category. However, Lahiri did not win either awards.

Obama also bought Khaled Hosseini`s Afghan-set `The Kite Runner`, `Half Brother` by Kenneth Oppel, `Moonday` by Adam Rex, `Red Sparrow` by Jason Matthews, `The Sports Gene: Inside the Science of Extraordinary Athletic Performance` by David Epstein, `Collision Low Crossers: A Year Inside the Turbulent World of NFL Football` by Nicholas Dawidoff, and `Buddha in the Attic` by Julie Otsuka.

Otsuka`s novel explores issues of immigrants and America as she chronicles the tale of Japanese women brought to the United States as "picture brides" for?migrant workers, only to have their families wind up in World War II internment camps.

"If anyone knows what it`s like to be an outsider from very, very difficult circumstances and someone who had to go back and forth betweenSeptember 2005, the follow-up survey (after treatment) was conducted between July and August 2006.

d Initially implemented as a separate social programme, HCFP was included into the national compulsory health insurance (CHI) scheme in July 2009. The current national health insurance system consists of two parts: compulsory health insurance (CHI) and voluntary health insurance (VHI).

e These people are classified as the potential participants of VHI, which relies on private premium contributions according to one's ability to pay.

f This figure was calculated by the author provided that 0.41 billion people had registered in NCMS by the end of 2006^[@ref16]^ and the minimum subsidy per person per year was 6.4 USD.

g The capacity to pay is defined as the effective net income after the basic subsistence needs have been met. In