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Studying abroad benefits and drawbacks_ please check it

flash2008 — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 14:06:02 GMT

Â Studying abroad benefits and drawbacks

These days, education is one of the main factors that decide anindividual future; According to that, governments invest more resources toimprove their education systems to be successful and efficient. Subsequently, ina recent decades education systems have improved around the world .However,some countries have reached a advanced standards in education and some stillwork on it. Therefore, students from over the world travel abroad to study .Forexample, Qatari students go to the UK and the USA to study and get the most ofeducation there. Conversely, there are some people who claim that there aresome drawbacks such as homesickness and cost of living. This essay will discussstudying abroad by looking to drawbacks then the advantages.

The drawbacks related to studying abroad can be categorizedto educational problems, social problems and financial problems. Firstly, theeducational problems that could face student while studying abroad is thedifferent between the two countries in terms of educational system such ascourse work, research .moreover, teaching methods could be an obstacle in the earlyyears. To elaborate this idea, some students are familiar with some method ofteaching such as teachers give students all materials that are needed for thecourse, but in the UK, for instance, the focus is on individual work. Secondly,social problems face most students in the first years, including homesickness,which is a desire to return home. Also, breaking lawsdue to unfamiliarity with local law and differences in culture, which is likelyto happen for new students. Moreover, choosing friends is a difficulty for somestudents, besides, type of food. For example, Asian students cannot find sameingredients that are used in Asian cuisine. Due to that, many students feeluncomfortable with food. Thirdly, the cost of living in foreign country mightbe expensive. For instance prices of accommodation, university fees andtransportation could be very costly. So that could put more stress on students.

On the other hand, benefits of studying abroadcould be divided into different categories.Â The first one comes to mind is learning new culture. In fact, learningnew culture include many different things such as learning a language, customs,traditions and history. Besides, interacting with new people leads to learningabout their ideas. So, studying abroad not just about learning knowledge butshould be also learning a new way of thinking. Besides, learning different culture,the main purpose of studying abroad is having access to advanced educationsystem. Some countries have an advanced education system for example the UK inEurope, and in North America, Canada and the USA. These countries receive themajority of students from around the world every year because of the variety ofmajors offered and up to date materials. For example, many discoveries occur inthe USA that means there is a very superior education system in universities andin general schools. The last point to be discussed in term of advantages isindividual satisfaction which is a significant these days. Actually, studyingabroad provides people with independence and self satisfaction. Moreover, itprovides the person with open-minded and provides enriching experience and uponcompletion, it leads to a good job.

In conclusion, as everything in life there aretwo sides one is positive and one is negative, but here in this topic thepositive points for studying abroad may be more. In the authorâs opinionstudying abroad is very rewarding experience, and it leads to self satisfactionand the person should make the most of it.

Can anyone proofread my essay? Its a little long sorry

Anonymous — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 23:35:01 GMT

The idea of American dream and success grabbed my parentâs attention in the 80âs. Both of my parents were born in Korea; however they both have a complete different childhood. It was never easy for both my mom and dad to settle in the developing nation of Korea. Both my mother and father were born the 60âs where Korea just suffered from the Korean War against North Korea. Korea being in the stage of rebuilding the nation, most people worked extremely hard in making ends meet. Life in Korea after the war is significantly different to the kind of life people are living in now. Nevertheless my mother and father ended up in the United States giving me many opportunities of life.

First of all, my father was from a fairly wealthy family in Korea. My grandparents had some land properties and known to be pretty high in the social class. It is very interesting that my father never served in the Korean military service as after the war it was mandatory for all men to serve in the army at least once in their life time. Apparently my grandparents paid their way out of making my father in serving in the army. But how did my father end up in the United States? South Korea has been heavily influenced by the United States and in the 60âs and 70âs Koreans believed that the United States is where the opportunities are known to be the best country in the world. This idea is ironic because today Koreans are very anti-America in terms of trade and politics but, in the past it was all different. My aunt moved to New York in the late 70âs and got married. My aunt persuaded my father to move to the US to study. That time my father was a college student in one of the prestige Korean university. He was majoring in economics and considered moving to the US where his sister was. After confirming that he will further his education in the US he took the TOEFL test and applied for the F1 visa. According to my father he lined up at a ridiculously long line in the US embassy in Jongno-gu, Seoul Korea. Many people were seeking for migration to the United States however, not many were similar to my fatherâs case of to further his education. It didnât take very long for my father to get his F1 visa as he had relatives living in the United States. After attending college in New York he majored in accountings and got his CPA. He managed to get a job in a small accountant firm in Queens, New York. He then applied for the permanent residency and as he worked in a firm he managed to get his green card by employment-based visa where he got sponsored by an employer.

