Soap opera reaps prize for its clean message

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A Vietnamese soap opera, based on the UK radio drama The Archers, is one of the winners of a World Bank competition for ideas to improve the livelihoods of people in the developing world. The radio drama aims to teach Vietnamese rice farmers about sustainable farming, by weaving pest-management principles into the loves-and-hates storyline of a typical soap opera.

United Kingdom, Achievements and awards, Soap operas, Radio programs

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The gadget known as IVEO, one of the newest assistive technologies for the blind, is the invention of John Gardner, a solid-state physicist turned entrepreneur who is also blind. It is his new invention in a long line of products that he has invented to remove barriers that prevent the visually impaired from fully appreciating mathematics and science.

United States, Innovations, Self-help devices for the disabled, Assistive technology devices, Handicapped access device, Reading devices for the disabled

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Georgia court bans biology textbook stickers

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The second largest school in Georgia, Cobb County School District started placing stickers in newly adopted high school biology textbooks in the spring of 2002. On 13 January, Clarence Cooper, a judge at the district court in Atlanta ruled that the sticker misleads students regarding the significance and value of evolution in the scientific community.

Legal issues & crime, Government regulation (cont), Government regulation, Legal/Government Regulation, Georgia, Laws, regulations and rules, High school textbooks, Science textbooks

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