - 2008-03-10 - Device Gives New Meaning to the Idea of Power Walking
• [SN] MP3 - 2008-03-25 - Searching for Answers About What Harms Coral Reefs, and What May Protect Them
• [SN] MP3 - 2008-03-17 - An International Appeal to Cut Smoking Rates Through Six Policies
• [IN] MP3 - 2008-03-14 - 'Private Failings': The Rise, and Sudden Fall, of Eliot Spitzer
• [ED] MP3 - 2008-03-26 - In Some Schools, Learning Is Not Enough of Its Own Reward
• [ED] MP3 - 2008-03-19 - Three Schools for the Learning Disabled
• [ED] MP3 - 2008-03-05 - Children, Self-Control and 'Executive Function'
• [EC] MP3 - 2008-03-27 - Sales Down for New US Homes, but Up for Existing Ones
• [EC] MP3 - 2008-03-13 - Boeing Protests Air Force Contract on Tankers
• [DE] MP3 - 2008-03-02 - Questioning a Popular Approach to Lasting Development
• [DE] MP3 - 2008-03-09 - Simple Technology to Get to the Nut of a Problem
• [DE] MP3 - 2008-03-23 - HIV and Life for Rural Women in South Africa
• [DE] MP3 - 2008-03-17 - Building a Better Cook Stove for the World's Poor
• [AG] MP3 - 2008-03-31 - Study Shows Flies Can Pass Salmonella to Chickens
• [IN] MP3 - 2008-03-21 - After Five Years of War, Attention Turns to What New President Would Do
• [IN] MP3 - 2008-03-28 - Young Tibetans, Tired of Calls for Nonviolence, Want More Action
• [HE] MP3 - 2008-03-12 - Report Points to Limits of Some Antidepressants
• [HE] MP3 - 2008-03-04 - The Dark Side of Skin Lightening
• [DE] MP3 - 2008-03-30 - AIDS: The Future of a Vaccine, and New Warnings for Asia
• [AG] MP3 - 2008-03-03 - Home of Closed Landfill Now Aims for Smell of Fine Wine
• [AG] MP3 - 2008-03-10 - The Story of the Largest Beef Recall in US History
• [SN] MP3 - 2008-02-04 - Finding About Bird Flu Helps Explain Limited Spread to People
• [IN] MP3 - 2008-02-15 - Kosovo Moves Toward Independence, While a Crisis Shakes Timor
• [IN] MP3 - 2008-02-09 - McCain Secures the Republican Lead; Clinton, Obama Still in Close Race
• [IN] MP3 - 2008-02-29 - American Orchestra Performs in North Korea
• [IN] MP3 - 2008-02-22 - Castro Retires as President, but Not Much May Change in Cuba
• [HE] MP3 - 2008-02-19 - WHO Sees Tobacco Risk to a Billion Lives This Century
• [HE] MP3 - 2008-02-05 - Drug Shown to Cut HIV Risk in Breastfed Babies
• [ED] MP3 - 2008-02-27 - What to Do About ADHD in Children?
• [ED] MP3 - 2008-02-06 - Dysgraphia: More Than Just Bad Handwriting
• [ED] MP3 - 2008-02-20 - When Trouble With Math Equals a Learning Disability
• [ED] MP3 - 2008-02-13 - How a Movement Disorder Can Affect a Child's Life
• [EC] MP3 - 2008-02-15 - Microsoft's Play for Yahoo / Hollywood Writers Back to Work
• [EC] MP3 - 2008-02-21 - The Price of Pleasure
• [EC] MP3 - 2008-02-28 - Hollywood Looks Overseas for Talent and Profit
• [EC] MP3 - 2008-02-07 - Bush's $3 Trillion Budget
• [DE] MP3 - 2008-02-24 - A Business Plan for Social Change
• [DE] MP3 - 2008-02-17 - Honoring 'Citizen Diplomats'
• [DE] MP3 - 2008-02-10 - Measuring Star Power as a Force for Activism
• [AG] MP3 - 2008-02-19 - Using Sex Appeal to Fight a Pest
• [AG] MP3 - 2008-02-04 - Groups Divided Over How to Provide US Food Aid
• [AG] MP3 - 2008-02-25 - Wheat Production Rises in Face of World Demand
• [HE] MP3 - 2008-02-12 - A Success Story for Malaria Control
• [AG] MP3 - 2008-01-28 - Debate Follows US Finding That Cloned Animals Are Safe
• [SN] MP3 - 2008-01-21 - American Doctors Admit Giving Placebos to Patients
• [SN] MP3 - 2008-01-28 - First Step in Practicing Medicine: Getting Into Medical School
• [IN] MP3 - 2008-01-04 - Kenya Election Violence Threatens Gains in East Africa's Top Economy
• [IN] MP3 - 2008-01-11 - New Hampshire Primary Leaves Presidential Race Wide Open
• [IN] MP3 - 2008-01-25 - The Federal Reserve Cuts Rates to Calm Financial Markets
• [IN] MP3 - 2008-01-18 - Bush Returns From Mideast, Turns Attention to a Weakening Economy
• [HE] MP3 - 2008-01-15 - Study Supports Home Care for Severe Pneumonia in Children
• [HE] MP3 - 2008-01-29 - A New Push for Breastfeeding in Developing Countries
• [EX] MP3 - 2008-01-29 - Disputes on Stolen Art Bring Up Complex Legal and Cultural Issues 
• [ED] MP3 - 2008-01-02 - On the Web, College Classes With No Charge (or Credit)
• [ED] MP3 - 2008-01-09 - US Colleges Move to Increase Financial Aid
• [ED] MP3 - 2008-01-16 - With College Endowments, How Much Is Too Much?
• [ED] MP3 - 2008-01-30 - Dealing With Dyslexia
• [ED] MP3 - 2008-01-23 - Series on Learning Disabilities
• [EC] MP3 - 2008-01-24 - Deal Reached in Washington to Aid Economy
• [EC] MP3 - 2008-01-31 - A 'Rogue Trader' Costs French Bank $7 Billion
• [EC] MP3 - 2008-01-10 - McDonald's Targets Starbucks
• [EC] MP3 - 2008-01-17 - For High Definition TVs, Blu-ray Gets a Big Supporter
• [EC] MP3 - 2008-01-03 - World Economic Growth Expected to Slow in '08
• [DE] MP3 - 2008-01-13 - Can a Strong Legislature Prevent Civil War?
• [DE] MP3 - 2008-01-27 - Google.org Announces Major Plans to Help the Poor
• [DE] MP3 - 2008-01-07 - Engineering Low-Tech Solutions for Places in Need
• [AG] MP3 - 2008-01-21 - Study Sees Wild Salmon at Risk From Fish Farms
• [AG] MP3 - 2008-01-07 - Circular Thinking: Round Barns in America

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