Problem: Having just quit a highly moneymaking job with tech giant Microsoft in the United States,where he'd made millions working as a program manager, _

What Awuah wanted was to create a university in his native Ghana.a state-of-the-art education centre that would help educate the country's next generation of leaders.Awuah moved with his family,back to Ghana.There,he invested his own money and with the help of other donors he founded Ashesi University.

"Africa needs to have a renaissance ," says Awuah as he explained what drove him to

take the risky decision."The world needs to change in this way and I strongly believe that people like me need to be part of the solution;I need to be really actively involved in helping to drive this change in Africa''

Located about an hour's drive from the capital Accra,Ashesi,which appropriately translates to "beginning," is the first Ghanaian university to combine technical majors with a liberal arts approach.Its campus,set on 100 acres in a town called Berekuso,was designed to be inspiring for the more than 500 young Ghanaians studying there.

"So when I look at universities I see Africa fast--forward 30 years.When this 20-year-old is now in his or her 50s,that person is going to be a leader."

Today Ashesi,which celebrates its 10th anniversary this year,offers degrees in business,

information systems and computer science.There are plans to offer engineering and economics majors in the near future.The school's graduation rate is between 70%and 90%,according to Awuah.

In our last freshman class,50% of the students paid full tuition ,25%were on full

scholarships and 25%on partial scholarships ,"he said."The reason why variety is so important is that the most important conversation on campus is a conversation about the good society--what is the good society we would like to see in Africa? That conversation is a lot more interesting if you have variety in the classroom,"adds Awuah. .
1. What did Awuah want to create?
Answer: 1. a university

Q: (CNN) -- It was a case of deja vu at Cheltenham on Wednesday as Ruby Walsh and Willie Mullins took the opening race for a second day in a row.

Favorite Faugheen proved too classy for rivals in the Novices' Hurdle, powering away from Ballyalton and Rathvinden to land another win for flamboyant American owner Rich Ricci.

"Gosh, that was magic wasn't it?" former banker Ricci told reporters. "He was just brilliant. He's been a very hard horse to keep right but Willie and Ruby have done a fantastic job with him."

Sprinter Sacre, one of the brightest stars of National Hunt racing, is sadly absent from this year's Festival as vets continue to ponder his irregular heartbeat, but the magnificent Selle Francais did have a representative in the winners' enclosure in the shape of jockey Nico de Boinville.

Sprinter Sacre's regular work rider got up on Whisper to deny AP McCoy on Get Me Out of Here in a photo finish in the day's main handicap.

Beating perennial Champion jockey McCoy added to the pleasure for amateur De Boinville, who said:"I was very, very worried when I could see him coming up to me, but it's such a great feeling when they jump and travel as well as my horse did. I didn't have a clue that I'd won -- you don't dream this sort of thing happens."

In the day's feature race, the Queen Mother Champion Chase, Sire de Grugy produced the fairytale ending that connections and neutrals were hoping for by running away with the title by six lengths from Somersby and Module.

Answer the following questions:
1. What type of race is mentioned in the article?
2. Where was it helt?
3. On what day?
4. Who were the two horses that took the opening race?
5. Who is considered the brightest star of the National Hunt race?
6. Was he participating?
7. Why?
8. Who is Nico de Boinville?
9. Who did he defeat?
10. Who is the Queen Mother Champion?
A: 1. opening race
2. Cheltenham
3. Wednesday
4. Ruby Walsh and Willie Mullins
5. Sprinter Sacre
6. No
7. irregular heartbeat
8. jockey
9. McCoy
10. Sire de Grugy

Problem: Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN) is a set of communication standards for simultaneous digital transmission of voice, video, data, and other network services over the traditional circuits of the public switched telephone network. It was first defined in 1988 in the CCITT red book. Prior to ISDN, the telephone system was viewed as a way to transport voice, with some special services available for data. The key feature of ISDN is that it integrates speech and data on the same lines, adding features that were not available in the classic telephone system. The ISDN standards define several kinds of access interfaces, such as Basic Rate Interface (BRI), Primary Rate Interface (PRI), Narrowband ISDN (N-ISDN), and Broadband ISDN (B-ISDN).

ISDN is a circuit-switched telephone network system, which also provides access to packet switched networks, designed to allow digital transmission of voice and data over ordinary telephone copper wires, resulting in potentially better voice quality than an analog phone can provide. It offers circuit-switched connections (for either voice or data), and packet-switched connections (for data), in increments of 64 kilobit/s. In some countries, ISDN found major market application for Internet access, in which ISDN typically provides a maximum of 128 kbit/s bandwidth in both upstream and downstream directions. Channel bonding can achieve a greater data rate; typically the ISDN B-channels of three or four BRIs (six to eight 64 kbit/s channels) are bonded.
1. When was ISDN first defined?
2. Where?
3. What does it stand for?
4. Does it support video?
5. What else?
6. What is its key feature?
7. was this available before?
8. What does BRI stand for?
9. What kind of interface is BRI?
10. Can you name other kinds?
11. What are the name of two others?
12. What kind of switches does ISDN use?
13. Can you utilize any others?
14. Which one?
15. What does that do?
16. What kind of wire is used?
17. Does this lead to better or worse quality?
18. How many kilobits are utilized?
19. Whats the max bandwidth?
20. Is that for both directions?
21. What can result in a higher rate?
22. How many are bonded?
Answer:
1. 1988
2. in the CCITT red book
3. Integrated Services Digital Network
4. yes
5. speech
6. it integrates speech and data on the same lines
7. no
8. Basic Rate Interface
9. access interface
10. Yes
11. Narrowband ISDN (N-ISDN), and Broadband ISDN (B-ISDN)
12. circuit-switches
13. Yes
14. packet-switched
15. carries data
16. copper
17. Better
18. 64 kilobit/s
19. 128 kbit/s
20. yes
21. Channel bonding
22. three or four