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Our program takes the output of these numbers and plugs them into seven popular readability formulas. These readability formulas (see below) will let you know the reading level and grade level of your text and help you determine if your audience can read your writing. Index. Written by Jessie Yeung, CNN The cover of Vogue Arabia's June issue, featuring a Saudi princess lounging in the driver's seat of a red convertible, has drawn widespread criticism following a string of arrests of women's rights activists.
The June issue, which claims to be "a celebration of the trailblazing women of Saudi Arabia" features Princess Hayfa bint Abdullah al-Saud, the daughter of the late King, pictured glamorously on the front cover. It was intended to mark the end of a ban on female drivers. Critics, however, have accused the title of being tone deaf, pointing out that at least 11 activists have been arrested since May 15, most of whom are women who have fought for the right to drive. How New York's Roosevelt Island Sucks Away Summer Trash Stink. Roosevelt Island is a narrow piece of land that sits in the East River between Queens and Manhattan.
It is home to a trash disposal system that eliminates stinky piles of trash. Mark Lennihan/AP hide caption toggle caption Mark Lennihan/AP Roosevelt Island is a narrow piece of land that sits in the East River between Queens and Manhattan. Biggest story you missed: Saudi Arabia’s stranded foreign workers. Saudi Arabia has slashed public spending and taken other dramatic steps as oil prices remain low, forcing many citizens to adjust to less comfortable lifestyles.
But the official belt-tightening has also inflicted pain on another group: The millions of foreign workers – many from Asia and Southeast Asia – who filled relatively low-paying jobs when the economy was booming. In recent months, construction companies and factories have laid off massive numbers of people and simply stopped paying many others who are still working, as The Washington Post reported. Migrant workers gathered to ask for a settlement over salary issues in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, in March. Anthrax spreads from reindeer to humans in an outbreak at the ‘end of the world’ Nenets herders are seen with reindeer at a camping ground in far-northern Russia on Aug. 2, 2015.
(Sergei Karpukhin/Reuters) The Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug is not a place that gets much media coverage. This subdivision of Siberia — made up mostly of flat, lake-pocked tundra — is the size of California, Texas, Montana and both Dakotas combined, with tens of thousands of square miles to spare. The nomadic people of the region call themselves the Nenets, and they call their remote, windswept land Yamal, which means “the end of the world.” They move seasonally with herds of reindeer through the endless expanses of lichen and dwarf shrubs that extend as far as the southern forests. A 3,000-year-old world has been unearthed in England's Fenlands. Typically on prehistoric sites, you are lucky to find a few pottery shards, a mere hint or shadow of organic remains; generally archaeologists have to make do, have to interpret as best they can.
But this archaeological dig has turned out to be completely, thrillingly different. For the last ten months -- day by day, week by week -- the excavation has yielded up a wealth of astonishing finds including pottery, textiles, metal work and ancient timbers. The dig offers, as site manager Mark Knight from the Cambridge Archaeological Unit put it, "a genuine snapshot" of a lost world -- a prehistoric settlement from the Bronze Age some 3000 years ago. The dig is almost without precedent the most revelatory of its kind in Britain, if not in Europe, and it has already begun to transform our knowledge of life in the Bronze Age. Heat dome could be deadly over U.S. this week. Very high humidity is expected to accompany the heat, especially in the Midwest, and that moisture -- combined with the high temperatures -- will create what's known as a "heat dome" over most of the country.
Only the Northwest will be spared. Those conditions could be deadly. Forecasters say the heat index, which measures what the temperature really feels like when you add in the humidity -- the summer equivalent of the winter wind chill -- will likely reach the dangerous category, increasing the risks of heat exhaustion, heat stroke, and death. Cities such as Des Moines, Kansas City, St. To Be The Very Best: Pokémon Go Enters Into Augmented Reality : All Tech Considered. In the new Pokémon Go app, players can use their smart phone to see, battle, and catch the monsters in their world.
The app will be released to the public sometime in July. Courtesy of Niantic Labs hide caption toggle caption Courtesy of Niantic Labs In the new Pokémon Go app, players can use their smart phone to see, battle, and catch the monsters in their world. The app will be released to the public sometime in July. Michelle Obama: How educating girls can save the world (opinion)
Sometimes it's not even safe for girls to attend school in the first place, since their commutes to and from school can be dangerous, and they sometimes even face sexual harassment and assault at school.
Raphina wakes up early each morning, cooks for her family, cares for her younger siblings, and goes to work at a local market -- all before she even gets to school. But she still attends class each day, working especially hard in science and math so she can fulfill her dream of becoming a nurse. Rihab Boutadghart lives in a remote part of Morocco near the Sahara Desert. Delhi residents give up cars to stop toxic air pollution - Jan. 1, 2016. The temporary measures allow private vehicles to operate only on alternate days until January 15.
"Delhi has done it! Reports so far v encouraging. Delhiites! A Trash Bin Marks the True Location of the Greenwich Meridian, 334 Feet to the East — NOVA Next. There are three different prime meridian lines in Greenwich, England, and none of them are accurate. There’s Halley Meridian and Bradley Meridian, both used before the current marker, the famed Greenwich Meridian. But the genesis of each new day, longitude 0º, belongs to none of these. The line demarcating Earth’s hemispheres actually lies 334 feet to the east of the official Greenwich Meridian, cutting through a pathway nearby a garbage receptacle. Some Isolated Tribes in the Amazon Are Initiating Contact. The recent emergence of isolated tribes from jungles in Peru and Brazil is challenging officials in both countries to rethink their “no contact” policies and to prepare for a possible wave of “first contacts” as the Amazon wilderness that harbors the highly vulnerable indigenous groups continues to shrink.
“The people are going to come out,” said José Carlos Meirelles, a veteran of more than 40 years working to protect some of Brazil’s most mysterious and seldom-glimpsed “uncontacted tribes” along its remote and largely lawless border with Peru. “I believe we’re going to see a succession of first contacts in the coming ten years.” Tomb of Nefertiti, Egypt's mysterious ancient queen, may have been found. Hidden doorways in the ancient Egyptian tomb of King Tutankhamun may lead to the long-lost resting place of Queen Nefertiti, a scientist has claimed. British archaeologist Dr Nicholas Reeves, based at the University of Arizona, made the claim after studying high-resolution scans of the walls of King Tutankhamun’s burial chamber in the Valley of the Kings, near Luxor.
The scans are said to reveal two hidden entrances behind the painted plaster. One doorway appeared to lead to a store room and the other a continuation of Tutankhamun’s burial chamber. Dr Reeves believes the second door may open into the tomb of Nefertiti. If he is right, a chamber of treasures more magnificent even than the tomb of Tutankhamun awaits discovery. A Life Revealed. This story appeared in the April 2002 issue of National Geographic magazine. She remembers the moment. The photographer took her picture. She remembers her anger. How One Photographer Captured A Piercing Gaze That Shook The World. National Geographic photographer Steve McCurry, shown in Kuwait in 1991, says his big break came at a refugee camp near Peshawar, Pakistan, after he heard the sound of children laughing.
Courtesy of Steve McCurry hide caption itoggle caption Courtesy of Steve McCurry. What's In A Namaste? Depends If You Live In India Or The U.S. : Goats and Soda. America's quietest town: Where cell phones are banned - CNN.com.