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Demarai Gray booked for emotional tribute to Vichai v Cardiff - Jeff Stelling reacts - Duration: 2:45.
A week on from Leicester City's darkest day, Claude Puel's side took to the pitch against Cardiff amid emotional scenes
Players, staff, and fans observed a minute's silence, while the Foxes squad wore shirts dedicated to 'The Boss' following the tragic passing of chairman Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha and four others in last weekend's helicopter crash
Goalkeeper Kasper Schmeichel, who police had to stop from running towards the flames, was in tears before kick-off, while the away end chanted: "Champions of England, you made us sing that"
Understandably, Puel stressed ahead of the game that in light of this week's horrific events, the result was not important
The visitors felt they should have had a penalty when Sol Bamba blatantly handballed in the box shortly before half-time, but they finally opened the scoring through Demarai Gray's half-volley with 55 minutes on the clock after Ben Chilwell had found him in the box
What a moment. Gray wheeled away towards the fans and was flanked by all of his team-mates, who were unmistakably dedicating his goal to their late owner
Gray's emotional celebration The 22-year-old pointed to the sky and lifted his shirt to reveal a message: "For Khun Vichai"
A deeply touching sentiment and one which even many Cardiff fans cheered. However, amidst the emotion, referee Lee Probert booked Gray
It was frankly unbelievable. Yes, he was technically breaking the rules but, given the circumstances, it's outrageous that he didn't let him off
Probert was slammed on Sky Sports Commentating on the game on Sky Sports' Gillette Soccer Saturday, Phil Thompson lambasted the decision
"Get a life," he told Probert. Jeff Stelling could be heard in the background calling the official "absolutely insensitive"
Ultimately, nothing should put a dampener on a special moment for the players, who have been applauded for their commitment to continuing Vichai's vision by taking to the field so soon after the tragedy
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News November 4, 2018 (For English learners) - Duration: 53:17.
On Tuesday, November 6, Americans will choose hundreds of federal lawmakers and state officials.
The election is called the midterm because it comes in the middle of the president's
four-year term.
But even though the president is not competing for re-election this year, the results of
the midterm will be important to him.
They will decide whether his political party, the Republicans, continues to control both
parts of Congress.
If the Republicans do, Congress will likely help him reach his policy goals.
If the opposition Democratic Party wins a majority in Congress, those lawmakers will
likely try to block the president's goals.
It is also very possible that after November 6 the Republicans will control one part of
Congress, and the Democrats another.
If that happens, the two groups of lawmakers will probably oppose each other and few changes
will advance.
Here are the numbers: Congress has seats for 535 voting members.
One hundred are in the Senate.
The rest are in the House of Representatives.
This month, voters will choose 35 senators and all 435 House members.
To win a majority in the House, Democrats would need to keep all their seats and gain
24 more.
Such a gain would be large, but not impossible.
Historically, the opposition party makes some gains in midterms.
Eight years ago, Republicans gained more than 60 House seats in the midterm after then-President
Barack Obama was elected.
That election was seen as a check on Obama's efforts to reform health care in America.
This year, a gain half as big by Democrats would give them control of those House.
To win a majority in the Senate may be harder for Democrats, although Republicans have only
a one-seat advantage now.
The reason is because Democrats risk losing some Senate seats they currently control.
For example, ten Democratic senators are running in states that Trump won in 2016.
In other words, voters there may now decide they want a lawmaker who is more like the
president.
I'm Kelly Jean Kelly.
Thirty-year-old Shamsia Hassani is widely recognized as Afghanistan's first, if not
only, female graffiti artist.
Being a graffiti artist anywhere in the world presents difficulties.
In war-affected Kabul, such artists face special problems.
Hassani, however, was recently able to share her work with a broader audience.
She was invited to show her work at a street art celebration in the Turkish city of Istanbul.
She spent three days creating a large painting on a city wall.
It shows a usual subject of Hassani's work: a young woman dressed in cool clothes, playing
an instrument.
