With the environment worsening, the government ______ people for more environment protection.

     Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie have given $500,000 to help the town of Joplin -a town near the
Mississippi River, where Pitt's mother went to school recover from a huge tornado (龙卷风)that struck
on May 22, 2011.
     The couple made the donation through the Jolie-Pitt Foundation on Thursday to help rebuild the town
of Joplin after about 30% of the buildings were destroyed by the tornado. Over 150 people were killed.
      "The Joplin community faces great challenges ahead," said Brad. "Having spent most of my childhood
there, I know these people to be hardworking, humble and especially resilient.
     "The locally based Community Foundation of the Ozarks will be working shoulder to shoulder with
these Joplin citizens for long to rebuild their lives. We, too, hope to further help with these rebuilding
efforts."
     "Last year 42 million people worldwide were hurt by natural disasters," added Angelina. "So often,
these disasters seem far away; but now, the need is right here at home for thousands of people. Our
hearts go out to the families in Joplin who have lost so much."
     The Community Foundation of the Ozarks was founded in 1973 and has since grown to include 43
branch community foundations. The Foundation's task is to improve the quality of life in the Missouri
Ozarks area through resource development, community grant making, working together, and public
leadership.
     "We had a call in the first day or two afterward from an organization representing them," said Brian
Fogle, president of the Community Foundation of the Ozarks. "They made several calls afterwards, but
we learned that they made a donation.

     In the United States, engineering is a profession(职业) that has been historically under the control of
men. Even today, it's still true that few women become civil or chemical or mechanical engineers, but that's
something on www.EngineerGirl.org encouraging girls to change the present situation. Young women who
visit the web site can find out about a great job choice they might not have considered.
     "Women are not well represented in engineering and in engineering education programs and then of
course, down the road, in the engineering workforce. So only about 20 percent of engineering
undergraduate degrees (本科文凭) go to women, and then only about nine percent of working engineers
are women."
     Mary Mattis, the National Academy of Engineering, says "we know from the research that
middle-school girls are at a critical point in their lives, and that it's a time when we need to reach them, so
this website aims to increase their awareness of interesting fields in engineering. On the other hand, it wants
to make them understand what a wonderful productive and exciting job you can have as an engineer."
     Engineering is a demanding course of study-there is a lot of science and math, for many girls and even
boys that can be challenging. But Ms. Mattis says that the EngineerGirl website stresses that engineering
can also be fun and exciting.
     "It's about designing things. It's about changing the world for people. It's about making a difference.
And, in addition, you can make a good living; you can be independent economically by becoming an
engineer. All of those things are messages that girls need to get."
     While most engineers go into traditional fields such as mechanical and electrical engineering, the
EngineerGirl site also emphasizes engineering jobs which are related to other fields such as bio-engineering,
sports engineering and -believe it or not-chocolate engineering.
     Even if you are not a girl in the target(目标) age group, there's a lot of interesting information on the
site, including biographies(自传)of some well-known women engineers.