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ON AAARRIAGE
Marriage is different from love. It is a good institution but I
must add a lot depends on the person you are married to.
There is no such thing as a good wife or a good husband -
there's only a good wife to Mr.A or a good husband to Mrs.B. If
a credulous woman marries a pathological liar, they may live
together happily to the end of their days'- one telling lies, the
other believing hirn. A man who cannot live without constant
admiratiol should marry a "God, you are wonderful!" type of
womal). If he is unable to make up his mind, he is right in marrying
a dictator. One dictator may prosper in marriage: two are too
many.
The way to matrimonial happiness is barred to no one. It is
all a matter of choice. One shouldn't look for perfection, one
should look for complementary part of a very imperfect other
half .
If someone buys a refrigerator, it never occurs to him that it
is a bad refrigerator because he cannot play grammarphone records
ort it; nor does he blame his hat for not being suitable for use as
rr flower-vase. But many people who are very fond of their stomach
rnarry a cook and then blame her for being less radiantly
irrtelligent and witty than George Sand. Or a man may be anxious
to show off his wife's beauty apd elegance, marry a mannequin
rrrrd be surprised to see in six months that she has no balanced
views on the international situation. Another marries a girl only seeing a film producer called Harvey u'ho is waiting for his
and exclusively because she is seventeen and is much-surprised divorce to corne through. We're more than just "good friends"
15 years later to find out that she is not 17 anymore. Or agaih if but I don't know how long it u,ill last. My late husband"s former
you marry a female book-warm who knows all about the gold mistress is marrying his first wife's third husband on Saturday.
standard and the laws of planetary motions, you must not blame In fact it's going to be a double wedding because her second son
her for being somewhat less beautiful and temperamental than by her first marriage is getting mairied to the girl he's been
Marilyn Monroe. And if ladies marry a title or a bank account sharing flat with for the past six months. You remember? That's
they must not blame their husbands for-not being romantic heroes. her half-brother's ex-fianc6e, the one who was going out with
You should know what you are buying. And as long as you .Jason back in January.
do not play record's on your refrigirator and not put bunches of Anyway, how are you? Still the ideal couple over there in
chrysanthemums into your hat, you have a reasonable chance of Eastbourne, are you? Do I hear w:edding bells?
so-called happiness. Lot's of love for now.
Mandy.
1. Give your ideas about the choice of a perfect partner.
2. Do your acquaintances, friends, and relatives fit this 1. Describe an imaginary /typical love story of your group
scheme?

Marriage alaays demands the finest arts of insinceritg Courtship to marriage is a oerq u;ittg prologue to a ztery
possible betaeen tuto human beings. dull plag.
Vickg Broon
No matter hozo happily a u)oman may be married, it alutays Tru,, Io* doesn't consist
"f
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pleases her to discooer that there is a nice man aho usishes holding hearts.
that she usere not. O.A. Battista
H. L. Mencken A uoman can forgiae a man for the harm he does her but
You see an'aaful lot of smart gugs zoith dumb zoomen, forgiae him for the sacrifices he makes on her
she can neoer
but you hardlg eoer see a smart aonzan oith a dumb gug. account.
Erica Jong W. Somerset Maugham

AAARITAL sTATUs

Dear Fiona
Thanks for all your news. Things are very much as normal WHERE I5 LOVE?
here. Harry and I have split up - we both felt we had enough of
each other. He's dating a girl who was going steady with Paul A search for love of any kind may lead, oddly enough, to
when you were here - I think they are quite serious - and I'rn disappointments and personal disasters. What is the danger in
looking'for love? Qan love be found at all?
We are forever looking for love in our lives' We look for a and any number of other terms. And if the me wants these things
sweetheart who will turn into a loving spouse. We look for badly enough, the me will get them. Unfortunately, all the me'gets
is the forms and not the love. The me grabs for the beautiful
flame and gets only hot ashes. Love eludCs the me always, because
the me is somewhere, and love is nowhere - they can never meet.
Is there no way, then, to find love? Is there no solution to this
dilemma? Probably not. However, it is a simple fact that airyone
can love. It is one of our inalienable rights as humans to love and
to give. Perhaps life could not even exist without this process.
There is electricity generated in the action of love that is
as real as that which powers a train or lights a reading lamp. As
with electricity, no one really knows rvhat love is nor where it.
comes from, but we do know we can channel both electricity and
love through conduits. Properly channelled electricity can
transform oir environment, and properly channelled love c4n
transform the quality of our lives.. It seems that love is most
vibrant in us when we forget ourselves. Self.forgetfulness is
recomrnended by most religions as a way to peace and
enlightenrnent. I(nowing this, spiritual aspirants try to forget
themselves, hoping peace and enlightenment will come. Catch
number one heri is that they cannot forget that they are forgetting
themselves so they are still caught in the me. There is no catch
number two. When v/e grow weary of looking for love and finding
only its ashes and its forms, we may suddirnly give up the search.
When we have been bitten by our greed and have had our very
health impaired by our search for love we stop our hurried
quest one day and look within - not within the me,-but within
the cracks of the universe. We may irot see anything, but we feel
something - we hear a song. We feel a change in ourselves, a new
perspective,from nowhere. We haven't asked for it. We just stop
searching and there it is.
That is love, sneaking into our lives from the cracks between
the betweens. We were n€lver away from love,.and we cbuld never
find it. We wore ourselves out like the man who ran around the
streets of the village searching for some air to breathe. Love may
catch you between bites of an apple or while you are-cleaning the
toilet. You live within love always, but you can never find it,
capture it, prescrve it, or explain it - you might as well try to
build a rose with a hammer and nails. Just wait, and listen, and
watch, and work and one day when the time is right, a rose
The with looking for love is that it is the me that wants appears on the bush. This rose is rooted in the cracks of the
it. T nts love in the form of'pleasure, money' status, fame, universe, and so is love, and so ar7ou.

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British Prime Minister Disraeli: "It is the principle of existence

and its only end." It is also an interpersonal relationship
developed, maintained, and sometimes destroyeJ ltrro,rg'h
communication.

in the u:orld aho can complete

u;ho I can laugh uith: That
;e he decides to, b of
tlg fact that uhen he is near me, he aill feet t o:
Iike one full entitg, concerted. I also belieoe ls
it a,ill change. something that no one person can.fix the limits of, because it
, impenetrable,. is as infinite and mgsterious as 'the stars that it's u;ritten
on. No one reallg should attempt to explain it, because it is
C.S. Leatis one of the greatest natural phenomena'in the utorld. that all
Marriage has mang pains but celibacy has no pleasures. people should just haoe blind faith in. Looe is trust and
Samuel Johnson certitude in the unknoutn, for u;ithout that faith, emotions
can die.
Put au;ag the book, the description, the tradition, the Marg Pat Michalek
authority, and take the journey of self-discoaerry. Loce, and
don't be caught in opinions and ideas about ohat loae is or
should be. When you looe, eoerything zoill come right. Looe The Nature of Love
has its oan action. Looe, and gou u;ill knoto the blessings of
Much research i^s _currently devoted to identifying the
it. Keep aTDaA from the authority usho tells gou u;hat lor:e is ingredients of love. what makes up the love experi""Jiti what
and u;hat it is not. No authority knoas and he uho knou,ts are major part_s? Here are two well-reasoned explanations.
cannot tell. Looe,.and there is understanding. _its
Love is a combination of s 19g5).
I(rishnamurti Both of these emotions are I 5ting of
Tis said of looe that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; more specific emotions. The passion c consists
runs. u;ith one, zoalks graaelg u;ith another; turns a third of fascination (seen in the lovers' preoccupation with each
into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame; it utounds one, another other), exclusiveness (seen in their mutual commitme"t> u"a
it kills; like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment; sex their desire to tbuch). The caring cluster
it makes that fort yield at night ohich it besieged but in the con utmost (seen in sacrifice for the"lover)
morning; for there is no force able to resist it. and r's champ n or advocate (seen in support
Miguel de Ceroantes
for and suci s).
Love is a combination of intimacy, passion, and commitment
(Ster'berg 1986, 1988). Intimacy (coireiponding to puJoiburrir',
caring cluster) is the emotionr I aspelt of iove'and includes
sharing, communicating, and mutuil support: it is a ,"nr" of
closeness and connection. Passion is the'motivationaL aspect
LOVERs (correspondi.g to the passion cluster) and consisir of
fny"i"ut
attraction and romantic passion. commitment (correipo.rding
Of all the qualities of interpersonal relationships, none seens to part.of the caring cluster) is the cognitive aspect and consists
Irs important as love. "We are all born for love," noted famed of the decisions vou make concerninq vour lover. when vou have
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a relationship characterized by intimacy only, you haveessentially immediately prior to meeting your lover, and you position your
a liking relationship. When you have only passion, you have body attractively-stomach pr lled in, shouideri square,-legs
a relationshfp of infatuation. When you have only commitment, arranged in appropriate masculine or feminine positions.
you have empty love. When you have all three components to Your somewhat different vocal quality.
about equal degrees, you have complete-or consummate love. There is that sexual excitement enlarges
the nasa troduces a certain nasal quali"ty
Love Styles and Communication into the voice (M. Davis 1973).
How do you communicate when you are in love? What do You taboo aclaptors, at least in the presence
of the lo Id curtail, for example, scratching your
you say? What do you do nonverbally? How closely do the
head, pi cleaning your ears, and passing *ina.
research findings describe you? According to research, you
Interestingly enough,, these adaptors often return after the rovers
exaggerate your beloved's virtues and minimize his or her
have achieved a permanent relationship.
faults. You share emotions and experiences and speak tenderly,
with an extra degree of courtesy, to each other; "please," "thank You touch more frequently and more intimately. you also
use more "tie signs," tonveLbal gestures that show that you are
you, " and similar politeness abound- You frequently use
"personalized communication." This type of communication together, such as holding hands, walking with arms entwined,
includes secrets you keep from other people and messages that kissing, and the like. You may even dress alike. The styles of
clothes and even the colours selected by lovers are more iirnilu.
have meaning only within your specific relationship. You also
than those worn by non-lovers.
create and use personal idioms-those words, phrases, and gestures
that carry meaning only for theparticular relationship and that Cultural Differences in Loving
say you have a special language that signifies your'special bond.
When outsiders try to use personal idioms Although most of the research on these love styles has been
do
-as they sometimes
the expressions seem inappropriate, at times even an invasion research has bbqn conducted in
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of privacy. g of the research findings- just
You engage in significant self-disclosure. There is more
confirmation and less disconfirmation among lovers than among rhe test and the rove styres n"":'fJ:i1o"llT1:tff'"?J;i,l:Li
either non-lovers or those who are going through romantic break- among Germans. Asians have been found to be more friendship
ups. You are also highly aware of what is and is not appropriate oriented in their love style th n are Furopeans. Members oi
to the one you love. You know how to reward but also how tcr individualistic cultures (for exampls, Europeans) are likely to
punish each other. In short, you know what to do to obtain the place greater emphasis on romantic love and on individual
reaction you want. fulfilment. Members of collectivist cultures are likely to spread
Among your most often used means for communicating love their love over a large network of relatives.
are telling the person face to face or by telephone (in one survey
79 per cent ind id it this way), expressing Gender- Dif f erences in Loving
supportiveness, things out and cooperating In the United States, the differences between mqn and women
(Marston, Hecht, 87). i' love are considered great. In poetry, novels, and the mass media,
Nonverbally, you also communicate your love. Prolonged women and men are acting very differently when
and focused eye.contact is perhaps the clearest nonverbal falling in love,being ending a love relationihip. As
indicator of love. So important is eye contact that its avoidance Lord Byron put it in "MaD's love is of man's life a
almost always triggers a "what's wrong?" response. thing apart. 'This u'onan's whole existence,,' Women are
You grow more aware not only of your loved one but also of portrayed as ernotional, men as logical. Women are supposed to
your owD physical self. Your muscle tone is heightened, for example. love intensely; men are supposed tn love with detachment.
When you are in love you engage in preening gestures, especially

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and in more daydreaming generally as a reaction to the break-
Women and men seem to experiencb love to a similar degree. up than did women.
However, wome do for their
same-sex friends between the
sexes, or it may restrictions 1. How do you communicate love?
on ,men. A man for another 2. What is your own definition of love?
man. Women are pernritted greater freedom to communicate 3. How do men differ from women in lovihg?
their love for other women.
Another gender difference frequently .noted is that of Age does not protect you from looe. But looe, to some
romanticism. Wo-"tt have their first romantic experiences earlier brtent, protects gou from age.
than men. The median age of first infatuation for wornen was 13 Jeanne More,au
and for men 13.6; the median age for first time in love for women
was 17.1 and for men 17.6. Each time that one looes is the onlg time one has eoer
looed. Difference of object does not alter singleness of passion.
Men were found to place more emphasis on rornance than
women. Further, when men and women were surveyed concerning
)t merelg intensifies it. We can haoe but one great experience
at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that erperience
their view on love - whether it is basically'realistic or basically
as often as Possible
romantic'- it was found that married women had a more
realistic (less romantic) conception of love tlian did married oscar w,de
rnen (I(napp 1.98a). Lots of people are uilling to die for the person they looe,
More recent research (based on the romanticism questionnaire) uhich is a pitg, for it is a much grander thing to lioe for
confirms this view that men are more romantic. For example, that Person
"Men are more likely than wornen to believe in love at first sight, rason rrurst
in love as the basis for marriage and for overcoming obstacles,
and to believethat their partner and relationship will beperfect"
(Sprecher and Metts 19Bg). This difference seems to increase as
the romantic relationship develops: illen become more romantic
and women less romantic.
One further gender difference may be noted and that is HERE COME THE DINK5
differences bet*een men and women in breaking up a
Double-income, no-'kids couples are
t.he Iatest subset
The members of this newly defined species can best be spotted
;rfter 9 p.m. in gourrnet groceries, their Burberry-clothed arms
rt:zrching fur the arugula or a Le' Menu frozen flounder dinner.
lrr the parking lot, they slide into their BMWd and lift cellular
phones to their ears before zooming off to their architect-
tlcsigned houses and exurbs. After warmly greeting Rover (often
rrrr akita or golden retriever), they check to be sure the pooch
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person was for the break-up. sclvice has delivered his nutritionally correct dog food. Then
Jn their to broken romantic affairs, women and llrt'y consult the phone-answering machine, pop dinner into
men exhibit larities and differences. For example, the Lht: microwave and finally sink into their Italian leather sofa
tendency for women and men to recall only pleasant mernories lo rvatch a videocassette of, say, last week's L.A. Law or Cheers
and to revisit places with past associations was about equal. orr I lrcir high-definition, large-screen stereo television.
However, men engaged in more drearning about the lost partner
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, These speedy high-rollers are upper-crust DINIG, double- other Apnericans is a much greater pircentage of discretionary
incom'e, no-kids couples. They flourish in the pricier suburbs as income. "DINKs are one of the few groups that are doing much
well as in gentrified urban neighbourhoods. There is no time better than the previous generati;," says Frank Levy, an
for deep freezers or station wagons in their voracious, non-stop economist at the University of Maryland.
schedules. Many enterprising DINK couples slave for a combined Social pundits warn that DINI(dom is often just a transitory
10O-hour-plus workweek, a /pace relieved by exotic vacations sthte. "It ls the moment before tradition sets in," says Faith
and expensive health clubs. Popcorn, chairman of New York City's Brain Reserve, a hip
Their hectic "time poor" life-style often forces them to consulting firm. "There is a desire for security, privacy, and
schedule dinners with each other, and in some supercharged nest. Anything you can make that is easy and secure, warm and
cases, even sex. available, you can market to their cocoon." Philip I(otler,
Consider the pace of Michele Ward, 26, and I(enneth Hoffman, professor of marketing at Northwestern, divides DINKs into
31, top executives at different Connecticr-lt management- upper and lower classes: U-DINKs and L-DINI(s. No doubt,
consulting firms. "The prime purpose of our answering machine while the L-DINI(s are rushing to graduate from I( mart to
at home is so we can keep in touch with each other," says I(en of Marshall Field, the U-DINKs will be,deserting the Banana
their jammed schedules. For pleasure, they sail and "cook Republic for Abercrombie & Fitch. Because busy U-D'INIG tend
seriously together, " whippi4g up veal Normandy or Persian duck to miss mass-media advertising,,upscale magazines and direct
in pomegranate sauce. mail are the most effective way to target them. I(otler qttes the
They subscribe to four gou4met magazines and have a Sharper Image,'a top-of-the-line techie catalogue, as defining
-.collection of 1.50 cookbooks. Most recent vacation: three weeks U-DINK style.
in Tahiti and Bora Bora. "Part of me would like children, but,
practically speaking, I don't see how," says Michele, who estimates
the earliest date for childbearing is 1993. Their ranch-style
house has three bedrooms: one for them, one for the computer and Sidnes Webb i
one for their Samoyed, Dillon.
David Eagle, 33, a,Hollywood television producer, and Nancy Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum
Weingrow Eagle, 31', an entertainment lawyer, also fill out the af temptation aith the marimum oif opportunitg.
DINK profile. In order to earn their hefty incomes, each one George Bernard Shaut
works 50 to 60 hours a week. They have two dogs and care for
them the way they decorate their home - which is tb say, lavishly. The big DtNf< dilemma is when or whether to have children.
"Earthquake, our Labrador-husky rnix, has beautiful blue.eyes. I In 1986 the cost of raising a child to age 18 averaged almost
have blue eyes, so people think I'm his father," jokes David. "We're
$ 100.000; of course, that figure does not include future college
going skiing tomorrow and taking both dogs with us." In the expenses. Like many DINIG, William Cohen, 33, an Atlanta lawyer,
late lgoos [e supported Eugene McCarthy ind was labelled a and Susan Penny-Cohen, 28, founder of a headhunting firm for
hippie. In the late 1970s he became a yuppie, ahd accepts DINI( as lawyers and paralegals, have not yet planned to reproduce. "As
a natural evolutibn. Little DlNl(erbells, however, are not yet part our income grew, we found that we liad less time," says William.
of the progression. "We have big responsibilities just being double Northwestern's I(otler suspects that the double incomers' frenzy
income-ites," explains David. "We aren't ready to give up the of consumption witl exhiust itself, and more couples will seb
quality time that is necessary to devote to our careers and transfer children as desirable:'"Children may be the ngxt pleasure source
that to children." ything else. " :

The origin of the acronym is not known, but it is often in" tuit of the snappy acronyms.
attributed to glib real estate agents or clever marketing M.B.A.s parents supporting) and, finally,
bored with the term yuppie. What separates DINIG from most

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Russia this problern worries many men and women too, but it
1. What are the main features of.DINKs? can't be a subject of marriage contract.
2. Would you prefgr this way of life to a calm family life? . Russian marriage contract can't regulate the rights and
whv? duties of the parents in regard to their children. But in Anglo-
American legal system it is admitted.
In other words, thg peculiarities of Russiair marriage contract
depend on the socio-economic conditions of the transition period.
In the previous coufse of tirne the Soviet people we.re not even
MARRIAOE CONTRACT IN RUSSIA: ITS VIRTUES thinking about what the,marriage contract is and what it iS for.
AND FLAWS But the last years have brought the important changes. Now people
have sorne property in their possession, they have their own
l. The peculia.rities of Russian securities, deposits in banks, they can make their own business
marriage contract. and while making a marriage they wish to have a profitable
A bill albout marriale contract has been under discussion in regime for owning their private property. In connection with
State Duma five times. Many opinions and disputes among this fact there arise an interesting question about the farnily
specialists from different fields havenlt brought the discussion mentality of the post-soviet citizens. During the 70 years an
to the creation of the ideal variant. The transition period in Russia opinion'was cultivated that the family was based on the other
left its own mark on the legislation - the main thing is to pass principles as compared with the West
- on theilypridciples of
a law, only after that it will be perfected. Therefore there are a lot socialistic way as consider fbundation
of flaws connected with the realization of marriage contract in was formed b rights an the property
our lav,t. Comparing Russian law and the laws of different relations were tives from oika involved
countries I've serious changes in value orientations. No.i,v it is difficult to say
' In many is to be registered quite frankly what prevails in the family relations: sincere
by the local au le property bargains feelings of love and affection or just the material aspects and
and then it is egister of ProPertY the comfoitable conditions of family life. The material, property
relationi. But this practice is Still unknown in Russia. Marriage moments in the married life become more and more significant.
contract is attested by the notary, which reserves a copy for This fact provokes a critique on the part of the persons who see in
himself . the marriage just its front, lyrical-romantic essence, which is
too far from everyday trivial life. What is the balance between
"pragmatics" and "romantics"? A vitality of rirarriage contract
in Russia will be determined by this balance.
2. Signif i,cance of marriage contract
three. and its perspectives.
: The cancellation of marriage coritract is not a basis for a Now the situation with the institution pf marriage contract in
divorce in Russia. And in the USA it is a much more serious Russia is very contradictory. The majority of people, as the sample
affaii that sometimes leads to court trials. results show, understand its necessity as a social institute. Marriage
r Russian marriage contract regulates the property relations contract has its merits and great institutional history in the Western
only. But in the other countries the personal relations can be a <'ountr-ies. This fact provokes peopleto,treat it with confidence.,We
point. For example in France breakfast time is an item of marriage can single out three main advantages of malriage contract:
contract. . Freedom in the decisiort'of pr-operty questions.
r In some countries marriage contract can contain a point . A projective capability. During the discussion of the
about compensation of moral detriment for the faithlessness. In contract's iterns the.pretensions of each participant of the married

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couple could be discussed. At times these pretensions demonstrate we know that Alla Pugacheva and Philip I(irkorov'stroked the
more than the flaming assurances in love. The true and objective m ct. Rich peoplrhave osal
intentions of each side will be inevitably disclosed. w share about and tra The
. The study of family-life questions and the preliminary m ll consider the main the
draft agreement. This.procedure prevents the couple from paltry
quarrels, misunderstanding and squabbles in the future life.
Attested by the notary marriage contract keeps a person "within
1. Why has the problem of striking a marriage contract
limits". The written agreement reminds an individual that all arisen in Russia today?
kinds of his rash actions will be paid for by hirnself.
However, possessing such advantages, marriage coDtract is not
2. What are the advantages and disadvantages of the
marriage contract for different classes of society? -
in demand now. The reasons are in its economic, juridical and 3. Would you personally strike a marriage contract? Why?
psychological grounds.
. As far as we know the economi_c situation in Russia is very
difficult now. The majority of people live in the conditions when Those aho talk most about the blessings of marriage and
t[eir wages are delayed for sorne months. Such contract is a the constanc7 of its oozos are the oerg people oho declare
luxury for men and women. that if the chain uere broken and the prisoners u)ere set free
. There is no juridical experience in Russia in this respect. to choose, the ahole social fabric uould fly asunder. You
The notaries avoid striking the marriage contracts because they can't haae the argument both @aAs If the prisoner is happg,
don't know how to do it properly and'they are afraid of the uhg lock him in? If he is not, uhg pretend that he is?
responsibility for it. George Bernard Shaut
. But the main reason in the lack of dernand is psychological
unreadiness. During many years we have been living in society I belieoe that more unhappiness comes from this source
with the insufficiently high role of law. Consequently certain ther - I mean from prolong
prejudices to juridical documents were formed. People don't want ns undulg and to ma together
to make visible their property and material status. There is another toould neoer natura
rnanner of thinking: male or female is afraid to offend the partner Samuel Butler
'by such practicism. Only the "new Russians" are really interested
in Such contracts, but the notalies witness that their visits to
them first of all are of illegal nature: they want to keep their
'private
property in case of some collisions, problems with the
firm or mafia at the disposal of their wives but do not want to
inform theii business partners about the fact that he delivered ARE AAEN LATY?
all his property to his wife. In case of bankruptcy hi: will say that By Arnq Flaaten
does not have ariy property at all. It is an illegal'step and the
notaries don't sign such marriage contracts. Has marriage contract . Why does it seem like men make more mess than woriren do?
its future in Russia? Of eourse, it has. But there are some _ Maybe we do make more mess in some places but we usually
peculiarities. In the nearest 1-2 years there won't be any sharp keep it neat and tidy where we work or where we have our
splashes of striking the marriage contracts: there are too ma.ny hobbies. We mess more when we are in "female territory", where
difficulties on the way. Probably the persons that are going to we for some reason feel that we are guests. And why do we feel
marry for the second time will strike it (they have some property like guests in some areas?
and a bitter experience of the divorce). We can also suppose Often the woman occupies the kitchen, the living room, the
that the most of the notaries' clients are rich people. For example, bathroom and the bedroom. She often decides how it shall look,
she buys the curtains, she chooses the colours, she makes the food
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t
and so on. What would happen if the husband tore down the living there? When A man moves out, the only thing different in
curtains a I a home is that there is nore space.in the warilrobe, and the house
guarantee would be even cleaner.
happened, , Then there is a woman who has heard about this, and declares
We, men, that from this minute he has half the rights and tells him to go
curtains in "our" room. We do not feel that we mess in our own on with it. She has totally misunderstood. One rnust start from
domain, when we are guesting the kitchen, the living room, the the beginning and make some choices. Do I need a husband, or do
bathroom or the bedroom. It feels like it's not our responsibility; I need a butler? Am I ready aird willing to take the consequences
we have anyway. It is difficult by giving my husband the right to decide how the bedroom
to make where the woman has should look like?
the last alwaYs delaY Practical
work at home?
Most women have heard our excuses: I will do it tomorrow' 1. Do men take fewer responsibilities about the house?
Does it harte to be
2. Why do you think men do not help their wives with
This is not beca like a reaction against household chores?
a command. We w say about things, and 3- What should a woman do?

i Whg does a u)oman uork ten uears to change the man's

i habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?
Bdrbra Streisand
little boy or her husband. The Chumps alaays make the best husbands. Wheh Uou marry
whether she is angry with the s grab a chump. Tap his forehead first, and if it rings solid,
role of a parent towards both don't hesitate. All of the unhappg marriages come from the
mother when she was angry. husbands haaing brains. What good are brains to a man?
Theg onlg unsettle him.
P.G, Wodeh'ouse i
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CLEANINO, COOKINo AilID 5EWIN6???

Do guys still like a woilran who cleans, cooks and knows how to
sew? The cleaning part is fine: everyone knows how to clean a
toilet, but the cooking and sewing part -- no way! I know how to
an snow the martYr, do the microwave dinners but I can only [si1 water otherwise and I
ha another little,note t'oulcln't sew to save my life! I've heard guys Iike a meal served by
domain and we u'i their girlfriends once in zr while. I really used to see of my Home
it. Do not the cleaning in Irconomics teacher, I was the worst student! Cooking and sewing
hostile ter of the rights, of cl;rsses are out for me as I have no time or money. Am I in trouble?
the work. e rooms. Doe is Betty, 23.
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talents that we have carried into adulthood. My father was a
horse trainer/blacksmith and his hobbies included silversmithing,
skin-diving and underwater photography. As a rratter of fact, rny
father is the one that taught me how to cook and sew as well as
milk a cow and break a green horse. My mother was a housewife
who also was well known for her leatherworking, she taught me
the art of hnitting and other needle points, and how to keep up
a household. I believe that is the difference between myself and
many other women of my age: the way I was raised. These do
think about, in a relationship than cooking, sewing and cleaning. seem to have become lost art forms or talents and that is why
Joltn, 20.
some men DO appreciate finding a woman that possesses these
Alright this is where age gets given away. I'm from-the old qualities. I(nowing how to do one or all of those things is sirnply
school and cook, clean, and sew. You would be surprised at how
S
a bonus. A'relationship isn't (and I hope shouldn't) be based
a
upon whether a girl can cook, clean,. etc. I myself love to cook and
have been told I'm fairly good at it. I also can do most sewing
; that I've ever needed to do, same with cleaning. But I had to
after our relationship had ended. I've actually found for me learn how to do nost of that stuff from being in Boy-scouts
that men seem to like and appreciate the fact that I can keep a when I was younger. "Always be prepared".
clean house, sew the things that need to be sewn, cook like a Jessica, 19.
gourmet, and knock their socks off in th and damn it I've been seeing this guy for about 7 months he has a male
i can keep up ny end of a conversation I as have my roommate and they both are very messy. Last night I was over
own business and be secure. No, I'm not man but you there and while my boyfriend was cooking I started washing the
can be old fashioned in the 90's and still be up to par as well. dishes. His roomrnate came in and said to me "Lisa your just way
Jane, 39. to nice". Is this a compliment or not? Does a woman lose her
sex appeal if she also washes his dishes and massages his back
for him? I usually do some kind of cleaning and massage his
back almost every time I'm over. I started to think maybe I
shouldn't be doing this because I don't want him to start taking
me for granted.
Lisa, 21.

Does your ideal partner possess these qualities?

What else should he be able to do?

Marriage is a bribe to make a housekeeper tltink she is a

Itouseholder.
in weekly cleans and sews and picks up a few things at the Thornton Wilder
store, dry cleaners, etc. And that's the way it is. Marriage is like life in, it is a field of battle and not
Kelly, 35. n bed of roses.
-it
I live in the Pacific Northwest and have for the majority of
my life. I was raised on a farm where everyone h,ad work, pull Robert Louis Steoenson
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their share of the load, and my whole family had different
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WILL YOUR 5UCCE5S MAKE YOUR MARRIAoE A THE WEAKER sEX

FAILURE?
Bg Robert Purgear
A husband who earns less than his wife is doomed to an'
early divorce, a poor sex life and early death. For most of ny life, I grew up with the standard model for
Money in marri4ge means power and while women have men. tr was told that it was a man's job to be the provider and
crashed through the psychological barriers to the top jobs, the centre of the family unit. Along with that, came the code of
men have been unable to cope with the position of the lower behaviour. 'Ihat code included always being in control, always
wage earner. having the answer and never being wrong (or at least, never
The rerirarkable study of top ea.rning wives and their marriages acimitting it if you were wrorg). It ail boiled down to don't be
will be prrblished next year. The magazi:ne Psychologg Todag weak. Ald above all else, if you do have weaknesses, never, NEVER,
previews the research and points out that in the United States a show them. So, like most men, I got ver-v good at pretending to be
million wornen now bring home more than their-husbands. "One strong. In fact, I was so good, that even convinced myself that I
of the biggest problems for both husbands and rvives in marriages was strong. BuL as I grew up, I discovered that I did, in fact, have
of unequal earnings is that there are so few model couples who weaknesses (otherwise, knorn'n as faults). Ancl, I came up against
have dealt successfully with the situation," says the magazine. other men who rn'ere .much better than I am pretending to be
"Many simply don't know how to behave in public or private." strong. Tliey didn't play by the unspoken rules. They werenit
The hard facts are that wives who out-perform their husbands willing to help maintain this cooperative pretence. In fact,
in the employment arena set a domestic scenario for disaster. Lhcy actually exploited my weaknesses to their advantage, I
Sex Iives suffer and feelings of love diminish. The couples run a really felt doomed at that point. Then, I made a startling
high risk of mutual psychological and physical abuse, which discovery! I disccvered that women had an inner strength that
leads to a significantly higher divorce rate. Finally for some I only dreamed of. In fact, they were so confident that they
underachieving husbands whose wives are over-achievers clidn't think twice as they asked for help, asked for directions or
premature death from heart disease is 11 times more frequent simply let it be known that they didn't have all the answers.
than normal. WOW! Here was a group of people wlio acted as if it were
'Ihe exception is in cases where wives earn more but in a 1;crfectly normal to have fear or to have doubts. They were.so
typically female job-secretary, nurse or researcher. Sociologist strong that they actually believed that it was okay to show
Dana Hiller who prepared the report along with William llreir weaknesses, their uncertainty and their fear. I wish l'd
Philliber, comments: "It's okay for your wife to have a higher- rnade this discovery sooner! For this reason, I've chosen role models
paying or higher status iob, as long as she's a nurse or a teacher- who are women. While most men are pretending to be pillars of
because that is what women are supposed to be." strength, the facade is beginniqg to crumble. It seems that it
l;rl<es a lot of energy to maintain that illusion. That is probably
w hy men have shorter life spans than women. And, maybe, that
1. Is it possible for a man to put up with being less is why rnen loose their hair more often than rvomen. So, I say to
successful than his wife? llrt'men, that it is time to take back your power. Give up the
2. Why is it such a problem? lough-guy, act and get in touch with your true strength. Because,
vou see, strength comes from the inside, the place where we are all
v rrlncrable.

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It is only by revealing our vulnerabilities, our fear that we th
"But the same pay if they do the same job."
can get in touch with our true strength. Courage is not absence of "I like ed at. t ltke all tLat. It means they
fear. Courage is recognizing the fear, taking it by the hand and f,ancy you. fancy them, you just tell them to gel
then going forward into the unknown "feel the fear", and do it lost. There . I'rnquite hippy"with the way thiigs
anyway! arg, tt

Near the front entrance sitting on a bench under a tree, was a

1. Can you support the author's ide4s from your well-dressed. llqy of 65 with a dog on her lap, a croctoris wife
experience? with three children.
"2. Is there any difference between inner and outward "It never occurred to rne as a young woman to think for
courage? mys_elf. I s-uppose I could have done things, they were possible,
3. Should men maintain the illusion of being strong and but I just didn't. My daughters went off a-broad ull on tLeir own
always in control? Why? rvhen they were very young. I wish I'd done that. They can take
up any career they like - either academic or working with
their hands. All ypung women are liberated today.,, '
A strong ntan doesn't haoe to be dominant tou;ard a fwo youlr
u)oman. He doesn't match his strength again.st a @oman _.
Piymouth Po
p
n
aeak u;ith looe for him. He matches against the u;orld. said they w'el e
Marilgn Monroe appr-oved of equal rights and e u
themselves radicals.
If
there hadn't bee'n uomen toe'd still be squatting in a
caoe eating rau) meat, because ue made cioilization in order . "I don't feel personally I've been exploited, not yet. perhaps
when I go for a job a'd a man gets it ind not me, then I'll be
to inzpress our girlfriends.
upset and .ioirr a radical group. you have to be affected before
Orson Welles you want to take action. But women do have it harder. They have
two .jobs to do, u'hile men just have one.,, '
"I'm glad I'rn a woman. I wouldn't want to be a man. We've
11 got the opportunity to do two things, be a mother or a career
woman, though I know radicals would disagree with that thinking.
*EVERY [)ersonally, I want lots of children,,,.said Edweige.
MOTHER I5 A WORKING MOTHERI' "I don't want any," said Jackie.
I
. 'oticed a young wornan in her mid twenties, standing in
How nice for women's lib that people seem to think it has, on sicle the doorway of Tesco, with bleached hair, a mini-skirt and
the whole, improved the lot of women: 57% tend to agr-ee with ;r large black dog on a strong lead.
this, while only 28% tend to disagree. "It doesn't affect me," she said,,I am equal. They woirldn't
I went down to Plymouth and stood outside'fesco, which is in lr.y to boss me around. I once went for alob in ugu.ug" and the
the main shopping precinct in the rniddle of the town, and for an lrlrke said fernales weren't suited for thelob. It ias ji,st on the
hour-I stopped ladies out shopping and asked them about feminism., ;rcirol pumps I told him to shove it up his arse.',
I stopped two much younger woillen about 25, young marrieds Did she ever get whistled at? I shoJld hope so, dear. I'm on
with plastic shopping bags" "I'm against these womenls libbers," llrt'game. I'd be upset if they'didn't turn and look at me."
said one. "Yes," said the other. "They want women to work as Back in London, I went to Hammersmith to meet some well
coal miners and pick up coal. Well, let them not me, though." lr.rugh.t up young ladies at St paul's Girls'Schoor, ap independe't
"The man should be the man in the house. He should be the rl;r1, 56[6el whose old old Girls include Shirley williarns
and
dominant one." llrigicl Brophy.
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There were eleven girls ll very bright and Y i

i done it all himself; and the uife smiles, and lets it go at

keen looking, plus two or other adults'
joke.
Out of thl eleven, five , but none of them : that. It's ctur onlg Eoerg u)oman knou:s that.
thought their mother was exploited or had a rotten life. They : slir J-M. Barrie
admi[ted their fathers did very little in the kitchen, or anything
very rnuch domestic, but accepted that as natural.
As for their own future, they all expected to go to some sort t2

LOVE

Youngsters in their teens or evein earlier sometimes idolize

film stars or other celebrities with a kind of blind, devoted
hero-worship. The objects of such adoration are regarded as gods
by their smitten .,rrorshippers. How sad that such devotion is
almost always unrequited (though pop-stars have been known
their children. to marry their fans). Young people also sometirnes develop an
"If you have children, it's not fair on them to carry on
irratisnal obsession for another, often older person which is
not an adult, mature feeling but simply a youthful infatuation.
we it mother." At parties a boy may playfutrly try to attract a girl, or vice versa,
pemy so that tr could without intending any serious, lasting relationship. This is just a
to it a 11were growing flirtation.A relationship,which gives deep and lasting happiness
up." to both partners,'must not be one-sided (felt rnore strongly by one
Wishful thi ;but theY of the pair than by the other). It should b,e based on a mutual love
were all happi mothers' and respect, felt equally by each of the two: Of course it can take
After some dis od age to rlany forms. It might be very deep but entail no physical desire, in
get married. which caseit is described as platonic.Certainly, for any relationship
I askecl how many of them considered thernselves to be to be stable, the two people involved must be compatible (they
feminists. Not one of them did' rrrust get on r,vell together). This does not necessarill' mean that
( lrey must have attitudes and interests in cornmon, for partnershi ps

o1'opposites can u'ork very well. The different characters of the two
ptnple somehow complement each other.

1. Try to pinpoint the difference between:

. Worship and flirtation
. Obsession and infatuation
. Physical desire and platonic love
What's your attitude to feminism and emancipation of
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women's rights? Irxltin.g ridiculous that gou realize just hoza; much you looe tlrcm. i
2. In what spheres are men and women still not equal?
Agatha Chrtistie :_

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ver)r, they have conversations nol about what I'd call real things.
13 They'll talk about their work in a very superficial way, or their
interests in a very superficial way, for example, and football is the
urn, just a sort of way of men to relate to each other without
actually saying anything important, it seems to me.
MEN AND WOMEN
Girls and boys
A: It seems to me women are much better at dealing with
more than one thing at a time, and whether this is actually to do I've helped at a playground as well as recently, and I've
with the difference in their brain or whether it's just how tbey noticed that the boys take up all the space. The girls end up
have to cope more often with more than one thing. For exanple, it playing in a libtle, they have a house corner, and the girls end up
is usually wonen who work, have babies, look after the babies in the house cornetr, or even in the book corner, which are clearly
and take main responsibility for looking after the home. And defined spaces where boys don't run around, whereas the rest of
maybe it's practicing that makes women better able to do more the space is taken up by boys running around, attacking each
than one thing at a time. Men, it seems to me, can only concentrate other, being Superman or Batman.
on one thing at a time, including boring domestic things like I think that the way boys pldy tends to be more aggressive,
washing the dishes. If a friend of mine who's a man washes the perhaps even more violent than the way that girls play. Boys, for
dishes he'll find it quite difficult to conduct a conversation example, tend to play games, which involve competition,
even at the same time, whereas if I'm doing the dishes I'm always particulally they may use some kind of weapon, a sword or a
talking to someone, probably cooking something as well, and gun. On the other hand, girls tend to play more cooperatively,
finding that not too stressful. and I think more peacefully.
B: Do you think that there ale things that men are naturally I think the boys tend to like playing war games, doing a lot
better at than women? more sort of physical things, whereas girls will tend to play a lot
A: Again I would have said no, but periraps now I think they orore games like skipping and games that are focused around
are maybe better at concrete things. babies and teddy bears and things like that.
B: One example that I've read about is that rnen are better at In this particular playgroup one of the teachers there is
things like reading maps, they're better at geography than wonren. particularly lenient towards the boys, and channels the girls
,4: I know, I kno'*'one man who's very bad at reading rnaps, most inl.o corners. And I noticed a little girl was playing with a train,
other men I know like maps, I think that's it too, they actually enjoy lhe other day, and a little boy who was slightly younger than her
the um, I think it's to do with trapping the universe on a piece of wanted it. And she,said, "Oh, you go and play with the doll in
paper, and to do with wanting to reduce things to sornething easily lhe corner because Duglas wants the train". And that was her
understandabie whereas women are loath to actually look at. the lrcing taught already to give way to the boy's wishes.
world and think "Yes, we can write it down on a piece of paper". I think that boys wish to copy or identify with other rnales,
B: Do you think women are more interesteri in personal ;rrrcl girls wish to copy or identify with other females. So in the
relationships than men? ,';rse of gills, particularly very young girls, they often see their
B: Generally, yes, though again whether this is because from rrrother in a very domestic situation and therefore they copy the
an early a51e they're taught to please other people, whereas rrren llrirrgs that their mother does, which tend to be domestic and
are taught to please themselves, I think relationships are more ,llcn tend to involve babies. Boys perhaps see less of their father
central to most women's lives. For exanple, I think rnen don't lrlcause the father is very often out working. So perhaps a very
have very good conversations with each other, rvhereas women llrlgc influence for young boys would come from television, where
do. If you eavesdrop or listen to women talking, often thby'll be ol r:ourse they see very often a fairly violent type of male image.
having, after a relatively short period of time of knowing each Nlcrr cln television are shown as, for example, as co'*'boys or as
ro l i ccmen or as superheroes.
other, fairly personal and truthful conversations, whereas men are g

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I have found from my bwn experience with my own son that Noon: At the health club down the street from his office,
up until he started nursery, that actually he used to play lots of
games that girls and boys would have played. But i think that John strrps-off the charcoal grey suit and changs ir*L nis r-
shirt, shorts, and th'e latest in-designer running sh"oes for a fast_
once he became involved with larger peer groilps and started
watching television that influenced a great deal what he plays racquet ball. Then on to the club dining room
eduled lunch with a potential client. They"cliscuss
now, and I've noticed that with a lot of other children. And I
notice that boys tend to play these games of re-enacting the arkling water and pasta, and a cappuccino tops
television programmes, they tend to copy what they see on 2:30 p.m.: Caffeine coursing through John,s system, he,s
television that men and boys should do.
norv eager for several more,hours-of frantic meetings and phone
cal ls.
1. Are the differences between Rlen and women rooted in 6:00 p.rn.: John phones out for delively of dinner from the
their upbringing? 8o
2. Can you think of other differences in girls' and boys' ne
actions and games?
3. Does the so-called code of behaviour for boys aird girls, of
men and women exist? drama series before turning in.
A schedule such as this doesn't allow a lot of time for nonwork-
related pleasuies that other people.Iohn's age tend to seek out,
t4 such as romance. This does seem-to be one oT th" hazards of the
y*gqig lifestyle. Byj, plven a few years, John may find an equally
BABY BOOMER TREND5 ambitious mate. If Jolin and his rnate decide to have children
a'd continue their ln"y ."iff ;h;; i;;;;
Yuppies fa
p.roblems of many y.orrld, however,.l;.ia;
Meet John Smith at 24 years old. After recently receiving his that children don't schedules. In this case,
MBA from Harvard, he's already earning twice,as much as his John.a'd his spouse would become part of another .ulturul trend
father as a financial analyst for a ma.jor east coast investment that has grown throughout the 19gbs.
firm". Like many of his colleagues, he's young, lives in an urban Dinks
environmrnt, ard *las a professiona{ psition in a successful,
g-roup is among the favourites of marketing experts.
growing company - in other words" Johnfits the yuppie profile. ,withThp
dual incomes and no kids, couples in this categoiy huu. u'
I-et's follow him through a typical day.
,7:00 a.m.: The alarm jolts-him out of bed at the same time abundence of discretionary income. while the saying it*o."r,
the Braun automatic coffeemaker kicks on in the kitchen. He live as cheaply as one" is not .o-lt"t.ty t.ue, t'ro-rou."es of
jumps in theshower, shaves, rips open oneof the half-dozen boxes incomes and only one apartment tolent mean that there's more
of freshly laundered white shirts waiting on the shelf, finishes left to spend at the end of the rnonth. what do Dinks choose to
dressing, and pours a cup of coffee. He sits down to a piece of spend thi
whole-wheat toast while he flips through the Wall StreetJournal. clown the
By 7:15, briefcase in one hand, gyrn b+ in the other, he's- out the the numb
door and in the BMW, ready to start the day. ofl'ices. W
7:45 a.m.=,Seabed at his desk, eyesgftied.to the spread sheet of lavish
displayed on the PC monitor in front of hirn, he prepares for the same careful.thought they. give to their own daily nutritionai
hours of phone calls and meetings that occupy his rnornings. nceds. In addition to the dozens of brands of dog ancl cat food
;rvailable in the average grocery store, an almost n,r-ber of
"{uul

I
health food brands is available in pet stores - one
he growing kitten or puppy, another for the young
a low-calorie version for the "mature" cat or dog. nen"ts
Children
the take-out food choices of the 60s were limited to pizza, chorl'
mein, or McDonalds, the number of options exploded in the
1980s. Any ethnic variety as well as the latest health food fad
can be taken home hot and ready to eat or, even better, delivered

Your children are not your children

Theg are the sons and daughters of
Life's longing for itself
Theg came through you but not from gou
And though theg are uith gou get thig
Belong not to gou.
You c9n gioe them gour looe but not your thougltts.
For they haae thair oun thoughts
You mag house their bodies but not their souls.
exist in your'culture? If sb, discuss the characteristics you For their souls duell in the house of tomorrou,
associate with either of these groups, as they exist in your Which gou cannot oisit, not eoen in gour dreams
own culture. You may strioe to be like them, but seek not
to make them like qou,
For life goes not b"ackuard nor tarries u;ith yesterday.
You are the borus from uh ch gour children
as lioing arro(os are sent forth.
Kahlil Gibran

15

THE AAAERICAN FAAAILY

Belonging to a family is one bond almost everyone in the
r,vorld shares, but family patterns vary from country to country.

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In some countries, for exa are the family yesterday. But the truth is that families are stronger than many
leaders. In other countries work together people think.
as one on community farm in the Unittjd Four out of five people in the United States live as members
States? of families and they value their families highly. In one poll, 92
per cent of the people who were questioned said theii familir
Family patterns was very irnportant"to them.
Families give us a sense of belonging and a sense of tradition.
Families give us strength and purpose. our families show us who
we are. As one American expert who studies families says, ,,The
things we need most deeply in our lives love, communication,
respect and good relationships
-their
family. "
- have beginnings in the

Fa . They provide a setting in which

childr d. Fimilies help eduiate their
memb :hildren values - what they think
is important. They teach their children da.ily skills, such'as how
to ride a bicycle. They also te: ch them common practices and
rs and celebrating holidays.
a place to earn money. In the
earn money outside the home.
ily is to give emotional support
choices regarding family grouPs. and security.
FamilGs at" ,te.y impoitanl to Americans. One sign that this Families in a fast-paced, urban country such as the United
is true is that Americani show great conceirn about the family as States face many difficulties. American families adjust to the
an institutio ve there are too many divorces' pressures of modern society by changing. These chariges are not
They worry obeying their parents. They necessarily good or bad. They are iimpl5r the way "Americans
are concern ing women can proPerly care adjust to their world.
Changing American family
V/hen Americans consider families, many of them think of a
"traditional family." A traditional family is one in which both
parents. are.living together with their children. The father goes
their home life. out and works and the rnother stays home and rears the childien.
How can Americans be happy with their individual families 'l'he biggest change in families in the United
States is that most
but worried about families in general? Newspaper, motion pictures l'amilies today do not fit this image. Today, one out of three
and television shows in the United States highlight difficulties American farnilies is a "traditional familyi' in this sense.
within families. Family crirnes, problems and abuse become news The rnost common type of family now is one in which both
stories. But most families do not experience these troubles. Since parents work outside the home. In 1gS0, only 20 per cent of all
the earliest days of the United States, people have been predicting r

Arnerican families had both parents working outside thg home.

the decline of the family. In 1859, a newspaper in the city of 'l'oday, it.is 60 per cent. Even women withloung children
are
Boston printed these words: 'lThe family in the old sense is going back to work. About 51 per cent of women with children
disappeaiing from our land." Those words could have been written vorrnger than one year old now work outside the home.
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\
Another big change is the increase in the number of families Working Mothers
that are headei by orily one person, usually the mother. Today 60 per cent of all American women work outside their
Between 1970-aqd i988, the number of single-parent families homes. ThiS is a big change for the United States. Only 40 years
more than doubled- from 3,8 million to 9,4 million. In 1988, ago, 75 per cent of all Americans disapproved of wives who
nearly one out of every four children under 18 lived with only worked for wages when their husbandJ could support them
one parent financially. Today most people accept that many women work
some families look even'less li <e the typical traditional family.
They may consist'of a couple rf one race who'have adopted "tt11fl:,:n"^I"X; reasons why mothers anct wives work. one
children of another race, or from another country: In rnany states, reason,is that thgre are many opportunities for women. A woman
single people inay also adopt children. Some people take in foster' in the United States can work at many jobs, including an engineer,
chi'idrin-childien whose parents cannot take care bf thern. a physician, a teacher, a government official, a mechanic or a
Another change is that families in the United States are getting manual labourer. The other reason women work is to earn money
smaller. In the mid-1700s, there were six people in the aveiage to.support their families. The majority of women say they work
household. Today the average hbusehold contains between two bechuse it is an economic necessity.
and three people. A household is defined as any place where at About 80 per cent of women who work support their children
Ieast one person is living. r,vithout the help of a man. These women often have financial
One recent change is that the number of marriages is rising'
difficulties. One in three families in the United States headed by
Many experts see these trends as a sign that Americans are a woman lives in poverty. Many divorced Americans are required
returningto the values of marriage and family' by law to help their former spouses support their children, but
. Divorce not all fulfil this responsibility.
A wife's working may add a strain to the family. When both
About half of all mnrriages in the United States end in parents work, they sometimes have less time to spend with their
divorce. These numbers are very high as they are in many children and with each other
industrialized countries. A divorce happens when a husband and
In other ways, however, many Americans believe that the family
a wife legally end their marriage. The number of divorces Srew
has been helped by women working. In a recent survey, for example,
steadily in ttie United States Tor many years. Now,-however, the
the majority of men and women said that they prefer a marriage
nqmbei has stopped growing. During the past few years the
number of divorces has been decreasing i' which the husband and wife shar-e responsibilities for horne
, Couples in the United States may still be getting divorced at .jobs, such as child rearing and housework.
fairly high rate, but this doesn't mean that they do-not believe in Many teenagers feel that working parents are a benefit. On
It simply means that thby are giving up being married lhc other hand, when parents have'younger children, who require
^utii"g.i.
to a paiticular individual. Most people in the United States who ' rtrore time and care, people's views are more mixed about whether
ail mert who get lrrrving a working rnother is good for the children.
llt diuo.."d marry again. Abouf Soper centallof women who get What happens to children whose parents work? More than
Iivorced remarry., About 75 per cent of
divorced remarry. lralf of these children are cared for in day care centres or by
United States divorce laws allow men and women to ' lrlbysitters. The rest are cared for by a relative such as a
terminate bad marriages; getting a divorce is now rather easy trying to help working parents
11r'irnclparent. Some companies are
in the United States. And wnite i19ZA study of families in oner, lry.ffe.i'g flexible work hours. This allou's one parenito be at
town in the American Midwest found few happy couples, in Irorne with the children while the other pu."nt is at work.
7977 researchers who went back to the same town found that ('onrputers may also help families by allowing parents to work
-u.e th"n 90 per cent of the married couples in that town said ;rl lheii home with.a home computer.
they were satisfied or very satisfied *ith their marriage.
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It
Mar'riagie and Children teenagers rely on their parents more for guidance and advice
Unlike their parents, rnany single adult Americans today are than on their friends.
waiting longer to get married. Some women and men are delaying When American parents and teenagers do argjue, usually it is
marriage and family bgcause they want to finish school or start about simple things. One survey found that the most common
their cireers; otheis want to become more established in their reason most parents and teenagers argue is because of the
chosen profession. Most of these people. eventually will -marry' teenager's attitude towards another family member. Another
One survey showed that only 15 per cent of all single adults in common reason for arguments is that parents want their children
the United States want to stay single. Some women become more to help more about the house. The third most cornmon basis for
interested in getting married and starting a family as they enter arguments between parents and teenagers is the quality of the
their'30s. teenager's schoolwork..
One positive result niay co-e from rnen and women marrying Arguments, whi'ch involve diugs or alcohgl use, occur in a
later. People'who get mdrried at later ages have fewer divorces. much smaller group of families. Most parents (92 per cent) said
Along with the decision to wait to marry, couples are also.waiti-ng they were happy with the way their children are growing up.
longer before they have children, sometimes in order to be mdre . Family Violence
firmly established economically, Rearing a child in the United
States is costly. Not all families learn to work out their problems. Sometimes
Some couples today are deciding not to have childreri at all. family problems can explode into violence-. Twenty per cent of
In 1955, only one per cent of all women expected to have no all murders in the United States involve people who ire related.
children. Today more than five per cent say they want to remain Often peop[e learn violence from their mothers or fathers. These
childless. The ability of a couple to choose whether they will people repeat the vicious pattern by abusing their children or
have children means that more children who are born in the United beating their_wives. There are also-cases of wives abusing their
States are very much wanted and loved. husbands. Violence in the fanily is a serious problern in the Lnited
States, as it is in many countries.
Generation Gap' , People are looking for answers. One solution is to arrest people
States are wanted and loved, why who abuse members of their family. Traditionally, policein the
If children in the United united States hesitate to interfere with family probiems. However,
do they fight with their parents? At least this is one view of the shame of an otherwise law-abiding man being arrested for
familiei that American television shows present. The other type hunting his wife had been shown to be effective in itopping him.
of'family shown on American television is one in which everyone Many cities and towns in the United States also bifer-,,safe
is great iriends with everyone else. These families seem to have no
l)r)mes" in which an abused person can find shelter. Help is also
problems.
rrvailable for parents who abuse their children. By working together
In real Iife, most families irr the United States fall somewhere irr groups,-parents can learn how tb break the pattern of hurting
in the middle. Talk about a "generation gap" has been exaggerated. llrcir children.
S t r o n g F a m i l.i e s

In-a perfect world, families would have no problems. parents

society, AmeriCan children are taught not to obey blindly what is ,l
rvould know how to rear their children to be r-esponsible adults.
told tb them. When children become teenagers, they,question Arrericans and others throughout the world are trying to learn
rvlr.t makes strong families.rPerhaps families ."tr i""ir how to
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the values of their parents. This is a part of growing up that I srlvc theirproblems. Researchers at the university of Nebraska
helps teenagers stabifizetheir own valuis. In onE natioial-su{vey i
80 per cent of the parents answering the survey said their-children
lrirvc found some answers. Strong huppy families share some
grlrlterns whether they are rich or poor, black or white.
shaied their beliefs and values. Another study showed that mostl
appreciation. Members of strong families are also committed to
one another and they tend to be religious. Finally, when problems
alise, strong families work together to solve them
The values that Americans cherish such as democ,racy and
economic and social freedom are,values that Americans want for
their farnilies. Americans work hard to make their families
successful. Today, however, farnilies are changing, but they are not
disappearing. Americans accept that strong, hupPy families come
in many sizes and shapes.

1. Describe a typical family in your country according to

the same values:
' Family patterns
' Working mothers What's the best technique of children's upbringing?
. Marriage and children In what way were you brought up?
. Generation gap
' Family violence
' Strong families
t7
Itt Anterica there are tu;o kinds of traoel - first class
THE PROBLEM YEAR5
and toith children.
Robert Benchleg Nick Ashley is a famous guitarist. Here he talks about some of
llre problems he faced as a teenager.
When I was sixteen or seventeen, I used to have terrible
t6 ;r'guments with my father. You see, he wanted me to become an
;r.countant, like him. But I wasn't doing very wgll at school. First,
I l.iled my exams. I should have passed th-ern quite easily, but I
I',IOW MUCH FREEDOM 5HOULD CHILDREN HAVE? lr;rcl.'t worked harcl enough. My father wasn't very pleased
;rlr'ut that. And then I got into trouble at sctrool. I wanted to
It is often said that we live in a permissivg age, one in u'hich lrkc:r feu'days off, so I had written a letter saying that I was ill.
I lrac[ signed the letter- with my father's name. When the
Irr';rrlma^ster fou.d out, he wanted to expel me, But my parents-
rvtnt to see him ancl he let me stay on.
I really used to hate my school. It was called Greenbank
t',llt'ge. It was a ter.ible place, full of really boring teachers.
llrcrc r,,'as only one teacher that I liked. His name was Jack
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\r
Mayfield and he taught music. He e other Becorning an Adult
teachers. For one thing, he was qu
med to
The Sunday Times asked people when they felt they had
;;jA ;";ic and like Teaching i[. goto
me the
every
finally said goodbye to their childhood, and become an adult.
g"'itut I got very interested in it. I used to his.h.9"t9 Here are some of their answers.
i"."f. Afier thei"son *ur over we drank coffee and listened to "Manhood finally struck home on the day that I left the
,..Liar. We used to talk for hours. It was wonderful to find Army. It had to do with facing up to the dull, dreary routine of
,o-.o"" I could really talk to. I'm still verygone grateful.to Jack life. Adulthood with its weekly wage-packets and protecting
ir;;fi;fu. ff ir h"dtr't b""tt for him I'd have mad at that the crease in one's trouser-knees was all that lay ahead."
school. Willis H all, playu;rig ht
I loved learning the guitar. Soon I became quite a good player' "I was 15 years old and my brother'Tim was 10 when we
I deciddd to become a ft"rofessional musician. I knew it would be Iearnt my father only had weeks to live. We were told there had
difficult, but I want.d to't.y. Jack was in favour of it, but my been a number of heart operations for this sort of complaint but
i"lt didn't like the idea. Oi course, I didn't want to tell himmy at no one over the age of 30 had survived.'Nothing was ever going
iirst,"rbecause I knew he wouldn't understand' to be the saine again."
lather said he wanted to talk to me' He asked rn
ded Rosie Bcrnes, Member of Parliament
lo Jo *n.t I left school, I told him I wanted to He "Experience has taught me to behave like an adult when it's
said verY riskY' He said !-9ught t9 necessary, which is quite a lot of the time. Therefore I work, pay
beco t was a very safe job' W-e talked bills, answer letters from lawyers and accountants, and consider
for a ked, the more depressed I got' Of how what I do today will affect tomorrow. But I don't think
cour her was r aY' it's wise to give up childhood so as much as possible I've held
would be more sensible to pass my exam nic onto mine. I'm 41 and 14 cgncurrently."
But I didn't'want to do that. I was only np Marsha Hunt, singer
guitar. That was all I wanted to dol "I have been pretending to be grown up for some 25 years
now. I know precisely the moment it happened: lying in hospital.
I turned my head to the side to meet a pair of piercing blue,
How do your parents influence your major cho^ices in two-minute-old eyes, totally dependent on me. A slow realization
life concerning "ur"ur, school, choosing a university? .. "My God, she thinks I know what I'm doing!" I've been playing
lVlummies and Daddies ever since.",
Jane Asher, actress

'{'1. Do you feel you ane an adult? When has this happened?/
When will this happen?
WHAT DO PARENT5 THINK? 2. What does it imply? *
Well, most are Plea ildren aren't
'fheY agree
go into pubs ald buY 19
ihouldrrt be legalizei strictel anti-
will FAn ILY ,I ATTERS "'"..;..,'
T-h;ii'; afraid Thut th.i. children misbeh?": i1d g:l fll?
;;;;ti; Th.; u"ri"". it's necessary to protect -their so's and, My daughter
Jungttt"tt from as many'dangers n possible, even.if lhtt:"-,T-tltlt: .fames Midford: My wife and I only had the one child. It
;;"";";;tiiff.;1t f"" t."nu-g"r, to grow up as independent and rrright have been nice to have a son, but we didn't plan a family,
responsible young adults' rrl just had Amy.
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lr
I see her as my best friend. I think she'd always come to me
first if she had a problem. We had the same sense of humour, and
share interests. I don't mind animals, but she is completely
obsessed with them, and has always had dogs, cats, horses,.and
gold fish in her life.
We were closest when she was about four, which I think is a
lovely age for a child. They know the parents best and don't have
the outside contacts. She must have grown up suddenly when she
went to school, because I remember her growing away from her
family slightly. Any father who has a teenager daughter comes
across an extraordinary collection of people, and there seemed to
be dn endless stream of strange young men coming through our
house. By the time I'd learned their names they'd gone away
and I had to start learning a new lot. I remember I told her off
once in front of her friends and she didn't talk to me for days
afterwards
I wanted more than anything else for her to be happy in what
she was doing, and I was prepared to pull strings to help her on
her way. She went to a gbod school, but that didn't work out. She
must have upset somebody. When she left she wanted to becorne
an actress so I got her into drama school. It wasn't to her liking
so she joined a theatre group and began doing bits and pieces in
films. She was doing well but then gave it up. She probably found
it boring. Then she took up social work, and finally went to
work for a designer and he became her husband. And that's
.really the story of her life. She must be happy with him * they
are always together.
' They have the same tastes in books and music, but it takes me
a while to get used to new pop songs. I used to take her to see
the opera, ritri.tr is my big pu.iiott,6ut I don't think she likes it
very much; she doesn't come with me anymore.
, I don't think she is a big television watcher. She knows when
I'm on, and s[e rnight watch, but I don't know. It's not the kind
of things she tells me.
We're very grateful for Amy. She's a good daughter as
daughters go. W" are looking fo'rward to being grand parents.rr
I'm sure she'll have a son.
My father w 1. How can you explain
such ignbrance of each other,s
ika Midford: I don't really krow my father. He isn't'easy'to characters with father and daughtei?
get on with. He's tluite self-centred, and a little bit vain, I think; 2. Which of them is,not sincere?
ind in some way quite unapproachable. The public must think hd .3. Are y-ou sure yofr know your parents and they know you
is very easy-going, but at home he keeps himself to himself. well enough?
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?o spend lots of money on leather. I love it. I paid f190 for one of
my jackets."
Sharon .goes away on holiday once a year with a friend in
August. "I usually go to Majorca but this year I'm going to
sHARON Teberife. I like a holiday .with lots and lots of nightlife. If I had
loads of money, I'd go to Malibu and get a house next door to
Sharon Dole, 19, lives in Essex in a new town just outside Rob Lowe so that I could sit there and stare. The furthest'I've
chelmsford. She left her North London comprehensive at the age been is Portugal." ,

of 16 with two o levels and now works as a hairdresser earning For the future, Sharon wants to avoid doing what her mother
an average of f70.a week. did... I don't think she's lived her life to the full. I want to
Whei I was 72 ny biggest ambition was to leave home by enjoy my life even more than I have already'l.
the time I was 16 and to have a Porsche by the time I was 17.
1. Do you like Sharon's viewing of life?
2. lVhat is it for you to live yo'ur life "tci the full"?

*THE
YOUNE€R aENERATION KNOWS BEST'
Old people are always saying that the young are not what
they were. The same comment is made from generation to
generation and it is always true. It has, never been truer than it
is today. The young are better educated. They have a lot more
rnoney to spend and enjoy more freedom. They grow up more
quickly and:are not so dependent on their parepts. They think
more for thenrselves and do not blindlyraccept the ideas of their
clders. Events which the older generation remembers vividly are
rrothing more than past history. This is as it should be. Every
r)ew generation is different from the one that preceded it. Today
used to make me be in by 10.30 during the week'" lhe difference is very marked indeed.
When Sharonls not down the disco, she spends a lot of her Thp old al,ways assume imple
lcason that they have been t like
Io feel that their values a ened.
And this is precisely what the young are doing. They are
r;uestioning the assumptions of their elders and disturbing
*ut"n the telly. On the whole I don't w.at9h much telly., I prefer l.heir complacency. They take leave to doubt that the oldei
Iistening to records and I absolutely idolize Duran Duran. As l"lcneration has created the best of all possible worlds. What they
loi futnTon, I don't wear what eueryone else wears. I dress forl tr.jcct more than anything is conformity. Office hours, for instance,
sexuality and what I feel comfortable in. when I go shopping I rrlc nothing more than enforced slavery. Wouldn't people work
lrcst if they were given complete freedom and responsibility?
And what about clothing? Who said that all the men in the
world,should wear drab grey suits and convict haircuts? If we
turn our minds to more serious matters, who said that human
differences can best be solved through conventional policies or
by violent means? Why have th
violence to solve their problems
guilt-ridden in their personal-
ambitions and the desire to a
possessions? Can anything be right with the rat race? Flaven't
the old lost touch with all that is important in life?
Thes are not questions the older generation can shrug off
lightly. heir record over the past forty years or so hasn't been
exactly spotless. Traditionally, the young have turned to their
elders for guidance. Today, the situation might be reversed. The old -
if they are prepared to admit it - could learn a thing or two
from their children. One of the biggest lessons they could learn is
that enjoyment is not "sinful". Enjoyment is a principleonecould
apply to all aspects, of life. It is surely not wrong to enjoy your
work and enjoy your leisure; to shed restricting inhibitions. It
is surely not wrong to live in the present rather than in the past or
future. This emphasis on the presdnt is only to be expected because
the young have grown up under the shadow of the bomb: the
constant threat of complete annihilation. This is their glorious
heritage. Can we be surprised that they should so often question
the sanity of the generation that bequeathed it?

the next is not as they were? t'ared at least a little for equality for wbmen
,24 per cent of boy"s
said they did not care at ill.
1 The fundamental defect of fathers in our competitioe society '
i is that they toant their chi.ldren to be a credit to tlrcm. , 1. Compare your priorities in life with those of an average
i Bertrand Russel teenager. Are they alike?
2. What is you goal in life?

