People in several American cities are wondering: where will the company Amazon build its new
second headquarters?
A recent news report in The Wall Street Journal said Amazon will divide its new headquarters
between two cities.
The report said the company is considering Queens in New York City; Arlington, Virginia;
and Dallas, Texas.
The New York Times reports that Dallas is not being considered and the two cities are
Queens and Arlington.
Amazon will keep its current headquarters in Seattle, Washington.
Spokesman Adam Sedo said Amazon refused to comment on the reports.
Amazon's decision to build another headquarters caused major American cities to compete with
each other.
Many cities hoped for the 50,000 new jobs the company promised.
Amazon said most of the new jobs will pay a lot of money.
Amazon told the cities that it wanted financial incentives: such as lower taxes and other
deals.
It also wanted a city with more than 1 million people, a close airport, good public transportation
and a lot of land.
The company received 238 proposals and chose 20 of them in January.
The unusual decision to divide the 50,000 jobs between two cities will permit the company
to find the right people for the jobs.
It also could reduce pressure for housing and transportation, The Wall Street Journal
reported.
The New York Times reported that company officials met last month with New York Governor Andrew
Cuomo.
The newspaper said the state offered possibly hundreds of millions of dollars in incentives.
Amazon also met with New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, the newspaper reported.
The New York Times reported that the governor said, "I'll change my name to Amazon Cuomo
if that's what it takes."
Amazon has said it could spend more than $5 billion on the new headquarters over the next
17 years.
This is about the same as it has spent in Seattle, which has 33 buildings, 23 restaurants
and 40,000 employees.
Amazon's Chief Executive Officer Jeff Bezos has said the new headquarters will be "a
full equal" to the one in Seattle.
Amazon employs about 600,000 people.
That number is expected to increase as it builds more storage buildings across the country
to satisfy online orders for products.
I'm Susan Shand.
The Pacific nation of Palau will soon ban many types of sunscreen in an effort to protect
its coral reefs.
President Tommy Remengesau Jr. signed legislation recently that bans "reef-toxic" sunscreen
beginning in 2020.
The law defines reef-toxic sunscreen as containing any one of 10 chemicals, including oxybenzone.
Other chemicals may also be banned.
Officials will take banned sunscreens from visitors who carry them into the country.
Businesses that sell the banned products will be fined up to $1,000.
In a statement, Remengesau said that the punishments find the right balance between "educating
tourists and scaring them away."
The law also requires tour operators to start providing customers with reusable cups, drinking
straws and food containers.
The president said the legislation was introduced based on information from a 2017 report.
The report found that sunscreen products were widespread in Palau's famous Jellyfish Lake.
The lake was closed for more than a year because of a decrease in jellyfish numbers.
It was recently reopened.
The president also noted that plastic waste, chemical pollution, and climate change all
threaten the country's environmental health.
In July, the American state of Hawaii banned the sale of sunscreen containing the chemicals
oxybenzone and octinoxate beginning in 2021.
However, tourists will still be able to bring the banned sunscreen with them into the state.
They may also buy the sunscreen in Hawaii if they have a doctor's prescription.
Scientists have found that some chemicals in sunscreen can be toxic to coral reefs.
The reefs are an important part of the ocean environment and popular with tourists.
But some critics say there are not enough independent scientific studies on the issue.
Others worry that people will suffer from too much sun contact if they stop using the
products.
Some manufacturers have already started selling "reef-friendly" sunscreen.
Palau is located east of the Philippines and north of Indonesia.
The nation is home to 21,000 people.
Its economy depends on tourism and fishing.
Palau has an agreement with the United States that provides economic assistance, defense
of the territory and other benefits.
I'm Jonathan Evans.
Microsoft founder Bill Gates has presented a container of feces to visitors to a trade
show in China.
No, not the China International Import Expo in Shanghai.
Gates is at the "Reinvented Toilet" Expo in Beijing to discuss developing a safe process
to remove human wastes.
"You might guess what's in this beaker — and you'd be right.
Human feces," the Microsoft founder told the gathering.
He said, "This small amount of feces could contain as many as 200 trillion rotavirus
cells, 20 billion Shigella bacteria, and 100,000 parasitic worm eggs."
