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Timely news articles for the teacher, student, and traveler. ESLFocus covers travel and the ESL world, including current world events of interest for ESL / EFL readers. |
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| By Roman Reykhel |
06/18/10 |
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Personal computing, communication, and entertainment devices have become an indispensible part of modern life, certainly including the teaching and traveling lifestyle. Tens of thousands of these devices and accessories appear in the market so ESLFocus has narrowed down the choices to an even dozen must-haves. |
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| 02/10/10 |
| High performance, low cost, and wide availability are changing the world at an unprecedented rate - the IT field is more of a cultural revolution than perhaps any technology boom since the automobile. Today, to stay abreast of a changing world one simply must be online. Being based on the dissemin... |
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| 01/31/10 |
| In the small yet bustling college town of Davis, California, jobs may be about to open up. Home to the northern-most campus of the University of California and over 20,000 students, Davis might soon see a revival in its business sector amid the continued presence of a world recession. |
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| 01/26/10 |
| For virtually as long as the Internet has existed, search engines have made an otherwise impossible task of finding content not only possible, but efficient. Search engines from Yahoo to Google have scoured the 'Net, returning tens of millions of results a day, with some early search "bots" going b... |
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| 12/24/09 |
| While most of the world suffers bleak economic times, record numbers of foreign students are coming to the United States to study at colleges and universities. Visiting students provide an economic boost through tuition, professors' salaries, books, furniture, rent, clothing, food, and services, all... |
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| 12/09/09 |
 Many global warming activists at the UN Climate Change Conference were reeling at the start of day three after a second scandal opened up Tuesday, casting serious doubts on the prospect of reaching agreements by the end of the two-week meeting. |
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| 07/19/09 |
| The global environmental movement has by now interested just about anyone with access to news. From the pages of the UK's Guardian, where calls to "save the planet" are printed virtually daily, to former US Vice President Al Gore's nonstop global warming showmanship, to televised late night enterta... |
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| 06/15/09 |
| The past few days have provided a wealth of news and opinion about Iran's recent presidential election, when incumbent President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad won reelection, defeating challenger Mirhossein Mousavi. |
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| 06/11/09 |
 Jake Tapper reports that the Obama Administration has engaged the island nation of Palau in negotiations aimed at resettling up to 17 Uyghurs in the remote country. Palau lies triangulated approximately equidistant between the Philippines, the island of Guam, and Papau New Guinea.
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| 06/05/09 |
 The Organization of American States, on the heels of US talk to normalize relations with Cuba after over 45 years, has lifted its ban on the island nation in anticipation of its return to the group.
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| 04/29/09 |
 The visionary founder of the Grameen Bank, Professor Muhammad Yunus leads a global network aimed at ending poverty around the world. Recognized alongside the bank "for their efforts to create economic and social development from below" with the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize, his ideas couple capitalism wit... |
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