""o*',.1
"'"""-:.
QUTET, 5ECURE titFE rS'eOAa- FOR CHTLDREN ,
BEIN6 A TEENAaER'S PARENT
Teenagers want well-paid jobs, a cosy family life and goodr ,. A London psychiatrist says that the problems of teenagers are
health, and would prefer to spend a quiet night at home in front ,l'lcn overestimated. The list thing most of them want is to be
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completely understood. Parents should lbarn to leave
chtldren
they plan or decide things themselves'
alone sometimes,'so that can
M;;;;;;;J" pioUl.-s beiome imaller and smaller with time.
Other points he makes are:
Perhapi Parents should be
TEENA6ER5 NOW
Fashions in clothes and hairs
determined to break the law
if s not polite to make fun of
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Parents should trY to Pu

ittl" would .tot tit . to be called "past it" just because
they are in their forties or fifties'
"tto"..
"""'pirJ'i, r
,ii""fi "rf. themselves, "Whose life is it?" when they as no one is a'teenager twice.
The youDg of today do have problems. They are considered
findthems.l.,",p'shingtheirchildrentodobetter.Andthey adults long before their parents wde. This removei th" frustration
should try not to of not being taken seriously or respected, and allows much more
more
Some Parents
sensible
"-- to Persua
boYs
b..u,tt" iitild.
and sirls can deal successfullY v
'""p?r"nt"til;ld take an intirer ldren
are doing because teenagers do common and mothers often work, either because they have to or
difficultlor them thair for You because they wish to have a "career". This means that children

that she has to be home bY 11

than to admit she is afraid what
about the time she came in'
r's Parent," he saYs, "lies in not
possible, witiout refusing completely the
interfering wherever if"th"t'
;;;t;i '^;ther' and when necessary''1

1. What are the points your Parents failed to unde

when vou were a teenager?
"";: 'ffi;ilth;-;;;?ii"t b"t*"en 'parenrs and child
especially critical during teenage years?

i et us is mature eryoyqh for offspring before

the llran it was for our parents, it might also be recognized that
" 'ev of
Who
^^
offsDrina ihemseloes arrioe?
^^.-;-,^t r7.
The o
), is
xs not ?, lrt:ing a parent is also now more difficult.
"t|"il'i'Jn''ir"i""iinttari"but that adutts' Emma Fergusson (lG gears old)
Vries
.]1.9u" you prove that being a teenager today is
rlifficult than it was earlier?
more

54
': Sometimes parents are under all s They
Tlte situation of gour goutlt is not mtlsterious. Children i may.worry about money, or if they're a s ay b!
haoe neoer been good at listening to their elders but they i lonely. There may be a sick relative who re of.
haae neoer failed to imitate them. Theg must hatte no other i
models. :
fames Balduin 2

that you think a parent will dis

ey'll disapp
? If.you can y-friends
worked out argument,
well. Talk or brothers and
BEIJEVE IT OR NOT, YOUR PARENTS CAN BE sisters. llas anyone been in a similar situation? If you treat your
YOUR BEST FRIEND5 parents in an hcinest way, their response is bound to be more
.easonable. If y^ou antagonize them, ybur job will be mrrch harder.
Mother, father, brothers and sisters - they can get on your nt oft his or her. children are the only
nerves, just as you can get on theirs. Have you ever felt that you want ey don,t approve of. Help your
don't want vour father to pick you up from a party because you see th Introduce-them to your. iribnds
think your friends might laugh at him? Does your nlother's them nt similar things. Tilk to other
loud voice give you the shivers? arents y react. Introduc
'in In some
And what about you? Have you :ffi"'
personal questions in public? Or divu
members of a family can embarrass
re -i?l.ftinltl,?i1u.,", are. And
.emem.ber, if you want to change things, think before you act.
meaning to. But if you're sensitive to each other's feelings you'll Never lie to or deceive your parents. Tf,ey would far rat'her hear
be able to avoid upsetting each other too badly. the truth from you than not-know what is going on.
Understanding a parent is a two-way process. If your parents
are open and reasonable with you, you owe it to them to be -
op onable with thern. T them where 1. Have you noticed the-change in the relationship with
yo who you're going w 'll be back. your parents? What was it li ie?
or not, your parents friends, and
they'll be pleased that you'r:e growing up. They'll en.ioy being What have they done?
able to hold adult conversations with you, as well as going out
with you in the evening- clildren aren't hoppu t:ith nothing to ignore and that i
However,as you grow up,relationships within your family is ahat parents aere created for. :
will change. The adults will continue to love and look after you,
but the relationship will become nuch more one between equals.
Unfortunately, there are parents who don't seem able to reiate to
their children at all. You may find one parent easier to get on
with than the other. AMERICAN YOUTH
The difference between your philosophy and way of life and
your parents' is often referred to as the gap. You rnay flg Deborah Gore
lhink your parents are really old. But t about them as ( Associate Editctr, Junior Scholastic Magazine)
ordinary people. They have good days ys, too' What is it like to be a you'g person in the United States?

lr
emotional, physical and educational support' The role of the
family in a young person's life has changect in the past 100 years.
F-arnilies 100 years ago were large, partly because children
u,ere needed to work and earn additional money for the family.
Now, lroung children no longer work and earn wages; in addition,
providing an education and life's necessities,for children is very
expensive. As one result, American farnilies are much smaller than
in previous <lecades. In 1989, the average size of a family was 3.16
people.
In what types of families are children growing up? In 1989,
the Unitecl States Census Bureau I'eported that while most
fan-rilies retain "the traditional structure", including a father, a
rnother, cl,rildren and sometimes a grandparent, 22 per cent of all
lamilies witli childlen under 18 years old are one-parent families
(families with only a father or only a mother; the other parent
not living with the family). Why? High divorce rates, separation
and birth of children to unmarried women are :r few reasons. In
t'ases of separ-ation or divorce of the parents, the parent not living
families.
erican young PeoPle are r.i,ith the cl.rildren usually provides child-support payrnents. Most
face a Certain number of of tl're fanilies in this category five out of six are headed
ties in their relationshiPs lr1, rvott-t"t,. Ot one-parent families hea n are r.rsually
t school, which maY lead to use l)oorcr tlian ot er families. In 1989 tfie ly income in
attend school or even to running llrr: United States was $32,19'1. F'or families headed by women,
to crime and Ilrr: meclian income vr,as less than half
away from home' In extreme cases, some might turn - $15,3116.
Some of these difficulties are reiieved by government programs
become juvenile delinquents'
for ev many pr.oviding lrelp to low-income families. One such programrne,
How:ever,
-ur"
making their r\irl to Families with Dependent Chilclren (AFDC), helps poor
.o*
."..^t"ities, sch5o in the ;r;rlcnts with school-aged children. Another, the Special
the future in exciting ways' Many lirrpplernental Food Programme for Wbmen, hrfants and Children,
Uriited States are preparing for
;;;;g.;t;t. studying foicollege entrance exams or working at l,rorrides food to low-income women before and after childbirth.
th.' yf,"1":1'; irl ill, poverty affects the way in which the children in these families
;;;;-t'""1"u" ftttpit"ts,
i"ir"i*tttiJ "t "ri.."tchool ,"11 il 9:l:l:-,T:
helping the handicapped' exhibiting iir'o\r' up. Another change in farnily life is that more wives and
computers' rrrotlrcrs work outside the home. In 1988, women made up 45 per
projects at icience fairs or progranming rlrr{. of the national work force. And 65 per cent of those women
Youths and 'Iheir Families lr;rrl children under 18.'
as two W'hat do American teenagers think about their families?
The united States census Burcau defines a family r\r'r'orcling to a national survey taken during the mici-l980s,
rn"r" p.opfl t^,h. are related by bloocl, zrdoption
"l*1ti?8,:f-1]"-l
families include members of iust t
l,r'livcen one-lialf and two-thirds of all American youths have a
ffi;ffi:M "r'orrrlortable" oL "happy" relationship with their par-ent or
generations: their cliildl"nl-t-1t1"-g-h +T:Y:::Ti
;r;rrcrrts. Their traditional disagreements are over such things as:
F#ii;';J inctuoe more than two generations. There are abou
lrrrl'cw (time to come home at night), whether or not to attend
al3 illiln families in the United States. What is the purpose o r l l il3ious services; doing work around the house; and the friends
ulutitol Experts agree that the family structure should provi
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i,
believe that regulations for obtaining federal welfare assistance
with whom the Young Person unintentionally encourage teenage pregnancies.
entitled, "The Mood of A Many community programs help cut down on the numbers
National Association of Seco of teenage pregnancies. Some programs rely on strong counselling
indicates that the majoritY of Yo against premarital sex and others provide contraceptive
and values of their Parents' counselling. The "Teen Health Project'l in New York City has
Youth's Problems led to a decline of 13.5 per cent in the rate of teenage pregnancies
since 1976. Why? Their progranme offers health care, cont[ceptive
counselling, sports programs, job refer,rals and subst4nce abusb
programs.
About one million yourltl people run away from home each
year. Most return aftdr a few da5,s or a few weeks, but a few turn
to crime and become juvenile delinquents. In 1989, approximately
one-third of those arrested for serious crimes were under 18 years
of age. fuhy ut" young people committing crirDes? Among the
causes are poor family relationships (often the children were
abused or neglected while growing up), bad neighbourhood
conditions, peer pressure and sometimes, drug addiction.
Laws vary from state to state regarding juvenile delinquents.
Once arrested, a juvenile must appear in a juvenile court. Juvenile
coults often give lighter punishments to young people than to
adults who commit the same crime. Juvenile courts hope to reform
or rehabilitate the juverrile delinquent
New proglams to help troubled youths are created every
year. For example, the city of New York and the Rheedlen
lioundation provide an after-school program at a junior high
school to help keep.teens from becoming
Young people can go after school and talk
(people of their or,vn age), r'eceive academi
'^" fto-
iia"" friends who had been d irr athletic ancl social activities. One New York comrnunity's
M;;;-y.""s ,\.;;;t .u .".i9 r nousa'ds ',*:'"t:?:* librzrry offels weekday evening w.orkshops in dance, art, rnusic
t".""'J# -Stoa. "isoiand alvpg of teer
;rncl theatre. :Ihey also sponsor social events, such as theatre
;;;;: ;; J"t"p-a.itr.ing
nil
"t o
I i'ing t*^( l19-?,
their ?parents pledge not ploductions, in u'hich young people can participate. Another
.'"";l;;;"it;hl.n"tu"y and
students hav" t1r'()up, the "Youtl-r Rescue Fund" has a celebrity peer council of
drive ^r+ar .r";.Ltqg.-in rorn" schools, i"-]^jl:l lli teenage actors ancl actresses who volunteer'their time to
drug
"'t"g" with dyg problems can also ca
",;;-pttpf" increase teen crisis awareness. As one young television actress
speci n,ttnb-"tt to ast fol !:1!:
't"tid" ^r A-orino," .,n'n
from arut abuse, another problem'of America's
r;ricl: "Teenagers are an impoitant r-esource in improving the quality
million teenagers- ol life for all people."
:^^r^dn6n^\' aln^no vrrrrno women. One :^r:^^ ,lj,,
^^ Lidh)
are the statistics so high? Tl
The Po
ch per cent increase
i'i:r,
"
II resulted itt a 43
of the 1960s and 1970s' The numbers likcs, activities)?
sexually active teens also irrcreased' And
some commen 2. What care is provided by the'government to teenagers?
6l
sociology at Rome University, berieves it is parents, rather.than
?7 thei'children, who have chingecl. ,,once,
,..'-, oppressors, "
p;;il;;; seen as
';,"
THE 5TAY-AT-HO,1AE KID5 has softened. 'v

fr".do.. Noi"
At25, Alfred Hennemann seems to have it made. A law studelt for the genera Y

at the f Boun, he lives in a spacious four-room

apartm ents' home. He,comes and goes as h-e u'ishes
und ur or himself. But when he's "not in the mood
to cook", he has a place rvaiting at the family table. As for the
laundry, Alfred sorfs his dirty clothes into piles and leaves them
by the washing rnachine. His mother does the rest' Says Alfled:
"She doesn't rnind yet."
Alfred Hennemann is one of the hundreds of thousands of
Europeans over the age of 20 who still live in their parents' Mother," on the changing relations betwee'parents ancr grow.
home. Some do so out of sheer necessity, when they have lost a children. Evelyne Sur[e'o1, a French a"-ogiJjt",,"vr^ir,"t
trr"
iob or are unable to find one. Some seek the perpetuation of a stay-at-homes are ur-rdergoing a se.ri-initiati6n into
u,o.iolr"*r,ot
*ur- aird supportive parent-child relationship. Some find it st.ate. It is, in fact, a second adolescence.',
just easier and cheaper to sta
increasing numbers
middle-class
of
yourlg
1,oung
adults,
Whatever the
specially
not
well
leaving h
,
s
c,ri
rlu
'rl,'# B:i]:i,ffii::Tr.JlTit"',:'iT:,:
well-e uippe
sne ent, but
pattern is beginnirtg to tl'orry some parents - and sociologists misse the li .at home
is well. Post adolescence. has emerged as a term to describe the ;rrrd the co in bro w movcd
phenomenon lxrck. She I wanted to be indefendent,
Germany an lrut I fincl nt at home.,, O"ioiii",.s, the
of the patte nrother of she ,,never irnugin"J-tf,"'.iov
the French
ple leaving home earlier and earlier'. lr
just the opposite." In France, half the
es of 18 and 25 still live "at home"; fl
uied, the figure is three out of four'. lrr

Italian studies in three cities (Padua, Bari and Matera) indicate t'(

that just over 30 per cent of age groxp live u'ith ' '111plsIsly dependerrt. They use
their parents. Statistics for W re less drarnatic, but. 'rlrvices. They treat parents as m
as UIT Clausen, a German ps ints out: "There are or jrrst plain insult them,'. Natas
'450,000 youngsters betu'een 20 and 25 in this country who are rrrot.her )iear-old da
jobless. They ale forced to stay at home-" Ir,rre, s 6ke it for g
While the economic crisis and widespread youth unemployment lr. well nd the closef
of the last 10 years have undoubtedly played keeping post-
teenagers at home, the principal motivations have been
sociological and psychological. Franco Ferrarotti, professor- o ed "Toughlove,', where thev
d, post-teen chilclren.
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WHAT I5 A FATHER?
Edwin Louis Cole gives a goocl definition of the word "father".
He , guards, and governs in
the er disci plines,ltrengths,
and
A father led with love for his family, this love is
not a weak, d of sentimental love; it is a powerful,
giving love seeks the best interests of the child. A
father's love teaches tl-rrough example as u,ell as by precept, as
Andrew Murray points out:
-
"A successful parent studies the art of speaking in the spirit
of love, by striving to make his whole life an attraitive example
of r,vhat he has taught."
"...more children will go to sleep tonigh
home than ever in the nation's historr'. Talk
r:r'ime, clrug abuse, depression, school failure,
point to some study sonewhere blaning those problerns on the
tlisappearance of fathers from the Amer.ican family."
The dysfunctional family
The word d'ysfunctional Iitelally ncans "not working.',
z\lthough it
is overused and flequentiy misunderstood, it is an
ir( scription of ilies simply are
n( g. The baby ge. Many have
nr d tried to e es and ca.eers.
'l'lrirt was the "American Dream" r'ight?
Grow up, marry, and
lr;rve kids. Unfortulatqly, many bzrb1, [6e..rs of the 1960's became
rrrcrnbers of tlie ' ion." T more focused on
llrcir own needs on the hers. Many times
llrcir u'ants also eil "ne have produced a
e the reasons for this trend among adolescents? li.rrcration that many call the "baby busters."
2. What age do you consider normal to leave
home? ExPlain 'l- who
your answer. \\r'1 1' little
rrr no ether
Itr ;r '
x A rnother neoer realizes tltat lter children are no longer ,\',:r restrlt,betu'een 50 and 60 per- cent of yo
ther.
i children. Holbrook Jackson ,\rrrlrica grow up in single-parent homes. Even i
\t lrlrc both mother and father are present, chil

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never truly be a complete person until I found my father once
with absentee parents - parents more focused on establishing more. Then, I thought, the cloud of confusion and emotional
their care"r, fhun their families' Intimacy, bonding and turmoil would lift from my iife.
commitment -- key ingredients of true love - seem'to be missing The search ended in Houston, Texas, where I found and met
my father. It was good to put some of the ptzzle pieces of my life
back together, but still I had not filled the longing in my soul.

1. What makes a family dysfunctional in your opinion?

2. Why should children always stay with their mother in
case of a divorce?
3. What is the difference between father's and mother's
love to children?
American horire:
- children from broken families are nearly twice as likely as

CHILD ABU5E
There are four types of child abuse. They are defined as:
-Physical: An injury or pattern of injuries that happen to a
child that are not accidental. These injuries may include beatings,
burns, bruises, bites, welts, strangulation, broken bones or death.
-Neglect: Neglect occurs when adults responsible for the
well being of a child fail to provide for the child. Neglect may
include not giving food, clothing, shelter, failure to keep children
t:lean, lack of supervision and withholding medical care.
-Ernotional: Any chronic and persistent act by an adult
lhat endangers the mental health oi emotional deveiopment of
Searching for mY f ather ;r child including rejection, ignoring, terrorizing, corrupting,
constant criticism, menace remarks, insults, and giving little or
Several years ago I had the opport.unity to share my testimony rro love, guidance and support.
with Sheila_walsh. tr shared with her how the absence of rny own
- Sexual: Sexual abuse is the sexual assault or sexual exploitation
o1'children. Sexual 4buse rnay consist of numerous acts over a long
;rcriod of time or a single incident. Children.can be victimized
lrom infancy through adolescence. The peryetrator keeps the child
l'rom disclosing through intimidation, threats and rewards.
and what I thought was iove. It was all to no avail. -hventually- In the United States between 1:3 and 1:4 females are sexually
i folln*ed a darf, path of loneliness littered with the gaibage of ;rlrrrsed as children. At least I:7 to 1:10 males have been sexually
drugs, alcohol, and lau'lessness. rrssaulted before they reach the age of 18.
i- thought the missing link in my life was rny real fat.her' In B0% of the sexual abuse cases the child knows the offender
never ..u[y knew hirn. I had not seen him- since I ."as about ;rrrrl in 50% of all cases, the offender is a member of the child's
years old; iwas 21 when I began searching for him. Even-thoug lrorrsehold.
'my
mother and stepfather loved me, I somehow felt that I woul
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Abuse cI-osses all socio-economic nurses, educators, mental health practitioners, law enforcement
backgrounds agencies, and the judiciar-y. These parties are involved ln the
identification, reporting, investigation, and treatment of cases of
In cases
child maltreatment.
number of c Protective services are provided by the Department of Human
abuse, with Services to abused and neglected children and their families
abuse. Tu'o without regard to income. Special rehabilitative services for
and of these reported cases, two thousand of the childlen die. prevention and treatment of child abuse are provided by D.H.S.
Over 3 milfion (3,195,000) children were reported for child and other cornmunity resources to children and families such
abuse and neglect to child protective service (CPS) agelcies in as: homemaker services, parenting classes, respite day care, foster
the United States, in 1997. The "National committee to Prevent care, financial assistance, psychological and psychiatric services,
and sexual abuse treatment.

1. Does the problem of child maltreatment exist in you

country?
2. What are the ways of solving this problem?
percentages have undergone some shift since 1986 when
ipproxim-ately 26% of thJ children were reported ^for physical
otrr", 16% for sexual abuse, 55%fot neglect, and 87' for emotional
maltreatment (AAPC, 1988). *'"'*'*"n
A social overview VTCTITTIlS AND PERPETRATORS
T nder the ag
Iurs s ories of chi
rlt'l'in Mental Inj
A llrs titution, or
II lcgal Drugs)
Perpetrators of child abuse come from all walks of life, races,
third of rnaltreated children are reported to child protection rcligion and nationalities. They come from all professions and
agencies. Significant numbers of victims rernain ulidentified lr'present all levels of intelligence and standards of living. There
rs rro single social strata free from incidents of child abuse.
Some perpetrators of child abuse may have social or
l,svt:hological problems such as depression or low self-esteem.

and treatment, may become the child abusers of tonorror'v'

As rvith any social issue, child abuse is a problem fol the
entire community. Achieving the goals of protective -services
requires the cooidination of Tu"I ieson.ces. Each profe::i9,tl,t! ,rl,rrsc. Stress (including financial stress) is also a frequent
gro,rp and agency involved with a family assumes responsibili rorrllibuting iactor.
f"or specific e'iements of the Child Protective Service (CPS) proce Altusive parents may show disregard for the child's own needs,
The bepartment of Human Services rt'orks closely with physic lirrrilccl abilities, and feelings. Many abusive parents believe that

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tell," creating a conspiracy of silence about the abuse'

'*O"O*O,U

. LISTEN TO THE PLEA

Bg Joy L. Reed
CRASH - the front door slams. You are home and our family The pa ly carry my r
rrrrclplace iting ambul s
lirrorv if I will likely s
I xl)erlence.

" l. What causes such behaviour by a parent?

happened," you whine "I don't want to get mad, you need to 2. In what way should such perpetrators be punished?
t ttt. houie cleaner," you say, "I uT so-rry ygll made me correct
you again. I love you." I understand; after all it is rny fault'
""p
i.urrr"ld my faults fiom my mother,-who always needed correctin
I remember watching dad punish her. I need to be a better wifd
you work so hard uid urk so little of the kids and rne. I am s(
Iuck5, you love me; no one else would. How could I support

70
"You want a number 11,'. ,,No more seats on top; five seats
inside".
Motorcars, buses
the road. In most
is heavy traffic in

33

CAR DRIVINo AND TRAFFTC REoULATIONS

g cities getting worse from

e the surest way of getting
o obey the traffic rules if he
32
Here are some.things to remember.
CITY AND TRAFFIC 1. Obey the traffic lights. Don,t cross before the light turns
,qreen or the signal reads "walk".
" London is so,large that visitors ntust learn to use buses and 2. Don't cross streets in the middle of a block.
the underground to get about. You can get-a map of the 3. The pedestrian walks on a sidewalk in the US, but on the
,rrrd".g.o,rid, th. bus-routes at any ticket office. The word pavement in Britain.
"UndJrgroultd" across a large circle shows- yol wlrelg the stations
are. ThJ London underground ir called the "tube"'
Bus stops are marked clearly. In the suburbs buses do not
stop unlessil.." are passengers who wish to get on or off . These

give you the change.

The London buies are very large. They have seats both upstai
and downstairs. English children like to sit on the front seats
a big London bus. They can see everything that is happening i
the streets. 2 Parking in many cities can be a probrem. Remember there
Here are some of the things you rnay hear on a bus in Lon ,rrr'.s-uch-things as "No parking" signs, parking rnetres, and
"Fares, please"' pirrl<ing lots.
"Four peDce, Please". ,1. When parking your car never take up more space than
"Pull up inside; plenty of seats on top"' rr'( ('ssary stay withi' the lines of parkirrg spaces
"standing room onlY" rrll purk too close to the other cars. - and do
"No, sir, thit bus doesn't go to Victoria Station"'
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4. If you violate the parking qyt you are sure to find a
,,ticket" pasted on your windscreen. This is a summons to appear
in court. You may either send payment for your fine by mail or
pay your fine in court.

1. Should the number of cars and traffic in your city be

somehow reduced? WhY?
2. Is traffic in all big moderri cities similar to the traffic """"'""'"":" rrr'.r'rr".
in your city? Can you spot any differences? i Clearly, then a citg is not a concrete jungle, it is a human i
3. Does it maki any use having a car in big cities? (Just I zoo.
think of traffic jarns and parking problems). :;
. Desmond Morris i
:
..""..".........."i

Ta:xt 34
TOWN
CREATTVE ALTERNATIVE5 TO URBAN SPRAWL:
A TALE OF TWO CITIE5

raised pavements on which people walk'

. In very large towns, which are generally called cities, countless
pedestrians *ilk ulong the foot-pavement forrning two smoothl
ilowing ceaseless currents. In England walkers keep to th
right, vehicles on the road keep to the left.
" whileusually
People cross the street'at special places, called crossi
When the traffii is very he"uy, the policeman', who regulates
movement of the cars"and buses, has to stop the never-endi
stream by raising one hand, thus affording the pedestrians, a ch
of crossing the street. On the footpaths, close to the gutter, s
dustbins into which refuse is Put.
In large towns the ground floor and the first storeys of
houses thit line the principal streets consist of shops. These sh
present most bttractive features. The windows are very large and
plut"r of glass often reach almost to the pavement._ It is interesti So how do-you build a healthy economy and keep a sense
of
to look at the shop-windows where the artiqles on sale are displayr p.ipllrbourhood? How do you .uu. u downtown?
Ho."-Jo uo"
74
accommodate growth without traffic jams? How do you create eer Square and found a hub of
affordable houiing? And how do you protect your land and
water supplies?
questions, I travelled to oregon
. To find the answers to these the
c"lifornia, where some of more ambitious programs to
"rrd cobblestone street behind me ran poriland's new light
limit urban sprawl are in Place. rail line,
opened in 1987. Almost usfuis of people
Portland, Oregon waiting qnder protected land,s 500 buses.
Each shelter contains a detaile s route, p;;;;;
Twenty years ago, the economy of downtown Portland, Oregon, and a TV screen displaying the "
was as w"uli us any ailing downtown in the country. Stores were many growing areas arbund the country, officials
!n generaily
,t.uaity leaving tie areaind the streets, they used to say, "closed pessimistic about mass transit,:ayilg people
are
iefuse to live inJattenis
at 5 p.h.'; Itt 1969 the nation's then, largest-regional mall was centralized enough to make it feasibl-e. But, portland
built across the river that borders downtown Portland stealing transilifficials
note, a
half of downtown's commerce overnight.
Suburbs mushroomed in distant corners of Portland's 4t"fi;
Portlan
i*
metropolitan area, Pulli
forcing the city to biild
and
allY
growth il
new private development along lhe transit lines.
co"trii"ting 6 air Pollu eral
Portland's downtown car traffic now looks like that of
rJ""a"tat fo'r all but a few mon Bill (,own half its size, and air poilution'standards
ui"
a
wvatt. director of the Association for Portland Progress, irverage of one day a year. "io-ti"a un
,,downtown was clearly on the slide," and going downhill fast.
A real atmosPhere crisis started. Davis, California
A year Iater, Neil Goldschmidt was elected as Portland's rnayor In various cor
and launched a $ 420 million bus and railway plan. At the same
ountry, old cities have begun
rlowntown revital that may someday illt
time, Portland halted construction on one of its main expressways i in the
along the Willamette Riverand used much of t\r highway *:l"y
Itind of life Portla t even ,f tfr"V ,ri.L"Ji., uri.rg
io. iru* transit. In the highway's place, Portland burlt a dly designs to make their citiei
*uterf"otrt park. Several yearJlater, the city- tore down a parking on't,keep developments on the
garage thatisat on downto.Wn's most valuable piece of real estate,i to sprawl.
place, with $ 8.5 million, Portland built a facilitv that o fighting such suburban sprawl
i" iti g restrictions, such as those in
ao.r"'i draw a penny of income. It's now a piazza named
appropriately, Pioneer Square._ ,000 in the middle of California,s
" Th; oveiall goal wal to do what most city officials fear
impossible: bring people to the c-entre-of the city day and^night'
the early 1980s,"dbwnto*n employment had grown -by 60 p.er c'
Watking through Portland one sunny morning, I passed dc esl;rl.c development. As a result,
of nooks aid which told me that city planners alrlt, to slow the city's accele
".utties,
carefully thought of me, the pedestrian. City Parks and fountains
['et'liriu amount of low and mo
from the s-"Il and cosy to the large and glorious - pop tlr;rlrrt.ain its peaceful and divers
throughout downtown. An old colonnade facade was saved 'l'he mixed approach
portland's busy Saturday market. Drinking f.un to hous
bordei for pt,wl.h control regulation, which involves a point
are everywhere. systemiancl a

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36

THE WORLD's URBAN EXPLOSTON

for building permits.

Davis also restricts the size of its shopping centres to eight
acres. The idea behind this rule is to create commercial centres that
are oriented to each neighbourhoods, rather than expansive regional

When it's hot, thanks to landscaping regulations,

underneath canoPies of trees.
, in essence, has been to create an alternative to
some of the worst aspects of sprawl.
As in any city, there have been limits to the creativity of city
officials. But the community ethic in Davis runs deep, even in
some pr-ivate de rltant, recentlY
elected as the fi in more than a
decade, built a s that is reputed
to be one of the most innoy:rtive subdivisions in the world. The
project, called Village Homes, comprises 240 homes on 62 acres,
which are threaded u'ith vineyards, fruit orchards, knolls of
wild and a netu.'ork of small Parks
bicyc mes sit in tight clusters along
And, , the homes back up against the
intim The front yalds open onto the
areas of countryside.
ii",,i,ililil5'$f,itg#Mi!:'t:irA*'lK&12$$$iY.W
cities?
city from urban sprawl
or is it a f,orm of luxury for the city-dwellers? I

3. Can new technology manage with the problems of,

growing populatirin i.n the city? (Traffic jam screens on 'f-he urbanization trend in developing
road, high-speed underground trains...) rr;r(ions
:, A big hard-boiled citg u,ith no nxore personality than a Only sev ntr-es 950:
DADET CUD. N.rv Yor-k, L s, Ger kyo_
,t,,
RagTnond Chandler |oliohama, and and

78 79
demand had grown in
evolved over
decades, if not centurie
re of London
and Paris reflects slow,
residents. By
be 93, and 80 of these will be in
develoPmdnt and a low to
re luxuries of the Past'
orld urban PoPulations has
massive traffic jams,
of electric and water
ational facilities, and
costs are the stuff of dailY
existence.
---- 'lvlexico
population of
ft oueh demographers warned that the others
cid;"rie;;;i" during the 1970s, fewgrow from believed such a
to
;;.;;ld;.."i- v.t the"metropolis didmlllion by 2010. ^8.million
Similar
iZ -iffi"" feople, and it rnay reach 30
;;";;i;;r'f"r'oin"i developing nations are now being
accepted
as realistic
T'he paradox of population growth
Formostofmankind'shistoryworldpopulationgrewslowly,
epid"mi.r,]arni.e, -u"q "n1o"ic malnutrition. Thoug['
the mortality rate was high, ih. bitth rate was ;liSfrtfV l]g|"t'
"n".f..JUy
;;;^;;lh lhlt small;;;"; our numbers graduallv increased'
*^^-Hu-""
population grows much like a savings account T:T-t
.ornlound inferest -"great-er amounts yield greater amountS.i
English economist Thoiras Malthus .it."a lnit"fact
in his 179q'
;ir'*v the Principal.of Population," warning tFl ll,tll A clouded crystal ball
"r ii - wbuld soon outweigh the abilitl
of the earth to"n.n..ied
";;;'..r""-" Hou'man), people can the earth hold? Will birth and death
feed them' ,r-' I
But Malthus was writing on the eve of a new era' when t apace of
industrial revolution *o"tdt.u"sform Europe. The continen I r replace
did rise substantially during the 19ih century
I pollution
"n.,ntutio" rate, but simultane
ilA;;i^6;;utitt -"gt s towered t6edeathproduction
(

advanc6s also allowed food to rise. An

"grrc"it"r"l to America helped siphon . p:J"!jtT :i":.t:l
"""?h"';;*ty-*ia""ed iap between"lfbirth and death rat
"iiGiutio"
g.uJuutty began to close al.smaller f?-,tlt-t1.!:::Tt^:.::ii
:;;;;;;i". fnut trend qui.ckened the in industrialized countr
during the 20'h.""i".V,.u-"Jtoauy gap between births a
deaths is once again small'
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metropolitan Tokyo, which will have 24 million people
Th scannot be ignored - is expected
to be among the global top rive, London, runt second-in
W Past for solutions; "d t"t t5.
with ten million people, will not .rr"n rn"k" 2010's
t950
for are in uncharted'
In plac es of natura
challenging waters. threeperc
thatalone - meaning
o double a-
1. What are the reasons of such population growth? years. But equally powerful are the strea
2. What may be the consequences of the population fron th.e countryside. More often than not, ven the most appalling
growth? urban living- conditions are an improvement on whatever those
3. How can it be managed? who suffer them have left behind.
what confronts and confounds urban planners is the
37 enormity of these trends. There have never been cities of 30 million
people, let alone ones dependent on roads, sewer and water
suppries
barely adequate for uiban areas a tenth that size.
NIGHTMARE OF THE MON5TER CITIE5 . The great urban industrial booms of Europe and America in
the nineteenth and twentieth centuries sustained the cities that
tlgV hglle"d to spawn. But in today,s swelling inirJ Wo.ta
By Spencer Reiss cities, the flood of new arrivals far oufstrips the silpply of jobs
It is a sweltering afternoon in the in the biggest particularly as modern industriesplt a premium -
city ever seen oir the earth. Twenty--ei people swarm ""i..tnotog-y
than manpower. So it wilfbe viiturlly irnfossrbi.
-
to find
about an 8O-mile-wide mass of smoky ounding high- 'zrther
perrnanent ernployme't for 30 to 40 per cent of th; 1,000
million
riiing islands of power and wealth new city dwellers expected by the year 2010.
dne-third of the city work force is unemployed' Many of the optimists maintain that runaway urban growth can be
stemmed by rnaking rural or small-town life riore attractive.
S,me say that the tre'd is self-correcting, since conditions
.vc.tually get bad enough to convince people that city tir. irwill rro
irrprovene't after all. Rut pessirnists see i gloomier correction
r'Piclemics, starvation and revolution. I'the e"nd, both
sides agree
llrirt the world's biggest cities are mushrooming into th. unkno*rr.
Survival course
Yet sorne cities still manage to cope.
Seoul,.ridi'g the crest of South korea's economic boom, is
are expected almost to double in size, generatir-rg economic and rr'ently.b.uildi'g a f2,500 million undergrouncl railway system
'
social problems that will far outstrip all previons experience. I lr;ri. should ease some of the worst
tr.affic problems rn th'e world.
Jusi EO years ago some 700 million people lived in. cities: t )r't'r the last decade Tokyo has cleared up
much of its legendary
Today the number stands at 1 800 millioD, ancl by the end of the
first ilecade of the century it will top 3,000 nillion more than "rrr()8.
l{ong I(ong has rehoused 1.3 milrion people in new high-rise
half the world's estimated population '' l'u r)s such as Sha Tin. Built on land recliim^ecl frorn the #a and
The flood of ng not the richest countrie$ 1';rrl<ly fie-lcls, Slia Tin and its sister towns are totaily self-
but the poorest. stimated 650 million peoplf r''rrt'ained, down to playgrounds, inclustrial areas and a iarlway
will crou'd into illion or more three-quarte4 Irrrl into tl-re colony's -ain business district.
of them in the developing world. only a single First wor.ld city
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The essence of the larger problem is that despite the dreadful
conditiorrs that urban squatters face, their numbers are growing
at rates as much as twice that of the cities themselves - and
every step taken to improve living conditions in the sluns only
attracts more rnigrants.
One solution is to ban migration into the cities. Both China
and the Soviet Union use internal passports or residence permits
to try to control urban growth, the Russians with.rather more
success.
Mexico City planners are already gamely laying plans for a
metropolitan region of 36 million people by the year 2010. If
nothing else, there is a kind of New World bravery in that.

World countries?
;,hi: fiffi*ffi
2. What are the problems that capital cities are facing 38
already? What can be done about them?
3. Explain the play on words in the last line of the article. 5EA5ON5 I
The most pleasant season in Europe is the spring, from March
till June. In May the weather is fine. The trees put forth little
buds, the meadows grow green; the flowers begin [o bloom. There
irre no sharp frosts during the night. The nightingale, swallow,
t'uckoo, and other birds come back from Africa, build their nests,
lay and hatch their eggs and rear their young ones. The new
crop is shooting (up). Nature looks full of promise.
By the end of June the weather becomes considerably warmer:
summer hds come. Sometimes it is very close, and the heat is
irlmost unbearable; then a thunderstorm usually brings relief.
l)ark clouds gather in the sky; it lightens and thunders, and the
r':rin falls shortly after. A heavy downpour or a hailstorm makes
(he air cool down very quickly.
_ When the heat gets too oppressive and people can no longer
bear it, they go bathing and swimming.
In summer cherries, apricots, peaches, strawberries, raspberries,
crrrrants, blackberries, and other fruits ripe.
In September autumn begins. The weather is cooler than in
umrrer, and the leaves change colour and fall off. Apples and
l)cars are now ripe. Most birds go away to warmer countries;
orrly the sparrow and a few others remarn.
November is the month of fogs. A London fog "as thick as
pca-soup", or even at times quite black -
is a thing to be
-
85
The with the shrill sounds produced by insects.
remembered. when it comes on the street-lamps must be lighted. Everyw nflies, bees and burnblebees dart with a buzzing
Fog-signals are heard on the Thames and the railways, and the sound; d furry caterpillars hasten to and fro about
trains are late. their business, gnats and butterflies fly in hosts. Autumn is dear
Winter is the season of snowstorms and of ice' During the to man due to its mellow fruitfulness. All fruit are filled with
winter there is a lot of rain in England but little snow. The ripeness to the core. The bend with apples,
British Isles being surrounded by the ocean, and washed by the pears and plums. The vine . The watermLions,
warm Gulf Stream, have a more equable climate than central pumpkins and cupumbers And in the woods
Europe. the hazel shells are plump with sweet kernels. Autumn is a
maturing season.
1. lVould you like four seasons to be substituted by one? Autumn is a season full of significance for man. His efforts
are never in vain. Nature will always kindly and generously reward
man for his exertions.
changes - in
grey cloudy
everywhere.
phenomenon? eaves. Here
and there one can see a solitary vine clinging to the mouldering
wall.-But at every gust the dead leaves fall. The days are dark
irnd dreary.
Both sides of autumn - the merry harvesting time and the
SEA5ON5 II rlreary rainy time-have always attracted poets; painters, and
('omposers. After autumn comes winter.
Spring is the liveliest season of the year. But not from the Winter is a sedson of black and white. The colours are washed
very beginning. rway from the trees leaving th6 naked branches black while
People suffer a great deal from bad weather in early..spring: srrow is covering the earth.
That is why in Engl-and they call the first spring month "windy Winter is a season of black and white. The colours are frozen.
and blustery March" 'l'l he fences arrd hedges so that they no longer
There ar" t*o English sayin;s characterizirlg March as a cold nr the plain. The clouds are grey like ashes. The
and unpleasant month: "March comes in like the lion and goes l'0 rough the grey clouds on the windows and
out like the lamb" and "Never cast a clout till March be out".,: llr
It is April that brings in fine weather and people call it "t But the pictures of not always gloomy and dreary.
sweet -o.rth';. It brings the lengthening of the days - t 'l'lrc sun in winter can
a clear blue sky ind the snow
translucent quality of the light at dusk, the gusty, showery wi s;rlrrkles then under it
"April show6rs biing May flowers," thgy s.ay. The "u11 it Winter sports are magnificent: skatin51, skiing, tobogganing
wiih a fragrance oi young grass and tiie bieath of the earl nrr, t.he favourite winter sports of young people.
rp.i"Jfm*?rs foremoJt u-6.8 them "the herald of spring - tli wi'ter is not the same everywhere of course. In siberia for
snowdrop".
Dickens called summer the prime and vigour of the
Summer is a luxuriant season:- the Iarks send their thrill
songs from the blue sky; the robins fill the forests with
voiJes. The meadows are fragranLwith hosts of wild flowers
as bluebells, buttercups, poppies, daffodils and daisies'
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86
Each season of the year possesses its own charm, has its
own
bquty and significance to man December is approaching. There is a breath of winter in the

1. Which season possesses the greatest charm and value

for you? WhY?

5EA5ON5 III 1. Which description do you like most?

2.
- Can you rnake your own, perhaps better description of
Spring as the awakening of nature has always-been a source the beauty of the seasons?
i"ipi."?ion for human beings. A source, whichitils-' urges and
;;;;'.;;; ,pirit. Spring ,."i"ry thrills deep and delicate fibres
"t

ON EN6UT5H CLIMATE
The clirnate of England is milder than that of other countries.
ljr re apt to complain of it as being damp and
rt ers laugh at it and say, that the English summer
is ee fine days and a thunderstorm.
It is hard to say that Engiand has typical weather because of
llrc sudde
Ir,w hours
;t"d*g putto"tnut u* hur.lly sein to the naked eye in the thick l,o leave
il;;?"";. i1. ii.ra. ur" gr".r, a'd shorn -here and there big yotr wishi
The winter
itact s-ot hay are seen- The days are long in s,tlmmer'- , awful; they surpass
But on moves the earth in its race round the sun. lhe days ;rll imaginatio t for breatLing;-it is
U..o--Jtnoit"., the sun rays are.losing their,glittering f"J-"1 t 1r cy, yellow, o because of the imoke
autumn ii approaching. The bealtiful nature hasthanked lh"ilbolol: - ,l rrranl' thousands of chimneys. In a dense fog all traffic is stopped,
il;; fo. his toil in'the fields, meadowsare and orchards. The tr rro vehicle can move fron fear rf dreadful iccidents.
'fhe three things that chiefly determine
lh;;;"|-i""e ugo blo'med with flowers laden with.,ripeni
is over - it is de ,rrr': (1) the position of the island in the te
th land
i-it- But tfie beautiful "Indian summer" of birds llr,' l'act that the prevailing winds blow from the west and
(2)
;";;;now. We do.'t hear any more the sweet melody distant w ',{rrll)west; (3) the warm current
Itr" lv;at uncl forests - they have flown away.to^far the Gulf stream that flows
.o,rot.r"t. Evervt.hinp is beeinning t-o take a different colour Ir.rr Lhe Gulf of Mexico along the- western shores of England.
the countryside the trees look
!ur*""t i" tt flowers hlve:
All this combined, makes the climate more moderate
llr. rvinters warmer and the sumrner cooler. The winters --that
is,
tor they have a-ves., the
flaSlan! are never
u*uy- fn" sky is overcast with low, black, heavy clouds.- cnough to freeze the rivers and the summers are seldom hot.
'rl,l'l'h
p"iiJa of iui,riur set in. It is unpleasant to be out in the drizz I rainfall enables agriculture and the rearing of
;i;;;i^g rain that is accompanicd by a cold wind' .l
r r\\/s,
qrtil;rlr , to be carried on successfully whenever the soil is
warm regions grass grows best, and we fincl most
rain in the days- between Saturday and Tuesday. Much
city was flooded. of the
Floods also occurred last weekend in Ankara; the
Turkish
capital..Ma-ny homes and shops were
city,s
*ollt flo_oding for 45 years. ^

Thunderstorms affecte.d many of t

Spain,
Portugal and France. Seville in Spain
about five times the average foi the
f rain,
Much of northern Britai; enjoyed sunshine and temperature
in the middle twenties. the norih of the counlry't;.;;;';oudier
and cooler late in the week but the sunny conditions
spread
south in time for the start oinoyuier.ot.
There were some thunderstor-. the United states with
"..o*
t.'rnadoes in Denver, Colorado, on Wednesd"y.
H;;;.r.i i,
still drought in many areas in the Mid-w"Jt. N"*-v"rtit nua "r"
r'aximum of 36'c on wednesday, the highest
for 97 years. ru"" t"-p"rature"
On Sunday reached 47.C. This extremely
---w; must not forget, too, the growing of fruit. There are fewi
Scotland. lrigh temperatu an average June maximum of
or the apple, pear 26"C. Southern ly sunny.
1"""i;;;;irir-it a" t"n" "t "tiy orcf,ards of Kent s:T.11t:1,,t",:lf Australia and New Zealand hid fine, sunny weather
;i
;;d p1"-"blossom H-"-t"%td, Devon .?ld of "soft" fruitsj llrc week but fronti brought wetter Londitions tosorne
early in
,prrrg.-ffrere are,, loo, ,r^l,tubie quantities j."t-I*i$::i parts.
raspberries, strawbetries, etc', 8{own, and the Good evening
i;ffi;;;'*i"s i"d"titi"" thaihave grown up in these distri This is Gale Fawcett with the weather forecast for
are important. tomorrow.
-- iiti,rlit,-in dis.ussing thg harvests 9f t!e,corlnJt{J"l^1*
Il 's.Easter Saturday,
T9." lgt of people are going;*"t; h;liday.
co: Wr:'re going to look,at the Europe"r, *""tfr", ;"p i;. tr_o.ro*
for""t-;iti.'ril,o.. harves't of .the sea," its fisheries. Theofeast
the fi Itrorning at nine o'clock.
l;rf;"r';;"'in" -l!t uut""ble; and three quarters
First, the bad news. It's raining in Spain at the moment.
landed in England come from there' And
tlrc good news. It isn't going to raln tomorrow. It going
is to be
h lrrt, sunny day, with tlemp"eratur., 30 ;;;;;;r,"l,r*;:
1. Whdt are the peculiarities of the English glimate? 'l'he rain is going to
move into France"i toirght. Tomorrow is
i: a;;;; defint similar featu.res for.vour :tiry!:l;
with industry'and agricult e South of France. In Italy it,s
3. Hbw is climate
"o""""t.a . The temperature there is going
sius.

;::t' ; o*:'&*,ct 1T Xl l:::: r?

WEATHER FORECA5T
Arrcl Britain? Sorry, but it's goilg to be a cold, wet day -again.
Weather around the world It's.gring to snow in scotland, inJ-irr"r"'s going to be a thunder
arri ilt llrr, North of England. Have a nice liolidiyL "
The monsoon came to India last week' Ttle rains
over 450
no*Uuy-o"-Sul".auy morning' Calcutta had
I

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The weather in Britain.changes very quickly. One day may be
fine and the next day may be wet. The mornind -"y be warmind
the evening may be cool.
People talk'about the weather ilore in Britain than in most
parts of the world. when two Englishmen are introduced to each
other, if they can't think of anything else to talk about, they talk
about the weather. The weather is also considered a safe iopic
of conversation. If _you do not know each other well enough to
talk about personal matters, you can at least, sound friendTy by
talking about the weather. when two people meet in the street
they will often say something about the weather as.they pass,
just to show their friendliness.
Every daily paper publishes a weather forecast. Both the radio
and television give the weather forecast-several times each day.
Weather in New York
The only thing you can rely on is that New york weather is
Th ir to the south and wintry conditions entirelyunreliable. A temperature change of as much as 40 degrees
to stationary over northern Denrnark (Fahrenheit) within-a single day is not uncommon. It
and sonth"rn Sweden
-'--fr-L" freezing cold one afternoon, and bright, warm and sunny -{, U.
the
*ifl be rainy with strong westerly winds,in southwesteln vgry next morning, or unfortunately vice versa.
s",j* will fallln the wLstern Alps above 15o0 According to the US Weather Bureau, New york City has a
metres. Southern anJsoutheastern Europe will be
"o"riJ-ai.tricts. partly cloudy'
showers' modified continental climate.
in" *".t"r" Black Sea areas will have occasional
New Yorkers live in a relatively darnp climate of cold winters
and warm, humid sirmmers. Hot spells can be difficult to bear.
l)rrring the summer months there are brief but intense
l,hunderstorms. Rains, which continue for a few days, are not
ur)common. on an average it will rain or snow 120 days out of
l.lrc year. New York has many beautiful sunny days, eipecially
rlrrring autumn.
July ,is the hottest month of the year, with an average
1. What weather is going to be today in the evening? It'rnperature of 73.9 (Fahrenheit) and the coldest months are
tomorro''
Z. Wftrt weather is exlect-d to be in your country ,1.;rnuary and February with an average temperature of 30.g
( l('grces.
Most of the strong winds that visit New york are from the
tror'1-hwest.I

WEATHER IN BRITAIN AND IN NEW YORK

Weather in Britatn 2. Do rains and low temperature make you depressed?
British peoPle saY: il. Is there any difference in the influence of weather in
;o;h;; Jouit.i". i,uu" u climate, in England we have
big cities and in the country? (Some people say that in,the
92
should someone remark to you: "Nice day, isn't it?" - answer
city you are somewhat veiled frorn the full effects of the without hesitation: "Isn't it lovely?"
weather.) Learn the above conve,rsations bv heart. If you are a bit slow
in picking things up, Iearn at least one conversation, it would dor
wonderfully for any occasion.
If you do not say anything for the rest of your life, just repeflt
this conversation: you still have a chance of passing As I
DT5CU55IN6 THE WEATHER remarkably witty man of sharp intellect, keen obseftaHon
and extremely pleasant manners.
Thi the land' Do not be misled
by the on the continent' wanting
to desc tnally dull, you remarked: "He is 1. With whom and when do you disbuss weather?
;h. 1no. who would discuss weathei with you." In. England this 2. Some people believe that weather along wit[r politics
good at discussing and religion is not a proper topic for discussi-on. Why?
is an"ever-interesting topic, and you must be
the weather.
ExamPIes for conversation
For good aeather
"Lovely daY, isn't it?"
"Isn't it beautiful?"
"The sun..."
'iIsn't it gorgeous?"
"It's so nice and hot'.'"
,,P-ersonally, I think it's so nice when it's hot - isn't it?"
"I adore it - don't You?"
For bad toeather
"Nasty daY, isn't it?"
"Isn't it dreadful?"
"The rain... I hate rain'.'"
I

"I dgn't like it at all. Do You?"

"Fd"V *.h a day in July. Rain in.the morning' then a bit
sunshine, and then riin, rain, rain all day tory'.]
"I remember exactly the same day in 1986'"
"Yes I remember too."
"Or was it in 1984?"
"Ygs it was."
"Or in 7979?"
"Yes, that's right." ,. ,

NLw'obserrr" Ih" Iast few sentences of this conversatiop. ,

very important rule emerges from it' You must never contr
;;yt"d" ;h;" discussing"the w eather,,Sh"yl 9 tt,nlit^ ,t
road"e i'f
should hurricanes ,rptoit trees from the sides of the
yours, you mus
What is more,
habits and cus
dining on salt
that roast beef is better, whatever he might think.
And this attitude should
may not dress so tastefully,
sisters or daughters at home. T
quiet. The houses may be ridic
built. No matter wherein I
comparisons. Remember you are in a strange country, where you
rnust expect to see strange things. Be especially careiul not to say
,r do anything that will touch the pride of the people, or show
clisrespect of their religion.
Remember too, that,-though in some e comparisons
vou may be mentally
-drawing may be to your own
countr:y, the reverse will be tru-e, over an n if you stucly
l.hings dispassionately.
THE ART OF TRAVELLING AtsROAD
Though recent years have witnessed a great improvement' it
"'1. Can you remernber being amazed by something when
I ignorance .you were travelling to foreign countries?
One should 2. What seems strange to foreigners about your country?
manners of
whom one is staying to be altered for one'
, ancl that it is nof the nationalitv which
make

- gentleman, but his actions.

the
fth"..rrer you decide to go, it is sensible, unless you are TRAVEL BROADENS THE ,I,IIND

.Iune 29'h ... June 30th July 1". And they're off. Suitcases
-
P:rcked- Notes left for the milkman. Arrangements made'for the
,f"Vo,ritrip. Y-our friend will not be at all bored by t
lrrrrlgerigar to be looked after. They're lt 6ff.
".*i.* lj.cle Bill and Auntie Jane are on the quayside at the cross-
questions ui th"r" qe !9w topics more welcome to anyone
w
.lr:rnnel port of Dover the first stage oi therr Mediterranean
lias "been there before!i'
-^*-When lruise - -
"the voyage of a lifeti
travelling abroad it is odious perpetually to Ilrlv've been through custo
instituting compariions. It is discourteous to those with w 'iilr{('irses were ernptied in search
yo" *uy b"e temporary-thrown; a'l]q.it d,9t1aci,s Tg y:lt- lr. t'mbarking soon. When
:;;f;;d u^a pt"it"re' You may dislike this, that, or the otl
irllou,'cd to take those boar
ilft, ;;tuttin" grumbling inihe world
and
is n9f likelv
very^likely
P il!:1
does' exac
( ilanny's at
ed with her special old_
fir"?i"tl". complXined aboirt may,
l)r)ltsionei's
rrlir' of awayday, runabout,
;it lh; a"tte of the foreigner, and as he prefers his own taste exlr.rrded perio ecl into tne. today she,s

96 97
off on a one-day sightseeing excursion to Stonehenge, Blackpool
Tower and Canterbury Cathedral.

right,the 1st class passengers aresipping

to their left, those in economy and tourist
fee from the machine and, under their feet,
those on stand-by, are looking hopefully up from their sandwiches.
Mum and Dad are already on the open road. They decided
to make :an early start on their touring holiday through the
Loire valley. "Your turn to drive now. Come on, let's get moving.
Switch on, then. OI(, it's all clear. Pull out, there's nothing
coming. Well, take the handbrake off. Right, indicate.,Come
on, drfue away. At last! Right, keep over. Keep to the right.
Change gear, then. Come on, accelerate!"
{tPorter!" "Sir?". "How much?" "50 p." "No thanks; I'll
manage my own luggage." lJncle Mac is about to board the
10.40-inter-city express to Glasgow for a fortnight's holiday
back in the homeland. r'Do I have to change?" "No, it's a
train, sir, non-stop all the way." It looks as if quite a few
expatriates have had the same idea. The comoartments all loo
full - especially the non-smokers - and the buffet car alread
sounds like Glasgo\M on the night of a Celtic-Rangers footbal
match.
My brother's on the slip road of the M 1 motorway
Junction 14, a rqcksack on his back containing sleeping b
biscuits and a change of underwear. He's been there for arr h
and a half with his homemade sign saying "Anywhere", tryin;
thumb a lift. There are no hostels or transport cafes in sig
The rucksack is getting heavier and the sky is getting darker' It
not much of a life sometimes, hitch-hiking.
Oh, dear. Granny's coach has got stuck in a traffic jam,
queue of cars as far as the eye can see. OI(, so central Birminghl
ii on the direct route from Blackpool to Canterbury. But duri
the rush-hour? With thousands of commuters heading for-homt
Not a good plan. After all what are bypasses and ring roads f
"Righf, you can overtake this one. There's no speed limit ht
Oh, a diversion. You'd better turn off the main road. F " Wt'll, it's about time we found a bed for the night, don,t you
across to the middle. Now kee.p in the right lane. I mean the I trk'/ You see that motel on the left? Therer rheie,'*h"." i'm
Iane. I mean ..." Itrlirgl There, the one with the ...Hey, pull upl euff uliOn,
98
99
dear, pull over. I wonder what the French is for "I'm sorry,
we
upp""i to have dented your bumper'"

. yn,t. last trip abroad- Difficulties, 3. Wha!'s your favourite type of holidays and what
fears and pleasantries. activities should it include?

.o to get auag front it al as

rn me of tension and troub ng
to I f the tness into afiich to
CHOOSTNo A HOLIDAY lmo
Glenn Steanart
Walking in Switzerland
A wonderful week walking through the swiss Alps. simple
accommodation in friendly farmhouses and on campsites'
Includes climbing, canoeing and boat trips' *"OU"O.
See the real India! HOW TO AVOID TRAVELUTNo
cross India by Landrover. See the real India on our campin "TRAVEL" is the nzrme of a modern disease, which became
tour, and get off the beaten tragk into mountains, deserts an
the road.
:""Si..- Fflght to Delhi, a'd then two weeks on
Adventure lovers onlY Please!
Canal Cruise
Travel back through tirne on the rivers and canals of F'ra
Ou, boat, sleep four idults, and are fully equippecl as holi
homes on the water. Dr.eam the miles away through the heart
the French countrYside'
Fruit Picking
Students - have a healthy holiday, and earn some poc
money. Pickfruit on our farm in Northern Italy' We-pay you
.""ty U"tf..t you And we'll provide you with basic bo
fill.
i' modernised fifteenth centruy f.at_tn buildings.
""JiJgi"g
you want to go on a seaside holiday abroad' You are main
interested in relaxing in the sun because you need a rest
a very busy year.
Vblt watit to go on an adventure holiday waiking
camping in mountains itl your.ou'n country' You think this wo
- - i cheap and healthY holidaY'
be
Von want to relax, but you also want to do some sigh
You are interested in museums and old buildiugs'
Last year you went on a package holi4ay and- spent t
weeks on th. beach. You want something different this year.
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100
What is the aim of all this travelling? Each nationality has
its own different one. The Americans want to take photographs

the sad truth that whatever travel may do to the mind, Swiss or
German food certainly broadens other parts of the body, the old
notion still lingers on. But lastly - and perhaps mainly - they
travel to avoid foreigners. Here, in our cosmopolitan Eng
one is always exposed to the danger of rneeting all sorts
peculiar aliens. Not so on one's journeys in Europe, if one manag( explain why
things intelligently. I know many English people who travel i
groups, stay in hotels where even the staff is Fnglish, eat ro:
beef-and Yorkshire pudding on Sundays and Welsh rarebit a
steak and kidney pudding on weekdays, all over Europe' T
main aim of the Englishman abroad is to meet people; I mean,
course, nice English people from next door or from the next
Normally one avoids one's neighbour ("It is best to keep_you
xt 49
'":.o....n'
to yourself" - "We leave others alone and want to be left al'
etc., etc.). If you meet your next-door neighbour in the High CA,IAPTNG I5 TI.IE IDEAL w AY oF SPENDING A
or at your front door you pretend not to see him or at best, HOLTDAY
coolly; but if you meet him in Capri or Canada, you embrace
fondly and stand him a drink or two; and you may even discor l' ime wh dered to be a poor
that he is quite a nice chap after all and both of you might just sH)' a holi
well have stayed at home in Chipping Norton.
All this, however, refers to travelling for the general publi iSli:
ldull.,.
glr,^,F
,,,,,o-.r,ts have aL lasr olscovered
outs.and hurt_,rf
al
that ""-iii_io"i"s
the b"u,'.:il:
you want to avoid giving the unfortunate impression that
"belong nilvr'r'(:ally Deen on to a good thing all t_he_se years. If you go
to the lowerlmiddle class, you must learn the elemen r i i rs, ii
r i;"s","1+f: ;l-i'n"T.#ii,'i'J.'iJr:H.,.'j#t f;
snobbery of travelling:
. Avoid any place frequent d by others. Declare: all the h rt;titoes;""have to drink bra:kish coffee: f;r,"-^. -_,'-96
:f, suffocate or freeze in a sleep
an
are full, one cannot get in anywhere. (No one will ever rema lghl.s on your back. Camping ha's
of
hotels are full of people who actually managed to get in.) i .r'isls the world over. All thi discomforts associated
withlt
to2 103
2. Can you think of the disadvantages that the travellers
face when they-choose this type of travelling?
3. What do you need to conduct a perfect camping tour?

AAODERN HOLIDAY5

Both of the traditional types of holiclay have become less

lropular in the last quarter of the twenticth celtury. The increase
irr c:ar ou,nership has encouragecl nany people to take caravan
holidays. But the grezrtest'cause of the cleclirie of the traditional
lroliday is foreign tourisrn. Before the 1960s, only the rich took
lrrliciays abroad. By 1971, the Blitish u,ere taking 7 million for.eign
lrrlid:rys ancl by 1987 - 20 million. These clai,s, millions of Britiih
lr.ople tzrke their cal's across the chaluel every veal and nearly
aDove all' -\'uu trrtJ(r"Y lr;rli'of all.the nights spent on holidays a*,ay frorn home are spenl
camping an attractive propositiqn ,.but'
tremendous mobililv' r? vou don't like a pl'::i .ol.]1.:i:t"l?3 ,rlrloacl.
go' 5'e11 can sta
#pfv g6t up and Conversely' .Most foleigr holidays are'package holicla5,s,
-forin u,h.ich transport,
u.t-tottg as"you like. Youire the boss'"
,rrrrl accommodation ale booked and paid thlotrgh a trlvet
" -^^:^r-, rr .,^,.
'Iirtoi"n'";ii;;''' ;h; .h;;; fun of it especiallv,if hrr;
- vou ha ,rpi.nt. These holidays are often bookecl a loug t.ime in :iclvance. In
#;il;;tufiv
r'ruyur6 *:--_-^--
larlrlry. Moping
a family. trotlt rooto wondeling wh llr. micldle of u'inter the television conrpirnies Luu pro,g,l'arnmes,
th"y ;; going t5 give you for dinnqr isa a
i- ,1,"---- Irles;S. B ru lritrh .give information about the pack4gcs being offer-ed. people
t*11{#
.o-purito", tI'" "^=o*''liit'o i'o arriveat ^c auurvL arr the tin
rr,'r'rl chcet'ing up:rt this tinre of the year!.ll rnanv British homes
tl lr;rs become tlaclitional to get thc holidav brochures out and
;:iiKi:il ' You ?rc
and you are
Imagi'e yogt:"-lf ,b,"1i{e sot ,lrrrt talkiug about whelc to go in the suntntcr on Boxing Day.
^+-^^nr
c.r - '-
bacfgroung ,*tghltiilltl]
d6lightfrtl,s""l^d..?f-"h
iilr;rin is b1, fal the most popular package-lx;lidav destirrltion.
Ilalf of all the holidays taken u'ithiu Br.itain are now for
: except for the
is peaceful - v9-'y\tl:'f.it;l,i llr.r' clays or_less. Fvery bank-holiday weekend there are long
s th" punl'curnfi"! provides
g" t? b:$,:i|t:t:i lr,rllir'.ja.rus:rlong thc loutes to the most popular holiclay areas.
i.ot .u..y.lay living' You get ip earlier'oll"{l]:"v-:: I lr, 11';111i11o';rl seaside resorts har.,c sur'ii,ed 'b5, acijusting
; h;"ly uppltit"- You have, enormous
T::i: tt
:fi;tJtt"{;#nurlti"t ancl to share your pleasures r'vith llr,'rrrsclvcs to tlris tlencl. (Onlv tirc r.icli havc second houses or
;6i;";; ,o r.i"nai5' w.hen ther
111e1:::1:
rttt"tt tt"tnt when ^tt:*::T:l:
vou are campi'gl
r rrl l;r1icS in thc countr1,5i6l6 to n'bich thc.r, can esc'ape at weekcnds.)
llrrt llrc.r'c ale also n)an\/ other ti,pes of holic[:r,r,. Hiking in thc.
:r#;'J';t.ra'.'i
,,-r";o..llv fhe formal ereetings thlt r rn.rrlr'\r ancl slccpilrg'at youth hostels has. lorg been popular
( ()ru drru
cold and T:..:..'L:li
rveeks in
each day "*l rlt-ecious
;r"#;;;;; ;i Hi". .
rrrrl sO, antong :rn errthusi:rstic minoritl,, hus pbt-holing'(the
t,rgrlrrlirtiou of uuclergrclirncl czn,cs). l'hcre is alsci a rvicle r-zLnge of
year'
vtr.r 'you
-v\/u .,,,,1 ,.ninrrinent- i'n.livity" holidays a'ailablc, i'ing full cxp'cssion to gJtish
^,-,1 rgal e'joytnent'
^r rrlle
thzrt's the essence or re(;rcitLl.,' and
tfue rer;rcaLr,rr 1
itrrli'irlualism. Yon can, for- cxlrmplc, take par.t in a ,,nurder
as it H.r'Ir'rrcl", :rnd find yor-rlsclf living rrut the plot of cletective story.
1. Is your camping e>{perience just as brilliant
described?
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t04
beginni ury), so did the working classes.
It soon ies to spend a week o. tio
every
year at towns which sprang up to cater
for this ost well known of these are close
to the larger towns and cities.
developed certain characteristics

1. Would you like to try fruit picking? Why?

2. What is good rest for You?
rzrrely, "full board" (meaning that all meals are prorlided). Some
ideresort othing but 6oarding houses.
these, a restaurants, is ch-eap and
with an fish and chips.
cally, da ainment in
HOLIDAY5 AND 5PECIAU OCCA5ION5 ( children m
I 6onkey rid
Britain is a country governed by routine. It has fewer publ ( They are happy just to sit
holidays than any otheriountry in Europe and fewer than No1 a paddi;
nm..i.u. (Northern Ireland hai two extia ones, however)' Ev l',,*, ortrouser-legs hitched up. rh-e f"Xf:i ::!i:1"j:
New Year's Day was not an official public holiday in Engla rl.spite efforts to clean it up, sometimes very d for adults
Wut"s .iniil quite recently (but so manl people ga \r,ho swim, some resorts hive wooden huts on he beach,
ln.-r"t""r a holidiy anyway that it was thought it- might
^"a krrown as "beach cabins';, ,,beach huts,' or huts,,, in
*".1t l""orne officiali. There aie almost no semi-official holida wl can change into their swimming costumes. Swimming
either. Most official holidays occur either jlst before 9r ju iu) ing without any clothing is rare. All resorts havE
;il;; " weekend, so that thL practice of making a. "bridge" vil kinds of attraction, including more-or_less permanent
almost unknown. Moreover, there are no traditional extra fu
trotiauy. in particular places. Although the origin of the enings, and when it is raining, t
iiholid"y" is "holy day';, not all public holidays (usually knol Hr(: o halls, dance halls, discos, thea
UunL holidays") ir. .onn".t-ed with religious.celebrationl lrr(. ny of these situated on the pier.
"r; llclritectural structure is a platform ext-ending out into the sea.
to holidays. These are not as long as they are in mq 'l'Jrr: large resorts have decoiations,
which riglii up at nighl. rhe
oln"r .o,ttttries. Although the average employee gets four wee
"ttnuut " llllrckpool illuminations", for example, ur" Iurnorrc

ry
i.J n;r
"a "v ".
;irit"; ever"get"the
v..,"_'
.'l
impression : : jilv^':
-T I ?:',that f,T lt"t,
::"' had
the place ff *
"shut dow
Another traditional hgljguy deitination, which was very
lt,prrl;rr in Britain in the 1950s and 1960s, isthe holiday camp,
tn,. the ,rr-ri". break. iln fact, about 40% of the population \\'lrcrr: s in self-contained villages with all
not go away anywhere for their holidays') foorl a ized for them. Butlin's aid pontin,s,
tltr, t'o st of these, are well-known names in
Traditional seaside holidaYs flril;rin. The enforced good-humour, strict mealtimes and events
The British upper class started the fashion for seaside hol lullr ;rs " competitions and beauty contests that
in th" iut" eighteenth century. The middle classes soon foll Wr.r'r'r'h ese camps have nou, givenway to a more
lh;'ancl wf,en they were giu"n the opportunity (around fi'l;rrt'rl
106 107
/
ffi)**. 't+.;-*1..'..
B I- whut are the dif board and half-
board? Which do You Prefer and whY?
2. What types of holidays have you been on and which do
you like best? WhY?

KILUINo THE 6OO5E

Tourism has grou'n so cluicl<ly dur-ing the last quarter of a
century that it hzis bec,ome ir pr rblem in both industrialised and
developtng nations. And it is only during the 1980s that the
problems 6f puu., or ron-existent pla'ni'g have been seen and
tackled. In shor.t the pr-oblem is this: tourisn as it developed in
the sixties ancl seventies is self-destructive. It destroys the very
things tourists come for,. It is a classic case of killing the goose
that lays the golden egg.
In Lr,rope"the darnage is largel)I environmental: polluted
beaches uttd luk"t, elosiott of nountain paths, traffic jams, air
pollution and ut.ts1'lt-tpathetic zrrchitectur-e- But there ,has" also
t""r, o negative irnpact on the cultural and social life c
communitii.s. Sorne bf th" best-known and obviously. visibl
examples are certain Mecliten-aneah resorts. Previously quit
fishing villagcs have been overrun w-ith poorly.planed an
shoddlly buiit lotels ancl apartment blocks, which- a'e 'Iow '
just twenty Vears later - no longel acceptable or fashionablel
ihe life-style of the locals has cha'ged beyond recognition, ar
although many are richer, they are not necessarily happier as
result.
Environmental damage caused by tourism manifests itself
many diffclent ways. Skiing, now,a major winter sport in-Eur
is ciusing n-tany problems in the Alps. Hunclreds of sq
kilometrei of foreit have been destroyed to make way for
pistes, cable cars,,buildings and access roads. Pollution of
Mediterranean'caused at least partly but untreated sewage f
tourist developmertts, makes it a potential health hazard in s

areas. This undermines the very notion of a beach holiday

in Hung4ry, tourism and industrial development arouna tn1
of Lake nilaton have rendered the lake biologically dead' F
is one activity no longer on the tourist agenda'
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A Hotter Earth?

CLIAAATE CRIsIs
Holes in the skY
54
ACID RATN

.Imagine rainwater more acid than lemon juice! Imagine forests

;rrrl lakes dying and historical monuments being deitroyed by
discovered the hole in 1982, and it is getting bigger. Thirty r;rin. Not just by normal rainwa-er but by acid rain. Just what is
cent of cFCs come from aerosol cans, thirty per. cent from frir ;r.iri rain?.- Did_ you know that normal rainwater is already a
and air-conditioning, and thirty-four per cent from tl lrtllc acidic? So what makes rcid rain different from normal
rnanufacture of some plastic products. r;rirrwater? well, the terrn acid rain actually refers to any form
rrl llrecipitation, that is, any form of rai' oi rno* that ii more
The Greenhouse Ef f ect ,r.itlic than normal rainwater. Let rne repeat that definition for
1. Sunlight gives us heat. Some of the heat warms r',rrr-Acid rain is any form of precipitation that is more acidic
atmosphere,"andiome of the heat escapes back into space. llrrr normal rainwater. This deTinitibn-.is rather unscientific. So
2. buring the last 100 years we have produced a huge a lr'l rrre give you another, more scientifiJ way oi;tiG;;;t acid
of carbon di"oxide. The car-bon dioxide in the atmosphere t,rrr is. In of
like the glass in a greenhouse. It allows heat to get in' but 1rrr,r'ipitati a
Jo"r";f much-heat to get out. So the atmosphere becou lr,r nrused n
"Tlo*
warmer because less heat call escape' roltrtion is er acid nor alkaline, we say that
Where does the catbon dioxide Come from? People and ll *i;r neutral solution and that it has a pH of 7.rf asolution has
breathe in oxygen and breathe out carbon dioxide. Trees ir lrll of less than seven, we say the solulion is acidic. So
vou can
110 111
see that with a pH of 5.5, normal rainwater is already slightly
because there are some
e atmosphere. Carbon
humans exhale. When
water somerv hat aciclic.
So it is perfectly natural that rainwater is a little acidic. But as
you heard, today in palts of Eulope ancl North America rainwater
is sometimes more acidic than lemon juice.
What causes this rainwbter to be so acidic? The most important
cause of the excessive acidity of rainwater has been the burning
of fossil fuels such as petloleum and coal. Burning fossil fuels

they retur rain or sllow.

