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Remembrance of clocks past 2007-10-23 04:43:50 Time is omnipresent for Do Ngoc Duy, who houses Vietnam’s largest clock collection in his humble home.What time is it? Collector Do Duy Ngoc in his home, which is more like a museumDo Duy Ngoc owns 617 clocks. Wall-to-wall clocks are all one can see upon entering his Phu Nhuan District home in Ho Chi Minh City.Ngoc’s collection ranges from the new to the antique and from local to exotic.Ngoc owns several European clocks that are over 100 years old. He most recently purchased a 140-year-old Dutch clock from a seller in Holland.He also owns a 120-year-old German wall clock as well as 100-year-old J. Lecoultre clock from Canada. J. Lecoultre boasts that its clocks last 600 years.But novelty plays just as important a role as antiquity in Ngoc’s collection.He has one clock in which two drunkards clink their wine glasses together six times at six o’clock and twelve times at twelve o’clock.In a similar vein, he owns a cuckoo clock in which two men saw through a chunk of wood with a ...

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College Costs in US: Tuition, Housing ... and Health Care 2007-10-19 02:43:27 We talked last week about the costs of higher education for students who want to study in the United States.Today, as our Foreign Student Series continues, we discuss a cost that students may not always consider : Health insurance.Medical care can be very costly if a person has an accident or gets sick. Health insurance might pay for most or all of it. Students might already be covered under their parents' health plan. If not, many schools offer plans of their own.Most American colleges and universities have student health centers. Some have hospitals where students can go for more serious problems.Our example this week is the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. It has more than four thousand six hundred international students this year.University of Michigan students pay a health service fee. This fee is included in the cost of tuition at the school. It pays for some kinds of medical care and examinations through the University Health Service. It also pays for health education, phys ... Health

Exploring the Art of Printmaking Across History and the World 2007-10-19 02:42:46 At the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., you can see a colorful and expressive print called "Revolt on the Amistad." The small sign next to the work says the artist’s name is Jacob Lawrence. And he did design the image. But who made the print? Today, we answer that question as we explore the world of printmaking. Then, we visit the expert printmaker who made this work of art.To make a print, an artist creates an original image with a form made of wood, metal or plastic. The artist reproduces prints of this original image using liquid colors and paper. There are many methods of printmaking. Often prints are numbered to show how many were made in the edition or series.The oldest form of printmaking is the woodcut. Woodcut prints may have been used in the Middle East as early as the fifth century to make cloth designs. They were also used starting around the ninth century in China to print documents.As you might have guessed, woodcut prints are made out of wood. The printmake ... History

Time - One of the Great Mysteries of Our Universe 2007-10-19 02:30:01 If you can read a clock, you can know the time of day. But no one knows what time itself is. We cannot see it. We cannot touch it. We cannot hear it. We know it only by the way we mark its passing.For all our success in measuring the smallest parts of time, time remains one of the great mysteries of the universe.One way to think about time is to imagine a world without time. There could be no movement, because time and movement cannot be separated.A world without time could exist only as long as there were no changes. For time and change are linked. We know that time has passed when something changes.In the real world - the world with time - changes never stop. Some changes happen only once in a while, like an eclipse of the moon. Others happen repeatedly, like the rising and setting of the sun. Humans always have noted natural events that repeat themselves. When people began to count such events, they began to measure time.In early human history, the only changes that seemed to repeat ...

Remembering Five Special People Who Died in 2006 2007-10-19 01:34:26 Today we tell about five special people who died during the past year. We start with the movie director Robert Altman. During his fifty-year career, he made some of the most influential movies of modern times.Robert Altman’s films were different from the usual methods of Hollywood movie storytelling. He started his film career in the nineteen forties directing industrial movies in his hometown of Kansas City, Missouri. Later, he moved to Hollywood, California, to make television shows.His first major film, "M*A*S*H", was released in nineteen seventy. It tells about a group of American medical workers in a temporary military hospital in Korea during the Korean War in the nineteen fifties. The movie was a great success. It questions the rules of the military establishment in a way that was sharply funny and intelligent.Robert Altman continued to make movies with strong political and social commentary. His next major movie, “Nashville,” came out in nineteen seventy-five. This movie ...

The Housing Market Slows, Charity Gains and Economics Loses Two Great Thinkers 2007-10-18 22:23:59 This week, we look back at a few of the year's biggest economic stories.In recent years, home building and buying have increased, helping expand the American economy. But this year, the housing market has cooled. New home building dropped by more than twenty-five percent since last November.Many experts blame the housing market for the slow economic growth of two percent in the three-month period ending in October. In response, the Federal Reserve left interest rates unchanged. Banks followed the Federal Reserve's decisions on interest rates.While housing declined, giving money to good causes increased. Businessman Warren Buffett announced a gift of about thirty-seven billion dollars to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Mister Buffett, an investor, is chief of Berkshire Hathaway. He is the world's second richest man.Bill Gates is the richest. Mister Gates helped start and remains the top shareholder of Microsoft, the world's biggest computer software maker. He started his foun ...

