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American History_ Life in the US After World War Two 2007-10-18 20:05:00 World War Two ended finally in the summer of nineteen forty-five. Life in the United States began to return to normal. Soldiers began to come home and find peacetime jobs. Industry stopped producing war equipment and began to produce goods that made peacetime life pleasant. The American
economy was stronger than ever.Some major changes began to take place in the American population. Many Americans were not satisfied with their old ways of life.They wanted something better. And many people were earning enough money to look for a better life.Millions of them moved out of cities and small towns to buy newly-built homes in the suburbs. Our program today will look at the growth of suburbs and other changes in the American population in the years after World War Two.The United States has always counted its population every ten years. The government needed to know how many people lived in each state so it would know how many congressmen each state should have.The first count was made two-hund Read more:History
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Aging gracefully 2007-10-25 22:05:00 In HoChiMinh City, thanks to Vietnam's stunning economic growth, in addition to the demand for new cars there is now a growing demand for vintage cars, hobby generally only affordable by the most well-to-do.While many here call any secondhand auto a vintage car, few older cars can truly be afforded the label ”vintage”, says Peter Zell, a renowned historian and collector antique automobiles and a senior executive at Daimler-Chrysler Automotive Group.Zell’s definition: “Vintage cars are those whose values don’t depreciate over time. [They appreciate, like investments.] They are never considered out-of-date and many are sought with such endless passion that people wish to have them at any price.”In HoChiMinh City, cars manufactured during the 1930s still appear proudly on the streets. Among them one Tatra T87, the most famous car made by Czech Tatra Company in 1936. It was imported to Vietnam during the Second World War.The vintage car lover will be impressed by the Tatra’s Read more:Aging
Vaccination Campaign Cuts Measles Deaths; New Goal Set 2007-10-25 21:45:00 Measles is one of the most infectious viruses known. It spreads through the air when people infected with the disease cough or sneeze. Children in wealthier countries are usually vaccinated to protect against measles.An international campaign called the Measles Initiative was launched in two thousand one to vaccinate children in developing countries. Thaim was a fifty percent reduction in deaths related to measles by two thousand five.Last week, organizers of the Measles Initiative announced that the final numbers showed a sixty percent drop in deaths.In nineteen ninety-nine, the year used for comparison, there were eight hundred seventy-three thousand deaths. Six years later that number had dropped to three hundred forty-five thousand.The organizers say more than two million lives have been saved, mostly in Africa. Health officials report a seventy-five percent drop in deaths in Africa connected to measles.Measles itself is usually not a direct cause of death. Deaths are commonly the Read more:Vaccination
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Higher Education in the US : Life as a Teaching Assistant 2007-10-25 21:42:00 Graduate students often work as teaching assistants while they study in the United States. Teaching assistants may get money or get to take classes for free, or both.A T.A. usually works about twenty hours each week. In some cases, the professors they assist have big undergraduate classes with hundreds of students. The professor gives one or two lectures a week, and teaching assistants lead smaller discussions at other times.They also give tests, grade work, provide laboratory assistance and meet with students who need help. And they have their own educations to think about.Labor unions have been working to organize teaching assistants who feel overworked and underpaid. Some schools have had strikes.Another issue is the language barrier. Many states have proposed to require that teaching assistants be able to speak English well enough for students to understand them. Universities have increased their efforts to deal with this problem.Our example school this week is the University of So Read more:Higher
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Moving Beyond Talk on Climate Change 2007-10-25 21:40:00 One of the top issues this week at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, was climate change. But the business and political leaders gathered for the yearly event in the Swiss Alps were not the only ones talking about the subject.President Bush, in his State of the Union message Tuesday, proposed rules to increase production of renewable fuels, like ethanol from corn. He also said new technologies are needed to deal with what he called "the serious challenge" of climate change.California recently passed rules to require industries to release less carbon dioxide and other gases blamed for trapping heat. Some companies believe it is just a question of time before the federal government could do the same. So they are positioning themselves to have a voice in the policy-making.On Monday, leaders of ten big companies proposed federal rules to limit the release of greenhouse gases. The companies are members of the United States Climate
Action Partnership.One possibility for the coun Read more:Moving