This w to solve. As more and more
easy problem
countries striafized, there will be more and more
competition fol pett'oleum for cars, home heating, and industry.
While burning petroleurn contributes greatly to acid rain, it is
less polluting than coal. Unfortunately, petroleum is more expensive
than coal uti.l th" supply of petroleum will eventually run out.
Therefore, there will be more and more pressure to burn coal for,
energy. Coal is a much dirtier energy source than petroleum,r
Since we alreaciv knou' hou' destructive acid rain is, it's very
important that u,e increase our efforts to find a ncm-polluti
source of energv as quickly as possible, so that we can avo
further environmental damage.
tr.:::l;liilriL:!ir X&f KS:l$

be the con

55

CLEAN CARs, CLEAN FUELS

Performance and style have always been higher priori

for autornobile manufacturers than reducing environme
pollutants. Concernecl lvith an ever-increasing number
iutomobiles on California's congested highways - autonrob
that burr-r too ntuch gasoline and spew noxious emissions
California decicled to legislate a clean, efficient car. A Califo
t72 113
future In 1994 there were about 270 metr.ic tons (29g
tons) of
Futurists look ahead to the time in the not-so-clistant weapons-grade plutonium worl lwide.
er veh
splits
solar 1. What solutions could you suggest
to the problem from
the position of Ukraine and from the position
sting of th" W;J;;
nations?
could not be available alternative un
Saturn'sEV.listhenation'sfirstmodernelectricpassenser
vehiclethatisavailabletoconsumers.Estimatedannual-
costs for the EV-1 S 126 (at 3c per
;ffii;;,1's-iio <"t-i. p"i r.wr.>'
"i""1i*riv e gasoline-powered
ENVTRONAAENTAL HAZARDS
u"tti.t. woulcl have an estimate I cost of $ 696'
Bg William K. Steoens
1. In what other ways could the pollutants coming from What Really Threatens the Env roDment?
the automobile industry be reduced?
""';.-C;"we preocclpied. with relatively modest
dispent" *ith public transport and cars? *"-3y:1.i1 rhf
: ::l,l::li.itl
nleash catasjrophg *s_while'
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The Link Between Nuclear Energy an

N4ismatch of perceptions
Nuclear WeaPons
Fission is involved in both the production of electricity
r".i"ut *ergy ancl the destructive power two of nuclear' *"111
are
U;*JSf"uua pluto'ium-239 As you know, the fuels common
,,qed in atomic fission weapons. plutonium
der reactors' It is also possible to re
onventional fission reactors to make w

tt4 115
But in terms of the R veJy low risk was assignedto oil spills,
ials, acid runoff to surface waters ;A of racrioactive
escape
scientists advising the E.
rl
groundwater. ;;ir;iinn of
rate them near the bott
threats. This, the scientists say, is
limited or sholt-lived ol both'
At the same time, global w

ample, ranked low because their

'r
btic doesn,t perceive it that wll,lll;i"Lt;:T#
ct:osystems bounce back real fait.,'
ijl*,tq*;f,i:
By contrast, he said, ttre
rlisappearance of species are t
are
Mi. n"ittu and othels iay environmental problems {,(

d unevenlj, on lhb basis.of epis:9]:ll"-l"-i:::{ tl

"t"uliu frightening' represen
oublic urr*i"ti", uUo'"t frnUlel1rs that, while
ilt
local waterrva
contamination of a iil
i"J'i,"a;"i;';tilittut:
bv lT,:'J:li' e problems ig'orecl
r lrl:t,strophic and reversible only
(iiven the substa'tiar cost of environmentar
protection, Mr.
oi other
cr
*h.n they occul' rvrT'
'holl*-!:,
.ik_',.:il,:11.'::":*,tt1fl
Reilly told the -senators' -tsut
lici
I
,r:;
tsensiblepriorities
*tr.r" u^d r,,;ti begins. The E.p.A.
he said, "thev o.. ii'JifTerent league iom9a19-{l1t^"}"^?,f-L.u
Hro
rrl lhis
.ironmentar
or"t.l,l"-"j;;'h::i';
n.a1io1 "can p.obably;]f*;"tJ'rp"nd r
;r.rt'r:r)t, said, ,,but*"'i. not rilh siend it
Itrllrt:w ,
""ou!n-L
l)oubts are Raisecl
While many environmentalists and politiciarrs say
to set pl.iorities, doubts arrd possible points of it is a good
lrlr',r
Major Elvironmental Threats rropping up. dispute are

IraL
It establishecl
r'"' fi
"#i.:-::
"
'f#'.;;i three categories of,risk fgt !h,1"ll:-ll*l:

";;;:"
R' r u1 i t v. h i gh - r i k P l o b ] 9 *' -n t
::i - i..r ; h " silba I rv arm i "ns-
"
lhil
ii.i"ut" in heal'trappi l"'v
s

sci en t i sts
.pt't
h'e1i9
rirrl((
ril:r
,
l'.rrvironmentalists who have devoted themserves
to causes
t are unlikely to J;;p;rilrg tf,"i.
::..ji.,#frJ*"r"i*rui,"t,.*
pro
I
wil
*;;1"w1{:lr:r:l.al
313,".,, Eart h t ro'n ti'r""'S"'i' t nui-r'l I Y llt.' "'-:; ; - lll?l''
;i;:is
lrr llrr
" l tlon't quarrel with the
5:ff; ;i tii' - .i ;
r n atural h ab itats q11., T,::::
^l ;. ll lltl No.l threat," said David
;ilii''q
^"
^
"" "," dive:
ff'$::::"i:
middl
ross or biorogicar
pesticidesl
flrl rrr;rl Resources Defence C
*it1, V1;11 can tackle global war
A "a'ft"?Ui""ia"".uld, 3;.ll
and airborne toxic su Itir',lr,s. We can and should, and
of surface waters, acid precipitation
Lt6 117
Several Senators questioned on Friclav whether scientists kneu' able l-rydrological cycles for
enough to s nberger, ironmental degradation,
Republican s good a ults: hunger, thirst, and fuel
guide as pu al assets betu,een economic development
are importa ;Lncl environmental protection.
The Science Advisory Board acktrou'ledgecl that arssessitrg The world's largest rain forest enverops the thousa'd
relative risks was an irnprecise scic'nce, since much was unknown lributaries of the Amazon River, formi'g a gr-eat fan thaf covers
about some environmental threats. The boar-cl noted in its report* rrolthern Brazil_and spreads int
that environmental policy-making "trecessat'ily embodies l'r'r'u, and Bolivia. Thc tr.aditio
subjective values",ancl that policy-maket's shouId take both scieuce rrrt'lude dozens of tribes of India
and public perceptions into acc<lunt. lirrilcl of workers who earn the
As more complex and challenging envit'otrnental thlcats llt,r:s spread through the region.
dominate the discussion' the debate u'ill probabl)' be complicatecl Sinc:e the 1960s, a series.of porvc.rful economic and political
by increasing uncertainty about the natut'e of cttvironmental lisks, l,rt'cs. has bro.ght waves of lanclcss peasa'ts ancl in,ealt'hv
lancl-
noted Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, the New York Democr-at. ,1r.r'ulato.s into the jungles, where they 6ny" driven
theiubber
lrrlrlrers out sometimes at gunpoint. The newcomers proceed
l, clear-cut -the woodlandsiu,l br. the falren
*jrtr.tllii{*:n :*liill,:f,,:3iS i;"lihffi$S$S*i$:'.1li.lii
of importance in terms of i"gr, i"uri"g
rrrr;;r'ecedented destruction aud crr'rmous releaies
danger to the average citizen and explain your answer: of air
a. Pesticide residue on foods eaten by humans lrrllution. In 1987 alone, an area alrn'st the size of Malne went
rp in smoke.
b. Hazardous waste sites (in use) ln the late 19
c. The greenhouse warming effect .30,000 rubber tappers from the
rlrrote Brazilian ciclcrl to cliau, the iine. At first,
d. nadiition from nuclear power plant accidents llrr,ir tactics wer-e
e. Hazardous waste sites (abandoned) ct: Whr:r.c the chain ."*" *.."
ru,r'l<i'g, men, women, and chilclre. *.o.rlcl peacefully oc.upy
f. Radiation from x-rays l,rr.'st, putti'g their bodies in the path of ciestructio'n. rnr',
tfre
g. Industrial accidents releasing pollutants into the air
water, or soil
\'iolt "or-
l,r',1
h. Exposure to toxic chemicals in the workplace It,rltr
i. Destruction of protective ozone layer
j.-k. Non-hazardous wastes, like trash disposal lr,rt','
I

Utrd"tground storage tanks leaking gasoline and ru rllr indigenous tribes and the scatterecl begi'nings of
substances a
r r,rr
r'r I bber tappers' movement, the union"hu, d"ilarrded
r-u
l. Pestidides harming farmers, farm workers, and co .n(l'vicle
to
rrrr the clestruction of the larrd - and an end to violence
who work with them. rig,rrrrsl their
sir,l lntcr-Am
llr rt ovcr the
rrrr,lr:rcates more
5AVIN6 THE PLANET trt l,rrrning. With
tltr,rrrriou has call
Alan B. Durinq ='r-r l r , r.t i'e rese'ves "
u'her 'zrrry on their way of life
itr ;,,'r,1rt'tuity..And among ., of th" Amazoriftrest,
Environmental quality is not a luxurv. Those who live lhr,r' lr;rvc built communit
"
the borders of the world's industrial economy subsist on r
health p"rir-.----

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Across the Pacific, Borneo's Dayak tribe has been less fortunate.
The island's delse u'oodlands are a foundation of Malaysia's foreign-
exchange,,'export strategy, providing the countly with most of its
billion-dollar annual hardwood trade. The Dayaks, however, want 2. What reepeace do not appeal to you?
it lunbered only on a sustainable basis and have battled timber 3. What Greanpeace take in B"l"r,rr'(except
contractors by constructing roadblocks and appealing to European Chernobyl,
consumers to boycott Malaysian hardwoods. To date, government ''
policies have stymied their-efforts. The official attitude is summed'r
up by state Minister.of the Environment Datuk Janes Wong, '

nirnself a timber tycoon: "There is too much sympathSr for- the

Day2[5. Their-swidden lifestyle must be stamped out."

t. Should traditional tribes in the rain forests be left alone

and untouched by the industrial revolution? John Muir

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6REENPEACE
PI-ANET EARTH TS 4,600 MILLION YEAR5 OLD
Against all odds, Greenpeace has brought the plight of the
-ferrible abuses'
natural world to the attention of caring people. lf we condense this inconceivable time-span into an
to the environment, often carried out in remote places ol far o rrnrtcrstandable concept, we can liken Earth to a-person of 46
to sea have been headlined on television and in the press. t',';rls of age.
Greenpeace began with a protest voyage into a nuclear tr
zone. The test was disrupted. Today, the site at Amchitka in t
Aleutian Islands is a bird sanctuary.
Then Greenpeace sent its tiny inflatable boats to protect t
whales. They tbok up position between the harpoons and t
fleeing whales. Today, cornmercial whaling is banned.
Ori the ice floes of Newfoundland, Greenpeace volunteers p
their boclies between the gaffs of the seal hunters and the lielpl
seal pups. The hunt was subsequently called off' Modern man has been around for 4 hours. During ilre last
tn lhe North Atlantic, Green-peace drove its inflatab lrrrr' rnan discovered agriculture. The industrial revolutTon began
undemeath falling barrels of radioactive waste. Now nucl 'r
rilir)ute ago.
waste dumping at sea has been stopped' l)uring those sixty seconds of biological time, modern man
In the North Sea, Greenpeace swimmers turned back d lr,r', rrr;rde a rubbish tip of Paradise.
ships carrying chemical wastes. New lau's to protect the N il
Sea have been promisecl. I lrr r'
Pcaceful direct action by Greenpeace has invoked the fur Ir
of public opinion u,hich in turn has forced changes in the law lirr llr
protect u,ifdlife and to stop the pollution of the natural \r'r't'l rirrl ,l.effectively destroying this oasis of life in the solar system.

l?a l2t
dCveloPment of life on the
Earth?
---z.,wtut should be done so that humanity could survive?

6REEN CON5UMERI5M

1. What do you think should be

hishef than a satlstactory sex IlIe Dy urilrry' duLurur'6 Lv 4 ' lo protect
trnfeaf +l'-
the environment?
^--.:-^
;;"m"g li;ii"!. wn"t eftects does such alrend have on corporatel ?:,L:I_"?l ,th. individuat cjtizen of the planet make a
i;;;i;"t R Took'at some recentreveals environmentally. oriented
that so-calle_d_''green"
ru'ntribution ro keeping-it
3. What.doo yo youiti"t
u i r, iir. go
f;; ;;J#ffiJ;
sall l;; ";;;
gou"r"-""i
corporate decisions u","-
concerns lightly in today's business Yol.d ?;^y:j _X
clrvironment? "il can A; to imnrn. rr,"
do ,T',',iri'li
""
Green was seen u, -5r" ihan lust a traditional christn
..,1.,r. when marketing specialists came up with new ways
ppers duriig the 1990 Christmas season' Sever
stores op"rr6d the season with special earth-then
horrtioues. Bloominidales' 1007i Natural Shops sold p-rod
;;;;i;;; te"y"l"d'-aterials or all-natural fibres' Also feat
*.." it"-t ,rr.-h u, a package containing the ingredients to pl
;;;;; lree - soil u f",t seeds, as well t|:!:tlltt:i
T foods from a ra
^ttd bag,
b;,;hi;-included a canvas shoppingYou
L.i+ anrt rhe book 50 Simpte Thiigs Can Do to ,Saoe t,
of the proceeds rnade from some of the
d to environmental causes. Similarly,
Earth shops were set up in Woodward and Lothrop and Jc
\rr^-rmrlze" stores in dctober, 1990' The merchandise sold
*u, -ud. iro,n tttytled materials and designed
. Among the items available were T-shirt; c,arrV.
earth-orientJ -"iagies, stationar5' made from recycled 1
and energy-conservin! product "sed in winter-proofing
home.
Another corporate decision instigated by ggn^sume
concerns was recently reached by the U.S.
".ruirnrr-.ntal
ira.r.l.y. This irrdustry found itself under i1creasl18-,!
" A even ftom some aartists whose music is
o.-ror, from
from Cb buyers and
of the most commonly used packaging for
;;eDr t" #-rid
t2?
dehunanising effect on our lives. chores that used to involve at
lerast one face-to-face encounte

TI. medio money from the bank are now

rlav or night by pressing a few
ng or withdrawing
at any hour of the
nearest ATM. The

,liii
in your and your parents'
handling of new technology?
2. L)oes the increased number of autornated devices has
I5 TECHNOLOoY 6ETTIN6 OUT OF HAND? any flaws and dangers for our life?
"We're not home right now. Please leave a rnessage after
--'i"-.-ber
beep.
" "
the first tirne you heard the beep after the reco
message? If you're like many -people, your palms
gol,ty"ltyl TELEVISTON CO,IAES TO AAAERICA :.'.'.
;;;;;"" instantly tongue-tied^, uttd your mind went blank' Tl
;;;ilfi til" ph"one.. ro av, iftl1 1o'3, tli" I {",'Ld: One of the greatest influences on life in modern America has
"p
londitioriing, yo., respond automatically th.at,beep' You lr,'.n television. It affects how Americans dress, talk, relax, vote,
-to
even have b--".brn. so conditioned that after dialling a nu ,rrrtl how they view themselves and others. It is one of the most
and hearing a succession of rings, the absence of an ans rrrrPurtant and powerful inventions of all time.
machine arouses frustration and anger' Many Americans can't imagine life without television. yet it
There are even times, perhaps, when you wait to make ce
phone calls until you- ar-e sure that you,will reach u T1'
instead of having to face an unpleasant human interaction'
iu.t, fuirty invo-ived conversations can be carried out tor
*rtnout ever having live voice contact between interlocutors rrlrit:h used spinning disks to transmit pictures. Then,in 1g22 a 14-
playing what is oftln referred to as "telephone ta.B,' -., v,,;rr'-old American farm boy named Philo T. Farnsworth thought
'- fi"i, technology often causes much fear aud resistance I ul rrsing electr-icity to scan and transmit pictures.
it debuts. Some people are afraid that anything electronic l'arnsworth was born in 1906 in a cabin near Beaver, Utah. He
p.og.u-t"uble is ioo-complicated for them to learn how to ru,rll<ed on his father's farm when he wasn't in school. He was an
tak"e programming the VCR as.an example' Fg ,1n:1on1 ltttit CienCe, eSp
after igZO"this is p-robably second nature. But ask their' \\'lr nsworth be
fo p..fot- this task, and it's a different :to,ty . Another trrl and elect
;i-t"i;h"-explosive increase in automated devices may h 'ir)il ated from
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125
someone to give him money for one year while he experimented the.largest daytime TV audiences in history watched on May 5,
;tt'h;i; ia"i fot television' Just three weeks before the year was 1961, as astronaut Alan Shepard became tire first American to
over, Farnsworth Produce Lake. off into space. In 1969 ap-proximately 600 million people
age of 24,he was granted worldwide watched astronaut Niil Armstrong take the firlt step
Most major invention on the il)oon.
scientists and inventors. As much
r:ager tcl be in
American named Vladimir Z
the eye of the television camera r r !r ^ l;rr.- of "The
t'xpanded gre
that reason, z-oryt in or].d Furrr.worth share the title a wonderful on. Many stations only show
Fathers of Modern Television'" ,
l)rogrammes on nature, science, music, language, and other
ncl strll .cl ucational su bj ects.' News stations keep peopl eI nfJr med
The first televisions 24 hours
oroblems. Few PeoPle ha ng l/-?s ugh horne-shopping networks.
ffii;il n'i 6v igas rollin r favourite garnes and players.
-new
..."-UtVtines' The big radio broadcastrng ne.t limited by the pace of
"boxes," bigger screens, stereo
;;;;;fis lelevision
Th;;;ffttto*t *"t"
s.hgws'
]l"v X"-l" f:llll:*
informative' People watched stop actio'
and at the homes of neighbours who were lucKv
enoul 1,r-csent technology. It will .o.,tir,,* i::.xll,poXT;llff:
*i"ao*t linkedto computers, tied to our h
to own a TV' ones. They will be
set' In 1r;rrt of America's "information s
Soon everyone was saving 9P to !Y.V " television llr
ay.t' Hundreds of
U"ei,';;g or igso there were-thieeyear rnilli:" t"l:]-l:i:ll.:*'ill ('o
to rning, shopping, banking,
t"5d['sil;r.";; th; enci of the there wcre seven milli as will all be functions of
people were watchi lr.l of row u,ill hav'e voice comrnand, as
In 1951 it ,"" f""tiJ that
sets. TIT some.yg"ltg
* ill computers. Just think. After ali these years that televisions have
JgLJ.

lr*tfy fO hours week! Telev a cri

P;;;i" couldn't it' TheY eve lF-T
I'r'r'r talking to us, we'll finally have an opportu'ity to talk backl
L'ii-t,'"r ,t" t"t..,rirlon' I hrs gav-e biith to rru"" ' ' din : i r,liii:.

i" iSSa, and "TV trays" to pu! them on'. . ,

,1 they,L--- cop:
' 1. What part of your life does television take?
that ^
People were so influencecl -b-y .tglgvisiol ?. yh-ut programs do you watch? For what purpose?
h;;; i;
*rrx t"ri"v ,u* u"a 195ithe first of thr:. PIL?itl lJ. Is there a problem of people watching too much of it?
lrjli'",iilJrilil,;; D*y crockett, was shown' Children
Soon e"eiYo"t was. singing."PuuI'
adults loved it. ?""t 913:l ['nt aloags amaze.d that people u,ilL actuallg choose to i
iltli,ffth; ;il.I it,fronti"er," ancl evervtnitttl nl{ I li*:'t'
,the teleoision and just be ,orogbd bg stuff
si.l irt. fr.gn! of
D::^'F'^'l'ott pencils to school lunchboxes' l'xp(
froilt '' i
^n ^L:.- -* r^^ *,,,;h f alprric t lttl belittles their intelligence.
st ai childien wele r'vatching too much tel i
ar was being too easily influenced !V it Alice Walker i
,,*'"""""|
the family and the American w
iredicted it u'ould destroy didn't caie what the experts tho
life. But the average. p""ot
,'^"+^;i.'.; teieviiion and wanted more of
f'fr"nlio""O it'
A*"rican families have at teast two TV sets'
-^.r more of their free time is slee
f rr ,:,- f-,-^ +:-" i..
"lorrr
the amount of TV OR NOT TV?
some exPerts for
D,-! hqrra
have
they spend in front ot the television'
But Americans
A
-^..i^-^.
entertainment' C)r Wcll, I suppose that I watch some television most days. My
;;;'"i they are i"i"t"ti"a in more than
lr,k'vision watching tends to happen late at night for sort of
126 'l?7
domestic reasons and work rea cases ancl things like this and there's a tremendous pressure
on
watch a lot of news Programs' I children tci go out and buy those things, and I thi;k that is a
current affairs Programs' I'm very dangerous thing indeed.
there's anY sPort on I tend to -
T!" other dzrugerous thing, I think, fo. children is if the
something like that, if I've got television is on indiscriminately, then they do, if'parents are
I have a daughter who's not careful, they do get to see re not suitable for
television quite often when she c tl'rern. And I Jhink that is a that's up to the
teleViSiOn i^ofo .l'nlf ,n holtr Jr:rrents to make sure that that I think.
to end and otner tlmes slre rr 5tr'
'

through ri I find it very difficult t. say what would be a reasonable

ancl o awav and do sornetbing else' lirne to r,r'atch television. I think the important thing is not how
""
bored
S; in our house the televis rnuch you you ire. That yori say, this is
afternoon and late at night ;rrt interes watching, und I'll watch it,
came.across recentlY, for exa ;rnd if the
much as twentY-eight hours in s1,end qui t'llTJ'"*.il:: #::l:
Lhink, when the weather's bad '
ess. So it's very difficult
don't know whether that means ^r lima
-r of time' ime.
f"opt"'J;;iit
;;^'"h";h;, wa.tch it for that amount
because i" .;;;;;tt lrt" la""ision goes 9n as,a Il*
I think :l ' 1. Are your and your par€nts'
sil*it

ffiE;;d ;a ;;;l'^a"' t ""tuallv watch it in anv kind ol -

viewing alike?
tastes concerning television
concirtrated
"""il;;;;t; waY. parent :- t 2. who decides what to watch when the whole family is
worries me as a^ -^-^-+ is +ha
orr"'of the things that irr front of the TV set?
vit
f+'il.lr"tt- I don't take the same.:-,]
"r't.tat trut.'''
effect that televiriol
*t sorne kind 3. Pu you approve of the large number of American films
;'J'"Ji#':?
p"r
e;s;;i""ii"""'' ilni"r' uu
t here' Peop
I don'
ort TV?
ffi:::;ia"il;t;;;" was a srear .,anger

""
differe""#;;:;t-*ai"i"911
see any real
benefi" L(' \'r'ru'ILr'' i1"*t"'
I thi !'lrc.r.e
are days olrcn any electrical appliance in the house,
ir,' lur! ing the aacuum cleaner, ,"r*, to offer ?nore
:,

i'i'ntln'f';i:xi*;;;il;8teat
th't give them g""t:-9:,t:ltfl
tfr.r. lot of gooa ftogt"-i tttLertctinn,ent thctn the TV set.
information, pr"r",tf"d'in iway, which
"i" " tive to the
n Harriet oan Horne
exarnple, th"'llJ
t€tevrsru' o"- T'.,::::l
For
t (JI 9^orrrYrvt vr'v- - - !..tttt'good
lS very I I ltate teleaision, I
;;;;a in u u".y exciting
-- waY gl hate it as much as peanuts. But I
r-
viewing, Anrl' vPrv eoucaLrurrall as well'
f".utionif dJ And I also think
wsrr' rr televisi t rrtt't stoTt eating peanuts.
.I-l,^.o are
good for 8oo ' There cra on Orson Welles
dramatized
children "n's go and read
televisio -t":!
Loof., and I think that's a good lhilS'
rr^"r .f ",.o"..t,,. thins. I think-, for children
I rr' rr
The :l l:1:: ;*".,.r.,_u,.,rixt 65
an'rv about telev
is the co l"':;d*;J
programs .t-^^-,,:- noi U., TELEVI5ION I5
PruE'|r4r'J ..'*
,ut f hprr'r.e
because they're DOIN6 TRREPARABLE HARAA
fhev' re interesting talp\rlsr.,n nr()pt'allrs
televlslon pro8,l'arlI:
of a big marketrng "*"tgi.t", so lhat ^t l,l" t:T:.1:""llti "\'cs, but what did we use to do before there was television?,,
lrltfi i." ii".i"J *'tttt and pencils and bags and ll,,u .ften we hear statenents like this! Television hasn't been
'"uu"it
t28 t?9
mountains, far away flom civilisation. In quiet, natural
qq..\ly discover how little we miis the hyfnotic
surroundin-g:_ye
tyranny of King Telly.

1..
?o you think peopl,e would live a happier life without
television?
our amusements to theatres, cinemas, restaurants and sporting 2. Does it do any harm to you?
events. We even ut"a to read books and listen to music
and
All that belongs to the past.Now alll
broadcast talks occasionally.
the "goggle-!o*"' push [ome or;
our free tirne is regulated by
this or
Y"
that progrzlnrl€i
!"ip do*" our gi.rJm]eals to be in time for
We have even tt" titting at table and having,a leisure-l1t
INFLUENCE OF TV AND RADTO
;";-"g meal, ei . n-.*t of the a"y' 4 sandwich and a
gf"s beer wi ing, providing it dg::l]1-ill:{r:i:
"i
with the programme. The monier demandJand obtains abso
;ii;;"; and ittention. If any member quickl-v of the_ family dares to c
il;;;;th a"ii"s u progr"*'-e,
""r" he
g.o*iog gb
is silenced'.
addicted t9 tfrc iel
Whole generation.
Food is lefl uneaten, homeivork undone and sleep is lost.
;
;"liy a unive.rsal'pacifier' Jt 1t noY,
"1nj4thgm ,!tf!::"
i,1 the livi
t""in- ; k;;1it" .t,itat"n quiet bv putting
room and turning tn the set. it doein;t mattir that the childl
;tl-il;l;h i"UUi.tw commercials or spectacles sadism of
violence - so long as theY are quiet'
There is a limiito th" i-ount of creative talent available
tt. *oria. i"".y day television consumes vast quantities of creati
*orf.. fnut is wny most of the programmes are so P"9' it'
i;;;;.ibl. to keep pace with tlie d.emand and maintain t
programmes'
standards as well. When millions watch the same
;h;1" ;";ld becomes a village, arld society is reduced', to I
We beco
.t"aiti""r, which obtuin in prJliterate communities.
;;;tly- e"f""d""t' on the twospoken most primitive media
commrinication: pictures and the word' 1l

Television eniourages passive enjoyment' We become c<

with second-hand experiences' It is so easy to-sit in our arm

.o--urricution, but it prevents "' fto- totmunicatingwith

televisi
;tii;;. w. only becom. u*u." how totally irrelevant
f" t""f living when we spend a holiday by the or sea

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67

CHILDREN WATCH TOO MUCH TELEVI5ION

as much anymore.
Television and radio have, obviously, been a huge influence
on our lives. But the main question is: have they been a good
influence or a bad influence? People watctr televisioD to find
out what rld and to entertain themselves.
A great n ave abandoned many things for'
television ample of that' But crime shows
and sitcoms along with porno trash ar'e rampant.
As we sit in front of the set, eating potato chips, gaining
weight, and filling our minds with trash, we dott't stop to think
of all that we could be doing to change our world. If rve spent
just a fraction of the time that we spend watching television
6ach day doing something for someone else, just thi'k of the
kind of world we would live ir.r.
But television has increased our knolvledge of the wolld and
oui surrounding neighbours along with our interest of the earth.
We know *o." rbon1 products tSat are oflered to us, the public'
The radio has done all this also. lt also provides us with music I
and talk shows. Radio ancl television are not bad unless we
make ourselves bad. Television aDd radio have changecl the way
we look at the lvorld. Sudclenly, everything seems to be at our
fingertips. Maybe rve calnot il,ung. what is on television ancl
the radio, but we can censor what we watch. We necd to set a
good example for- our chilch-en.

1- Television: its virtues and flaws for you, your fri

and relatives?
2. Will the time we spent in front of the sets increase
fall during the next decade?

You ( teleoision) are the ntost 1.toruerftil cttltural force in

the aorld.
Bill Clinton

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is therefore not surprising tliat childrer-r's ploglzrmnes are equally . According to resear.chcs
lhe time an average child I
vlvania,
'"-*jit by
nuu.
watchecl the happening of
ion. prime
l.ime says th,e National Coa .
; filled
with dJgradi.nf.""""r materi
is stro'gly glamourised or used to excite".'flrere
l5'utiot.n."
have been g.5
nraior S sf such violence on chilclren. Eighty_
Iour of lucled that it caused an increase in all
il ) irr) ner
cide'
what happenecr to the on. rttout'
1,oid off'b'y-iir""Nutionl
lrow gujlty they are of producing
n," ilT:
other
'rlud1' shows that American childr-en ar.e
havi'g sexual intercourse
1. Who is responsible for children watching too much ;rl a'aveLage age of 16. If the televisio' *i, not..ii-..a
u,
television: parents or television companies? rrrrrc-h as. it is today these things i,vould
be rnuch worse, o,ri.trita."n
2. Whaishould be done to divert them from watching it? rr,rld be sexual active atler5, young ages and crime rates
3. What programmes should they watch, if they are ru,.uld. shoot upward. A civilizaiioi does not
allowed to watch mindless programmes? ,l il-s laws, however. It'rises on the strength ofrisertsinvalues.-wtut
the strength

Do not, on a raxnU dag, ask your child ulzat he feels like N,its
t ;rlrres

tlcce
F
c
il.'"'"T:J: :::i?
cloing, because I assure you ttnt tohat lrc feels like doing' gou r'- orders,
ial own,
(L,on't feel like oatcling. lr,rvr: consistently identified as cent, civili The
Fran Lebooitz r l thr
r';r
what m to rights, but
rr lr;ri is
rvirh
'\rrrlrhit
it fiiill
17-5,g2r.-.ld girl rvu; ,";J while
,::,fi:ff;t
rrr,r't'than. 50 people r,vatched, is that what our values
should be?
'i,r'irrl orders are estabrished, governments are formed a'd laws
CENsOR,sHTP ilr. r)ressed for-one reason anil one reason o'ly, tci f.oi".t tt"
Censorship is a variety of things from yelling "fire" inl
lrr',rplr'. task has to do with pr.otecting people against
tlrr,rrrsr: the degrading arcl ti.
un.iutjii.Ji,.fflien..,
crowded theaire to showing sexual intercourse on televisiOl co
tlr,rr
These thiqgs aren't all eithcr; there are millions of thiDgs we ilt it l.lU
d are eiery bii harmful as a blow to lt.
tr."a
;;-;;; day that are censored for a reason' The reason
"u".y
be many U"t ttte three most imp-ortant reasons are for an a(
.nifa't well-being, for the d"""tt"y of our society and l. f)oes hip viol know?
".
ptirru"y of each othe*r. All of these things are censored I . Shou
if ng be c
o,rr lives are influenced by these reasotts itt one way or a .t. who wiat is ,")rvr
This r,vill tell you that without censorshi p we would live i
world so clilty and irresponsible, so indecent and shantc
d not exist. lVe pretty nuch ignqre the gr-owth ,ll'lrcre tlte Ttrcss is free and eoery rnan,bre to rectrJ, ail is
cl sexual abuse ltt out movies and on televislt
Have they gole awaY?
T. Jefferson
134 135
TURN DOWN THE VIOI-ENCE VOLUME
Last week Heritage Secretary Peter Brooke told

prurience and fear - that is why it is the stuff of so much st

telling through the ages. The current anxieties about on-sc
'oioi"n""" spriig
from inderstandable concern about rising Ie
of violent irime, against a background of violent material avail
on screen through cinema, video, computer games' and.a mui
wider choice of tElevision channels for those who opt to subscrib
It is not surprising that causal links are asserted, even
proof of such linki is shalrply contested. ff you live on a,vaiq+it
Lousing estate, it is no great consolation to be told that thi
were iifinitely more dangerous in 18th century- London, or t
murder rates in the Middle Ages appear to have been conside
higher
" in the late 20u' centurY.
When people are questioned about their concerns over vi
in society j uni th" question is linked with on-screen viole
is not suiprise
',.at a majority will say there is too much viol
, on televiiion. o*.,r..," TV violence is by no means the lal
component of complaints about programs' Last year the
received some 4,500 complaints. only 188 were about violet
figure greatly exceeded by complaints about schedule cI
th"e lev-el of iepeats, and the disappearance of favourite
Complaints about violence were up on the previous five
but ionsiderably below figures for 1988 and 1986'
The public mood is not, though, simply-a matter of compla
It is iniluenced by the agenda set in Parliament and ir
press, which itself is a responsb toopinions circulating ge
in society. Nine months ago the I-fC acknowledged thisby l'lris is known and understood by ,riewers. The ITC,s
latest
to all its licensees, terreslrial and satellite, that it wished itttt;tl resealch shows that 84,.26 knol' of the 9 n m .^,,rlJ..r
a reduction in screen violence. It is carrying out a f
monitoring exercise to assess tHe extent to which this haSi nlt'r'shed fol subscr iptiou satell
rl i,.,r
irrg l-.^^l-
back l^to rL rr .
achieved, ind intends to publish its findings in the surhme the^ Flomc office regutatrons ior cable ser ices in

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INTERVTEW WITH JOANN A }OGLE, OF THE

NATIONAL VTEWERS' AND LTSTENERS'
ASSOCTATTON

1 - interviewer
JB - Joanna Bogle

commission such programs in the first place, however, sets

f.ensions between information and sensationali
"i.te-rtuin-ent,
It would be easy to dismiss current concerns about violen
as just one ,more episode of that mor.al panic to,which
the,Bliti
are sing,tla.iy ptot But even after allowi'g for the heavy rhetoric
".
*ni.n]Ur de6ate characteristically provokes, broadcasters nee(
to consider carefully the way thLy portray violence and i
overall volume. In turn, those who ciiticise the broadcasters shou
distinguish with equal care between the many different sou
of r-ronlbroadcast violence, which can be displayed on the televi
screen.

1. For what purpose is violence shown on TV?

2. Do"" it really do any harm to people or do they
pretend to be harmed?
' 3. What amount of violence should be considered

. 1eteaision brought the brutality of aar into the comfort"

o1 ii"ii"i"j room." vietnam u:as lost'in tlze lioing rooms of'
Anterica not on the battlefields of Vietnam'
- Marshall McLuhan

138 139
1 - But don't people realize the difference between fantasy KA - I(ate Adie
and reality? I - what eviclence is there that terevision i.fruences
Irchaviour?
JB - i don't actually think people do know the difference KA - There is quitc a lot of eviclen inilueuces
lrcliaviour in a manner of life st.yles, images,
of fashion.
Whethel it's a deep influence on behaviour ls ie, beczruse
rl could be seen as both aforce for good ancl a fo.." to.irrir,
ancr
the grev .reas ir between, ind it,s certainiy noi on. no,
rr,r;r'1r r.,f
other
l lrc e 5
Ircroism, n
Ir;rt"'cai,l, € l
;rll r:ent ;elevisiolt has images of violcnce, of
rrrPleasartress, of evil, of cruerty, and again you fi'cl
that rn
but uot one hundrecr pei cent. I;cl almost'".i,..r" ttr"
",r'it't5r,
nrr;rlk ancl say that I think thit television is a reflection of the
,rr.i.t.\''-i. which you live, as long as that television is free
to be
llr;rl rcflecl iorr.
remove from realitY.
/ - What evidence is there that the violence or indeed sex - whe'you say' "fLee to be that reflectio.", i' u'hat ways
t', il constrained from doing that?
behaviour that is seen on television is reflected in behaviour? J

mean isn't it the other waY round?

IB - This of course is the big debate and it is true t Ir,],

television both reflects and influences. I think we've all h

lr,r,'
lrr l
the experience of being enormously inspired by magnificent musi
li,rv
or a stirring speech or a call to courage. We've all been move
\r lr;
by sorne impressive event on television and certainly we ca \rrrrrlrl like tohave, inotherwor
.rr"n ,". within a whole country that you can create a mood or Erllrlrrrlc to television; would fo' example
cli.rnate by the way in which you present an activity, and I thi i'froduce a great cieal
that it's iather siily to imagine that people who are uplifted
rl l,()rrrographv outo television. you would also have a much
lrr,r,,.r' Pc,rcentage of low-challenging programmes. By
a lovely piece of pageantry or by stirring music are not depravl that I
trr',rrr l)ap, really'on-chal lenging, unintel ligent. soap
by sornetiing thal's disguiting. Clearly we're both. It is true th opcr.a, quiz
the mixture between what influelces you and how you influ Iilill it;rtnme.
the screen is a blurred area and everybody in the mass , You on
*rl'r,l.rrcc
recently made a television clocumentarv on the subject
tclevision. To what extent clid this.nung. you.
knows this, but I would say that one of the major influences
I lr \\','/
all our lives is television, and people wouldn't spend thousa: t
of pounds on advertising on it if it didn't influence people. r, A I'm going to sound a very
fli1'1',,1ro{ln}us and say you knOw, not a
"Persil washes whit6r," says the voice over and over a
and millions of housewives are absolutely convinced that it
f,rtl\ rr)ost of the time in this area. I work
f ilr, ,,r,r'ing with my own eyes the sort
and they go out and buy the product. So I think the influence
Frlr,rr(,1.V difficult to lut on television, n,hich I u,as naking
mostly that way round. the
Firr!i,r rrrrrrre.about, about violence. I see qLrite a bit of cleath and
Interview with I(ate Adie, a BBC Journall [tiir, lt1' ;rrrcl of u'ki'clness a'd viclleuccj ard brutaLit,r,.--alt or
1 - Interviewer
llt' , llrir,q,s. Ancl I Jrave to make regular j"ag"-""ts'"bout
trc t4t
|
('./'
what I feel can be shown on television, and I by no means have
ever believed that everything can be shown. I see no evidence, I
hear no evidence of real harm done to people by the mere showing
, of violent acts on television, with the rider that, of course, there '^.O.OO.'"
are always people who will be watching who are uniquely BAD AND WORSE
susceptible.
1 -- So you're saying that there are certain people who may r)r half_hour n
be influenced? quakes and
KA - Of course, there are. r,l nning their
,I - But they are ... rnajority. fl. petite for iuch information is
Iil
KA - Of course there are people who are influenced b 'fhe famous do something,
anything. .
llrcm, usually of a horrible nalu
1 - In the course of your work you deal with issues th llallo does its best, taking the
contain real violence. There's also a lot of fictional violence
rrright also be very happy.\.*,
television. Do you feel that viewers can understand the differe
rrr;rr-riages to fail.
between fantasy and reality?
KA - Most can. First of all I think it's up to the televisi der is the w
companies, for a start, to bear some responsibility for saying "T
lol s, evencivil
is fictional, this is a fantasY", and to say, "This is reality". I thi
sri r El Salvad
t I tt So you aSSu
television companies have a responsibility on one side, on
;

rlo ()lt. It is .iust that the news

other side I think that most viewers do distinguish. Some don'
lrurlgets and have left.
There are hordes of people, you know, in this country, who
deeply in search of Coronation Street in Lancashire. They actual What are the effects of all t
... you know ... people go and try to find the Archers. They wa
li'r.ling of gloom that there is n
llrc world's troubles. This cloesn't
to know where Ambridge is. They spend their lives crawli ll rs very different. Take someone
round Yorkshire looking for Emmerdale Farm. All of these fictior
lr.rrrg all day. can any man have m,ore
places. of a potential for depressio'?
\.r,s, if he has a radio:
1 - What do you personally find offensive on television?
I'he lonelier you are, the easier it is to.
KA - I find gratuitous violence extremely offensive. I ,,
llrrrrgs you read about will soon happen
believe that the terrible
like violence. I don't like it in real life. I am actually physi to you. th"r.-ir-nn -o..
ilil
sickened when I see people fighting. I do not like it. I also f s a generation ago, but people
horror where therq is a sort of ... where the human body is
l,r,l rarelY see cliildien
up, squashed, generally exploded and extruded. I find t,t,, TltJt.You
appalling. I don't like it myself. I would not stop other
I lr,,y [rr11 desperately for sensa
watching it.
l,r';lrcs on the front page whe
lr r rrrring in small communities
1. Do you agree that people can't tell the diffe r lr,rrrl e school closes, the shop shuts down,
between fantasy and reality? Elrtrl I
a place where. p-eflle Come to sleep.
2. What's your attitude to violence on television? \\,lr,,r go, and the children of people who
lir,,,l
,N'rlrody does anything about this for nobody feels he can,
etr lr llrings being uirreario'npu."Jio what h"p;";;;;cir",right
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143
on TV. Nothing local is ar-ry longer regarded as inrportarlt besi
Robert Noyce was a risk-taker who was successful both as an
engineer and as an entreprene,r. The son of an Iowa
the famines and killirrgs taking place far away' -inirter, he
was informal, genuine, and methodical. Even *tLn-ir"
*u,
uccessful businesses in the Silicon Valley,
1. Why do we need news? Is there uttyihittg we couldn' i nd his office was an open cubicle that
- without
do them?
2. Why must news always depict trouble, violence a
unhappiness of other PeoPle?
r'stitute o r rechno r ( fl i, f ,f.'3lJ?:: ;:,.tffi
#3'''tr}
"s,businesses in 1955. wh-il"'*;;r.i"g
l'irst computer-related-
H?T:
*itt
these pioneers of computer engineering, he leainea ,n"nf"tnirrg.
So much cheu,ing gunt for tlrc eges. about computers and businesJmanagement.
As an engineer, he co-inven
tvas the basis for later cornput
was less than an eighth of an in
irs a transistor unit that was o
l.ube unit that was 6.5 feet sq
founded Intel, one of the most
PERSONAL COAAPUTERS: THE EARLY YEARS Valley and the first compaly to introduce the microprocessor.
The microprocesso-r chip blcame the heart of the:iomputer,
Until the late 1970s, the computer was viewed as a m r'aking it posslble.for a large computer system that once filled
machine that was useful to big business and big government lun entire room to be contained o'a smail chip that
not to the general public. Computers were too cumb9r19n1e could be
hcld in one's hand. The directors of rntei ioul-a-nJi nuu.
e*perrriu" ior p.ivite'use, and most people were.intim.idated a.nticipated the effects that the microprocessor would have
them. As technology advanced, this w4s chan$ed-by.a distinct on
tlrc,world. It.made.possible the inve.tion of th" perrorrai .o-put..
gro,rp of engineeii atid entrepreneurs who rushed to impr
Itrrcl eventually led to the birth cf thousands or n"*
ihe d'esigns oJ th"tt-.ntrent technolo.gy ?+.9
to fin$ ways to m uori."r..r.
the comfuter attractive to more peogl-e-. Although these innoval
technology were u"ry diff"te't
-technical from each other,.tl
il ; '.orn-on
"T.".pitt"r entihusiasm for innovation and
lapacity to foresee the potential of. computers',This was a
who The two men who first int
competitirre and stressful time, and the only people su'
*"r" th" ones who were able to combine extraordinary engi
expertise with progressive business skills and an ability to fol
the needs of the future.
Much of this activity was centred in the Silicon- Va Gollaborated on their first project as computer hobbyists in a
northern califorDia, u'here the first computer-related co kx'al computer club. Built in. tie g;."g" o? loUr;r=f".!r,1r, tt i.
had located in 1955. That company attracted thousands of fl'sl, personal computer utilized-the"technotogy-oiwoy."'.
b,rsin.rres, and the area becamu ktto*n as the technological iul.grated circuit. It was typewriter-sized, ur
of the world. Between 19t31 and 1986, more than 10001:' fo*Eirui u rr.t
lat'gcr computer, and inexpensive to build. T-o wozniak", the new
i".trtiofogy-orientecl businesses started there. At the.busiest ti Fachine was.a gadget to share with other
five or more ne\to' companies started iD a single week' The S -..u"i.-oi tt"i,
ERlltputer club. To .Jobs, however, it was a product with great
Valley attractecl many risk-takers and gave thern an oppg{l u.Ll<cting potential for homes a'd small uuri-Grer. ro ."i.?
to thrive in an atmosphere where creativity was expect trr.
lil00 needed to fill their first orclers, Jobs sold ni, Voff.r*ug.n
rewardbd.
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enabled the computer to store more informzrtion, and insertable
busandWozniaksoldhisscientificcalculator.Wozrriakbuilt: boards that allowed people to use different k;yb;";;; while
and delivered the fittf of rOo computers in,ten 1qt^:l?:klt{ ' sharing the same printer. After 19g1, Tecmar produted a,t average
?ffif;:'T:'il,'r"d; ;;;
".a"i [t'" t"u't expensi'e materials' the'
of one new product per week.
i;; urrunge*enl
-otf tteative -o'
c-hipr,"nd ttt" ?l::T*lf*ii
:"H' ilf fi);;;;J"'""';" i;e;;;; line'd" I th a'
' th ev ou d ri I c I I
I Alpert had neither the technical training of Noyce nor the
computer clubs of Jobs and woz'iak to enc6urage "his interest
*ittt tn"it makeshift production- rL :- ..^^Lr+a,
venture: in. computer engineering. His
Jobs andworrri"t 6ro"sht clifferent abilities to their was who worked in a factorlr and
rrr---:^r. ..,^o rr,a ;.;il;%"ical wizard, and Jobg ---: the cducation. They insisted that
st moclel, and Jobs devised'
^^l
buYers' lris interest was in electronics.
fr-om investors and
studied electronics but privately. He became a
he would neverttave
Jobs
. I r^ l^ :+ ((Qfarra
'lS it' doctor, but practiced-passionately
only part time while pu.ruing tLis prlferred
selling the computer or known how to do
considered interest in electronics. His first electronics productiwere medical
,. r 'r r^ ^-^ ^:-^";+ .lacion nr niece of code. He's not really 1

e lras never
-,- ^ rL-^...
gone through t built in his living room. His wife recognized
projects b,efore he did, and enrolled in a
ed mv mind to sell comPuters
"Lets noru them ^: ,,^
up a3d's'ell e fpw "
^-l "all al-"-*'" i
It was Steve who said,
d;li'il;'
vsrJ uL6rrurrrro' np.ple l':9i::l it:i::liil:l
triselectronicsb,rsii,i*ro.l'.'J.'r'.?Ji,;,11tr#::1fl
intimidated T:"-'l
rlollr
From theLrrs very "rr-- lomgutel
t 'i, by h $l million, and they had 15 gngineers working in ttreir tiving
to the needs of- a general public that r.om before lhey moved to a larger building in"19g1. If wasn't
i"!J"a-tnut, tftt computers be light' trimi
rr'til 1983 that Alpel! stopped practicing"rnedicine and gave
I

technology.
LcLlrrrvrv6J vvv t'-'
. JJo-bs
;;a; in iluted colours' He also in-s-ist
"user-frieirdly"
lris full attention to Tecmii. ny tssa rimar was valuel at
*itn
w lLtl tn. computers'
Lrr! vvrrry uevr v be
person f,o lealu lrr d rcw 'rru
$150 million.
simple enough for the average . Computer technology has opened a variety of opportunities
ii.,H" r*i"';; h"lp"e ;;"*; a scept ica I p't' t
l}-t-::
i'- ll *,
busi'ess Jobs also introd
lir. people who are creitive riik-takers. Those who have been
;:$##;;i;ifi;;;; ^"a '-"ti to th"TT9:il?l]tl: alert technologically, creatively,, and
the idea of donating6;1" b;;P;ters e known when to use the help oi other
::f;ffii ;i'#ffi;Ft'."'irv i"i"iuc'.ns his product into the ho r4rork alone. Wheieas some have been
;ililh;; oi 'i"a"ni'' h"*; second,rurr
ri'"i' q:$"t:,!1i
iomputers f
busi.ess^3,ll1llJ"t?
$##iil":;.t"p;;; "".1totnpun{,'u
gsi lh""tltui t,rcativeandrinanc,rrl;ilL'fi *?,:".ffi:ilfr ::y,Tl"".1l""tHT
t977 to 1 982. Bv r
pt"tnt
I
"t-Y :1:.,11:::t
of the worldwide markej
19, tll rnpetitive as
za hi people been
''itiit"",;Ji#";;JrLa
pelsonal computers' ol
As the computer industrv.b.ts?"
t"^ --o^h inin homr
f.u"1i*1*T3ij 6r
ewarded gre
benefited g
the need for many new proo
small businesses around the world' lnnovation.
IOI' Lrrs personal
for the PEr Jwu4r
.";;tt"; - -u tn,tT,::9.t:y:'*tl+l3"*
vv'rtsev-- utg""
io.tnd"t'of Tecmar, Inc', was one of the firit people to foreseeir * 1.
need. When IBM *i""'"Jitt
iirst.p"l',o'lj ::T3*"::']i1! r. How
rrow can computers change our lives for better
better, for
iiitt
-t'"".*two modeli' g" took them apr Wrlrse?
Worse?
oto""'L""ehtt-h" a dav to fincl 2. can such fast development of computer technology be
worked l.*'^nrrr-rnrr'
wol'Ksu ?* I::_"^t-|:l
eks' he ernerged w harmful?
could b PC' and he later I 3- who uses computers today? Give examples of the impact
first co
of they have on our lives.
one "f -P-tl:":1t^-:rtl
memory'extenderS
Slit#"."ts. For example, he designed
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('()nsunrcr sor:iett'. Tlreir self-ratifying qLrality rnakes it hard even
Pablo Picasso to imaginc that the' ntedia can be changecl in auv rv2l5,.
Thc massive, interlocking complex of busirress interests that
up requxre's a rn;rlic. rrp t.hc' m:rinstrean media have been allorn,ecl to develop
To err is human but to reallg foul things
, in the pursuit of 6gmnterci:tl success.
1lr-ettrr ttruch zrs the5r vvicll
Nfezruil,hilc, the essential public issue - the rnedia role zts our
primary public forum, its tendency to erode democratic life --
Taxt 73 lrrs bccn 1-rushccl fulthel and further into the ltackglouncl.
It is nccessarv that rve think about and promote a ptrtrlic
lrolicv that looks at rvhzrt role media should play in our society
WORLD
HOW MEDIA LITER,AEI CAN CHANoE THE rrnd lrou, pcople carr palticipate in shaping television and other
rnass neclia that affcct zrll of our lives. Such a public policv
r:oulcl countel the irnbalances that result from the dominatior of
rr courrtr\,'s cultural industlies by commercial interests. We cannot
cxpect the cclmntel-r-rial ut.no to accommodate the goals that should
lrc tbe cssence of this public policy: nurturing diversity,
to those who can. You cannot enter stimulating and supporting creativity, and encouraging active
;ilHi,ii';;"iffi;; thrall participation ancl interaction in comrnunity and political life.
;i';6;;l;p".1 *o.iJ as -a full.human, sgb:,ect
1ll:::.I::"i'tl
Today, literac;, doesn
;T:##il*t", iir" "oa" "r
a' i"'- *" t
the word.
t:'f
op w ith lv i I "il: 1. Is your view on the environment formed by mass media?
s u
s t o r cl
:-e^"1"-l :?: i{ ^"lf 3?l of the
thrall mag:
;ii f.,lt';;il;;;;,t
^,. ;;" *"st also break the ?
'l'o what extent?
secrets' -If y" fail.to.adopt *td]i^lllT""5
box and naster its "no* 2. Do you agree that mass media control and change
;;.-il"*l"ag" of why media images are chosen -as people's conscience and way of thinking?
.t*"iJ g" p"r' r t t t"lt"tal" p? li tl'
"ita -:d::T^:.".it""5:
::
"i8f
ili:l;:'Jif;fr; ;il;irh;Jowelgr inler.ests who own and contr
the mass medi" t"" "i"ii "i"iif*"tion
ext 74
of eiectr:-1t
T::l:d t
Most alarming
i,
has excited d assionate debate'
observers aro r u99" the passivilliTi:::T:"ql AMERTCAN MA55 MEDIA
seem to breed in most people;
it displaces and undermines socit
pursuits *^" Bg Yuri Stulot
life, community actiji;'';il olntt tt"otive o l:ll:lt
L'iii ii'ii"iJ';';;il As a soci roster One of the c:entlal principles of American societv is the right
more dynamic relati 1"t""
t1" the medi lo l<nou', zurcl thc main function of the media is to communicate
when the pr-ograrrrrc c'uJ o',- the TV lo society what its nrembers do, feel and think.'llrcrefore, the
:i,"Jiil#t".i ""i,*p aspire to greater,$:1"^tlfl.lt"Pl rrrcclia must be frce to cliscuss whatever they'think is irnportant
LurtrLu
turned off. For tt,ot"'*t'o " the media into a
Iife, oul greatest challenge is translornring lol the public welfare. At the same tirtre they must be responsible
for democratic change D,
lol u'hat thcy print:utd broadcast and be fair, accurate and
li]i ,"q,ri." stalting from square one' Pecl olricctive in t.heil covelage of events. Journalism requires
find it hard_to BrlP
without ,orns -.-oniri-'.to.est in th.g field trrlt'lligence, kuou'leclge, expeiience and powers of obser-vation
$Ilil";il"'"tffi is a public issue' rhis ,rrrrl reasorting.
surprising
not sut'Prtstng f tn"tni"g' 11i"i:1"::1 A free pless is one of the greatest. achievements of democratic
;;;;d'hon,.Ihe inevitability of the.u'av LrIaL Lrrc.v ale curre ',.t it't\2. Flecdom of thc. press is protected bv thc Bill of Rights,
i:;il;,""r""irv t"'t"a-ioin"i' role ai the pep squad f.r ,rrrtl l-he First Arnenclrtent to thc U.S. Constitution rvhich runs
148 149
Approximateiy half of all daily newspapers clas5ify themselves
the canons of Ameiican journalism is that
that "Congress shall make no law "'abridging as independent. One of
oiof Ltru press''.
(Jr the the press rnusf be free of any ties, except the public interest, i.e.
ffi"h-, (Jl
speecll, I ll1|i1*.urrv'tvvvr
FYtt all Americans it must not be obliged to promote private or selfish interests, nor
tL""J Suarantee the rights of"til?t;
io
nust it print editorials that" knowingly subvert the truth.
news, who w i shed t" ;;l;"il"11 of i"i o n: P
" lli'l^":j f P *'"":*
ffiiiffi"';;;i; loi"io" At thelame time there are laws against Competition for ciriulation and profits was always tough and
libel and invasion *"rl ut limits on what reporterh t-he rivalry of two publishers - Joseph Pulitzer and William
mav do in brder to
"?il;;;;,-ut
get astory'
-e")" , ,, Ilandolph Hearst - created some of the most important press
"'o'rn"",h" ;;L or tn" new country the --^r:-"tt1t:^l^":: standards. Pulitzer's newspapers fought corporate greed and
p"'i'pr'iJtt and books' Tod denotes at government corruption, introd{rced sports coverage and comics,
".;;;;;;',
news operation in
ult :t:"*:11i and entertained the public with an endless series of promotional
i]i#irJi'riH;, "tty;@;*hi"h
;;il"b tl-t;evision, wnrc,r a, c,u w nnown ?.s stunts. Hearst's brand of outrageous sensationalism was dubbed
media" ' "yellow journalism". Both symbolized an era of highly personal
""i;.h";Gical
"news
progress has spee{ed un th;
Ui""6ttt to people's homes' It took six mont
H,t:,f:T::l .iournalism.
Today's standards are objective, unbiased reporting with
ir g"tn"."-a
i;r";h;;;;ple""nain F"'Xne to iearn about irli sides of a story represented. The Neo York Times andThe
9,"1".:P::',11t:::::{
was launched into space Washington Post as well as The Los Angeles Times, The Boston
it:;'r"#ii".;]d. r first landry-rg gr'r.tht *91
when Arnericarr Globe atdThe Christian Science Monitors are the most important
t
live radio and transmitted
of
Ythjl^t:.t:
homes all over the worl
tlaily newspapers that shape public opinion. They focus on major
national and international events and are known for their
these historic events into millions
uv modern";;;""lGitt'
to th",time, lcsponsibility, independence, impartiality and fair play and in
Thanks
t
'd'^r 'rvsvt I - ltq,P:Y.?:i I
of it reaching the public lhis way differ from supermarket tabloids which carry little
n..rrrr"na" of an event and the news
hard news and lay stress on celebrities, human interest stories
been minimized.
Computers have revolutionized the wilrt*::?* rrbout children and pets,and diet and hdalth tips. An example
Peopl" are surrounggd uv 't'fl:T ol' a tabloid is The National Inquirer with a circulation of over
"t";;[;;irtttiu"i"a'
;ii;iliong. R look at the local r.tewspape:i1FI1p^t:.,::,?T:
the wav to w
4,000,000.
;il;i; iV, u fii or ttports the cir radio on t^1tl-iY:":l
on Nevertheless, the circulation of newspapers is shrinking because
rrl' tl're growing popularity of television. 65% of Americans use
a major evening-1r",tt programme,o" J-Y:^1 are the-esse
it;i##'ilir!f.-U"J"t f'["t in the everiing Iclevision as their primary source of'news because it can report
;#';"ilirv"""litrtie;
udl L ur u4rrJ
of an averase American' News Iltt: news immediately with a picture of it. As a result, newspapers
lntertainment that are beam Irow concentrate on features, personality profiles and in-depth
nr:ws analysis.rather than fast-breaking headline stories.
continent to another helP to
a Radio began to spread throughout the United States in the
bring LlrL fAmerican.PeoPle
ul Illtsr the urrv! rv4rr
IY"*tp"p"ts are the oldest or t'ne llews rrr'sL'a 'r Lrrv v vr ^' lf)20s, and by 1928 the USA had three national radio networks -
h"";
'dvs
;i;# earl5
4rvrq' u.""vvv^^ nish rv p"litical'. Ame ric" ll::
-t'iz6o't
when the first political-:fn: *"91
battles
two owned by NBC (the National Broadcasting Company) and
orrc by CBS (the Columbia Broadcasting System). Though mostly
oo back to the
itta"p""a."ce of the Americancolonies ;:rt"H;h; iffi;; llslcried to for entertainment, radio's instant, on-the-spot reports
;;a
"

ill,i5J"* ol tlramatic events drew huge audiences throughout the 1930s

E" " l,' ":,"', . I : Y:lin','- l:"*'
q*.0 nt i

":'n
il*lelilt"r."phili'""1't""a''-t:"-*,*,::":'""*1t-t]3:l: Errrl WW II. Radio introduced governm.ent into the media.
;:ffi;t"p"*"'a-n""t"ttv and ob;ectivelv' rl9* th: l: )l)Bress gave the government power to regulate and license
n^Lti."" lJurnalism set thi standard for generatlt^Yltl xrclcasters so that radio and - from the 1940s - television
rrld be operated in the public interest.
;il;;;;;iers. Newffiers greatlv contributed to..teaching
masses of new Atn"tican way of life'
im*i!tu"t' ih"
151
150
Television macle its fil'st public ?rplxritl':lllce .itrst bcforc the
Toclay over 957; of all American homes have TV sets and
outbreak of WW II but it gained real inportancc a l'etr'\'cl.tt's tr.vo or- more sets. Surveys
after tl-re end of it. Watchirig TV became a soci:tl ritual u'itlt show that in the average
rnillions of people setting up their lifestyles arouncl TV's progranl]xr
household, the television is watched 7 hours a day. lt
ed the Americans' view of the world in rvhich thev
schedule. The televisiott networks follou,ccl the llcl'scastitl$, live, as well as their lives at home.
procedures that hacl beel establisfied for rzrctio. By its naturc.'fV
^hu, joying
p.ou.n most effective in coYerilrg dranratic,.action-filled in Amelic
when TV vieu,ers beconle direct witlesses of tl-rese errctlts-
"r"nit
Television becarne a verY impor-tant influetlce on the political
cli Experts
scer)e, especialli' duling presidential elections' In 1960'Richalcl
is trated i
M.Nixonand John F.Kennedy participatecl in severztl televisiott
clebates, and many observers believe tlrat. JFI( $'on the elcction in
large palt becauie of the favourable impression be c.reated irt
tho"se television appealances. Presiclents n ott' f rcq uentl y clel i vc'l
major speeches to felevision audiences. Nl.rr, 1>rcss
I
conferences ate televised "live". 'r'csiclcntial o pt'i','acy
Unlike nervspapers, radio and tclevisi()n at-c Lr':tdit.iorlallv
;r security.
neuttal in pol itics. Ncts'clll< representatives insist ti'i:rl tlrc trr:ris
I rstepped
t
and public issues be presentecl otr.icctiVelv, t\'itl-,rlut rllfcrrclirlg
Iisteriels. Thc Iredelal Communicztl.itltts ('.on-i rltissiorl llct'tllilS
"I(nou'leclge will forever govern ignorance", said presidenl_
editorialising Lrut requires radio and televisiorl statiotls to prcsent ,lames p their oll,n governors
all sides of fcontroversial issue zrncl t-o ofl'cr politicll oppotletlts
nrust w ledge gives". N{ass
equzrl anounts of time to pt'esettt thcir opitliotts
rrrt'c[ia ir
'l'lrc
Basicallr,, hou,ever, television is an entertairrment medium.
aclveftiser buvs commet'cizrls ol the shorvs 1,h:ti attllct thc Iarl1rrs
'

aucliences, u,hiclt inclr,rcle talk shorvs u'ith v,'cll litrou rt t't'lclrritics n(l
westerns, sitcoms, mo\,ies, spy shcxlrs, qUiz shOws. atlti s11lt1.r opcl';l3 2. Are you satisfied with the work of mass media in your
On most quiz shor,r's menrbels of tl-re :luclicncc itrc aslic.l tluestiolts, country? Explain.
ancl if theV give the correct answel's, thev recelivc'r,altt:tblc pt'izq$, l. D" journalists pursue only sensationalism and always
Commelciai television is totally financed by advertising' violate privacy? Support you answer with examples?
Nou-comrnelcial, or publii, television erlphasizcs t'Lr[ttrritl
75
HOW DO \trE 6ET THE NEW5?

Scrvice (PBS) is a govcrnment-sponsored servit:e that pl:trts itll

Once the news was passed on by word of mouth
l,('rson told another, who then told another.
- olle
clistlibutes progl'aflrmes to non-commercial TV statitins'
Technology i:ontinues to chaDge the media. Cables and sak'llitt .l-:rter, people who travelled carried letters and newspapers
ru illr them. But this could take a very long time.
u." Already half of American homes subsct'il
lo "*pundinlielevision.
TVY, which broadcait dozens of cha'nels provitlit ln 1815 the British and the AmericanJfought the Batile of
"utrt. entertainment of every kind. N.u' Orleans. Thev didn't know that the *ar, which had lasted
infolmation and
l,r' llrrce veal's, had ended two weeks earlier.
152
153
In Britain, people read more newspapers than in any other
Iu America, it sometimes took months for the news so cross .ountry i' Eu'ope, it is said. Most people read a .ational
th" The p;il E;;;err tiie.l to rnake it faster. Night and
"o,r't.y. ,cwspaper. There are four or five "serious" newspapers, such as
;;;,-;;; .6d" hor.., without stopping! A letter sent from Missouri
to Califolnia still took ten days' , and there are several ,,popular',
Then came the telelraph, telephone, and t'adio, television
a'd , lots of photos and usuall.y ieveral
satell ites.
--- In contrast to G"..u.ryt
(the Associated
ioauy, large international news agencies like AP nn\r/sptperS, such as The Obse
plesr) have thousands of reporters-and cameramen in hundred
radio an SunciaS,' newspaper is a traditio
of .t"rttti"s. They sell news ind photos to newspapels'
iele.rision all over the world. So a reporter--can. get all thr There are also local newspaperi, giving partly but
satellite rrrrstly local news. These are-often eienin! n"*rpup..s, ^ational
i"llr"ulional ancl national news in his oiher office by
'--".-B;l lrt'opJe ca. bu5, in the afternoon or in the eirly.ufni.g on their
which
i"ilhe iocal news, reporters still go out and get the news lv;ry home fr-om work
Tht;t;;.tot"book, pen or pencil, and their eyes and ears' Som' 'fhe'e are.magazines for all kinds
of groups of people and for
things don't change verY much. type of hobby you
'vcry yet the britisir hive .othi'g
rlrrite Iike the many "ne ;', serious
and popular, thal
1. Do people really need news?-For.what put-p9:9?. . ir(' on the Gerrna' mar rmation and articlet nf th. typ.
i. H"ti' do you g"1 th" news? In what ways? Which l,rr would fincl in these "news magazines" appear in Britain in
you like most? I lrt'
_national daily and Sunday rre,"ipup"rs.
''s"({'r Most people in Britain receive foui television channels (unless
:"."'"" ,
l: What the mass media offer is not popular -art',but llrt'v have cable or satellite TV) - BBC1, BBC2, ITV and cirannel
i entertaiinment, alich is inten'ded to be consunrccl like food' '1 IIBC 1 and 2 are paid for by ilre money irom viewers' TV
Ir,'r'nces, and have no adverts.
i forgotten, and replaced bg a neo dish' w.A ITV (Independent relevision) and channer 4 are paid for by
llr. rnoney they receive from adverts, or TV .o-.n"r.'iurs, which
ir,lrl)oAr
_eyery 15, 20 or 30 minutes on these two channels, often in
llrr, nricldle of programmes.
A just a few
r'lii() mmes'
B ITV' giving
rr,\\'s '30 a'm') is
interested in almost nothing. r r,r1,
E.B.W ',pular-.
(If you
? If you
2. What do you think of
THE MEDIA TN BRITAIN ll. What are mass media in your country? Are you pleased
wilh it?
What is a "medium"? Well, in this context a mediu
,o*"thing, which givcs information to the public' ,Rudj.1
television]fo. are media' So are nern'sPapers and
""urnpi",
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. T4, Mail, regarded largely as a vi/omenis paper,
has added
a rittle over3%to its sares.
. There slight but steady increasein thereadership
of the Today, one in five reader, fr.f"-r,
NEW5PAPET IN BRITAIN daily ar paper. "!""fity
4
1
The G quality g for the liberal left,
Thbre is a number of differences between German and. Brit gives the reasons i parody oi;.tuUtoia
speak", it tabloid
'"*.' ;:3tn:ltot?i'"T,'",0", 10 inches). euatit ' There is growing-ilriteracy among schoor-leavers: 25% have
l

'broad-sheet" , 27 to 26 inches)' "reading difficulties".