The woman's eyes are closed and she does not have a mouth.
Hassani says those qualities represent the difficulties faced by women in Afghanistan.
"She can use musical instrument to talk with people, to speak louder and make more
attention.
And as she has no mouth, but this musical instrument gives her power to speak in society.
Her eyes are closed because usually, she has nothing good around herself to see, and she
doesn't want to see anything around, and sometimes she cannot see her future.
But it doesn't mean that she cannot see."
The chance to attend the Istanbul event is welcomed, Hassani says, given the increasingly
difficult environment in Afghanistan.
"I'm really scared of public spaces.
I'm really scared from explosions happening all the time...and I feel usually very hopeless
because there are a lot of bad things happening around me and I cannot change anything.
And specifically, it's difficult for women to do graffiti and street art because usually,
people are not happy with women's activity."
So, she says, she continues with her street art to help empower people in her country.
Hassani was born in Iran to Afghan parents who had fled the war at home.
She says could not study art in Iran because she was Afghan.
Her parents moved back to Kabul so Hassani could study art at Kabul University, where
she now teaches.
"My family is very supportive, my parents and my husband, they always support me in
my works.
All the time I am careful," she says with a nervous laugh.
Shamsia Hassani says that in Kabul she generally has only a few hours to complete her work
because of the dangers.
"I usually work in Kabul, but usually on the small walls, not the big walls, because
I cannot finish them.
I need to just run away as soon as I can."
In Istanbul she had three days to complete her painting, a rare treat.
It is not only the risk of bombs and hostility toward women artists, that Hassani faces.
Artistic differences with the owners of the walls upon which she paints also can be a
problem.
"I am trying to get permission, but sometimes it's difficult.
Usually the owner of the wall never gives me permission to paint something — fantasy
like this," Hassani said, pointing to her painting.
When asked what keeps her going, Hassani says it is her love of art and the power it has
for good.
She says she brings art to people in Afghanistan because there are no art museums.
She adds, "I think that I can change people's minds with my artwork and sharing my ideas
with people, that's the thing I really like to do."
I'm Caty Weaver.
Amazon wants to get more young people to consider becoming computer engineers.
The American technology company this week launched a program that aims to teach more
than 10 million students a year how to code.
Amazon says it will pay for summer camps and other costs for young people from low-income
families.
It also will offer teacher training at low-income schools.
The program is called Amazon Future Engineer.
Amazon hopes the programs will help bring more African-American, Hispanic and female
students to the field of computer science.
Other technology companies, including Microsoft and Facebook, also have programs that bring
coding to schools.
There is a shortage of computer engineers.
Teaching more students how to code will help strengthen the industry.
Jeff Wilke is Amazon's head of Worldwide Consumer.
He said he hopes some of the students in the Amazon Future Engineer program will one day
work for the company, especially in the development of voice assistant and drone technology.
Wilke said, "We're pretty confident that knowing how to code will be as important as
knowing how to read for the jobs of the future."
Amazon Future Engineer will provide summer camps and after-school programs for students
from kindergarten through 8th grade.
The programs will take place in Amazon offices around the country.
Volunteer workers will lead the programs.
Online classes, lessons and games will be offered by Code.org and Coding with Kids.
Amazon says it also plans to pay for online training in computer science for teachers
at 2,000 low-income high schools.
In addition, it will offer scholarships and internships for college students.
Amazon said some schools have already been testing the program, including Monsignor Scanlan
High School in New York City.
Jennifer Tulipano, a science teacher at the school, began taking online coding classes
in September.
Last month, she started teaching two computer science classes on how to create games and
how to make animated characters.
It is the first time that the school has offered computer science classes.
"So much is now online," Tulipano said.
"It's a skill set they (students) need moving forward if they want to go into these
fields."
I'm Dorothy Gundy.
This is What's Trending Today...
Recently, the operators of a bookstore in Southampton, England made an unusual appeal
to people in the community.
They sought help moving books and other things to the store's new location, a short distance
down the street.
