Mosquito blood 'identifies thief'

Name: Dean (49712059)

Date: 25/12/2008

Article# 12

From: BBC

Mosquito blood ‘identifies thief’
(http://www.news.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7795725.stm)

My reaction:

The news is about a car stolen case that was solved by Crime Scene Investigation which found the suspect’s blood in a mosquito.

At, the beginning, I felt quiet interesting that depended on such a tiny little bug to find out the truth. It was ridiculous. However, we shouldn’t lookdown any creature’s ability. Since the mankind has become the master of the world, they ignored everything as they thought they can solve all problems by the intelligence. That is arrogance. For example, there is a story about a rat and a lion. One day, the lion was trapped by hunting net. The rat wanted to help it but was laughed by the lion because of its size. Nevertheless, the rat saved the lion by biting the net.
What I learned was no matter how great we are, we ought to learn from other species’ strength. Learning is essential to human development as well as the way to improve our society. If we keep ignoring anything, we will be out in the food chain. We could use their strength on technology. For instant, we train dolphins to detect the water bombs. That could decline the number of injuries.

In addition, I found that there is no way to escape the net of justice if you committed crime. Every criminal leaves glues in the crime scene no matter how well you organize. Therefore, to those wanted, you will fall into the net finally.(190words)

Boost for 'light' cigarette cases

Name: Dean (49712059)

Date: 18/12/2008

Article# 10

From: BBC

Boost for 'light' cigarette cases

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7784323.stm

My reaction:

The news is about a tobacco company which has been sued for fraud in the United state.

In my opinion, it is an approach that cheats the smoker that “light” cigarettes are healthier than normal ones. In fact, they are more or less the same. The smoker thought light cigarettes are less harmful ingredients like nicotine, tar than the normal ones. Therefore, they are misled by the advertisements and start to try the former one. However, the more they puff at, the more chances they get cancer.

This is a common phenomenon that I have often seen. Some apparently harmful materials are added in commodities that are made in china. But the ethical traders still claim that those “qualified” products have problems after we had used. For example, milk powder, being added the industrial used chemical “melamine”, proved that it makes people easily get disease such as kidney stones as well as affects children’s intelligence. In this case, their dishonest behaviour has broken our heart and has trod our faith. They did it for money. I wonder if they felt guilty while spending the dirty money. If they still have conscience, just stop earning the dirty money. In addition, the customs unit has the responsibility to forbid the hazardous goods. Once it gets the job done, we won’t be deceived by the dishonest traders. (200words)

Child obesity 'may harm thyroid'

Name: Dean (49712059)

Date: 11/12/2008

Article# 10

From: BBC

Child obesity 'may harm thyroid'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/7762471.stm

My reaction:

The news is about the problem which the children in England suffered from obesity.

First, the problem has been bothering to the English society. Most children have a habit of picking food which means they eat a certain kind of food and rule out the food they dislike of their list. They choose the fast food because of the heavy flavour like salting, sweetie and so on. Therefore, chefs in schools or in restaurants provide this kind of meal to the children. That cultivates a bad habit so that they have less chance to absorb other nutrients and weaken their immune system that causes some kind of chronic decease such as high blood pressure, diabetes.

Second, because of the concept of time-is-money, many people on work prefer fast food to normal food. Fast food is mainly deep-fried; it requires no skill but some oil, then you merely take five minutes and have the meal. Therefore, it becomes popular. However, this kind of food is not healthy. A research showed that fast food like fried chicken, French fried provides five or six times of calories than normal food while being cooked. It is not easy to consume the excessive energy from fast food if you don’t exercise at least twenty minutes. In addition, most children like playing computer games instead of joining outdoor activities. Thus, they lack of a way consuming calories.

As a result, I think the cure depends on the government. If it forces schools not to sale any food exceeding too much calories, the situation will be better. (200words)

Wal-Mart worker dies in sale rush

Name: Dean (49712059)

Date: 4/12/2008

Article# 9

From: BBC

Wal-Mart worker dies in sale rush

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7755278.stm

My reaction:

The news is about a tragedy that happened at a Wal-Mart store in the New York suburbs. One of the staff died of being trampled by customers.

First, it happened after the Thanksgiving Day. The Wal-Mart store promoted a serious of steep price reduction in order to attract consumers. Therefore, many bargain-hunters who shop for cheap goods queued up in front of it. When the store was opening, those bargain-hunters stormed in it without any consideration, just grabbed what they want. It exposed that the people lacked of moral education and the manager of the store under estimated the number of crowd.