. (aro rndI 40
tA
.
Populars and qualities are about the same price
iniSgZ). In GermanY, You can buy three-copies of Bild f'

g due to a clean-up campaign

ories.
icks used to boost sales in the
GermanY.
2 ' Much of the sense of
".ono-,totLfrttJiur,.", self-confidence
German readers are likely to hit on things in English
dai among the aspiring.lolking class Lreated by Thatchlrism
that may seem rather "insular" to them: is vanishing in the 1990s' recessioh.
.Th';;; *""tt more extensive coverage ofr .,1"home nel 5
. l'Home" and "foreign" or "world" news are stri
r"p"t"t"a il.ont pa€es of qualities are an exception)' L , [n a country that has seen more than a decade of conservative
Iulr:, there is no quality.daily' which'could ue .alled,o"rirt""try
. Ciu".uge of woild news relies heavily on the mate( 'lr Pro-Labour. ?
provided by.English and American news agencles'
ire fewer foreign correspondents'
. ftfu.tt of the foreign news still has an "Imperial" r
lar.flung outpostl, such as New Zealand or long
re"m cto".e. und thus more interesting than Denmar
Hungary.
. Proirinence is given to "typical" British sports: cr
goif, tu.ittg andiugbY, football'
3
Paper sales hpve been falling steadily over the
last
vears:
,"*."'Tubloids )r the whole,
rather than broadsheets have beel worst h
(
the political reanings
. T;;;, ; ;;;;t founded. <inlv six vears earlier lost al r .o have remained rargely untouJhedof by
British newsDaDers
the qr".ii.i or
20% of its readers in 1990 -".
r'shi p. For about three delaies,now,
'trr.' t[;"i"* i"i-" r"#U",
. O".i"g tggO, Tlze Mirror and The Sun lost about 5 tultc-overs by "magnates", often from outside Britain. H;;;;".,
6l resPectivelY. 157
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most of these are thought to look upon theirPapers as
a.means of ere "counted out" _ well. that
;;il; ;;;;t rather thun us a source of infiuence o' the public ;TiJi ix^'"5:: ;; ?5 :liil P
opinion in the countrY.
(Information on tiie sates of English newspapers is.based on
the i national newspaper ind.ex", prrblished by The Surday
Times ,,:rm,
lritcl a
;:L:"rT ?fii,ll
'rsr^
"nr",[Ti:'r1?:
uu
' 'ru!:\
in March 1991.) Th nes, which you do not find in the
l);rpers : page_size biilboards under a cover
1. Why do the sales of newspapers fall? ,l wire netting. you find them ii frlnt of news stails and
at
i: Wiltl; tlr" diff"t"nce betieen tabloids and qualities? ncwsagents' doors. There is t
A good ne@spaper is a nation talking to itself'
A. Miller
When a dog bites a man, that is not ne(os' because
it \'ou are expected to fork out
happens so oftin' But if a man bites a dog that is neuss' r{)l)Y o The typical
John B. Bogart ttttrrrlte ter words th mrrnt .^
l,;rrrer ake verbs lik T#;l iffi:;i
"r'zrp" (criti
lr y), whi<
Err:haic.ring o , even slightly
?ront pa
I feadlines A 1r-letter words, without sounding vulgar
,r ,lisce'e, and they sport four-worcl prrr"r*
HEADLINE5 rrr;rv lrc able to sort out what a . "r".,i"ii."ft.ua"r,
np;rlic':rtion to commit a former m
Headlines can tell us something about what a p?pe.r
is like I rr r rt. to prison for breaking the
its il "llrne rule vote reth-inli"? Right it refers to the British
J

L""k-g ;t one that has been jgQched"from P:{t,is"P1..{

r"";d:;;";il;;i i'td it "..v difficult to find out which f gilr ..r'rrmellt being forced to conce-de -
a,eferend,rm on a."Jrtio"
a quality paper and w.hich was snipped from lrrr St'otland and Wales.
" !l!1:11-ll
are likely-to be longer and more informati'
fr;;lir; ffiiii"t lfjtt, headline, four words try to do the job of fifteen;
Th;;.]i;;-ttre tautoias tend to be sho'-rt and snappv and f
- l::
i.n, J ; i;; ;' ffi; ;
i;
ll, i' ; :', if :1.q.'^ i':"^l::l -y:td l.:,.on
needed: in the body copy,.
i
of
- puns and innuendo.
'ftt.y have got something in comrnon;. t\9",9h' ::i:ll
I

i::1, ,"'.11.:ithe_amount i;il;.;;%r1

lrr',rrltircse isan attempt of some f;.;#{,;r"t'";;'i".g;J:l
fo."iin"f""rn".r"of English f]nd them difficult to und-erstal
fha fnllowi.'o oxampleire taken from a wide,selection 9f n5^l Cr"':
l. What-do you think most people and you, in
; frorn tfre News of the World, a SundaY
llhr. lo see in a"newspaper?
E v,stories t9 rhe. Dailv rtl:9lug1',il^!l:1 11. I)o you prefer scandals to news?
Eualitv dailv wilh strong Tory leanings. All of thern should Why?
l;hil;-nit ttt"t" is iomething thit mav justlv be cal
itr"udtitt"t"", a clistinctive register of English' Nlrzrs is ohat a c,hap uho doesn,t care much
about i
Football'reports u." u .oil in point' "Derby counteci ottt trrtrlltinq crtres to read,. And il's only neros until
lrr'r r"ii
ffu*"t-.nut may already be something of a facer, tt lltrr that il's dead. " i
,
"t'mark"
i;;;;; tt"J""tt of Engliih., althoughare, it is taken from a qual Eoelgn Waugh
or rather used to 5e i
;;;;; ;"ther than a tafiloid. Derby ,"|"1k.,J

158 159
to be reprinted internationally
to have a huge readership
'..."1I. news should be very clearly separated from opinion about
SOAAE INTERESTINo WORDS
t-he news
to be slanted in one direction or another
to slant the news
to be read nationwide to show anything from praise to ridicule
the paper with the largest circulation " ' is a very ser
well-informed journalists
newspaper indeed
U" ot the dailv reading list of many (world-leaders)
sensational stories
to be biased
to b" p"blished (weekly, iemi-weekly, monthly)
quality newspapers
tne w 1. Try
ition, for some PeoPle an altern to invent an interesting and complete description
of the work of mass media using all the words above from the
ections point of view of an ordinary citizen/journalist/news tycoon.
ion of ... million coPies 1.,,". ".' r. ia. r r, r:.r t

to feature crime, sex and scandal :,

i
"

A ne@spaper should be the maxirnum of information, and 2"

to be distributed locally or regiorally i the minimum of comment.

:
io coll"ct and sell tt"*s, news features, photographs : R. Cobden i
editorial columnists
,news commentators
chequebook journalism
ro*i of the lirgest newspapers are news-gatheringand
to maintain reporters und cimeramen at domestic THE WORLD SERVICE
-"1;?"i_"rt
news bureaus
of their news directly or indirectly through BBC radio's international voice
and UPI There are lots of international radio stations - four of the
to give equal and'balanced news coverage to lrt:st-known names are Voice of America, Radio Moscow, Deutsche
(candidates) Wclle and Radio Free Europe.
muckraker (n) But none is more famous or has a bigger global audience
muckraking thrn The BBC World Service. The "Fascinating Facts" below
to dig out fhe dirt and expose it for all to see lcveal what it does and.how it works.
investigative rePorting The World Service broadcasts nearly 800 hours of programmes
to searih for examples of political corruption lrr .)7 languages every week.
to give a'false imPression of smth Its headquarters are at Bush House, a large building in central
io il"f." impossibie to keep one's-private life private l,orrdon.
to cover all topics and interests, from "' to "' 'fhe World Service broadcasts programmes in English twenty-
to be modelled on Tims l'orrr hours a day and has 25 rnillion listeners every week. The
;; ;.11;;;t, interviews, p rotographs, graphics' charts lolal, weekly audience,.for all its programmes (in the 36 other
oublications throughout the world lirrrguages as well as English) is 120 million.
'--to U" aimed at Ihe average, educated reader 'fhe service costs about J120 million per year. That's roughly
io tt."t educational, political and cultural topics at ,l I pcr year or 2 p per week for each of its listeners.

160 16t
pzrss through the neu,st'otlm at Bush House
onc million worcls ,ibrain
. This is the f the wor-ld Service and it never
total of 120 iouma k in tl're newsroom (clivicled gj$*,Text 81
3*!
e groups u'ho rvork ent cight-trour shifts)' They
THE WORLD OF TV COMAAERCIAL5
produce 2.50 news stories every
The World Service was cre over fiftl'-six years ago to
replace tbe olcl BBC "Empire-Service", rvhich
Some people love them - other.s lrate them ,- but almost
and ,ts"d to provide global information for Bri
Toclay, mbst of thb people wh.o listen.to t\" .
". , ,language.,
Drogrammes in English dotrrt speak English as theit-fir-st
T;.";"l""itv tn?"r are under fifty, iive in towus or cities and'
"f
are well-educzrted.
international radio station b|oirclcasts neu's and current,
Everv"But
'f he Rules
affairs. the BBC World. Service also offer-s pro8l'amnles oD ... felevision cornmercials have to obey different rules in clifferent
music ' science ' the arts ' comedy ' business ' drama ' sport countries. Ev
. r.iigion. Plus, fr-orn time to tirne, it presents live interviews liol exilnple
,rl make fals
lllitain's adv
-f
he Account

pl'ogramnes every week to theil own aucliences' 'l'he Product

^ inforn-ration on wo'ld e'ents corrles ir-rto the Bush Hou
Srr u,hat kind of products zrre advertisecl ou TV? Well _
1e\\,sroon from several sources. One is BBC foreign corresporrden
,tlrrt,st anirthing. For cxample... . banks . cars . chocolate .
Another is the special "listenin5; centl'e" at caversham Park
g.rkrhir.. Five hunclrecl people wolk at cavershan-r Park a rr,uriurce, ' toothpzrste . conputers . tnys . coffce . airlines .
',rr pt,r-nr ar-kets.
fhsil inh is to listen to 2tj0 hours of broadcasting everS'-day
35 la m 50 countries. All the most important fact's l'hc Market Research
tt.r. (plus extra infor.mation from international ne ( )l( so an agency h:is a'eu, acc'u't. What cloes it cl. first?
and othei listening centres) are put into a daily
''
M;r'l<et research. In other words, it tail<s to c,usumers about the
".g.li.t
Flle" for the World Service. i'r,rrlrrc't ancl analyses what they say.'fcl clo rhis, it clivicles
r,il\,1illt('l's into.groults accorciing to their'... . ag(' . r.zrce . sex .
1. Do you prefer getting news from the radio or televi ril{ oil)c. Market |ese:r|ch shows u'hat pcople think about the
pr r rr Irrt t
l'lrc Concept
Ncxt comes the conc..ept. This is a general idca for.tl-re style of
llr. r',nrnicrcial. ltror example, it nrar,-6e a cartoon farrtasv, a 50s

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rock and roll party or a roinantic beach scene. Some of today's 1. Is advertising of any use to the society?
most popular concepts include... ' the mini-soap (a series of 2. What are your favourite commercials? Why?
commercials which tell a story) ' the environment (this shows
how healthy an product is) ' "the new
You catt tell tlte ide.qls of a iation by its aclzterti.sernent.s.
of gentle, sensiti n shown with babies or y
. "the female (images of successful Norman Douglas
glamourous, busy lives).
The Storyboard I rText 82
A team of advertising agency people create each commercial.
One member of the team is the art director. Once there's a concept,
he or she produces a storyboard. This is a series of pictures, FORCINa YOU TO BUY
which shows what the commercial will look like and how it will
develop scene by scenei. In a TV co'urnerc'ial tlre aclver-tiser is tryirrg to per.suacre you
lo go out:rncl bur, sometlring. He wants to makc vou feel that
The SIogan v,rrr leallv must have it. There ale a number of clifferent rvavs of
Another important member of the team is the copywriter. It's rloirrg this:
his or her job to writea script for thead.This usually includes l. The snob effect. You :rre told that the product is nost
short, clever, easy-to-remember phrase or "slogan". Three recent .xclusive and of co.rse lathcr cxpensive. only the vcrv best
slogans il Br-itish commercials were... "Gas - the heat of the ;rr,o1tlc usc it.
mo-ment" (British Gas), "Sony - why compromise?" (Sony), 2. The "scie'til'ic" effect. A sc.r.ious-looking nau r,irith glasses
"Everything you want from a store and a little bit more" (Safe ,rrrrl:r u'hitc coat, possibll'a ck;ctol or a PlofesJor, tells voti'about
supermarkets). llrr' ;rch'zrntagcs of thc plocluct. Morc often he nrentioni ,.mir.zrcle
The Music irrlilr:clic.nts" or' "sciclltific. testing" to persuade us.
il. The rvorcls-a.cl-music effect. The rame of trre pr-odu.t is
Images and words are both'vital factors in a TV commercia rr'1rr';rted ovcl-:urcl ovcr-agairr, put into a rhyme zrncl suirg scvcral
Another is the music. Some ads have their own short song lirrr.s, in thc lroPe that )/ou \\'ol)'t forgclt it. Ihe sung i:hvme is
"jingle" (which usually includes the slogan). Others use pop, j r,rllt'cl a ".jingle".
or classical tunes to create a mood, which fits the product. 4. 'fhc ha-lra effect. The aclvcrtise. tries to mal<e'.u Iaugh by
The Shoot :lrou'irrg 1;eoltle or caltoon figures in funnV situations.
lr. 'fhc VIP (Vc'r't'Lrrportant Perrson) effect. Wcll-knor,r,n people,
Conrnercials ale "one-minute-movies". They cost a lot of ,.
and some take weeks to film. Others, of course, only take two ltl'r'rrt'tors ul football-plzrvers, are shorvn using the ploclt,i.t.
(i. The supc' rnocle'r eI'fect. TI-re advcrtiser: triei to persuacle
three days. It all depends on the product, the concept and
budget. 1,, lhirt his plocluct is ar sc'nsirt'ion ol something ,"oily',r.r0,.
i 'fhe go-go effect. This is stritablc for the tecnage mar-kct. It
The Slot i,lr,,u.s young peoltle huing a par-t;r, singilg, laughiirg, having a
"Slots" are the short breaks during and between program tr ntrrlt'r'lul tirle, and, ol course, using the product.-
TV companies sell them to advertisers, but not all for the s l'r' r'su:rs i v e acl vert rsr ng
price. A slot at 4.30 p.m., for example, is much cheaper than
at 8 p.m. That's because more people watch TV in the evening I licpetition. Thc simplcst hincl of aclvertisi.g. A slogan is
"peak viewing" hours. lr,i'ir(('(l so oftc'n.that u'e begin to associate a brand nams,uvith
ct lr,u lit'ulitl procluct ol selvic:e.

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2. Endorsement. A popular personality is used in the
advertisement.
3. Emotional appeal. Advertising often appeals to basics such
-manliness,
asmot
4.
feminlnity.
with the Jones"s". An appeal to pure snob
. Politics
value. appear to be richer or more successful than
your
- 5.neighbours.
Comparison. The advert lists the qualities of a product'in
direct comparison with rival products.
6. An appeal to fear or anxiety. This type is similar to 3, but
works on our fears.
7. Association of ideas. This is usually visual. Until it became
illegal in Britain, cigarette advertising showed attractive, healthy
people smoking in beautiful rural situations.
8. Information. If a product is new, it may be enough to show
it and explain what it does. 83
9. Special offers/free gifts. This is a very simple and
appeal it's half price! WHY 60 rNTO POLTTICS?
10. Anti-advertising. This is a modern version, which ap
to the British sense of hurnour. It makes fun of the techniques I'rn unemployed and fed up. There's never anything to do.
advertising. N,w I can read the council pipers that are sent to me and
liivcs me something to think about.
it
1. Give examples of advertisements using different effe<
I like meeting people, helping people, and talking. I can always
lrrr<l^something to say. I lov-e maklng speeches. "
Which effects have the biggest influence on you? Why? 'fhere are a lot of improvements
!n!i'$'n,i..
tt ui t think would make life
r''.**,*
l"',,9{ for the people whb live in this district, and I would like to
: Ada f a stick et, 1,,,rrble to campaign for them.
x Ado ed as th nq It's great to feel you have aruy in how things are clone. It
: hu-a, h to get rrr;rltcs.you feel important. you don't have to
be ilected to the
i Ceorge orutell ,,,rrncil it's enough just to be on the fo.oL pu.ty,, o*n
, , ,rrrrttittees.
I support can be in
,,,,,l,
\\
rl',r'l
s ,Ts'l..H,li:il#T
why should that lot get away with it? They are just looking
rtl'l cr their own interests.
S,'eone needs to do the work on the councir, and if none of
r, ,u('on it, our views u'ill never be heard.
Ilrcre are a lot of things the council don't do right
and it
lrrr', vlrv good sitting at homi moaning
r "rr, with the councillors themselvei.
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My l-ratcs tool< me to tbe partv tttec'tirtg, atld thcn they needecl rreeds rnedical treatment can have it ft.ee ancl gr-ants, benefits
a candiclate, so I got talked into it artd happened to win the and pensions are paid to those who canlt earln their own living.
election.
I thought I'd be able to mztke nrot'e nloney if I knew what was Communism
going ori in the council meetings.
ri :fij il:i.li, i{r]ii!,!l!:i::,tl:ili:.irill't i;*
r':.:

you go into polit

2. For which you wouldn't?
.,,*e"rytt*rl

Qttestictrt: Vllnt are tlrc desiruble qualificatiotts for ang on his or her-freedom. The government there is to help
lommunities work together-, and to co-orclirate the efforts of the
lrig cities lvith those of the countrl, districts.
, rr''
,i"":i ,
1. What are the advantages and the flaws of each political
happen.
system?
Sir Winston Churchill 2; Which is the best?
--..,"""--,,,,':
Libertg is precious - so precious that it must be rationecl. i
Lenin :
'"":::"'"."""-'"""f
IF ONLY IT WERE LIKE THI5!
85
Capitalism
Many people in the western r,r'ollcl think that capitzrlism WAY5 OF RUNNINa A COUNTRY
the best rvz'ry to run the"wor'1cl, ancl givcs people rnost freeclom; 'l
In a per-fect capitalist state atryorte is frec to use his or h I(ingdom is run by a
mone)I (capital) to help start up a bttsittess, arrd then to keep Jrpl)o g with the Prime Min
share of the profit; and anyone is frec to offer l-ris or het' servi Irorrr st political party e

to u,oll< anl,u'het'e for the best wages that he or she can obtal 1r, rr
ianrent.
I

'fhe govcrnment raises taxes to suppolt thosc u'ho cauuot ntat)a Sonre countries are luled by a dictator. The dictator- is the
to suppolt themselves, to run essential services ancl to mai lr'r'.ior) u,ho makes all the main decisions, zrncl the rest of the
law :urd order. Elrrvr,','nl"ut just help to carry th'em out. The public do not have
ir , lr;rrrc'e to choose theil govelnment, and are not aIways allowed
Socialism {o r:omment on it.
Sorne coulltries have a military council. This is a small gtoup
N{any people in the western worlcl tbinl< tlrat socialism is t
rrl ,,'nioL officers from the armed iorces. Wor.king together]ihey
best lvav to t'urt the state, because they belicve it is zt sys
Itrrr llrc countrli in mucrh the same way as zr dictator does.
r.r'hich is fail to everyone aud allor,r's them to be free.
lnrIia has a fedelal goverrment. The countly is dividecl int<t
In a perfect socialist society the govcrnmcnt makcs sure
evervolle has the opportunity to u,ork, :rrtd that tlrc nzrtion's rarcfl
ll ',1;rtes which each send elected menbers to its Parliarnent.
is shared out fairly, so that no one goes short. Evervottc
llr,' l)r'csident is elected by these electecl members of parliament

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and by the state assemblies. Each state has its own assembly, (hem" (Miiler, 1987). The world has its limits; all mater-ial wealth
which is responsible for rnatters of local importarlce, such as the
police, education, health and agriculture, u,hile 1.he lJnion
Parliarnent deals with matters like defence, money and
communications.
The United States is also a federation, with.50 States each
havirrg its ou rr legislature. The citizens vote on different occasions Politics is a way of combating th society
for the President, Senators, and Representatives for the federal rnto a violent and unstructurecl mess by o,rer,red
State. This has the result that the President may not belong to l,.v tbe pr-imitive instincts of men in o onflict.
the same political party as the ma.iority of Senatols or
Representatives.
/.!.t *;:|?ii11Ir1i i;i*.ri:li*a-{;e€t$iftS
the chance te
prosper?
2. Which system best suits your country?

l)olitics implies power. certain mcmbers of a societv rnust

WHAT I5 POLITIC5? lr;rvc the authoritlr over other members in order to enforce civil
rlist:ussion in the first place. It seems to follow that for certain
C)rr healing the word politics what usually comes to mind
are images of government, politicians and their policies or more
negatively the idea of corruption and dirty tricks. The actual
definition seems to have been obsgured and almost lost by such
representations and clich6s that tend not to pinpoint the t
essence, which defines this thing, called politics.
The u'ord politics comes from the Greek word "police"
meaning the state or community as a whole. An ideal society is it
practice a rather difficult aim and even an impossible aim I
achieve. Politics implies measures which could and should t irrl'r.sts, group ol an individual can gain support ernd ultimate
a
implemented in the hope to create a better society, than which other groups and individuals. politics cor-rld thus
irrrl lr,r'it.,i, ovcr
already present. calculating art of power gain or power retention
lrr' , lr'l irrccl as a
To begin with, the basest premise that underpins the noti irt rror'c simply as power struggle.
of politics should be considered in order to arrive at a fal 'l'hc ultimate power is found in go'ernne.t.
It is n'iilrin this
definition. Man is self-preserving by nat,ure. Hc. thinks and a
whether that is an individual or a group who share interes
with foremost regard to his own interests. Self-perpetuati
is the number one rule. He therefore possesses his own inte
ideas and preferences, which may differ to those of h
contemporaries. "Politics presupposes the diversity of view,
not about ultimate aims, at least about the best wirvs of achievl

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r:andidate with a rnile-long resurl e) it has alrn'ays been "the vision
thing1". With Bill Clinton the big stumbling block seems to be
"the character thing". Frorn adultery to draft evasion, to conflict
of interest with his wifels law firrn, etc., etc. Clinton has become
u'hat Jerry Brown has aptly labelled the "scandal-a-r,veek-
n-I*ru." to avoid conflict due to those inevitable diversities in r':rnclidate". Concerning the adultery charge, most Arnericans have
;;;i;; u'J tn.."iore ultinately needecl to promote as peaceful conciuded for themselves that Clinton's inability to deny the
air existence as Possible' allegation is sufficient reason to believe it is true. After all, nobody
politics is the mea's to c'eatin$ a more organisecl and peaceful rvho is truly innocent would hesitate for a rnoment to declare so,
society, by providing methocls to-resolve conflict that.naturally ,'specially when a plesidential nourination hangs in the balance.
occrrri betwieen -.ri by means of ciyil discussion and rational l'his is particulall), true of Clliuton u'ho has thloughout the
r';rmpaign repeatedly proclaimed his innocence coilcerning the
compromlse.
plcthora of other scandalous behaviour', rvl-rich l-ias been attributed
{o him.
What's your definition of politics? U.S. News and World Report lccently reported that "the
Why do we need it? r ;rndidate prirzately admitted to his closest friends that he had
lrrrrl an extramarital affair, that it had endecl, and that the woman
lr;rcl promised to keep silent."
Me:rnwhile, the word has begun to leak out that the
W;rshington Post has alread-v obtained documents with the
BrLL CLTNTON - A QUE5TTON OF CHARACTER, ;rotcntial to destroy Clinton's candidacy, though it is not known
rvlrcther they concern any of the accusations made to date or
BillClintonwassupposedtobetheDemocraticParty'sdrea rll;rte to an entirely new set of charges. Of course, not all voters
hand"o-", articulate Rhodes Scholar with
"".d;;t; A, a, this overachieving w'underkind may be the fi
r;rrc whether or not Clintori ha; becn faithful to his wife.
'lhe idea that malital fidelitl, is purely a private matter,
cal prodigy to be spawned by the democrats l'rclevant to a man"s qualificatron to govern, has become
r rr, r'casingly accepted.

Youthful pot-smoking r.r,ould be i'iewed similarly. However,

rvln though many people arc willirig to overlook the acts
llr,'rrrselves, they are nevertheless quite disturlred by the fact that
( lirrton's public statements on these :utci nunerous other concel'ns
lr,rvc been conspicuously lacking in forthrightness. Calling on
,rll I lrc lawyerly sophistry at l-ris commancl, Clinton has seemingly
,l,rrctl repolters to catch him in a lie. \'ct as each new piece of
confet'ence. r,,nlriiclictorv evidence is brought forth, her somehorv finds his
Fleisamasterofpoliticalartofbeirrgallthingstoall rrrr rr t'reatirre way to recast events ancl still be ablc to emerge
to offeitomething to everyone' Yet tP-""h:y
". "pil;.-!Ctilnton
carrdidute has been u.able to capture hearts ot Am
r l,rrnring innocence.
Itrrt if Cliuton believes that clever casuistry can sustain his
voters.
'""lLipu."ntly r ,rrrrpuign through Nor.ember, thcu he has gravely miscalculated.
surface perfection doesn't always tra.slate
election.
llr. Anrerican electorate is in an angrv moocl this vear', and is not
--
certain rrrrr, lr given to generositv lr,hen it comes to giving politicians the
n"t why don't Americans buy u'hat Clinton is selling? ( lr'rrllil of doubt. The cloubtt, *'liiclr are engendered by his
ir in ,nit man's.r,p.r-r"r'.i*e? With George Bush
"tittitts
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a new centur), in a new millennium, but on the edge of a bright
continued evasion of straightforward questions, are beginning new. prospect in human affairs - a mornent that will define our
to feed upon themselves. Many votershave begun to subscribgi co r character, for decades to come. We must keep
to the ,,ic-eberg" theory concerning revelations about clinton' ou acy forever young. Guided by the ancient vision
character: whit has alieady surfacqd may not quite be enough t of land, let us set our sights upon a land of new
sink his presidential aspirations, but they fear that what has y
to come to light may be far more condemning. l)romlse.
For those who are willing to apply biblical criteria to t
analysis of candidates for public office, the allegatious again
Clinlon are particularly serious in that if true, they are indicati"
of other chiracter flaws bf an even more profound nature. T
act of adultery usually impacts only a few individuals, but choosi
Then, in turmoil and promise exploded onto
the Presideni who lickJ;udgem-ent and wisdom to govern h thc world stage to make t an Century.
own passions could conceivably bring disaster upon an. en And what a century it rica became the world's
nation. can we be sure that the walls that protect our nation
saved the world from tyranny in two
secure if we should entrust their defence to a man w
truly"demonstrated
a lack of personal self-control? We know tt
d war; and time'and again, reached
has
exalts a nation, but sin is a disgrace to any I
illions who, like us, longed for the
righteousness
Tf,is unavoidable reality should guide us in the selection
those who seek our support for'public office- We must n
allow ourselves to be blinded or beguiled by the brilliance
manis resume or the smoothness of his words.
Proven character and integrity must always be the f
criterion by which we pass judgement on any presid
candidate.

t.Should a president's private life be a subject to

discussion?
- - Is infidelity a sufficient ground for the dismissal?
t '

INAUGURAL ADDRES5
When last we gathered, our march to this new future seemed
The White House llss certain than it does today.
'We
vowed then to act a clear
Office of the Press SecretarY enulsc to renew our nation.
Monday, January 20.1997 ln thes-e- fou_r years, we have been touched by tragedy,
Inauguration 1997 ilarated by challenge, strengthened by achievern"nt. R*eritu
THE PRESIDENT: My fellow citizens: At this presi arrrls alone as the world's indispensable nation. Once again, our
inauguration of the 20th century, let us lift our eyes towar '{)nomy is the strongest on Eaith. Once again, we are -building
chali-enges that await us in the next century. It is our grehtt t'r)rrger families, thriving communities, better educational
fortunelhat time and chance have put us not only at the
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opportunities, a cle hat once seemed I)rejudice and contenpt, clo:rhecl in the pretence of'r'eligious or
aiiti".a to deepen streets are szrfer political conviction are r)o different. (Applause.) These forces
una .."o.a nuinbe ve' mol'ed from Itave nearly destr:oyed our nation in the past. They plague us still.
wel 'l'hey fuel the fanaticism of terror. nnd they torment the lives
resolved for our time a great debate of millions in fractured nations all around the worlcl.
ove Today we can declare: Government These obsessions cripple both thosc r,vho hate and, of cour-se,
is n nment is not the solution' We - the llrose u'ho are hated, robbing both of r,vhat they might becorne.
R-"ri.u.t people - we are the solution' (Applause') Our foundet's to
Wc cannot, lve will not, succumb to the dar:k impulses tbat lurk
understood that well ancl gave us a demoCricy strong enough irr the far regions of the soul ever),whele. We shall overcome
chall
endure for centuries, flexibi-e enough to face oul common lltcm. (Applause.) And rve shall replace them with the genelous
and advance our conmon dreanls in each new day' spirit of a people ii,ho feel at horne with one another.
need a nt
As times change, so goverllment-must change' We Our rich tcxtule of raci:rl, r-eligious and political diversity
norrlin^"rrt for a-new dentury - humble enough not to ls,t try ru,ilI be a Godserrd in the 21't century. Gr-eat rewards will come to
3;;;;li;r problems for us, but strong enough to Eive llrose rvho can live together, learn together, work together, forge
problems for ourselvei; u go"ernment that
tools to solve our n<:w ties that bind together.
;;ll; lives withiir its rneans, and does more with less. Yet whr The world is no longer cliviclecl into two hostile camps. Instead,
il J"" ,t""J up for our values and interests in the world, a rr)w we are building bonds rvith nations that once were our
the power to make a real differ
*tt"t" it can give Americans more' not less'
turlversaries. Gror.r'ing connections of-commelce and culture give
i;lh;;;t;tvluv lives, gover"tnent should do tt.i l chzrnce to lift the foltunes and spirits of people the wolld
r)\/()r.
And for the vely first time in all of history, more people on
llrrs planet live undel clemocracy than dictatorship. (Applause.)
My fellow Amer-icans, as \\/e look back at this remarkable
r lntury, we may ask, czln lve hope not just to follow, but even to
.iurl)ass the achievements of the 20tl'century in Amelica and to
,rl,irl the awful bloodshed that stained its legacy? To that
work that gorr..n-"nt alone canlot do: teaching -child.ren rltrcst,ion, every Anerican hele and every American in our lancl
;;;: iil;g'p"opl" off welfare. rolls,to coming ","lit:T-*l] llrl;ry must answel a lesouncling "Yes." (Applause.)
i".["a J""is and'shuttered wi'dows help reclaim our s ( )ur streets u,ill echo agaiu r,vith the laughter of our childlen,
i;;;."gt and crimc, taking time out of our own lives to l','r';rrrse no one r,r,ill try to shoot them or sell them drugs anymore.
-
otlters. I v.r'.yone who can rvoLk, will rvork, with today's permanerlt under
i""h end every otte of us, itl our o\ /ll way' must^assu.me rl,r',s part of tomorro\r's growing rniddle class. Nern' miracles of
for ourselves and our families' but
,-,ot nnlu rrr,'tlicirre at last will reacl-r not onlv those who can claim carc
nd our iration. (Applause.) rr,ru , Irut the childten and hardu,orking families too long denied.
responsibility is to embrace a new spi
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Our greatest Wc 'uvill stand mighty fol pezrce and freedom, and maintain a
'"'^il;;;i for a neu' centurY'
communitY
*" mustsucce":l "t o_l-"
.rl rrnll clefence agaiust terror aucl destruction. Our children u,ill
one of us to succe"d,
the challenge of our fu
f ,,lr,r,P l'r'ce from the thre:rt of nuclear', chernical or biological
i[L "nlff""ge of our past remains \\ r',rl)( )lls. Ports and :rilpolts, farms and factories will thrive with
will we be one nation, one people, with one common dest Ir,r,ll and innovtrtion and icleas. And the world's greatest
not? Will we all come togethei ot'come apart'/
.-ThedivideofracehasbeenAmerica'sconstantcurse' rllrrrocr';rcy will lead a r,vhole u'orlcl of denoc-.racies.
( )rrr land of nerv promise u,ill be a nation that meets its
n"* wave of immigt'ants gives new targets to old pre ttlrtig;rt;ions - a nation that balances its budget, but never Ioses
"u.h
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ililq :liM
'tt'1. Wh"t issues are discussed in the address?
2. What is the point of the speech? How does he achieve
his goal?

natural bounty of our water, air, and majestic land' Political language - and uith aariations tltis is true of
Fellow citizens, let us build that America, a nation ever mov all political parties, front Conseroatioes to Anarclisfs - is
forward toward realizing the full potential of all its citizens. designed to make lies sound truthful and nturder respectable,
Frosperity and pou'er - Y€s, they are importaut, and we must rmd to gioe an intpressiorz of soliditg to pure utind.
mai'tainlhem. But let us never forget: The g'eatest progress we George Ora:ell
have macle, and the gr-eatest progress we have yet to make, is ir1
the human heart. In the end, ail tf,e world's wealth and a thousand
armies are no match for the strength and decency of the hum
89

ON 6UARD FOR BILL CLINTON

'flrcy shadous lis eoery ntooe, orchestrate his entrances, mastermind
Iris eits and u,ill, if necessarg, lag doann their lioes.
Condensed fi'om rHe suNDA\''r'rNIES N{ACr\Zh-r:
RI;SSELL I\1.ILLF]tT

When Bill Clinton became president of the United States, his

light to privacy was effectively abolished. For he ancl his wife,
century. llillary, will now he protected by the Secret Service for the rest
America clemands ancl deserves big things from us - ol their lives.
nothing big ever came from being small. (Applause.') Let Wherever the Clintons decide to live after his presidential
i.-.-6.r tiic.tin-reless wisdom of Cardinal Bernardin, when fac lr.rm is over', Bill and Hillary will be guarded round tl're clock
the end of I'ris owri life. He said: "It is wrong to waste l,t, ;rgents. Whenever Hillary wants to go shopping, an agent will
precious gift of tine, on acrimorty-and division." Fellow citizt ,r,o loo. If she decides to have lunch out with a friend, an agert
ru rll sit at the next table. If their daughter, Chelsea, has a fancy
we must riot waste the precious gift of this time. For all of us
on that sane jout'ttey of our lives, and our jour-ney, too, t'l'ill wctlding, the Secret Service will be there.
'l'lre Clintons will have plenty of opportunity dur-ing the next
to an eud. But tlie journey of our America must go on'
May tltose generations whose faces we cannot yet see, w lorrr'\rears to become accustomed to the reality of living cheek
names \ve l'llav nevel'know, say of us here that we lecl our bel' lrv jowl with dour rnen and women wearing plain suits and
r,rrr1ri1'tg guns, for the president of the United States and the filst
laDcl into a new century with the American Dream :rlive for
her childr:en; u'ith the An-rerican promise of a more perfect utt l,r,l\, :rr'e the most rigorously, expensively and publicly protected
r rul)lc in the world.
a reality for zrll her people; r,vith America's bright flarne of f 'l'lrc Secret Service is, in truth, zt rather public sert,ice, since
spreadirg tl.rroughout all the wor-ld'.
' Froni the nerght of this place and the sumrnit of tliis ce' llrlrc c annot be a ne'i/spaper reader or television viewct'anyr'r,here
ru'lr,r lras not observecl the posse of unsn-riling melt, ancl sometimes
let us go folth. May God strengthen our hands fo,r^ the
*o.k nit"u.t - ancl always, always bless our America' (Appl rr llu sinilarllr lllspiling women, who surround the plesident
\\ lr,'rt'\,cl- he goes. The men, with theil short haircuts, trench

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Astonishing Array

ir-rto their head through their ear'.

Every agent also ivears a tiny microphone strapped to his
$,rist and wired up his sleeve to a transmitter hooked to his
belt. By mutter.ing into his cuff, he czrn talk to other agents or to
u .o-nrunications comnand post set up itl a nearby hotel or
local field office.
Although they lean towards extrerre taciturnity, Secret Service
agents ar-e'united in the conviction that the)r belong to an elite
organization, simply "the best."
-The U.S. Seclel Service was established in 1865, the
Abraham Lincoln was shot, to track down counterfeiters whO
were flooding the country with forged currency aftel the Civi
War. It .e*uinr a division of the U.S-Treasur-y, with responsibilit,
for irvestigating financial crirnes.
h 1901 President William lr{c-I(inley, killed by an anarchi
in Buffalo, N.Y, became the third U.S. president to be assassitlr
in 36 years, James A. Garfield having been killecl in 1881' \r't't'
outraged public demanded that protection be pr-ovided fo^r fut
I lt's
t
presiclenti,
'subsequent
and the job was handed to the Secret Servi
Irrrto
presidents all survived until that Novernber day
1963 when thott rang out in Dallas as John F' I(enned
r rl ltc
motorcade moved through the city. The Warren Commission, r
lo lt:trve.
Decoy inotorcades, escape routes ancl energency evacuations
investigated the assassination, recommended that the nu
,rrr' 1;:rrt of an elaborate plan drawn up by Secrc,.t Seivice advance
of Secret Service agents assigned to presrdential protectiotl lr';rrrrs who precede every
greatly enlarged. presidential visit to check details of the
Belween tgOg and 1992, the Seclet Service budget ilirrcrary and decide what equipment ancl manpower will be
rr,','rlcd. Immediately before the president arrives, the whole area
from $17.6 million to $471million, a staggering increase pal
i', ,'lr niffei dogs, swepi electronicatly
explainecl by the ever lengthening list of those designated ancl then-sealed
"protectees; the president and vice president and tl' ll'l' ers the security zone
without a ipecial pass issued
I'r, I and no one leaves until the piesident is safely
immediate families; former presidents - four of whom are u
il\\;l\/.
the service's protection (Richard Nixon provides his own secu
and their rpon."., including Lyndon Johrtson's widow, Lady
children of former presidents up to thr: age of 16; visiting
of state and their spouses; other distinguished foreign visitt
and U.S. representltives on special missions abroad. P.esiCcn
and vice-presidential candidates and their spouses were. inclt
after the issassination of Robert F. Kennedy in Los Angeles du
the 1968 campaign.
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and uniformed officers in thecountersniper unit occupying high rvire fence near a little town called Beltsville. It is here that men
windows and rooftoPs. ;rnd women who have passed initial screening, which can
Every agent guarding the president knows he is expected to l;rke up to a year and incl drug tests andllie-detector
"hir"o*u
sacrifice iif" if tne." is no other way of saving the president. irrterrogation, begin the process of becoming special agents.
is called "standing in harm's
and long, irregular hours; few "Just Special"
igned t ection
*ni.ft t sferred
to another division - investigating fraud'
protection duties at any timet
But all agents can be diverted to
and find i-hemselves mingling in the crowds, looking for nervous
people wi
' While haviour
crowcls, t presents
threat. It are full
people who look caPable of e
' 'Err"tyone who writes a e rotectee
interviewed by the Secret Serv n Writers
unsigned letters can often be iclentified on a.special compu
thaiexamines handwriting characteristics' But it is up
individual agents to decide if a Ietter writer is-serious'
Ef f ective Deterrent
In 1975 agents interviewed Sara Jane Moore, who
threatened to-t<itt Presideilt Gerald Ford, and concluded
was harmless. The next day Moore tried to take a shot at F
in San Francisco. Fortunitely someone in the crowd grabl
her gun. It was hardly the Secret Service's finest hour'
fh. ug.tr"y acquilted itself better when John Hinckley fi
six shotslat President Ronald Reagan in 1981' Special

tr r,11r)it.ion of their work. After all, it is clint Eastwood

vvLr playing
frr@J rrrl
lltr' ;rri.nt, and, naturally, he gets his man and the president survives
\\'lr,rl nrore could the Secret Service ask?
agency claims that ttre infrequency with which.it-needs to t

it"s teeth is testimony to its effectiveness as a-deterrent. f,',',,'

l. lro you agree that the Secret Service
The Secret Serviie training centre is tucked away in is an "elite"
irrrisation? Why? Aren't they just ordinary
$tgnrrisation? ordinarl bodyguards?
Maryland, on a wooded 202-hectare site surro-unded by a
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missed ng opportunity to tweak the most powerfur man on earth
2. Do the protectees lose their privacy when they. st
over foreign-golicy issues critical to Washington
being protected by the Secret Service- around the clock? the way, he's never visited as president. - which, by
3l ban the Seiret Service abuse their power or be diplomatic diddling? Many observers
for other, less noble goals? bel recognizes Russia's deep limitations as
ap recapture a little of the Soviet lJnion's
So he's playing kibitzer in
. ostentatiously with U.S.
ing up to members of the former
A5TUTE GAME
Russia's president, in charge of a down-on-its-lupk great power, misses
irsEuropeanauiesovernationlt"*f:R:'Y""r:tJ"iXtfi
in fact, may-be to consolidate his power base at home. Many
i-r1m,
tlXlf
opportunity to needle Washington. What's his game? ltussians blame their country's dire economic state and reducei
Bg Michael Hirsh and Christian gcopolitical position on the united States, and the more putin
shows up washington, the more points he scores with voters.
For many Americans, the forthcoming rnovie ''Thirteen t
will evoke, is entertainment, an event that has long since f
"Some of
!t p iust Putin being the un-yeltsin," says Stephen
scstanovich, u.s. ambassador at large to the former soviet states.
into history: the Cuban missile crisis. For many Russians, V1a< l)ubin wants a "healthy distancing" from Russia's ex-superpowe"r
putin's re&nt trip to Cuba evoked an event that is still a
wound: the loss of the Soviet imperium.
liv to the Boris yeltsin years, when Wishington
wa y lodestar, adds Aleksei pushkov, a Moscow
Putin didn't take any 4issiles with him on his tri p to Hav for mentator. "America will cease to be a criterion
the first by a Russian leader since the fall of the Soviet LJn l'rrr our foreign policy," says Pushkov. "The European and Asian
but he did go bearing a civilian n.uclear agreement- and z rlircctions will be strengthened. "
contracts. Juit as important, Putin biought a message of sym Still, the 48-year-old Russian president remains soniething of
to Fidel Castro aqd other Latin American leaders who d R the one hand, ted
Washington's blustery ways as the world's lone superP( tl both literallyr ag€
"similai attempts'at world domination were made num o stumbling dr
times throughout the course of history - and it is well
by
It reality into the discussion of Russia's
how they ended," Putin declared in a speech in Havana' problems. Putin has bluntly conceded that Rirssia's devastated
flew on to Canada - over U.S. territory - without stoppi €r'onomy has 15 years to go before it can reach even the level of
Washington. prr.t.ugal, and he has targeted internal cormption
and tax
For Ihe president of a nation that cal't pay its bills- Ghcating. On the other hand, Putin, a former fcn lieutenant
billion in foreign debt and counting - Putin is travellil gttlonel, cl the U.S.S.R. He has mercilessly
world these days like a potentate' In his nearly 12 mon Sl,tlcked down on press freedoms, ani
power, Putin has journeyed to Weqtern Europe, where hg l tyrr.ically age-old aftraction to stroirg,
WashingtoD's nuclear-missile-deJence plan; to- Beijing, w Eullroritarian leadership.Putin has also vowed to do whatever
pledgei' to bolster an anti-hegemonic (read .anti- he,'a'to restore Russia to its former,,greatness,,,even while
partiership with China, an$-to Pvongylng' Yl."t: f9,"Y he wants to be part of the West.
in ahead of U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright's h 'SsyinS
tl.S. officials admit that the halcyon days of Boris and Bill,
visii in late October to negotiate with the reclusive I(im J h.r it seemed washington and Moscow could be allies rike
Along the way the poker-faced- Putin^developed u :o.I Fl)rn and Germany after world war II
-
are over. But for the
alttii'"tf' chiliy relationshi p with Bill Clinton,who,until' -
rrcrrt, they profess not to,worry too much about putin's global
never .et u foreign leader he couldn't charm. But Putin h
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like the Russians are trying to use them against the United States."
I)utin clearly is trying to do just that. The question is whether a
rration with an economy that can't keep pace with Portugalis
rrnd friends like Fidel Castro can hope to take on the world's
-
only superpower.
-
* 1. Is Russia still considered a superpower or does
it really
confidential RussiaD pledge to ttre united States not to sell high' "have little to bring to the table"?
i".h *"upons to Iran.iust-as in old Soviet-days, the annoulgt-,9n| 2. What's the point in maintaining such strong friendship
*", li-'"a for delivLry at the peak of the tJ.S. flirting president,
wi
with the Muslim world?
r-emnaion. To some Rusiians, the case for continued
ein is even stronger. Iraq,still owes Russia $8 billi
debt. and Russiin oil companies have been openi
offices in hopes of getting access to Iraq oil
favour ce U.N. sanctions against Saddam are lift
"We can use our political connections to compensate for ot
lack of competitiveness," says Pushkov. Moreovgt, !t a$ds,.Ryss
has every incentive to push its way back into the Soviet
Union
i'r".es and client states. Why? Because leaving them frt
"fa
of charge was a mistake. "Experience shows that as
"ff soon as .b

Left som"e regions, it was gone forever and we didn't

get any
in return," saYs Pushkov.
-^-
ila lhor""u." the moderates in Moscow talking' Indeed'
would be hard to overestimate the level of anti-western suspi
;;;;l"tfu these days among Moscgul policymakers' The.
il;;i;" f""teign-poliiy doctriie, published last summer' bri
*itt tutt of ;thieat" and "risksn whenever it comes to Ru
relations with the west. And the Russian military has recen
retrrrnerl to old Soviet habits by tweaking its western rivals,
October, Russian naval planej buzzed the U'S' aircraft c
Kittt H;*k during ,n"no"rrrrt.s in.the Pacific; an elated gt
in Moscow announced that the fliers would be decorated
"heroism. "
Putin will also pounce on President-elect George W'
plans to develop a national missile defence' Lately Russia
teen sending *"ipons to the Chinese as fast as it can - everytl
from Sovremenny-class destroyers to SU-27 fighters' adva
r"liC:"t fighters and an AWA-CS^pi1le: presumably f"t :]:t-
don't u'orry too
iaiwan. St-einberg insists that U.S. officials "actually
axis. l'he
The uhinese
Chinese have. tql
nave- g
uUo"t a Moscow-Beijing
about Moscow-Eeijing
[i"J of sour on the Ruisians," says Steinberg. "I think they
to slavery that they wanted to end slavery completely. The
northern attitude against slavery made the Southerners angry. So,
Ior rnany years before thc war there was constant fi'iction between
lhe North and the South over this issue. This friction eventually
lccl to war.
There was other friction, too, as I said before, between the
North and the South" There were, in other words, other causes of
r ouflict between the North and the South. One involved the
rlowth of industry in the North. While the South rcmained an
;r1-lricultural area, the North became more and more industrialized.
As industry increased in the North, it brought more people and
1ir cater wealth to the northern states. As a result, many Southerners
l)o,(j:rn to fear northern political and economic domination. Because
,l this fear, many Southerners believed that the South should
luLve the Union and that they should form their own country.
In 1860, the Southerners decided it was time to leave the
llrrion rvhen Abraham Lincoln became President of the United
THE AAAERICAN CIVL WAR Sl;rtes. Lincoln, as you may know, was against slavery. The people
ol t.he South were afraid that their way of life and their economic
The American Civil War was fought over 100 years ago' ',ysl.en were in danger with Lincoln in the Presidency.
began in 1861 and lasted until 1865. The American civil w
('orrsequently, the southern states decided to secede from the
,"..""it"d in the death of 800,000 Americans. What caused tt lllion. In other words, they wanted to break away from the
Nor Lh and form a separate country. In 1861, South Carolina seceded;
terrible civil war between the North and the South?
Well, historians believe that there Were many causes of ,rrrrl by June of 1861 eleven south,ern states had seceded and
war. one of the important causes of the war was the fricti lslrrblished a new country. They called the new country the
('orrfederate States of America. The war between the North and
hetween the North and the South over the issue of slavery. T
southeln wav'of life and the southern economy were based llrt South began u'hen the southern states seceded from the Union.
'fhe main reason that the North went to war against the South
It" ur" of slave labour. For almost 250 years before the bCi
War, the economy of the South depended on the use of tu';rs to bring the southern states back into the Union. In other
slaves. The slaves were used to plant and pick cotton and tobi \\'orcls, the North went to war to keep the United States one
Cotton and tobacco were the main crops grown in the Sor rorrrrt.ry.
Most Southerners did not think it was wrong to own, buy, or After four years of terrible fighting, the North won the war
black slaves like farm animals. Slavery was, in fact, the ffounda n1i:rirrst the South, and the United States remained one country.
of the entire economy al]d way of life in the South. This was llrl North won the war mainly because of iti economical and
the situation in the North. The northern economy did not d Irrrlrrsbrial strength and power.
'l'he Civil War had two important results for the United
on the use of slave labour. WhY not? til,rlt,s: (1) the Civil \[rar preserved the United States as one
Well, in the South there were nany large cotton plantat
r urrrrt.ry; and (2) it ended slavery in the United States.
that used hundreds of black slaves. In the North, hou'ever,
'

were smaller farms. The northern farmers planted many diff N4:rny Americans wonder what the United States would be
kinds of crops, not just cotton or tobacco' The Northerners llli l I oclay if the South had won the Civil War. The history of the
not need slaves sincL their farms were smaller than most of llrrrlr'tl States would have been very different if the South had
southern plantations. In fact, many Northerners \Alere so \rnrr llrc war between the States.

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The division of Germany
* i. Ho* would America develop if the South had won
When the fighting in Europe ended in the spring of 7g45,
soldiers from the main Allied powers
war?
'Wouldthe rest of the world be affected? - the United States, the
Soviet Union, Britain, and France - each occupied one of four
2. Was this war inevitable or necessary? For whom? zones into which Germany was divided. The idea was that this
rlivisio be temporary. Once the Allies could agree
on the ntended the whole country to be ruled again
lry one Each wanted to be sure, however, thafthe
rrnited Gerrnany would be friendly towards them.
5UPERPOWER COLD WAR AND KOREA

The United States was the strongest country on earth

1945. Its factories produced.half the world's manufactured goc
It had the world'i biggest air force and navy. And it was
only nation armed with. atomic bombs.
After the United States came the Soviet Union. Soviet
were the masters of all Europe from the middle of Germ Ily 1946 it was.aiready becoming clear that not one but two
(lcrmanies were beginning to take shape
lastwards. After driving out Hitler's armies they had hel - a communist one in
communists to take over the governments in country after co the Russian-controlled east of the country and a non-communist
there. In 1946 Britain's wartime leader Winston Churchill I orre in the west.
of an Iron Curtain across Europe separating these commun Deep inside the Russian zone was the city of Berlin. Since
ruled nations of the east from the countries of the west' llcrlin was Germany's old capital, iti too, had been divided
The Americans and the Russians had fought Hitler's lrctween the Allies into areas called sectors. To link the Western
together as allies. But friendship between them barely la scr:tors of Berlin with the outside world the Russians had agreed
th6war out. The Russian dictatt r Stalin, knew that many Ameri lo let goods and people pass freely through their zone of Germany.
hated the Soviet lJnion's communist way of life. He feared Erirope's recovery from the Second World War was painfully
the United States might drop atomic bombs on his coun rf ow. By the summer of 1947 two years had passed since the last
any moment.'The new American President Truman was j slrots were fired. Yet millions of people were still without work,
suipicious of the Soviet Union. He suspected that Stalin's act without decent homes, without sufficient food.
in Eastern Europe were the first steps in a plan to convert In France and Italy communist parties won lots of support
world to communism. The United States and the Soviet U lry promising reforms to make things better. This worried President
'f'r'rrnan. In the summer of 1947 his government put forward a
became deeply suspicious of one another' People began to I

of a Cold War between them. Although the two countries sllrcme that he hoped would help Europe's people and also
. not actually fighting ihey were always
quarrelling.. Irrirke communism less appealing to them. The scheme was called
Truman decided to use American power and llrc Marshall Plan, after General George Marshall, the Secretary
"contain" Soviet influence - that is to stop it from spread ul' State who announced it.
'fhe United States had plenty of all the things that Europe
1947 he sent money and supplies tq help the governme:
Greece to beat comrnunist foices in a Civil war. From this Itlcrled it 1947 - food, fuel, raw materials, machines. The trouble
on, containing communisrn became the main aim of the wirs that Europe was to . To
States in dealing with the rest of the world. Because Mirrsliall offered to give the
started the poligy, containment is sometimes called the T Miu'shall offered help oD,
Doctrine.
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newspaper described his scheme as "a plan Jor interference I l-bombs determined how they behaved towards one another
the home affairs of other countries". Stalin refused to ha lor years to come.
to-do with it. He also made sure that none of the countri
anything"soviet That same November of 1952 Dwight D. Eisenhower became
o., th" Union's side of the Iron curtain accepted he l)resident. American Presidents appoint a Secretary of State to
either. litke charge of the united States' dealings with foreign countries.
But millions of dollars' worth of American food, raw materi: liisenhower gave this job to John Foster Dulles.
and machin€ry started to pour
-bloodinto western E rrope,. It,was li Dulles was a man of strong moral convictions. He genuinely
Si"i"g a dying person a transfusion. By th.e tine believed that communism was evil. Truman, Dulles claimed, hai
I4arsEall pian enaed in 1952, Western Europe was back on ttot been tough enough with the Soviet Union. His own idea was
feet and beginning.to ProsPer. lirr the United States to take the offensive. Instead of being
By then"containment was being tested in Asia.alsg: Thi t'ontent simply co cottain communism ("a cringing policy oT
was taking place in I(orea. Before the Second World War, K lhc fearful," as he called it) the United States should set out to
had beeni"t"a by Japan. When Japan surrendered in 1gaS "liberate" nations already under communiqt rule. In a broadcast
north of l(orea wus otc.tpied by Soviet forces and the south Itt 1953 he told the peoples of Eastern Europe that they could
Americans. The boundary between the two areas was the earl tlust the United States to help them.
38th parallel of latitude.

1. Why couldn't the two superpowers coexist peacefid

George Or
Dulles failed to help the Hungarians because he knew that
doirrg so wouldrn""u *ui with the Soviet Union. The devastation
gf rtuclear war \4ras, he decided, too high a price to pay for 'Irolling
btck" the Iron Curtain.
A BALANCE OF TERROR, l'he way Dulles dealt with the Soviet Union in the later
1fl50s became known as "brinkmanship." This was because he
The bomb exploded in a blinding burst of green-w!tt^!" I t€r,rned ready to take the United States to the brink
The fireball at iti ceRtre gre v into a towering pillar of flan El' war to contain communism. Dulles backed ,tp hit
- the edge -
huge, coloured mushroom of poisonous cloud boiled lligh, br irrl<manship with threats of "massiveretaliation," If theUnited
the"sky. It was November 1952. American scientists testing d Elirt,cs or any of its allies were attacked anywhere, he warned, the
*""pon had blasted a whole uninhabited islanil out of the Pa Atrrr:ricans would strike back. If necessary they would drop
O;;;t. They had exploded the first h-ydrogen, or.H-bomb' Fttclr:ar bombs on the Soviet Union and China. By the rnid-1950i
The H-bomb was many times more destructive than the atb thr l.Injted States had a pow'erful force of nucleai bombels readv
or A-bomb, that destroyed Hiroshima. Just one H-bomb had tti rkr this. On airfields all round the world giant American
tirnes the destructive power of all the -bombs dropped irt iurcs were constantly on the alert, ready to take bff at a
years of the Second World War. By.1953 the Russians, too )llcnt's notice. Most Arnericans supported Dulles's massive
made an H-bomb. ey tSSz so trid the British. But orrli irliation policy at first. Then, on October 4, lgSZ, the Soviet
Americans and the Russians could afford td go on making Irion sent into space the world's first earth satellite, the Sputnik.
The fact that both the United States and the Soviet Unir Irrl.nik did not worry the Americans. But the rocket that carried

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that could alsol rvere:ep_lacing the barbed wire with a lasting barrier of concrete.
it into space did. A rocket porverful enough to do 'l'he Berlin
carry an H-bomb to its target. Wall had been born.
ih. A-bri.an governm.it b"gun to speed up work on rockets
of its own. Soon it had a whol:"rang" o? bomblcarrying rocketsi
callecl "nuclear missiles." The biggeit were the inter-Continental
Ballistic Missiles. These were kept in underground forts all over'
the United States, ready to carry their deadly warheads far into
the Soviet Union. The Polaris, another missile, was carried b
nuclear-powered submarines cruising deep beneatlr the ocean; ,'onre back.
By the end of the 1950s the United States and the Soviet
Union had enough nuclear missiles to kill everybody on earth' I
is not surprisinglhat people spoke of a "balance of terror." Botl
Russian and Arnerican leaders came to see that in a full-scale w
between their two countries there could be no winner. They wou
simply destroy one another.
-tlikitu
I(hiushchev, the man who took Stalin's place as lea
of the Soviet lJnion, realized this. FIe once said that capitali sl;rtes would not let the communists take over west Berlin.
and communist countries would only really agree, "when shrim
F-or almost thirty years Berlin becarne two separate cities. It
learned to whistle." But in a world of ll-bombs he belie
ru;rs not until 1989 that its people tore down tne wall as a fir.st
that they had to try to live peacefully, side by side. In p-lace t ',lr'p towards re-uniting their city.
Cold War threats he suggested "peaceful coexistence."
President Eisenhower welcomed I(hrushchev's talk of peacef
coexistence. He invited the soviet leader to visit the United
Afterwards the two men agreed to hold a surnmit meeting
Paris to work out solutions to some of their differences.
The Paris Summit never even started' As the leaders were correct in that'situation?
their way there in May 1960, a Russian missile shot down a
American aircraft over the Soviet ljnion- The aircraft was a U'

"n'.-u**'*
cRlsrs oVER CUBA
I

like hypocrites. In any case, the Paris summit meeting was o

before it even started.
The Berlin wall
Just after midnight on Sunday, August 13, 1961, trucks rol
through the silent sireets of East Berlin. At the border with W
Berlin" soldiers jurnped out and blocked the streets with col
of barbed wire. By morning they had closed off all but twel
of the eighty crossing points to West Berlin. Within days work

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lhc bolcler of the Soviet Union in Tulkey. The most dangerous
t eed to give weapons and shi Ps to clisis of the Cold 'War was over.
ted to overthrow Castro' When
t 1961, the PIan was suPPorted also The space 1'ace
by F.
"' the new President John of 1,400 "anti-Castro Cubans landed
I(ennedy. "I believe that. this nation should commit itself to achieving
O; April 1V , 7962, aforce I lrc goal, befole this decade is out, of landing a man on the noon
at the BJy of Pigs o' Cuba's south coast. Castro had ta.ks and rrrrtl returning him safely to earth."
wltnln oays
rvaiting.'Witnin
20,000 men rvattrng. days [ne
the lnvactcrs wcrc all
invaclers were drt L.P
captured
Presiclent I(ennecly's proposal in May 1961 that the United
or'f.if fea. But Castio.believed that I(ennedy would.attack again,
Slates should send a rnan to the moon was eagerly welcorned
so he askecl the Soviet Union for help. I(hrushchev sent hinl
l,v politicizrns and the American peofle. Soon wolk had begun
shiploads of rifles, tanks, and-aircraft' I(ennedy greu' wot'ri ,rrr thc Apollo program, as the project was naned.
,r-,,i orclered a close watch to be kept on Cuba' 'fhc Apollo program was another move in the "space race"
On Sunclay, October 14, 1962, an American U-2 spv p.lane fl lrctu'cen the United States and the Soviet Union. The costs of
high over the island taking photographs-: thgy showed Russi llris race were enormous. But there were two important reasons
-irrii" iu.rt "hittg sites b-eing uultt- What had happened ru lr.v both the Arnericans and the Russians were willing to pay
iiir, "u.r' since ti'e U-2 incident of 1960 I(hrushchev had llrlrn. Irirst, there rvas lhe question of international prestige -
making threats against the United States' These had alar rrl ,qrrining 1'he r-espect of the rest of the world by achieving
i<""n"iv. Although the Americans already had more long-ri ,,orrrcthinEi calling for immense scientific and technical skill.
missiles"than the-Russians, I(ennedy order-ed near-ly a thousa Slcouclly, both Arnelicans and Russians felt that to let the other-
mol-e. The new missiles tipped the "balance of terror'" strongly, rirlt' get too l'ar ahead in space technology would endanger their
favour of the United stut"r. when castro asked for hel rcr:urity. Earth-orbiting satellites coulcl be used to take spy
I(hrusl'rchev saw a chance to level up the balance of terror' ;rlrotographs. More fr-ightening sti1l, rockets capable of carrf ing
woulcl threaten the United States from missile bases on its ;rlople into space could also be used to carry nuclear- warheads.
t)p to the mid-1960s each side matched the other's
,rr lricvcments in the space race. But then the Americarrs started
lo rlraw ahead. Finally, they u'ere ready for the mission to put the
Irr,,l rncn on the moon - Apollo 11.
'l'lrc Apollo 11 spacecraft was launched from Cape Canaveral
lrr llrc coast of Floricia. It carried three men as its crer,v - Neil
i\rrrrstrong, Edward "Brzz" Aldrin and Michael Collins. The first
missilc equipment to Cuba. I u o ivoLrld recessary pilot the section of the spaceclaft that would
t<enneclv ther told I(hrushchev to take au'ay the rrr irrrll), land on the moon's suLface, the lunar nodule. Collins
n'i.rit., ard dest.oy the bases. He u,arned tl-rat arrv missile fi lr,r,l lhe job of circling the rnoon in the other section of the
lionr C"t o rvoulcl be tleated as a direct Sovict atterck,on 'r;r,f t'r'raft, the comnand module, waiting for their return.
il"it.a States and ordered 156 long-range missiles ain-red at I lrc final countdown started five days before blast off. At
Soviet Union to be made ready to fire' orr .lul5r 16, 1969; bur-ning 4 tons of fuel a seconcl, a huge 5,000
l,r',1 ,
For*ten terrifying days in October 1962, the-worlcl t tr rrrlot'l<et rose slowly from its launching pad on a roaring columtt
on the edge of nlclear war. People waited in fear for the rrl ll:rrne. Five days Iater millions of television vier.r,els all over
,,"rrrs flasli on their raclios and televisions. Finzrlly l(hrusl llr. rvollcl watched Armstrong and Alilrin step clorvn on to the
orderecl his technicians in cuba to destroy the launchiDg sl t'of the moon.
crrrlrrr
and returD the missiles to the Soviet Union. In return, I(ennt l'lrc two men spent three hours collecting rock samples and
called off the blockade and promised to leave Cuba alo er:l lrrrll up scientific instruments on the moon's surface to send
p;-i;"t, he also agreed to remove American missiles siLctl
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information back to earth aftel they left. Then they rejoined u s of h The Twelfth Dvnastv
Collins in the commancl module. Thr'ee days later they splashed I 1900 "by thg left,, , u".l rL
down safely in the Pacific Ocean and helicopter-s carried thcm llnto
off to a heroes' welcome. And when the pacl<ecl fornations of well-drilled men collided
on the forgotten ltatt ngdoms, what
lrrrppenecl was quitc im n died his own
,lcrLth. It u'as not the een individual
Cuba?
2. What were the reasons for the ending of the cold llr
r'"-'-""." lir
: An ordinary soldier is the paun in the ganrc of politicians' rr'l
t And zotar is odious. rrrrt,went down, thcrc u'as nothirrg personal in ttre excha.nge. ,,Their
1;zr*xrr lri.lds locked, they Irushecl, fought, killed, and died. There was no
,,lrruting, and yet not silence either, but rather such a noise as
rrrilSht be n'rade b), thc angry clash of armed men."
'l'he result of such a rnerciless struggle
in a confined place is
I'rlliLrg on an unp.cc.cfu:rrted scale. Hundreds or thousinds of
THE ROOT5 OF WAR rrr,'rr would die in half arr hour', in an area no bigger than a couple
,l lrotball fields. "l'he lxrttlc o\/er, one could see on the site of the
can never be proved, but it is a safe assumption that
It :.lruggle the ground covcrcd u,ith blood, friend and foe lying
first time five thouiand male human bieings were ever gatht ,lr';rrI on one anothcr', shic]ds broken, spears shattered -and
together in one place, they belonged to an army' That e rrrrslrcathed swoLds, sourc on the ground, some fixed in corpses,
pr6bubly o..n.t"d around 7000 BC - give.or take a !ho,u ',rnrr: still held in the lialds of the dead. It was newgetting late,
y""rt -'and it is an equally safe bet that the first tr-uly I srr llrcv dragged thc cncnr-v corpses inside their lines, had i meal
scale slaughter of people in human history happened verS' ,rrrrl 'uvent to rest.
afterward. And the question u'e I'arely ask, because our history is replete
The first army almost certainly carried weapons no diff wilh such scenes, is, tr{ou,could men do this? Afteiall, in the
from those that huntels had been using on animals and on
other for thousands of years previously - spears' knives, :
perhaps bows and arrows. its strength didn't lie in mere num
what^made it an army $'as organization and disciplirle'
multitude of rnen obeyed a single commander and killecl
enemies to achieve l-iis goals. It was the most awe n,rrrlrl do the sensible thing and leave instantly. yet civilized
concentration of power the human world had ever seen,
nothing except another army could hope to resist it'
The" battli that occurred lvhen tu'o such armies fought
little in common with the clashes of primitive warfare. Thou
of men were crou'ded together in tight formations that
on command and marched in step. Drill, practised ovet A l,rrrrration of drillcd men has a different psychology - a
clays and months until it became automatic, is what transfor rrrrrlrrllcd form of mob psychology - that tencls to oveipower
these men from a mob of inclividual fighters into an arnly'
(
tlr,'r.rrsc of personal identity and fears of the rndivrduali that
basic forms of firilitary drill are amot]8 the most pervasivtt iflnl'r'i{ up.
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\\ orc groups of people lvho coulcl use their occupations to help
we assume that people will kill if they fincl theiliselVes in a llrcrrr survi'n'e. If you weren't put in one of these groups, you were
,it"util"-*here theil-o'*. r,t.,ri,ral is thieatened, 11ct 1ob.o.{1 rrrrrnediately brought to a gas chamber. There you would wait
obvibus is that
needs lessons to f"ot" ftl* to die' What is less ;rrrrl ber killed by gas. Luckily rny glandfather rvas a barber. He
;.^Jt: ;;iiy "'v t "av' .l; ;; ;;;;d",1
rrst'cl his skill as a tool to stay alive.
;iti "l]1 T-i "l.l*t:":, l: "'-T:l
a situati
I';;il'h;t-ir; -o." o. less volunrar-ily.enter
trt
Ever1,s1.ls l,ould be woken at 5:00 a.m. and they would have
*nt.liti i* must kill and perhaps die' Yet' if that were not lo carl'v hear,y things and run for miles. Then they would come
Uutlt", would be impossibl", un.l civilizatio' would have
nevel l,rrck aid clo labour wolk. One normal torturous morning, my
luk"n a different .or.t.r. (if indeed it arose at all)' tir;rnclfather was going about his business arrd doing his work.
,iii"t{i"iiil'*J{liws Srrtlclenlv his name was called; he was to be brought to the chamber.
rom the w I l,' thought that it was the end. He followecl a Nazi to the chambers.
llc rvas in a line with about six people. Suddenly a Nazi came
itwas fought 50, 100, 1000 Years agoz rrrrning and yelling not to let Mike die because he gave good
2. Wtrit forces soldiers to fight and die for lrrrirr.:uts. My glandfather was saved. He still had his uormal routine
else's goals? rrl lraving to cb his moming work, though. kt 7944, my grandfather
ru rrs linally saved. He wcnt back home to Greece where he met my

Tlte essettce of urtr is t:iolence. Moderatiort in oar is pir;rndmother, who also had a story that goes like his story. My
intbecility. 1ir;rrrclfather returned home to find out none of the 17 mernbers
John Arbuthnot Fisher ol his farnily wele still alive. He lost his wife and 2 kihs. His
gr;rrcnts and br-others ancl sister were also dead. He lost everything
,rrr,l had nothing to live for. Ifis trauma lived throughout his
lrll A tattoo on his arm always remained there- His hate for
N;rzis never died. Although he died last year-physically, his life
rlrrlly ended in 1941. War was the traumatic dreadful for rny
THE IMAAOR,ALIW OF WAR ,r1r;rnrlfather. From this story alone, how is it possible to undelstand
llr;rl anv human deserves to be treated lihe this? In the mind of
War is an armecl clash betlveen nations because of hosti llr,, Nazis, the Jews ruined theil lives. Hitler brainwashed the
,"iiiiar_y cor.rflicts. In simple words, rvar is fighti'g,betl'
l ,^^ ^{ :+.. /1,'m.. I l.rrnzrns in the early to middle 1930s to think that Jews were the
tr,vo sides. War, in *y opt"toit, is useless because
"r- of its clamagi
r;rrsc of all the problems. Although we know that it wasn't true
..*fr^t, It
u'ill beialked about in this paper' bri'gs sufferi llrt' Nazis believed it. This is what led them to the holocaust.
al'"tn. Under no circumstance is war n'iotal' e'eu in cases
"'f-tich
l',r;rt'l nade a law that the only people that coLrld be executed
,"ti-J.f"n.e. There are just other u'ays to solve problerns'
'-,a
it
Pea
l,'rc the Nazis that killed Jews in the World War. This law is
treaties at'e all easy way to end rvar' In a P-eace treaty'
is e
agreement t
',lrll being used. This is one example of one war r,vhere people,
i"-r"li" the differencei and come up with an r ,,rrrplctely innocent, were tortured, killed, and abused for reasons
["tf,,ia"t can dccicle on. That *ay the solutio' cau be a compromll llr,rl ure inhumane. In the minds of the Nazis it rn'as the right
;;'p;;l;t io'ilt u. rixed' often it happc,nl.'"htl,:.'::ig."-i:ll llrrrrll to clo. In my own opinion, \'ar cau never be justifiable.
;il;; ";;;iyil].t clecicle that u,ar is the o'lv solution. wars are bcg I lr'rr' :rre other ways of solving conflicts besides war. If everyolle
;:ith a;ffe.ent reasons: land cllf.li9ts' ,re'111i.1 ,,,lrr'<l their problems with fighting, where u'ould u'e be now?
.itr^St;t ;," tt,' n".t i nctependcn:g .t"l ll: :!t lh' :.':' :tl']'l:. "b' llr,' Arabs decided that Isr-ael was their lancl. There are many
in World War II',It *1 l:it^t,f{l rrl lrlr t.imes in history u'hen the Arabs have taken this view. The
;'id?il;;;; ;"t"*p"tiitt."
^iEi"ttJf"ther's ihe storv is not as.bad as it u':rs i' real ll tr rl;ry u'ar is an example when Arabs thought they should be
In 1941, ,rly g.undiuth"t, Mike Sabetai, w1s taken floJ11,, irrllls of Israel. They fought with Israel. This rval still goes on.
home by the Nizis, rvith lT members of his famill'' He rv:rs tzt
t,i ,-",J, .:rmp rvhere he and othe.s cli'ide i.to gr.ups- 1'l 201
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"tcrrorism" over issues that aren't even worth getting into, like the Gulf War.
Although it isn't actually called .'y"t"' it is called killed evei' llaq didn't gain anything by trying to take over I(uwait. No war
Terrorism is all over lh"itr."tt of Israei. People
are
dav Another reason for war was over goveinment' When t
has ever come out Positively.

