E-Books Destroying Traditional Publishing? The Story's Not That Simple

E-books Catch on at Public Library

Online Reading

Monica and Todd discuss how the internet is changing the way people read.

Ebooks VS Print books

08/11/2011

This news package is about ebooks versus the printed ones with a particular focus on Amazon's Kindle and its recent surge in digital books sales. 

Ebooks VS Print books

The Talented Mr. Ripley [Trailer]

'A Time To' Revisit Clanton, Miss., In John Grisham's Latest

A Time to Kill. John Grisham

Storytellers Offer Lessons That Entertain

For thousands of years, storytelling has been used to pass knowledge from one generation to another. It remains

educational and entertaining even in the age of video games and the Internet. As VOA's Faiza Elmasry tells us, stories can help children become interested in history and reading and can even help them learn to rhyme and count.

Kids' Books: Fairy Tales

Kids' Books: Fairy Tales.  Watch the interview

Video:Overview of Grimm's Fairy Tales

Grimm's Fairy Tales are popular stories written by the brothers Grimm that include stories like Snow White and Hansel and Gretel. Get an overview of Grimm's Fairy Tales in this video

Toni Morrison biography

Remembering Ray Bradbury and His 'Cautionary Tales'

Ray Bradbury, author of classic books such as "Fahrenheit 451" and "The Martian Chronicles," died Tuesday night at the age of 91. Jeffrey Brown and bestselling novelist Lev Grossman, who is also a book critic for Time magazine, discuss Bradbury's life, work and literary legacy.

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Ellen MacArthur talks to Penguin Books about Sailing Solo

Ellen MacArthur, who in 2005 held the world record for a single-handed non-stop circumnavigation, talks about the pressures of sailing solo on herself and her family.

Ellen MacArthur talks to Penguin Books about Sailing Solo

Lewis Pugh Interview.mp4

Lewis Pugh -- Endurance Swimmer on Climate Change & Fracking:

Lewis is an environmental campaigner, a maritime lawyer and an endurance swimmer. He was the first person to complete a long distance swim in every ocean of the world. He frequently swims in vulnerable ecosystems to draw attention to their plight. "I will never forget the first time I saw a polar bear. I was in awe of its absolute beauty. I realised at that moment that I may be one of the last people to see them alive. Their habitat is melting away rapidly with climate change. By swimming in vulnerable ecosystems, I want to draw attention to the impact of our actions... I will swim - and stand for the future of our planet. I believe that each and every one of us can do something to ensure that future generations enjoy a safe and sustainable world." Simon caught up with Lewis to chat about his opinions on climate change and fracking after he made an eye-raising speech to Shell earlier in the year.

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Traits With Our Pets

Funny Dogs Who Look Like Their Owners

Americans and their Pampered Pets

The American Thanks giving story

Deadly storm system moves east, threatens holiday travel

Deadly storm system moves east, threatens holiday travel

Pet Benefits - Learn about some of the health benefits that come with owning a pet.

Pet Benefits - Learn about some of the health benefits that come with owning a pet.
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Pet Benefits

AZUZ: Shifting now from politics to pets. If you've been pushing your parents to get you a dog or cat, you might want to show them this next report. Pet owners do a lot for their animals. But according to some scientists, those furry friends are doing something good for us, too: improving our health! Judy Fortin dives into the details.

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JUDY FORTIN, CNN HEALTH REPOTER: People tend to dote on their pets. They groom them, even dress them, and spend a lot of time walking them.

JENNIFER ECKERSON, PET OWNER: We walk 5, 6, 7 days a week, 30 minutes every day at least.

FORTIN: Jennifer Eckerson's dog Rosco gets her up and out of bed almost every morning. Dr. Edward Creagan says owning a pet can be a prescription for good health.

DR. EDWARD CREAGAN, MAYO CLINIC ONCOLOGIST: Many times, I will put on a prescription pad: one cat, one dog, indefinite refills.

FORTIN: Creagan adds there is evidence to back the claims.

CREAGON: Studies have shown that individuals who have pets have lower blood pressure, they have a decrease in a stress hormone which is called cortisol, and they have a higher level in their blood stream of feel-good hormones.

FORTIN: Creagan says companionship is good for everyone.

ECKERSON: He doesn't know if you've had a bad day, he doesn't know, uh, he's just happy to see you no matter what.

FORTIN: Unconditional love with the added benefit of good health. Yet another reason to enjoy the company of man's, or in this case, woman's best friend.

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Dog-owners 'lead healthier lives'

Dog-owners 'lead healthier lives'

Children with pets 'more healthy'

Benefits Of Owning A Pet

Benefits of owning a pet

Benefits of owning a pet

Do School Uniforms Help Students Learn?