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Good Advice From the World Bank - With Some Exceptions 2007-10-25 21:38:00 The World
Bank lends money to developing countries but also considers itself a "knowledge bank." Its advice can influence government policies as well as its own future policies.The question is, how valuable is that advice? Not even the bank's chief economist, Senior Vice President Francois Bourguignon, could answer that.So he asked a group of economists, led by Angus Deaton at Princeton University, to do an independent study. They examined all research activities carried out by the World Bank
between nineteen ninety-eight and two thousand five.Last September, they reported finding many valuable studies. But they also found that advice from the bank was not always balanced. They said the bank sometimes gave greater weight to information that supported its positions and ignored other findings.Professor Deaton tells us this was especially true with research on the relationship between globalization and poverty reduction. He says the bank has a right to defend its own policies. But he say Read more:Good Advice
In the Red: Better to Be in the Black 2007-10-25 21:36:00 Now, Words and Their Stories, a VOA Special English program about American expressions. I'm Rich Kleinfeldt with some financial words and expressions used in business and the stock market.Our first expression is in the red. It is another way of saying that a business is losing money. In the past, numbers in the financial records of a company were written in red ink to show a loss.A business magazine recently published a report about a television company. The report said the company was still in the red, but was able to cut its loss from the year before.A profit by a business is written in black numbers. So a company that is in the black is making money. An international news service reported that a private health insurer in Australia announced it was back in the black with its first profit in three years.Another financial expression is run on the bank. That is what happens when many people try to withdraw all their money from a bank. A run on the bank usually happens when people belie Read more:Black
New Studies Offer Better Understanding of Babies and Intelligence 2007-10-25 21:34:00 On our program this week, we discuss recent findings about how intelligence develops in babies.Not long ago, many people believed that babies only wanted food and to be kept warm and dry. Some people thought babies were not able to learn things until they were five or six months old.Yet doctors in the United States say babies begin learning on their first day of life. The National Institute of Child Health and Development is a federal government agency. Its goal is to identify which experiences can influence healthy development in human beings.Research scientists at the institute note that babies are strongly influenced by their environment. They say a baby will smile if her mother does something the baby likes. A baby learns to get the best care possible by smiling to please her mother or other caregiver. This is how babies learn to connect and communicate with other humans.The American researchers say this ability to learn exists in a baby even before birth. They say newborn babies c Read more:Studies
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For Older Adults, Many Chances to Make Learning a Lifelong Activity 2007-10-25 21:31:00 We continue our series about ways older Americans are keeping mentally active. Today, we tell about lifelong learning programs.Older Americans who are either retired or reaching retirement age are concerned about keeping active when they leave their jobs. They know that staying physically and mentally active is necessary for good health.It is easy for an individual to get exercise by walking, swimming or bicycling. But keeping mentally active is easier in a group. So, many programs have been created for aging Americans where they can continue to learn and experience new things.There are many education programs in communities across the United States. More than three hundred fifty of these learning programs belong to the Elderhostel Institute Network. It is part of Elderhostel, an organization that provides travel and learning experiences for hundreds of thousands of older Americans every year.Programs in the Elderhostel Institute Network are connected with the colleges and universities Read more:Adults
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Progress Reported in AIDS Campaign for Children 2007-10-24 22:30:00 Our subject this week is children and AIDS
.The United Nations Children
's Fund, UNICEF, has just released a report on a campaign launched in October of two thousand five. UNICEF, the U.N. AIDS program and other groups wanted to bring greater attention to the needs of children affected by AIDS.The report on the "Unite for Children, Unite Against AIDS" campaign says there are signs of progress.One of the biggest problems is the spread of HIV from mothers to children. Mother-to-child transmission was the main cause of the estimated half-million new infections last year in children under the age of fifteen.UNICEF reports that several countries in eastern and southern Africa have made what it calls breakthroughs. It says they greatly increased the number of mothers who receive antiretroviral drugs. These medicines can prevent mother-to-child transmission.For example, the report says Namibia increased coverage from six percent of mothers to twenty-nine percent. That was between two thousand Read more:Campaign