Vili""* War began, South Vietnam fogg-h-! to be ademocra

JJ;;ffi: fi"rth v;1r,"- a"f"uted South Vietnam. rn this wa 1. Can a war be moral or justifiable: war for freedom and
ii"'[.r"ti"t8^000.to[ttl,t:,.
-'" the Unitedsoldiers
alone, ^^-^--; independence, for example?
ir{"rlLf 1ner. had family ties, children, wives, pare 2. Can a war be fought in such a way that it doesn't hurt
These soldie-rs will be missed fot:l:t t^tlJ^*: ordinary people?
;h;;;;;;--ziny bombs. years aft'er
"rra"iUtirrgs. the war ended, soldiers'*
tney;v$l]l :"""".'"-'"' '"'."'^"'-""".":
;;[id oJa.u'L'.of diseases',No
;".;;;h;dcalled
one
orange"' nt )::
This is a chemi i Ordinarg soldiers are fed to a aar machine. :
ffi;#:, "agent
This chemical made many sold "'",,.","-''"...";
l1'ui1*.u, r.t"ar.d Uy itt" bombs.
II In this war' N:
ili";?;; fain. tn tgeg, World War began'
;;l.J to'gain absolute P.owir' Thev wantq !",j':,lt killi
i xtgt
ft.V U"eun with th" J"*r. Thev succeeded inreasr ."".""*'",
""*VinirJ
6 million. That,s O .if fi"n p"oft" ltt"t died ior no logical
j DEATH FOR YOUR COUNTRY
ih;;^;;f ;iy died, th.v *.tt totturedlike
to their death' There
that' . ,,
* il *^;; i";;;pLe [o have to die s to die for your country? This questioh has been
pos young people about to embark on war although
centuries *e'" the crusades'
.hild;i.i;';;;11;'"nJ rz'nIsrael t1,,, usually been "yes" in response to their country
European Christians *u"t"a to be the Christian homel overnment instils it in the peoPle
hand, felt that it was.their hSly
it "-fu"rii-, on the othergive country and one way is to send
ffi ;il;-eie";t havsto it up. Most recently was the ( .army. If you were one individual
w;.1;;q;t'o"et't that th6v could iust come ?"d.!iI",tI",:KJi ing for yourcountry you would
ii;"tt t;;";?.t good oil sup-plv, which brought-in lol Fttrcly become an outcast by the people of your country. To avoid
;;;;. iiuq *u"ti,d? come and just, t*:.',tfl:,l ylt.\, fltlicule and becoming outcasted by the people living around
from other countries, I(uwait *at atle to fight them' Irr thiS
gel
yr)u the army just in the thought that you were
there.werg maDJ people bnt
;'h;;;;;; u lot of ieaths and are still getting sick' We saw
sole sake of your country.
;i;[i.;;"ll the bombs' People because re reinforced by the government promotion
;;;t families were torn tl"t l?* i,l:I.t1-ol Ef propaganda. Glorifying death is not needed to be taught and
;#'i#."no-u,, inut "Pt't *. did.r't know what the effect of
wh
Eltorrld be up to the sole individual. School systems should teach
would be were ,rr.J. In the end we still won't know !n unbiased point of view of war to enable the child to make
;if".t are, but there are cases that come up'.!hat are verYstrz thlir own decision to fight for one's country.
All these cases are .;;pi;t of the immorialitv 9f ,w3r' lVai Within the education system it was instructed to the teachers
;t1il,;;;;;;;it* dJuilding cities can iost lots of rnl to tcach the children at a young age during the brink of war to
Rebuilding also takes lots of time' . ?,, 1^^ ^-.^..t I il that the life of the country and for them to defend their

wu' isimmoral for these reasons. '.,

^--
There is just no exc purrrrtry against the enemy. Teachers showed being in an army
torture, suffering, and death' Under any circumstance'
a Tus rcpresenting honour and the pride of the country. Guilt was
should never ever kill another person' lEl,l ,,tr the students who showed rebellion by the teacher. Many
In conclusion, people shouid not die because of c llrrcs the teacher would try to show a soldier that looks huppy
b"1fr;;l"uJ!tt of'.ountries' Death is very tiaumatizi I t:ontent trying to represent'being a soldier makes you happy
p"tr"". itt"re is just no reason for sQmeone to have to die' rl content.
Dur-ing the rvar all solcliers r,r'ere affected either physically or
sent to tratnt
Many young inexpelienced soldiers were soon be t"" lrlr1,5io1ot'.allv. Shell shock \ /as alt ongoirtg sickness affecting
camps t^" +r" h^tri;?i:.1:ilJi;ill"t,:?"to rnanv soldiers in the trenches. Thc constant bombardment of mortar
ffili"h."i ltt"ii tir". The-trai l?.'"'f'
situa
'-lrc[ling defeating and monotonous that the sounds of
on simi ;l;;i;T;";"'nt't"a ll::i
r- "heyou ,lrclling ith the solclier et en when thgre was no shelling.
woulcl t"rt""pi"tt' Reinforcea crrsct Pr'rE
?il"ttr+rt"t Srrch ca so severe for some that the soldier would go
and ignorant men' irr fits of rage and fear at the very same instance. Virtually all
-- - -L --.^rfare is when mariv soldiers of "gP_?t]l.q:::tl:l rolcliers felt homesick zrt oue tine or arrother'. The soldiers being
orrl on the battle fronts for a long time soot't forgot the propaganda
:il":i{:::l-::*,:*:x",'""J:l,"i,aT';,"J,"'1'"'* lrcliefs the country had instilled in them. Instead the soldiers
rr I "^"1 t
-,^*.'
of death engulfed vour very soul'
--^-.-
Iogg long aft'er lrrst r,r,zrnted to survive theil tour of duty however long it would
cons f shells echJin )'oui mind lrr'. Death had been experierced and seen by the soldiers on the
had ceased' h911bJ: t1o^,1 llont for a long time and the themes had become relative to their
On the Western front corclitions wer3, in the,air'
P- bocl tl;rily life on the flont. Coming back to their homes the soldiers
;"ift;ii'- "'nin'd constantlv of the'::Ttl
I"";"J:;"il"k..ro- lr;r<l received and learned of a new perspective on war. It was
;;J; i;
;;"* the,bottoms llrt'n when face to face with cleath the political beliefs were
across the
riddled *:+L
il".Hffi ;;;i'J
d dving men echo acros
and
irrclevant when trying to survive in the war.
of
souncls *'o Fi:: Glorification of death is ridiculous unless you were being
ilJ#'itHt,.o , fu"IY little in flou,.' the
it caused rnu ;rllackeci and threat of death was present. To die for something
. r ^-,^:r^L.re ilr. Oitett raining,
, -lr- filled
f:ll.,,] with
.,,ith watt
rr rrr;rrry niles away is something that the individual must take into
ons. The men staying in a trenih r onsideration when naking his or-her-decision. I personally would
as trench foi
onditions often caused "tttt diseases
--.^-^ .-.ool rr,t risk death unless my friends and family were at risk. Since
-^- sp'read quic
and trench -o,rtit. Ct"i"!io"t
diseases were ^rrickli
the tren orrl country has become less militarised since WWII the need
[*-zl"? t"ts would run through
Lack of cleanliness, lor rnilitary pet'sonnel has not been as necessarv. But as mentioned
ffii"g on the garbage and human wastes' lrr'l'ore if the country I Iived in was uncler a threat of a takeover
rhousands or ,oia-i"[';;lJ line up ,."nq:' lTf,"-T:'?f": I lrt'lieve I would take up arms to defend agailst the people who
,r";illi#TJ;.h -;l;';T -ii., ona u,ait fo' the leading officer ru'orrlcl try to attack. Other than that the psychological and
give + L - o i an e I rg' ;ilT;F1, tll:-".s:i: tJ:* I'lr.ysical damages soldiers endure rvould deter me from joining
Yl':l^
ii"tt *ntttdall try to run across"Yfl the no- J
f# ;lllV almy.
land th;;;;;;h of the"enem;"'!i1"*:..1n-t'"J
fire ancl mortar shel
lSllto be u'cler i'inrlu"t machine gnn
1. Would you join the army or let your relative do this
will have to die for the country?
hrrowing that he or she
2. "Death for your country." Can you specify what you
nrc really dying for?
:
Older nten declare ujar. B.ttt it.s goutlt a,ho nrust fight t
trtrrl die. And its gouth a,ln nntst iiherit tribulation., the :
\()trozo, ancl tlrc triunryhs that are the aftermath of u'ar. i
Herbert Hoozter :
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llre offende'will .ot have to go to prison; but if he
or she is
."victed of another crime within theie two years, then the new
entence added to it. There is some
ence is used too frequentl)r, with
isoners actually increases. Some
s half of those given suspended
Ii st offence and are consequ",,.1r8:::t.i.L1'*:::ffii:i li:ii
',,'r'ond offence.
Anothe' option is the Comrnunity Service Order, whereby
, the
1rr<lge can sentence a c'iminal to i maximum of 240 hours
of
.,mmunity-based practical work. This ser-ves both as a way of
rrr;rl<ing anends to society and of avoidi.g
the potenlialry harrnful
rr)r)sequences of a period in
'fhe most common alter
r:;rT3"1 9t

PUNI5HMENT TAKE5 MANY FORM5

Once again, rising crime and the workings.of the penal s
are back in tne ,r"*t. Parliament has recently voted on c
punishment, police chiefs have voiced their concern at the grow t .r,
oneortwo
b
l,u tionary
il'm*fm;:f::lilTlj;
ctronic lagging. "Ministers have
bf violent public disorder and there have bee' riots at sever rL', irled to intr eme *herE5y Erttirf,
ru rl I be forced
British.lails. tronic "ff"nders
are on
Meair,vhile, the British Horne Office has been criticisecl o plobation, enabling their whereabouts
I lrr,,r'.. are also plans to extend the co
Iu lrrcle help for the aged and sick.
,Li:t;
I l.wever, all these initiatives illustrate an
underlying dilemma:
lrl lrrri risons and by e
rlll lr.nl ments, the gov
r r r11l ;1
1 cies at once. T
rrlrrrlrcr of prisons is that more
Ir! r"rrrr sentences. Research recently published in the United states
irrrlrr';rl.es t-hat those states which imharked o' p.i.on
tuitai.rg
l,r'|r!;rrmes ended up increasing their p.ison populations, whilE
Ilrrr',r' i,r'hich closed down a trrtib". of^pr-isons
actually r-educed
original sentence has been completecl. Some theorists believe that llr, rrrr

orrJ.-ur" of this system has e.courzrged tlie Br-itish courts to im1 ( -t.
sentences of up to a third longer than they might have previott
in order to compensate for potential eally release' crime rates?
fertrrcr:
The courts also have the pou'er to impose a suspended 2. Should prisons
Thus, if a suspended sentence of , for exantple, tr'r'o veals is i -isolate or punish? What do you think
=, inhuma.ne conditions
tlrorrl in some prisons?
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207
lr.ing built. Dcspitc Policc cfforts, thc c'r'imc rate is rising.'l'he
lontlo\zL:r'sv is irlrout thc pulposc ol ltrisons.
ext 99
r\t'r'tlrr,1, l,r'lrrrrrislrnrcrrt onlvi In t',hich casc a scvct'c I'cgime
,,1 compulsorv work, bacl foocl and bad treatment u,ould be
R,EAL CRIAAE AND P5EUDO CRIME! , rpplopriate.
for nrake
In the traclitional English detectivc story, $'rittcn
l-ry sotnt'otte
i
r il u'il other
r;r.^ chrisfi; TnFl.it"" is ncarly.always murdcr' tt t'l.li:l rllt ris educzr
^ncrhe and th u'ho
incaPa case'
,rr( c l) orv to
ective. rls bY lr'r'ilt nolrtr:rl, c\rclvrlav c:onditions such as urith TV fr-eedom to
rrr.r'l theil fanilics, ctc. -- evcn spend rveckencls u'ith then, as
lookingY for clues. The susPectg llrtv cl-l in Hollancl.
r-- I-:tl:,-.. r l.^ ,,i.'lirn
-."t"tt"s
areusuallYupperClass,anclnaveanrotiveforlrillirrgtlrer'ic:titn
The detective euentir.-iity the mystery b5' inviting al
those under susplcion to meet' He sets a lrap for the,mulderct'
;;'il"t;biiJd his guiti by going through the' eYiclenl.. Tl
murclerecl obliginitfli""i fiitnittr away' and-confesse
;;;""di;; th; d;".;? ;f ?he '1't"'!i,ve'.s accrlil9ron'^t.t:q:i:tll"
;;i;j;:p;.io'. ur.iu"s to make the formal charge a^d put Wliat zr'e the facts? f-he "severe regime" for- ;tu.islrment
hurderer
"'- under arrest. rr.-- rl,r's not elfec'tivclv deter criminals frorn cinmitting c'r.iure. Such
r" i""r life, the crime is usually not nurder but an offcn r r',r li rrrcs' plisoners shou' scveu tines mere recidivism (thc
against propelty, on a scale rangirig fryT pr-isoners

;fr;iru"6i,i;iu,'
-anJ
robb-ery
".*1ttt other :fi:lf
-s-1:pt{:*9
violence. offe.t r rrll) itting ntore crimes r,vhen they ar.e releasccl) than the

il;l ;; ;3'"t1 Ii ke
-fraud
u"d .forg"'{' 1.'9
i1:: ^T1',1^ll:
If the case is soilved, it is u-suallt' bectt
r'l r;r lri litation le.qilnes' prisoners. The reconviction rzrtes are also
irrrrr lr highel fol crirninals sent to zrny prison than for crirninals
."*n'"."rfr""^-'".a"i- glivllr sentetrces to ser-rre in the conrnulity.
t[" p"fi." initrmatiot lh?! puts.them:l !1",!:11.:5:1,
receive
l'risons don't detei clininals fi-
n" i"u"", traces behind him such as fingelpri
;;i#;;il nfferi.ro rlrr lor;k up cliritinals so thev can't
ng crime, Lrut the.y
S;;ai;.t ,eward helps to convict somednc , Bui es while in pr.ison.
^ I lr.r t'l'ote, shou lcl thc UI( simply I
thieves or fess unlesi they klow they u'ill be fou crirninals, ind for.
thre police selclr i,rrri.r'2 fhe st:rtistics show that to reduce the crime late by 1.".rJ,
guilty and a Lighter sent6n11,
1nd r",, ,ror'€r clintinals u'ould have to be imprisoned each year. It
in"it6 them to a party lvith other suspects! =1
tilrrltl cost !1 billion ulore pet')rear to keep these extr.a 10,000
ll l.),000 per-rplc locked up.
agree with the that it's the soc 11r111, is this so ineffecti'e? In the Ul(, fo. every 300 crimes
hE crime and a nlY commits it?
i- r,rrrrrritt.cr[, on15'one rcsults ilr a criminal being caught zrnd put
2. Have you ever witnesseo or oeeu ---^l:-^-l in a^ ^ri
rnvolved iir 1rr isolt.

l. What do vou think prisons are for? How should prisoners

hr lr'r':rted?
ll. What is the situation in prisons in your country? Should
WHAT DO YOU THINK? CRTIAE AND Frtvlhing be changed?
In the UI( a big controversy is about prisons' The UI(
has
in Europe' Six neu' prisott$
of the highest prison populations
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But nobody in England is complacent. A computer study of
rvery person born in a certain month in 1953 revealed that by
llrc age of 30, one in three men had been convicted of crime. One
irr sixteen had been in prison. One in eight born in 1953 who had
CRIAAE, THE LAW AND THE lrcen convicted of an offence had qommitted a crime of violence
lrv the dge of 20. For those born in 1963, this proportion has risen
The next twenty-four hours will see police in Britain Io one in five.
two murders, ten rapes, 50 sexual assaults, 50 assaults ca
grievous bodily harm, 113 mu$gings and other robberies,
br,rrglaries, and 1,200 car thefts. Yet these figures - part 1. What are the causes of criminal behaviour? What should
'annual bc done about these causes?
total of about five million recorded crimes -
only the tip of an iceberg. And that is not all' Each of the t 2. Does crime influence your everyday life? In what way
qna.te.s of this year for which figures have already been publi arc people in your city affected by it?'
showed a rise of about 74per cent on the same period 12 m
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CAPITAL PUNI5HAAENT I5 THE ONLY WAY TO

DETER CRIMINAL5

Perhaps all criminals should be required to carry cards which

lerrtl: "Fragile: Handle With Care". It will never do, these days,
to go around referring to crirninals as violent thugs. You must
l'cl'cl to them politely as "social misfits". The professional killer
wlro wouldn't think twice about using his cosh or crowbar to
btlter some harmless old lady to death in order to rob her of,
ltr,r' meagre life-savings must never be given a dose of his own
fitlrlicine. He is in need of "hospital treatment". According to his
nrisSlLrided defenders, society is to blame. A wicked society breeds
Fvil - or so the argument goes. When you listen to this kind of
than that of Holland, Germany, Canada and Australia' tnlk, it makes you wonder why we aren't all crirninals. We have
durrc away with the absurdly harsh laws of the nineteenth century
Hrrrl Lhis is only right. But surely enough is enough. The most
trrrscless piece of criminal legislation in Britain and a number of
gllrcl countries has been the suspension of capital punishment.
'l'he violent criminal has become a kind of hero-figure in our
15percentofthepopulationexperiencedacrime.-- Elrrrt'. He is glorified on the screen; he is pursued by the press
The US appeared to live up to its reputation for lariles etrrl 1>aid vast sums of money for his "memoirs"" Newspapers,
overall, with 28.8 per cent of the population having been a Wlrit'lr specialise in crirne reporting, enjoy enormous circulations
of a crime. America's murder rate makes ours seem ifini!1 Enrl t he publishers of trashy cops and robbers stories or "murder
Nearly twice as many murders (1,051) were committed Ftyslcries" have never had it so good. When you read about the
city oi New York in the first ;ix months of last year as in El f,elricvements of the great train robbers, it makes you wonder
and Wales rc27).
zto 2tt
u'hcthcr you are leacling about sone glolious rcrsistuncc movenc'nt. rlr.l'icient,' people can be executed. In many states which still
'l'he hardened criminal cuddled and cosseted l>v the sociologist lrlrvc the aeath penalty, some use the electric chair, which can take
on the one hand and adored as a hero bt, the rnasses on thc other. rrlr t.o 20 minutes to kill, while others use gas o1l9t-!al injections.
It's no wolder he is a privileged pel'son uho expects and receiv ln Britain, capital punishment lasted until 1965, when it was
VIP treatment u'herever he goes. illr('lished by Parliament. Ther" have been 14 attempts since then
Capital punishment usecl to be a major deterrent. It lo rcintroduce it - all unsuccessful.
tl-rc, violent robber think tu'ice before pulling the trigger. It ga For
thc cold-blooded poisoner something to ponder about r,i'hile 'l'he pro-hanging lobby uses four main arguments to support
was shaking up or serving his arsenic cocktail. It prevent 1., call for the reinlroduction of capital punishment. First there
unarrned policemen from beir-rg mowed down rvl-rile pulsui t,, lhe deterrence theory, which states that potential murderers
their cluty by killels armed rvith autonratic s,czr1>ons. Above al ru,,rrrld think twice befoie.committing the act if they knew that
it protectcd the most vulnerable menrbels of socicty, youn tlrr,y might also die if they were caught. The armed bank robber
childr:en, from brutal sex-maniacs. It is hollifving to think t r,',111,t, likewise, decide to lea ff shotgun at home
the criminal can liter-ally get away with mulcler. We all kn irrrrl go back to being an ordin
that life sentcnce does not mean u,hat it s:Lvs. After ten years NLxt is the idea ol public sec death penalty were
so of "good conduct", the most despererte villain is frec to letu rr.irrstated it would mean that a convicted rnurderer would not
to society where he will live vely conrfoltablv, thank you, on t lr| st:t free after serving 20 years or less of a life sentence and be
proceeds of his crirne, or he r,vill go on committing off rrlrlc to go on to murder again. The general public would, therefore,
until he is caught again. Peoplc .lre alu-zr.vs u'illing to hold li lrr,srrl'er.
r.iclvs at the qxpense of others. It's aln,:r),s fashionable to pose 'l'he other two arguments are more suspect- The idea of
the defender of the under-dog, so long as \roLr, pelsonally, remai rr.lribution demands that criminals should get what they deserve:
unaffectecl. Did the clefenders of crimc, one u'ouclels, in their ll lr rDurderer intentionally sets out to commit a crime, he should
for fair-pla5r, consult tfte victims before they sr-rspended capi nr,r:cpt the consequences. Retribution, which is just another word
punishrnent? Hardly. You see, they couldn't, bccause all thc i,icti 1,,, ,i,venge, issupported by the religious doctrine of an eye for
were dead. rill ('ve and a tooth for a tooth.
'ilhe fourth main pro-hanging argument is the most cold-
Irlooded. It is that it makes economic sense to hang convicted
1. Are people with criminal experience adored Irrrrr,tlcrers rather than have them in prison wasting taxpayers'
glamourised' in your country? \
llll)lloy.
2. Should they be punished as strictly as possible? ,,l11tilnst
l'ire arguments against the death penalty are largely
Text 103 Irrrrilanitariln. But there are also statistical reasons for opposing
',...1,..
il I lrt: cleterrence figures do not add up. In Britain, 1903 was the
THE HAN6MAN'5 ROPE 1,', olrl year for eiecutions and yet in 1904 the number of
horrricides actually rose. 1946 also saw an uDusually high number
The electlic chair, the hang,rnnn's rrpc, the guillotine. The clel rrt r,xr:cutions followed in 1947 by another rise in the murder
on capital punishrnent divides people in Blitain vely neatly i i,rtr, lf the deterrence theory w"as correct, the rate should have
t\\ro groups; these for and those zrgainst bccausc this issue is f'rlllrr.
'l'lre second rnain argument against reintroducing capital
black and u,hite; there is rlo gt-ey area.
Did 5'611 knorv? ;rrrrrishrnent is that innocent people are sometimes
wrongly
In the USA, whele over 85,".'6 of the population ovel tlre age, ,,,rrvit:t-ed and, while people can be released from prison, they
21 approve of the death penalt-r,, .juveniles ancl "mental r;ilrrr0t be brought back from the dead if they have been hanged.

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'l"uvo nen w'ho cscaped
The other reasons to oppose the death penalty, '*'hich are I flom prison bv hiclirrg ilside a cement
a nratter of inclividual c'onscience ancl belief, ar'e firstlv that mur Irrixer \,'ere recaptured last night u,hen they gave themselves up
is nrurder ancl this includc's state executinls. The stilte.has lo tlre poJice. It. seems that the tlvo men, who werc clescribed as
more right to take a life than thc iricliviclual. Indeecl, the s lrardened criminals, had been unable to get very far because of
shoulcl set an example to the indiviclual by not takirrg lives. It llrt'quick-drying cement that had stuck to their feet. The prison
believed to be a measure of its civiliz:rtion that a state acts irrrthorities have said they will set up a committee to look into
humanely than its citizens. The scc'ond is that Christiani tccurity rinto prison.
preaches forgiveness, not reverlgc.
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Bomb blast
1. Which arguments sound more convincing to you? A bomb went off in a ccntr:rl car p:l'k in the earlS' hours of
2. Are you for or against capital punishment? vlstcrclzry norning. Police sealed off sevelal streets ancl carried
uul a cletailed search of the alea. It appears the bomb rvas intended
l'rr a busv shopping centre nearbS'.
,,: l 1 1r ::!i !i !
'.,:TeXt ftil: i:i11:i:,iil'..l.al::i: t,f:'?:i,i#!;i],
1. Report a recent crime that shocked you.
CRIME DOESN'T PAY
The straight and narr-ow
The literary world was taken aback )/esterday when
famous author, Ar:nold Su'ift, was founcl guiltl, of ste:rling
of his latest novel frorn a bookshop.'Ihe rnagistrate said that
woulcl let him off lightly with a f50 finc but u'arned him
any fur:ther clffences would result in zr tnore serious punishm
The novel is called "I(eeping to the straight and uarrow".
Breakdown in la-lv ancl orctcr
A police spokesman said yesterda-v that lalv and ord$
breaking down in sorne inner-city arezts. FIe rvas speaking zr
night in which two riots had broken ,out and sevcral se
crinies hacl been reported, "At plescrt too nt:rtrY people
they can commit a crime and get away with it," he said.
Caught red-handed
Yesterday, Gregory Brush, 24, u'as convictecl of the
robbery of a paint factory in Leecls. lt lvas ieported that he
into a large drurn of red paint while tryilg to escape u,'i
monev. He was rescue$ by a night watchmatt and gave hi
up when police arrived to at'rest him. He owned up to the
and pleaded guilty at his trial.
Hardened crim,inals
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. Thousands of drug-addicts die every year. Some die from the
rlrrrgs themselves. Others die from AIDS. This is because they use
rlirt.y needles or share needles.
. Drugs are the second biggest business in the world. Only
llrt' arms industry is-bigger.
As well as advertising, education is also vital tn the fight
,rllirinst drugs.
Iiducation
Many schools have a drug-education programme for children
ini .young as 8 or 9. Programmes like these include books, videos
;rrrtl cassettes. Some schools even arrange visits from ex-addicts.
( )rrc of these is Phil Cooper. He travels around Britain, giving
lr,('nagers two-hour drug-education lessons. He tells them exactly
lrow addicts live. How they steal money, lose their friends, hurt
llrcir farnilies, are cheated by dealers, destroy their health.
Advertising campaigns
'fhese play an important part in the war against drugs. In
THE WAR A6AIN5T DRU65
Arnr:rica there have been several campaigns in recent years. Each
The world is facing a drugs crisis. There are more young a( orrt'has had a message - for example, "Just Say No," "Stop The
today than ever before. But if the crisis is serious and internat Nllrtluess" or "Don't Do Drugs." Each one has also featured a
so is the war against drugs. This report examines (a) the probl loi of famous TV, movie and pop stars.
and (b) two of the possible solutions to it. In Britain, some anti-drug campaigns have tried to shock young
;rr,ople. They showed how heroin, for example, can completely
Crisis Fact-File rl'st.roy addicts' Iives. Also how dirty needles spread AIDS.
. There are three main kinds of drug - hard, soft and Others have been less dramatic. The slogan for one in Scotland
rr';rs "Choose life not drugs. Be all you can be." This focused on
They can all cause addiction, serious illness and even death.
Hard Drugs. lrrll ures of healthy, independent young people - not the problems
rrl rrcldicts.
Include heroin, cocaine, LSD and crack.
Soft Drugs
"I don't take drugs because I want to be in control of rny
Include marijuana, amphetamines (speed), solvents (glue) Irlr'." Madonna.
"I(ids ask 'Am I going to have friends if I say "no" to drugs?'
ecstasy.
Legal Drugs. Arr uctor can do a lot to dispel the doubts." Tom Selleck
"We should stop using actors and rock stars as role models.
Include tobacco, alcohol and certain tranquillizers.
. In New York over 50% of all arrests are connected w l';rrcnts should be the new role models." Kendall Newman.
drugs.
. Customs officers only find between 15% - 20% of d * 1. If drugs were made legal, would the number of drug
entering the USA and Western Europe: trrklicts decrease? What other benefits could the legalisation
. The two most importanL drug-growing areas are ol'drugs create?
America and South-East Asia. People there depend on 2. Have you ever tried drugs? ril'hy? Why not?
from their drug crops.
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But many authorities believe that teenage alcohoiism will go
rrrr rising. Therewill be no change until our attitude towards
ilrinking begins to change.
ALCOHOL
1. Why is alcohol attractive to teenagers? To adults?
Why is alcohol so attractive to teenagers?-Alcohol is a.n 2- What consequences may alcohol abuse result in? Are
drug. It takes away problems' Teenage drinkers are no lo llrt:y necessarily bad ones?
*oi.i"d about theiipimples or sexuality. It seems almost norn
for people to turn tb the bottle in a stress situation: alcohol
urr"ilubi" everywhere.'The media make you believe that _o_urs is t07
culture iri whith drinking is the grown-up thing to do. Western
and other films so often ihow a hero with a drink that drinki
becomes a sign of strength. If you can drink a lot of alcohol a WORLD GOVERNAAENT5 5HOULD CONDUCT
not show its effects, you will be proved that you are "a man: 5ERIOU5 CAMPATGNS AGAIN5T 5A,IOKINa
It's all very confusing to the teenager. He knows if he dri'nks a
15, it's illegal and he's in trouble. But if he drinks at 18 or ll' you smoke and you still don't believe that there's a definite
(depending, itt the USA or another state) it's legal. llrrlt betr,veen smoking and bronchial troubles, heart disease and
irrrrt'r; cancer, certainly deceiving yourself. No one
Dangers wrll accuse y . Let us just say that you are suffering
Teenage drinking is very dangerous. What happens to lronr a bad c thinking. This needn't make you too
grown upln ten years will happen to the teenager in two-. Wi rrrrcomfortable because you are in good company. Whenever the
i short time he-will have becorne a hopeless alcoholic. It rrrlrject of smoking and health is raised, the governments of
known that an alcoholic's life is shortened on the average by rrrost countries hear no evil, see no evil and smell no evil.
or twelve years. Alcohol causes heart disease and finally b r\rlrrittedly, a few governments have taken timid measures. In
damage. When the effect of a drink is over an alcoholic g llril;rin, for instance, cigarette advertising has been banned on
,r.rrro-r.r and aggressive until he drinks again. He often fails lrllvision. The conscience of the nation is appeased, while the
recognize the problem: "I can stop any time I want to," is t lrrrlrrrl:rtion corltinues to puff its way to smoky, cancerous death.
typical reaction. By the time he realizes he has got a__drinki \1ou don't have to look very far to find out why the official
prbUt"* he has already reached the point of no return: He begi rr',rcl ions to medical findings have been so lukewarm. The answer
iosing friends and is soon unable to carry on with school t'i ',rnply money. Tobacco is a rvonderful commodity to tax. It's
work. rrlrrros;t like a tax on our daily bread. In tax revenue alone, the
F-rv('r'rlment of Britain collects enough from smokers to pay for
Help ll', r'nl-ire educational facilities. So while the authorities point out
In many schools in the USA, in Britain and in Ge r,\'r,r si) discreetly that smoking may, cbnceivably, be harmful, it
programme! have been started to teach both pupils and-te rl,,r':rr't do to shout too loudly abouL it.
iheTacts about alcoholism. Many people are helped by Alcoholi I lris is surely the most short-sighted policy you could imagine.
Anonymous (AA), an organization of forrner drinkers who nt \\ lrilc rnoney is eagerly collected in vast sums with one hand, it
spendtheir time helping other alcoholics to control their drinki i'- p;ritl out in increasingly vaster sums with the other. Enormous
pioblem. The rnembers of AA help each other. They admit cililr)ilr)ts are spent on cancer research and on efforts to cure
themselves and others that they are alcoholics and theref lrlolrlt: suffering from the disease. Countless valuable lives are
need help. It is being in group that helps them to control i,'',1 lrr the long run, there is no doubt that everybody would be
alcoholism. They would never manage it on their own. irrrrclr hetter-off if smoking were banned altogether.
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Of course, \ re are not ready for such drastic action. But if the
governments of the world were honestly concerned about r r,r1;r|ctte meaDt that the company's other cigarettes were not
welfaqe of their peoples, you'd think they'd conduct aggressi ',, rI t'.
anti-smoking campaigns. Far from it! The tobacco industry l1's against the law to slnoke on American planes
if the journey
allowed to spend staggering sums on advertising. Its advertisi ( rrrsi<le the LISA) lasts under six hours.
is as insidious as it is dishonest. We are never shown pictures 'l'he first smokers
were American Indians. Tobacco was brought
real smokers coughing up their lungs early in the morning. lo l'.rrrope by an Englishman, Sir Walter Raleigh, in the 16rh
would never do. The advertisements always depict virile, cl tr'r.t lul'y.
shaven young men. They suggest it is manly to smoke,
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positively healthy! Smoking is associated with the great o " '',,'.u..**
air life, with beautiful girls, true love and togetherness. . O. rynt Ffople start,and continue smoking if they know
nlrorrt the risks?
utter nonsense! 2. Is srnoking glamourised on TV, by advertisennents?
For a start, governments could begin by banning all cigarette
and tobacco advertising and should then conduct anti-smoki
advertising campaigns of their own. Smoking should be ban xt tog
in all public places like theatres, cinemas and restaurants. G
efforts should be made to inform young people especially of JUVENILE DELINQUENE'
dire consequences of taking up the habit. A horrific warning -
say, a picture of a death's head - should be included in every
packet of cigarettes that is sold. As individuals we are certainly
weak, but.if governmerts acted honestly and courageously, they
could protect us from ourselves.

2. What could you say about the tobacco advertising?

ithonest? Should it be honest?
3. Is it fair to control people's lives, even though try
to make them healthier?

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tll',r adults.
"O""''""." So dicting
THE CIGARETTE FACT-FILE th ltrrr; nment,
llr'',;u school.
About 100 million people around the world work in
tobacco industry.
Cigarette smoking kills 2.5 million people every year. Many
of them die from lung cancer. (Some aren't even smokers. They're
people who live or work with heavy smokers.)
$100 billion of cigarettes are sold every year.
(';ruses and effects
An American tobacco company developed a "healthy" I or the majority of young offenders, seems to be
in the 70s. It was never sold. Why not? Because the new "safetl e ;rlrrrsc passed through on the w?y to Delinquent
6rl', lxrgin at about age of 10 or 11, t has been a
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y N{any delinquents come from homes where the parents abuse
substantial increase in even younger offenders in recent
of alt'ohol or drugs or are themselves criminals. Poverty, physical
in. *".t serious activities piak at 74 or 15 years age
and verbal abuse, parents with little respect for themselves, and
th;; eclinb for the next severalyears' The exceptions
this tion are sorne older vouths Yho ei,t 11Ti]."1, erratic discipline patterns emerge as contributing factors in
tn.ft, robbery, burglary, 'and even murder' They may r tut'h research. Beatings by parents or others can cause injuries to
;;;;; uantt criminalsl For the majority, delinquent activ'i
"u. tlrc brain, rvhich in turn frequently cause neurological problems,
gradually decrease and mav cease ul!oe?t1"1,111:t:9^.P' ;:urrnoia, hallucinations or violent behaviour.
pnfpr their 20s artd face the prospebt of full-time work Social factors
t does seem to be true, however, t
activities are begun, the likelier In the United States, Europe, and Japan, most delinquents are
will persist-""- p;iii.;futfy"in.offenders wh, a'e uLrttvruuq- 2 hoys, though since the early 1980s the number of delinquents who
,ent.it"ed to juienile eorrection institutions' nrr: girls has risen dramatically. Most of these in the United
Slrrl.es come from the lower middle class and the poorest segments
N at u r e - n u rt u r e c o nt rov ersY ol'society. One reason for this is the low esteem in which edupation
Nature versus nurture' There has been much controv ls often held in these groups. Schooling seerns boring and
o*ong p.Vchologists ancl sociologists in ttrg l?P ?9:'-:-t: urrt'hallenging, and the delinquent rebels against it by cutting
Glusses or disrupting them and eventually may drop out
;;;;ri;6 wheiher some people-are genetically dispose,
in o el[ogether - as more then one quarter of teens did by the early
;;i;" or"whether illegal acts have their origin l9l)0s. Such youths find in each other's company a compensation
upbringing and environment' There is evidence to support
;i";t. in6t" who believe it probable physical thdt thslg i's a $e for their educational failure by rejecting the social values to
disfosition to crime have noted certain and perr wlrich they are supposed to adhere. To make up for this failure,
Deli gn(l finding their job market limited, they live dangerously and
ctifferences between delinqpents and non-delinquents'
to sturdier bodies and to act in a Eltow contempt for authority.
n""l U"." fourtd have
Many parents, educators, and others blame the violence found
In their.pett-"Pl]1.
;;;Jti;; *uy tnu" non-delinquents'
extroverted, narcissistic' and imp !n rnany movies and television shows, rap music and heavy-
dElinquents aie more
the satisfaction-of desires. Ittctal rock lyrics, and comic books, as well as the economic
u"a fL* able to delay
and goals of society itself. The signs of affluence
p*n"ng*is believe that there is an inherited flaw in the $ aspirations
'*it that leads to rejection of societV.lstal fh:rt children in the poor and working classes see about them-
5f a criminal
power, and a large array of consumer goods - make them
",tp
Oltr.tt that many violent prisoners have higher than llroncy,
"ote tlt spcrately want some of these things even though they may feel
levels of the male sex hormone testosterone'
The contrary opinion tends to view .99linOue1t;, -1 tlny will never be able to afford them.
Delinquency among middle-class youth has not been adequately
r,rUttu"tiutiy aifi"..itt from the remainder of the population
;iirt"rJit iuitt i"a i "iduals, f or instance I bt"."t::liTTll
of professions'
ti.'
St
Itscarched, therefore its causesare even less clear. One theory suggests
f lr;r(. for some boys it is a form of masculine protest against the
rnake theii living as athletes or in a variety
tend to come Itrolher figure in many middle-class homes. This may be true when'
i;6"*t britain"have shown that and much difficul
delinquents
[lrr, l'ather is away at work most of the time and has little contact
i;;il*t where th;; is tension is also willr his children in free time. In places where drug abuse has
il;;6;;;";al relationships- n1gifv !r1{doqr
#;td;ii;"t f*;i. Tn" Uniied States Bureau offolJ [recorne more common, crime has often increased.
S;";tl;t-;";orts that in the late 1980s, about 70 per cent 'l'ypes of delinquent behaviour
iuveniles in state reform institutions grew 9p -il single
'l'raditionally, de.linquency meant offences such as truancy,
(usually with the mother as head of household) or no
families. lrsuult, theft, arson, or vandalism. In recent decades more violent
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lrr'.j x1,6';1 llgs, tlrere has bcen a tcuclelrcy to trv them in court as
crimes by teens became more coflImon, especially for tllose w ;rr{Lrlts fot'ccltain crimes, eslti:ciallv for nrurcler. The juvenile
traffic ih dnrgs or are addicted and commit crimes to suppt r'orn'ls attenrpt to steer \roung peoplc away from a life of cLinte,
llrough the nost sclious offenc'crs normalll' result in periods of
confinement in juveltile halls or plisons fol younger criminals.
ll possible, hor,r,ever', the coults try more lenient methods of
1lr<rbation, juvenile aftercare. ol foster care.
rose 67 per cent, compared with a 12"per cent rise for t 18
Probation nleans th:rt the court suspends sentence and
olcler. Sexual crimes ilso dramatically increased, with ra
rt'lcases the offender on the condition of good behaviour, subject
one of the most common of adolescent sexual crimes. Ail the
lrr ccltairr rulcs and undcr the supen'isiou of the court. Probation
troubling is the fact that the nun-rber of teenagers in the co i', lr-cclueutly grantecl to filst-tirne offendels.
decreased dr-lring this tirne. Sornetimes in orcler to avoicl blinging a case before the court,
Irrlolnral probation unclet' the supelvision of a probation officer
Gangs and grouP crime t'. lrlcscribed. Probatiol hzrs plovecl to be the most successful way
The clichE that "binds of a feather flock together" has spe ol tlcaling with very young offenders.
relevance for the social situation of delinquents. Alienated f .luvenile aftercare is the cquivalent of parole for an older
society, they tend to folm groups' Although non delinqu rrrrninal; it tal<es plzrce aftel the rrourrs pel'son has been released
tee'agers alio form gangs, delinquents are far likelier to,clo Ironr :tu institution and is supen,isecl by a youth counsellor. The
iltil impelled U"v tt* need-to belong and are drawn by t l)url)osc of aftercare is to promote readjustment to society.
sense of security thai a gang offcrs its members. In belongilg ln fostcr care the jurrenile is ltlacecl in a stable family situation
a gang there is a solidaiity-that a' individual fails to find turllr Lhe hope that l-re u'ill adjust to the positive values of
loi",- i'. society. Gang subculture has itsown standards, obliga rot:icty. It is oftcn par-t of an effort to prcvent institutionalisation.
and rights. It may also have its own dress cocle'
NoI all teens involved'in a crime together are acting 1. Where do you stand on nature Vs nurture controversy
lrsrrc? What are the backgrounds of criminal behaviour?
2. Is juvenile delinquency a vital topic in your country?

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SHOP5 5EEM TO PUT TEMPTATION IN THE WAY

measures. "l lrcglrn sboplifting u hcu I *,ils 13," says Cheryl, a student
Ir,,rr lPsu'ic:h. I usecl to clo it in nt1' schocll lurrch bleaks because
Society's resPonse i ,lr,ln't have anv ntoncv.'fhr. ntolc I got away with, the more I
Society tries to deal with youthful offenders in a var tr'|. I did it bcc:zrusc it rncant I h:rcl nrore things than I had
wavs. The most common unofficial q"Tt, are through. lrr lrrrr,, rrncl it gave me access to things I couldn't usual lv afford.
counselling and sessions r,rrith psychologists and. psychiat it 1,, r rrrrrc a hltrit and I uscd to ctlslike paying for- ai'rything.
Firrrrl slrops seem to put tcntptation in thc u,zry,
Social *oik"rr who deal u,ith famil5, problems also attem and I used to feel
sort out the differences of young potential delinquent's' llr, r tlt'scrvecl to lose stock. My shoplifting never *'orricd me,
Serious offences are deilt with officially by the police trrrlrl I got caught. 'Ihat u'as rcall), frightening - such a shock,
the courts. Because of the nature of some of the offences con]m
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because it just seemed like a game before. The store detecti l(atie came home semiconscious. Her father was astonished. As
blocked the exit ancl took me to the manager's office. Then t
police cane. That was the worst bit, being marched thlough t
shopping centre in the middle of town. It;s the most embarrassi
ttring thit's ever happened to me. The police gave me a big lect
andLept sa)ring things like, "shoplifting is wrong, you should
do it. What will your parents think? You'll grow up into lrr,r. lrloodstream, reached her brain and shut down the centres
awful personl" I was a bag of nerves, really shaking and s< llrirt c:ontrol breathing and heart rate.
My clah was really cool about it when he came down to wi Acld I(atie Lutz's name to the list of thousands of teens who
my statement but my mum was very disappointed. I had to ret linrl death in a bottle each year. "We had a war on drugs," says
thl goods - some botlles of perfume - unq got a verbal cauti Nlilic Gimbel, director of a Maryland substance-abuse ProSram,
If iihappens agaitr, I'll get fined, but I haven't stolen since' ,,lrrr alcohol.' Institute on
totally pit -" off and I'm so worried I couldn't shoplift anyth: l)r'r has foul f teens who
now. " r lr ir number
Scveral frighte
. Some a.6-m rs may be problem drinkers,
1. What do you think is an incentive for not commi ncil on Alcoholism and Drug
nr'r'ording to the
crimes? l)r't
2. How should such offenders as Cheryl be treated? ne out of ter-r h have tried alcohol,
Ir'lx iversity of Mic or Social Research,
i,ri,l half are curre per cent of eighth-

*LET'S 6ET WASTED"

E,ach year, thousands of teenagers find death in a bottle.

They ialled her Dr. I(ate. She was the one her friends brou
their troubles to. If it ever came to a vote, I(atie Ltfiz of Jac r otrsumed.
Mich., would have been named the girl Ieast likely to get . Car accidents are the leading cause of teenage deaths, notes the
trouble. N;rtional centre for Health Statistics. Half of these fatalities -
' To h"r parents, she was a dream - doing well in sc ,t.1(X) a year - are Iinked to alcohol use. Hundreds more young
perish in other alcohol-related incidents - falls, fires,
dating a boy they approved of, planning on a law c?r€el'r 1r,'ople
nightlshe left freihly baked cookies for her father to find w
he returned from work.
On December B, 1990, the eve of I(atie's 16th birthday, fri
drove her to a nearby house to hear a local band. During
party, someone passed her a pint of 48-proof peac.h schnapps,
'o.r"
i. sure how much she drank, but according to the police
it might have been half a bottle. ;rrrol lter.
'l'he fatal message reaches even the nicest kids. Mark Hier,
Liter that night, I(atie's friend Marley Bunker
fifth of 100-proof vodka. "You don't know how to at hiJhigh school, had a good freshman year as
'lrl.rlictorian
ilt ongineering student at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in
told her. "You have to drink a lot so it doesn't burn. "
down half that bottle too. lr,,v,l{.Y. His grades started slipping, however, when he got
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llriversrty of Missouri, rvhere other students have to help him
caught in the boozy whirl of fraternity life. On March 3' 19E ,lrcss and perform simple tasks. "l neveL t-hought it couid
Mark and two friends left a frat beer bash to party in tou: lr;rpiren to me, but it did," he says. t'1.1f other kids to think
With a driver u,ho had been cirinking earlier at the u'hcel, t Itrst."
car crashed into a pole, killing Mall< and thc other parsscngcr, Pzrrents must think too; nrany ignore the problern of teen
The emotional iurmoil of adolesccnce cal lead teens to drilrl rlrirrking. "Denial is part of the illness," says Copans. "The addict
Janelle Henry of Bristol, Conn., was 12 r'vhel she stalted sippin rllrrics rvhat he's doing, and so do the parents."
from bottles in her parents' liquor cabinet. At 13 she was cuttin Reyoncl obvious clues hangovers ar-rd liquor on the
classes to share a bottle with fr-iends. Eventuallir she clrzlnl< rvh lrrr':rth - there are many subtle signs: changes in behaviour,
pints by herself , using alcohol to escape feeling of worth rrllit.ude, friends or grzrdes. When kids start king, they tend
'{Everyclay things were too much. I stopped trying. I s lo rlrop out of activities," says Copans. l)r. P Rogers, medical
caring," she says. rlrrcc'Lor of a resiclential treatment facilitt, in Chattanooga, Tenn.,
Many teenagers acquile the habit this way, says Dr. St lr,rs another rule of thumb. "If you suspect there's a dlinking
Copans, director of a drug-abuse program in Brattleboro, Vt. "Tl
;rr , rlrlem, there probably is. " ,

ale depressed, lack conficlence or feel atrxious about school Once you've established that youl child drinks, "the first step
social situations. 'fhey find alcohol relieves all that, at least l', lo t:rlk, " Rogers advises. You may be able to soh'e the probtrem
while." In the long run the opposite happens. "Alcohol is rurtlr ciisciplinary measures such as glounding or suspending
depressant," Copans says, "so the next day they feel worse, r,rr plivileges. But, says Rogers, "the ploblem dlinkers continue
another drink and start the cycle." tllspit.e ruined relationships, school failure or an arrest for
In some farnilies heredity :rncl parental influence plal' n rlrrvirrg lvhiie intoxicated. They need professional assistance."
Researchers believe there's a genetic component to alcohol ll,rriilly treatment begins rvith inclividual therapy, and it may
and children of alcoholics mav be more vulnerable to becom Irr,'lrrcie family counselling. Recovery programs, such as
alcoholics themselves. But any youllgster can pick up the' A lloholics Anonymous, can also help. If these measures fail, then
if he sees his parents imbibe. "If parents don't drink, the chilcl 111rr1,r) to day-treatment programs, u'here the teenager receives
probably won't," says Dr. Derek Miller, professor of psych llrr;rpy daily at a special centre but returns home at night. Finally
at Northwestern University in Evanston, III. If parents llrlt' ale residential programs with inpatient treatment.
few beers every night to relax, however, children get the m /\cross the country, efforts are under way to stop the problem
Societ5z also pressures teenagers. Before turning 21, the a lrllolt: it starts. Campaigns by RID and MADD (Mother-s Against
person will have viewecl 90,000 dlinking scelles on TV. lrrrrrrl< Driving) helped raise the legal drinking age to 21 in all
year teens see thousands of beer and wine commercials, :
'r{) ,;lltes. And many schools have chaptels
of SADD (Students
showing alcohol as an important ingredient of having fun. " illi,rirrst Driving Drunk). In L:r Grange, Ga., two oL three teenagers
are living in a tieer commercial, trying to make it come tr',r,rl to die each yeal in drunk-driving crashes. Since the SADD
says Dorii Aiken, president of Remove Intoxicated Drivels ( r lr,rlrlcl formed there five years ago, they har.en't lost anyone.
an advocacy group headqualtered in Scherrectady, N.Y. "\\/r"r'c turnin ssul-e around," says Wendy Shierling,
The ersatz glamour lures many yourl€l people to tragedy,- r lrrncl chap at the high school. "I(ids are seeing
19, Michael von Ruecker of Clavton, Mo., dreamed of sitting llr,rl ilre most don't drink." FoL I(atie Lutz, Mark
bar and being served liquor'. One night he found a spot rvhere llt.r ;rnd Michael von Ruecker-, it's too late. For-thousands of
one asked for iDs. "It \l.as 8reat," he says. "I imagined how rrl lrr,rs, there's still time to change.
brag to my fliends about getting drunk in a bar." The t .l;rrrclle Henry, frightened by her out-of-control life, turned
that night is a blur. He '*'as drivirtg home, going too fast. " Il ,r scliool psychologist, rvho persuaded her to tell her parents.
I woke up in the hospifal, I couldn't move," he says. Slrl ri,cnt through the painful process of withdrawal and has
Now 24, Michael is a quadriplegic with only lint Irr,,rr sober for two years. "Hopefully forever," she sa5rs.
movement in one arm. Wheelchair-bound, he's attending
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grrd often fun, she doesn't want her son Jett to follow her example,
1'o tliat end, she says, she has been open with him about her past,
grlrnitting that she had tried not.just rnarijuana but also cocaine
etrcl LSD. So far, Jett is a hard-core basketball jock, and strongly
Keep your kids safe. arrti-drug. If he did start smoking pot, Russell says, "it would
I Never serve alcohol to anyone under 21' colrcern me a little bit: I don't know what I'd say." She swears
. Talk to your child about the dangers of drinking' Point Elrc would not react like her own mother. "My mom came down
nes on 'I'V go hard I went harder on it. "
es in TV''
is giv set a time limit, and fol llussell's dilemma is one of the thornier challenges now
to i facing the baby boom. Having celebrated drug use as a rite of
If v invited a PartY, call
host to confirm it will be alcohol-free and supervised Ftkrlescent passage, the Woodstock gener-ation now has children
adult. of it.s own, either slogging through or approaching their teen
. Promise to help your child get home safely' SAD yr.ars. And some of the parents are getting pretty, uh, uptight
"Contract fqr Life" ii a good model to follow: "I 'agree," tbnut it. In a recent survey of parents with teenage kids 75%
teenager pledges, "to call you for advice and/ or transpc tgl(l they "would be upset if my child even tried marijuana,"
at an! hour fiom any place if I'm ever faced with a si Entl 77% said "parents should forbid their kids to use drugs at
gny time." For a generation that believes it skewered anti-drug
where a driver has been drinking or using illicit drugs'"
,"I agree," the parent pledges, "to come and get you at bypocrisy, this can be a source of real parental anxiety. How
hour, any place, no questions asked and no argu-ment at fflrr:{r should you tell your kids about your own past?. How can
time, or i witt pay foia taxi to bring you home safely'" feru just say no, when you spent your salad days just saying
Nns'/ In short, how does the drug generation now talk to its
ehildren about drugs?
1. What are the consequences of child alcohol One answer is: not very effectively. After a decade long decline,
2. How can alcoholics be treated, if at all? fatcs of teenage drug use have risen sharply in the last five years,
-ltt"rr.
ilt some cases nearly doubling. More than 41 per cent of last
!eirr''s high-school seniors had tried marijuana or hashish, the
hlghcst rate since 1989. Nearly 12 per cent had tried LSD. Though
gsrrgc rates are still well below their peak of the late '70s, kids
PARENTS' DILE'I,IMA
lFFnr to be experimenting earlier. More than one out of five eighth
gt';rrlcrs said they used an illicit drug in the last year. And
If you did drugs as a kid, hous do gou talk to gour ch
Eltpr:r'ts warn that some marijuana available today is much more
about the dangers? powr:rful - up to 30 times stronger - than it was in the past. At
Like a lot o? people'her age, Elizabeth Russell, 42, fig:utr
Eltc sirme time, the percentage of kids who say their parents have
got iirto drugs when the getting was g-ood. She was young' s
iurious and th" hippies still wore flowers in their hair' tslkcd to them about drugs has dropped. Says Alan Leshner,
grown-ups tried to clution her about the dangers of 9rugs; Gllrlcl.or of the Natiohal Institute on Drug Abuse, "Many parents
i"*"mbe.t, "I thought it was a joke - reefer. madness,r Ere ... afraid that their kids will say, "Didn't you try it then?"
lilizabeth Crown, 45, found herself in this position last month
laughed our headb off about it' -We knew different' " -
th"te days, as the mother of a 13-year-old son,. Russr *il lr her daughter Emily, 9. Crown smoked marijuana with her
fflcrr<[s in the late'60s and says now that she doesn't "feel totally
Ionger findsihe cautionary huffing so funny. A. self-ernp
b,usi-inesswoman in the San Francisco Bay Area, she avoids flep.;irtive about the experience. Whether right or wrong, it brought
the occasional puff of pot. "Now I just eat," she lau fl'lerrtls togethef. We had fun." When Emily asked her whether
had smoked pot, she said yes. "She asked me what it did,"
though she loots back on her experiments as mostly
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says Crown. "I said it makes me stupid' I told her there's not I rrocl n-rv head and say nothing, figuring in due time they will
*o.r. than feeling like you're not irt control' She says she doi trpcriment." He makes no moral distinction between mzrrijuana
feel hypocritical about telling Emily to do as she-s-ays, lot a$ anil alcohol. But though he drinks in front of his two children, he
did. ,,i t.r.* people n'Itwho escalated and became addicts later,
trrr -^^tt-.:^-r+
i
tt ' i woLrlcln't think of lightirrg up. "One's legerl," he says. "One isn't."
isn't --^-+
smart +ki-d
thing +^;l^
to do'"
therefore I can siy, really ^
a Fclr Sarah Wenk, as for many parents, the worst scenario isn't
Otug counseliors are divi led about how much you sho ftr' their kids to-try dlugs - they concede that they might -
tell youikids about your own experiences. Leshner advises. parf btrl l'or them to be secretive about it. In this parents' experience
to s"hift the converiation away from themselves, especiall eirrr be a blessing. "If Conoris going to try things," says Wenk, "I
those who enjoyed the ride' You have to turn it round from "l ltopc he'll keep me posted." The call for candour cuts both
it and I lived, io therefore you can do it and live" to "My fril u'rr.vs. Jell Hussell, the basketball jocl<, is glad his mother told
Sally didn't live." Also he'says: Ye klny more nowabout'i hirrr about her past. "I think t plobably would have figured it
harmful effects of marijuana. child psychologist James _Garbar frul," he says. "I'm glad she quit when she did."
ditu.t- of ttr. family liie development lentre it Cornell.Univefr Ilut for- all the candour and sensitivity, what many parents
argues that parents should avoid telling their children too tr,rrlly want is what their parents wanted: that their kids never
ab"out their own drug use, iust as they wouldn't share the <
mrr.ss with any drug, any time. In an online discussion group for
of their sex lives. "They're in a role of authority. In general Jrirrcnts, which she hosts, Wenk recently arrived at what she
should be cautious." Voung children especially can be conf thorrght was an appropriate age for Conor to experiment with
LV pur""tt; iimplistic confe"ssions that th.ey used drugs. "Tli tlrrrgs: 40.
orr.rg"n"t"lize,; says Garbarino. "They'll see something on tr,;t'diiil
about crack addicts. They'll think, "My parents are crimir 1.
they're going to go to jail. I'm going to be left behind'" ; drrrgs?
S".u[ WEnk, 38, a computer consultant in Woodstock, 2. lf they can, what should they do and what they
has cobbled together a c,ompromise for discussing her' Elxruldn't?
experiences with her son.Co-nor, 6. S.h9'l! tqll him tl" l,t:"$
now, the fine points when he gets older. Though she thinks
some drugs, used in moderation, are hasically benign - "I'
favour oF pleasurable indglgences" - she also thinks her
is too young to ,ttta..tt;;.ilt; distinction. ''He's s-o little rl
Last night iasked him what he knew abou! drugs. He-said,
can't ti'ke drugs, they're really, really bad for You:'l I sajd
He said he diZn't know." Fqt now' this is exactly wher€;
wants him. "Then as he gets older, I can be less black and wli
If I say drugs are bad but some aren't as bad, he's too you{1
make some of those decisions."
rr

This drug question can get dicier for parents who still s
pot. A docuirentary filmrnaker f-rory New York,.who spoke
still-likes to get high occasionally- andwie
"rrony*orrtly,
drug"experiences, apart from- cocaine- as.largely benefici
hasi't riised the subject of drugs with his kids, ages 8 art
because he hasn't needed to. "They're ahead of me," he says.
propaganda at school is so strong that they bring the I

up. Th'ey say drugs are terrible; anybody who does them is
rlroulder, veal, lamb, regular ground beef, medium ground beef ,
lr';rn ground beef, sirloin stea.k, beef strip loin steak, roast beef,

x$.Fsed ;
lrt'r:l' minute steak, beef rump roast, beef T-bone steak, beef wing
,.lr':rk, sandwich steak, stew beef;
' ham, ham steak, pork/beef sausage, Italian sausage, beef
;rrrrl onion sausage, beef kidney, beef heart, beef liver, beef soup
lrorres;
. frozen turkey, frozen salmon, frozen chicken cutlet, frozen
lr it:rl chicken, frozen chicken nuggets, frozen chicken filets, frozen
lish filets, frozen scallops, frozen shrirnps;
. snack crackers, wheat crackers, soda crackers, cookies,
llrocolate cookies, oatmeal cookies, spring water, mineral water,
l)r'grsi, diet Pepsi, coke, diet coke, drink mixers, sprite, 7-Up, soft
rllinks, diet cola, diet lime;
. multi-grain bread, hot dog buns, hamburger buns, raisin
lrrt'ird, rolls;
' 2% milk, sour cream, cottage cheese, skirn milk, buttermilk,
r'r'rr:al cream, yoghurt, yoghurt drink, whipping cream, chocolate
rrrilk, eggs, Cheez Whiz, cream cheese, Cheddar cheese, butter,
rn;rrgarine, garlic butter, cheese slices;
. potatoes, oranges, grapefruit, lemons, apples, pears, a . frozen desserts, frozen fruits, whipped topping, tart shells,
bananas, cantaloupes, grapes, kiwis, coconut, nectarines, 1 lrrv.cnjuices, ice cream bars, ice cream, frozen pizza, pizza crusts,
brussels sprouts, beans, broccoli, carrots, celery, cucumbers, oni lric shells, frozen pi'es, frozen dinners, potato patties, French fries,
lettuce, boston lettuce, mushrooms, green peppers' radishes, spin rrrixcd vegetables, frozen peas, frozen carrots, frozen bean, bacon,
rool<ed ham, turkey breast, Bologna, smoked ham, Pepperoni,
ll;rvarian sausage.

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canned seafood, canned tuna, canned salmon, instant soup m A,lY FAVOURITE ROOAA
instant noodles, soups, vegetable soup, tomato soup, chicken
soup, mushroom soup, onion soup' cream soup, bouillon, rice, My favourite room is our kitchen. Perhaps the kitchen is the
' . pasta sauce, parmesan cheese, tomato sauce' tomato rrrosl- important room in many houses, but it is particularly so in
pasta, spaghetti, macaroni and noodles, side dish, macaroni lrrr house because it is not only where we cook and eat but it's
.h""r", piZu tun"", canned vegetables, whole corn, green bt ,rlso the main meeting place for family and friends. I have so
peas, potatoes, carrots, beets, asparagus; rrr;rrry happy memories of times spent there: special occasions
' ice tea, cocoa, chocolate drink mix, powdered milk, ev ',rrclr as homecomings or cooking Christmas dinner; trouble times,
milk, coffee whitener, fruit snacks, ground coffee, instant cof ru lrir:h lead to comforting cups of tea in the middle of the night;

decaffeinated coffee, cappuccino cereal, hot cereal, corn flal orrlinary daily events such as making breakfast on dark, cold
raisin bran, rice crisPies; ru irrler mornings for cross, sleepy children before sending them
. chicken legs, ihicken drumsticks, chicken wings, chi lll t.o school, then sitting down to read the newspaper with a
breast, whole frying chicken, pork loin chops, pork side ribs, slcaming hot mug of coffee. Whenever we have a party, people

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gravitate with their drinks to the kitchen. It always ends up of cooking as a career, so I decided to introduce them
Iullest and nosiest room in th house'
rrl)l)r'ove
riowly to the iclea. I told them that I wanted to do a cookery
Sowhatcloesthisspecialroomlooklike?It'squitebigb rlorrrse for fun, zrncl I u'cnt for a month to a hotel in Torquay. I
,rnt-i,ug.. It isn't big enough to have a good-sized rectangul lrryoycd it so much. I knew I couldn't put off telling my parents
table in the centre, *tri"tt iJa focal point of the room. Thele is iurv longer, so I brought the subject up one night over dinner.
Iarple window above the sink, which looks out onto t*o,1!l Al lilst there was silence, and then my father asked me why. I
1i"., in the garden. The cooker is at one end, a.d above dl{l] it is
useful fot rs;rlirined that cooking was like painting a picture or writing a
;;;d;" p"fi"V, which is old-fashioned but.very
lrool<. Every meal was an act of creation. I could see that my
clothes in wet weather. At the other end is a wall with a
la
the story of our lives, past, present' lirllrcr was not convinced, but he clidn't get angry, he just patted
notice-board, which tells I

inr'on the shoulder and smiled. My mother kissed me. And now
l"t"t.,'a in words and pictures: a school photo of Megan
I lr;rve opened nly own restaurant, I think they are very ploud of
Kale nostcard from Auntie Nancy in Australia, the meuu f
rrrr,, I{owever, my grzrnclfather-(on my father's side) is not so
hinese restaurant, a wedding invitation for ll
liirrrl, he thinks I'rn nad to have given up farming.
entire world is there for everyone,to readl,'
front.do"or is seldom used in our house, only by strarrgers. All
c
{o',,**'
iri."a, use the back door, which means they come stryight it " 1. Should
;'h; ki.[;; u"a ioin in u'hatever is happe'ing there'.The kett 2. Is cooking a vocation or something everyone can learn?
;;;. ;" immediatelv ancl then we ull t-it:?'"d ttrc ttlble' dit.Lkl
or-ld to rightsl Without doubt some of
tea a tt6
happ life have been spent in our kitchen'
"i. NUTRITION
your kitchen also not just-a place where you
it
meals bul something more to your-famlly?^ - . lrr the crazy cosmetic world in which we live, the thing we
2. What memoriei are connected with it? Is there an rrr'lilcct all too often is nutrition. To look good is to be healthy,
special about it? ltow rtangelous this attitucle can be. 'fo merely dress the part on
llrl outside only helps to disguise the truth, that our insides
prolrably need some alterations.
With my nutritionhl advise you are steered clear of fly by
tright "fad" diets and will obtain sound information and
GILEs grrirl;rnce to assist your fitness goals. I will show you the way to

I think I,r,e been interested in foocl. My glandparents (on n

I lilc of eating pleasure without sacrificing the health of mind
rttrrl lrody.
mother's side) livecl in a huge old manor house in Lincolnshi Wc all want to be lean; let's get our bodies clean. Food
and thdy had a u,onclcrful cook. She made fantastic stanr
srrlrplies three fundamental body needs:
firltittt'fooc{; l're. roast beef a.d Yorkshire pu.dding }vas . the need for ener-g5r
of Tni. world. I usecl to iove going down to the kitche' a . the need for new tissue growth and tissue repair
."ut.ir-g her-.uvor-k, ard I picked up a lot of cooking tips f'r ' thc need to regulate metabolic function
her thaii u,anted to be a cook when I was about 12' 'l'hcse needs are met
I went to a boarcting school ancl rvhen othel boys_chose to '*'ith nutrients in the forms of carbohydrate, .

. prolt'in, fat, u,ater, vitamins and minerafg. The optimum diet

sport, I chose cookery- By the t!qe i u'as 15, I had taker' ,u","' rlrrl;rir-rs adequate amounts of each of these nutrients.
.i"f.i.S at horne for mV parc'rts' dinner-parties, and I had star While standards are set to assure proper nutrition, diet also
to mafe up my own'rlcipes' I kt'rew my parents would ulrl:, irr the preverrtion of disease (heart disease, stroke, cancer).
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lrililr in sugar and calorles. Salted peanuts seem to be the least
1roprr lar snacks today.
I)cople who diet know that if they stick to a low-fat, high-
ftlrlc intake they will be able to eat well without putting on
u'r,r11ht. Instead of going on crash diets they are learning to
t.rlrrr:ate their stomachs by eating sensible food. They can still
vigorous exercise. t,rr;ov chocolates and crearn cakes once a week or so, but they
-Th" higher energy and recuperation needs should be krrow they have to cut down their intake sliglttly the next day.
-carbohydrate,
with a higher prJportion of llcsearch is indicating that "we are what we eat". Recent work
,60-70%' slrows that Italians, who tend to eat lots of fresh fruit and
compensatJ a'd-balance you should reduce the amounts
vr,,r1r't,ables that contain vitamins C and E, have low levels of
Irt,;rr'1 zrttacks. Scots, however, tend to have a diet that is high in
nrrinr:rl fat and low in fibre. Heart disease is a widespread problem
irr St'otland.
Now, evidence shows that it is especially vitamins C and E,
rvlrich control the probability of attacks of angina - the severe
L:lrlsl pains which are usually a warning of heart disease.

S'i'l' Have you ever tried dieting? What did it include?

