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Officials: Air Quality Is Problem at US Schools
That few districts had taken steps to improve air quality shows “the ongoing opportunity to improve indoor air quality among K–12 school buildings in the United States,” the autho…
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Officials: Air Quality Is Problem at US Schools
In January, the EPA announced $32 million in grant funding to reduce air pollution and greenhouse gases at schools in poor communities.
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Officials: Air Quality Is Problem at US Schools
Non-profit organizations and state governments could apply for the grants, which are expected to be awarded this fall.
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Officials: Air Quality Is Problem at US Schools
The EPA said the program was part of a set of policies from President Joe Biden’s administration. The money came from the Inflation Reduction Act passed by Congress in 2022.
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Officials: Air Quality Is Problem at US Schools
In the announcement, EPA Deputy Administrator Janet McCabe said: “EPA is working with our partners to…improve air quality and energy efficiency I’m Dan Novak.
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PBS NewsHour Full Episode
AMNA NAWAZ: Good evening. I'm Amna Nawaz. GEOFF BENNETT: And I'm Geoff Bennett.
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Pearl S. Buck: The First American Woman to Win a Nobel Prize in Literature
The year was 1931. The top selling book in the United States was The Good Earth by Pearl S.
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Pearl S. Buck: The First American Woman to Win a Nobel Prize in Literature
Buck. The following year, Buck won the Pulitzer Prize for the best novel by an American writer.
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Pearl S. Buck: The First American Woman to Win a Nobel Prize in Literature
In 1938, Buck became the first American woman to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. She wrote more than one hundred books.
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Pearl S. Buck: The First American Woman to Win a Nobel Prize in Literature
She also wrote short stories, poetry, plays, essays, and children’s books.
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Pearl S. Buck: The First American Woman to Win a Nobel Prize in Literature
But most people remember Pearl Buck for her novels about China. She knew the country and its people very well.
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Pearl S. Buck: The First American Woman to Win a Nobel Prize in Literature
They were religious workers in China. Pearl’s education began at home.
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Pearl S. Buck: The First American Woman to Win a Nobel Prize in Literature
Her mother taught her many of the things she would have learned in an American school. A Chinese teacher taught Pearl other subjects.
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Pearl S. Buck: The First American Woman to Win a Nobel Prize in Literature
In 1910, Pearl went back to the United States to study philosophy at Randolph-Macon Woman’s College in Lynchburg, Virginia.
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Pearl S. Buck: The First American Woman to Win a Nobel Prize in Literature
After graduation she returned to China. Three years later, she met John Lossing Buck.
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Pearl S. Buck: The First American Woman to Win a Nobel Prize in Literature
He was a religious worker who studied agriculture. They were married and moved to a small village in the north of China.
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Pearl S. Buck: The First American Woman to Win a Nobel Prize in Literature
Their life among the poorest people provided the subject matter for many of the books she later wrote.
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Pearl S. Buck: The First American Woman to Win a Nobel Prize in Literature
His wife is O-Lan. They work very hard together and finally make enough money to buy some land for a farm.
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Pearl S. Buck: The First American Woman to Win a Nobel Prize in Literature
After a time, they grow enough crops to feed their family well, with some left over to sell. Their lives get much better, and they are happy.
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Pearl S. Buck: The First American Woman to Win a Nobel Prize in Literature
Pearl Buck wrote her first books about China at a time when most people in the world knew almost nothing about the Chinese way of life.
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Pearl S. Buck: The First American Woman to Win a Nobel Prize in Literature
After almost 40 years in China, the writer moved back to the United States. She bought Green Hills Farm in eastern Pennsylvania.
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Pearl S. Buck: The First American Woman to Win a Nobel Prize in Literature
She began to write articles for newspapers and magazines.
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