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...Voice of America is set to become the first international broadcaster with a presence on the Internet. Starting Aug. 15, the U.S. government service will start offering news and regional reports in 15 languages, dramatically expanding an experimental English-language service begun in January. Among the offerings: round-the-clock, 10-minute newscasts in Russian, Mandarin Chinese, Cantonese, Arabic, Czech and Swahili -- digitized for net delivery, but capable of being decoded by most digital audio software.Post to New Media "The Internet...
Cummings said he wrote the additional paragraphat "2 o'clock in the morning" of graduation. Twodays after graduation, Cummings said, Failoni senthim a copy of a letter the activities director hadwritten to Harvard about the speech...
That finally propelled President Clinton to action. Since the beginning of April the U.S. has contributed just over $150 million in aid to Rwanda but stoutly resisted leading a full-scale relief effort. On Friday Clinton ordered a round-the-clock airlift of food, water and medicine and dispatched the first of what could soon be up to 4,000 soldiers to distribute it throughout the border regions. The President was moved, he said, by the reports that Rwandans in the camps were dying at the rate of one a minute. "In the days to come," said the President...
...lucks into nearly every headline event of the past 40 years, is the summer sensation: a popular hit and an instant cultural touchstone. As the film's director, Robert Zemeckis (Back to the Future, Who Framed Roger Rabbit), says, Gump has "no typical storytelling devices: no villain, no ticking clock, no burning fuse." Yet it has exploded at the North American box office. In its second week of release, when ticket sales for even the most robust hits drop perhaps 20%, Gump held even. This past weekend it reached the $100 million mark; an industry savant predicts, quite conservatively, that...
NATIONAL PARKS: Turning Back the Clock...