Archive for February, 2010
Young Peoples Risky Behavior on Social Network Sites
This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Researchers say more than half of young people who use MySpace often discuss high-risk behaviors. Two studies of the social networking site recently appeared in the Archives of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine. In one study, researchers examined the pages of five hundred eighteen-year-olds from the United States. [...]
Obama’s Financial Rescue Plan
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. In Washington this week, Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner announced new steps to rebuild trust in financial markets and restart the flow of credit. The plan, separate from President Barack Obama’s economic recovery legislation, could total two trillion dollars. Traders at the New York Stock Exchange as Treasury [...]
Teens, Television, and Depression
This is the VOA Special English Health Report. A new study suggests that the more teenagers watch television, the more likely they are to develop depression as young adults. But the extent to which TV may or may not be to blame is a question that the study leaves unanswered. The researchers used a national [...]