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our school uniforms actually beneficial share

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if you look good in plaid of cool

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I I'm Anthony this is the news it's back to school time

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who and here in the US more public schools than ever are adopting mandatory

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uniform policies for students

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double woohoo about 23 percent all schools in the country require them now

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school boards and educators hope that uniforms will stop violence and bullying

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increase focus on academic performance

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and even improve attendance but is any about true

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mostly series come from a program run in Long Beach Calif in 1995

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the district was full gang violence discipline problems low attendance

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and sexual assault and after putting everybody in uniforms for a year

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the overall crime rate in the school system dropped ninety percent assault

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was down by 80 percent vandalism by 70 percent

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suspensions were down by ninety percent and those are big numbers

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but that was almost twenty years ago a lot of studies have been done since then

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and none of them have shown the same results

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orb anywhere near them when longest-running studies is from the

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National Center for Educational statistics

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between 1988 and 2004 followed students from different school districts in

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background from the eighth-grade

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all the way through college to see just how they were affected by wearing a

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uniform

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first of there was no change in bullying and victimization

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at all results were the same for substance abuse and behavioral problems

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uniforms can actually cause their own kind of issues like a lot of schools in

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England

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are actually trying to back away from the traditional uniforms because

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teachers say

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they spend too much time arguing with kids over things like

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untucked shirts and it's distracting them from actually you now

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educating one area that actually has shown a slight improvement in uniform

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districts is attend its

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particularly in junior high students especially girls the theory there

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is that so much pressure is put on them about how they look and uniforms

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actually relieve them

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have some %uh day as the former second-hand slash

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bargain-basement nerd King of Rock Lake middle school I can relate

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but let's get down to what's important kids are in school to learn right

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so how r uniforms helping education they are not

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well okay they are a little in very specific case it's

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some schools showed slightly increase reading scores and 83 tenth graders

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but they had zero effect on math across the board and in some cases

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being lowered science and history scores so why we persist with the whole

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uniforms are beneficial thing well most school districts keep pointing to that

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Long Beach experiment from 1995 you know you think institutes and learning would

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do better research but

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then again my high school American history textbook only one up to World

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War two

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you know I actually always wanted to have school uniforms growing up they

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made me think I'd like

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wrong Dahl novels an animated Harry Potter

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you know kids on their own maybe with powers our destinies definitely

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with feelings I also hated picking out clothes in the morning

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1080 guys have to wear school uniforms are you wearing a school uniform right

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now

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how do you feel about them let me know down below and subscribe for more Dean

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Pros & Cons of Uniforms

School uniforms

Culture of studying in South Korea

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of course no news report about south korean education would be complete these

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days

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and average south koreans schoolboy ortho

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two helpers illustrate the issues

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greed hatred and ten years old and blinking his way into yet another tough

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day

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schoolchildren higgins on average

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wonderful hours sleep less everynight than their american counterparts

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and his another statistic tucci won

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everyday south korean children studied for almost three hours more than those

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in the u_s_ breakfast here is food for thought quite literally

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coutinho called maria

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the harder you work and he added you begin the hate and tells me

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for the president of the city you get into betty university means a better job

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south korea is a come

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three had sex with education a place where families

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jostling

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four every opportunity

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for their children

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perhaps it's because of that

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fusion ideal on the witness

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is eight pa sports soon status and wealth but whatever the reason

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this country's lasts for learning has caught the eye of

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rather influential individual

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during his visits to sol last november president obama says he asked his south

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korean counterpart to name this country's biggest educational challenge

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not crumbling schools or media budgets came the reply

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parents who attend demanding

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forehead chan today's first lesson is john mcwethy

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in measurements of school level acrobatics ability south korea sits near

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the top of the table back to has impressed president obama who has been

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publicly praising the extended school timetable and the results it produces

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yet they are but his south korea really such a good role model

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page and has just a few private lessons the week

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many schoolchildren though face pam after-school routine that drags on for

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class after class

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sometimes until midnight even the south korean government which welcomes

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president obama's warm words is a little taken aback

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why i parcel surprise there

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i'll print hearings comment

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one-step with always thought

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what has some problems

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in our education system

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and we have to

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take a while problem before you becomes

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trombones yes

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in fact

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the government now appears to believe that south korea's problem is

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much education

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this country's late night

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private cram schools are robbing children of their childhoods with their

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egos and with an overreliance on rote learning

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pupils are being turned into little more band exam costing machine

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and this competition quiescent memory

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not only works in who

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not mail-ew zero not creating mind

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what memory

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you have to memorize thousand thousand different things

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before getting into the

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tensions exactly

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so we like to change it

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that kind of education system

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meanwhile south korean families are voting with their feet

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every year thousands send their children overseas in search of a better education

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abt this combined immigration and education fair i met the kim family

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thinking about leaving career for the sake of their children

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world misery and education is one by mention all mister kim tells me foreign

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schools are far more creative an open-minded

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well

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back to alexandria chip away

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haitians family can't afford to escape or pay for the best private jewish in to

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compete he has a tough fight ahead of him

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there is much to be admired in this system the discipline of the appetite

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for learning but some would say that south korea also offers are warning

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if you can have too much of a good thing

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