Due to the fact that my father spent most of his childhood in Korea, he never experienced foreign culture. It was never easy for him to adapt to the American culture. Especially he founded hard to adjust to the food and different lifestyles. My dad told me that he suffered and missed the Korean food and as his college was in a rural area it was difficult to find Asian restaurants. Moreover, it was very difficult for my dad to communicate with people as English being his second language. He once told me about a story that happened in his first year in the US. He was told that in Costco they sell a Korean traditional food called âKimchiâ. However, he couldnât find any, so he asked one of the employer where he can find âKimchiâ. Surprisingly the worker understood him and directed him to aisle 3. But my dad didnât find any âKimchiâ but found cream cheese. He told me this story to tell me how it was hard to communicate with different accent. Apparently it was hard for my father to express his feelings as his English was not that great. Not only this, other people found it difficult to understand him with his Korean accent. There were many interesting stories my father told me about but the message or the moral behind his stories is that I am very lucky to be bilingual and fortunate to be born in America. Among my community I often here how people born in the United States gets head start in life. What they meant is that being born in America you get good education and many opportunities compare to a person born in an Asian country. Frequently my parents tell me that it is an advantage to be born in America but they always said I should work extra hard as an Asian to be recognized and sustain in society. I believe this idea was stuck in my fatherâs mind. He had work extra hard in college and managed to get a job which later he used his education effectively back in Korea. Like what Tim Fong said some people go back to their home country to apply their skills. I think my father has done this, but he never told me exactly why he left America. However, I can guess on why he left the country and it was because of racial discrimination, competition and perhaps because of his language ability. This can be understood as my father mostly stayed and interacted with Koreans. He stayed and worked near Korean town in Flushing New York. But for most, due to that fact that he went to a Korean Church made him to feel like home.

On the other hand, my mother has a totally different story to my father. My motherâs family was middle class in terms of social class but always willing to climb up the social status. It can be said my motherâs family was more of a risk takers. When my mother was around ten her family migrated to Argentina. The whole South America boom where thousands migrated to have a piece of fortune convinced my grandparents to move to Argentina in the 70âs. The prediction of South Americans countries can be the next United States made my motherâs family to migrate to Argentina. However, after living in Argentina for more than 20 years they started to notice that the economy was shifting down. So they decided to migrate to New York. My mother managed to transfer school with an F1 visa, but my grandparents had to wait for the migrant visa. So my mother settled in New York before my grandparents moved in. Both my grandparents worked in Argentina and my mother and her brother and sister had to help. When they moved to the US my grandparents managed to set up their own dry cleaning business. They did not have any connections but the fact that they know how it is hard start a new life in a foreign country made them easy to adapt. Although they have migrated to a foreign country before it wasnât easy for them to settle in but, it was somewhat easier than other Korean who came from Korea. My grandparents lived in a Spanish town as they were fluent in Spanish. It is very interesting that they can speak Spanish and not English. It was rather easy to settle and start a business in a Spanish town. However, my grandparents told me that they have experienced discrimination among the Spanish community. Some founded it interesting to see Asians speaking Spanish but some founded intimidated. My grandparents experienced robbery due to their race and the fact that they were Asian in a Spanish town. However, they never gave up and worked in the dry cleaning business for 18 years and managed to earn some profit. I have asked them if they regret in coming to America. They straight away answered âNo!â and wished they came to America before Argentina because they feel that America is the land of opportunities.

Although they lived in the Spanish community, the Korean culture and language was still practiced in my motherâs family. They eat rice three times a day, speak Korean everyday and even watch and read Korean newspaper. My grandparents always enforced their children to learn the Korean culture in which my mother said she is very proud that they did this. The idea of respecting elders is crucial in my motherâs family. And the reason why it is important is because my grandparents believe without respect goals cannot be achieved. The goal for my grandparents in moving to Argentina or the United States is to have some share of the American dream as well as to educate their children. My mother and my grandparents always tell me this: that I must be a better person than them (grandparent and mother). I believe this is similar to most parents who decided to migrate to United States. They would like their child to have the best education and be a better person than them.

