MAKING OF A NATION: In November, 1863, President Lincoln traveled to Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. He spoke at the opening of a military cemetery. He felt very tired by the time he got back to Washington. Doctors thought he had a cold. Later, they said he had a weak form of smallpox.
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EDUCATION REPORT: College enrollment has reached an all-time high in the United States. About 40% of all 18-to-24-year-olds were in school in October of last year.
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HEALTH REPORT: On Monday, an influential group of medical experts released new guidelines on testing for breast cancer. The guidelines are from the United States Preventive Services Task Force.
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EXPLORATIONS: She is one of the most well known scientists in the world. She has spent most of her career studying wild chimpanzees in a protected area of Tanzania called Gombe National Park.
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AGRICULTURE REPORT: For the past year, the World Food Program has operated a project to prevent hunger in twenty-one countries in Africa. In the project, the United Nations agency works with small farmers to grow more and better produce.
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SCIENCE IN THE NEWS: Today, we will tell about a plan to fight a leading killer of children in developing countries. We will tell about a new way to recognize harmful minerals in rocks and soil. And we will tell about a major study of laughter.
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THIS IS AMERICA in VOA: An estate is a property, usually large, owned by one person or a family. The man who owned the Biltmore estate in North Carolina was George Vanderbilt.
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DEVELOPMENT REPORT: Americans bought an estimated eighteen and a half million bicycles last year. Some bikes never get much riding. Mostly they gather dust. But a project based in Washington is putting unwanted bikes from the United States to good use in developing countries.
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AMERICAN STORIES: Justice of the Peace Benaja Widdup sat in the doorway of his office smoking his pipe. The Cumberland Mountains of Tennessee rose blue-gray in the afternoon sky. A bird, a speckled hen, walked down the main street, making ...
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PEOPLE IN AMERICA: This week we finish the story of a writer and educator, Helen Keller. She helped millions of people who, like her, were blind and deaf.
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WORDS AND THEIR STORIES: very people has its own way of saying things, its own special expressions. Many everyday American expressions are based on colors. Red is a hot color. Americans often use it to express heat. They may say they are red hot about something unfair. When they are red hot they are very angry about something.
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AMERICAN MOSAIC: This week on our program, we report on several events marking American Indian Heritage Month. We listen to music by the Cherokee National Youth Choir ... Talk about President Obama's recent meeting with tribal nations ... And visit a new exhibit at the National Museum of the American Indian.
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ECONOMICS REPORT: A major reform of the American system of health care and insurance has moved farther in Congress than ever before. President Obama wants a final bill passed by the end of the year. But a difficult road still lies ahead.
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