VOA Special English - Weekly Report

Tuesday, 28 February 2012 Today from VOANews.com College Students Get Into Microfinance Lending Student groups at some schools become social entrepreneurs, providing loans to start small businesses | EDUCATION REPORT NASA Celebrates Past While Facing Unsure Future Also efforts to 'zone' the ocean and how massage can heal | SCIENCE IN THE NEWS Friends With Benefits, in the Plant World How companion plantings can help each other grow. Also, advice about how to ripen fruit faster | AGRICULTURE REPORT Taiwanese-American Basketball Hero Creates 'Linsanity' Also this week, Cambodian-American singer Bochan Huy and a visit to the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute in Alabama | THIS IS AMERICA Obama Seeks Privacy Bill of Rights for Internet Users The plan would give Americans more control over what information is collected about them and how it's used | TECHNOLOGY REPORT Who Made Hollywood Into Hollywood? How Cecil B. DeMille, Samuel Goldwyn and Louis Mayer built the motion picture industry | PEOPLE IN AMERICA Hollywood Holds Its Breath for Academy Awards What are your choices for the Oscars? The ceremony is Sunday night | IN THE NEWS American History: Bill Clinton's First Term as President Clinton's Democratic Party controlled Congress until the 1994 elections | THE MAKING OF A NATION Building Begins on African-American Museum in Washington Plus, writer Susan Orlean on her book about Rin Tin Tin. And new music from the Chieftains | AMERICAN MOSAIC European Ministers Agree to Loan Greece Another $172 Billion But the rescue loan requires deep and unpopular cuts | ECONOMICS REPORT Getting Paid to Play Sick at School A look inside the world of "standardized patients" and the role they play in training health care providers | HEALTH REPORT Words and Their Stories: Number Phrases (Part 2) Two heads are better than one. Second of two stories about expressions that use numbers | WORDS AND THEIR STORIES Working to Protect Plants for Future Generations Experts say biodiversity is important, but not all agree that a decrease in cultivated food crops is a crisis | EXPLORATIONS WHAT'S YOUR ADVICE? Relationship Problems and More Help another person and practice your English by offering ideas to solve problems with personal or professional relationships More News Headlines Visit our Web Site Special English U.S.A World U.S. History American Life Arts and Entertainment Health Education Business Agriculture Science and Technology Unsubscribe If you no longer wish to receive this E-mail please unsubscribe Need Help? If you have questions about this E-mail newsletter send an e-mail to: voanews@ voanews.com Unsubscribe Voice of America | 330 Independence Avenue, SW, Washington DC 20237