Community-based October Books put up announcements around the neighborhood and on the internet.
They asked, "Can you lend a hand?"
The bookstore made clear the work would be volunteer and that all kinds of people were
needed.
It would be a lot of work, even if the store was relocating only about 150 meters down
the street.
Part of the work required serious lifting and boxing things.
"This is not a family event, we need people happy to do heavy lifting," said an announcement
posted last Sunday on Facebook.
Naturally, the store had to move books – lots and lots of books.
The announcement said the move would be happening throughout the week.
But community members did not wait long to start coming forward to offer their help.
A report in the Southern Daily Echo newspaper said at least 250 volunteers showed up last
Sunday ready to work.
With that number of people, the organizers decided to change their method for moving
books from the old store to the new one.
Instead of having people carry them, volunteers formed a human chain to pass the books from
person to person.
They lined up between the two locations along Portswood Road.
Clare Diaper works at October Books.
She told the Southern Daily Echo she was caught by surprise at the huge amount of interest.
"It was just amazing, we started with 10 people having to run between shops and ended up with
250 people passing books," Diaper said.
She added that she got "quite emotional" and found the level of community support "heartening."
Jani Franck was part of the human chain.
She also told the newspaper it was "amazing" to see the power of so many local people in
action.
"October Books have done really well.
I'm in awe," she said.
Local news reports said the volunteers passed about 2,000 books from hand-to-hand on October
28 alone.
About 18,000 more were to be moved the rest of the week.
The Grand Opening of the new store is set for Saturday, November 3.
October Books decided to move from its old location because of rising costs.
The operators said they did not have enough money to pay for continued use of the building.
So they launched a campaign to raise money to buy a nearby old bank building as the store's
new home.
The Guardian newspaper reports that October Books was founded in 1977 as a small "radical
bookshop cooperative" named after Russia's October Revolution.
But the business kept expanding as it grew over the years.
And that's What's Trending Today...
I'm Bryan Lynn.
Have you ever wanted to talk about similarities between people or things but were unsure what
words to use?
Today's question comes from Nagim of Israel.
Hello from Israel.
How can we use "alike" and "like"?
These two words are very difficult for me.
- Nagim, Israel Hello, Nagim, and thanks for asking a teacher!
The words "alike" and "like" are easy to confuse.
We use both to show similarities between people or things.
They also sound alike.
Did you see how I used the word "alike"?
I used it as an adverb.
"Alike" can be an adverb or an adjective.
As an adverb, it means "in a similar way."
We use it after an action verb – a verb that expresses physical or mental action.
Here is an example that is also a popular expression:
Great minds think alike.
It means that very intelligent people have the same ideas at the same time.
Here's another: Teens sometimes try to dress alike.
One other meaning for the adverb "alike" is "both."
We use it to talk about two individual people or things or two groups of people or things:
Students and teachers alike can listen to Ask a Teacher.
For this meaning, notice that the word "alike" comes after the two groups – students and
teachers.
As an adjective, "alike" means "similar in appearance, nature or form."
We use it after linking verbs, such as "be," "look" and "sound."
Let's hear some examples.
You and your brother are so much alike!
Those sports cars look alike.
They're the same shape and color.
My mom and I sound alike on the phone.
Now, let's talk about "like."
The main meaning we are talking about today is as a preposition.
It means "similar to" and comes before a noun or pronoun object.
Here are some examples: You are just like your brother.
This sports car looks a lot like that one.
I sound like my mom on the phone.
We can use the preposition "like" for all five senses.
The use of "like" that often confuses English learners is the conjunction.
When a conjunction, "like" means "as if" or "as though" and is informal.
Here's how that sounds: The plane felt like it was going to crash!
It means that the plane felt as if it were going to crash.
There was probably a lot of turbulence, for example.
But, avoid this use in formal writing.
And that's Ask a Teacher.
I'm Alice Bryant.
A new report suggests four simple ways to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
Carbon dioxide is among the gases linked to the increase in the Earth's temperature.