In conclusion with my father earning his green card when my mother married my father she was able to get her own green card. Then my brother and I were born! However both my parents did not like the United States. They both have worked so hard and suffered just to survive. So they moved out of the United States. They may never tell me exactly why they decided to move out of the States but, I can guess that the competition and the kind of life you need to be adjusting to survive in the United States were really hard for them. I am not saying they were not successful in the US but they experienced new part of life and learnt how some people live like this and some people live like that. Now only my motherâs parents and her sister and brother live in the United States. They all managed to become citizens except my mother and my father. The rest is scattered all over the world and somewhat really benefitted from their stay in the US. Both my parents do not regret the fact that they left the United States but learnt a great lesson of how life is really hard.

First try in writing essay what do you think

hero1900 — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 19:39:36 GMT

i would like to give me your opinion on this essay that is answering the following questions:

"Please write a clear and detailed description of your academic objectives and the reasons why you wish to pursue them. Discuss your goals both in terms of your field of study in general and within your specific area of specialization. Describe the type of program you wish to pursue and how it relates to your academic and professional background and your objectives for the future. Please keep in mind that the essay will be an essential part of your application for placement into an appropriate program. In your essay do not name specific universities at which you would like to study."

it is a draft (first try) so please help me and tell me and advice me:

Since I was young, I used to learn by exploring and experiencing things, especially in computer. Because I always have the ability of analyzing and made deep thinking and that what make me productive and creative in computer related science.

As a result my family, my friends and my teachers encouraged me to pick up one of the computer studies and since I find myself in such studies, I chose to study (Information Technology) which deals with information transmission, storing and processing methods. This field is one of the most important fields in the world â if it is not the base of the improvement that we have today.

What I liked most during my study is the steam of (Data Base). So, I decided to carry on my master degree in this aspect. I started this interest in my graduation project when I had chosen one of the streams of (Data Mining) which was analyzing the market basket. The aim of this analyzing was to know the pattern of customerâs buying. This pattern is useful to know the relationship between goods. This leads to customers satisfaction when they can find everything they need organized near each other.

I liked this topic and I wish I can add something new in this field which is being improved day by day. My ambition is to do many researches that talk about such topics in my country by using the abilities and the motivation of our students and encouraging them to search.

I believe this scholarship is a good opportunity to give me so much such as , the ability of good planning , organizing thoughts in productive way, solving problems, improving my abilities in researching process and independent studies.

This major has a basic relationship with my job. Thatâs because work in these days in general and mine depend on making decisions rapidly and accurately and this needs what supports it by intelligent systems which helps in making decisions.(Data Mining) and (Decision Support System)- depending on the intelligent techniques of artificial intelligent â present the hidden information through huge amount of data. I believe that the organizations and the institutions need such studies these days.

Finally, I am sure when I get my master degree, I will improve mu abilities and skills in research process, scientific knowledge and it will develop culture exchange especially America has a variety of society nature.

any better topic for writing a thesis

sebayanpendam — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 10:06:24 GMT

hi,

I'm a teacher in a local school in Malaysia. I teach english subject. my first degree was social science and diploma was tesl. english taught in my country is communicative. teaching english in a rural school is a great challenge.at the moment, i am considering to pursue my studies to a master's level. in fact i am waiting for a reply from a local university about my application. i chose to do tesl. the thing is i need to write a thesis and the topic i could think of at this point is 'using newspaper is an approach in teaching writing. in my opinion, a person can learn to write proper sentences by observing sentences constructed in an article. people can learn on how a good sentence is built around a newly-learnt verb. furthermore, newspapers contain various columns ranging from general news to sports from which students are able to read and learn how to write essays of different genre. Do you think that this topic has somewhat been written too often? could anyone give me advice on what topic i should write for my thesis or should i keep on with this topic?

thanks.

self introduction

naftaline — Thu, 01 May 2008 08:43:48 GMT

hello..i'm a girl who are interested with exchange students programme at *** university.

the university required me to write a self introduction essay to summit to them.

i already write the essay but i'm not confident with it.

can someone help me to check the sentences, grammar,or can give some opinion or ideas to improve it.?

