Roberto Abraham Scaruffi

Wednesday, 30 March 2011

Today from VOANews.com
Designing a Quake-Resistant Building Starts at the Soil But even the best engineering may be no match for a huge earthquake like the one that hit Japan | TECHNOLOGY REPORT
For Japan Farmers, Radiation Fears Mean Economic Pain A number of countries have banned imports of food from areas affected by the nuclear crisis | AGRICULTURE REPORT
Space Shuttle Program Nears an End America's space agency, NASA, plans to use more robotic devices for space exploration | SCIENCE IN THE NEWS
Peace Corps at 50: Same Mission of Aid, Just Smaller At its height, the agency had almost 16,000 volunteers globally; now it has about half that number | THIS IS AMERICA
Babe Ruth,1895-1948: America’s Greatest Baseball Player The famous baseball hero was “larger than life” both on and off the playing field | PEOPLE IN AMERICA
Words and Their Stories: Proverbs About How to Live Listeners’ favorite expressions about how to live the good life | WORDS AND THEIR STORIES
What Next in Military Campaign in Libya? New violence against protesters in Syria. And the nuclear crisis in Japan | IN THE NEWS
Short Story: 'Luck' by Mark Twain An observer to the rise of a military man is sure it was all luck | AMERICAN STORIES
Remembering Hollywood Legend Elizabeth Taylor Plus the music of Pinetop Perkins, who also died this week, and a question about sports terms| AMERICAN MOSAIC
Adding Up the Costs of Bullying in the Workplace Bullies cost employers in lost productivity and, in some cases, legal action by victims | ECONOMICS REPORT
American History: Roosevelt and His 'Hundred Days' Franklin Roosevelt began his presidency in 1933 with a quick series of actions to fight the Depression | THE MAKING OF A NATION
Meet Some Top Students in the Intel Science Talent Search A teenager from California won $100,000 for a math project in this year's competition | EDUCATION REPORT
Breast Cancer Study Could Change How Early Growths Are Treated Researchers say a simpler, less painful procedure can work just as well as more aggressive action | HEALTH REPORT
Explorer Andrew Skurka Takes Hiking to a New Level Also, we learn about big cats in Africa in “The Last Lions” | EXPLORATIONS
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