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine published the report.
All four methods to take carbon from the air and store it use natural processes.
However, all of them still would not be enough to prevent possible catastrophic levels of
climate change, the report said.
Climate scientists say carbon emissions from burning fossil fuels have warmed the Earth's
atmosphere by about 1 degree.
At the current rate, temperatures will likely increase by 1.5 degrees by 2050.
That warning is from a new report by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate
Change.
Technologies that create no emissions, like wind or solar power, will not be enough to
stop climate change, the U.N. report said.
It called for technologies that take carbon dioxide out of the air.
The group of experts with the National Academies of Sciences considered existing methods for
removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
The first of the four is one that almost everyone knows already: planting trees.
It's not really a technology, admitted Princeton University biologist Stephen Pacala.
He headed the group of scientists.
The second method is also simple: take better care of existing forests.
These are the two least costly ways to get large amounts of carbon out of the air, the
report said.
Farms offer the next biggest and least costly carbon dioxide removal method.
Soil that is used to grow crops too much loses carbon and nutrients.
Rebuilding the soil increases its ability to hold water and makes it more fertile.
The carbon comes from the atmosphere," Pacala said, and he added, "We know how to do quite
a bit of this."
The fourth method, the report said, is known as biomass energy with carbon capture and
storage, or BECCS.
BECCS involves burning some kind of plant matter to produce electricity, fuel or heat,
then capturing and storing the carbon gasses in underground containers.
The report said BECCS could remove the largest amount of carbon dioxide from the air, but
is also the most costly.
If used worldwide, these four techniques could remove up to 10 gigatons of carbon dioxide
from the atmosphere each year.
It is estimated that 50 gigatons of carbon are produced each year around the world.
The scientists said that using more land for carbon dioxide removal would mean taking land
needed to produce crops.
The scientists also considered new technologies that capture carbon dioxide from the air.
For example, one method would use the ability of some naturally existing minerals that react
with carbon dioxide to store it.
But the scientists said this method is not well understood.
I'm Susan Shand
For a long time, the city of Venice, Italy, has suffered from the combined problems of
flooding and sinking.
On Monday, heavy winds pushed tides over the city's sea walls, flooding most areas.
The population of Venice also has been falling for years.
At the same time, the number of visitors to the city continues to rise.
Many Venetians are not happy about that.
They do not want the city to become what some are calling a "Disneyland on water."
Their biggest objection is to the huge cruise ships that stop at Saint Mark's Square.
For a long time, Venetians have called the cruise ships "monsters."
They say the ships are ugly and that they block local sights.
The ships also damage the bases of the city's historic buildings.
Last year, the interest group No Big Ships organized a vote on the cruise ships issue.
18,000 Venetians took part in the June vote.
Almost 99 percent of them voted to bar cruise ships from the area.
Later that year, the Italian government announced it would ban huge ships from Saint Mark's
Square, Grand Canal and other historic areas.
The order is to take effect over several years.
The cruise industry is protesting the plan.
It says it will hurt Venice, and Italy's, economy.
Cruise companies say they want to protect the places their ships visit.
They say the business brings economic benefits to port cities.
Roberto Martinoli is the president of Cruise Lines International Association.
He spoke to VOA News in Rome.
He said the cruise industry represents nearly three percent of Venice's economy.
He said cruise ships are responsible for less than 10 percent of Venice's water traffic
and less than five percent of visitors to the city.
The cruise industry has spent billions of dollars on environmental research and development
projects, Martinoli added.
But, many in the city argue that the damage from cruise ships outweighs the economic benefit
from tourist dollars.
At a demonstration earlier this year, Stefano Micheletti of the No Big Ships campaign shared
opinions common to many Venetians.
Micheletti said large ships must stay out of the area to protect the ecosystem.
He said they cause pollution that is ruining the historic city.
I'm Alice Bryant.
The Sudanese people of the Nuba Mountains have faced years of war from the government
of President Omar al-Bashir.