Healthier Eating in New York Hard For Some to Swallow 2007-10-18 22:13:05 New York City wants to fight fat. The Board of Health has passed a ban on trans fats in all restaurants.Eating places have until July to stop frying foods in oils high in trans-fatty acids. And they have until July of two thousand eight to reduce trans fat in other foods to less than one-half gram per serving.Trans fats are often called partially hydrogenated fats. They form when hydrogen is added to liquid oils and fats to make them solid. Trans fats make foods last longer.But they increase the level of low-density lipoprotein, known as bad cholesterol, in the blood. High levels of LDL can increase the risk for heart disease.The use of trans fats expanded because of worries about saturated fats. Saturated fat also raises bad cholesterol. So is one fat worse than the other?James Cleeman is coordinator of the cholesterol education program at the National Institutes of Health. Doctor Cleeman says gram for gram, both raise LDL levels about the same. But he points out that American adults ...

Foreign Student Series: Adding Up the Costs of Study in the US 2007-10-18 22:07:40 This week in our Foreign Student Series: the cost of higher education in the United States.Students who want to attend an American college or university must explain how they will pay for their education. They have to show that they will be able to pay for each year of study.Students have to consider not only the tuition, the cost of classes, but also meals and a place to live, known as room-and-board. They also need money for books and supplies. And they need money to spend for social activities and other things.Educational advisers say foreign students should keep enough money in a local bank to pay for at least two months of spending.So how much will a year at an American school cost? Generally speaking, the answer is a lot.A leading state university in the Pacific Northwest will serve as our example. The University of Washington says foreign students are paying more than thirty-six thousand dollars this year.This major research university currently has two thousand six hundred fore ...

American History_ Life in the US After World War Two 2007-10-18 21:36:39 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 ... History

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Phong Nha - Ke Bang national park 2007-10-17 23:03:41 Viet Nam's Phong Nha-Ke Bang national park has been recognised as a world natural heritage site by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) at its 27th general assembly session being held in Paris from June 30-July 5. At the session, delegates from over 160 member countries of UNESCO World Heritage Convention agreed to include Phong Nha-Ke Bang park and 30 others worldwide to the list of world heritage sites.Phong Nha-Ke Bang park is now the fifth UNESCO recognised site in Viet Nam after Ha Long Bay, the imperial city of Hue, the ancient quarter of Hoi An and the My Son historical site.Phong Nha-Ke Bang national park, located to the north of the majestic Truong Son range in central Quang Binh province, is one of the world's two largest limestone regions.The over 200,000 ha of parkland includes beautiful limestone formations, grottoes and caves, and boasts lush forestland covering 95 percent of the park area. The area is considered a paradise ...

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Vietnam to welcome more tourists this year 2007-10-05 22:02:13 Over 3.2 million foreign visitors have arrived in the first nine months, a rise of 17 percent year-on-year, a government report said last week.China, South Korea, and the U.S. remained the top sources of tourists in the January-September period.The government expects 4.3 million arrivals in all this year.It forecasts the visitors to spend over US$3.5 billion, a 25 percent increase over last year, making the hospitality industry the third-highest earner of hard currency after remittances and foreign direct investment.However, the image is not so rosy if one considers “visitor density” – the number of international arrivals per 100 locals – which will translate to around five this year. In 2005 the figure was 8.1 in Cambodia, 15.4 in Laos, and almost 200 in Singapore.For this tourism experts blame the country’s poor tourism development strategy and infrastructure and the lack of professional tourist guides.An average of 80 percent of foreign visitors who visited Vietnam never r ...

Cultural Coffee Weeks to promote Vietnamese coffee 2007-10-05 22:00:18 Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City will hold Cultural Coffee Weeks this December to promote Vietnamese coffee, which has become increasingly popular on foreign markets.Ly Thanh Tung, director of the Commerce and Tourism Department in the Central Highlands province of Daklak, said the coffee weeks would showcase the history Vietnam’s high-yield beans, display farm models and demonstrate harvesting and processing techniques.Organized by Daklak provincial People’s Committee and sponsored by Vietnam’s leading coffee company Trung Nguyen, the event is an opportunity for some 20 coffee companies to cooperate in promoting their products.Daklak is the country’s leading coffee producing province with a yield of some 400,000 tons per year.The first coffee week will be held in Hanoi November 29-December 2 before HCMC’s event December 13-16.Source : Thanh Nien Daily Subscribe in a reader ...