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The article discusses anti-American sentiment around the world. Though many nations have shown open animosity towards America during the George W. Bush presidential administration, some countries, like India, have a more sympathetic view. The dislike for America by European countries stems from the view that Europeans are mostly modern and secular, while many Americans are drenched in religiosity and traditionalism, according to Dutch historian Rob Kroes, whose paper "European Anti-Americanism: What's New?" is analyzed.

The article focuses on the preponderance of pigs in the history books of schools in America. Sixteenth-century buccaneers are reported to be named after the boucans or grills, on which they smoked the meat of stolen pigs. Swine, brought to America from Europe by early settlers, were the cause of fights over personal property between British colonists and their American Indian neighbors. Upton Sinclair's muckraking novel The Jungle, about the Chicago stockyards,resulted in the creation of the Food and Drug Administration. In the early 19th century, Cincinnati was the world's pork-processing capital and gained as a commercial center. Further, pigs were are alleged to be prominent at a prominent moment in Cincinnati's economic history. Indeed, it was there that assembly-line production models were pioneered as meatpackers made the butchering process more efficient by dividing it into discrete tasks-an approach that attracted the attention of the young Henry Ford. Furthermore, students take a midterm exam and write research papers on the history of pigs. They are divided into competing teams for special projects like designing a hypothetical exhibit on pigs for Cincinnati's history museum.

This article reports that the European educators and students are complaining that the recent shift toward administering the Test of English as a Foreign Language exclusively in an online format is hurting thousands of foreign students who want to take the important examination. The test is a gateway to study in the United States and other English-speaking countries because universities use the test, known as the Toefl, to evaluate the English-language proficiency of foreign applicants. In October, however, the Educational Testing Service, the nonprofit organization that owns and administers the test, began phasing out the paper test, offering an Internet-based version instead in Canada, France, Germany, and Italy. Lonnie R. Johnson, executive director of the Austrian-American Educational Commission, which manages the Fulbright Program in Austria, said that administering the test in France and Germany has been especially problematic. Arnaud Roujou de Boubé, executive director of the FrancoAmerican Commission for Educational Exchange, remarked that the decision to introduce the new version of the test in the fall, the most busy test-taking time of the year.