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  Acronyms      Every People has its own special words and expression. And one of words in the English language is the acronym. An acronym is a word that is formed from the first letters of several other words. For example, OPEC is an acronym for the Organiztion of Petroleum Exporting Countries.     An initialism is like an acronym. But it does not sound like a real word itself. Instead, it just states the first letters of other words. USA is an intialism for the United States of America. UN is an initialism for the United Nations.     Acronyms and intialisms are like language brothers. And both can be an easy way to shorten a title or name that has many words. It is easier to say VOA than to say th Voice of America. But the same acronmy or intialism may represent different organizations, groups of names.     For example, the Voice of America is not the only organization with the intialism " VOA ." The Volkswagen of America atutomobile...

Study of Cousins Who Marry      Sometimes people who are first cousins get married. Two people are first cousins if their mothers are sisters, or their fathers are brothers, or one's mother and other's father are brother and sister. American researchers now say it is not as dangerous as had been thought for first cousins to have children.      A new study says that first cousins are only little more likely than others to have a child with a serious physical or mental problems, or a genetic disease. It says the chance that a child of unrelated parents will be born with a serious problem is between three and four parent. The risk for first cousins is increased by between two and three percent to as much as seven percent. One of the researchers says that this means about 93 percent of the children of first cousins are normal.       The small increase in risk exists because people in the same family may carry the same genes that cause diseas...