Gates noted that these microbes cause diseases that kill almost 500,000 children under the
age of 5 every year.
More than 20 companies and research organizations are showing new toilettechnologies at the
three-day expo.
These include self-contained toilets, a small self-powered waste treatment system called
the Omni Processor and other inventions.
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation presented its own idea for a future toilet that does
not require water.
Instead, it uses chemical to turn human waste into fertilizer.
There are several designs of the toilet but all work by separating liquid and solid waste.
"The current toilet simply sends the waste away in the water, whereas these toilets don't
have the sewer.
They take both the liquids and solids and do chemical work on it, including burning
it in most cases," Gates told Reuters.
He compared the development of waterless toilets to that of personal computing in the mid-1970s.
The researchers are planning to show the waterless toilets to manufacturers.
Gates said he expects that a more than $6 billion market for the toilets will develop
by 2030.
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has spent more than $200 million since 2011 to
support research and development of safe sanitation technology.
Across the world, UNICEF estimates that 4.5 billion people suffer a lack of safely operated
sanitation systems.
The organization says over 480,000 children under 5 die every year from diarrhea.
Most of the deaths are in South Asia and African countries south of the Sahara desert.
The Gates Foundation says poor sanitation also cost the world over $200 billion a year
in healthcare and lost earnings.
I'm Mario Ritter.
A Yemeni teacher has given up a valuable part of his life to improve education in the face
of continuing war.
He turned his home into a school that now serves hundreds of students.
The teacher, Adel al-Shurihi, said he has watched students suffer for more than three
years during the country's civil war.
Al-Shurihi lives in the southwestern city of Taiz.
The area has been at the center of a conflict.
The war between Houthi rebels and forces loyal to Yemeni President Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi
started in 2015.
At the time, Houthi militants had captured large areas of Yemen, including the capital
Sanaa.
A Saudi-led coalition is fighting a ground and air campaign in support of the government
of Hadi, who fled to Saudi Arabia in exile.
Iran supports the Houthi rebels.
The war has spread to different parts of Yemen.
Local and international aid agencies warn the conflict has created one of the worst
humanitarian crises of the 21st century.
A weak economy has led to poverty and severe famine threatening millions of people.
When war first broke out, Adel al-Shurihi said schools in his area began closing.
He and other parents had nowhere to send their children.
It also was not safe for the children to be on the streets.
Al-Shurihi wanted to provide some form of education for students although violence and
poor living conditions remained threats.
So he came up with the idea to turn his three-level home into a school.
"Falling bombs and planted land mines made it harder for children to reach their schools,"
al-Shurihi told VOA.
"Because of the war, my children, and the children of everyone I know, were unable to
get their education.
So, I decided to turn my own house into a school so that students could get their education
safely."
Sherin Varkey helps lead the United Nations children's agency, or UNICEF, in Yemen.
He told VOA the conflict is causing many problems for the country's education system.
Currently, about two million children are not able to attend school.
Tens of thousands of Yemeni teachers have gone on strike in recent months in government-controlled
areas to demand better pay.
In rebel areas, tens of thousands more have not been paid for at least two years, a UNICEF
report found.
Varkey said more than 270 attacks have been reported on schools since the war began.
About 2,500 schools have been damaged or destroyed throughout the country.
Varkey added that the breakdown of the education system is likely to have serious long-term
effects on the country.
He said history has shown that children who do not get an education are at greater risk
of turning to child labor.
Many also end up joining armed groups or getting married as children.
Al-Shurihi said that within the first year of opening his home school, 500 boys and girls
between the ages of six and 15 signed up to attend classes.
Today, he gets about 700 students daily.
He has 13 classrooms and 16 volunteer teachers.
But, al-Shurihi said he is always looking for more people to help.
He lacks many materials usually found in schools, such as books, paper and chalkboards.
Most students have to sit on the ground.
But Al-Shurihi said the conditions have not stopped his students from seeking learning
and normal life in the face of severe conflict.
He is urging the international community to support efforts aimed at solving Yemen's
education crisis.
I'm Bryan Lynn.
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