Thursday, February 18, 2010

Half of world's primate species endangered, report says

Isabel Seong, Tae Yeon Lim, Diego Batres, Pedro Aycinena

http://www.cnn.com/2010/TECH/science/02/17/endangered.species/index.html

Our ninth article is titled "Half of world's primate species endangered, report says". I found this interesting because it's theme is Ecology. There isn't the author's name. There isn't any bias, neither.

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There is a surprising report just released Wednesday by a major conservation group:
Nearly half the world's primate species are in danger of extinction, due to tropical forest destruction, illegal wildlife trade, and commercial bush meat hunting also affecting. Primates are humankind's closest animal relatives. These include apes, monkeys, and lemurs.
Of the world's 634 primate species, 48% are threatened with extinction. A handful of primate species count populations in the dozens, like Asian monkeys known as golden headed langurs. There are fewer than 100 remaining northern sportive lemurs, which live in Madagascar, and around 110 eastern black crested gibbons, found in northern Vietnam.

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Isabel Seong- We must start protecting the primate species. They are believed to be humankind's closest animal relatives. We keep destructing the nature for our own good, and that's wasting our earth and living things living in them.

Diego Batres- These poor animals mean no harm and w are killing them. We must know our limits when it comes to destroying forests.

Tae Yeon Lim- We think that the zoos should keep helping endangered animals, including the primate species. They should never be extincted
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Pedro Aycinena:
This is actually very dreadful. Thinking that humans are a good cause, NO, WE ARE KILLING ALL THE BEAUTY THERE IS IN THIS WORLD. Will our children ever see a monkey in a zoo, probably not, why because we are destructers and we should start worrying.

Friday, February 12, 2010

Third day of disruption after snow in eastern US

Tae Yeon Lim, Isabel Seong, Diego Batres, Pedro Aycinena

http://news.bcc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8503558.stm

Our eighth news is named "Third day of disruption after snow in eastern US: a BBC Correspondent Remembers". There is no author's name. We found it on February 12th. We believe that the theme is natural disaster. There isn't any bias.

Many kids couldn't go to school and many people couldn't go to their work because of an unusual blizzard. The storm disrupted transport from West Virginia to Southern New Jersey. The heaviest snowfalls were in Washington DC, Virginia, and Maryland. This three places declared emergency situation.
The president Barack Obama also became a victim to the 'snowmadeddon', as a tree fell down on the President's car. This car accident was reported in news.

Tae-Yeon Lim: I think that this is terrible because many people are having accidents and they can't go out of the house. I hope that the blizzard stops and there are no more accidents. This is part of our Earth.

Diego Batres:
These people are suffering, I hope the blizzard stops soon.

Isabel Seong
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I think that this disaster occurred because of human. Humankind is changing the Earth, and global warming is changing climate of many places around our world.

Pedro Aycinena:
I think that disasters like this will be normal in several years, Global warming is making the earth SICK.

Monday, February 8, 2010

Loving and Losing Haiti: a BBC Correspondent Remembers

Tae Yeon Lim, Isabel Seong, Diego Batres, and Pedro Aycinena

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8480588.stm

Our seventh news is named "Loving and Losing Haiti: a BBC Correspondent Remembers". There is no author's name. We found it on February 7th. We believe that the theme is natural disaster. There isn't any bias.

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A very powerful earthquake occurred in Haiti. It was so powerful that it destroyed almost everything, including a very beautiful place called Montana. Many people were living in Montana. Since an earthquake occurred in that place, it is destroyed and people who lived there have no place to live. Roads were destroyed there, and there are many things that stink. Because of that many people have AIDS diseases and they can't be cured because they do not have money for operation or medicine.

Also, after the earthquake occurred there were many babies born. But they can't live long because some of the babies do not have a mother, milk or food. Some of them were born with AIDS diseases. Also, there are children who got their bodies burned. Other kids do not have parents and where to live.
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Tae-yeon Lim: I think that the kids that have lost their parents and had burned their bodies are too poor because they will miss the time they were able to play and have fun.


Isabel Seong: I believe that we have to be thankful for what we have: we have parents who love us, food to eat, water to drink, and a school to learn. Because in other hand, people in Haiti, especially kids are having serious problems and they are having a very difficult time.

Diego Batres
This is a tragedy, we must all help to make these unfortunate people happy again. We must donate things to these people in Haiti.

Tuesday, February 2, 2010

The surprising reason why being overweight isn't healthy

Isabel Seong, Diego Batres, Pedro Aycinena, Tae Yeon Lim

http://www.cnn.com/2010/HEALTH/01/21/obesity.discrimination/index/html

Our sixth news's title is "The surprising reason why being overweight isn't healthy". It is written by Ginny Graves. We found it on February 2nd. We believe that the theme is health. There is three bias: http://topics.cnn.com/topics/obesity; http://topics.cnn.com/topics/cancer; and http://topics.cnn.com/topics/infertility.

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It's very shocking that being a woman who's more than 20 pounds overweight may actually get poor medical treatment. They might have a harder time getting health insurance or have to pay higher premiums, are at higher risk of being misdiagnosed or receiving inaccurate dosages or drugs, are less likely to find a fertility doctor who will help you get pregnant, and are less likely to have cancer detected early and get effective treatment for it.
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Isabel Seong: I think that fat discrimination is a big issue in this society.

Diego Batres: This is important, because healthiness is not the only reason overweight people don't live long.


Tae-yeon Lim: I think that is why obesity makes people die early.

Monday, February 1, 2010

Police: Remains buried under driveway are of lottery winner

Isabel Seong, Diego Batres, Pedro Aycinena, Tae Yeon Lim

http://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/01/29/florida.missing.lotto.winner/index.html

Our fifth news is called "Police: Remains buried under driveway are of lottery winner". The author is Mallory Simon, and we found it on February 1st. The theme is justice, and we think that there isn't any bias.

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Police have found human remains buried under recently added concrete at a home in Plant City, Florida. The remains were identified from fingerprints, and it as the missing lottery millionaire Abraham Shakespeare.
Police scanned the newly finished concrete pieces near the home on Wednesday and removed them. On the next day, Hillsborough County Sheriff David Gee said that they discovered the remains buried five feet below the surface. They also said that it seemed that they had been there for a while.
Shakespeare, a 43-year-old truck driver, won a $31 million Florida lottery prize in 2006. A year later, he won a court challenge from a fellow trucker who accused Shakespeare of snatching the winning ticket out of his wallet while the two were delivering meat to Miami restaurants.
Shakespeare's family reported him missing November 9, telling the Polk County sheriff's office that they hadn't seen him since April.
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Isabel Seong: I think that money make people feel devalued; people are always longing for more.

Tae-yeon lim: I think money makes people's life to change. If they won money they want more money... I think that's very bad.

Diego Batres: Whatever happened, this person was certainly killed for the money. This is not humane, because life does not have a price.