Do you remember what happened on September 11, 2001? Terrorists attacked the World Trade Center in New York City and killed many innocent people. Terrorists are everywhere and they are trying to hurt other people to get what they want. Recently, the U.S. government said that the risk of an attack is increasing this summer. It said a terrorist group called al-Qaida is training terrorists in Afghanistan in recent months. Also, Osama bin Laden is believed to be hiding in the mountain area, preparing to attack the U.S. again this summer. ＂Summertime seems to be appealing to them. I’m sure that terrorists are regrouping,＂one government official said. ＂The threat coming out of Afghanistan is very real,＂he added. Al-Qaida has shown an interest in summertime attacks. For example, last summer, they tried to use liquid explosives to take down
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A 10-year-old Nepalese girl, who was considered a goddess, lost her job and title of living goddess after she traveled overseas. Sajani Shakya lost her title of ＂Kumari＂or living goddess because she broke tradition by leaving the country. Kumaris are forbidden to ever leave their home country of Nepal. Sajani is one of several Kumaris in her country. Ishbel Whitaker, who made a documentary of Sajani, said she was shocked and saddened by the news. ＂The rule of not being able to leave the country was never a rule before. Nobody ever said the Kumari can’t travel,＂she said by telephone from London. Living goddesses are worshipped by both Hindus and Buddhists. The girls are selected between the ages of 2 and 4 after going throug
Recently, a school principal named Marion Bolden in New Jersey, U.S. was asked to apologize to a gay student for blacking-out a picture from his school yearbook. Andre Jackson, 18, paid 150 dollars to have his pictures in his high school yearbook. The page had many pictures, but one of them was of Jackson kissing his boyfriend. The principal thought this was inappropriate for school, and had the yearbook staff black-out the picture of the two boys kissing. Jackson said that it was unfair because many boys and girls have pictures of them kissing their boyfriends and girlfriends. After a day, Ms. Bolden said she felt bad about censoring Jackson’s picture and apologized to him. She said two yearbooks; one
Which city do you think is the most expensive in the world to live in? If you guessed Tokyo, London or Seoul, you wouldn’t be far off. But you’d still be wrong! For the second year in a row, Moscow in Russia finished first as the most expensive city in the world. According to experts, it costs 35 percent more to live in Moscow than in New York. A luxury two-bedroom apartment rents for 4,000 dollars a month! If you want to buy a CD, you will have to pay 25 dollars! A hamburger will cost you almost five dollars! Of the 143 cities covered in the survey, London came in second, Seoul third, and Tokyo fourth. Only two cities from the United States made it to the top 50 list as the most expensive places to live in. New York dropped
Over 400 bicyclists met in France recently to encourage people to say no to cars. They said cars were bad for the environment and caused too much pollution. So why was this meeting so special? Well, all of them decided to do it while being completely naked! Thousands of people all over the world got naked for the environment on June 10. Cyclists in London, Paris, Montreal and Mexico City all took off their clothes to protest their governments’ unwillingness to protect the environment. ＂We are seeing an increasing number of stories of melting ice caps and Antarctica crumbling away and no government
The Chinese government has decided to ban making new Internet cafes this year because they feel the Internet is harming its young people. China, unlike Korea and the United States, is a communist country. That means that the government places great importance in what its people can and cannot say, both on and off-line. While they encourage schools and businesses to use the web to promote education and create jobs, they frown on people learning too much about the outside world or expressing how they feel. But because China has nearly 137 million Internet users, China’s young people are viewing and sharing information like never before. And since users can post messages anonymously on numerous websites by visiting Internet cafes in their neighborhoods, Chinese authorities are finding it difficult to arrest people who say negative things about the government. China officials are also worried that
A British man named Mark McGowan recently ate a corgi dog to protest the hunting of foxes in England. Corgis are known to be the favorite breed of dog owned by Queen Elizabeth II, the current queen of England. He did it to protest her husband Prince Phillip killing a fox earlier this year.
As you all know, bullying can be a serious problem in many schools. Bullying can take on many forms. Sometimes it’s just spoken words and threats. Other times it can mean getting in fights. Most bullying takes place between students, but for one young girl in America, the bullying was done by an adult! A 40-year-old woman named Marilyn Camacho in Massachusetts was arrested recently for beating up a 16-year-old girl. The fight happened at a mall. Mrs. Camacho and 3 young girls, ages 16, 13 and 12 are accused of throwing the unidentified girl through a glass store window. They then knocked her to the ground and began kicking and stomping her on the legs, face and back. The bullied girl became unconscious and had to be rushed to the hospital. Police are unsure of why the beating occurred, but believe it had something to do with bullying. They also know that one of the three girls and the victim had fought before. Because everyone involved in the fight
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