2. Do you prefer "junk" food to home-cooked meals?
just that single piece of ihecsecake!
ffi t**Gffi $Wffi
lfill{tt1i*;s.riw**rJ*si&wffi
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to what and when You eat?
FA5T FOOD
lr;st Food, typically, food served in the form of a "takeaway"
DO YOU EAT THE RI6HT FOOD? frurrr restaurants or fast food outlets. Fast food il the United
i(irrlirlom includes products and dishes such as the more traditional
What do we mean by a well-balanced diet? This is a fnlc of fish and chips,hot pies and pasties,and szrndwiches,as
that contains daily from eacl.i, of the basic food grt rllll rrs brrgers, croissants, kebaibs, pizzas, chicken, soups, and salads.
rn"ut, vegetable and""rrri.tg.
fruit, milk, bread and cereals. There's ll ;rlso includes drinks, for instance milkshakes, soft drinks and
aorrbt thit food tales ancl preferences are established ear$ Itll beverages.
'l'lre system of obtaining food, as the name implies, does not
life. No one is born a "sugar freak" or a salt craver. An inct
,tuli.ti. is that between 30 and 50% of all the caloriess rr,rlrrile zrny prebooking or ordering. In a society where consumers
r:rrloy increased choice over the foods they select and consume,
each day are bonsumed in the form of between-meal
Unfortunately, the usual between-meal foods are low in nu f,r,.l lirocl is popular with rnany. Its development has been targeted
;;i"; utta too nign itt calories and refined sugar' So--" excel ril llrc need for a broad range of snacks and rneals to be available
snacks that shoul"d always be available are plain-yoghurt, cart irrrl to cater for all preferences. The concentration of food
pi"."t of apple, cheese ind natural fruit .iYi::: Eating yoghu urrllct.s meeting this need is obviously greater in urban area
healthier and more nutritionally sound
L,""f. f""d ir'fu,,,junk" ru'lrllt' pace and lifestyles generate greater need. Some people,
so-called food, which is less nutritious and lrnu'r'ver, have concerns about the ways in which the diet of many
"*s
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tlrirrking places - where almost 40 per cent of eyery consumer
is over-reliant on highly processed foods that may con 10,,,1 dcillar-is spent - earned close to $200 billion annually,
substaDtial levels of iefined sugars, saturated fats, salt, lirsl loocl restauiants accounted for 35 per cent of that total.
additives, thus discouraging people from eating fresh, $r'lrool lunches, many hospital meals, airline food, and even some
foods thzrt havc not been refined and processed to the saqt irulcl and restaurant menus are supplied by institutional feeders.
extent. Within a balanced cliet, fast foods perhaps pose less ofi
risk to health. The concet'n is that generations of people al
completety r-eplacing home-cooked meals with fast food fare.
Being a rapidly'expanding sector of the UI( foocl indust
fast fooci-affects people f|orn all sections of the con-rmunity. It
perhaps a prime Lxample of how modern developments can ha
an impar:t-[revOncl u'hz'rt r,l'as intended. For example, au increa
..'..^"'.f
. I l -- l---.- meant an^-- :-^,-^^^^ :,-
in +1."
the amourt
in takeaway footl salr.s has -^^--r, increase
packagirrg generatecl as a result, which u'ould not bave exisl pl; Iy-line soP
had meais continuecl to be eaten in restaurants or at home, lr)r eSSUre , gfi
this has environmental implications. ov ion tec fast
Many single-unit, owner-operated businesses have suffe arrrl dehydrating. Microwave ovens and other machinery in
in some n..ui ot tbey are now competing with major ntode Irrslit.utional kitchens reheat or reconstitute the meals.
chains ancl lru-ge fast-iood corporations. However-, outlets selli 'l'he growth of fast-food chains since the 1950s is
sanciu,iches hztve iucrcasecl their market share as bakery c
Irr l;rrge ft of new technoloFies. Allhough some of the
ancl supcrnrn|liets have capitalized on the trend, in favour lilrtl in shments is cooked to order, all of it is sent
lighter lunches.
Fast foocl is mainly geared towards the younger encl of
market and tou,ards fainilies. In deciding which ploduc:ts
market, f irst-foocl operators will need to appeal to a u'ide
range in olclcr to gu:tlantee continued expansion- Arlothel t
thai the fast-fooci-inclustrv will need increasipgly to acldress
the grorving 1;ublic interest in health, diet, ancl nut|itiorr' I
factJr is alicacly begilling to be reflected witiil thc fzrst.f
inclustry, o" r.ci-t in the itlCrease in vegetarian dishes and oth

t-" 1.'
2.
trroked meals? What food do you prefer? /
It9

custonrcr's ot'cler. WHY COOK? R,AW FOOD I5 FINE

looking, we are told, came in by accident, when a man tried to
(
r'\( uc a pig from a fire. Having burnt his fingers and licked
24t
them to soothe the pain, he lil<ed the taste and clecided to bu l?o
-scl and.so the iclea
more pigs, of cooking came into being' No
when muc,h of our food is cle-lratured, raw food therapy
coming to the f,ore, and besides being so much more healthf WE 5HOULD ALL 6ROW FAT AND BE HAPPY
can be very appetizing.
Grated"raw-carrot, swede, beetroot, turnips, etc., should What a miselable lot dieters are! You can always recognize
eaten daily, and with some finely chopped green peppers; indc-'r Ilrlru flom the sour expression on theil faces. They spend most of
anything from the greengrocer's will make a good meal rvi llrlir tine turning their noses up at food. They are forever
either meat or cheese. r orrsulting theil calor-ie charts; gazing at themselves in mirrors;
Mushrooms too are a verv good protein, equal in value to trrr,l leaping on to weighing-machines in the bathroom. They
most expensive "cut off the joint." Add to all this some ga u;rlrrcl a lifetime fighting a losing battle against spreading hips,
(a natuial antibiotic), some raw green-stuff such as lettu plol,ruding tummies and double chins. Some wage all-out 'uvar
watercress, even dandelion or comfrey leaves zrrld you ha orr lrrt.. Ivlere dieting is not enough. They exhaust themselves doing
the basis of a really tasty and health giving meal. r'\r'r'r'ises, sr,rreat.ing in sauna baths, being pummeled and massaged
Any herbs can be besprinkled over the salad ar-rd a dresr lry wcilcl machines. Don't think it's only the middle-aged who
of lembn iuice and vegetable oil, with a little seasalt if clesi p.u irr for these fads either. Many of these bright young things you
and you *ill feel welf fed and not stuffed, as or)e cloes r'vitlt qr(' irre suffering from chronic malnutrition: they ale living on
ordinary cooked meal. rrollring but ail and water.
Foia snack, why not try an apple u'ith a piece of your favou "Wonderfood is a complete food," the advertisement says.
cheese, instead of the usual starchy bun or biscuit' In fact, it ",irrsl dissolve a teaspoonful in water..." A complete food it may
worthwhile to cut out all the so-called foods, made fron-r whi lrr,, lrut not quite so complete as a juicy steak...
flour and white sugar, especially if you are trying to slim' What's all this self-inflicted torture for? It will be a great
White floru' and white sugar should find no place in the.d tl,ry when all the dieters in the world abandon their slimming
as they zrre conpletely devoid of any food value- Your chilC rr)rrrses; when they hold out plates and demand a second helping.
will not need io visit the dentist so often and thele rvill d ,'l.ll;i?::tii.rlr,,ii.i:r83
better health zrll r-ound.
1. There are only two ways to avoid gaining weight: eating
Many people ale afraid of eating gallic because they think
will mai<e them r.rnattractive to their friends but if some rt h'rs and taking exercise. Which one would you prefer, if
green-stuff is eatert with the raw garlic, then there will bc nrrv'/ Why?
2. Is a slim body worth so many worries and restrictions?
smell on the breatli at all.
Garlic will neutr-alize any body smell, which is very often
result of eating vely highly seasoned and unhealthy for
par ca
i izxt 7?t
ne itamiu instead'of pouri RESTAURANTS
the th water. If you cook, t
use the water for soup or gravy. 'l'he term restaurant refers to any of a wide variety of
Another thing, u'hich will appeal to the busv persou - t rr\l,rl)lishments in which people may buy and eat prepaled meals.
will be much Iess washing uP! A rlslaulaut may be fulf-seiruice or self-service, and it may
ili:l:;i;:rl ;;&:!{i;i&l al,rrrrl ulone or be part of another facility, such as a factory, office,
ll-cooked Ir,rlll, or club. The quality of food and service can range from
for gnawing a stiff carrot? llr,rl lound in the ubiquitous llgreasy spoon" to that of so-
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,,four-star" gourmet restaurants. Public eating places I llSA. Along with the proclaimed core values of the company
called (=lrr;rlrtv, Service, CleanlireSs and Value -
existed since ancierit times, but the modern version of the restau - an important factor to
(from the French restaurant, "to restore'l) did not appear u il., rrrcccss is McDonald's system of franchising.
lrr April 1988 McDonald's ventured for the first time to the
the 18d' century. The word was first applied in its current us
by A. Boulanger when he opened .an ishment [r rt rrrr:r "Eastern Block" in opening restaurants in Hungary and

Paris in 1765. Others of this type foll ce, then \=rrlioslavi:r. The first Russian McDonald's was opened in Moscow
Great Britain - and most of th-em we In the 1 lrr l;rrrrraly 1990.
century restaurants offering a wide choice of food increasil llrc first researches in Belarus stalted in mid-1995 in order
[rr ,llline the possibilities of creating a local McDonald's system"
replaced the older, limited--menu eating,-house' -R3pid^:o:i
changes in 20,r'-century Europe and, especially, the United States llr l)onald's ut $ 6 million in Belarus. Apart
su.h"as the growth of automobile tiansportation, of travel a f trrrrr l lre five y opened, the conpany is planning
i"iru." timel and of urban business and industry - created Il,,;rr,rt fottr
clemand for fast-food and self-service operations, as well as n
production restaurants (pizzaor steak ho.tt"s, for.e.xample)'
{i t.
iumber of restaurant chains has also increased' The rest
industry i:;.a substantial sector of the U.S. economy'
tn iSgO about 773,000 commercial eating and drin 123
establishments existed, up from 490,000 in 1987' The ind
employed more than 9.4 million people, and Americans spent VEGETARIANT5M
tnan $gt: billion eating out. Flanchised - i'cluding fast
eating places continued to proliferate: in 1980 there were 60, l'lrcory or practice of living'solely upon vegetables, fruits,
by the mid-1990s they made up some 45% of all U'S' restauri $l ,rrrrs, irnd nuts, generally for ethical, ascetic, or nutritional reasons.
Irlr';rl, lrrr,r'1, aud fish are excluded from all vegetar-ian diets, but
ftttnr' 1,1 those in the modern
1. Do you prefer fast food restaurants to restaurants pr ,,r rr ans in India exclude
d is prepared to order? WhY? th',rrr, i nean lands.
| )rrring the 19th century the movernent began to produce results
r,!r rmc)ug nonvegetarians. By the early 20th century it was
'trrrlrilruting substantially to the'drive to vary and lighten the
MCDONALD's RESTAURANTS Flrvr,ljotarian person's diet - especially in English-speaking
rrrrrlrics; such foods as peanut butter and cornflakes were
, McDonald's is the largest and best-known global food se ilttlrrlt'tI b1, vegetarians i1 the United States. In some places a
trgr,lrrrizrn cliet was r-egarded simply as one among many regimens
retailer with more than 2,000 restaurants world#ide. The com
was founded in'1954 by Ray I(roc. He used the principles lirrltr ;rlt'cl for specific disorders. Elsewhere in contrast, and notably
introduced by two broihers- Mac and Dick McDonald in iir (ir,rn2ury, tlie fleshless diet was regarded as but one element
restaurant iri Belnardino, California - lirniting the n llt t'r'1it't.ru'ianism, which was expected to be a compr-ehensive reform
Iowering prices and systematizing the kitchen process' Ray
lilc lrabits in the direction of simplicity ancl healthfulness.
openecl"his first resiaurant in Des Plaines, Illinois in 1
I lrt' r,egetarian movement as a whole was alwavs carried

McDonald's expansion first began within the USA and

itir,rlrl by etliically inclined individuals, such as (in modern
starting in 1967, worldwide, tlttilr) l-co Tolstoy and George Belnard Shau', and by certain
No- tvtcponald's operates in 100 countries with a tu fFllpirorrs sects; but special institutions have grown up to express
of $29,913 billion (199S), $14,008 billion of which is outside |cgr,l;rlian concerns as such. An international federation of

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nutritious. Some vegetarians reject meat eating because of the
vegetarian socieLies was founded tentativgly
in 1889 and rrr-
;;e;;i;eli itt isos, as the International,Vegetarian un1111
later'vears westerners were joined in this by
the tndic and Buddhist traditions' Vegetarian
;;d^;";t homes have spruns uP, especially rn cerualrrr-urol
;;;"tti;t 1; r'alu, tn[ t"itio"di o""ttsarilv g*tt",o:93 d': tlrcir protein needs with corn and seeds of legumes.
i"riiitti"r tvtt"^' u"getarian and. nonvegtl^,ti"1l ._
1l,tl:, P'
Dietary strictness
j"':l
i'"";ffit il;;;'i;-il; and"flavour, so ai to ease the transi
'p.Lirtindustryprocesieshiglr-proteinviel!]ble^::itt^t? The strictness of diet also varies among vegetarians. Purist
t-3t"^t'
from the accustomed flesh eating; and "healtLfood"
to.vegetarian tastes' To the same
;iluct"s -.,io.-i"g publ iih reci Des'
l.S.f"ti""
v tr}iEL4r 14rr s oc i etiei
rvvrvv --h1!ll-"^1t:- t-T-t:
cerrLrtrLr uu L'9
importance of protein was lrave
.
-.-^ ^c larrrrmos nrrts. Cheg S.
cll0w themselves to eat foods that can be obtained without what
beliet in and Practice of eating f
s,
- from the vegetablg klnS$gm' ulqlil'
tlrt'y believe to be unneuessary
ly enrrght fish. Most vegetarians,
abstaining fro* *"a't und othet an"imal foods' Nonvegetable
,*":-:.:ii.: ^^nsiderld h' vcoetarians to include fowl and ltirt,e, oppose the use of both
I
;il;. v an ancient custoni' It-
among and,Bl-ddlltl-:::,1^
by nume
consider an animal liie sacreo, ancl rt was advocatgd
;;b*;h;'; ;;J y;it"!' 9r' ancient 9::::^ :11,since
"il;;ei["]i. ct"rch, it has been practiced l"-1?^1" 1668,
bmor- Drnreqtant. *n." iecently by Seventh-Day.Adventist
llnrulated meats.
an a ment, it was originated in 1,809
Man bers of the Bible Christian Chur<
tAU tn" Vegetarian Society, a nonreligious organization'
I

founded. The movem.ttt tpi""a to coniinental,

Europe
vel
1-{,
U"il.a if"tes (1850), and, in 1908, the International
U"io" *". founded. Today the union holds congresses ev
years.

Veg,etarian arguments
Although vegetarianism ori or et
terrrl to be thinner, to have lower blood pressure. Vegetarian
-u{rJuiio g"i*d
p.".ii.", it'tt"t acce :,i:*l cllt'ls tend to be lower in fat and cholesterol and higher in fibre
;;;ili;;i, reasons''trtuna'rLar ra' v c6c'ori&rlS Frrrl t;ertain vitamins.
;;i;;;;;'" in"y believe that the killing.of TiTull1t o-"1:l
""ottomic
l)cople may adopt a vegetarian diet due to concerns about
;;;*l;;; thut i".n u p.actice can conceivably lead to.a dir tlrt, rnefhods used for raising animals. Most ch.ickens, pigs, and
i;r"h;;; rii.; tn" trades that the slaughter ofanimals su Veirl calves are raised in close confinement and are given chemical
;;h; butchering, are considered degrading' People,yhg Erhlitives in their feed and these practices offend many people
is ha
;;;;;t";ianism"for health reasons bElieve that rneat diet is fol hcalth and humane reasons.
; ;i""""h;u" uoav and that a purely vegetable
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iilr(l cxercise the fat stores in the body will supply some of the
In the past it was thought that vegetarians might deve rltr,l0r.'s eDergy needs while maintaining good health. For most
protein deficiencies if they did not carefully cornbine their
It is now known that such careful planning is not n ;l',;rle, the iecommended rate of weight-loss is abo'ton0'7 to
diets
ir tr't,g (1,5 to 2 Lb) per week. This can be achieved
Protein deficiencies do not occur if one eats a variety of Itrrrit,c-d to 1,200-1,50b calories a dav for women and 1,500-
foods and eats enough to rnaintain one's weight. However, !) 0(X) calories a day for men; calorie needs of children vary greatly,
nutritionists believe that vegans should eat vitamin-enric rrrrr I their rates of weight loss should be prescribed by a physician.
cereals or take a vitamin supplenrerit for vitamin B-12, which 'l lrc n ost sensible approach to weight loss is to begin rvith a
needed in small amounts for irealthy blood and nerves. Nctlical check-up to make certain that no special health problems
lrist and to get i diet and exerciseprescription from.aphysician.
1. Would you like to adopt a vegetarian diet? 'l lrt, cliets thit are acceptable to the medical establishment are
2. For what reasons would you become a vegetarian? F llrosc in which fewer caiories are eaten and exercise is increased.
which you wouldn't? I lris is called the calorie-balanced approach to dieting. Although
bolro cliets may place more emphaiii on calorie reduction and
rrllrcls on increased exercise, all of thern emphasize the importance
ol good nutrition and maintaining a balance of proteins,
rrrr lrrihydrates, and fats.
DIETIN6
l) i e t P r o b I e m s
The term dieting mo:t often t'Li,lers tc rhe Eevision of 'l'here is a number of problems associated with dieting'
intake in order to lose weight" I)iecs are also observed for a lllscarch has shown that in marly cases, diets are successful only
range of medical reasons or to accord with dietary laws rrrr ir tertporary basis - most dieters regain the weight, plus
ethical positions such as vegetarianism. In the United States tiror t:, within two years.
other developed nations where obesity is a common Muny of theSe dieters try to lose the rveight again, a cycle
problem, the promotion of weight-loss programs has bec, r rrllccl yo-yo dieting, There has been co
large enterprise. This interest in dieting is caused in yo rlieting's effects on the body, with
by a cultural emphasis on slimness, but obesity is consid llrrrl it causes problems with metabol
a genuine medical hazard that puts people at risk llrrwever, a 1992 study disagreed, finding no such effects'
cardiovascular problems, cliabetes, and other disorders. Another problem is thal many of the commercially- offered
People often find diets hard to maintain, in part rlrr,ls emphurir. on. dietary element at the expense.of others;
they may have unrealistic expectations about how quickly ..rr, lr plactices present health problems. Low-carbohydrate diets,
can lose weight. They may blame the diet itself and try l,,r ciarnple, re.strict the amount of bread, sugar, and grains while
one. Many fat diets are unhealthy and even dangerous if fol rr[rir normal amount of plotein and fats. Most of the
for any length of time. Proper weight-loss diets observe trrili weight loss from tttch p.ogtarns is from the body
nutritional practices and balanced food intake, including r irkl of water and salt. A plateau is reached after one
recommended daily regimens of vitamins and minerals. rrr lrvo weeks, and no additional weight is lost for several weeks
General Guidelines llrlrcafter. Ivlost people experience fatigue, hypotension (low
lrl0ort pressure), and- dizziness after only a few days-on such
In nutritional science, food energy is spoken of in terms ,lrr,ts, ihich are adaptations of an older Americal Diabetes
heat unit, the calorie (actually the kilocalorie). The only sou Association diabetes diet.
of calories are carbohydrates, proteins, fats, and alcohol. If I tigh-protein diets virtually eliminate carbohydrates and fats.
number of calories taken in greatly exceeds the nurirber used, It,,,.;rui'e iarbohydrates are thL most readily available source of
excess is stored as fat and obesity results. With proper di
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Some methods of preserving food are very old. For example,
for rn stored fat : lrrotl was dried, snoked or salted thousands of years ago. But it
energ,y, an all-protein diet
\r';rs in the early 19tr'century that many of the methods that we
protein. When th.ese stores a ::*ifl';f,}
[;::il tJJ"i;t. is a serious curlrPrrL4"-'^ of both d
ilit 11',r' today were invented.

mellitus and starvlti"" und can leidof.t:. toTl; If* tn 1ti10 a Frenchman, Nicholas Appert, discovered a way of
diets can be used f";;l;; turtott period time and are da lilr'1ring food fresh by putting it in bottles and glass jars. The
i;;';;il" *tttt ai"u"ies, kidnll' disorders' or other I'r,tiled food heated and no air was allowed to get in. In 1834
u'"iiitn-tat
oroblems.
diets, requirins :9."t1:9^?li,T:ii::'"1
.rtb;it:,lt;;;t f-;h; rn'ceks with virv small amounts ac
firsi
duringsuccessive*;;k;,;""*ttt*t:l;Pt^1'.t^llg"l'*ii::
;ili;:,;;i fo' persons with arteri"::.|,':::i'
"*';;;;;;;"'
heart disease. This typ" of diet ajso. causes
diarrhoea' vitanin lnrrrl have had an enormous effect on what we eat and the way
ir"oot."tion, dehydration' And kidney irritation' lrrrx l i
"'"il;;;;;;;;i;i'-;;pr'u'i'" one fobd' such as rice' grapef FS
ice cream, ^- "nohrrrt Tlrese are not nutritionally
balancbd ttttrrtlrt s

ffi;Hii
or Powder
li
i.#ffi6?Ji;b'd:i,'"1
r^r r^:1., ollnrrrqnner
,tt,'itd S

ll#"rl'irairn to contatn tne recoilurre'ded daily a-llowa

ti""l th pro b I e rns have someti m,es b_":il
'
il#'fi ;;;i;,
with their ur". Nonlfrescription druas called anorexics
supposed ro *pp."ui'i;;,^t'f-'ll:" !:1,1T"--':1:T :{:1'l food the nurnber of
u se'sible diet pla'; they, v(';u., e increased
it5fi:;i;r";";-;'";6e us"d *lth dieting'.tlt^t r ili('s ady. Consumers fi40 % of their
*lV U"'tt".-}"f . nt fcrr stan'ation 11t5-"i.:f 3T
itrict med de the home and
ilKi;'il'lil,li,,ii";'_"li ;t ;ii - o"1y
under frrorl knowledgeable
supervrsron.

should be taken.

FOOD HANDLINo
air' will gobad lr,,,rl lrlndling problems. People often use tbe same plate-for the
Foo<l, which is left open to the "tl::i^?:T
go bad q-ltt5t^{. r,rrr rlc:rt und th"n the cooked meat witholt u'ashing the plate
is clone to keep it fresh. Some foods
""]'y Irr ,1. Mcat is not the onlv food vulneratrle to illness
__ causing
a few hours' Raw
and other *itf. p.oJ"t[s will go sour-in lr,1r tt.ri:r, but special attlrrtion must be paid t-o its pleparatibn
*irr s;;ri ii' uto"il;"i-, ]ieai,
'"Tmanv i"{::}::::i}:::
fruits and,ve ll.,;rus{. of its temperature sensitivity. Never thaw meat orr tire
g;
;iii 't.il'i" ";;;ol" a'lov'' Everl
oi'
ll": rorrrriql- top but in the refrigerator. T nreat in a Ploper
;ii?; 'otl"" in less thanof pr"s"rving
week lr. ly?It::"i:t*
food in order to rrrl;ri,r.. sb its juices don't drip onto o foods'
,hJ"i;;";;'ii;.1-;ts r

fresh and delicious. ?57

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- What's wrong with those things?
'lhe excessive consumption of such things leads to the
When preparing a dish,-such as a chickel- pasta salad
ur"r'.."L.uip"ii.nu6t" ingredients, ma.ke sure all of the t$T.1i ovcrproduction of cholesterol, which in turn results in heart
are cooled before mixin[ them together' Don't forget that ;rli;t ...
most innocent of foods cin cause illness. Food experts point
-- Excuse me, but what exactly is cholesterol?
to one kitchen utensil, which is often overlooked - the dishcl - It's a... wax-like substance... yellowish... and it's
p."pi"l""d to leave it sitting around for a,week until it becc l,r,rtluced naturally in our livers. We all need some cholesterol
of ,micro-biological zoo.' Best to throw it in the w I ol survival.

",o'rt
on ,hot, or soak it in chJorine a few times a week. Canned pro, - Well, if we need it, in what way is it bad for us?
do not pose a before tlrey are opened if the can has not bt - Too much of it is bad for us. It builds up in our arteries,
Ju-ug.a. Ho r, after food is taken out of the can it must r nrsing them to get narrower, so that our blood supply has difficulty
as any type of prepared.food' trr getting through ... and this, of course, can eventually end in a
-
refrigErated
lrrrrt attack or stroke. The point I'm trying to make here is that,
P;;i. have the -it.oni.ption that the last thing take
they
rvcn though we all need some cholesterol in order to insulate our
caused iheir illness. Food poisoning can sometimes st

weeks to set in. As well, jusl because other people ate the lltrves, and to produce cell membranes and hormones, the things
food owing symptoms, doesn't mean you are rrr;,rry of us eat and even consider healthy lead to the overproduction
,nff., ."t"iEa ilkt"tt. The best defence against f ol r:holesterol. And this is very dangerous.
relate proper cooking before serving' ' How can we avoid this overproduction of cholesterol?
- By cutting down our consumption of animal fats: things
likc red meat, cheese, eggs, and so on. And by increasing our
1. Have you ever experienced food poisoning? What lousumption of fresh fruit and vegetables, and also by eating
caused it? iurle potatoes, rice, pasta and bread.
- Pasta? Potatoes? But... aren't such things fattening?
- Nonsense. It isn't pasta, potatoes or bread that makes us
l;rl. [t's what we put on such things! Cheese. Butter. Meat!
So anything we like, anything that's delicious, is bad for
THE RI6HT FOOD rn. Isn't that what you're saying?
Is there a secret to good health? I mean is there some Rubbish! I'm simply saying we eat too much of these
-
we can achieve it which is not generally known?
llrrrrgs. And there are many ways of preparing delicious food
isn't a secret. However, there is a great de ru'rllrout using such large quantities of animal fats.
- It certainly
even anong supposedly educated people, about
Last of all, what about exercise? Yon recently warned
ignorance,
to be reasonablY healthY. certain forms of exercise, which you said could be
'rli;rir)st
r l;rrrgerous.

- Well, what advice do You give, then?

Uh ... to begin with, take"diet. I believe that qne of What I said was that if people aren't used to getting
-
oreatest danqers t5 health in Britain and other countrie$,
ltgular and vigorous exercise, they should begin slowly, and
rrol Lry to do too much at the beginning! I also said that certain
iurli."i"rfy ieu"loped countries ... is the kind of food we tt Fl,ilrl()s, such as squash, can be dangerous, particularly if you aren't
to prefer. rr',r'rl to playing them. A number of injuries are due to sudden,
- Such as?
lilisLing movements that games like squash involve.
- Such as that great national institution, the British brea
What kinds of exercise do you recommend, then?
for example. Ham ind eggs' Or the kind of lunch so many
Gentle jogging, swimming, cycling, brisk walking ..,. exercise
in this country have: sausage and chips! Or all the conv llrrrl is rhythmic and gentle, and above all, sustained. That is,
iooat fif." hambrrrgers. Or'-even thingl we regard as "healtl
,".t, ur full-fat miik. Or Checldar cheese. Thelist is endless.l ?53
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done for at least fifteen minutes uninterruptedly at least t
Tlro RDA is simply the amount required to avoid scurvy, the
times a week. We all need such exercise, and the fact is that
tirosl obvious efficiency disease and it's actually based on the
too few of us get enough of it, particularly if we live in lar
iities and regularly use iars. l

1. How rich in cholesterol is your food? ;

2. Do you agree that anything pleasant'in this world;

either illegal or immoral or leads to obesity?

Glt,lcrmine the vitamin C requirements of healthy young men'

1'lrr:1, lorrnd that a minimum intake of 1,000 mg per. day was
VITAAAIN C. THE ULTIAAATE HEALTH t,e,1rii,-ed to completely saturate the blood plasma with vitamin
tl.
One discovery stands out in the last half of the 20'h centul The researchers conclude that the RDA should be raised to
vitamin C is uniquely important to the health and well-being
humans.
Dr. Linus Pauling was the first to realize the c
importance of the vitamin C in the maintenance of a hea
immune system. In 1970 he proposed that regular intake of vitz
C (ascorbic acid), in far higher than the officially sancti
RDA (recommended daily allowance), could help prevent
shorten the duration of the common'cold.
The medical establishment immediately voiced their
' protective effect. This is now changing. on Aging report that
tlris
liesearchers from the National Institute
opposition to this, but many believed Dr. Pauling. They began
large amounts of this vitamin. Most people immediatety-noti
gr.it d".."ase in the frequency and severity of their colds.
Recent medical research has confirmed Dr. Pauling's o
idea. Not only does a high vitamin C intake markedly reduce I
severity of a cold, it also effecfively prevents secondary viral
bacterial complications.
stimulating the ltnmune
works by strmulatmg
Vitamin C works system,
irnmune sysf,em,3
protecting us against damage from the free radicals releasbd
lhe body in its fight against the infection. '
lorrrrtl that people who suffer from asthma, atthritis, cancer' diabetes
Optimum intake ilrrrl heart dit"ut" have much lowel levels of vitamin C in their
lrloocl than do healthY PeoPle.
Dr. Pauling recommended a vitamin C intake of 1-000:
per day or more. The official RDA is ordy 60 mg. So hou'much A powerful cancer fighter
*t Numerous studies have shown that an adequate intake of
i";til*T;olni,qu"rtion it is crucial to realize that the yilrrrnin C is effective in lowering the risk of developing cancers
is not in any way based on what is reqtrired for optimum h trl' lrleast, larynx, lung, mouth, prostate and stornach.
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'l'he rvonder nutrient
-'-" "
Dailv suDDlementation with 500 rng of vitarnin C' for
-*:-r
has Deell
years nas tott;d-l;-"ut the
been ruL risk of develooins blad Srrpplerrerrting with vitamin C has been fbund to significantly
r .Lbreast
spreadof --^^! cancer
^^-^^n lnrvr:L the risk of cataracts ancl glaucoma. Sorne very recent work
iu".". by 60 per cent' The lr;rs shorvn tl-rat open angle glaucoma can be reversed by
;;;lJi"t"d to be predominantly due to .free-r ',rrplllement.ing u,ith large doses of vitan-rin C.
which can be .ontrofi"a through intake of increaseoday has bt
aIIIOuuLS
thtt" Lar"ge doses (one to tr,vo grams claily) have also been found to
-'+^min c s,,.,tt".;"ntation .tiith grams per
rlrlrrc:e asthna svmptoms significantly. Recent studies have shown
event further polyp growth in colon caI
than 157 mg has beel found to reduce llrrrl vitamin C concentrations in the bloocl fi'om rheumatoid
cent' ;rrllrritis patients are extlemely low, arrd that vitamin C may
of develoPi
----o.,
risk
Pauring
doses (10 8) of
lT"#ff:"flll,:
lrrotcct against furthel damage to inflamed loints.
Vitamin C is trul5z a u,ortclet nutrient. There is no doubt that
l{ospital in Scol rrr;rny of the serious clegenerative diseases plaguing the civilized
From their experirnents at the Vale of l'even ruolld today can be prevented or even reversed through an
iffi *";i JA tn
"f
t i a I, c a1 c e
" "n c" along with
r.
their: Yl^:.
3$ 1?* reguiar I
I ::' l: :
treatm ;rrlr'<1uate intake of this essential vitamin.
il;iy;;;-ji "ii".in patientJ who didn't 'l'he current RDA of 60 mg is clearly far-too lorv. The proposed
ti*i ,n,r"tt longer than in general' a muchreceive improved "iluTll
q rrr.u, RDA of 200 mg u'hile perhaps adequate for healthy, young
;h;"I;; h"d leis pui" u"a, rrr;rlcs, would scem to be quite inadequate for older people - and
of lr,r'lrinly too lolv for sick people.
doctor Abram Hoffer lat A scientific advisorrl' panel to the US Government-sponsored
Pa eron treatment Protocol bY
,\lli:rnce for Aging Resealch recently recommended that all
;i niacin, other B vitamins' b
wno IOrr ir'rrlth)' adults increase their daily vitamin C intake to 250 -
minerals. Those of Dr. Hoffer's cancer patlents than l{XX) mg. Again this may be adequate for preventive purposes, but
longer
;hilft;*;;-llved, on average' about 16 times lrrl l:rlger quantities are required in halting or reversing cancer
who did not. arrtl hard diseasc. Forturrately, most researchers now agree that
Protector of the heart vil;rrnin C is entirely safe even in daily quantities of 10 g or
lllot'c.
An aclequate intake of vitamin C is surely the best and most
r osl cffective l-realth insurance available today.
,.i,
tl '', r"r;if
1. Do you believe that the amount of vitamins contained
ln our food is not enough and should be taken additionally?
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I4OW TO START A DAY IN A LAZV WAY

- - mg or less.
60
C.$:lY
Sippt"-entation with two grams ?f "iluTil
(white P': llrunch. Thc more I think:rbout it, the more I like the idea. Not
of rionocvtes blood cell
f";;"#;;;J"uatt"tion
^ir"r"g- llrrrsc socialite brunch parties but casual brunch en famille as a
it" oi ttooa vessel ; and thereby reduce the ri r,rrcl'r'ee mearls of eliding late br-eakfast ri,ith early lunch on lazv
arteriosclerosis ' \;rlrrrdav aircl Sunday mornings.
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frornthc rlood and foods
it, rrrr I hc telephone, gives the reason, and tells at u'hat time he thinks
Tl-ie aim, as I see is to break
lr,' r'lur come. Rlitish people actually are-:rlso very punctual and
the functilious, clockwatching working *""t'ki
T :t]:l:.t^Y
nlea^s frcsh mcrru patterns rlspcct tinc.
,"i"'*"tir". I. other worcls, brurrch
\\/hen tlti: gLrests sit dorvn at et dinner table, it is customary
o.i ti*r', off for the cook as well as evcl'\/orl('clse'
l,,r'thc meri to help the ladies by pushing their chairs under
llrtn.
l'-i'en an American may be confusecl by the nunber of knives,
is not to suggest that an enormous trv-uP slloulcl rz{tie L lorl<s zrncl spoons beside his plate when hc sits down to a formal
r'- c'.
plac
rlrrrrr(:r'. The rule is simple, houret'er. Use thern in the order in
NO. it is not the cl-rolesterol count that puts me off. I
find
kid'e's, and fr ri lriclr they lie, beginning from the outside; or r.vatch the hostess
;i;;;;;, io^uio*r., mushrooms, s2rusagcs
to eat' thev rrrrrl rlo what she cloes. The small fork on the outside on the left is
d prettSr irr.rittif,i.'b.tt, ulthough tempting
l,,r s:r[:rd, which is often served rvith the soup. The spool] on the
no fun to cook. rrrrlsirle at the rigl-rt is fol the soup, and so on. Somet
N'[orr: easv-Qoinq foods are what I havc itl mitrcl ' Dishes
ir '.r'qr:rrate little knife, called a butter spreacler, ott a

and reheat like irrrrllbutter plzite at the left. As the br-ead is passed
cookercl ahead
ii, tilrg.;;;.orr"cl, the.e is an Indian stmilrc'r i' E.glancl'
'lhese lrrrls lris piece on the b,'ead-and-butter plate.
'l'here is a clifference between American and European customs
" - things I am after:. carved from the bone br''t'hr: Iocal, de
tlie Irr rrsing the knife and fork.
G";J ham, freshly l'he European keeps the knife in the right hand, the fork in the
,"ru"d with Irish potlto cakes or bubble and squeak rnight llll . t{e uses both hands in eating. The American, on the contrary,
iil" Uiff . sr""k"d haddock is another f itrc [Jr itish contender, in;rv use just one hand ible, and keep thd other one on
of our.islancl's tzrstiest fish and onc thtrt ltlids itself to ir
Yat-i(
Irrr l;rp. He constantly s fork to the left hand rvhen he
of treatrlrgnts, cosy and sophisticated, hot ancl cold' classic
a
lr,r', to cut his meat. B es he lzrys his fork on his plate
modeltr. ru lrilc drinking his coffee or buttering his bread. The British, like
' .,.;.,ri:.i,. ll.:::i'': l:11'i',&.,'',;i'lrii'".,:i'; '-
lllrt'r'Europelns, usually drinks his coffec after the meal,:rncl
' 1. s a eekends just' lhe same as during lir,r'1rs his knife and fork in hand until he finishes eating.
working week? Since Americans hy their silverware clown a gleat deal cluring
2. do you sometimes change your menu? llrl urcal, certain customs have devcloped. It is rlot considercd
go.rl nranners to leave a spoon in a soup bowl or coffce cup ol-
irrv other dish. It is put where it will lie flat (a coffce spoon orl
llrr,s;rucer, a soup spoon orr the soup bowl etc.) Ilv doing this
lrrl is less likely to knock the silverware outo the floor or spill
AND BRITI5H DINNER MANNERS llic food.
AAAER,ICAN Another difference in customs is that the Amclican uses thc:
srrlr, of his soupspoon, not the tip like the Briton. Irt a gooci
Every lancl has its ou'u peculiar,dinner manners' and llrrlislr home u'ith traditions, it is not a custrtm todav to ttsc it
USA is no exceptio|r. Anericans fcel that the fi|st I'ule of bei frrrli rlr a knife for bread. Americans do rtot use silvct'u'ttt't: for
court.eous g,r"r[ is to b'e prompt. If a pe'son is i.r.ited
to dinr
at six-thilty r',rlrng bleaci, either. They hold it in thcir i'ittgcrs usuallv bletrliirrlq
;i .;;-;htrfy, the hostess'"*1r"itr him to ire thereusualiy cloes rrl lrlst. A person is considerecl peculial either in thc USA or
nol than a few minutei after. Because she
^or. llrrllrin, if he puts a slice of breacl firrnli' on his platc u'il-il iris
n*,r.oot i"8, she times the meal so that the hot rolls' coffeectl [rrrli, lrr,rttels the whole slice with his krtrle atrd thelr cuts it up
*"ut *itt bJat their best zrt thr tin-re she asks the guests toh (':rts it with l-ris knife ancl fork. Other llrirrgs that Anrcrit:nt-ts
When the guest cannot conre oll time, he calls his host or 'rr(l
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eat with their fingers are corn on the cob, celery, radishes 130
olives. In Britain you eat celery and the like in the szrme rvay,
Britons do rrot as a rule eat corn on the cob'
In both countries a person does not eat lettuce that way, A LIST OF DO's AND DON'Ts
do"s h" pick up his soup bowl to drink rvhat remains at .
bottom. Sit facing the tabld, don't sit sideways. I(eep your feet
If for an1, reason a guest has to leave the table during a dori;t stretch them all the r.ay under the table. After
rrrrrlt,r vou;
fr" ui*uvt-Lf.t nit ho"stess, "will you please excuse P" f rlirririg your tea remove the spoon and.place it on the saucer'
Briton rviil do exactly.tl-re s: . Dion't use a spoon for what can be eaten with a folk'
-i"ut..i A wellisbrought-up . \A/hen eating stewed fruit use )rour spoon to put the stones
Wh.; the meal finiJied, the guests put their napkins on t
table and rise, the men again helping the ladies with their chai llil .your saucer.
t ' Dot]'t put your knife iDto )'our mouth' Vegetables' potatoes'
Girests do not fold their napkils in the original folds unless your knife.
intend to stair for more than one meal' Irr:rt:aroni aie piaced on your fork with the help of
' Cut ),oui meat into small pieces that can be chewed with
Ait.. clinner', the guests usually stay for two ot- three. ho,r1
r.,rsc. Cut off one piece at time.
Uut [h. thoughtful pirson is careiul 'ot to overstay. TIie lt
a
x1d hostes. *ay a.k hi- or her to stay longer. in order tcl ' If youl food is too hot don't blow on it as though you were
.i.iin"", parties break upabout eleven o'clock lrving to start zr campfire on a damp light.
;; .'Your spoort, knife and fork are meant to eat rvith, they are
to . Neither men n( r women do smoke at table' trt
bad manners at a formal dinner party' rrol rlrumstiiks and should not be banged against your plate.
""-;.
considered . Trlr 1e make as little noise as possible when eating'
th. gn"ttt leave, it is the custom to thank the hostess f
very pleasint eve . One may say anything that truly exp ' Dbn't sip your soup as though you wanted the whole
Ir,,rrsc to hear.
his oi her apprec n' Common expressions are' "Good-b . Don't shovel food into your mouth. Take small manoeuvrable
*ur to nice'of you to have me," or "Good-bye' It's.been
enjoyable evening," ot' "Thank you. I've had such a lrr('( cs.
" Fogtllili ' Don't talh rvith your mouth full. First chew and then
Ii one stays overnight, or in case of a weekend visit,
.nuto-ut,u in the USA"and in Great Britain to :"l't.d ?. tF rwallow.
you note. It is often called a "bread-and-butter letter"' ' Don't put your elbows on the table.
' Don't pick your teeth in company after the meal even if-
6ft"n p"ople later send a small gift such .as a box of can
some f'lorvers as a sign of their appreeiation' loothpicks are pr-ovided for the purpose.
Flowers and a bottle of good wiire is always welcome in ' And, finally, don't forget to say "thank you" for every
British or American home whenever you corne for a visit. I'nvour or kindness.
4,,, L i i;,ii**!:*t:ssl

% 1. Wh"n have you last seen the "confusingn' am-ount l. Should all of these rules be obeyed in any company or
knives and forks? "D;";ty; ttrink that in pre"sent-day f
life dinner manners are vanishing?
'' " " ":. .l':i:': :, :T":. :: l::: ::::::.::
. ::: ::::i::. ". " ",
2. Dinner manners - unnecessary formality? [;ood comes first, then morals.
Bertold Brecht :

On the Coittinent PeoPle haoe good food; in Engl

pepple hazte good dinner manners.
George Mi

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ll;r l3ritain never nanaged to recover from the waltimg attitude
lrr lood. We u,ere left with a loss of confidence in our cooking
rkills and after years of Ministry recipes we began to believe
llr;rt British food was boring, aud we searched the world for
IN 5EAR CH OF 6OOD ENGLI5FI FOOD rophisticated, new dishes, whicir gave hope of a better future. The
llrilish people became tourists at their own dining tables and in
How come it is so difficult to find English food- in.Engla tlrl lcstaurants of their land! This is a tragedy! Surely food is as
In Greece you eat Greek food, in FIS.ng"Trench f?.ol',-tl-,I it rrrrrch a part of our culture as our landscape, our languagg, and
Italian food but in England, in any High Stleet in the.land lrrr literature. Nowadays, cooking British food is like speaking a
easier to find Indian and Chinese restaurants than L'ngtrsn
on(
rlr,;rr I Ianguage. It is almost as bizarre as having a conversation in
in t-ondo.t you can eat'Thai, Portuguese, Turkish' f-ebar A rrlilo-Saxon English!
Swedish, Spanish and Itali
i;p;;;;;, irlssian, Polish, Swiss' llriwever, there is still one small ray of hope. British pubs are
bu1 where are the English restaurants' rllln the best places to eat well and cheaply in Britain, and they
It is not onlv in iestaurants that foreign dishes are repl also increasingly try to serve tasty British food.. Can we recommend
tra h food. In every supermarket, sales of pasta lo 1,1;11 our twc-r favourite places to eat in Britain? The Shepherd's
piz g. Why has thii \aWened? What is wrong' Irrrr in Melmerby, Cumbria, and the Dolphin Inn in I(ingston
ihe cooks of Britiin that they prefer cooking l)r'vor-r. Their steak and mushroom pie and butter pudding,axe
Why do the British choose to eat lasagne ins llrrcc of the gastronomic wonders of the world!
pief Why do they now like cooking in wine auu ulrvu urr di
pe.haps il is a good thing? After ali, this t:,thg:1d,:llf, *i. *,
;;ilit ;;;;"';;r, get i"g."dients from all over the world
alway:tTg:*l t'rrisine?
i;;t; i"* hours. Anyi'ay, riasn't English.food
'""J t"J"t"ssZ Wasn't it ul*uyt boi-ted to death a*d swimml
in fat? The answer to this q,r"sliott is a resounding '1no-" ' bu.t t3?'
,r.rJ"rrtund
--- thi. w" hu"" t6 go back to before Wortd War IL
it " British have in fact ilways imported foocl from was a
abrot
PUDDIN65
From time of the Rornan invasion foreign trade n

i,-'flrr".r.." on British cooking. Er'rglish kitchens, like the.En ( )rrc day last week while having ,lunch in the canteen, we
ed ingredienls from all over the world - chicke rlt',,'rrssed English puddings and what a real pudding was like.
and iea' All of these and more were successfu l ,r sure it had to be sweet, but were milky puddings real
incorporated into British dishes- Another important infl lrrrrlrlings? Sorne thought not; a pudding had to be eaten with
cooking was of course the '*'eather' The good.old E
ln g.itittt errsl:rrd sauce. Did cooked fruit qualify? No, that was far too
;;;;i";t us ricf, soil and green grass, and means that we Itlilrl, even healthy. As commonly occurs, everyone began
;bG ?" ptod,t". some of th6 finesi varieties "f T.""1 T1! r,'rrrtrril>ering puddings they had eaten in the past - pudditgs
t"g"t"ifit *nt.n a"" t need fancy sauces or complicated tlr,rl lr:rd come in bowls or cloths at home, while at school they
-- disguise their taste.
to Ir;r,l grit a slice from a long, sausage-like pudciing cooked in a
Ho?"uer World War II changed everything' Wartime wc lnrrli, rran'ow, round tin called a sleet,e, with a removable top.
had-lo forget 600 years of Britiih cooking, Iearn to do wit llowever, thequestion that was on everybody's Iips between
foreign imlorts, and ration their use of homegrown foods' nrorlhfuls was "Why had puddings become unpopular?" The
1"1-'o winistrv of Food published cheap,bor-ing
recipes'
t f ll icc Manager pointed to health and weight-consciousness
a dish called WooltonPie (nanred after
joke !ur(l shc continued: "Anyway, rn'ith central heating you don't
Mini !). This consisted of a mixture boof Irr,',rl solid puddings to beat the cold like you used to. You can
i.g"l"Uf"t covered in white sattce with mashed potato on
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l, ["-riecl egg
only afford to ea.t them lvho is
chaige of the cooking, bl 'Housewi Melt a little b
don'I like stean-r in their es the pai tlr. pa' without i."-r*l:l;
Some puddings need three hours' steaming to breal< down 1,,,puiar breakfast , where it
fat" " l:, olten served w
During this pudding debate women tended.to take the si
reason (hEalthy^diet, tiire) while the nen folk argued. from
Scrambled eggs
stomach. For example, take Mr. and Mrs' Wilson, who have I
*"if."a in the officl for'20 )/ears. Mrs' Wilsou describes herself
(N
a thinking worrran, the kincl who uses low-fat products.. "H.e
"k..pr trying to get me to make "Golden Roll" like
wirro"l
t ut schooi. t refuie." ifer husband gave the other sad side
"ii ge has been puddingless; that's 22 ye
,;' y he got the taste for Puddings llaked eggs
s i the things I most wanted from life' ed eat the oven first. Break
are (he declared after great consideration) the second love tlrr, as h. Add a small spoonful
thing in life." ol' rr m, cheese over it, u'n.l buk"
ll ir to
'fea
1. What dishes did You favour in your childhood 'l
stopped eating them for some reasons? yea and ahat it does for
U(ttt. in the morninll; nine cu1ls
*,ill
lf' you are hot tea will cool you off, and if you are cold, it will
wrrrm you up.
le of th stimulate
FIVE 5I,1APLE WAY5 TO COOK AN E66 volr drink on, it rvill
lf l;r . Then, oulcl drink
Boiled egg. lr rl s
One of the easiest things to make is a boiled egg' Put an l'he test of good tea is sirnple. If a spoon stands up in it, il.ren
into a saucepan full of cold water- Put the saucepan on il rs strong enough; if the spoor starts to wobble iC is a feeble
the stove. Tuin on the heat. When the water starts to boil firrkcshift.
your watch. You must boil the water three to four rninutes o
th"n ,"-ove the egg immediately from the water 7nd serve {i ,."
Egg salad
If you want your boiled egg to be hard then boil the e;
water"for about Lignt to ten minutes. When the egg is colcl
off the egg shell and cut up the egg. Chop a little piece o,f
with a tlitpknife. Then mix the egg and onion with AMERICAN FOOD: FROM A*AR,AAJS TO ZUCCHTNT
mayonnaise. Now you h,ave egg salad. Put it in sdme,fresh
I'lrc popular view outside the U.S. thzrt Americans survive on
wiih some thinly sliced tomato and you have a great san
tlr,,,'sclrurgers, Coke and French fries is as accurate as the American

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popular view that the British liveon tea and fish 'n' chips, There seem to be four frends in America at present, which are
Germans only on beer, and the French on red wine and garl t'orrnected u,ith foods and dining. First, there has been a notable
American beef, for example, comes from specially grai Ir)crease in the number of reasonably priced restaurants, which
cattle, not from cows that are raised mainly for milk producti olfcr specialty foods
American beef is more tender and tastes better than w Secondly, growing numbers of Americans are more regularly
usually offered as an "American steak" in Europe. When going out to eat in restaurants. One reason is that they ire not
abroad., the simple naked potato that comes hot and who too expensive. Another l-eason, probably more.important, is that
foil often lacks the most important ingredient, the famous I miuly American women today do not feel that their lives are best
potato. Or, there is even that old picnic standby, corn-on-t spcnt in the kitchen. They rvould rather pay a professional chef
There is absolutely no comparison with corn that has been can Ftrcl also enjoy a good meal. At the same time, there is an increase
kept in water, or frozen stiff and shipped for weeks Itr fine cooking as a hobby for both men and women. For some
thousands of miles. l two clecades now, there have been popular television series on all
Even something as basic as barbecue sauces show diff cooking, and the i
from many of the types found on the supermarket shelves numbel of best-sell
A fine barbecue sauce from the South side of Chicago has its tr tores that specializ
fire and soul. Then there are those California wines, which;
doing, quite well in international tasting competitions. Like A third trend is that as a result of nationwide health
wines everywhere, the best ones never leave home. €ampaigns, Americans in general are eating a much lighter diet.
America has two strong advantages when it comes to €creals and grain foods, fruits and vegetables, fish ind salads
The first is that as the leading agricultural nation, she has ali 5rc emphasized instead of heavy and sweet foods.
been well supplied with fresh meets, fruits, and vegeta Finally, there is that international trend to "fast food" chains,
great variety at relatively low prices. This is one reason Wlrich sell pizza, hamburgers, Mexican food, chicken, salads and
steak or beef roast is probably the "most typical" American
it has always been more available. But good Southern'
chicken also has itS champions, as do hickory-smoked or
cured hams, turkey, fresh lobster, and other sea foods su
crabs or clams.
In a country with widely different climates and many thc home of fine cuisine, Paris is also the home of the world's
and vegetable growing regions, such items as fresh gra brlsiest Burger Chef restaurant.
oranges, lemons, melons, cherries, peaches or broccoli, iceberg
avocados, and cranberries do not have to be important. 1. What is in your opinion typical American food?
one reason why fruit dishes and salads are so common. Fil 2. What is traditional food? What determines national
vegetable gardens have been very popular, both as a hobby food?
as a way to save money from the days when most Americans 1
farmerj.Theyalsohelptokeepfreshfoodonthetable.
The second advantage America has enjoyed is that immig
have brought with them, and continue to bring, the tradit
foods of their countries and cultures. The variety of
styles iS simply amazing. Whether Armenian, Danish, F
German, Greek, Italian, traditional Jewish, Mexican or
have you, these traditions are now also. at home in the U
States.
irl llrc stall-holder as if she has been betraved before taking her
r rrsloln elsewherc.

X$I,Shspp-l 1
At rxre end of thc niarket, a van from the wine co-operative
\\'Jui surroundecl by mel rinsing their teeth thoughtfully in the
rr,\\/ rose. Next to a rvorrrau was selling free-range eggs and live
cnd r,rlrlrits, and beyond hel the tables were piled with vegetables.
We bought red peppers to roast and big brown eggs and
lrnsil and peaches ancl lettuce and goat's cheese and pink-
xln:aked onions. Ancl rvheu the basket could hold no more, we
ru lrr( zicross the load to buy half a )rard of breacl. The bakery was

t rolvclecl anct noisy,, and smelt of warm dough and the almonds
llrrrl had gone into the nrolning's cakei. While u'e waited, we
tlrrrt'mbered being tolcl that the Fr-ench spend as much of their
ltrlorne on theil stomachs as the English do on theil cars and
':llrco s)/stens, and we could easily believe it.
liarmels Malkets
AAARKET l-hroughout the grorving seasor], fatner's markets offer- a rich
Frr:ry of t.easur". for the welcome visitot' - everything from
All good Sunclays includeir trip to a market, anci wewero lrtllilcs, jans, old-fashioned home baking and sauerkraut to fresh
Coustel-iet by eight. The space behind the disused statio. w plrr;rl's cheese, wild mushrooms, smoked meets and fish and, of
lined u,ith tmcks ancl uatrs, each r,vith a trestle tablc ruurso, a vast rangc of home-gr-own fruits and vegetables.
"lde.iV
up in front. A blackboar-cl shou'ecl the clay's price{or vegetal Visit early in the dav. For many vendors market days begin
The stall-holders, alreadv tanned from the fields, were ea lrr,lorc the sun is up; arrive close to the tirne the market opens and
bread that u,as still lvarlr from the bakery acLoss the street. vou irre assured of l'raving the best selection of all the market
watched as orle olcl man sliced his loaf lengthways wil lrin 1o offer. Not to mcntior-r the fzrct that those early morning
wooden-hancled pocket knife and spread on fresh goat's c Irlnrs, rvhen the farmcrs ale still setting up and before the masses
before pouring hirnself a giass of recl wine fron ttre litre trrnvo, are the best times to feel an integral part of the whole
that. would keep him going until the lunch time' l, \ I r('t-lence.
The Coust"it"t *i.kci is small and not vet fasliion ll:rve an insulated cooler in your car to store perishables
Customers carry baskets iristead of cameras and only in J lir llrc trip back horne. You may wart to pack 4 few sturdy
ancl August. at'e you likely to sce the occasional haughty wofl rlrrrllow containers, too, reacly to receive anything that requires
clor,vn fiofr Paris with her Dior track suit and small, nervt i'ilr;r protection beyond u'hat vendors have provided for such
dog. For the rest of the season, from spring until auturnn, it is. j tlrlir:acies as eggs, berries, soft cheeses and similar- perishables.
the local inhabitants and the peasants bring in they l)rcss suitably and wear comfortable shoes - you may take
taken from the earth or the green house a few s eat'l
rrrorc tine than you've anticipated ambling from stall to stall.
We rvalked slowlv along the rows o1' tables, aclmirin$ t Not all market venclors supply packaging - plain or fancy.
Frerrch housewife at work. unlike us she is not merely conl-r+tlt llrnJivour own sturdy carrying bags or a lightweight backpack.
look at the product befole buyirrg. She gets to grips with it l)o a little homeworl< in advance. Find out whether the market
squeezing aubergines, sniffing tomatoes, snapping the matcl-rstl trr l)larr to visit'is knor,l,n for any particular crop, range of
thin greei beanJbetween her rs, tasting cheese and oli''
;rrorlucts or style of homemade goods. If they feature something
u"a, Yf they clon't come up to rivate standarcts, she will irl' I r:rrticular interest (zucchini:blossoms, puffball mushrooms,

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If the goods break down through no fault of yours, after you
vellow tomatoes,ethnic delicacies),check recipes in adva Irirve used them for a time, you may still be entitled to some
i;d ;"n;* "-.n of each specialty you them' should buy and
compensation. In some cases it would be reasonable to expect a
characteristics to look for when selecting
complete refund - if , for instance, without misuse your shoes
rlrne apart after only one day's wear, or your washing machine
'W'hat's special about it?
1; Describe your market. irreparably broke down after only three wash days.
-i-'2-. does it have?
flaws But if your washing machine worked perfectly for a while
no yo" shop every day or buy food in bulk once nrrd then broke you could ontry expect some of the purchase price
while? Why? lrirr:k. You and the supplier must negotiate a reasonable
:ettlement.
You need never accept a credit note for faulty goods' If you
rkr so, then later find you do not want anything in the shop or
store, you may not get your money back.
If you have to spend money as a direct result of goods being
YOUR RI6HT5 WHEN BUYINo 6OOD5 frrulty, you can also claim this from the shop' You could; for
example, claim the cost of using a laundry while the washing
complaining about faulty goods or bad service is nd Inirchine wasn't working. But you must keep such expenses down
p.;p% a;Jik" *"r.i1"g? fuss' However, when vou to a minimum.
"u.v]"r.iJ.t
shopping,ilis^importanttoknowyourrights. 'Ihere are four golden rules:
"^-"'ith?;
you buy something-from.a shop, Jou, are makil '1. Examine the goods you buy at once. If they are faulty, tell
contract. This coniract means that it's up to the shop - noti tlrt: seller quickly.
rtrr""i".t*irr - to deal with your.compl"i"tt if the
goodq
2. Keep any receipts you are given. If you have to return
rtot
-- Thesatisfactory. What do we m€art by satisfactory?, , I rorncthing the receipt will help to prove where and when you
goodshust not be broken or damage-d and must borrght it.
p.of"tlyl T[is is known as "mercha+t*l: ef3]ity" A th,":! lJ. Don't be afraid to complain. You are not asking a favour
Irfti'"tt i^a a tear in it, or a clock that didp't go when ' [o lrave faulty goods put right. The law is on your side.
wound
- it would not Pass this test' /r. Be persistent (but not aggressive). If your complaint is
in" goods must be as described -.whether.olihe 1,11k Justified, it's somebody's responsibility to put things right.
the salesman. A hairdryer, which the box says is blue' should llemember:
turn out to be pink, a pair of shoes the salesman says is lea. . You can't complain about defects that were pointed out
tu you, or that you could reasonably have been expected to
Itulice.
. Stop using the item as soon as you discover a fault.
. You are not entitled to compensation if you simply change
yorrl mind about wanting the goods.

-'if to return it.

right
1. Describe your most disappointing purchase.
the shop sells you faulty goods, it has broken its
the 2. Is it easy for you to claim back your money in a sh.op?
"-.-Ifbargain.
when you filst.inspect or use,t
;;;s are faultyihut
back t6 the shop, tuy you cancel the purchase and as.k,
;;;i;;;;dit. ii you"prefer, vo" can accept a repairr
replacement.
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r'( )nrpany .doctors, dentists, hairdressers, and even chiropodists
l, look after the staff, and all the staff can have lunch for under
i0 pence.
MARK5 & SPEN5ER
1. What object might not be sold equally in all countries?
Britain's favourite store. whv?
Marks & Spenser (or M&S) is Britain's favourite store.'Tou 2. What should a shop possess to make you return there
love it too. It attracts a great variety of customefs, f onc more time?
housewives to millionaires. Princess Diana, Dustin Hoff
and the British Prime Minister are just a few of its fa
customers. 138
Last year it made a profit of 529 million pounds, which
more than 10 million a week. 5HOPPIN6 CENTRE
How did it-all begin?
It all started 105 years ago when a young Polish ipmigr
Michael Marks, had a stall in Leeds Market. He didn't
many things to sell: some cotton, a little wool, lots of butt
and a few shoelaces. Above his stall he put the nou'farnous no
DON'T ASI( HOW MUCH - IT'S A PENNY.
Ten years latcr, he met Tom Spens€r and togethel they sta
Penny Slalls in many towns in the north of England. Today t llrctrtres, professional offices, service stations, and other
are 564 branches of M&S all over the world in Ame r',,1:tl)lishmellts.
Canada, Spairr, Ft'ancc, Belgium, and Hungaly. Aspects considered b1, planners when a shopping centre is to
What are the best-selleis? l. feasibility of the site in terms of theiommunity's
lrrLilcl include
SurprisilglJ/, tastes in food and clothes are internatiorral. irlrility to suppolt a centre, adequate vehicular access, and siie,
sells well in Pzrris sclls.iust as well in Neu'castler. Their ir( {'r'ss, and topographlr sf the site, as well as availability of

selling clothes are: for \\romcll jumpers, bras, and k'ni rulilities, zoning lalr,s, and land use in the immediate area. Economic
(M&S is farnous fol its knickelsl); for rnen shirts, s rorrtlitions of the area, the sociology of the region and the local
pyjamas, dressing gowns, and Suits; fol clrilclrcn u corrrmercial competition and attitudes determine the size of centre
and socks. llr;rl can be supported and the kind of stores acceptable to a
Best-sellers in food irtcludc: fresh chickens, l)l'cilcl, vcgc'tab givr:n locale.
and sandu'icl'rcs. Chicken I(iev is inter-riationallS' the nrost pop Shopping centres are generally of neighbourhood, community,
convenience food. These arc the things that ale usually sold rrr lcgional scope. The smallest type, the neighbourhood centre,
hot cakes. tr,rr;rlly has a supermarket as a focus, with daily convenience
Why is M&S so successful? rlrops such as a dlugstore, shoe repair, laundry, ind dry cleaner
The store bascs its business on thr.ee principles: GO rr r'ornpanying it, Such a centre can usually serve 2,500 to 40,000
VALUE, GOOD QUALITY, and GOOD SERVICE. Also, ;rr,ople within a six-m,nute drive.
'l'he cornmunitv shopping centle contains all
changes with the times - once it was all jurnpers and kniclt of the above-
Now it's fcxrcl, furniture, and flowers as well. Top f rrrlntioned selvices in addition to medium-sized department store
designers advise on styles of clothes. rrr variety store, which acts, with the supermarket as a focus.
But perhaps thc most inportant key to its success is its ha1 Wr.uring apparel, appliance sales, and repair stores are also found
well-trained staff. Conditions of '*'ork are excellent. Thclc lrr,rt'. This centre will nolmally serve 40,000 to 150,000 people.

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The regional shopping centre provides a full range of *op brrsinesses, employees working in shifts, stay open late to provide
services c|mparabl" to [ttor" found in a small central busi st'r'vices and possibilities for shopping. Most Americans, like most
district. It is built around at Ieast one full-size department st lr , are always trying to keep their budget under
and often several; specialty shops and boutiques. are numer I Vs going over. The food will often be paid for
and there are usually several restaurants and perhaps a mot h enient and, moreover, as all checks are r-eturned
for the immediate day-to-day -ne b.y the bank, you have a recorfl of everything spent. Most stores
fi"t"r" theatre. Seivices IJU'uuu ol'evcl 450,
or even z+' will pack your groceries for you, and many still take thern out
minimized. It will swerve as many as 150,000
are minimized.Itwill
or more people. On larger sites motels, medical centres, or
buildings may also be Provided.
Car--parking facilities are a major consideration in shoppi
centie d'esign. ih. size and scope of the centre, the type of ten
and the ecJnomics of the area partially determine parking
but it has been found that a ratio of 5'5 parking spaces
1,000 sq. feet of leasable space is usually adequate'-Access to
lots must be broad and ealy enough to avoid traffic jams'
Pedestrian and vehicular circulation within the centre
prime design consideration and should be kept physic
separate as riuch as possible. Exceptions to this rule are the sate
placement of auto-iccessory stores, movie theatres, and dri
banks.
The first unified shopping-mall, Country Club Plaza,
near Kansas city ln 1922. The first enclosed rnall opened r
Minneapolis in i956. In the '80s there developed "megamal
such as the West Edmonton Mall (opened in 1981),
contained not only more than 800 stores vending everytlt
from footwear to iutomobiles but also restaurants, a hoteli pol ket.
amusement par|, a miniature-golf course' a church, a "wi
fu.k" for sunbathing and surfing, az9o, a 438-foot-long lake,
icattered about, moie than 500 kinds of trees'

1. What is a shopping"centre in your city? Its strong

weak points? gssistant can order them for you. Most of the chain stores have
2. \Mhere is it more convenient to shop: in a s in our shopping centie. My wife only enjoys going there
ht'rrrrches
centre, on a market, or in small neighbourhood stalls? wlrr,n they have the sales every year and she thinks she can find
ono"nn"
bnrgains.

- l.,Are you able to manage your expense or do you usually

6OIN6 5HOPPIN6 lpcrrd more than you expected?
. 2. What's your attitude to window-shopping?-
Shopping is usually done once a week at the local supern , :1. Do you buy clothes independently or does anybody
On" ad',ruttiage of a service-oriented economy is that ltlvises you on what you ghould buy?
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;rs the DJ who calls himself The Poorrnan. His Poorwear - "Recession
( llothing for the Nineties"
- is the hottest fashion ticket around.
l'lrc range of loose-fitting su'eatshirts, shorts, trats and trousers sells
lol between J3..50 and J8 - and the stars love it.
WHY THE 5TAR5 THTNK TT'S 'lrenton says: "People here are sick of the pretence. Clothes
DOWN ;rlc cxpensive here but nobody has any money. I don't think the
r;l:rrs want to irnpress any more. Dressing up and having an
His face a mixture of horror and outrage, the maitre'd summ ;rl I itude is out. " .
waiters to throw out the two tramp-like figures who ha "My best pal is Emilio Estevez and he drives an ordinary
sauntered into his oh-so-trendy' domain. t('('l) or Bronco. He lives in Malibu but is totally earthy. Wearing
But just as the scruffy pair is being propelled through the llris line, you can be cool and have money."
there's a gasp of recognition and an irnmediate flood of apoh "I know dozens of stars and they feel guilty about having so
These are not beg people, as America calls its down-and-outs. Be rnrrch money. The common man doesn't relate to people who think
the floppy felt hats and grotty army greatcoats are Holly llrr:y are better than him."
megastar Julia Roberts and bearded beau Jason Patric. "It's all related directly to the economy. Celebs like to go to
Not that Julia and Jason are too indignant at their less t orr linary dance clubs anri mingle with the ordinary peoptre instead
cordial greeting. 'fhey want the world to know that they' ol ritzing in Beverly Hills."
abandoned fabulous designer clothes for the solt of gear tt []ut ironically the charity shop look sometimes carries a
costs 50p at an Oxfam shop liorlco Drive price tag. Fashionably worn out jeans can cost up
It's called Extreme Celebrity Guilt - the latest trend 1o.11,000 and an old denim jacket J2,000 in the antique denim
film stars for whom conspicuous wealth has become a b ',lrops which have sprung up on LA's tr-endy Melrose Avenue. A
America is in the grip of the worst recession since the thirt lrlrir of corvboy boots, which have been clumping around on
Empty order books, massive redundaucies, 23 million people ,,r)nrcone else's feet for fot'ty years, is priced at J600.
food stamps and galloping home repossessions tell the sad sto Mark Fox, whose namesake stores are favoured by Juiia
liolrcrts, Guns 'N Roses, Arnold Schwarzenegger, George Michael,
Solidarity lir,lv,'r1.r Stallone, Jon Bon Jovi and Mickey Rourke says the big
Even in the golden state o1' California, television supermar r;ur)r-.s don't flinch at the price tags on his shredded denims.
ads are a constant round of discount offers and money "'Ihey are buying a piece of American history. Jeans are as
coupons. ,\rrrcrican as apple pie and old jeans show a touch of class.
Up in Beverly Hills, the problems are clifferent" ECG dema "lt is supply and demand. Everyone wants these jeans now
movie stars show solidarity with the common man, but how l,rl you can't step up production - you only have the rare few
you do it when you are still earning f3 million a picture? lr ll from decades ago."
In Julia's case, she demonstrates her concern by wearing s l]cverly Hills mansion parties are out now too. When the
clothes and turning up at places like Morton's Restaurant ',i;rs get together it is invariably at a fund-raising bash for
Hollywood in a battered pick-up truck, then refusing to \rtls causcs, the hpmeless or under-privileged.
from the f70 a head melu. l.os Angeles Times society writer .Jeannine Stein says: "The
For Julia and her ilk, sequined evening dresses are out lroirrt here is not just to hear about people suffering, but to
dressing down is de rigeur. TV interviews, prentieres and evenil rr'prcsent it yourself." She recalls a recent l-Iunger Benefit
out are an excuse for them to appear in old trainers, torn T-shi lrri;rnised by Oxfam where stars like Cybill Shepherd, Lou
and cycling shorts. l)rrrrnoncl Phillips and Jackson Brown sat on the flool eating
r rll rnd beans rvith their hands to dramatise the inequality of
They check out the latest line in clothing created by
Trenton, better known to listeners of'LA's KROQ radio s u,,r'ld food distribution.