Thank you very much.Below is my essay:

My name is ***, and most of my close friends call me ***. I am Chinese girl who came from ***, Sarawak which is located at east Malaysia. It is a state which has many diverse ethnic groups such as Iban, Sumazao, Bidayuh and others.

There are five members in my family which are grandmother, father, mother, brother and I. My father is a carpenter who is doing repairing buildings and my mom is a full time housewife.I has a younger brother who studies at yy now. I am an eldest daughter in a family and who study at *** now.

I'm an undergraduate who studies Business Admintratives majoring in Management at ***. Over the past semester, I have taking some business course such as business commnunication, science of management, economic, public speaking. The process of globalisation and the increase of interdependence of nations between each other as a result, which entail opportunities as well as threats, has always fascinated me. Hence, I always aimed at forming my study as international as possible, for I was sure to follow an international career in the future. Thus, I will take additional courses in Korea as my PB course.I have joined activities âperhimpunan Siswa Merdeka Makum & Kekwa 2007' which I have learned how to work and cooperate with people of different cultures. Besides, I have involve actively in activity of my college and I take post as an exco for Persatuan Tiong Hua (yin hua) for session 2007/2008.

I consider myself an open-minded, curious person who is interested in everything that develops me, both personally and theoretically. I enjoy gaining experiences, especially encountering new cultures and values. I have quite a few interests. To begin with, reading is my favorite. No sooner had we gone to elementary school than my parents asked my brother and I to read books. They not only enriched my life but also enlightened my mind. I never go to bed without a book! Besides, I like music very much. I have participated in the University Music Club for past one year. Third, I am also enjoying playing badminton.

I'm a scholar under Jabatan Perkhidmatan Awam (JPA) from 2006 until 2009.I have awarded dean list *** for semester 2, 2007 and semester 1, 2008. I have strong communication and computer skills, including a working knowledge of Windows and Microsoft Word, Excel.

After taking my degree programme of Business Administratve at ***, I wish that I can continue to take master programme and contribute to society in the future.

A question..

Anonymous — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 15:44:59 GMT

I am currently a college student at RIT, and i noticed my Engish skills seems to degrade as year goes by. I don't know what the reason behind it but I do know for fact that RIT doesn't provide any decent grammar course; RIT/NTID only offers writing course that assist student in essay composition - introduction, body, and conclusion - of couse, more in depth.

I am Hard of Hearing but not completely profounded deaf. I just don't understand why RIT/NTID doesn't provide any grammar course to assist deaf people. From my understanding, almost 95% of the deaf people, including Hard of Hearing people are suffering from grammar errors. It's mainly because lack of education provided from their high school and college as well.

It's annoying to see my English skill constantly degrades overtime. Also, I am sick and tired of seeing deaf people criticizing other people's grammar by skimming their paper without actually sitting back and correcting their grammar.

Besides grammar, I also have a difficulties inputting ideas and describing information with decent amount of information. Maybe it's because I am simply lazy, or mentally exhausted from intensive English studies at RIT (Writing Communication I, II; Writing Literature I and II). To be frank, I think I am suffering from mental collapse due to numerous of stress I have endured at RIT, and because of that, it degrades my ability to reason and write correctly.

I always want to become a Satire writer, but in order to do so; I will need to hone my grammar skill, and to think more constructively.

Any suggestions or feedback would be greatly appreciated. I would also appreciate if any professors from different colleges/universities provide me some advice and feedback.

People are monkeys; theyâre the ones who invented English, and strive to construct the tower of Babel to emphasize their perfection. But heck, it collapsed.

Need help with a reference!

Anonymous — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 11:51:55 GMT

I didn't know where to post this thread but this seemed like the most logical board.

I'm currently writing an essay for university but have a slight problem with one of my refrences. The source comes from a book called Screen Violence which is a collection of essays, edited by Karl Frence. The piece that I am referencng from is an 'Interview with Karl French- June 1996' with Camille Paglia (the interview is conducted by French, questioning Paglia) and covers pages 35-51. How do you recomend I refernece this? Do I reference French of Paglia?

I'm so confused! Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks.