A few years ago, Russian-made Antonov warplanes bombed unarmed civilians, injuring and killing
many.
Most medical workers with international aid organizations left the dangerous area.
But one doctor stayed.
Dr. Tom Catena works at the Mother of Mercy hospital in Sudan's South Kordofan state.
There, he serves as the surgeon, pediatrician and as the obstetrician-gynecologist.
Mother of Mercy is the only major hospital in the Nuba Mountain area.
Catena does everything he can to save those in the middle of conflict.
Rebels of the Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North are fighting the government
forces of President Bashir.
The rebel group once fought along with South Sudanese groups.
South Sudan became an independent country in 2011, but remains stuck in conflict.
South Kordofan shares a border with South Sudan.
Catena's story is being told by Ken Carlson in the documentary film The Heart of Nuba.
Carlson recently spoke with VOA's South Sudan in Focus program.
He talked about how he created the film.
"I found out that he was in great need in the Nuba Mountains five, six years ago, in
need of aid.
We raised ($102,000), put a truckload together of vaccines and supplies, and I realized it
was a great story to tell," Carlson said.
The film has been showing in the United States and other countries.
Money from ticket sales goes to Mother of Mercy.
So far, the movie showings have raised $500,000 for the hospital.
Catena is from New York.
He went to college at Brown University in Rhode Island, earning a degree in mechanical
engineering in 1986.
He received offers of high-paying jobs, but he felt a different calling.
In the film, Catena talked about his decision to become a doctor.
He said his brother did not understand it.
"I turn to my brother Felix and I'm like, 'Felix, I should go to medical school.'
He's like, 'Tom, what are you talking about?
You're an engineer.
What are you talking about?'
And I said, 'No, I think I should do it."
Catena first trained as a doctor in Kenya before going to South Kordofan state.
Carlson has known Catena for many years.
He said he wanted to find out what made Catena so committed to people in the Nuba Mountains.
So, he traveled to the area in 2014 and 2015 with his video camera.
The Heart of Nuba shows the difficulties of Catena's work in the Nuba area.
Each morning, he wakes up early and goes to the small chapel to say prayers.
After he drinks his tea, he goes to the hospital to start a long day.
In one scene of the film, Catena treats a man who has just had his nose blown off by
shrapnel.
Carlson said of Catena, "He's furious!
These families are being destroyed for no reason."
The Heart of Nuba was recently shown at the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C.
Many donors, activists and Sudanese people attended.
Nathaniel Nyoke was a displaced person, one of the so-called "lost boys" from South
Sudan.
He ran for five days to escape fighting in the city of Bor more than 20 years ago.
He said one part of the film gave him chills.
It was a scene in which young people were running from bombs.
They sought shelter in a hole in the ground.
"Seeing the kids running from the Antonovs and then jumping in the hole to hide.
That's what I used to do," Nyoke told VOA.
Nasima Catena is a Sudanese nurse.
She and Catena are married.
She described what it is like to be performing an operation while under attack.
She said, "No one comes out, but people always run to the foxhole with patients who
are able to go, who are able to run."
I'm Ashley Thompson.
And I'm Mario Ritter.
Now, the VOA Learning English program Words and Their Stories.
Each week, we tell about terms and expressions we use in American English.
We often explore their meanings and explain how to use them in different situations.
Today we talk about something common to everyone around the world.
Laughing is one of life's most simple pleasures.
It is free.
You can do it anywhere.
And it makes you feel good!
There is another thing you should know about laughter: Laughter is contagious.
Like the flu, laughter can spread easily among people.
Often when we hear someone laughing in a crowded room or a packed train, for example, we start
laughing too – even if we have no idea why.
But unlike the flu, even a good handwashing will not protect you against breaking into
a fit of laughter.
Your eyes water, your heart rate goes up and your face gets that beautiful laughter glow.
In fact, many doctors say that mental health can affect physical health.
You might even say, "Laughter is the best medicine."