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At rn'eekends in Santa Monica, Tom Selleck and his pals dl
over from their J3 million Malibu beachfront properties to d 'l'his illusion is created by changing fashions. Over the years,
off leftover food at a celebrity soup kitchen, which even offe llrl great majority of men have successfully resisted all attempts
vegetarian selection.' Io rrurke them change their style of dress. The sarne cannot be said
When stars themselves eat out, Spago on Sunset is still lnl women. Each year a few so-called "top designers" in Paris
lr l.ondon lay down the law and-women the whole world over
rrrsh to obey. The decrees of the designers are unpredictable
arrtl dictatorial. This year, they decide in their arbitrary fashion,
slirls will be short and waists will be high; zips are in and
irrrllons are out. Next year the law is reversed and far from
lirliirrg exception, no one is even mildly surprised.
Lance and John are known as the Hollywood ICds and li women are mercilessly exploited year after year, they
forged TV and magazine careers out of spottin$ t-he latest
"fn"y lr;rvc only themselves to blame. Because they shudder at the
are in no doubt thr t the merest upswing in ec llrorrght of being seen in public in clothes that are out of fashion,
fortunes could see ECG rapidly revert to the more traditi llrly are annually blackmailed by the designers and the big stores.
Extreme CelebritY Greed. ('lollres which have been worn only a few times have to be
After the "me" decade, the nineties are non-glamour' These discarded because of the dictates of fashion. When you come to
llrrrrl< of it, only a woman is capable of standing in front of a
w,rlrlrobe packed full of clothes and announcing sadly that she
lr;r,i rrothing to wear.
Ohanging fashions are nothing more than the deliberate
"Most of them feel guilty because they're so rich'" crcation of waste. Many women squander vast sums of money
r';rllr year to replace clothes that have hardly been worn. Women
What are the real causes of such behaviour of the ru'lro cannot afford to discard clothing in this way, waste hours
Should one feel guilty when he becomes so rich? rrl llrcir time altering the dresses they have. Hemlines are taken
Ir;r ol let down; waistlines are taken in or let out; necklines are
lnrvtlcd or raised, and so on.
No one car claim that tlie fashion industry contributes anything
rr,;rl ly important to society. Fashion designers are rarely conierned
ir rllr vital things, Iike warmth, comfort and durability. They are
NEW FA5HION5 IN CLOTHING ARE CREA lrrly interested in outward appearance and they take advantage
5OLELY FOR THE COMAAERCIAL EXPLOITA ol' l,he fact that women will put up with any arnount of
OF WOMEN rlr',r ornfort, providing they look right. There can hardly be a man
rulro hasn't at sorne time in his life smiled at the sight of a
Whenever you see an old film, even one made as little as \\'on);rn shivering in a flimsy dress on a wintry day, or delicately
years ago, you cannot help being struck b.V thq appearance of ;rir liing her way through deep snow in dainty shoes.
'*o-.r"toking part. Their hair-ityles and rnake-up- look d When comparing men and women in the matter of fashion,
their skirtt toot either too Iong or too short; their ge llrl conclusions to be drawn are obvious. Do the constantly
appearance is, iu fact, slightly ludicrous. The me.n taking tlr;rrrging fashions of women's clothes, one worders, reflect basic
ttt" titrn, on the other hand, are clearly recognisable' T rlrr,rlil.ies of fickleness and instability? Men are too sensible to
nothing about their appearance to suggest that they belong lr I lhemselves be bullied by fashion designers. Do their
entirely different age. irllluurging styles of dress reflect basi'c qualities of stability
arrrl reliability? That is for you to decide.
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Fashion, nusic, TV, newspapers, rnovies. All these forms of
l,oputar cuiture have one thing in common -- the message that to
l,r' lashionable we must buy things. A record by a new group, a
lrlrv style of jacket, a new video, a new nagazine. Every time
,,,rrrreLhing goes out of fashion and something new comes in it is
to fashion? lrrrre to get out the credit cards and a chequebook" The individuality
3. What makes the fashion change? rvr' 1l we are expressing through our choice of clothes, music
,rrr<l rtainrnent is in reality a way of conforming to the
l';rslrions, which are dictated to us by the small group of people
ru'lrti control the media and manufacturing companies, Being
l;r:ihionable tneans getting poorer while they become rich.
FA5HION OR INDIVIDUALIry
ll,r, i
In the days before the collapse of Communism it was I

that the thing which most differentiated the free world from llrr:y changed radically as you grew up?
totalitarian regimes was its respect for the individual and hi 2. Do you agree that following the fashion you lose your
her right to be different. Pundits gleefully contrasted i irrdividuality?
anonymous grey-clad masses of the Soviet Union and C
with the brightty dressed citizens of the West with their
music, political freedom and liberated morality.
I cannot and toill not cut my conscience to fit this year's z

rshions. i
Nowadays people are wondering whether this much- f

individuality might be an illusion. Looking at a represe Lillian Hellman i

sample in any street I can see a uniform just as anonymous as
g...n iacket of ttte Chinese peasants; it is the uniform of fash
Yes,fashion has becomethedictatorship of theWestern W
Young people have coined the phrase "fashion victim" for an
who ilavishly follows the latest trends regardless of t
practicality
'huge
or purpose. But are we not all fashion victim
industry has evolved telling us w'hat to wear, who to I
to, where to shop, what to eat, when to laugh, perhaps even
think.
Teenagers are the most willing victims of all. Go to any
in Britain or the United States and you will see an army of
jeans, trainers, sweat shirts and baseball caps. Ask teenagers w
inusic they listen to or which TV shows or movies they wa
and you will hear much the same short list of whatever is
rl

that month. Yet each and every one of them believes that ht
she is a true individual. When we buy a new pair of jeans
think we are exercising an individual choice, but we
subconsciously aware that this y€ar straight Iegs are in
flares out,-this year black is fashionable but yellorv is not;
our choice is not free at all, because nobody wants to
ridiculous by wearing something which is "out-of-fashion

?80
"lf you go into a pub in the South, everybody ignores you.
llr,,Noith ismuch more direct and friendly. We're real people."
"You know the old saying... people in the North earn the
rroncy, people in the South count it."
"As 5rou go North, the beer gets better."
"l think there's more sense of community. Perhaps we interfere
nr()r'c we help each other'too."
"S ners? They don't like getting theil hands dirty. Thej'
',lrrrrrl d in wine bars, covered with talcum powder and
irllt,r- e, talking posh."
"l born in Manchester, but I live in the South, You know,
I llrink things are outh for women. Northern men
,,r'r'nr to wairt to pub on their own and avoid
\\'r)n)en. Men in t more'in the home - that's a
,,1 rr{ istic. Northern lnen are more ... more macho. "

"They think they're better than us - just hrecause they talk

1rosh. They're a of snobs."
"In Yorkshir say what we mean. Southerners think we're
PREJUDICE lrloocly rucle, but we're',more blunt and honest. They srnile in your
l;rr c and stab you in the back."
Nortlt and S
"If vou go [o London, keep your hand on your wallet. They'd
In every country there are regional differences. People liv
in one r"gion ma[e jokes about the characteristics (real rllr their own grandmothers.
" Liverpudlians are the funniest people in the country. They've
imagined) of people living in another. Television is brea t.h sn "
down regional differences, but the jokes and comments conti liol
In Britain there are many jokes which begin 1'There was
1'T yb rget 'where there's
rrrrrt l< there's money.)
Englishman, an Irishman, a Scotsman and a Welshman, and ,, Wl-rat some Southerners say:
In England,itself there are myths about every region, but I "Actually some ofm are Northerners' but of
hroadest differences are those between the North and the Sou
rr|ulse they're not typical you know what I mean."
Tlhere are real geographical and economic variations; the "The North? A load o vy colds, standing round
can be characterized as more industrial, cooler, hillier and
working-class, the South as middle-class, more subur'ban, fl
and wealthier. There are also the often irrational things the
say about each other. Several people were asked to comrnent
the differences. Perhaps the most interesting comment was "Iused to work in Yorkshire. They're all bloody rude, and
by a woman from Lancashire (in the North), who lrloody nean."
"southerners? I can't stand them. They're stuck-up and
"They live on sticky buns, tripe and black pudding. The
But at least they're not as bad as bloody Yorkshiremenl" l,ot['s much more varied down here."
As Yorkshire is also in the North, it shows that the " l really think the North's more alking
yiolent prejudices are very localized.
,rl,orrt politics, but their attitude to here- "
Here are some of the comments we collected. "They say we talk posh - we j that's
What some Northerners say: ,rll"
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llts people know youn inood today. if you don'f do it, you upset
"There's more equality of the sexes in the South' Northernr 1,r'ople.
treat wornen like dbormits. Mind you, the women go round 11,'s no surprise that we cornmunicate poorly. The big surprise
curlers all day on Saturday - or they used to ten years ago' r, lhat we can comrnunicate at all. S/e can listen to people by
"They've got a massive inferiority complex.' They.imagi p;u'l.icipating in the conmunications process.When we take part
that we'"re alf either stockbrokers' or country bumpkins \\'(, l)zrv attention, we stay awake, and we have a better chance to
straw in our mouths. The prejudice comes more from them' 11r'1. it right. If you nod your head and engage in direct eye
don't see that we're just like them." lorrtact, ],ou will be rnore likely to understand what the other
"I'm a Southernei - but I do find the North much warmer l){'rsoir is saying. Besides it is very encouraging when someone
the people, that is, not the weather ... and friendlier " ' more rr,rrls and looks at you with interest. Try putting you body in
I think." r:r)ngruence with people (deliberately mimic their posture and
sl:rnce. If ttrey fold their arms, you fold yours. People who are in
1. Do you ever generalise about nationalities? Recall ',rrrrilar posture can communicate more easily.) Open your posture
examples bf such conclusions about nations that are comm lo lrc non-threatening and not defensive. An open posture tends
heard? Are they 100 per cent correct'? lo rr:duce tension. If you fold your arms across your chest, you
2. What conclusions are usually made about your luok like you're about to arrest someone. If you point pens and
;rr;rcs like guns, people feel nerr,ous. If you lean forward
,r1111r'cssively when other people are telling you something intimate,
llrr'1' ryi11 stop and change the subject.
'['here's an old saying: "What goes in one ear comes out the
6ETTIN6 ALON6 WITH PEOPLE ollrcr." But you don't hear anyone saying, "What goes in orre eye
r{)nlcs out the other", do you? W'e rentember what we sec more
Say Good Morning llr;rrr rvhat we hear. That's why rve're nnt fooled r,vhen she says,
"Hi, John, horv are You?" "( )1'course I love yclu, Sill5r!"
- but doesn't look at you when she
"Fine, thanks, Mary, how are You?" !ir\/\ it. Body language is a methocl of communicating that is
"Fine, thanks." ollcr) So subtle that rve're not even aware that we're receiving
We do it every day, many times a day, and we're not 'l;rl;r. A bright eye, a finger twitch, a turn
of the loot - such
aware we're doing it."Nobody notices it unless we don't do rlrrcs as these are enough to tell us things that rvords do not or
When we don't do
Wn"n everybody says'
d6 lfif, everyDooy wrrclL 5 the
\ree' what's
says, "Gee, Luu Imal , rrrr not express.
' timet
with Mary today?" Ritual greetings are barometers Whcn the other person is in the grip of a strong emotion,
ou. p".total weather report. If we're w?lT and sunny we say ,rrr ll rrs fear or rage, and it's too pou'erful to ignore, your best
good *ornings with a smile and a lilt. When we're overcast lx'l is tn iet it pour out. Give permission to express those feelings
[lo*". and grunt, or guess deny the greeting altogether' No one rel lr1' .pcak'ng their name out loud: "George, you look really mad.
fr.o*t, but it'.s a fair to say that ritual greetings go \\,'lr;ri.'s up?" or "Bill, you look like you lost your last friend.
our earlier tribal experiences. Animals all do it' Birds \\';rnt to talk atrout it?"
rnon[<eys groom, and dogs sniff. lf you manage a roomful of computers, the only language you
Remember to say "Hello" to people when you come.in in rrt'r'rl 1.o understand is computer language. But if you have to
morning, and give them a chance to exchange pleasantries nr;ulrg,e a roomful of computer operators, you need to know the
the wealhet *ith you. It gives them a lift. It says that you 1r l,rr,11uige of human behavibur. Some peoplebelieve it's important
them and that theY are imPortant. lo chan.Qe someone blse's behaviour. And it doesn't help to tell
Don't slip a talk on lhe ground that it's "phoney" rrnroolre to "quit actilg like a kid" or "smatrten up." That just
"waste of time." It's one of t Loie rules that allow people to ir'r'n)s to make people worse. Some people try to change everything
and work together, like the Good-rnorning-how-are-you'
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all at once. That's a cop-out! You can't cliange the whole So extroverts goi
-sex rties, fast cars, and plenty of
at one go, and if you try, you are probably secretly trying to virr.iety iD their se they need. all the extra
so you won't have to change anything. slirnulation they can rvorld to make up for their

1. How do you greet people? Do you gree$ them

same way? Why?
2. Do you hide your true emotions when you meet
you know well/not very well?
3. How can you tell when a person is insincere?

ARE YOU A DOER OR A THINKER?

Io sleep"
Although there are over 4000 words in the English iang
which describe different aspects of personality, psychologists I(nowing Yourself
managed to narrow down the really significant ways in w
people differ from each other to a tiny fraction of this nun
For- practical purposes, the most important thing to find
about someone - whether it's yourself or somebody else '
where they fall on the personality dimension know
introversion-extroversion, because this will affect virtually
aspect of their life.
Once you know someone's extroversion quotient, yott
make a shrewd guess about what clothes they are likely to
how promiscuous they are, what time of day they function
how they will be affected by drugs, what they feel abor
prospect of a trip to the dentist, even whether they're more
to have an accident at a junction or driving on the open
The list of ways in which introverts and extroverts
from each other goes on almost indefinitely, but why are t
different? The answer lies in the chemistry of the brain. r';rl ls
have found that the more introverted a person is, the more a Y or no. The more yeses you have given, the
and aroused their brain is naturally, that is rcgardless of w rrore e, and the more likely it is that you have
going on around them. If you'are an extreme extrovert, ;r r.clatively low level of spontaneous activity in your nelvous
other hand, this means there is relatively little spontaneous :,.ystem, *hi"h explains why you are such a sensation seeker and
in your nervous system. If we assume there is an ideal lel
activity at which the human brain functions best, then it bec
obvious why introverts and extroverts behave so differently,
are trying to reach this ideal state of affairs in the brain
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more extroverted than Miss or Mrs. Average, but that's not
say that they can't cohabit happily.
In fact, the introvert-ext
combination makes good domestic sense once you reaiize
extroverts tend to be evening types, while introverts ar-e brig lreatrnent from nurses.
earlier on.

1. W'here are you situated on an introvert-extrovert

How does this affect your way of life?
2. What kind of people do you prefer to spend your ;rt.tractiveness.
with: introverts or extroveits? Why? And the old cliche that looks don't bring happiness seems to
lrc untrue at least for women. For, while an international happiness
d-seventies found no relationship between
*;it{*o,

'iurve
lrlrysi eness and self-esteem (no one factor or srnall
s,,t, of s to determine happiness), another study found
Ilr;rt attractive women were psychologically healthier.
LOOKING OOOD 6ET5 'THE GAODIES But wbat is attractive? In scientific terms it's usually
If it weren't for other people would anyone ever anx
fug their sweater down, peer at an imaginary blemish
mirror and ask "Do I really look all right?"
Whereas intelligence can be tested on paper, looks are
only by your experiences with other people. Your a
Clothes and urake-up play their part, ttlo: a woman
affects how other peopie behave towards you and probably rlr: attractive
you behave in return.
From childhood we are cclnstantly measuring our own l
rrrl when she
against those of other people. Meanrvhile as they
;rl)
feels good
themselves other people are giving us messages about how
Iook.
Certain qualities are attributed to looks such as the ste
of the fat, jolly person or the toll powerful man. If vou are
and sad or tall and insecure people have to readjust their
false irnpression before they try to cheer you up or reast
you.
Yet the interferences made about such characteristics as r'&:;
complexion (hostility), biond hair (goodness and virtue), 1. f)o you pay a look?
forehead (intelligence) are not generally supported by sci Why? What can som em?
testing of their owners. (Although some people do fi[ 2. What is beauty ter or
stereotype: for exampie short-sighted people tlo tend to a urrlv skin-deep?
higher IQ scores.)
Attractiveness is the key word. Time and again in exper
people judged as attractive by their peers prove to have the
on others. People sometimes said they preferred intelligence
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If we have only just met the other person then we
llrcr-r usual!
u'ill not look at them for too long because they may'not like
llrcm. However, even a few seconds longer then normal will "tell"
llrcm that we are especially interested.
OUR FACE5 AND OUR EXPRE55ION5 Getting angry
impressii
People's faces are so important to us' Our earliest We also begin to stare at the other person more when we are
oiol. mother's fa." tootting down on us'^But w39nly lelt irrrglyl They know we aren't loving because of our "hard" face,
"."
;;i ^*ount of iniorrnation fiom people's faces' We also I {)ul narrowed eyes, our voice and our words.
how people feel from how they move, from
Yh,1'.!lll j3:
lro* ttt"'rituation as a whole. And some people's faces are r Getting frightened
r" iii"i tnuy seem to be sad when the person itl'tintelligent'
t:-{l,oj^Y t
When we are a little bit nervous of someone then we donlt
il and
ffir";;t;;;il;h.n in.v
"'""ti'e
ur. I
lool< at them. We don't want them to look at us! But if we
Il,r:ome frightened then we watch them with horror!
Your eYes and Your PersonalitY'
If you look at other people's.eyes a lot when yoy.talk' Hicling our feelings
will Llrrlrn lhdt rrnrr ,"" .,pen,'frank,
WIll think I'-'-' ---'- friendlv, self-confident, | It is easier to hide our feelings with our mouth then with our
natural. If e contact with nK
eycs. We can smile when';;c lre anxious or not smile when we are
you
Y'u ar-s co.-
are uu ti"L, tntY :jt!;i gttracted to someone. But we forget our eyes! If we are attracted
Lare about them or .*^::,',;;,-:;'"-
the "na
conversation ancr rL llray 'uL us u"l(
to someone, we look a little bit more than usual. Our eyes soften
Eye contact in different countriesr ol look thoughtful to show our interest.
Southern Europeans look at each other mgre
than No The pupil, the eyelid and the eyebrow
r;,"^^,"''" and Rmericans. An Italian mig_ht lT,it 11 The pupil can become small because we are augry or it can
is colJ and an Englishman might think
lrr,t'ome iarge if we are excited. Professional fighters, sales people
ry friendly. And this rnay not be truel
Brrrl lovers are very quick to notice the change in the size of the
Eye contact in conversation prrpill
'fhe eyelids comrnunicate more then the eyes themselves. If the
In an ordinary conversation between two peopleeye we
eyt:lids narrow the person is concentrating. (It is difficult to say
,nortl tt ird of [h. ti-. Iooking at each other. The <

tvlrt't.her the person is for or against the idea he or she is thinking

f;il;;. " pattern, it is like a dance!
"f When we begin to s
11lrout.) The eyelids may open wide with astonishment or with
lhe othe. p"rron we look at tlein'.When,wt, 1t" ,t": I lr,irr'. If the person doesn't move his or her eyelids very much it
ffieiinf #. non away. occasionally. we look at them to
tistentng ano
r i'--.
ind 'l - ^- ^^-^^'-" '*oi,,; ';: ntliu'ls that they are calm and confident, e.g. "He"didn't bat an
bhev are still listening
iii"v^"tJttill eyr:lid!"
when we finish sPeaking
tt .

, 'fhe eyebrows come nearer to the eyes when we are thinking

looks at the sPeaker most ol
lo
Irrrlrl, and they come nearer together in the middle. It is difficult
plii"t.'ii *ill'.orn*unicate a special meani ng!
tn know whether the person is angry or just thinking. The eyebrows
Getting friendlY! l'lsc when we
each
are
other
surprised. And when w_e aqe unhappy they come
and, at the same timg, rise up in the middle.
other pt towards
When we start to speak we usually look at the Sorrretimes these movements are vgry qrr1tt. Nevertheless they
for a few seconds t;;-;h;rooro "*^y' However' if look
we-are
trll us a lot. ,,:, i)ii,
il;"t d lolil other person we may continue to
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Women touch men more on the c,t-rest and the hips than
'
children sometimes play the game of staring into each othet
touch women.
eyes. The first child to turn away his or her eyes is the loser. It
rrrcn
Which of these answers do you think are obvious and which
very hard to stare at someone unless you are very angry or \
l'the window of the soul". Through rlo you think are surprising?
-,tih in love. The eyes are presence of another person. And that Jourard did further research into touching. He sat in cafes in
eyes we feel the enoimo.rs
lorrr cities and noted down every time he saw someone touch
something, which is rather frightening.
sonreone else. His notes were:
San Juan (Puerto Rico) - 180
1. What inforrnation can you gain through eYe contact Paris - 101
its absence? Gainesville (Florida) - 2
2. Does eye contact differ depending on the Person I-ondon - 0
are talking to?
Common touching and uncommon
louching in the West
Which of these types. of behaviour would surprise or shock
sonreone from another part of the world?
DO YOU TOUCH PEOPLE?
Shaking hands
Many Northern Europeans and North Americans don't People who are very good friends don't shake hands- (Unless
each other very much. Ftrow often do )'ou touch ffigt p I lrr to
How often have you touched other people today? What sort ('r )r by
touching was it? What did it mean? And where do we t<lu ',( lr of
each other? llit ck
The psychologist Jourard showed three hundred col r)r oven hugging 5rou with the other arm.
students in the United States a drawing of a person. The Many people would like to hug other people but feel they
was divided into t2 parts. ,,lrorrldn't do so. They show that they would like to hug you because
The students were asked; llrt'.1, lg.r forwards a Iittle bit when they shake your hand.
1. Who touches you? (your mother, your father, friends of As a foreign visitor to Britain and the Stat_es, people will
same sex, friends of the opposite sex) ',lr;rkc you by the hand when vou are introduced and when you
2. How often do they touch you? (frequently, quite lrrr;rlly depart. They will probably not shake your hand at other
rarely, hardly ever) I rrrrcs.
3. Where do they touch You?
. Mothers touch their daughters more than their sons Patting
their arms and their hair. Some British and American people would like to hug you
. M'others touch their sons mole than their daughters lrrrl t.hey feel they shouldn't, so they pat you instead! They should
their chests. orrly pat you on the arm, hand, shoulder or back. If they pat you
. Fathers touch their daughters more than their sons on ;rny'nl,here else then it means more than gerreral friendlinessl
hair, face, neck and shoulders. l-inking arms
. Men friends touch each other more than women fri 'fwo (or three) women sometimes do this. It is simply a friendly
the shoulders, chest and legs'
. Women friends touch each other more than men frien rrlirr. Women sometimes link their-arms through the arm of their
the hair, face, neck and forearms. rn:rLe companion; however, this is becoming less common.
. Men touch women more on the knee than women touch
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Shoulder hold I was having great thoughts, ald that someone might come up to
It is quite common for a young man to put his arm round t trrc and say, "Excuse me! I hope you won't rpind my coming up
shoulder of his girlfriend. 1o you like this. I don't want to interrupt your thoughts... but

Holding hands lc:rlly, you are the only interesting looking person in the roonl
N4rry I talk to you?
It is no longer very common for young lovers to hold h
Holding the waist It never happened!
This is more serious than holding someone's shoulder. Here is some advice if you u'ould like to be a good
lonversationalist: be an attentive listener, encourage others to
A full hug l:rlk about themselves. To be interesting, be interested! Ask
It is quite common to hug a much-loved friend or relation rlrrcstions that other people will enjoy answering. Encourage them
he or she has been away for a long time. to talk about themselves and what thev have done.
I(issing Remember that the people you are ialking to are a hundred
lirrres more interested in thernselves and their problems than
In some countries it is quite common for men to kiss
other as a greeting. In Britain and Nolth America it is ra llrcy are in you and your problems. A person's toothache means
rrrrire to that person than a famine in China, which kills a
done. Women sometimcs kiss each other. In some families it
very cornnon to kiss as a greeting, but in many families it rrrillion people. A pain in one's arm interests one more than 40
never done. Hugging and kissing between lovers in public r';rlthquakes in Africa. Think of that the next time you start a
lorr versation.
acceptable but not common.
Diogenes, the Greek philosopher, who is supposed to have
A tip for a visitor to Britain livcd in a barrel, said: "The reason why we have two ears and
North America orrly one mouth is so that we may listen more and talk less!" Do
You can see from the descriptions above that people d vorr know how to get on with people? Do you ever feel shy?
touch and hug each othel very much in Britain and N Wlrat situations make you shy? Do you sometimes feel as if you
America, but this doesn't mean that the people aren't warm rlorr't know how to interest and amuse people and have
don't like each other ... and you! r onversations with them? Do you search desperately in your
And, of course, if other people's behaviour seems strange lrr,rrcl for something to say? Do people find an excuse to leave
you then yours will seem strange to thern. But behaviour vr)u as soon as they can?
language and we all have different ways of expressing oursel
Body langrrage is not an international language.
'Iry listenirgl
Show the other person that you are listening. Look at them.
1. Do you touch people when you talk? What do you Srrrile and nod quite often, and shake your head or raise your
when a person you are talking to touches you? t'\'t'brows if you don't follow what they are saying. Don'L tap
2. Why do men touch less than women? your foot because this will show impatience. Don't look at your
I ru rrlch unless you reallv have to know the time, (and then you

',lronld tell the other pelson why you need to know the tirne). If
yorr show impatience then the other person will lose their
rorrl'idence and you will lcise the moment or friendship, which
HOW TO BE A GOOD LI5TENER llrr'.y are offering.
A good listener has magic! A good Iistener has the ability to
When I first went to London as a student sat alone rrr;rl<e people feel goodi and is as valuable at a party as a good
parties with my glass of wine. I hoped people would think lrrllicr. But just listening isn't enough. One should listen
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intelligently by trying to find out what the other person wou lrrl<ing a more positive part in the conversation and a shy person
really like to communicate. is then likely to say less or even stop speaking altogether. (Of
Look at these two short bitS of conversation. What is ('ourse, they may enjoy a discussion or even an argument, but
peison really saying? llrat is another thing.)
"I work for a small firm, which makes shirts. They are hi Encouraging and discouraging
quality shirts, the sort that cost about f40. It's a good job, real
and it-keeps me pretty busy. I was promoted to the job of exp' Let us suppose that you are at a dinner party talking to a
manager last year because the previous man retired. I su lx'r-son you don't know very well. This person tells you that they
they couldn't find anyone else. I've never actually been abr lrrve just quarrelled with their father. Which of these responsel
suppose
- it's a challenge. Funny position to be in really..." would you give?
the way the man says these things and how he moves - O, well. Every family has its ups and downs! Can I get
behaves wiil show what he is thinking. He may really be wan vou a drink?
to say how busy he is, how anxious he is, or how he feels v - That sounds rather upsetting. It must be bothering you
inadequate to do the new job. Another example: rprrite a lot.
"Oh, I live a very ordinary life really. Nothing much ha Obviously the person wants to talk about the unhappy
to me. I seem to spend all my time shopping, cooking, washing t srt,Lration. One of the responses will encourage this and the ottrer
listening to othef people's problems, not that I mind too rnuch, r,r,ill certainly not.
This person is saying that their life is boring and that
have nothing to talk about. But they might love to talk i A good conversation
their children and in their descriptions show what their int A good conversation is an exchange in which each person
their hopes and their difficulties are. It need not be boring. rtsponds to the other even if they don't agree with them. Ben
all, many great stories are based on families. ,f ohnson, the English writer and philosopher, said, "That is the
lr:rppiest conversation where there is no competition, no vanity,
Repeating u'hat the other Person h
lrrrt a calm, quiet interchange of sentiments."
said Successf ul communication doesn't necessarily mean
Of course, at some point, you have to speak. The other lxchanging information. It often means just "being nice" to
will need reassurance, they will need to know u'hethet' ',on)eone. Politeness and "being nice" to people in this way are
have understood, whether you care about what they are sayl lsst-'ntial for all of us., However, some people never go beyond
whether you are interested, and whether you want to hear I
lroliteness. They never really want to know how someone feels or
more. One of the easiest and most helpful ways of respondi ru lr;rt they have experienced. They might be embarrassed if someone
to repeat the sense of what the other person has been saying rlrrlly told them. You can only get on well with someone who
the first example above, about the export manager, you might I lrlics the same balance of politeness and real exchange of
"So you're very busy then. It's rather a lot for you to do." irrlrlrmation as you do.
for the second example, you might say, "Looking after- p
your love must take up all your energy'" l.
Repeating the main points of what the person has been pt'rsonal tips?
shows that you have been listening, and the fact that yott 2. Do you discuss your problems with friends, relatives
bothered to speak about, u'hat they have been saying shows ol prefer to keep them to yourself?
you care. You might help the person by giving them a parti
question to ans\A'er, it will shor.r' them that you are inter
and they will probably get pleasure in :rnswering your qucl
However, if you express an opinion on the subject.you w
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l)rone, or when our temper seems to be on a short fuse. Isn't it
rrlso strange how ideas seem to flow on some ciays but at other
lirnes are apparently non existent? Musiciar-rs, paint.ers and writers
XV.He,alth olten talk about "dry spells".
Scientists have identified the following three biorhythmic
lycles: physical, emotional and intellectual. Each cycle lasts
;r;rploximately 28 days and each is divided into a high energy
plriod and a low energy period of equal length. During the high
r,r)nrg5l period of a physical biorhythm we are more resistant to
illness, better coordinated and more energetic; during the low
lrrclS,v period we are less resistant to illness, less well coordinated
:rrrd tire more easily. The low period puts energy in our "batteries"
lor the next high period.
The "critical" or weakest time is the time of changeover from
llrt' high energy period to the low enelgy period, or vice versa.
I lrc critical time usually lasts a day. On a clitical day of a physical
lriolhythm, there is a greater chance of accident or illness.
6OOb DAYS, BAD DAYS Human experience is always individual and we each have our
lu'n' biorhythmic experiences. Some people experience such
At the beginning of this century rnedical scientists m r,normous physical turbulence on their "physically critical" days
surprising discovery that we are built not just of flesh and b llrrrt. they have to go to bed. Accidents appear to happen so
but aiso of time. They were able to denonstrate that we all lrltluently duririg turbulent biorhythms that some car insurance
an internal body clock, which regulates thre rise and fall of lonrpanies in Japan have issued biolhythm policies to
body energies, making us differ-ent from one day to thc: policyholders in order to cut down tl're number of costly
These forces bec.ame known as biorhythms; they cleate the "h Ircl iclents.
and "lows" in our everyday iife.
The idea of an internal "body clock" should not be 1. Do you find yourself affected by biorhythms? In what
surpr:ising, since the lives of most living things are domina
Wiry?
the 24-hour night-and-day cycle. The rnost obvious feature of
2. What other factors affect your physical and emotional
c)rcle is the u'ay we feel tired and fall asleep at night and
corrdition?
:rwake and alert during the day. If the Z4-haur rhythr
interrupted, most people experience unple:rsant side effects.
example, international aeroplane travellers often experience 151
lag" when travelling across time zones. People who are not
to shift work can find that lack of sleep affects their DOCTORS
perforrnance.
As well as the daily rhythm of sleeping zrnd waking, we Medical care in the United States is very specialized. Typically,
have other rhythms which last longer than one day and l,rrnilies go to private dpctors or to clinics for their meclical care.
influence wide areas of our lives. Most of us rru.ould agree th l,rrrrily doctors who take care of everyday medical probiems are
feel good on some days and not so good on others. Sometl r',rIIcd general practitioners, intemists, or paediatricians for
we are all fingers and thumbs but on other days we have ex r lrrltllen. When patients have a specific problem that is serious
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will also consult specialists, such as cardiologists (heart
gastroenterologists (stornach), for a second opinion.
Sornetimes, your family doctor will refe you to a s1 t52
Other times you might go directly without a eferral. At
clinics, patients first see a general practitioner; then the d GENERAL HO5PITAL5
refers'the patient to a specialist within the clinic or at ano
hospital. General hospitals treat patients with all kinds of medical
In many urban areas, there are hospitals that nncl surgical needs and are concerned primarily with conditions
specific problems. The hospitals might specialize in likcly to require treatment lasting for days, or, at most, a few
cardiology, cancer or other areas. fhese hospitals often have cl wceks. There is a considerable trend towards day-care surgery in
with medical fees based on income., which patients are not detained overnight after their operations.
Nearly all medium-size and large hospitals also have out-
Emergencies patient departments covering a wide range of specialities, to
which patients are referred by general practitioners (GPs) most
You can get treatment for serious rnedical problems in ol' the patients admitted to the hospital wards for surgical
emergency room of a hospital. These problems include heart
tlczrtment are brought in after being seen at an out-patient clinic.
broken bones, serious bleeding, animal bites, or serious bt (llinical staff work in out-patient departments as well as in wards:
Go to the emergency room for sudden serious pain, suc operating theatres, intensive care units, and other departments.
chest or stomach pains. For common health problems su
Most medium-size hospitals also have an accident and emergency
colds, fevers, and rashes, you should go to your family (A&E) or a casualty department and often a rnaternity
Do not go to the emergency room for chronic probl tltr;:lartment.
problems you can make a doctor's appointment for. If p
call your own doctor before you go to the emergency Staffing and facilities
you want her to treat you, you must go to the hospital
associated with. General hospitals are staffed by consultants in the various
' Hospital emergency rooms are open twenty-four hours a' Irrcclical, surgical, gynaecological, paediatric, and psychiatric
They are often crowded and you might have to wait a long rlisciplines aird by their junior medical and nursing staff. In
to see a doctor. When the doctor-examines you, she will ask, irrlclition, there is an additional hierarchy on the administrative
qtrestions about your specific injury ol condition. She will sitle concerned with general staff administration, catering,
ask if you have any allergies, what medications you are pn Irousekeeping, laundry, engineering, accounting, medical
taking, and your medical history. Sometimes you mighl n llt:ords, cleaning, finance, purchasing, stocktaking, and salaries.
rays or special laboratory tests. UsualJy, the emergency
(llinical departments include a range of diagnostic facilities
releases you the same day. They will tell you to go to ar srrt'[r as X-ray, computerized axizrl tomography, and ultrasound
sl r n n i ng, electrodiagnost ic facil ities and pathology laboratories ;
outside the hospital for follow-up treatment. If your condi r

rl r;rrmaceutical services, physiotherapy; social services and suites

serious, you might have to stay in the hospital. 1

Treatment at the hospital emergency room ts more ex ol'operating rooms (theatlcs) with their ancillary services; for
than in a doctor's office. If you have medical rnsurance, lrrsl.rument steritrization, changing rooms, and stock rooms.
your insurance lD cart with you. The largest general hospitals cover a wide range of specialities
irrrcl usual ly have, in addition to those mentioned, a premature-
lr;rlr.y 11pi1, zr psychiatric u'ing; full facilities for dental and facial
What treatment can be received at your hospita Ftrrgery, plastic surgerv and reconstructive surgery; a radiotherapy
What would you change in your medical system?:, ttrrit; MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) scanning; a renal dialysis'
ttrrt; organ transplant ,facilities; an occupatorial therapy
tlr'lrartnert; a physical medicine unit with physiotherapy
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'l'l-rese are massaged
to promote the health of the organs. Reflexology
gymnasium and therapeutic pool; a burns unit; a department
medical physics; and a lithotriptor unit for the noninvasi t'an also be used as a diagnostic tool.
treatment of kidney stones and gallstones. Some very large gene:
Treatment with the patient lying bare-footed on a couch the
hospitals have a cyclotron for the production of artificial i lcflexologist.will feel for tiny lumps under the surface of the
sl<in, which are believed to be crystalline deposits. The place on
for PET scanning (position emission tomography).
llre foot where these are found indicates which organ is not
l'rrnctioning properly. For instance, the big toe corresponds to the
E 1. What are the advantages and the disadvantages l,op of the head and brairt, and various parts of the heel to the
private medicine? bladder, sciatic nerve and sexual organs. The reflexologist will
nrassage these spots, which can be surprisingly sensitive when
Iouched, so it is not uncommon to feel some pain.
Treatments continue until the spot is no longer sensitive.
ALTERNATIVE AAEDICINE T'ai Chi.Chu.an
Aromatherapy ln T'ai chi slow, flowing movements, which follow a set pattern
crrable practitioners to harmonize mind, body and spirit and
Aromatherapy is a treatment method, which uses lrccome more deeply centred in themselves. Its applications can
oils extracted from flowers, plants or trees. These are lrc a form of healing, for self-defence and as a spiritual disci pline.
into the body, inhaled, sprinkled in baths, or in some The emphasis in performing the movements is not on strength
ingested. ol exertion, but on relaxation, concentration and balance. The
Aroinatic substances were used in healing throughout krrees are kept bent and movement is achieved by shifting the
ancrenr worlo
ancient world nolaDry Dy lne
notably by the Fgyptians
Fgyptrans wno Dufrecl jar
who buried J glcater part of the body's weight slowly from one foot to the
frankincense and myrrh alongside their pharaohs in their t ollrer while the hands make careful arrd gentle pushing and circling
and who used the same perfumes for both medical and gcstures. Attention is also paid to correct breathing. Physically
effects. Proponents of aromatherapy have to this day d llrc aim is to develop muscle control, fluidity and grace.
the art for purposes as diverse as the healing of wounds, t Because of its relaxing effect, T'ai chi is often recommended
skin cancer and banishing wrinkles. llrcrapeutically to those who suffer from tension and anxiety,
Having selected the appropriate oil the aromatherapist lrigh blood pressure and heart complaints. It can prombte and
probably want to spend some time preparing the skin nraintain good health both physically and mentally.
diet, pollution and make-up have dulled the receptivity
modern skin. Inhalation is used for the treatment of head
lung complaints. About six to ten treatments may be requ 1. Do you believe in the benefits of the alternative
rougR beneficial
although Denetrcral effects may be telt
felt earller.
earlier. lncdicine?
As might be expected, aromatherapy is most effective us 2. What kinds of disorders and illnesses can be treated
the treatment of the skin, in healing wounds and burns, with the help of the alternative medicine?
treating shingles, acne, and conditions related to stress'.]
massage with which the oils are applied adds to therapeutic t54
of the treatment.
Reflexology sMOKIN6
This is a technique in which particular areas on the soles OI(. So here are the facts. There is an Englishman called B.J.
sides of the feet are seen to correspond to the organs of the (lrrnningham who has been smoking since he has been eleven. F.Ie
is a chain smoker who is in love with smoking. He smokes betv
two and three packets a day, and already, at the age of thirty,
a weak chest. He was in hospital for- six days when his I
iollapsed. "It was at that point that I did actualiy give up cigar
tor si4 months". But then he returned to his true love. He
black leather cowboy clothes and has a fondness for classic Harl
Davidson m fif lo . The question is: How
years, "I've rlr but he can't afford the
So far, n ng ;r like the big comPanies.
(no one act ea
night in LA. "Let's market a cigarette called Death,,' he said
a business partner. "Why?" said the partner.
It's obvious he explains to me. "When you take a packet
cigarettes out of your top pocket and put it on the bar in f
of you, you are making a statement about yourself , exactly as lrrrt they prefer not to think about it. The ople who are
do with clothes you wear, the music you like, and the newspa liorug to imoke his cigarettes are people I self. When I
you read. You're saying, "These cigarettes are a part of me-". ollcrrd one to a friend recently, his reactio 'You must be
So, if you take out a packet of Benson and Hedges, you ;ol<ing." And this is what Death cigarettes are all about. It's a
saying, "I'm classy - gold pocket - part of high society,,. If 1 1ol<c that was funny, but isn't funny any nore.
take out a packet of Marlboro, you're saying, ,,I'm an ou But B.J. is still obsessed by fzLgs. "Do you know the main reason
type, I like wearing a cowboy hat and riding horses..." ru lrv I love my job?" he says. It's because ance to
"Now, if you produce a packet of Death cigarettes," rrtl;rck antismoking killjoys! Those purit control
continues, producing a packet of Death cigarettes to illustt ,,rrr' lives. I've met matty people who don't tell me
his point, "what you're saying is..." llr;rt if smoking were rnade illegal, they would fight it. You just
He looks at me to make sure that I'm going to write d r;rrr't have laws, which control every aspect of the way people live.
what you're saying about yourself if you smoke Death cigare I finally started to warm to this character B.J. Cunninglam.
But do I need to? We all know what death cigarettes are a ll rvas the end of the interview, ar-rd the number of fag ends in
B.J. Cunningham has been telling us about thern since he st llrc ashtray had increased to fifteen. Perhaps he lud something
his Enlighten Tobacco Company (ETC) in 19gj. rrrrlrortant to say after all. Not just, "Heyl everybodyl Look at mel
Everyone has now got the joke, thank you very much, W l'rrr weird, and I'm killing myselfl"
seen the black packets with their death's head on the front
the white packets, which are called Death lights; and we've l,,r,i fr

about the coffin-shaped vending machines'in pubs and clu 1. Can such a man like B.J. Cunningham be adored?
However, for anyone who has managed to avoid B 2. Why do you think his smoking campaign failed?
publicity, here goes. Dqath cigerrettes are Tor the smoker r
wants to say, "Yes, I'm killing myself , but at least I know it 155
I smoke a-brand which do.in'i try'to hide the fact. ,,d
cigarettes", concludes B.J. "say, 'Don't you dare tell me to ARE PEOPLE FIT ENOU6H?
B.J. Cunningham, now on his ninth cigarette of the interv
says he wants to expose the hypocrisy behind the tobacco indust Seven out of ten men and eight out of ten women in England
Governments can't afford to ban smoking because they rt ,lrr rrot take enough exerciseto keep themselves healthy, according
huge amounts of money in tax. Tobacco conpanies try to im l' lhe largest ever survey into activity levels.
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The survey, published yesterday by the Health Educ
Authority and the Sports Council interviewed 316 adults 156
the age of 16 about daily activity including sports and rec
pastimes, with two-thirds of the group being given
assessments of fitness levels.
WHAT TO DO ABOUT FLU
' One-third of men and two-thirds of women were unab
You've got your own defence system
- here is how to make it
continue walking at three miles an hour up a one in 20 s
work.
without becoming breathless and having to stop. Half of You're feeling rotten - weak, shivering, with an aching
over 55 could not sustain a walking Pace on level grounc head, back and limbs. Your temperature is over 38C (100F).
several minutes, Among 16-24year olds, 60 per cent of men Probably you're sweating a lot, you've lost your appetite and
91 per cent of women were below activity levels necessary you feel sick. You've got flu. So; what do you do?
fit and healthy life. Thirty per cent of rnen and 50 per ce 'There's no quick cure. Flu
- influenza is caused by a virus.
woqren aged 65-74 had insufficient strength in their t And viruses canlt be killed with antibiotics. Only the body's
muscles, making tasks such as rising from a chair without own defence system can get rid of them. So, for most of us there's
their arms difficult. rro point in seeing the doctor when we've got flu. But while a
The survey found the fittest 10 per cent of men aged ( bout of flu lasts, which can by anything from24 hours to several
having a higher aerobic capacity than the least fit 10 per ctays, here's what you should-do:-
of those aged 25-34. . Stay indoors, keep warm and keep away from other people
Dr. Jacliy Chambers, director of public health for the as much as possible so you don't pass on the infection.
Education Authority, said the survey had found 48 per ce . Have plenty of cool drinks water, fruit (rinks. About 2
men and 40 per centof mPared lJ litres a day.
- -
39 per cent and 32per tinued, . If you feel shivery or feverish, with a temperature over 38C
of the population wou 2010' (100F) or aches or pains, try taking soluble Cspirin every four
Professor Peter Fenton, head of physiology at Nottin Irours during the day. And rest in bed if you can.
University, who acted as scientific adviser to the survey, . Try to have three light meals a day. But don't force yourself
although the levels of unfitness came as no surprise, they h t,o eat if you've lost your appetite.
be scientifically quantified if policies were to be formul But if you are elderly and in poor health, or if you suffer
l'r'om a severe chest condition like c-hest bronchitis or asthma;
llrcn flu can becorne a more serious illness.
So remember:
. When there's flu about, try to avoid crowded places and
Sir Donald Maitland, chairman of the authority, said: "Al kccp away from those who have got flu.
everyone in the cbuntry can benefit from being a llttle
. If you think you've got flu, get in touch with your doctor.
'l'hen he can at least keep an eye on you,
active. Just making small changes like uslng the stairs inst
the lift or walking and cycling instead of using the car can
. In the autumn, ask your doctor if he thinks you should be
people to begin to feel the benefits of living a more active, heal vaccinated against flu.
and enjoyable life." FIu vaqcination: vaccine is usually only given to people who
ltrrrnot miss work, like nurses, doctors, firemen, and policemen.
'l'lrcse people may be offered flu vaccination once a year, generally
1. Do you consider yourself fit enough? What .is irr the autumn before winter epidemics. But even vaccination
enough"? t'lrrnot,give complete protection against flu.
Z. Why don't people live an active life? Remember: keep flu to yourself. Stay away from other people.
Mirke sure handkerchiefs and also plates,,knives, forks are always
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well washed. Look after yourself by resting in bed and havi The gargling removes germs, debris and phlegm frorn the-
lots of cool drinks. back-of-the throat.
There's no need for the doctor unless the flu persists 4. Cough
more then a few days or gets suddenly worse. Invariably, there is a cough, which helps remove phlegm, dead
Hcrms and other debris from the chest; so never suppress a cough
t'ompletely
1. What measures do you take when you go down with Add one teaspoon of honey to a glass of lenion juice. Then
ircld 1 teaspoon of glycerine to nake a simple linctus. Mix well
rrncl sip whenever the cough troubles you.
Make certain the room temperature is warm, because cold air
1""""": irritates inflarned respiratory tubes, causing unnecessary
10 WAYS TO TREAT A COLD ciiughing. This is especiall5r so with children. Several commercial
rrough remedies ale available, and these pr-ovide some relief to
Dr. James Wright offers a rernedy for the sniffles and
chronic unproductive coughing.
of '*'inter.
5. Pain and fwers
This year Australians will average 1,8 bouts of the com
The skin often feels sensitive.and tingly. Sweating is common,
cold. Doctors call it acute coryza'. everybody else calls it
so zrn uncomfortable, sticky feeling occurs. Aches and pains may
flu", the bug, the virus or the dog's disease. rrl'fect every joint as well as the large muscles of the arms, legs
Symptgms include a runny nose'or blocked nasal pas
sore throat, pains under the eyes behind the cheeks; fever, ti
lnd back.
Medicaticin often gives temporary relief even though it is not
skin, cough and sirnply "feeling lousy". ir cure. Aspirin may help but will often make you srveat more.
Follow this 1O-point plan and your cold will probably cI
Paracetbmol tablets can also reduce pain and.fever. For children
up as you help natur. orr-etcotn. the problem. There is no si11
rrgcd six years and under, do not give aspirin (it may cause stomach
pill, which will result in a rapid cure. irritation), but paracetamol elixir. Follow the recommended dose
1. Bed
orr the label of the bottle. Take a minimum of medication for a
Go to bed for 2-4 days depending on how you feel. I(eep
rrrinimum period, and only if symptoms warrant it.
from work; otherwise you will spread the virus to other
6. Blocked nose
In a cosy, warm bed you are helping your immule s)l
The air passages often become' clogged, making normal
overcome the viral invaders. This is the simplest, best and prot
lrlcatliing difficult. Germs penetrate into the sinuses, causing pain
most important part of treatments.
tnrcler the e5,ss behind the cheeks.
2. Fluids
Sinple inhalations often help. Ten drops of friar's balsam in
You tend to perspire, and feel sticky and uncomfor (i00 ml of boiling water should be effective. Breathe the fumes
when. suffering from a cold. In a single day you eliminat
tlrrough a paper funnel until the steam stops rising. Then wash
enormous amount of f'luid this way and this must be repl; your face with a cold flannel to avoid a fresh chill.
Adequate fluid also helps eliminate from the body dead gti
toxins and the by-products of your system's enha Medicated water vapour (as this is called) relieves
corgestion all along the respiratory tlact. Nasal drops or sprays
metabolism
;rlso give relief, should not be overused - thr-ee days use should
Cool water is best - drink at leist 6-8 glasses a, day., i
lrt' lhe maximum.
somg lernon juice - the tang is refreshing and it reduces
7. Bathing
3. Gargle
t{ave a quick, lukewarm shower each day. Sit on a stool if
ndd 1/z teaspoon of salt to a glass of warm water. Garg
vou feel weak. End the shower with cool water, and dab the
expel. Continue dntil the glass is empty. Repeat every 2-4
lrody dry wiith a soft towel. Do not rub dry, for the skin is often
depending on how you feel. It is very refreshing and virtually,

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very sensitive for a few clays. Go back to bed or to a warm roo What is AIDS?
and avoid getting cold and catching a fresh chill, for this enab AIDS is a condition that prevents the body's immune system
the germs to gain a fresh foothold. l'rom effectively figh disease. A person with AIDS is
8. Food vulnerable to "opportu c" illnesses such as serious infections'
You will not die if you starve for a few days, and giving What causes AIDS?
body a rest is often a good idea. Liquids such as fresh fruit ju
are often adequate. Avoid milk and sugar products for a few
Light meals are best until you have recovered.
9. Vitamins
These are unlikely to cut a cold short, although an adequ r clated virus (ARV).
intake of high-vitamin foods as part of your lifestyle will red How widespread is AIDS?
the risk of infection. I take vitamins daily and have missed The Centres for Disease Control (CDC) indicate that 28-098
two working weeks in thirty-five years. AIDS cases were reported (27.704 adults and 394 children) and
10. Medication 15.757 of these cases had died as of December 18.1986" All 50
Unless prescribed by the doctor, do not use antibiotics slates, the District of Columbia, and more than 100 of the world's
over from previous problems, or those prescribed for other pe ll02 nations have reported cases. The Public Health Service
These medications will not cure a cold, which is viral in na r:stimates that as many as two million people in the United
However, antibiotics will help if secondary infection occurs States are infected with AIDS but are asymptomatic.
causes chest cornplications and infected throats, ears or sin Of the 394 AIDS cases CDC reported among children under
Also, avoid smoking or the passive smoke from other peo l.i years ol age:
cigarettes. 1. 79 per cent came from families in which one or both parents
Incidentally, the flu vaccine will not prevent the com lrird AIDS or were at increas.ed risk for developing AIDS;
cold, but it will help you avoid a Iife-threatening inf luenza, 2. 88 per cent were under five years old;
3. 20 per cent of those under five years old were white; 57 per
1. Rate these ways in the order of their effectiveness lrrrrt were black; and 22 per cent were Hispanic;
1r. 55 per cent of those under five years old were male.
you and explain.
Is AIDS highly contagious?
The AIDS-r'iius is spread sexually, by the in.iection of
, orrtaminated blood, and from mother to foetus. There's no
l'viclence whatsoever that such ordinary activities as shaking hands,
r ough or even sharing meals
loiiet ected peoPle Present a
Lack of knowledge and misinforrnation about Acqui ( I )C ssion does not occur t
Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS), a fatal disease with lrriing food, drinking water, or environrnental contact. Reed notes
cure or vaccine, has caused widespread public concern. Ed llrt:rJhas been no AIDS transmission between children.
is an effective way to reduce fears and prevent the spread of Who is at risk for contracting AIDS?
disease. Because of the ways AIDS is transrnitted, certail groups have
Thus, public school personnel must have accurate infor ,rn increased risk of developing the disease. These include:
about AIDS in order'to make suitable responses and deci 1. Homosexual and bisexual men;
The following question-answer sequence defines AIDS 2. Intravenous (IV) drug users who share contaminated
discusses the cause, prevalence, transmission, preventive rrct:dles;
and implications and policies for the classroom. 3. People receiving blood transfusions;
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4. Haemophiliacs or people with coagulation disorders;
clecision whether to include AIDS in the public health unit or
5. Infants born to infected mothers;
the fan-rily life unit in junior high school be based on sexual
6. Heterosexuals with multiple sex partners.
:rctivities of stuclents locally. If iunior high students are, or soon
What preventive measures can be taken against AIDS? ,i
r,r'ill be sexually active, an AIDS component must be included in
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Servi the STD materials. Otherwise, AIDS should be covered as a public
recommends that the following steps be taken to prevent
health crisis.
spread of AIDS.
I{as any policy been established regarding children with AIDS
1. Abstain from sexual intercourse with AIDS pati
irrrd public school attendance?
members of high-risk groups, or with people who have tes
positive for the AIDS vrrus. The American Academy of Paediatrics Committees of School
I lealth and Infectious Diseases made the following recommendations
2. Limit or terminate use of IV drugs. If IV drugs are
lt:galding children with AIDS attending school.
do not share needles with anyone.
1. Most school-aged children and adolescents infected with
3. Limit the number of sexual partners.
I llV sl-rould be allowed to attend school in air unrestricted
4. People at increased risk for AIDS should not donate b
nranner with the approval of their personal physician. Based on
organs, and sperm.
plesent data, the benefits of unrestricted school attendance to
5. Do not share toothbrushes, razors, or other implements
l.lrese students outweigh the remote possibility that such students
could become contaminated with blood.
6. Use condoms or other birth control methods that pr
u'ill transmit the infection in the school environment.
proteciion against sexually transmitted diseases. 2. Students who lack control of the body secretions: who
What implications of the AIDS "Epidemic" exist for tlisplay behaviour such as biting, or who have open skin sores
classroom teacher?
lhzrt cannot be covered require a more restricted school
r,rrvironrnent until more is known about the transmission of
Based on research to date, allowing a child with AID l hc virus- Special education should be provided in these
attend public school poses virtually no threat to the jnstances.
.students. Black (1986), maintains that in general, "children
AIDS should be allowed to attend school if they are cont 3. Sehool districts should designate individuals, including the '
sltrclent's physician or have the qualifications to evaluate whether
have no open or oozing lesions, and behave acceptably (tl
not bite) " lrrr infected student poses a risk to others.
Price (1986) recommends that children with AIDS be prov
4. The number of personnel aware of the child's condition
slroulcl be kept to the minimum needbd to assess proper care of
access to a school counsellor trained in dealing with
patients. The psychological well-being of students with AII llrc child and to detect situations in which the potential of the
I lrrnsmission may increase.
threatened and weakened at least as dramatically as their phy
condition. Trained counsellors can help the students deal 5. All schools should adopt routine procedures for handling
the social and emotional changes that have occurred beca lrlood or.body fluids, including sanitary napkins, regardless of
the disease.
ru'hether students with HIV infection are known to be in
Education about AIDS and effective preventive meas
should be_ incorporated into the existing health educar
curriculum in the schools (National School Boards Associatii 1. Would you let your child play or study in one classroom
In the elementary schools, AIDS prevention should I with a child who is infected with HIV?
component in the public/community health unit, covered ul 2. lf all people know about the risks, consequences of
infectious. disease control. In high schools, AIDS should c:rtching HIV and measures of its prevention why do more
component of the family life/human sexuality unit nrrd more of us die from this disease?
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anybody myself, but if I could prove the identity of the person
who killed rny Gina, by just being irresponsible I would get a
gun and shoot him.
Anyone who behaves like that, harming other people, is an
AID5 WIFE 5ECRET :rnimal anyway and doesn't deserve to live. I keep thinking about
Gina and how she was so quick. She was walking around, looking
The boyfriend of tragic AIDS victim Gina Allen broke normal one day and dead within a few weeks. I pray I'll be lucky
last night and wept: "I'm petrified. I'm going to die as iurd escape, but I know the odds are not good."
Clive Barley, 27 , was Gina's lover for almost three years Clive had a premonition of Gina's death after she went to
her fling with HIV carrier Roy Cornes. Clive was hospital for the last time. He said: "I had a terrible dream and
when 2O-year-old Gina died in hospital last month. rvoke up in a sweat. I just thought straight away that Gina's
He said: "I will never get over Gina's death. I worshi rlead. She was the kindest, loveliest girl on the earth. "
her, but now of course I'm terrified that she has passed Clive is furious that no one from the health authorities had
onto me and that may be it's only a matter of time before <'ontacted him since Gina's death. He said: "They know she died
under. It's like living under a death sentence and I'rn arra I'r'om AIDS and that I was her one and only boyfriend for years
to have a full'AIDS test at the hospital as soon as possible. before then. I must be at risk but no one from the hospital had
Clive said that it was not until he read the Sun yes lreen in touch. I've been left to arrange my AIDS because she had
that he nel,v definitely Gina had died from AIDS. The rur unprotected intercourse with a man who is HIV positive.
split up a few months before her death. Gina had been to Cornes told leggy Linda about the risk before they married
for. blood tests - and Clive is convinced she was told irnd she has been getting regular health checks. The couple lived
was HIV positive. Iogether for six months before the wedding. She told her mother
He said: "Looking back I'think she realized that she (iwendoline Gray: "I still love him and I'm sticking by hirn."
going to die and decided to pull out of our relationship. Gwendoline said at her home in King's Heath, Birmingham:
said he and Gina still met most days - but they never s " I was a bit shocked when she told me about Roy. We've known
together again. He added: "If I haven't got AIDS, some Irim as a family for years. But she rvanted to marry him and she
there is watching over me. Perhaps it's paranoia, but I wat obviously loves him. She would not have married him knowing
video of myself recently taken at a do with Gina and I have ;rbout the AIDS risk if she didn't love him. My daughter has told
so much weight off my face since then. It's worrying. I'm fright rnc Roy always uses protection. She goes for tests very three months
to death." l
;rnd she has been told she is still negative."
Factory worker Clive, of Billeslei', Birrningham, revealed Roy's haemophiliac brother Garry also caught HIV from
Gina had told him of her affair with haemophiliac Mr. Cor t:ontaminated blood. And he was shown on TV yesterday telling
who has denied infecting any women with HIV. lrow he felt like a killer after unwittingly infecting his wife and
He said: "Gina and I u,ere walking down the road u,hen, lriby daughter. He said: "I'm a murderer. I've killed her life -
suddenly grabbed my arm and said we had tb cross over. i1's something I'm very bitter about".
said she didn't want to walk past this chap Roy. She Health Minister Brian Mawhinnery has called f'or a report into
Iater she and he had been lovers and I rea,lized I vaguely k lioy Cornes' case. He said he would consider whether laws needed
him. I had worked in a factory with his older brother Gair clr:rnging but stresses there were "no quick or easy solutions".
knew Garry was a haernophiliac because I'd seen him Local health authorities still insist they cannot officially
Cook Report saying he had caught AIDS. I recalled kn
Roy was a haemophiliac too. But you just don't think w
love sorneone as much as I loved Gina, that she will give me
because of some bloke in the past. I was concerned for ti
then thought nothing else of it. I'm not pointing the fi ;rcople be punished?
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2. Is it possible for a person infected with HIV
ordinary life, go to work, relax with their family?

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''" to death, but u;hose eaerA step represented
that led assuredlg
a unique apprenticeship. It u)as a disease tltat gaae deatlt
time to lioe and its oictims time to die, tinte to discoz;er titne;', The family doctor service is free to everyone who chooses to
and in the end to discooer life. rrrzrl<e use of lt. tf someone decides not to use the service, he may
Ilerzse Guibert

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sur rooms for his Patients.
HEALTH 5ERVICE5 IN 6REAT BRITAIN ily doctor considers that his patient requires
lhe ltlnt or needs hospital treatment the doctor
L In Great Britain the authorities concerned in
administration of public health are central and local.
In Englancl and Wales the chief central authoritv i:
Ministry of Health.
The National Healbh Service was established in 1948.
Minister of Health has assumed clirect resporisibility for
provision on a national basis of all hospital :rncl special
services, the conduct of research work into auv matters relati
to the prevention, diagnosis or treatment of illness or men
defect, a public health laboratory service and a blood transf
service. He has ildirect responsibilit-v 1'or thc cstablish
and maintenance of general practitioner seLvices and all ot
servl c es. l). entitled ices of a
The local authorities chargecl r,vith the aclministration of pu (wh
health services at'e the Rural and Urban District cottncrils. 'I rlo work er doctor
r)r' as general and after
bodies are assistecl in the clischarge of theil dutics bv a technl
staff consisting of the Medical Officer and tlrc Chief Sanit ol t.he confinement.
Inspector'. The doctor will advise whether- there is need for the
Among others, upon the Local Health Ar-rthorty rests ,.0nfinement'to take place in hospital. If this is unnecessary on
obligation to make arrangements with tl-re meclical practitit rrrt:dical grounds, theixpectant mqther can make her own choice
for the vaccination of those who live within its area against lrs to u'hether or not she has her baby at home'
pox and also for imrnunization against diphtheria. However, hospital accommodation for other than priority cases
IL At the very core of the scheme rentains the family rs in short suPPlY.
The duty generally falls on him to advise on the need for V. The NJtionat Health Service Act, 1946, makes provision for
various forms of treatment. Each Local Executive Council lrcalth centres at which facilities shall be available for the provision

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Filled with relief you get into the lift. Get out at once and

is empowered to Provide.
As yet, howev'er only a very few such health centres are
existenle, on the official plea that scarcity of resources prev
the building of new centres.
With trembling hands you light a cigarette to calm your
I " Is the scheme of health services in your country sirni ncrves. What? How dare you? In comes your colleague, Ms Btown,
to Britain's? rrll ready for a busy day, blonde hair and make-up in place. Do
2" Are you pleased with it? WhY? you think she's heard about the cancer scare concerning hair
dyes and eyeliners?
At last trunch-time comes. You join your mates in the local for
i ;r sandwich. White bread, eh? A low-fibre diet is no good at all.

bTCTNG WTTF{ bEATH

And iiving with statistics
;rs 5.30 arrives.
Every clay is fraught with danger" You rvake in the niorni What a Itgets your
rush to the window aird take a deep breath. Don'tl Hasn't any orr the stee look in the
rrndseeal ddownon
Next you go to the bathroom. I It throbs e remember t
yor. ittto.ent-iooking hands are covered in bacteria, which
a good wash won't entirely remove. You sigh, and get dre
G6od heavens! Didn't you realize that all tlat nylorr wo''t I
your skirr breathe?
With a rash beginning to appear on your skin, you make
way to the kitchen for breakfast. Eating n'rust be goocl for you rrrrmber of chemicals frorn aerosol sprays.
muitn't it? Of course it is, provided you don't have tea or coff But do not fear, civilization is here. Are we really that much
which are bad for your heart, or a good old-fashioned Engl lritppier in our modern technological world with all its new-
fry-up, which will fill your stomach with cholesterol-buildi lound knowledge than our ancestors who knew nothing of these
fat. lhings? Is it any surprise that there were no analysis or
Depressed - not to nention hungry - you go to-clean yc 1rry.[iattitts in any centnry before ours? I'm sure they didn't
teeth. but down that nylo' toothbrush at oncel It will ruin Yo rrcccl any.
gums. Do you have the courage to u'eigh yourself? Horrors! You
It least natf a stone overw"ight, which is sure to help send y 1. Do you care about all the dangers that surround you?
to an early grave. Hesitating, you make your way to the 2. Do you agree that civilization only cripples our lives?
knowing that (according to statistics) there's a good ch
that eiti'er you or one of ybu. nearest and dealest will be involr
in an accident sometime during your life. After a heart-thumpi
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than 300, it does not
ccident. People seem
ing upon hoW much
"""orortto person. For example,
HOW TO BUILD A HEALTHY RESPON5E people who have! clear and meaningful goals or tend to be
sTRE55 stimulus-seekers seem to be able to withstand more change'
Regardless of your score, you may find the following techniques
Bg Edauard A. Charlesutorth and Ronald G. Nathan helpful in managing stress.
The first step Dr. Holmes suggests is that we all become
Following is an excerpt from "stress Management" (Atheneum, 1984) familiar with the life events and become aware of the amount of
Edward A. Charlesworth of the Bailol College of Medicine and Ronald ch require.
.

Nathan of the Department of Psychiatry and Family Medicine at Louisi footed by the tendency to view positive changes
State University Medical School in Shreveport. su tal reconciliation or gaining a new family merhber
as free of stress. Thesb also take a gr-eat deal of adaptive enersy.'
It is said that about the only thing that we can count on
life, besides death and taxes, is change. Modern life presents
with more changes than ever before. We change everything rap
Where we live and work, our friends and even our spouses.
Change of any sort can be scary or exciting, and it us
triggers our stress response.
Dr. Thomas Holmes and Dr. Richard Rahe at the Unive
of Washington School of Medicine have made major bieakthror
in our understanding of the effects of life changes on health
disease. Drs. Holrnes and Rahe have'measured the life c
that seem to precede illnesses.
From case histcries of 5,000 patients, they gathered a long
of life events that seemed to precede major illnesses. They t
'asked about 400 people to compare the anount, intensity
length of time they need to adjust to each life evbnt on the li
Drs. Holmes, Rahe, and others, multiplied the number
times an event was experienced
)xperlenceo by
Dy lne
the reaqJustment
readjustment value grvqn
given
the events and summed these products to find, a life-change scoi
Those who had a high life-ihange score were'much moie liki
to contract an illness following the events. The illnesses
widely, from accidents to alcoholism, from cancer to psychiai
disorders, and from flu to the common cold.
Tp find your social readjustment rate, use the scale
Take your time and try to include any event that is similar to

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The midlife trarisition, which occurs next, may last from 40 there is a conflict that needs your attention. Most people have
45. At this time, people may begin to question what they ha very strong needs for work, play and love. Try to recognize and
done with their lives. They try to discover their real values. fulfil your needs in each of these areas.
According to one study of individuals going throu[h the m
transition, about 80% of the people experience very se'irere stru The so'cial readjustment rating scale
within themselves and the external world, Directions: Read each event and indicate in the space provided
It is important to realize as you learn how to manage st the number of times you have experienced the event in the last
that these life changes and crises are very normal parts year.Multiply
'Lhe thenumber of times you experienced theevent by
development. points next to it and total up the products.
Boredom is also a change stressor because the lack of cha:
Stress No. of Your
often brings on boredom. When we are not excited about w
value times you total
we are doing, we often become depressed, irritated and u life
Life event experienced
It is during times of boredom that we may wish to con the event change
making some of the changes we can control on the S last year scores
Readjustment Rating Scale. Death of spouse 100
If your score on the Social Readjustment Rating Scale is Divorce 73
tharr 50, it might be healthy to take action to increase your char Marital seoaration from mate 65
score. If you have a low score and you feel stressed, you could Detention in iail or institution 63
experiencing boredom. Death of a close familv member 63
Most of us are waiting for a happy and,meaningful life. Ba Maior oersonal iniurv or illness 53
is needed to achieve and maintain such a life. Balance Marriase 50
that you avoid building your life around ode person or one thi
Sigmund Freud considered work, play and love to be
major parts of life. Other psychotherapists have.called t
yot ever expelienced such transitional periods in
1. Have you
other names; but most agree that they are important buil your life? i
blocks for a balanced life. If we ignore any one of them, we
too rnuch of the other two.
2. How do you react to chan$es?
If you review the Social Readjustpent Rating scale you
notice that a majority of the life events involve loved ones and If you are distressed bg anyth the pain is i
When things go wrong at work or we are unable to not die to the thing itself, but to e of it; and :
because of illness, we experience a great deal of stress. Wit this gou haoe the poaer to reooke nt. !
network of friends and family, we have no, one with who Marcus Aurelius i
share our troubles. Likewise, when things go our way, we ha
one with whom to enjoy the pleasure. Loneliness is a major
of stre.ss.
If,
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maintain outside interests in hobbies, sports and the arts, we
curability to play, and we rnay put too rnuch emphasis on ,

and love. HOW TO REDUCE 5TRE55 AND TENSION

What if you are not interested in one or.two of these fac Modern life in the Western world is stressful. We compete at
If so, it may be worthwhile to review your life situation work and often in sport and even with our friends' We try to
pay particular attention to the factors you are ignoring to srrve time and try to'earn as much money as possible in brder to
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possess cars, better houses, washirrg machines or to go on hol A few tips: ,

so that we can relax after becoming so tense and tired! Which of these are the five most useful ideas or suggestions
Signs of stress: have you noticed any of these signs in yourbe
for you (or, irl your opinion, for a stressed friend!):
or in another person recently? Aqe these signs increasing?
1. What is the worst thing that could happen to you in the
Irritability, fussiness, gloominess, suspicion, i problem you have? What is the worst thing that could happen
excitability, restlessness, lac\ of concentration, unsociabili to you generally? Is tfie first as serious as the second?
loss of appetite, over-eating, sleeplessness, drinking, smokit
2. Re-define your worry as a problqrr,-. Then you can do
worrying, tension. something about it instead of just worrying.
* What is causing the stress?.
Many people try to get rid of the signs of stress instead
3. Do something! It is often better to make a decision (even
the cause. They may like sleeping pills or try to control the vari
if it isntt the best one possible) rather than do nothing.
4.Do something before things become worse!
signs in other ways. But the only satisfactory way of
5. Decide what can be irnproved and what can't. Do something
stress is to find the cause of it. You may not be able to change
about the former and accept the latter.
cause-of the stress but understanding it will probably help.
6. Find something else, which interests you. This may make
It may be the death or illness of a friend, the loss of your job your problerfi less important.
money worries. And you can probably do nothing to change
7. Decide what is important to you and don't worry too rnuch
It may be conflict inside yourself. Perhaps you feel you about what other people might think.
to do something but you don't want to. You may have rnii: 8. Talk to someone about your problem. Try to be as objective
feelings about someone or something and not know what to r

ts possible, don't complain all the time!

