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（1）2009 02 13 ECONOMICS REPORT - Obama's Financial Rescue Plan
Written by Mario Ritter
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 Secretary Tim Geithner announces the Financial Stability Plan
But Secretary Geithner gave few details of the plan to rescue banks. Investors quickly reacted. Stock markets fell almost five percent after he spoke Tuesday. Financial stocks lost the most.
Some lawmakers criticized the lack of details. Others said the plan was too big. But the secretary called for aggressive action, saying there was more risk in taking small steps.
For banks that need more capital, the plan calls for private investors or the government to provide it. But first, major banks will face a "stress test," a careful examination of their health.
Another step is to create a Public-Private Investment Fund. This will use government and private money to buy housing loans and other troubled assets that financial companies are unable to sell.
The fund may reach one trillion dollars in financing, but start with half that. The idea is to use private capital and private asset managers to help set a market value for the securities. Exactly how is not clear yet.
A third step is to increase the availability of credit for indivials and businesses. Tim Geithner says the government is prepared with up to one trillion dollars to rebuild the market for loan-based securities.
TIM GEITHNER: "Roughly forty percent of consumer lending has typically been made available because people buy loans, put them together and sell them. And because this vital source of lending has frozen up, no financial recovery plan will be successful unless it helps restart securitization markets."
The new lending program will build on one announced last November by the Federal Reserve. And it will expand to markets for small businesses and procts like student and auto loans.
In the next few weeks, the administration is expected to announce details of a plan for the housing crisis. But the Treasury secretary has promised fifty billion dollars to help people keep their homes. The money is to come from the second half of the seven hundred billion in TARP funds.
TARP was the Bush administration's Troubled Asset Relief Program. The Obama program is called the Financial Stability Plan. It continues some of last year's measures. But TARP was criticized on supervision. The new administration says it will hold banks responsible for how they use taxpayers' money, and will report details on a Web site.
And that's the VOA Special English Economics Report, written by Mario Ritter. I'm Steve Ember.
（2）2009 02 12 EDUCATION REPORT - Foreign Student Series_ Becoming a FulbrighterWritten by Nancy Steinbach
This is the VOA Special English Ecation Report.
This week in our Foreign Student Series, we talk about the Fulbright Program. It sends Americans to study, teach or do research in other countries. And it brings people from other countries to do the same in the United States.
Fulbright grants are awarded each year to more than seven thousand people. These are graate students, scholars, teachers and people in other professions. The United States government pays most of the costs. Foreign governments and schools help share the costs and provide other support.
Senator William Fulbright
Legislation introced by Senator William Fulbright established the program after World War Two. Today it operates in more than one hundred fifty countries. Close to three hundred thousand people have taken part since nineteen forty-six. More than half of all Fulbrighters have been foreign students.
The Fulbright Program is really a collection of programs. It represents a partnership of government agencies, private organizations and other groups around the world.
The Language Teaching Program, for example, brings teachers of English as a foreign language to work at American colleges and universities.
Another program gives forty International Science and Technology Awards each year to foreign doctoral students studying science or engineering.
The Fulbright Foreign Student Program helps graate students and young professionals do research and study in the United States for a year or longer. Each year more than three thousand of these awards go to foreign graate students.
The Fulbright Teacher and Administrator Exchange Program offers a true exchange -- meaning two people trade jobs for a time.
The countries with the most Fulbrighters in the United States this year are Germany, Pakistan, Chile, Indonesia and Turkey.
State Department official Marianne Craven says Fulbrighters not only want to learn, but also to help improve international understanding.
You can learn more about the different Fulbright programs by going online to fulbright.state.gov. Or check with a United States embassy or the Fulbright Commission in your country.
And that's the VOA Special English Ecation Report, written by Nancy Steinbach. This was program number twenty-one in our Foreign Student Series on higher ecation in the United States. The series can be found at www.unsv.com. I'm Steve Ember.
（3）2009 02 11 HEALTH REPORT - 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 alts. But the extent to which TV may or may not be to blame is a question that the study leaves unanswered.
A child watching television
The researchers used a national long-term survey of adolescent health to investigate the relationship between media use and depression. They based their findings on more than four thousand adolescents who were not depressed when the survey began in nineteen ninety-five.
As part of the survey, the young people were asked how many hours of television or videos they watched daily. They were also asked how often they played computer games and listened to the radio.
Media use totaled an average of five and one-half hours a day. More than two hours of that was spent watching TV.
Seven years later, in two thousand two, more than seven percent of the young people had signs of depression. The average age at that time was twenty-one.
Brian Primack at the University of Pittsburgh medical school was the lead author of the new study. He says every extra hour of television meant an eight percent increase in the chances of developing signs of depression.
The researchers say they did not find any such relationship with the use of other media such as movies, video games or radio. But the study did find that young men were more likely than young women to develop depression given the same amount of media use.
Doctor Primack says the study did not explore if watching TV causes depression. But one possibility, he says, is that it may take time away from activities that could help prevent depression, like sports and socializing. It might also interfere with sleep, he says, and that could have an influence.
The study was just published in the Archives of General Psychiatry.
In December, the journal Social Indicators Research published a study of activities that help lead to happy lives. Sociologists from the University of Maryland found that people who describe themselves as happy spend less time watching television than unhappy people. The study found that happy people are more likely to be socially active, to read, attend religious services and to vote.
And that's the VOA Special English Health Report, written by Caty Weaver. For archives of our reports, go to www.unsv.com.
（4）2009 02 10 AGRICULTURE REPORT - Progress on Treaty Against Fish Piracy
Written by Jerilyn Watson
This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report.
Everyone knows that ships are a favorite target of pirates. But another problem takes place under the sea and often gets less attention: fish piracy. The technical term is illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing.
Among the most common acts are fishing without permission and catching more than the limit. Other forms of fish piracy are targeting and catching protected species and using outlawed equipment. Some fishing nets, for example, trap whales. Another form of piracy is when species of caught fish and catch weights go unreported or underreported.
A fish market in Burma, also known as Myanmar
Illegal fishing can harm local fisheries and economies. It can also rob communities of an important food supply and endanger future populations of some kinds of fish.
Now, United Nations officials say representatives from more than sixty countries have made progress on an international agreement to control fish piracy. Five days of talks recently took place in Rome at the headquarters of the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization.
The F.A.O. says fish piracy is difficult especially for developing countries to fight. Some countries lack good port controls. Pirates can easily land and sell their illegal catch. The problem is especially common along the west coast of Africa and in some ports in Asia and the Pacific.
F.A.O. officials say the general ideas for an international agreement or treaty are now largely in place. Final details, though, still need to be settled.
The negotiations involve what are known as port state measures. Under the proposed agreement, fishing boats would be directed to a landing port specially equipped for inspections. The crews would have to radio those ports from out at sea and request permission to land. They would also have to provide information on their activities and the fish they are carrying.
Doing this before arrival would give port officials time to try to identify suspicious activities. Countries that agree to the measures would share information. That way, port officials could deny entry to a fishing boat that has committed offenses in others waters.
And that's the VOA Special English Agriculture Report, written by Jerilyn Watson. Now, an update to our report two weeks ago on caterpillars eating crops in northern Liberia. The insects were feared to be armyworms. But experts have now identified them as another species that might be more easily contained. I'm Bob Doughty.
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