However, "laughter is the best medicine" does not mean that you should not take medicine
when you are sick.
It simply means that having a positive outlook might help ease your troubles.
People who use this expression are probably pretty happy people.
Then there are those other types – you know, people who are always grumpy.
We could call someone who does not like to laugh a curmudgeon.
A curmudgeon is bad-tempered, ill-natured and just generally not fun to be around.
Well, unless you yourself are a curmudgeon.
If that is the case, you two could hang out and not laugh and not have fun together!
You know what we say -- misery loves company.
This means that some people who are miserable and unhappy like to make others miserable
and unhappy, too.
On the other hand, making others laugh with you is an act of joy and kindness.
However, the opposite is true when people laugh at you.
That experience is lonely and no fun at all.
But at least those two phrases really show the importance of choosing the right preposition.
For example, if Anna is in a funny play and people laugh with her -- that is a good thing.
However, if she messes up her lines and falls on stage, people may laugh at her.
And that is not so good.
People might even call her a laughingstock.
No one, not even a professional comedian, wants to be a laughingstock.
That is a really great example, Bryan.
Thanks.
I think.
But you're right.
Nobody wants to be a laughingstock.
If you wanna go crazy and act like a clown Be the laughing stock all over town
That's your red wagon, that's your red wagon …
For example, let's say a teacher falls on hard times and loses his apartment.
So, for a couple of days he sleeps in his car outside of the school.
As it happens, at night he sleeps in bright pink, full-body pajamas with a hood and bunny
ears.
And he holds a teddy bear.
Well, some cruel students record him sleeping in his car and share the video with their
classmates.
The teacher becomes the laughingstock of the whole school.
That was a mean thing to do.
Well, yes.
Yes, it was.
But our story does not end there.
The students post the video online, and it goes viral!
More than 10 million people watch it on YouTube!
So, the teacher gets dozens of offers to make commercials for pajamas and teddy bears.
He makes a lot of money.
Then he writes a best-selling book on how to fall asleep anywhere, anytime.
Good for him!
But wait, Bryan.
It gets even better!
He stars in a movie based on his life: "The Teacher Who Slept in His Car."
So, in the end, you could say the teacher definitely had the last laugh.
When you have the last laugh, you end up winning when at first you were losing.
Another way to have the last laugh, is to simply laugh off a tough situation.
It shows you just do not care.
For example, if the teacher is a friend of yours, you could always tell him to just laugh
it off.
It may be difficult.
But if you have the choice to laugh or cry, chose laughter.
For one thing, you may inspire others to laugh, too.
That's right.
As we also like to say: Laugh and the world laughs with you; cry and you cry alone.
This means that people prefer to be around those who are happy and cheerful.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox, a poet of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, penned this
famous expression.
In her poem "Solitude," she writes ."Laugh, and the world laughs with you; weep, and you
weep alone."
However, these days, we do not usually say "weep."
So, the expression now uses the word "cry."
Whatever you call it -- weeping or crying, it is always better to laugh!
And that's Words and Their Stories.
I'm Bryan Lynn.
And I'm Anna Matteo.
The more I laugh, The more I fill with glee.
And the more the glee, The more I'm a merrier me ... (It's embarrassing!)
The more I'm a merrier me!
Colleges and universities in the United States have received more than $350 million from
the government of Saudi Arabia over the past 10 years.
Yet some of these schools are reconsidering their ties with the government following the
killing of Saudi journalist and writer Jamal Khashoggi.
His death has led to international criticism of the oil-rich nation.
The Associated Press, or AP, examined U.S. federal records for information about the
flow of Saudi money to American higher education.
The news agency found that at least $354 million from the Saudi government or organizations
it controls has gone to 37 American schools since 2011.
Much of the money was provided through a special scholarship program.
It paid tuition for Saudis studying in the United States.
But AP researchers found that at least $62 million came through deals with or gifts from
Saudi Arabia's nationally owned companies and research centers.
Two of the U.S. schools that received the most money did so through contracts with a
top Saudi research center.