All you can do is try to examine yourself and what you fee 9. When you have really done your best to solve the problem
right. It may be helpful to talk to someone about it. It and have failed, learn to live with it. At leastryou know that you
that you feel hopeless in a situation. Try to be realistic; ma hzn'e done your best.
list of all the characteristics of the situation and of yourse 10. Make a list of all the things, which arg good or quite good
then face the facts.
in your life, and be pleased about those ... at least some of the
Perhaps you feel weak, interior, not good enough,
Lirne!
guilty. Once more, try to be realistic. It may be true! If it is
may not really be so serious. But it may not be true or it may Old recipes for huppiness
be as simple as you might think. We sometimes see only our
People have had problems since the beginning of time. Some
position in a situation. It may well be that other people also
their own problems or are also guilty, etc. you may be abl ;roverbs are probably thousands of years old. Which of these
change your view of the situation by re-defining it, and lxoverbs and sayings do you think are useful today? How do
you interpret them?
quite simply "Oh, it could be worse" or "Well, there's
" Tomorrow is another day.
side to it. " . A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.
Perhaps you have several different problems. Try to see t . Cultivate your garden.
separately and deal with them one by one. Pbrhaps you feel . Count to ten.
have too rnuch responsibility. Share some of it. Or just donl
something. It is amazing how life can continue if we don' ". Walk tall.
Enjoy half a loaf.
something, which we thought was very important. . Be thankful for small mercies.
It may be that you are acting in a way, which isn't natu . It takes all sorts to make a world.
you. This may be causing you stress. Is it worth'it?
Perhaps you are stressed by fears you can't identify. Do '. Actions speak louder than words.
The best things in life are free.
best to decide whether they are real or not. . Better late than never.
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. It is better to give than to receive. .Your fingers should just touch.
. A change is'as good as a rest. .Breathe in slowly and naturally.'When you breathe in your
. Don't cross the bridge until you come to it.. abdomen should expand at the beginning of your breathing
. It's no use crying over spilt milk. and your chest shouldn't move very much at this stage.
. Hold your breath; then let your muscles relax, and breathe
. Look before you'leap. ii
. He who fighti and runs away may live to fight another da;
out slowly and evenly. It is the breathing out, which is so important
. Two heads are better than one. for relaxation.
. Don't make a mountain out of a molehill.. Sleeping better
. Don't beat your head against a brick wall. First of all, do you really,have a sleep problem? Tests have
. Don't bottle things up. shown that people who believe they aren't sleeping enough rnay
. Don't always want the upper.hand. be getting only about 40 minutes less than the average. And,
I Don't wish you were someone else. secondly, if you are sleeping badly, are you worrying about
. Don't underestimate yourself. something? You must try to solve that problem before sleeping
. Don't refuse to listen. techniques will help you.
. Don't look for trouble. Here are some commonsense ideas.
. Dou't tear yourself in half. How many of them do you do already?
. Don't think the grass is greener on the other side. . If there is too much noise use earplugs.
. Don'.t stick your head in the sand. . If there's too rnuch light double the thickness of your curtains
. Don't expect life to be fair. 0r wear eyeshades
. Don't think it's too late. . I(eep to a re.gular time for going to bed. The body works on
rr 24-hour clock and gets used to certain habits.
1. What situations or events are stressful for you? . If you have been sitting all day, go for late night walk or do
2, What signs of stress are typical for you? some exerclses.
. Don't work or do anything stressful just before you go to
bcd. Spend some time reading a relaxing booli, lvatching feleviiion,
listening to music, etc.
. In bed try doing something very boring (British people
irnagine sheep lumping over a fence one at a time), invent stories,
rccite poetry, etc.
The mind and the body are not separate. When you rel . In bed concentrate on your body. Try lying flat in such a
your body you can relax youi mind. Here are sorne ideas f1 tvay that each half of your body is in an identical position. Dq
people who find it difficult to relax. You might find it useful lrrcathing exercises. Then concentrate on different parts of your
do the first exercise before a difficult and stressful situation, f lrocly, starting with yourr toes and your fingers and trying to
example, an examination or a confrontation with someone. tttake each individual muscle relax.
Good breathing . If you really can't sleep or if you wake up and canlt sleep,
il is better to accept it, put the light on and read for a while
Good, controlled breathing is deep, slow and steady. If I lran lie there feeling very tense
would like to try it:
c You should try to fill the lower part of your lungs fi Muscle relaxatio
(you can stand, sit, or lie on the floor). A tense body makes a tense mind. A quarter of ,an hour of
. Place your hands flat and gently against the lower part relaxation every day rvill pay you well! You will gain
trrrrsc.le
your rib cage. extra energy and goodwill toward3 life generally.
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Try this now: tighten up your thigh muscles as much as . Take a deep breath, hold it, then breathe out slowly. Say
can and hold this tension for at least 30 seconds. Then relax an "relax" to yourself. Teil yourself that you will relax more deeply
feel a delicibus sense of relaxation flooding your legs. The cach time you breathe out.
technique is as follows:
. Find a quiet room, don't have a bright light. . Continue to breathe slowly and deeply. And continue to
. Loosen your clothes, particularly around the neck and w concentrate on any object, which has a vertical sense of novement
. Lie on a carpet flat on your back with your legs slight in front of you.
. You will remain in control of yourself at all times and can
apart.
. Tense and relax each part of your body in turn, starting w become your normal self by saying that you will come out of the
hypnosis when you have counted from 5 to 1
your feet and working upwards towards your head. Tense separ
When you are in a state of hypnosis you experience deep
muscles if you can, even the separate muscles in your face.
. lerlaxation. Furthermore, you can tell yourself u.'hat sort of things
Finish by thinking about your whole body. Lie still f you must do in future. Speak to yotrself positively rather than
another ten minutes. Imagine beautiful places, perhaps a place
the country you know well. negatively, for example, "I shall relax during my train journeys
1.o work and I shall enjoy the simple things around me."
Meditation The techniques in this section help us to value ourselves and
Simple meditation techniques are easy to do and reduce t,o find belief in ourselves. Tliey conceiltrate our attention on
in many people. It's difficult for people to do if they are used inner richness rather than material ricbness. Even 20 minutes
living a fast and stressful life, but it is immensely rewardi cach day can contribute a lot of good and reduce the stress of
You appreciate the wealth of your own being and are able living in the 20th century.
work even better as a result!
. Find a quiet place. 1. Do you sornetimes have sleeping problems?
. Sit comfortably. 2. How do you overcome stress?
. Think of one thing like an ob.ject or a rvord. Concentrate
that one thing. If your mind wonders away, don't worry,
happens to everyone. Just bring yourself back to the object
have chosen.
. Do this for 15 to 20 minutes every day, preferably in
morning and in the evening before you eat (even five minu
would be a help).
Self-hypnosis
Some ioctors teach the technique of self-hypnosis to t
patients so that they can relax themselves if they enter a s
period. In order to hypnotise yourself you need an open
to the idea, and you must have time and a quiet place.
. Don't try too hard, you must feel relaxed in order
hypnosis to work.
. Sit in a relaxed position
. Look at an object, preferably a little above you, and don
let your attention wander.
. As you look at it repeat to yourself that your eyelids
getting heavier, and heavier and heavier until they c
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THE 5PORTING 5PIRIT e already, and we need not add to them by encouraging
men to-kick each other on the shins amid the roars of
I am always amazed when I hear people saying that s infuriated spectators
creates good will between the nations, and that if only
common peoples of the world could meet one another at foot 1. Can you prove the oPPosite?
or cricket, they would have no inclination to meet on t 2. Will the sport without such strong feelings of rivalrY
battlefield. Even if one didn't know from concrete examples t and patriotism still be challenging and interesting?
international sporting contests lead to orgies of hatred
could cleduce it from general principles.
Nearly aJl sports nowadays are competitive. You play to witt, t66
and tl-ie game has little meaning unless you do your utmost
win. On the village green, where you pick up sides and no feeli sPORTs AND 6AA,IE5
of local patriotism is involved, it is possible to play simply
the fun and exercise; but as soon as the question of prest
arises, as soon as you feel that you and some larger unit will
disgraced if you lose, the most savage combative instincts
aroused. Anyone r.vho has played even in a school football
knows this.
At the international level sport is frankly mimic warfa
But thc significant thing is not the behaviour of the players
the attitude of the spectators; and behind the spectators, of t
nations who work themselves into furies over these absu
contests and seriously believe, at any rate for short periods, th
running, .lumping and kicking a ball are tests of national vi
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There are also aquatic sports - water skiing, swimming, di
water polo, yachting, kayaking, canoeing, rowing. People lll 167
the world go in for sports. Ball games are popular with lots
people. They are basketball, volleyball, football (called soccer ,I,IUSCLE BIND5
America), tennis, handball. Many people go to the hills or mou
where there are adapted slopes and down-hill runs for skii "Where's the virtue in sport, fitness and the body beautiful?"
Rugby and especially baseball are very popular in the Un asks Dina La Vardera. "It's high time you hung up your trainers
States. and exercised your mind, not your body." :

Millions of people like to attend matches, watch them on Think about the things in life that give you most pleasure.
or listen to them on the radio and keep their fingers crossed Watching television,perhaps,while sipping chilled lager? How
their favourite teams. about eating lasagne verde by candlelight in a favourite Italian
Many sports have their origins in Britain that is why Bri lestaurant? What do they all have in common? They all involve
is sometimes called the cradle of sports. Two types of ru nothing more strenuous than sitting or lying down.
hockey, cricket, darts, tennis and boxing were invented in E Why, then, this present
Golf has its origins in Scotland. Here are the major sports remaining vertical or run
in Britain - Wimbledon (the Grand Slam Tennis Tournam forms of sport and I abhor
the British Open Golf Championship,the Grand National (it of those who think dev
the best known horse-racing steeplechase). stomachs superior to the cultivation of personally, manners, good
There are other very inportant sports events. The Ol taste in art, music, literatule and sport: I hate the multi-rnillion
Games (the Olympics for short) are the most famous. They propaganda that accompanies the body beautiful, with its lure of
held every four years. They haVe their summer and winter glamour and eternal youth.
which change once every.two years. Other important sports I was brought up to believe that physical exercise was bad
aretheWorld and European Championships and Cups in var I'ol one, and experience seems to support my parents' philosophy
sports. that pain, suffering and ill-health result from anything rnore
At school we have our physical training (PT) lessons t strenrious, than walking to the pillar box on the corner or digging
three times a week. When the weather is good, pupils can go the allotment. This has been reinfolced over the years by reports
to the stadium where they can play football, softball, volle of footballers with torn ligaments, athletes crippled by arthritis,
or practice,track-and-field athletics. During the winter we or joggers dropping dead with heart attacks.
go to a sports hall or a gym where we practice gymnastics Most people's early experiences of exercise - after crawling
some other sports and games. into furniture and throwing building bricks under the settee -
Each of us can be a sportsman but not everyone can be a
one. A good sportsman must be healthy (though now there
also sports events for the handicapped) and a non-smoker,)
must train very hard, have a fair character and listen to;
coach. All his leisure time should be devoted to his sports. rrnd the general humiliation of young and sensitive beings.
Don't let all the youngsters - and let's face it,most of the
1. Which kind of sport do you like group rrldsters, dressed up in their snazzy purple shell suits with yellow
individual? llashes - fool you with their high-tech trainers and Furnp
2. Do you like the kinds of sport that include vi :rttachments to inflate their insoles and their egos. Apart from
lhc odd football fanatic, mi-rscle-man pumping iron and aerobic
l'reak, wouldn't they rather be eating a hamburger with their
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We are all followers of fashion in some way and exercising respects. We may speak, contemptuously of the poor old Romans
a fashion, an ephemeral fad, it saves a lot of trouble if early on because they relished the orgies of slaughter that went on
Iife you put your cards on the table and announce to the wor in their arenas. We may despise them, because, they mistook
that exercise and sport are a bore, a real drag and you these goings on for entertainment. We may, forgive them
better things to do. condescendingly,because they lived 2000 years ago and obviously
It certainly saves you from requests to join in half mara knew no better. But are our feelings of superiority really justified?
for charity and "fun" five-a-sides with colleagues. Are we any less blood-thirsty? Why do boxing matches, for
instance, attract such universal interest? Don't the spectators,
- _ Bgt
full
people who take exercise don't see it like that. They z
of their own importance and rightness. It's all so serious, li who attend them hope they will see some violence? Human beings
religion. And you are one of the pagans. It's difficult talking remain as bloodthirsty as ever they were. The only difference
sporty people: they get a far-off look in their eyes and th between ourselves and the Rornans is that while they were honest
feet keep moving on the spot. enough to admit that they enjoyed watching hungry lions tearing
Exercising makes people think that they can live forever. people apart and eating them alive, we find all sorts of
puts off the moment of realisation that we are mortal. If v iophisti"u-ted arguments to defend sports which should have
don't stay still long enough you don't have to think about s been banned long ago; sports which are quife as barbarous as,
things. Coming to terms with oneself, finding out who on say, public hangings or bear-baiting.
and where one is going, come frorn within, not from runn It really is incredible that in this day and age we should still
round a park with 2,000 other people. allow hunting or bull-fighting, that we should be prepared to sit
Exercise is repetitive and unending; once you stop, the back and watch two men batter each other to pulp in a boxing
returns and the pulse slows down again. It is isolationist. ring that, we should be relatively unmoved by the sight of one or
All you g-et is an obsession with you body. And it's expe a number of racing cars crashing and bursting into flames. Let
in terms of time, effort and material things like club us not deceive ourselves. Any talk of "the sporting spirit" is sheer
equipment and special outfits. hypocrisy. People take part in violent sports because of the high
But take heart, for the best club to join is free, has no rewards they bring. Spectators are willing to pay yast sums of
limit, require no previous experience or special outfits. It's r money to seeviolence.A world heavyweight championship match,
there in you front room. Welcome, Couch Potatoes, to your ri for instance, is front-page news. Millions of people are disappointed
place beside the fire. if a big fight is over in two rounds instead of fifteen. They feel
rlisappointment because they have been deprived of the exquisite
1.. Name as many disadvantages of practicing sport as pleasure of witnessing prolonged torture and violence.
can. Why should we ban violent sports if people enjoy them so
2. Don't people who practice sport get obsessed with rnuch? You may well ask. The answer is simple: they are uncivilised.
body and become narcissistic? lior centuries man has been trying to improve himself spiritually
:rnd emotionally - adrnittedly with little success. But at least
we no longer tolerate the sight madmen cooped up in cages, or
public floggings or any of the countless other barbaric practices,
t".."."*a' which were common in the past. Prisons are no longer the grim
forbidding places they used to be. So.cial welfare systems are in
VTCTOU5 AND DANGEROUS sPORTs 5HOULD operation in many parts of the world. Big efforts are being made
BANNED BY LAW to distribute wealth fairly. These changes have come about not
bccause hurnan beings have suddenly and unaccountably improved,
When you think of the tremendous technological progress but because positive steps were taken to change the law. The law
have made, it's amazing how little we have developed in ot is the biggest instrument of social change that we have and it

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may'exert great civilisirtg influence. If we banned danger by jogging or cycling. A home gym and an exercise bicycle is the
and violent sports, we would be moving one step further ide"at cornUination: the bike also helps you warm up before your
improving mankind. We would recognize that violence work out.
degrading and unworthy of human beings.

t. Do yo.u like any of the dangerous and violent s or aerobic fitness and stamina?
whv? 2. For what reasons do you practice sports: external beauty
2. Why do people practice such sports? to be adored by others or inner health?
3. Should they be banned? att
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HEALTH AND EXERCI5E 5TAR,TIN6 WHEN YOU ARE NOT GOOD FOR THE
START
The "four-l,imb" sports, such as rowing and cross-cou
skiing seem to be especially good for the heart. "When all
limbs are active, more blood is pushed back to the heart
when you are using just your arms or your legs," says Dr Shai
The muscles of the arms and legs use oxygen to produce energy
roughly five calories of energy for every litre of oxygen. This
how fitness experts are able to tell you that lying down,
example, you expend two calories of energy per minute, sit{i
three calories, walking four calories and running upwards of fi
lries of energy a minute.
calories
It is not until you have been running for half an hour hill comfortably.
you use up around 350 calories - which is roughly equiva I started to run because I felt desperately unfit. But the
to the calorific content of a low calorie, pre-packed frozen din biggest pay-off for me wa. -.- and still is - the deep relaxation
"If you want to lose weight you are"better off performi ttrit t uihiive by taking exercise. It tires me out but I find that
lower grade form of exercise such as walking or golf . You ha it does calm me down.
lower rate of energy expenditure but since you are doing it
so much longer the total number of calolies-used up is m
more," says Dr Sharp.
You need a lot of self-discipline to use a home-based
Properly pumping iron can improve you body.but not with
determination
ermination and sweat.
Home gyms consist of a s,lack of iron weights on two para
vertical runners, with a padded bench attached at right a
The idea is that you sit or lie on the bench and, using the v
attachments, push and pull the weights with your arms
legs. Weight'training will improve muscle tone but it does after a slow, six-month build-up I managed the 26.2 miles in
produce aerobib fitness and stamina, which you try to ach ^just under
four hours. A creditable perfonnance for'a first'
timer and a far cry from those days when I had to stop that you suffer from deep tiredness, which you cannot shake
breath after a quarter of a mile. off, then stop jogging for a while and just walk.
What about heart attacks? 81. Wh"n is the attitude fo sport formed? Is it cultivated
My story shows that an unfit 39-year-old, as I was w in one's childhood by parents and can't be changed?
started rirnningr who had taken no serious exercise for 20 ' 2. What are your strongest incentives for keeping fit?
can do the marathon
- and that this is a sport in which wo:
can beat men. But is it crazy to do it? DoeJ it make sense to
in the expectation of becoming healthi.er? What about t7t
chances of injuring yourself or dying of a heart attack?
I was personally convinced of the health benefits of run AAORE THEN A OAME
because I felt unfit, and I wasn't worried about the risk of'
heart attack, because I was not a smoker and I was sticking' Football is one of the few businesses where Europe is ahead
fairly low animal-fat diet but one person I knew well did of the rest of the world. Football is thriving. It has transformed
immediately after a jog and plenty of people told me I was into an industry of the future, not the past ten years ago, the
to start running. prospects of an international foolball fixture was enough to fill
Rgassuring evidence now comes from doctors in Sea police officials in two dozen European countries with dread,
showing that vigorous exercise actually reduces the cha especially if it involved the British. All this kept the middle
of heart attack. They found that people who had a sudden I clisses away. Then came commercial television. Rupert Murdoch
attack when thEy appeared to be completely fit had taken in Britain and Silvio Berluscony in Italy reiognized that football
exercise than those of similar age. According to their findi stadiums were really TV studios. They pounced, chequeboofs at
published in the Journal of the American Medical the ready. The result,'right across Europe, has been massive
is necessary to take twenty minutes of vigorous exercise at I promotion. Goodbye skinheads, hello to Ford Galaxy families...
two or three days a week to obtain some protection from h irlew stadiums are being built and existing grounds rebuilt.
attack. Apart from jogging, the exercise might be swimrning, si Man4gers have learned how to exploit lucrative back channels
tennis or squash, digging or chopping wood. Whatever it is for exlra revenue, opening shops for club-branded goods and
qxercise should leave you out of breath. negotiating lucrative sponsorship deals. Some lost souls cornplain
There is a small risk of unaccustomed stress causing a thit the game has lost its raw intimacy. At its highest levels, the
attack when a person is very unfit, but this can be redu European game is currently in great form. Europe has the best
exercise is always stages. My advice is, if players in the world because Europe imports them from everywhere
are under forty, ar well, you can begin as I in itre world and pays them top s4laries. More than US films or
by joggiqg gently until you are out of breath, then walking, British rock musii, football has become the common currency of
alternating the two for about two miles. Build up the jo1 popular European Culture, the star players as iconic as movie'
stages until you can do the whole distance comfortably. stars and they are pan'Europea . Newspapers and TV stations in
At first, two or three times a week will probably be e llurope long ago Save up covering only their national leagues. In
People over 40 who are in any doubt about their health I he new united states of European football, the players are
see their doctor before starting an exercise programme. Ov r:verywhere, the teams play all over, and fans travel and tune in
should begin by making a vigorous walk of at least two l'rorn all points to see them: Digital television, with its rich
part of the_daily routine. When you can do this comfortably possibility of pay-per-game box offices and "virtual" season
can start the mixed jogging and walking routine and prog lickets, will rnake football even richer
from there. You will have to expect'soieness of mus-cles
joints to begin with. If soreness changes to pain, or if you 1. Are you a football *.1Yn] do you like it? Why not?

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2. Do you approve of massive promotion of football? Is
of any use for the quality of the game?

ifext I
sKYDIVIN6
Go! My sneakers leave the platform, and I somersault out
the plane 12,000 feet. The wind is beyond gale. My brain
and clicks catatonic. No feai. No feeling. No thoughts. J
tumbling. Sky, wind, clouds... I switch rny altimeter spin li
cockpit gauge: y,uuu...6,uuu...
cartoon cocKplt
carf,oon /,uuu. The
9,000...8,000...7,000. I ne nstructor
instructor w
falling beside me, screams so loud I feel my chest vibrate.
points to the altimeter: 6,000...5,500...5,000. He points to
rip cord. Pull it! Why? I don't want to stop. His face
furious. Pull it now! I reluctantly yank the wire loop on
groin. Stillness. Even far under water the earth has never bee
silent. My feet dangle, each covering miles of forest 4,000
below. I turn my head to the right and see the Atlantic Ocean.
the left, the Appalachian Nlountains. I can touch both with
outstretched hands. I own them. Skydiving isn't like diving fi
It is a shockingiy different thing. It rewires your brain. Ong
has taught me the only three things a man needs to know
flight:
1. You won't die falling.
2. If you do, you won't care.
3. Men need to fly.

1. Why do people practice extreme sport? What

give so that they are ready to risk their lives? making money.
2. Is there anything in everyday life thaf can
similar emotions but doesn't endanger one's life?
rtntlo
1. Do you use sport as a way of relaxation? If not, what
physical activitY do You take?
- - 2. \ilould
You like to have a career of a professional
sportsman? In what kind of sPort? WhY?
THE ROLE OF SPORT IN THE AAODERN IJFE
Sport has played an important part in our lives for .

centuries. For some it seems as necessary and natural an

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T\en things went from bad to worse. Granny was well beaten
in the over 70s' 2O0-metres handicap. She was towards the back
of the field for most of the raceamd"failedto finish the course in
THE VILLAOE SPORT5 the end. Then AuntieJase.bad atl kinds of problems in the sack-
race and was just an also-rm- .She.fli{.get aconsolation prize
T!" sports were held as usual on the recreation field, next for finishing - two minutes after the others - but we had been
the glove factory. Officials outnumbered spectators, but thi hoping for a victory in that event. And then, rvorst of all, Granddad
were more cornpetitors than ever before. was disqualified in the egg-and-spoon race for having stuck the
Maggie was the star as always. Apart from lvinning the women egg to the spoon. What's more' he's been banned from entering
sprints and tying for first place in the long jump, she was champi( the competition for five years"
again i im,ately) 50 metres freeslyle, retaining fu I've noticed over the past'few years how the village sports
title fo , She led from start to finish in the runniig, have been getting more and more serious. It's a pity, really. I
the others didnlt stand a chance
- and she was in a class of
own in the.swimming: it was a walk-over, completely one-side
She was across that pond and back before some hadreached t
other side. experience in sports?
Dad did well too. There was a field of fifteen for the 2. Have you ever taken part in a competition? Describe
metres - to the bicycle shed and back it.
- and Dad was
outsider before the race because he's unfit; but he excelled hims
and came second. Was he proud of his runner's-up rnedal? y
should hawe seen himj. 175
ftrr famity were reigningptmmpionstD-the Fjve-a-side footb
competition and hot favourites to win the cup again. We did, b fITNE.SS,OR #UN?
only just. The final - against our old rivais, Ihe Lavenders
finished in a draw, despite two own-goals by Uncle Mac and We British as a nation do all kinds of things in our spare
kept the trophy on goal difference from eariier rounds. Lime: we go shopping or jogging, we play darts or football, we
r:ollect records or stamps, we go to church or to the pub. According
{fter that, things began to go wrong and we suffered a num
of defeats. Uncle Mac and little Donald were in a photo fir lo the latesl figures" during the past yeai, the most popular activity
for last place in tlie father-and-son race or would have been of all was walking: 3F :siil*ium €r,i'tish, peqple, regularly walked
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someone had had a camera. They were just about overtaken r lwo miles or nlore. More'energetically, ten million people went to
the line by old Mr Grey with his fifty-year-old son on his bad kcep fit classes or took part in aerobics or.yoga and half as
it was probably a dead-heat actually. ,,
rnany did some kind of weight training in.a gym. Not only did
Then we were outclassed in the boxing. Uncle Bill wasi rrine million people go cycling but four million went jqgging
beaten finalist at middleweight, but UnclE Mac was knocko ;rnd the same number played football and played golf. Other
out in the second round at heavyweight and at lightweighl popular sports were bowling, badminton, tennis and squash.
was stopped in the first round. (I swear that Boby Lavender Fishing ig the most popular British sport, attracting more
over 50 kilos.) i ;rt:tiveparticipants than football. Sport is important in Britain,
Because o{ -y disappointing performance in that event, ;rnd the British have dev€loped ororiginated the modern'forms
was relegated to the substitutes'. bench for the tug-of-war all ;rucl rules of a number of sports - notably football, rugby, cricket,
Aunt llossie was promoted to our first team. I felt so asham Icunis, polo, horse-racing, field-hockey and crocket. The fitness
Our opponents in the first heat were the butcher's family fro, boom of the eighttues l€d to-big ri,se in the numbers of people
Number 15 and they slaughtered us. prrrticipating in sports. Modern health centres with their
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swinming pools, squash courts, gyms and indoor courts, are
competing with clubs, pubs and cinemas as places for people to
go to spend their leisure time - and their money.
Now, practically every town has a leisure pool, often with a
wave machine, water slides and tropical plants. Families can everl
spend their holidays at huge indoor water parks, where they
play or relax all day long in warmttr and comfort with
worrying about the weather outside.

1. Can sport replace a holiday abroad? Make a list

advantages and disadvantages?
2. Does your ideal holiday include any physical activity

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,IAOVIN6 PICTURE5. THE HISTORY OF CINEAAA

Pictures didn't nrove? The solution to that problem came in several

stages.
=Th" first, in 1877 came via English inventor Eadweard
N1[uybridge. He discovered a w4y to take photos very quicklY, one
;rfter the other.
EIev ater, an American called George Eastman
produce celluloid film on a roll.
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Next, in 1893, came another invention.- Thomas Edison,j D,w. Griffithdeclared
"I(iiretoscope". The kinetoscope projected moving pictures, but In fact, even as late as 1924, dtrector
,,fnl.. *iti never be speaking pictures". But Griffith, Iike Auguste
had three problems, (a) tt was noisy (b) The pictuies it producr
were very low-quality (c) Only one person could watch' I-u.i"t" 29 ye4rs befbre, was wrong' A revolution was coming
kinetoscope at a time. and its name was...
",
Befrsre cinema could be born one last invention was necess4ry
a quiet mashine able to project high quality pictures onto a larl
,
The Talkies
screen. And the men who produced that were two French brothei
from the city oT Lyons.
Louis and Auguste Lumiere
"The Lumiere /Cinematograph" allowed large audiences,
watch "moving pictures". Its debut took place on 28 Decembe
'1895 in a PariJcafe. That
day the Lumierei shorved several shot
films. They were all documentaries and one of them was calle
"Arrival of Train at the Station". Afterwards, Auguste Lumi
talked to reporters about his invention. "It can be exploited f
a certain time," he said, "but it has no commercial value at all,
Well, he was completely wrong. In less than a year cinem
had started to operi in Europe and Aherica. The public's appeti
for films was instant and enormous
- which meant that
and more had to be made. By 1905 movie making r.vasn't just
interesting idea - it was a successful new industry. And
1915 it was an industry with a capital
- Hollywood, USA.
The Silent Era
Hollywood was established in 1912. That's when a grc
of New York film producers decided to open a new studio
California. Why California? Because the cli.mate was g(
labour was cheap and there wer,e lots of beautiful locali
nearby.
As a result of their decision, Hollywood soon attracted fi
actors and.technicians from all over the country. While W
War One was fought in Europe, and for several years after
cinema pioneers made thousands of black and white films
comedies, tragedies, fantasies, romances and historical
This was the silent era - the era of Charlie Chaplin, Rudol
Valentine, Clara Bow, Douglas Fairbanks and Busier I(eaton,
was called "silent" because there was no recorded sound. I
Lhe actors' dialogue appeared on cards shown every 15 or
seconds. At the time it seemed perfectly norrnal. That's si
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ci";,t";i,;;;i.
early 50s, weekly

t
:l
two films per year. In Europe it's three or four and in Arnerica
six or seven. Because of this, modern movie making has become
Studio bosses ent very different from how it was in Louis B. Mayor's tirne. For
ways. These included: cxample:
CINEMASCOPE - This techrrique made it possibre to show
films on a wider screen than ever before. severir actionlpacked - Hollywood has more competition from international film-
makers now than ever before;
9ll"quQ.qpe films were made. The first, a Biblical epic, rn,aJcailecl -- Enormous picture palaces with one screen are being replaced
"The Robe". by "multi-screen" cinemas;
3D - Tb watch 3D or "three-dimensional" films, audie'ces, -- There are still large studios, but the old "studio systern"
fad ]"o wear special classes. These gave images on ttrc screen extra (with groups of stars working for one company) has disappeared;
height, width and depth. The ideiwu, ,r"d in several 50s horror
films, but never really caught on. - Modern films have three lives instead of one, First, they
appear in the cinema, then on video, and finally they're shown on
TV.

1. What attracted such audiences to watch films at the

cinema?
2. Why did the age of cinema-goers change?
3. Why do people prefer to watch films at the cinema

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Beforethe caneras a Moaies should haue a beginning, a niddle, and
an end,
nrn
rn'as 3i> arrival of but not necessarilg in that order.
bigger, clea 70 mm is ,
Iean-Luc Godard

tT7

THE RA6E OF RAMBO

S d, Rambo
gr
t2, w heered in
"I PerfectlY
lrticulated the nation's mood over Vietnam."
ilm, substitutes
o, her hero of the
li Other than the
,, him, Stallone's
( cupation in the film is ex preposterous
I enormous breasts loom o reen like Jane
I The Outlaw. The acting is rnostly by his
lriceps.
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The several hundred killings are perpetrated almost entirely
by although e by a fernale 178
Vi for the US even played
by ut Julia Nic en English), AAAERICAN PIE
Rambo stabs, clubs, shoots, strangles, burns, bornbs, clrownsl
ancl garrottes his victims using enough knives to equi p a meat "Genuine and sweet as mom's homemade..."
market, niostly carried in his boots. As urell as a high-tectr bow Finally, a really good teen flick! In a year pep.pered with
with exploding arrows, he also marages to ploduce three assorted mediocre"films stairing beautiful young actors, we have zr clear
machine guns, all with inexhaustitrle ammunition clips. winner in American Pie. This corning-of-age high school film is
He has no need of a helmet or flack jacket -let alone a vulgar, raunchy, innocent, rude, fanny and incredibly sweet -
shirt - because none of the enemy fire ever:hits him whereas hg rnuch like high school.
never misses. Rarnbo was obviously what the Americans needed The premise of American Pie is absurdly simple:
before being chased out of Saigon in 1975. A group of senio s make a pact to lose their virginity by
The B-52s rnight even have remained in Guam, for Rambo i prom nighf" I know, I know, it's been done - Porky's, Fast Times
"a human war machine", as his old colonel observes. He becom ot niagE ont lligh and Revenge of the Nerds - fans of the
Bombo and Lrlorvs up two dozen bamboo huts, an entire viilage genre won't be disappoilted.
a bridge, several vehicles, a monster Russian bomber helicopter There's plenty ol gross gags - involving vomit, diarrhoea,
trvo boats, a rice paddy and about half a battalion. prernature ejaculation, beer and sperm chaser, and masturbation
As an ex-Green Beret, Rambo's task is to firrd a jungle ca to nu-" a few - but what surprised me about the film is that it
for American MIAs. Missing in Action, photograph any' if there, goes beyond the clich6s.
and return "without engaging the enem5,." (As this is supposcd In losing their virginiby, the four friencls come to hilarious
yet touchring realizations about themselves, their friendships, love,
to be 1985, the incursion is illegal and Vietnam is not an enemy.
Ignoring bis brief from the start, he tells Co that "order io-u".. ut? th" opposite sex. Americau Pie Save me nostalgic
pangs for high schb-ol but it was real enough to remind me that
dr.tn't rnatter." FIis first act is to shoot an arrow through a guarcl'
high school is something most of us rever want to repe-at.
head, irnpaling him to a tree. This caused a fellorv behind me i
One thing I found refreshing is the film's portrayal of high
a T-shirt marked "uSA" in red, white and blue, to shout gleefull
school girls. According to press, first time directorT'producer team
"good arrow" as if at a Sunday darts match.
Rabo's final words are the nearest he comes to a full sentence
of brothers Paul and Chris Weitz made a conscious choice to
portray women as more then objects of desrre.
All he wants, he grunts, is "for- our country to love us as much ' Asi remember, when it cameto sex, high school girls had all
we love it." Howls of approval from audiences, most of whont i-he pou,er. On the whole thev tended to be more mature, more
like IvIr. Stallone, did not actually serve in the real Vie attrictive, sexier and smelled a heck of a lot better than high
either. school boys. It was the girls who decided when and with whom
The idea that the US did not lose has obvious attractions L.hey'd lose their virginity. High school boys, despite their desperate
an irnperial power beaten by a nation of peasants. lttempts, were peripheral on tlie issue' That's something that's
l)ang on in the film
1. Do you like the filmmakers' support of patri
component in the movies? Don't you thirrk that they are 1. Make a similar review of your favourite movie.
speculating on what sells good?
2. Do such films have the sarne impact on women or ' to make a conteds is a park' a policem,a" o"o-.o
just an easy way to attract men? ,rrl/;';:r';t i
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them one frame at a time (b) exposing
second (rather than 1 /4 of a second as
it's projected at 24 frames per second,
sTUNTs AND AAAKE-UP

Thrills, shocks, speed, danger and transformation. They're

an important part of cinema's appeal - especially for you
audiences. But how are ) movie's most exciting moments created
Special effects I(ing Kong Stunts
One of the most famous special effects in early cinerna
created by Willis O'Brien. He was the mair who brought Ki
Kong to life. Advertised as "The Eighth Wonder Of The World'l
I(ong was an enormous gorilla. But to O'Brien he was more tha
that - he was also an enormous problem. How could audiences
made to believe in I(ong's size without building A 20-metre model
There were two solutions. First, O'Brien built a small Ki
I(ong skeleton and covered it in rubber, cotton and rabbit f
Less than 1-metre tall this is the "rrlonster" which appeared
everything but close-ups. It was filmed one frame at a ti
and moved between each photograph like a 3D cartoon charac
As for size it looked huge because everything else was sca
down - skyscrapers, trees...even Fay Wray (the actress w
played I(ong's human prisoner) was replabed by a 1O-centi
model in some shots.
Then O'Brien built a full-size version of the gorilla's
and.shoulders. This was used for close-up scenes. There was the screen, remember who you're really watching.
a full-size hand in which I(ong could hold the real Fay Wray. Make-uP
Together, these models amazed audiences and made I(ng I(or
Like stunt men and women, make-up artists weren't fully
the most famous monster in cinema history.
recognized in the film world until recently. In fact_the Academy
Industrial light and magic ewaid or "Oscar" category for make-up was only created in
Many of today's most exciting special effects are filmed 1982. Which seems strange when you think what an important
"Industrial Light And Magic". Producer George Lucas built I role make-up plays. withouf it, some famous films couldn't even
in California during the 70s. At that time he wanted to devr have been rnade.
new effects for his "Star Wars" series. The results wdre suc For example:
So successful that they made ILM the world's top special eff
. CitizenlKane (where Orson Welles aged over 50 years).
studio. Here ard just two of the effects developed there in the . The Company of Wolves (where some of the characters
ten years. actually turnedinto wolves in front of the camera).
Go-motion. Do you remember the "space-bikesl' chase ,
Greystoke (where make-up turned human actors into
"Return Of The Jedi"? That was filmed in go-motion. Itls chimpanzees).
technique; which makes special effects models (cars, space-shi But perhaps the best-known recent example of make-up was
in ,,Theblephant Man". It consisted of 15 different sections and
robots, etc) look faster and more realistic. How? By (a) filrni
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took eight weeks to plan. It also took a long-time to put onr
Make-up artist, Chris Tucker, and actor, .lohn Hurt, began work
at 4 a.m. each morning so that shooting could begin at middayr

1. In which fitrm you have seen was the best work

stuntmen (men and women)? And why?
2. What are the advantages and.the disadvantages of us
stuntmen?
3. Is make-up important in movies nowadays? If yes, s
on exarnples?

AAOVIEs

Casablanca was first shown in November 1942, a few

after Allied forces had landed in Morocco to liberate the ci film actress with a more beautifully expressive face in close-rlp
from the Nazis. For its fiftieth anniversary, the film was show
once again in main cinemas in London and New York, and in tb tinuing
intervening years it has never lost its popularity. How has th human
film become probably the best loved of all motion pictures? than to
The question has been asked many times, above all
the film was largely improvised. Ttr*e scriptwriters were maki
alterations up to the last minute, and it is said that Ingri
Bergman was not told until just before the last scene whe
Lisa would end in the arms of Rick or her husband.
The film has never been very popular with the critics, though
When it was first shown, it was greeted with lukewarm revi
and even though it won the Oscars for the best film, the 1. Are there any old films you like and appreciate? What
direction and the best screenplay a year later, nany share t do you like about them in particular?
view of Pauline I(ael, who described it as "a movie tha Z. Wttut standards should a film you like meet? What
demonstrates how entertaining a bad movie can be". scenes, effects, actors influence you most?
It is probably inevitable that at this distance, th,
straightforward presentation of people as good and bad, t 181
conviction that it is right to take part in a war in certa ttt.

circumstances, the invocation of patriotism when everyone i

"..tto

Rick's cafe stands up to sing the Marseillaise, drowning'the Germ THE WONDERFUL WORLD OF THE THEATRE
officers' protests, all seem rather dated. And it is easy to call
love affair between Rick and Lisa and the scene of their parti
(From the book J.B. PriestlY)
bY
as he watches her leave with her husband, sentimental, and typi W-hat's Theatrb? Why has it lasted so long? What does it
of Hollywood. Intellectual critics, indeed, were bound to disli mean to us? We know that it offers amusement and pleasure, but
then so do lots of other things. Is there something special to
itself that it"bffers us? Clearly there is, otherwise the Theatre
would not have gone on so long and in so many different places.
During the'last thirty years the Theatre has had to meet three ,

challenges - from radio, cinema, and television. All three produce,,,

drama of a sort, all possess important advantages.
As a rule it doesn't cost as much to see a film as it does to see
a play, and films can be seen in a great many places that have
never known a theatre. Radio and television can be enjoyed at ,

home, with a minimum of effort, turning the living room ipto a of experience.
playhouse.
And all three, because they are produced, for a mass audience, l i
can offer casts of players that only the best theatres could
afford.
Already many people tell us that with their television sets at
home and an occasional visit to the movies, they r1o longer need'
the Theatre and do not care whether it lives or dies.
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Such people do not understand that the Theatre is the parent
of these new drarnatic forms. Without a living Theatre where' 5TRAININ6 EVERY NERVE
writers, directors, designers and actors could learn their iobs,
moment
movies and television plays would be very crude.indeed. . ,
In a very good restaurant we have a dlnner that is speciallyi Peculiar
coqked for us: in a canteen we are merely served with standa
will be
dressing
portions of a standard meal. And this is the difference betwee
thi: living Theatre and the mass entertainment of films, radio a ital ward or a funeral Parlour'
television. In the Theatre the play is specially cooked for us."
Those who have worked in the Theatre know that a productiortri be able to resist the magnetic
never takes its final shape until it has an audience. at your lunch. You'll drink rna
With films, radio, television, the vast audience can only recei There will be a number of
what is being offered. But in the Theatre the audience might whom will have seen it before w
said to be creatively receptive, its very presence, and intense won't laugh again. Those who h
do, it'll be in quite the wrong place. The play.will
living presence, heightens the drama
The actors are not playing to microphones and ganeras
";th"; t""iiitn.]
Iast eight and a half hor
to warmly responsive fellow-creatures. And they are never givi
'.1- ;:,""H[ltJr"li?r::,tiiliii:
exactly the same performance, if the audience tends to be heavy, designed bY Remb,randt. You
unresponsive - on a wet Monday, perhaps - the com can:the audience? All in all,
slightly sharpens and heightens its performance to bring t ng to be over.
audience to life, and vice versa if the audience is too enthusiastic: tlke place in the auditorium of a
Film and television acting is much smaller and quieter theatre other than the one in which the play will go on'.The
that of the Theatre. Nevertheless, with a very few exceptions d,irector, the assistant director, the casting agent, possibly the
th;;l;;;; artistic director, probably the producer are all lounging
best performers of fi,lm and television are actors and act
from the Theatre, which has taught thern their art. i"1rt" ri"ils with their feet on the back of the seat in front. There

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are twenty or thirty plas(ic cups with cigarette butts lying in an
inch of coffee littering the aisle with smoke and
raucous laughter. Thi director joke. About the
previous,actor you think dark ve a little joke'
about you too when you've gone: People leap up to greet you, the l

casting director introduces you to everyone, you shake the director' ,

as firmly by the hand as you can without betraying your tension.
Your voice is trembling oddly. You long for a cigarette even i

though you don't smoke but you don't take the one offered to rr

you because it might seem unprofessional and your mouth ig

already so dry that it's painful to swallow.
"Ybu deserve a rest." No. The only thing I deserve, I hope is a
job. If you have a job a few weeks hence, then a gap of a few;
rveeks will be most welcome. But any time, any day not working
and without the prospect of work, is dead time, grey time anxiouS
and haunted times. You could learn German, take driving lessons,
night classes in the History of Art. No, you couldn't. Even if
you've got any money, which is unlikely, it's impossible to settle
to anything. There's ;omething wrong, sornething missing.

1. Is being an actor a vocation or can anybody do this?

Does it require special education? Why?
2. Ftrave you ever thought of becoming an actor? Why?n
Advantages and disadvantages. ' 'i

Text 183
otoonot"

CONFE55ION5 OF A WOULD-BE ACTOR

After playing Joseph in a nativity play at the age of five andi,
a half, - I can still remember the three lines I had -
theatrical career really took off. I was chosen to be the bacill
end of the pantom,ime horse in our school end-of-term Christmai
show. Success there, or rather lack of it - the horse's seams caine
apait soon after our first entrance - led to my being given the
job of stagehand for all future productions. Even scenery falli
over in the middle of an Italian light opera and last-minut
panic over the missing set for an ancient Greek tragedy failed t
persuade our drama teacher that I would be less of a risk o
stage than off. (That, in fact, is not strictly true, I did have
l. Describe your experience of acting.
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2. What do you appreciate more in the theatre: acting,,
music, costumes and props, or the atmosphere?

l usrc
Of all the iultural influences that have come out of the Un
States in the 20tr' century, it's likely that none has been so fa
reaching as popular music.
What, precisely, is POPULAR music? In the United Sta
this term has acquired a variety of meanings, but in the m
basic sense, it refers to the kinds of music enjoyed by a b
public and stands in contrast to the classical music of the W
European tradition. Some music historians, in fact, see
development of American music as a continual dialogue betw
the cultivated and the vernacular, between the "serious" m
of high ant and the music heard on street corners or in
halls. In the early 19'r' century, popular music consisted largely
soqgs with homegrown lyrics grafted on to rnelodies borro musicians from outside the United states. At the same time, a
front England. By the middle of the century, composers like Stel n"\V g..r"rotion of tJS jazz musicians, most still in their 20s) has
Foster, often influenced by the music brought from Africa reinvfgorated the avaht-garde with a new power and a- new
black slaves, were writing the first bruly American-popular so creative freedom.
By the end of the century, white and black styles had merged
the syncopated rhythrns of ragtime.
As the 2Oth century progressed, the line between popular
serious music became blurred. George Gershwin, for example,
a popular composer whose music has always been admired
cultivated circles.' Classical styles influenced Hollywood fil
composers. In the 1930s, a Ieiftist populism proclaimed the val
of the popular and folk traditions, and serious Eomposers I
Aaron Copland and Virgil Thomson incorporated folk melod
in their work. What began as the consummate vernacular
forrn - jazz, music once played mainly in saloons and c
halls - has developed to the point where the improvishtio the test of 'the culture.
musicians are so esoteric that jazz is often labelled "elitist"
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Musicians and artists rebelled as well. Tennessee singer Elvis
Presley popularised black. music in the form of rock and roll;
and shocked more staid Americans with his ducktail haircut
and undulating hips.In addition, Elvis and other rock and roll,|
singers demonstrated that there was white audience for black
music, thus testifying to the increasing integration of AmericaD
culture.
The visible signs of the counterculture permeated Ametica,n
society in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Hair grew longer an{'
beards became iemmon. Blue jeans and T-shirts took the place of
slacks, jackets and.ties. The use of illegal drugs increased in
effort to free the mind from past constraints. Rock and rol
grew, proliferated and transformed into many musical variations.
The Beatles, the Rolling Stones and other British groups took t
country by storm. Hard roch grew popular, and songs with
political or social commentary, such as those by singer-songwrit
Bob Dylan, became common. The youth counterculture
its apogee in August 1969 at Woodstock, a three-day music festi
in rural New York State attended by almost half-a-million
The festival, mythologized in films and record albums, gave
name to the era - The Woodstock Generation.

1. Can you drdw a line between popular and classi

music and show the difference between them?
2. What is popular music for you?
3. What particular traits define the Woodstock
tc.tt*arr.!*t

Music is the effort ae make to explain to ourseloes hqu

our brains aork. We listen to Bach transfired because thiS ,

is listening to a human mind.

Leanis Thomas"

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WHY DO WE UIKE ,IAUsIC?

Bg M. Mitchell Wqldrop
SALIERI: It started simply enough: just a pulse in the
- bassoons and basset horns - like
registers a rusty squeezebox
And then suddenly, high above it, sounded a single note on
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son.gs in much the same way as they start to use longer and morel a
cornplex sentences.
But music is not just langua ;e in another form, says Gardnerl i
ta.
*t taO
For example, the Soviet composer V. Shebalin suffered a stroke
in the left temporal lobre of his brain, the area for language TRY IT A6AIN
comprehension. Afterwards he had great difficulty comrnunicating,
yet his compositions were as brilliant and as sensitive ds ever; I spent nearly six years studying and practicing the piarlo at
On the other hand, a young musical composer suffered school; that's to say, four years playing scales and arpeggios,
to the right hemisphere of his brain. He had no troub then eighteen months let loose on actual pieces of music.
communicating and eventually returned to teaching music. But, My teacher, Mr. Pearson, was the sort of person who thought
he had lost all interest in composition. He even lost much of hii
that anyone who didn't have perfect pitch was educationally
enjoyment in listening to rnusic. subnormal and as for pupils - like me - who had difficulty in
l
Studies such as these, Gardner says, indicate that some reading music and never really began to master sight-reading,
essence of our musicality is located in the right front of t well, there was really no hope in life.
brain. The exact location, however, and the exact nature of th Looking back, I can see that he was not particularly modern
or enlightened in his approach. There were weekly tests along the
essence is far from clear. Even if we do someday track down
lines of: "How mahy flats are there in the key of A flat major?"
brain's "music receptor, " we are still left with one final mys
"How,were Bach's ideas on melody, harmony and counterpoint
Why is it. there? Some scholars have suggested that our music
abilities evolved at the same time we acquired language; an
significant?" "What" was the opus number of Mozatt's Ein'e
from a few hundred thousands years ago to a million years Kleine Nachtmusi,k?" and lots of unanswerable questions about
bass clefs and treble clefs, etc. Still, we persevered together for
Yet language gave our tribal ancestors a clear evolutiona
those six years, despite my numerous handicaps. For a start, my
advantage: better communication meant a better chance
sense of rhythm - especially for anything syncopated - was
survival. What need did music serve?
Of course, we would also ask that question about painting virtually non'existent. "How many beats in the bar, Haskins?"
"Three, sir."
sculpture, dance or poetry. Why do humans respond to beaut
any kind? To that question, we have no more answer than Shaff
i'Then kindly stop trying to squeeze in five."
Then, being so small, neither of my hands could span a full
tortured Salieri, who cried up to his "sharp old God": "W
octave which meant that keys were rarely struck by the finger
is this? Tell me, Signore! What is this pain? What is this n
recommended and that, particularly on the black notes, the little
in the sound? Forever unfulfillable, yet fulfilling him who
finger fell short of expectations. "Is there normally a B flat in a
it, utterly. "
B major chord, Haskins?" "No, sir."
"Right, then spare us it, will you?"
t. Why do you listen to music? Is it just a way to relax It wasn't that I didn'-t try. On the contrary, I had visions of
does it
have a bigger meaning? one day performing in concerts and recitals, if not as a soloist, '
2. How quickly do your likes in music change? at least accompanying guest singers and instrumentalists.
Sornehow, the visions became fainter and fainter. "I think if
Beethoven had wanted a minor chord just there, Haskins, he
Trulg fqrtile Music, the only kind that u;ill mooe us, that u;e ,
would have written one. Don't you?"
uill be a music conducioe to Dream, u;ltich
shall trulg appreciate, So the years went on, endless variations on a single theme,
banbhes all reason and analgsis. One must not u;ish first to rlozens of arrangements of one basic tune, which I swear he
understand and the.n to feel. Art does not talerate Reason. composed himself. I must admit there were times v'hen I thought
of c[anging instruments - gbing back to the woodwind, class,
'11

Albert Camuilt where I had bitten through three oboe reeds in one session, or
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the strings department, where I kept dropping the.viola bow, or
the percussion wing, where I had snapped twodrumsticks inside
s class, where I had nearly swallowed a
ut I didn't. I stayed with Mr. Pearson i,
the wrong notes, the missed entranOes,
the "Try it agains". I suppose I was lqcky that you can't play the
piano out of tune. I'm sure if it was possible to play flat, I would
have done. 'rWhat's the difference between an F sharp and an F I
natural, Haskins?" "A semitone, sir."
"Correct. Now, if you could remember that while you're
playing, you might not make such a pig's ear out of one-of thq
most beautiful melodies Brahms ever comp.osed. Try iti
again. "' ,t

1. Jlave you ever taken any lessons in music? If yes

describe your experiences.
2. Does playing musical instruments'require skills '""1*L11f; iff Jffill. in the 80s, too - musical technologv.
-
talent? In less than Ten years, video, compact discs and computers all
became important in the pop industry.
. Thants to video, every single suddenly had its own three-
minute film.
ROCK AND POP
-. Thanks to compact.discs, the quality of recorded sound
was better than ever.
. Thanks to computers it was possible to play and record
.Two groups show the different sides of 70s pop - ABBAi thousands of new sounds-
and the Sex Pistols. Sweden's ABBA worked witn tne latest
technology Tn"{ songs were popular with people from 8 to 80,,i
They were rich. They made videos. There weie, in fact, superst4fi 1. What features of each trend in pop music appeal to its
entertainers. And they weren't alone. There were a lot of fans?
70s superstars, too 2. What helped rnusic occupy such an important part in
- Elton John, David Bowie, Rod Stewardi today's life?
Queen. By the mid-7Os music was a billion-dollai and artists likei
these controlled it.
B.ut no.t everyb.ody was happy with superstar pop. For many xt 188
people it didn't take enough risks. Some of them decided to plaiil ...""".
a new, more dangerous kind of music
- punk rock. ROCK AAUSIC AND EDUCATION
The punk revolution began in small clubs. One of them waSr
the "The 100 Club" in London's Oxford Street. That's wh They said it would never last, but here we are almost four
bands appear in the late 70s. Everythi decades later, wlth rock and roll bigger - and some would say
about was different. They didn'i lo better - than ever.
happy r and angry. They didn't srnile Foreign earnings from the music business are second only to
they spat. They weren't good musicians insurance"and banfing, which will give you some idea of the size
play their instruments at all. - many of them Couldnl
and scale of the market.
In those heady, far-off dirys'of the 1950s, rock music was
something your mother di.sliked and your father tried to

the people who became tradesmen/women are having to retrain';'

for iomething else, following the virtual demise of industry ini
Britain.
Some fortunate or unfortunate teenagers (depending on
point of view) managed to go to college or university to study
iome sort of ology.
Before the end of the 50s, th: TV networks.were catering for,
the demands of youth and rock and roll. This took the form of
programmes such as Oh Boy! and Six-Five Special, which were
the forerunners'of the 1960s' Ready, Steady, Go! and the mor
IoP
rtNecl Top
sanitised oI the Fops.
of tne
-covered Pops. ,

Schools all the tra litionally relevant subjects;'

including the 3 Rs, which may have included music, but definitely'r
did not include rock and roll.
School has regularly received acknowledgement in pop
Chuck Berry, R.od Stewart, Alice Cooper and Pink Floyd
some of the artists who used the word and sometimes the i
associated with an experience everyone goeS through, or in some,
two years qf the course.
cases, endures. in. trend within the vocational'sector of education for the
Since 1955, pop/rock music has gradually become m 16+ age group is increasingly to p-rov
acceptable to the Establishment. Indeed some pop/rock z for students and relqvant to jobs
have come perilously close to becoming the Establisht corridors of academia are gradually
themselves - the Beatles with their MBEs and Elton John stacks and assorted sequencers'
Mick Jagger, who seem to have a foot in the door of Bucki The future looks biight for budding rock musicians who
Palace. wish to acquire formal quilifications. We may well see a Ph.D. in
The 1960s witnessed a redrawing of cultural boundarieg - - -ti Music in the future.
Rock
with the music business in'particular at the cutting edge. rnay only be rock and roll to you, but increasingly it's
In line with this generally wider acceptance and understand homework to someone else.
that this form of music would not disappear overnight, sc
and colleges have in the last few years begun to offer cou
and facilities that can enhance and complement intere$t 1. How could musical education be used in today's world?
pop/rock music. i. bo"fd'ou dedicate several years of your life to studying
- -In comprehensive schools across the country, under of this subject? WhY?
auspices of Local Education Authorities, it has been reali
It is only right that the stars should be paid in this way.
. There i.s something oerA aonderful in music" Illor/s.ar-e
'siftrat{*'
:. Don't the top men in industry earn enormous salaries for the

the successes and rewards of others. People who make envious

remarks should remember that the most famous stars represent
only the tip of the iceberg. For every fanous star, there are
hundreds of others struggling to earn a living. A man working
in a steady job and looking forward to a pension at the end of
189 it has no right to expect very high rewards. He has chosen security
and peace of mind, so there will always be a limit to what he can
earn. But a man who atternpts to become a star is taking enormous
POP 5TAR5 CERTAINLY EARN THEIR AAONEY qisks. He knows at the outset that only a handful of competitors
ever get to the very top. He knows that years of concentrated
Pop stars todaY enjoY.a st effort may be rewarded with complete failure. But he knows,
prerogative only of [toYaltY- too, that the rewards for success are very high indeed; they are
in their thousands to greet th the recompense for the huge risks involved and if he achieves
catch a brief glimPse of their them, he has certainly earned them. That's the essence of private
idols. The stars are transPorted enterprise.
Roy helicoPters are "

sutr ents
Permanent 1. What traits should a person possess to become a star in
and . PhotograP
- I ana goings are reporteo,
the
ror, like the entertainment industry?
. If they enjoy many of the privileges 2. What disadvantages does their way of life possess?
share many of the inconveniences as
m to make unscheduled aPPearances
in public. They must rnstantly shielded from the adoring
*trich idolise t They are no longer private individuals,
"t"'*ar,
u.rt p"uti. property. The finan"cial-rewards they receive for this
uuirifi." cannot be calculated; for their rates of pay are
astronomical;
And wl'ry not? SocietY h
entertainers lavishlY' The grea
Iegendary: famous stars enjoY
on an unprecedented scale. BY
Hollywood te so sPt
.""oid no* much r
ever did. T for the title Top of the Pops is fierce'
but the rewards are trulY colossal'
CONTENTS IV. Weather and climate ...................85
Text 38. Seasons I ............... .................... 85
or cocrABt4TEItg. .........1....... : Text 39. Seasons II .............. .................... 86
I. Men and Women ............ Text 40. Seasons III ............. .................... 88
Text 1. On marriage 5 Text 41. On English climate .....................89
Text 42. Weather forecast ....... g0
Text 43. Weather in Britain and in New York .................................92
Text 44. Discussing the weather ........,......... ................. 94
V. Traoelling ........... ........96
Text 45. The art of travelling abroad .......... 96
' Text 46. Travel broadens the mind ......:.....-..-.. .............97
Text 47. Choosing a holiday .................... 100
Text 48. How to avoid travelling............. .................. 101
Text 49. Camping is the ideal way of spending a holiday ................. 103
Text 50. Modern holidays ..... 105
Text 51. Holidays and special occasions.................. .... 106
Text52. Killingthegoose .....:............ ..... 108
VI. Nature and enoironment....... ....... 110
Text 53. Climate crisis.......... .................. 110
TextS4. Acidrain ............... 111
Text 55. Clean cars, clean fuels ................ 112
Text 56. Nuclear energy ........ 114
Text 57. Environmental hazards
Text 58. Saving the planet .........:........ .... 118
Text 59. Greenpeace .......;.......... ............ 120
Text 60. Planet Earth is 4,600 million years dld ........... 121
Text22. Quiet, secure life is goal for children ....:..-.-.......--.'-.-.....-.-... 52 Text 61. Green consumerism.,........ .......... 122
Text 23. Being a teenager's parent ....--.. ..'..53 ' VIf . Mass media ...........,..124
Text2l. Teenagersnow........... ....--....'...." 55 Text 62. Is technology getting out of hand? ................. 124
Text 25. Believe it or not, your parents can be your best friends.....--.... 56 Text 63. Television comes to America ....... 125
Text 26. American youth ..i...... ...............-' 57 Text 64. TV or not TV? ........... .............. 127
.Text27. The stay-at-home kids .....-........""' 62 Text 65. Television is doing irreparable harm .......... ..... I2g
Text 28. What is a father? "".' 65 Text 66. Influence of TV and Radio ......... .................. 131
Text 29. Child abuse ,"""""" 67 Text 67. Children watch too much television ...............,................. 133
Text30.Victimsandperpetrators..-...'..... ......'-'......""'q9 Text 68.Censorship'.. ........... 134
Text 31. Listen to the plea """ 70 Text 69. Turn down the violence volume ... 136
III. Citg """"" 72 | Text 70. Interview withJoanna Bogle, of the National Viewers' and
Text 32. City and traffic........ -..."""""""72 Listeners'Association,.. ...:.............. ........ 139
Text 33. Car Driving and Traffic Regulations ."""""""' 73 Text71.Badandworse...-................:...... .............:..143
Text 34. Town ......... """"""'74 Text72. Personal computers: the ebrly years .-........ ...... 144
Text 35. Creative alternatives to urban sprau'l: a tale of two cities """ 75
'
Text 73. How media literacy can change the world.................. ......'.. 148
Text 36. The world's urban explosion ............ """""""' 79 Text74. American mass media ...,............. 149
Text 37. Nightmare of the monster cities .....'.:'.-...'... """ 82 Text 75. How do we get the news? ............ 153
Text 76. The media in Britain .................. 154
372 373
Text77. Newspapers in Britain """""""" 156 Text 115. Giles .......... .,.,............... 236
Text 78. Headlines """""""' 158 Texl 116. Nutrition .....-........237
Text 79. Sonie interesting words..":..'.........' """""" " 160 Text 117. Do you eat the right food? ........ 238
Text 80. The worlcl service "" 161 Text 1 18. Fast food .... 239
Text 81. The',r,orld of TV commercials .."'-"' """""' ' 163 Text 119. Why cook? Raw food is fine......... ..............241
Text 82. Forcing you tp buy """""""""" 165 Text 120. We shouid all grow fat and be happy ,.......... 243
VIII. Politics.... ",'i"""""""""""" 167
Text 121. Restaurants .......... 243
Text 83. Why go into'politics? """"" ""' 167
Text 122. McDortald'g restaurants ,.,......... 244
Text 84. If only it were like this! """"""" 168 Text 123. Vegetarianism ..,.... 245
Text 85. Ways of running a country """ " 169 Text124. Dieting .........,.....248
Text 86. What is politics? ""' 170 i

Text 125. Food handling ............... ......... 250

Text 87. Bill Clinton - a question of character """"'"' 172 Text 126. The right food ............................. ..,.,.,,,,.,., '252
Text 88. ress............ .'."""' 174
Text 127. Vitamin C. The ultimate health insurance ............. ..........,, '254
Text 89. Bill Clinton """"" 179 Text 128.I{ow to start a day in a lazy way ........... .,.,.. 257
Text 90. ........'....'..:. """"" 184 Text 129. American and British dinner mannerS............................. 258
IX. War. c"i"""""" """' 188 Text 130. A list of do's and don'ts......... .................... 261
Text 91. The American Civil War........... """""""""" 188 Text 131. In search nf good English food ........... ......... 262
Text 92. Superpower Cold War and I(orea """"""""' 190 Text'132. Puddings .................. .............. 263
Text 93. A balance of terror """"""""".'' 192
Text 133. Five simple ways to cook an e99............. .,.... 264
Text 91+. Crisis over Cuba .......... '""'"""' 195
" Text 134. American food: from asparagus to zucchini ..............,....... 265
Text 95. The roots of war.-....... "-"""""" 198
XIII. Shopping and fashion .;............. ..,......,..;.268
Text 96. The immorality of war """""""" 200 Text 135. Market ................ 268
Text 97. Death for your country """"""" 203 Text 136. Your rights when buying goods.......... .......... 270
X. Crime and punishment..,..... Text 137. Marks & Spenser ',.. 272
Text 98. Punishment takes many forms ""'"'- """"" "' 206'
Text i38. Shopping centre ........ .................. .............. 273
Text 99. Real crime and pseudo crime! """"' """""""" 208
Text 139. Going shopping .............. ......... 274
Text 100. What do you think? Crime and punishment """""""" .' 208
Text 140. Why the stars think it's chic to dress down......................276
Text 101. Crirne, the law and the police..'-""' """"""" 210
Text 147. New fashions in clothing are created solely for the commercial
Text 102. Capital is the only way to deter criminals """' 211
exploitation of women
Text 103. The han ....i'.'..-....." .""""""""' 212
Text 142. Fashion or individuality ............. ................ 280
Text 104' crime d """"""""'- """"""""" 214
XIV. Getting along utith peop|e............. .,,...,....282
XI. Teenagers' problems........'.... """216 Text 143. Prejudice ..............282
Text 105. The war against drugs ......'.. ' " 216 Text 144. Getting along with people ......... 284
Text 106. Alcohol ................ 218
Text 145. Are you a doer or a thinker? .................. ...... 286
Text107'Worldgovernmentsshouldconductseriouscampaignsagainst Text 146. Looking good gets the goodies ... 288
smoking...... .....'...i.'.'.'.' ""' 219 Text 147. Our faces and our expressions ... 290
Text 108. The cigarette fact-file """""""" 220 Text 148. Do you touch people? ............... ................. 292
Text 109. Juvenile delinquency """""""" 221 Text 149. How to be a good listener:................. ......... 294
Text 110. Shops seem to put temptation in the way """' 225 XV. Ilealth ......298
Text 111. "Let's get wasted" """" """"" 226
Text 150. Good ddys, bad days ................ 298
Text 112. Parenls' dilemma "' 230
Text 151. Doctors -.-............. 299
xrr' Food """'234 Text 152. General hospitals ..................... 301
Text 113. Food .......,.. """ " 234 'Iext 153. Alternative medicine ................. 302
Text 114. My favourite room .'.-...-.. """ ' 235 Text 154. Smoking .......-....... 303
374
375
Text 155- Are people fit enough? .............. 305
Text 156. What to do about flu ............. ... 307
Text 157. 10 ways to treat a coId.....,... .............,........ 308

I:xlll8 ii3:"ffi,"11$:::::::::
Text 160. Health services in Great Britain
: :: :,3ll
................... 316
Text 161. Dicing with death .................... 318
Text 162. How to build a healthy response to stress........,............... 320
Text 163. How to reduce stress and tension ................. 323
Text 164. Relaxation: mind and body......,................i................... 326
XVI. Sport ............, ........330
Text 165. The sporting spirit ......... .......... 330
Text 166. Sports and games ....... ............ 33.1
Text 167. Muscle binds.......... ................. 333
Text 168. Vicious and dangerous sports should be banned by law..... 334
Text 169. Health and exercise ................. 336
Text 170. Starting when you are not good for the start.............-...... 337
Text 171. More then agame ...........,....... .................... 339
Text172. Skydiving .................. .............340
Text 173. The role of sport in the modern life ............ ... 340
Text174. The village sports......... ............ 342
Text 175- Fitneis or fun? ...... 343
XVII. Entertqinment .......,.. ......,......5a5
Text 176. Moving pictures. The history of cinema .......... 345
Text177. Therageof Rambo ...................349
Text 178. American pie............. .............. 351
)) ., Text 179. Stunts and make-up ................. 352
Text 180. Movies:................. ................. 354
Text 181. The wonderful world of the theatre .............. 355
Text 182. Straining every nerve ............... 357
Text 1E3. Confessions of a would-be actor ................... 358
Text 184. Music......... ......... 360
Text 185. Why do we like music? ............. 362
Text 186. Try it againr. ......... 365
Text 187. Rock and pop ..,......... ............. 366
Text 188. Rock music and education -........................................... 367
Text 189. Top stars certainly earn their money ........ .... 370

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