Coming to America as a Fulbrighter 2007-10-24 22:28:00 We come to the twentieth week of our series on higher education in the United States. Today we answer two e-mails from Thailand. A refugee from Burma and another listener in Thailand both want to know more about the Fulbright Program.The Fulbright Program gives America
ns a chance to study, teach or do research in other countries. And it gives people in other countries a chance to do the same in America.Fulbright grants are given to graduate students, scholars and professionals. There is also a Fulbright exchange program just for teachers and administrators.Each year about six thousand people receive Fulbright grants. The United States government pays most of the costs. Foreign governments and schools help by sharing costs and providing other support.The Fulbright Program operates in about one hundred fifty countries. Around two hundred seventy thousand Fulbrighters have taken part over the years.Legislation by Senator William Fulbright established the program in nineteen forty-six. He
Baseball Writers Honor the Iron Man, Mr. Padre for a Job Well Done 2007-10-24 22:19:00 This week on our show : Getting ready for the newest members of the Baseball Hall of Fame. A question from Nigeria about the Sears Tower in Chicago... And a report on how "tweens" are helping to drive sales in the pop music industry.Baseball Hall of FameLast week, the Baseball Writers
' Association of America elected Cal Ripken Junior and Tony Gwynn to the Baseball Hall of Fame. Their careers were unusual in Major League baseball today. Barbara Klein explains why.Tony Gwynn and Cal Ripken Junior played all their years in the major leagues with just one team.Cal Ripken played for the Baltimore Orioles from nineteen eighty-one to two thousand one. He played shortstop for most of his career and later moved to third base.He played in nineteen All-Star Games and was named the most valuable player in two of them. Also, he was the American League's most valuable player in nineteen eighty-three when Baltimore won the World Series.But baseball history may best remember him for playing two thou Read more:Iron Man
US Says Wiretap Program Will Now Require Court Approval_More Trouble for Somalia 2007-10-24 22:17:00 This week - new developments in two stories we reported on last year.In August, a federal judge tried to stop what the Bush administration calls the Terrorist Surveillance Program
. A presidential order let the National Security Agency read e-mails and listen to calls to or from al-Qaida suspects in the United States without a court order.The judge in Detroit said the program violated rights of free speech and privacy. She ruled it unconstitutional and in violation of a federal intelligence law.In October, an appeals court said the government could continue the program while it appealed the ruling.But this week the administration said it has ended the use of surveillance without court approval. It says the program now operates under rules prepared by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court
.Democrats, newly in control of Congress, praised the move but said it should have happened sooner. Senator Patrick Leahy of Vermont said there are still questions about exactly how the program wil Read more:Approval
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Money Talks : Everything Else Walks 2007-10-24 22:15:00 People often say that money talks. They mean that a person with a lot of money can say how he or she wants things done. But it is not easy to earn enough money to gain this kind of power.Ask anyone in a business. They will tell you that it is a jungle out there. The expression probably began because the jungle is filled with wild animals and unknown dangers that threaten people. Sometimes people in business feel competing businesses are as dangerous as wild animals. And they feel that unknown dangers in the business world threaten the survival of their business.People in business have to be careful if they are to survive the jungle out there. They must not be led into making bogus investments. Bogus means something that is not real.Nobody is sure how the word got started. But it began to appear in American newspapers in the eighteen hundreds. A newspaper in Boston, Massachusetts, said the word came from a criminal whose name was Borghese. The newspaper said Borghese wrote checks to peo Read more:Money
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'FabLabs' Help Communities Design Their Own Solutions 2007-10-24 22:13:00 Imagine a world without manufacturers. Or at least not as we now think of them. Instead, we as individuals control the technology to design and make most anything we want.That world exists now in the mind of Neil Gershenfeld. Professor Gershenfeld is a computer scientist and physicist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He directs the Center for Bits and Atoms at M.I.T.The center is exploring the relationship between computer science and physical science. The work is receiving financial support from the National Science Foundation.Neil Gershenfeld wants to help developing countries create technological tools to solve their own problems. He says this is one way to bring the results of the digital revolution to the developing world.And many of those solutions might come out of personal fabrication laboratories - or "FabLabs." So far the center has set up about fifteen of these laboratories around the world.Each FabLab comes equipped with about twenty thousand dollars' worth of Read more:Communities
Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Snow 2007-10-24 20:13:00 Today, we tell you everything you ever wanted to know about snow.Winter weather has returned to northern areas of the world. In much of the United States, winter means the return of snow. Snow is a subject of great interest to weather experts. Experts sometimes have difficulty estimating where, when or how much snow will fall. One reason is that heavy amounts of snow fall in surprisingly small areas. Another reason is that a small change in temperature can mean the difference between snow and rain.Snow is a form of frozen water. It contains many groups of tiny ice particles called snow crystals. These crystals grow from water particles in cold clouds. They usually grow around a piece of dust. All snow crystals have six sides, but they grow in different shapes. The shape depends mainly on the temperature and water levels in the air.Snow crystals grow in one of two designs -- platelike and columnar. Platelike crystals are flat. They form when the air temperature is about fifteen degrees Read more:Everything
Childhood Health : Life in a 'Germ Factory' 2007-10-23 21:35:00 A mother in Tamil Nadu, India, recently had a question for our new series on children and parenting. This woman in Tuticorin has a son who is almost three years old. He attends a pre-kindergarten school. She wonders why he often suffers from a blocked or leaky nose and a cough. Along with these, he gets a temperature of thirty-eight and three-tenths degrees Celsius.Of course, the only advice we can give our listeners is to ask a medical professional about any conditions. But this is a good chance to talk about young children in group settings. There is a reason why schools and child care centers are known as germ factories.Children can come in contact with all sorts of bacteria, viruses and other organisms as they share toys, toilets and towels. Some will make them sick, others are harmless.Good hand washing is an important way to reduce the spread of infections. Caregivers should also be trained in ways to clean, sanitize and disinfect. The Web site for the National Resource Center fo Read more:Childhood
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Move Away From Rural Life Puts Pressure on Cities, Environment 2007-10-23 21:30:00 Fifty years ago, most people lived in rural areas. But the world has changed. By some point next year, more than half of all people will live in cities, for the first time in history. So says the most recent estimate from the United Nations.Of the three billion people who live in cities now, the report says, about one billion live in unplanned settlements. These are areas of poverty, slums, that generally lack basic services like clean water, or even permanent housing.The report says more than sixty million people are added to cities and surrounding areas each year, mostly in slums in developing countries.Molly O'Meara Sheehan led the Worldwatch report. She says the international community has been too slow to recognize the growth of urban poverty. Policymakers, she says, need to increase investments in education, health care and other areas.The report talks about some successful efforts by local governments and community groups. For example, it says Freetown, Sierra Leone, has establ Read more:Rural
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Jewelry Making Through the Ages : Ancient Artistry Meets a Modern Eye 2007-10-23 21:26:00 At the Torpedo Factory Art Center in Alexandria, Virginia, you can see the work of jewelry designer Susan Sanders. Her many gold and silver designs have a clean and modern look.One of her silver rings has a bold geometric design with small smooth stones inlayed into the metal.How did she make this ring? Today we answer this question as we explore the history and methods of jewelry design.People from almost all cultures throughout history have been making and wearing jewelry. Jewelry
is valued for its visual quality, the richness of its materials and the expert way it is made. Since ancient times people have worn jewelry like rings, bracelets and necklaces to decorate their fingers, wrists and necks.Ancient
peoples who lived near the ocean used the shells of sea creatures to make jewelry. Other ancient peoples used materials like small colored rocks and animal bones and teeth. Jewelry often was made from whatever material was considered rare and costly. It expressed the wealth and socia Read more:Modern
Researchers Say Vitamin D Might Protect Against Multiple Sclerosis 2007-10-23 21:19:00 In recent years, research has suggested more health value from vitamin D than had once been thought.Vitamin
D is produced naturally in the blood. Sunlight is a major source. It is also found in some foods. These include eggs, liver and some fish. Vitamin D is also found in pills. Vitamin D helps to increase levels of calcium in the blood. It helps build strong bones and teeth. It also helps in muscle development.It also appears to do more than just protect against rickets. That serious bone disease was the reason vitamin D was added to milk. Rickets is now rare in the western world. But it is still a common childhood disease in developing countries. Rickets can cause bone pain and weakness, teeth problems and muscle loss.Now researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health in Boston say vitamin D might protect against multiple sclerosis, also called MS.MS is a progressive disease of the central nervous system that affects about two million people around the world. There is no cure. M Read more:Protect
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For Foreign Students in US, Financial Aid Is Limited 2007-10-23 21:08:00 Financial aid is the subject this week in our Foreign
