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on May 31st Israeli commandoes boarded a Turkish ship in the Mediterranean that was filled with aid for Palestinians in Gaza The troops slid down ropes from helicopters and the fighting that followed led to at least
10 fatalities The ship was carrying 600 activists from all over the world Those on board say the activists were largely unarmed civilians They included Northern Ireland’s Mairead Corrigan Maguire, who won the
1976 Nobel Peace Prize, and politicians from many countries The ship was part of a flotilla trying to break an Israeli blockade to give Gazans food and aid supplies The confrontation took place 80 miles off the Gaza coast
Israel’s military was quick to defend its actions A spokesperson said: “The demonstrators on board attacked the naval personnel with live fire and light weaponry including knives and clubs Additionally, one of the weapons used was grabbed from an IDF soldier The demonstrators had clearly prepared their weapons in advance for this specific purpose.” Israel’s trade and industry minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer expressed his regret: "The images are certainly not pleasant I can only voice regret at all the fatalities," he said Israeli journalist Amos Harel from the Haaretz newspaper went further He wrote of the seriousness of Israel’s actions, saying: “The damage that Israel has caused itself internationally can hardly be exaggerated.”
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Trang 3Rizal from Sumatra, is addicted to nicotine and smokes 40 cigarettes a day Videos of Ardi casually puffing away on a cigarette emerged this week on YouTube The footage, now removed, shows him smoking like a true pro His father, Mohammed Rizal, thinks there’s no problem with his son’s nasty habit He told reporters that his child looked healthy and that was the only thing that was important He went on to explain how Ardi took up smoking when he was 18 months old That was when he gave his son his first cigarette Now he’s totally hooked; he throws tantrums if his father does not let him smoke
Ardi’s story is part of a worrying trend in Indonesia Government statistics reveal 25 per cent of Indonesian kids aged between 3 and 15 have smoked and that over 3 per cent are regular smokers Indonesia is the world’s third largest smoking nation Cigarettes are everywhere and smoking is still seen as a socially
acceptable practice Health Minister Endang Sedyaningsih said preventing youngsters from smoking would be very difficult because people believe smoking is a good thing She said tobacco companies are well liked because they sponsor many things from education to sporting and public events She added: “This is the challenge we face in protecting youth from the dangers of smoking.”
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Trang 5unveiled a major scientific breakthrough last week when he showed the world a new form of life he created in the laboratory He made his artificial creation from a stem cell, biochemicals and yeast Dr Venter claims his new organism has DNA that has never existed on Earth before The cells he made will pave the way for more complex ones Venter believes manmade life will be an important part of all science in the future In 2007, he said: “Synthetic [life] is going to become the standard for making anything.” He believes it will provide amazing new cures for diseases and help in the fight against climate change
Environmentalists are up in arms over Venter’s work They believe it is a major threat to our existence Campaigners are fighting to ban any form of synthetic life from getting into the wild One campaigner, Jim Thomas, expressed his fears to Britain’s ‘Independent’ newspaper: "Synthetic biology is a high-risk, profit-driven field, building organisms out of parts that are still poorly understood We know that lab-created life forms can escape and become biological weapons, and that their use threatens existing natural biodiversity,"
he said Mr Thomas is worried about what oil companies will do with Mr Venter’s work, saying: "Most
worrying of all, Craig Venter is handing this powerful technology to the likes of BP and Exxon to hasten the commercialisation of synthetic life-forms."
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Trang 7Nepal’s 15-year-old Ming Kipa in 2003 Jordan has now climbed the highest peaks on six continents His first record climb came when he scaled Mt Kilimanjaro in Tanzania when he was just nine He plans to climb the Vinson Massif in Antarctica
in December This will make him the youngest person to climb the tallest mountains on all seven continents The first thing Jordan did on the summit of Everest was call his mother "I'm calling from the top of the world," he told her Jordan wrote about his climbing on his blog: "It's my dream…I know it's a big goal, and lucky for me my family is supporting me every step
of the way."
Jordan decided he wanted to climb the world’s tallest peaks when he was in fourth grade He told his mother and father and they started a training programme for Jordan to achieve his dream His mother, Leigh Anne Drake, recalled the first time they took Jordan on a serious hike She said it was a six-mile trek near their home in Big Bear, California Drake says her son moaned, complained and cried most of the way, but when
he got home, he wanted to continue training "I decided we were going to follow Jordan's lead," Leigh Anne said "If he wants to try it, we're going to support it." Romero said he climbed Everest for a special reason
He wanted to inspire more young people to get outdoors and reduce obesity in America’s teenagers
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Trang 9Dr James F Paulson, assistant professor of paediatrics at America’s Eastern Virginia Medical School, said of post-natal depression: "It's viewed as a disorder of motherhood It's not viewed by health professionals and the public as a problem in fathers." His team analyzed the findings of 43 different studies into new dads becoming depressed These involved data from over 28,000 fathers from Australia, China, Great Britain and the USA Dr Paulson found that American men were the most likely to experience depression Over 14 per cent of U.S dads got the post-baby blues compared with an international average of 8.2 per cent
Dr Paulson said the results were interesting and that his statistics represent “a significant public health concern and something we need to pay more attention to.” He points to a number of reasons for post-natal depression in men A big factor is depression in the mother Up to a quarter of mothers experience some form of depression following childbirth Another big reason is the pressure brought to a marriage after
starting a family and how the mother and father help each other Other reasons include a lack of sleep, financial stress and having a sick baby Dr Paulson’s advice for new parents is: "Depression affects both parents and both parents should be on the lookout for it… Depression in one partner has a cascading effect throughout the entire family unit.”
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