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Happy Thoughts for Future = More Time to Live It?
This is the VOA Special English Health Report.
Here is a good reason to be hopeful
about the future: it might help you stay alive.
Findings from a new study were presented at a recent
meeting of the American Psychosomatic Society. Researchers in the United States
studied one hundred thousand women during an eight-year period, beginning in
nineteen ninety-four. All [...]
Studying in the US: Coming to Terms With Academic Titles
This is the VOA Special English Education Report.
Not
all college teachers are full professors. Many are assistant or adjunct professors.
This week in our Foreign Student Series, we discuss academic titles in American
higher education.
Adjunct professor Charles Varani at Western Oregon University in Monmouth in 2005
Professors usually have doctorate degrees.
But college students may be taught by instructors who [...]
Teaching Young People About Personal Finance
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report.
April
is National Financial Literacy Month in the United States. As the country faces a deep recession,
Americans are paying closer attention to personal finance. Some critics partly blame the crisis on
Americans’ low savings rate and high personal debt.
But
efforts to increase financial knowledge have grown in the last ten years. [...]