Student Series on higher education in the United States.Students who want to study in the United States may find that their chances for financial aid are limited. They often have to pay for their education with their own savings or their family's money.A recent report from the Institute of International Education in New York looked at the two thousand five-two thousand six school year :Colleges and universities in the United States had more than half a million foreign students. Sixty-three percent of them paid for school mostly by themselves or with family help. Twenty-six percent were supported by the school they attended.There are other sources of financial aid for international students. These include a student's home government or university, or the United States government. Private sponsors, international organizations and employers may also provide support.Yet during the last school year, not many students were able to depen Read more:Financial
First Trans - Atlantic Stock Market Aims for Early '07 Launch 2007-10-23 21:06:00 The NYSE Group and Euronext hope to create the world's largest financial exchange group by the end of March. Their shareholders voted last month to approve a plan to combine the two exchange operators.The proposed fourteen billion dollar deal will create the first trans-Atlantic stock exchange. American and European government officials must still approve the merger plan.The new group, to be called NYSE Euronext, will have a combined market value of about twenty-seven billion dollars. The deal has been developing since June.The New York Stock
Exchange is the world's biggest stock market. Euronext is Europe's leading international exchange. It operates the stock markets in Amsterdam, Brussels, Lisbon and Paris. Germany's Deutsche Borse withdrew its own offer for Euronext in November.Financial markets have grown increasingly international and competitive. The planned merger of Euronext and the NYSE Group is a good example of this new climate.Euronext is itself the product of mergers. Read more:First
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Stock Market: The Business of Investing 2007-10-23 21:02:00 Today we tell about some American expressions that are commonly used in business.Bells sound. Lighted messages appear. Men and women work at computers. They talk on the telephone. At times they shout and run around.This noisy place is a stock exchange. Here expert salespeople called brokers buy and sell shares of companies. The shares are known as stocks. People who own stock in a company, own part of that company.People pay brokers to buy and sell stocks for them. If a company earns money, its stock increases in value. If the company does not earn money, the stock decreases in value.Brokers and investors carefully watch for any changes on the Big Board. That is the name given to a list of stocks sold on the New York Stock
Exchange.The first written use of the word with that meaning was in a newspaper in Illinois in eighteen thirty-seven. It said: "The sales on the board were one thousand seven hundred dollars in American gold."Investors and brokers watch the Big Board to see if the st Read more:Market
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Jane Jacobs, 1916-2006 : Her Activism Helped Shape the Look and Feel of Cities 2007-10-23 20:40:00 Today we tell about Jane Jacobs
. She was an activist for improving cities.Jane Jacobs was an activist, writer, moral thinker and economist. She believed cities should be densely populated and full of different kinds of people and activities. She believed in the value of natural growth and big open spaces.She opposed the kind of city planning that involves big development and urban renewal projects that tear down old communities. She was also a critic of public planning officials who were unwilling to compromise.Jacobs helped lead fights to save neighborhoods and local communities within cities. She helped stop major highways from being built, first in New York City and later in Toronto, Canada.Developers and city planners often criticized her ideas. Yet, many urban planning experts agree that her work helped shape modern thinking about cities.Jane Butzner was born in Scranton, Pennsylvania, in nineteen sixteen. Her father was a doctor. Her mother was a former teacher and nurse. After g Read more:Cities
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Investing in Businesses - That Invest in the Poor 2007-10-23 20:36:00 In Pakistan, a company called Saiban creates housing communities for the poor. About thirty percent of the country's population is estimated to live in unplanned settlements without legal right to the land.Saiban buys land, then sells pieces of it to families to build houses. Roads, water and electricity are provided.In India, a small company makes and sells low-cost drip irrigation systems to poor farmers. IDE-India spent seven years researching and developing the equipment. More than seventy-five thousand have been sold.Both Saiban and IDE-India operate thanks to the Acumen Fund. This nonprofit organization in New York helps people in developing countries build businesses to help the poor.The Acumen Fund provides loans, equity investments and grants to entrepreneurs and existing businesses. It operates like a venture capital organization.Acumen works with local companies to create business plans for their goods and services. Then it guides them through the marketing and production p Read more:Investing
