Academic English Cafe

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  1.  Indian tea set for a revival 
  2.  Starbucks’ Literacy Project

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1. Michelle Rhee: 'You Can Change People's Hope'

 2. 'The Best Job I Have Ever Had in My Life'

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1. Spring Signals the Return of Baseball (Haiku)
2. Spring Rituals

 

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1. Losing a Best Friend 
2. Pen Pals Reunited After 15 Years of Silence
3. 'Lost Boys' of Sudan Tell Their Story
4. The Art of the Letter 
5. Letter from the field

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The Disciplined Mind

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1. Fright Night at the Grand Canyon
2. Anne Rice An Interview with the Vampire Writer

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1. Festa Della Spiga 
2. 'Morning Edition' Returns Serious Pumpkin Smashing

3. Day of the Dead

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1. Hobbies 
2. Turning to the Trombone for Tranquility

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Tracing African-American Genealogy Why It Matters

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1. A Native American Chef's Thanksgiving
2. Debunking Pilgrim Myths The First Thanksgiving

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Holiday Songs You Love... and Loathe

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Google's Holiday 'Doodles'

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1. Video-Game Designers Target World Peace
2. U.N. Nuclear Watchdog Wins Nobel Peace Prize

3. Trailblazing Nobel Laureate on Environment, World Peace

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1. James Brown's 'Please Come Home for Christmas'
2. For Sailors During Christmas, a Network of Gifts

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A List of To-Dos Before You Die

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Making and Keeping Resolutions

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1. I Have a Dream Speech 

2. Power, Prescience of King's 'Mountaintop' Speech
3. Jeffrey Mumford Remembering MLK in Music
4. Memories of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

 

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1. L'Engle's Fiction Inspired Real Science

2. The Science of the Very, Very, Very Small
3. Siemens High School Science Awards

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1. Redecorating TV
2. US Architecture

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1. WordGirl Fights Crime with Her Voluminous Vocab
2. 'Krrish' is Bollywood's Latest Superhero
3. The Physics of Superheroes

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1. Love Poetry
2. Do We Need Poetry?

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America 101

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1. School Picks Favorite Books Ahead of Main Awards
2. Favorite Books with Susan Stamberg

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Bob Mondello's Favorite Movies of 2004

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One Irishman's Take on St. Patrick's Day

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1. U.S. Woman Plays Record 300th Soccer Match
2. Tiger Woods Takes PGA Championship, Again

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1. Teaching Evolution A State-by-State Debate
2. Evolution and the Catholic Church

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Scientists Find Less Controversial Stem Cell

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1. Rebuilding after Disaster
2. Pakistan Earthquake's Youngest Survivors
3. The Economic Costs of Natural Disasters
4. Reconciling Religious Faith and Natural Disaster

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1. Al Gore Sounds Global Warming Alert
2. High Court Rebukes EPA on Emissions, Environment
3. California Gets Tough on Global Warming

4. X-Prize Sets Sights on 100 mpg Cars

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1. An Irish Garden Dubliner Helen Dillon's Magical Mix of Random Colors, Shapes 
2. Late Bloomers Grace an Autumn Garden

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'Original Meaning' and the Next Supreme Court Justice

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Cities Take On Kyoto Challenge to Cut Emissions

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What's College For?

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1. Women of India Seeing Social Gains
2. Dividing Power in Iraq, and the Role of Women

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Marketing My Space, My corporation, my friend

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Deep-Fried Fuel: A Biodiesel Kitchen Vision

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1. Joseph Campbell on The Power of Myth
2. Karen Armstrong Myths and the Modern World
3. MIT Open Course on Film as Visual and Literary Mythmaking

4. Athens Coverage News, History and Myth

5. An Exploration of Flood Myths

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1. Dream Vacations
2. Vacationing in Africa?

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A Living Document: NPR's Annual Reading of the Declaration of Independence

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1. Polling the People on Qualities of a Good Leader
2. France Sees Unprecedented Diversity in Leadership

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Space Update Planetary Exploration

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Art Historian Launches 'Da Vinci Code' Tour

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Summer Weather Goes to Extremes

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1. Best Friends Make the Best Music
2. 'Nat King Cole The Singles Collection'
New Boxed CD Set Celebrates Capitol Records' Top Artist

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Civil Rights Icon Rosa Parks Dies

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1. Small Towns and Immigration
2. How Words Shape the Immigration Debate

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1. The Making of Musicians on MySpace
2. 'Marketplace': MySpace in China

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'Marketplace' Report A Laptop for Every Child

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'The Writing Life' Authors Discuss Their Craft in Virtual Roundtable

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1. Behind the Scenes with 'Dancing with the Stars'

2. Salsa World Champions Visit London

3. Evolution of Dance video

4. Ballroom Dancers Waltz to Healthier Hearts

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1. Group Maps City Access to Healthy Foods

2. Ballroom Dancers Waltz to Healthier Hearts

3. Ah, the Joys of Sushi — and the Green Monster

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1. Online Learning Helps Rural Communities

2. Online Makes Inroads in Higher Learning

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MIT Students Develop Online Music Sharing System

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The Science of Bias

Café Sound Bite Health care

Prescriptions for the U.S. Health Care System

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1. Essayists Reflect on Studies of Language and Life
2. Learning a Language, Inventing a Future
3. What's the Best Way to Teach English?