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Restaurants Recycling Oyster Shells to Help Restore Chesapeake Bay Channel: voa Length: 0 Date: December 29, 2010 More than 50 restaurants, caterers and seafood wholesalers from Washington DC, Maryland and Virginia are participating in an unusual recycling pro...

Mickey Mouse Diplomacy Channel: voa Length: 0 Date: December 29, 2010   In 1941, celebrated animator Walt Disney went on a diplomatic mission to Latin America. The creator of Mickey Mouse and Donald D...

Belly Dancing Gets an American Twist Channel: voa Length: 0 Date: December 29, 2010 'Belly Dancing Super Stars' is a professional belly dancing troupe that has been touring the world hoping to improve the percepti...

Studies Show Smoking Affects Both Mental, Physical Health Channel: voa Length: 0 Date: December 29, 2010 It is well known that smoking is bad for you.  But just how bad? Three new studies about cigarette smoking show it is more harmful than pr...

Cut Your Own Tree Channel: voa Length: 0 Date: December 29, 2010 Many roadside lots spring up at this time of year, selling pre-cut trees for half or a third as much. Hardware stores and other places sell them, ...

Mount Vernon Slave Quarters Restored Channel: voa Length: 0 Date: December 29, 2010 George Washington was born into a world where slavery was an accepted part of life. When his father died in 1743, Washington- at the age of 11- in...

Unemployment Benefits Set to Expire Channel: voa Length: 0 Date: December 29, 2010   Hundreds of thousands of Americans will see their federal unemployment benefits expire this week, and millions more by the end of ...

Wood Powers Old Truck Channel: voa Length: 0 Date: December 29, 2010 From electric automobiles to solar wheels, hybrid cars are the wave of the future. But what about a truck that runs on the energy of the past? An ...

A Homecomer on the rebound Channel: voa Length: 0 Date: December 29, 2010 Ex-con Eddie B. Ellis goes on the basketball court to help the next generation avoid his fate, in this latest web video series installment by VOA’...

Some American Atheists Celebrate Their Own Holiday Channel: voa Length: 0 Date: December 29, 2010 All over the United States, people are celebrating Christmas. People of other faiths also have their holidays. But a minority of Americans who do ...

A Number of Firsts Highlighted 2010 Year in Sports Channel: voa Length: 0 Date: December 29, 2010 The 2010 year in sports was an exciting one marked by a number of firsts.  Among them, Spain won its first World Cup football championshi...

South Africans Bask in Success of 2010 World Cup Channel: voa Length: 0 Date: December 29, 2010 Although the 2010 Football World Cup ended nearly six months ago, many people in South Africa are still basking in warm memories of the event, and...

Chinese Premier Visits India To Discuss Complex Relationship Channel: voa Length: 0 Date: December 29, 2010 Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao is on a three day visit to New Delhi for a series of meetings with India’s top leaders.  The two rising Asian powers ins...

Prospects Dim for Ending US Ban on Openly Gay Military Service Channel: voa Length: 0 Date: December 29, 2010 Advocates of ending the U.S. military’s ban on openly-gay service are angry and defiant after the Senate voted against considering a bill that woul...

Holbrooke’s Death Expected to Impact Strategy Toward Afghanistan, Pakistan Channel: voa Length: 0 Date: December 29, 2010 The U.S. envoy for Afghanistan and Pakistan, Richard Holbrooke, leaves behind a long legacy of diplomatic achievements. Holbrooke died Monday at a...

Family Members, Volunteers Remember Fallen at Arlington Cemetery Channel: voa Length: 0 Date: December 29, 2010 The holiday season is a time when many families gather together.  But the families of many U.S. military personnel are often separated, a...

Egyptians Ponder if 2011 Offers Chance for Change Channel: voa Length: 0 Date: December 29, 2010 Egypt is set to hold presidential elections toward the end of 2011, but so far no one has officially entered the race.  Aides say President Hosni ...

Kosovo PM Named in Human Organ Scandal Channel: voa Length: 0 Date: December 29, 2010 In a political bombshell for the Balkans, Kosovo’s Prime Minister Hashim Thaci has been named in a European report as the head of a 'mafi...

Wikileaks Publisher Released from Jail Channel: voa Length: 0 Date: December 29, 2010 A London court has granted bail to Julian Assange and he walked out of jail a free man.  For now.  Assange is under house arrest and faces an extra...

Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Nearing completion on National Mall Channel: voa Length: 0 Date: December 29, 2010 After 20 years of planning, a memorial honoring slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. is nearing completion in Washington. The memorial...

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