US Agency Says Cloned Animals Safe to Eat 2007-10-23 20:33:00 The United States government wants to know what the public thinks about its findings on the safety of cloned animals.The Food and Drug Administration says meat and milk from clones of adult cattle, pigs and goats are safe to eat. An F.D.A. official called them "as safe to eat as the food we eat every day."And when those clones reproduce sexually, the agency says, their offspring are safe to eat as well. But research on cloned sheep is limited. So the F.D.A. proposes that sheep clones not be used for human food.The United States this year could become the first country to approve the sale of foods from cloned animals.First, however, the public will have ninety days to comment on three proposed documents. On December twenty-eighth the F.D.A. released a long report, called a draft risk assessment, along with two policy documents.The agency says it must receive comments by April second. The F.D.A. seemed ready to act several years ago, but an advisory committee called for more research.For Read more:Cloned
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Ao Dai - Vietnamese Traditional Dress 2007-10-31 01:28:00 A lasting impression for any visitor to Vietnam is the beauty of the women dressed in their ao dais. Girls dressed in white pick their way through muddy streets going home from school or sail by in a graceful chatter on their bikes. Secretaries in delicate pastels greet you at an office door and older ladies in deep shades of purple, green or blue cut a striking pose eating dinner at a restaurant. The ao dai appears to flatter every figure. Its body-hugging top flows over wide trousers that brush the floor. Splits in the gown extend well above waist height and make it comfortable and easy to move in. Although virtually the whole body is swathed in soft flowing fabric, these splits give the odd glimpse of a bare midriff, making the outfit very sensual. Rapidly becoming the national costume for ladies, its development is actually very short compared to the country's history.Pronounced 'ao yai' in the south, but 'ao zai' in the north, the color is indicative of the wearer's age and Read more:Vietnamese
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For Some Patients, Brain Damage Cures Cigarette Addiction 2007-10-30 22:46:00 Chemical dependency can result from many things: alcohol, caffeine, illegal drugs like cocaine, legal drugs like pain killers. But one of the most difficult dependencies to break is also one of the most common : smoking. The body becomes addicted to the nicotine in tobacco. Now, researchers may have found an important link in the brain to smoking addiction.Scientists at the University of Southern California and the University of Iowa studied thirty-two former smokers. All of the men and women had brain injuries as a result of strokes.Half of them reported that they were able to give up cigarettes quickly and easily after they suffered the brain damage. Magnetic resonance imaging showed that twelve of those sixteen patients had suffered damage to a part of the brain called the insula.The insula is found near the ear. Experts believe it somehow brings together emotional experience and sensory information with some activities like breathing. Experiments have suggested that the insula has Read more:Brain
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Studying in the US : Four Kinds of Financial Aid 2007-10-30 22:45:00 This week in our Foreign Student Series, we return to a subject we have discussed before : financial aid. This time we are going to talk about financial aid in the form of assistantships, grants, scholarships and fellowships.An assistantship at a university is a job that is paid with money or free classes. These positions usually go to graduate students to assist a professor for about twenty hours a week. The assistants may teach, grade papers and tests, or do research in a laboratory.A grant is a gift of money. Unlike a loan, a grant does not have to be repaid. Grants can come from public or private organizations. Schools often receive donations for this purpose. Some grants are for general purposes of paying for school, while others are offered in a subject area.Scholarships and fellowships do not have to be repaid either. A scholarship is financial aid to undergraduates; a fellowship is for graduate students.Scholarships and fellowships are generally for students with special abilit Read more:Kinds
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From Asia to Europe to Africa, Trying to Stop the Spread of Bird Flu 2007-10-30 22:42:00 Today we begin a series of reports about the disease bird flu. The series will examine how quickly the disease has spread. It will also tell what is being done to stop the spread and how people can protect themselves and their families from bird flu.The disease bird flu has killed people in at least ten countries since two thousand three. The United Nations World Health Organization confirmed one hundred sixty-five human deaths by the end of January.Earlier this month, health officials in Britain reported that more than two thousand turkeys had died of bird flu. The officials immediately ordered people to keep at least three kilometers away from the turkey farm. Workers destroyed more than one hundred thousand healthy birds as a safety measure. There is no evidence that any people became sick with the disease.The new head of the World Health Organization says it will be years until farm birds are safe from bird flu. W.H.O. Director-General Margaret Chan says that, until then, the world Read more:Asia
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