The Defense Department chooses more than one hundred countries every year and invites them to nominate students to the academies.

VOA: special.2009.06.04

In nineteen ninety-nine, the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies released a report about mistakes in American hospitals.

VOA: special.2010.07.13

Nominees for these academies must be seventeen to twenty-three years old, unmarried and with no children.

VOA: special.2009.06.04

A few American colleges provide a free education, including the military and Merchant Marine academies.

VOA: special.2010.04.08

The National Research Council, part of the National Academies in Washington, recently published a study.

VOA: special.2010.04.27

The career academies were developed to redesign large high schools into small learning communities.

VOA: special.2010.07.16

There are about two thousand five hundred "career academies" within American high schools.

VOA: special.2010.07.16

But international students can also attend the nation's five service academies.

VOA: special.2009.06.04

Plus,all of the academies have admissions information on their Web sites.

VOA: special.2009.06.04

They can send their children to secular, county-administered public schools or private academies while providing religious training at home or on weekends.

VOA: standard.2010.07.12