Need correction for essay

samundeeswari.m.b — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 17:32:39 GMT

As I am preparing for TOEFL exam, I practice for essay writing. I woud be happy if

anyone correct my essay and give feedback to improve my writting.

Thanks in advance.

Question:

Some people prefer to get up early in the morning and start the day's work.
Others prefer to get up later in the day and work until late at night.
Which do yu prefer? Use specific reasons and examples to support your choice.

Answer:

Many of us will say get up early in the morning is good to health. But we could count
the followers who really practice in their life. One group will say get up early in the morning
and start the day's work is really good. While the other group will follow get up later and work until late at night.
I believe there are stronger reasons for get up early in the morning and start the day's work.

Well, If we get up early in the morning we could realize the lot of changes in our life.
We could do more works if we get up early than to get up late and do work till at night. Since in the night
automatically we feel tiredness. This is not only because of our work. The main reason for this is due to scarcity of
oxygen in night time. Moreover in dawn time we could breeze fresh air. More energetic rays from the sun, will give
us more energy.

The most imporatnt thing if we get up early in the morning is we could plan our day's work
in effective way since we have enough time. There is no need to plan any work in our busy day time.
As a student one would be punctual to their school and would be always brisk in whole day class. As a businees
person one could plan in well executive way. Moreover we have lot of time for our health to be improved by undergoing
Yoga classes, medidation, jogging, swimming etc. This will enable us to be more active in our day time.

I will give best example what I faced in my life. During my graduation tenure, I was so lazy in the initial days.
I won't care about my day work. I used to think like I will do it later. Mean time I will do study late night, but I could not study
at night due to drousy. But it started to affect my studies and I saw the result of my laziness in my exam results.
My friend suggested to get up early. Though it was difficult to me initially, I practiced myself because my passion my studies
impetus me. I started to get up early in morning. And I started to do yoga. I feel the day is really gift to me. I studied in the morning.
All this effort made me to achieve university rank in my post graduation.

To sum up, the best way to success in our life, we should be a regular and active person all through the day.
To achieve this goal we have to get up early in the morning. Finally I would like to say get up early in the morning
would help us to learn and earn more in the day.

Re: move to my next door

lochel — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 01:45:46 GMT

I personally would not write an essay to a university using "move next door". I consider "move" used as "settle" to be loose usage.

But, for everyday use its just fine.

Please Help me with This Essay. Any grammatical error?

inthemood — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 10:37:15 GMT

Â Hi, can you please correct any grammatical errors? I will appreciate it. Thank you!

Histories and Genealogies

Microwave oven: Can we cook with this?

Our life is so busy that we do not have enough time to cook, or we have a great excuse to be lazy when it comes to cooking. After the advent of the microwave oven, our approach to cooking has been dramatically changed. With a traditional method that needs fire, one has to be patient and to spend a great deal of time for cooking. On the contrary, a microwave oven makes it possible to cook relatively very quickly. What one needs is only several minutes. Not only is a microwave oven useful in re-heating leftover food, but there is also a myriad of frozen or pre-made food at supermarkets. A cook does not even have to prepare ingredients. He/she will put frozen or pre-made food in a microwave oven and wait only for several minutes, and the dish is done. Compared to a conventional way for cooking, it is an astonishing breakthrough except the fact that you would not like to go to the restaurant.

This kitchen appliance using microwave radiation to cook or heat was invented by Percy Spencer who was an American engineer and inventor. When Spencer was working in front of an operating magnetron which was used to generate the microwave radio, he noticed that a chocolate bar in his pocket was melted. In contrast to his colleagues not paying attention to this phenomenon, he experimented on popcorn and eggs with microwaves. Spencer and the Raytheon Company at which he worked developed the new cooking process and built the first microwave oven, the Radarange, in 1947. It was so huge and expensiveâ6 feet tall and 750 poundsâthat it did not sell well at all. Technologies improved, and other companies joined in the market; however, it was not until 1980s that microwave ovens were widely used in many countries. [1]