It is called the King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology.
It has provided $14 million to Northwestern University, in Evanston, Illinois, since 2011.
The University of California, Los Angeles accepted $6 million from the center.
In addition, Saudi Arabia's national oil company, Saudi Aramco, has given $20 million
to U.S. colleges and universities.
This amount includes $9 million to Texas A&M University, in College Station, Texas, and
$4 million to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, or MIT, in Boston.
A national chemical company known as SABIC sent another $8 million to American schools.
Some of the contracts ended before 2017.
But questions about Khashoggi's death at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul have led some
schools to reconsider current or future deals.
On October 22, MIT announced plans to launch a "swift, thorough" examination of its
partnerships with Saudi Arabia.
The institute called Khashoggi's disappearance a serious concern.
Richard Lester is a member of the school's administration.
He said professors who work with Saudi Arabia can make their own decisions "as to the
best path forward."
MIT works with Saudi universities on research projects and has a long history of working
with Saudi Aramco.
In March, the company promised to give $25 million to the school for research in areas
such as renewable energy and artificial intelligence.
The AP attempted to speak by telephone with officials at the Saudi Embassy in Washington
earlier this week.
It said they could not be reached for comment.
Babson College, near Boston, has received $2.5 million through a contract with the Saudi
company SABIC.
College officials told the AP they are watching events closely and gathering opinions from
their community about how to move forward.
Babson's deal provides training to Saudi business leaders.
And it also includes several other research and training partnerships between Babson and
Saudi universities.
However, many other U.S. schools have shown no signs that they are reconsidering ties.
Officials at the University of California, Berkeley, said they are not examining their
financial support from Saudi Arabia.
The money includes a $6 million contract to develop special technology that can be used
to support renewable energy.
A university spokesman said the Saudi support represents only a small part of the contracts
and grants that go to the school's researchers.
Northwestern University refused to say whether any of its money from Saudi Arabia is under
review.
A spokesman said only that the majority of the $14 million is for science grants, but
he did not answer other questions.
Others schools, including the University of Michigan, did not provide details about Saudi
Arabia's financial support.
Researchers looked at records from the U.S. Department of Education's Foreign Gift and
Contracts Report.
It lists any U.S. university that received $250,000 or more in foreign money in a given
year.
The self-reported information lists money provided from 2011 through 2017.
The largest amounts of money came through a Saudi scholarship program that sends thousands
of students to U.S. schools every year.
The program provided $73 million to The George Washington University, in Washington, D.C.
George Mason University, in nearby Fairfax, Virginia, received $63 million.
The two schools said they will not refuse the scholarship money because it would cause
them to reject the students it covers.
George Mason admits about 250 Saudi students through the program each spring and autumn
term.
America's ties with Saudi Arabia have come under intense review since Khashoggi disappeared
on October 2.
President Donald Trump called it "the worst cover-upever."
Activists and some U.S. politicians have called on the United States and its industries to
break with the nation, and some have.
Three Washington-based businesses recently canceled business deals to represent Saudi
interests in the United States.
Several other companies have suspended work in Saudi Arabia.
One of them is owned by businessman Richard Branson.
More recently, the pressure to break ties has expanded to colleges and universities.
For example, at Columbia University in New York, officials recently canceled a planned
event with Saudi artist Ahmed Mater.
Records show Columbia separately received a $1.1 million grant from the Saudi agriculture
ministry in 2016.
But officials said the school is not planning on receiving any other money from the country.
In some ways, the ties between American colleges and Saudi Arabia were set up to ease tensions
between the two nations.
The scholarship program was created in 2005 after leaders of both countries met to improve
relations after the September 11, 2001 attacks against the United States.
Since then, the program has sent tens of thousands of Saudis to study in the U.S.
It reached its height in 2015, when more than 120,000 Saudis attended U.S colleges and universities.
But numbers have fallen severely since 2016, when Saudi Arabia cut back on the program
because of budget cuts tied to falling oil prices.
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