Bảo tàng tỉnh Đắk Nông vừa tổ chức tiếp nhận để bảo tồn bộ đàn đá gồm 17 thanh đá (ảnh) có niên đại khoảng 3.000 năm.

Chỉ có 15% đồng ý tổ chức 1 kỳ thi quốc gia cho 2 mục đích; 28% đồng tình rằng những thay đổi về thi cử nên thực hiện từ năm 2015. Đó là những kết quả đáng lưu tâm theo một khảo sát nhanh từ bạn đọc trên mạng, do VietNamNet thực hiện (từ 18/7- 24/7).

Orange County now ranks as the third-largest Asian American population nationwide, with nearly 600,000 Asian Americans living in a county once defined by its dominantly white communities, a study to be released Tuesday shows.
In a boom decade running through 2010, the number of Asian Americans living in the county increased 41%, changing the face of cities from Anaheim to Irvine.
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78 million
The number of children and adults enrolled in school throughout the country in October 2012 — from nursery school to college. They comprised 26.4 percent of the entire population age 3 and older. Source: U.S. Census Bureau, School Enrollment – Social and Economic Characteristics of Students: October 2012, Table 1

A new international study, set to be released Tuesday, argues that the United States has an expectation problem.
More so than any of the other 29 countries in the study, principals in American schools believe that many of their students come from socioeconomically disadvantaged homes. Based on the views of principals, a larger share of children in the United States are “socioeconomically disadvantaged” compared with those in Brazil, Malaysia, Mexico, Romania and various other countries.

LONDON — First there was an anonymous letter outlining an Islamic takeover of British schools in Muslim neighborhoods ominously called Operation Trojan Horse. Then the letter was found to be riddled with inaccuracies and widely deemed to be a hoax.
Now a report by a former antiterrorism chief suggests that some of the concerns raised by the letter — fake or not — may in fact be real, the latest twist in a tortured debate about how to reconcile Islam and Britishness in a country that has one of Western Europe’s largest Muslim communities.

“We had noted how wedded to our devices we all seem to be and that people seem to find any excuse they can to keep busy,” said Timothy Wilson, a psychology professor at the University of Virginia and lead author of the study. “No one had done a simple study letting people go off on their own and think.”
The results surprised him and have created a stir in the psychology and neuroscience communities. In 11 experiments involving more than 700 people, the majority of participants reported that they found it unpleasant to be alone in a room with their thoughts for just 6 to 15 minutes.

About 81% of overweight boys and 71% of overweight girls believe they are about the right weight, according to recent data released by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey.

The Zhivago Affair: The Kremlin, the CIA, and the Battle Over a Forbidden Book
by Peter Finn and Petra Couvée
Pantheon, 352 pp., $26.95
Inside the Zhivago Storm: The Editorial Adventures of Pasternak’s Masterpiece
by Paolo Mancosu
Milan: Feltrinelli, 402 pp., €40.00
It took Pasternak half a lifetime to write Doctor Zhivago. A poet of genius in his youth, he had less facility with prose, yet decided early in his career that he wanted to write a “big,” nineteenth-century style novel “with a love intrigue and a heroine in it—like Balzac.” His subject would be the February and October revolutions and the civil war between Reds and Whites, all of which he had lived through and experienced personally. He made a start on the novel in 1932, when he was still sanguine about the revolution’s outcome, but destroyed most of what he had written when Stalin’s Great Terror and the purges put an end to his optimism and made it too dangerous to write down his true thoughts at all.

HA NOI (VNS) — Vietnamese films in different genres are being screened at the first Vietnamese Film Festival in the port city of Saint Malo in France.
The six-day event, which began on July 1, is among a series of cultural activities being held during the Year of Viet Nam in France this year. The festival introduces to French audiences a selection of 15 films, including features, documentaries and animations.