In USA, the Thanksgiving Day is one of the important festivals. Many families would spend much money celebrating it no matter rich and poor. It almost holds the half of the income of all retailers. However, this time, the Wal-Mart store couldn't consider about the loss of control happened in New York's branch. They thought they could control the situation In fact, they couldn't. They didn't expect how zealous the crowd was and the crowd flocked into the store as it opened. After that, the staff didn't try to calm them down. Moreover, I think those people lost their mind for cheap stuff. As a citizen, we should show our respect and politeness. Those crowds were afraid of losing the chance of buying their favourites. Therefore, they pushed each other for getting a good place where they could enter the shop faster. That was a bad example for children. If they learn that behaviour, the entire society will be in chaos.

As a result, we should learn more about the toleration. If someone pushes you in the above case, you should tell the person politely instead of pushing him back. If any had done the above movement, the tragedy wouldn't have happened.(203words)

Life in Somalia's pirate town

Name: Dean

Date: 27/11/2008

Article# 8

From: BBC

Life in Somalia's pirate town

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7623329.stm

My reaction:

The news is about pirate problem in Africa, especially in the east Africa. That problem has distracted the local government.

First, the major reason due to that problem is the instability of the local government. Since there are different kinds of nations gathering in the same area, it would be easy to spark conflicts such as culture, language. Therefore, the majority race would exclude another minority one.
Second, as the situation has not been stable, some of the generals want to take advantage of it by disuniting people. Hence, they could expand their influence by force of arms. Finally, they battle with each other and make the situation more badly.

Third, because of the chaos in Somali leading to the poor economy, many fishermen and former Navy started to rob foreign ships. Then they found that it is a way to get more money as well as not work for the whole year. Thus, they continue to do so.

Eventually, some of the countries started to wipe out the pirate by sending warships. However, it is merely a stopgap measure. As they didn't get at the root: racial problem. If the government tries to be fairer to other nations in friendly manner, they may not resort to violence and settle with the conflicts.(203words)

Race to save world's rarest wolf

Name: Dean (49712059)

Article# 7

Date: 20/11/2008

From:BBC

Race to save world's rarest wolf

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7715693.stm

My reaction:

The news is about an Africa wolf-Ethiopia wolf that is becoming endanger species. The reason could be considered as two parts: Diseases and human's immigration.

First, since Africa had been explored by the European, what they brought were not only money and plants but also the diseases and pollution. Those people who started farming or pasturage, brought along the domestic dogs with them as a guild dog. However, the dog might carry a disease that merely be found among dogs: Rabies. The disease wildly spread over the area that the wolves had no antibody to protect against the virus. Eventually, the number of the wolves dramatically declined.

Second, this reason could relate to the former one. Because of the immigration, the natural balance was broken down as human had occupied the land and then dispensed the animals. When the pray became less, so did the wolves.

As a result, we have the responsibility for saving them. Thus, there is an organisation called Wild CRV-Wildlife Conservation Unit of Oxford University that raised a campaign which helps the animals by injecting vaccines. Therefore, it could solve the crisis temporally. They still have to track and find them out in such a large continent; that’s the problem which has confused them. (200 words)

'US strikes' on Pakistan villages

Name: Dean (49712059)

Article#6

Date: 6/11/2008

From: BBC

'US strikes' on Pakistan villages

(http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7702679.stm

My reaction:

The news is about the air strikes in a Pakistan village and caused more than 20 people killed.

First, there were two strikes. Both of the strikes caused 20 people died because of the manhunt to the terrorists. I think it was a tragedy. Those people died in the attack were only in the wrong place in the wrong time. On the other hand, the US military should take the responsibility for the tragedy. They were the one who ordered to fire. Although wanting to get rid of the militants, they should have collected more information attack instead of launching missiles at random. Anti-terrorism is not a reason or an excuse to start war. Moreover, soldiers came down to the tool of brutal massacre. Soldiers should protect citizens, not to slaughter the innocence. Should we consider our safety problem as we don’t know when we would be attacked by our “protector"-soldier.

Second, the US forces were hunting the militants when they cross the border of Pakistan. It seemed alright and reasonable, but they didn’t ask the entering permission of the Pakistani government. In my notion, that was obviously an incursion. That action offended a country’s territory right even though they were on mission. A term which refers to the action is hegemonism-an ism that a nation in aggressive expanding its influence over other countries. Because of having the most sophisticated weapons, the US forces can sweep away all over the world without any resistance.

As a result, I thought we should make good use of those sophisticated technology to benefit the world instead of destroying it. Eventually, Our world is getting better.(205 words)