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Washington, D.C., Sept. 5, 2001 -- The Voice of America (VOA), an international broadcasting service funded by the U.S. Government, will bring Michigan to the world in September. A six-member radio/television reporting team will be in the state Sept. 2-14, providing VOA's worldwide audience with an inside look at day-to-day life in a mid-western American state. The team will visit several Michigan cities collecting stories and conducting interviews for special features on education, lifestyle, culture, and tourist attractions of the state. The line-up includes:

Sept. 3 & 4: Ann Arbor: University of Michigan stories will include the school's first Female Drum Major, the solar car competition, and the status of radicalism on campus.

Sept. 3-8: East Lansing: Coverage at Michigan State University will include students at the Veterinary Medicine School, the National Food Safety and Toxicology Center (which is doing research into preventing food borne illnesses around the world), the International Studies program at MSU and international students who choose to study in the U.S., Lake Michigan and Michigan politics.

Sept. 4: Houghton: A visit to Copper Harbor USA & the Quincy Copper Mine Baraga: A visit to the Ojibwa Indian Reservation.

Sept. 5: Ishpiming: Interview with the "Uppers" (a rock band that has taken the name given to residents of Michigan's Upper Peninsula). Marquette: Michigan State University's "Rural Physician Education Program."

Sept. 5 & 6: Dearborn and Detroit: Reporting on the area's large Arab American community, as well as the significant immigrant influence in the area, the U.S. auto industry, the Motown Museum, the Museum of African American History and Detroit's 300th anniversary.

Sept. 6: Paradise: Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum Mackinaw City: Colonial Michilimackinac (the longest ongoing archaeological dig in the country - now entering its 42nd year).

Sept. 7: Acme: Music House Museum, which is devoted to authentically restored rare automated antique instruments such as music boxes, nickelodeons and player pianos.

The VOA team will be based at Michigan State University. Features will be broadcast live in English Sept. 9-13 on VOA’s 24-hour all-news radio program News Now, and will be made available for translation into many of VOA’s other broadcast languages. VOA Television material will be used in future broadcasts. The Voice of America is a multimedia international broadcasting service with over 900 hours of news, international, educational, and cultural programming every week to a worldwide audience of 91 million. Programs are produced and broadcast in English and 52 other languages.

For additional information, please contact the Office of External Affairs at (202) 619-2538 or send email to pubaff@voa.gov.