It is said that more than 90% of American household have a microwave[2], but not many people will consider a microwave oven to be the best way to cook. Since it lacks a function to control precise temperature, it is not easy actually to cook food, especially meats and fish. Neither will it brown food. Lisa Guernsey introduced Kit Keith Yam, a food-science professor at Rutgers University, in her article which appeared in New York Times. Dr. Yam pointed out that microwave ovens were not good at cooking food that needs âdifferent heating levels for different time periods.â[3] He also mentioned the use of a microwave oven was limited to warming a cup of coffee. The article was written in 1999. Although it is almost ten years ago, what Dr. Yam complained about the lack of functionality of microwave ovens has not been improved. Still, a microwave oven is not considered to be an ideal way to cook. Dr. Yam and a team of researchers at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, tried to develop this appliance. According to Guernseyâs

article, they succeeded in making a microwave oven that could be connected withÂ a bar-code scanner and a PC. It read the bar-code of a product and used the computer to get information about proper cooking time and heating levels. Dr. Yam and a team of researchers at Rutgers used popcornâthe first food cooked with microwaves by Percy Spencerâfor this project. Dr. Yam said, âthe popcorn had a better texture, better taste and fewer unpopped kernels.â[4]Â They knew that they would have to get food companies to add more information about their food in bar-code, and some companies agreed to help them with new microwave ovens.

However, even after ten years we do not see Dr. Yamâs microwave ovens at all in the market. It is surprising to see that the function of microwave ovens has not been dramatically changed in contrast to other electrical appliances. Not only do Dr. Yamâs microwave ovens fail to appear in our home, but it is questionable whether he and the research team managed to solve the problem he had: cooking function of microwave ovens. It is true that a microwave oven that can read bar-codes and heat food automatically will be convenient. Nevertheless, it will not still be a good way to cook food such as meats and fish as he complained. He made a sarcastic remark, saying that a microwave oven was only for warming a cup of coffee; ironically, his microwave ovens would work perfectly merely at making a cup of coffee and popcorns with exact time offered by the companies.

While the experiment of developing microwave ovens came to nothing, a new point of view has emerged recently. Rather than changing microwave ovens, many people have started to take advantage of microwavesâ original characteristic. It is well known that cooking food destroysÂ vitamins that food contains; vitamins which are in vegetables are even more easily destroyed. It is due to heat used while cooking process, but microwave ovens use less heat and time than conventional cooking methods. Studies at Cornell University shed light on the fact. Scientists found that water-soluble vitamins mostly remained in spinach when they used a microwave oven, but spinach lost more than 70 percent of vitamins when it was cooked on a stove. [5] As a number of people who change their diet to vegetables has been rising, these studies drew peopleâs attention. Since microwaves do not harm nutrients that are easily removed in a traditional cooking process, microwave ovens are now commonly used to cook vegetables. Barbara Kafka who wrote Microwave Gourmet said in a New York Times article that she used her microwave the most for vegetables, saying that âTheir color is better, their flavor is better, you have no water dripping, and there are studies that show they retain more vitamins.â

From when microwave ovens were widely used in 1980s, there has not been many changes on this appliance itself: both its way of heating food and its box-shaped look. However, through approximately 30 years various approaches to microwave ovens has existed. Some people tried to develop microwave ovens to function in a more technological way although they could not change the way of its cooking process. The majority of people have considered microwave ovens to be merely a food-heating appliance. These users welcomed this fast and convenient way to warm food. Aiming at them, food companies sold prepared and frozen food; it sold very sell and made people think microwave ovens were unhealthy. However, as interests about nutrients and vitamins increase, a good deal of studies were conducted to reveal the relation between preservation of nutrients of food and microwave ovens. Now microwave ovens are often used to cook healthy food, especially vegetables. Numerous research on microwaves is still being carried out to figure out exactly how microwave ovens affect food and if radiation from microwave ovens is harmful to people. How will the concept of microwave ovens be changed again? Â

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microwave_oven, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percy_Spencer, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetron

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microwave_oven.

[3] http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9406E0DD1F39F933A25755C0A96F958260&scp=1&sq=Intelligent+Microwave+Ovens+Would+%27Zap%27+Food+to+Perfection&st=nyt

[4] http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9406E0DD1F39F933A25755C0A96F958260&scp=1&sq=Intelligent+Microwave+Ovens+Would+%27Zap%27+Food+to+Perfection&st=nyt

[5] http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/health/289113_healthrail19.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/02/dining/02mini.html?pagewanted=1