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I HAD to include this picture of United Airlines flight 7682 from Dulles
International Airport, Washington DC to LaGuardia in NYC, sent in by a
reader who survived the collision. As the plane reached 180mph and the nose
lifted from the ground, there was an almighty bang and the flight was aborted.
When passengers were led off the plane, the sad truth of what had
happened revealed itself. The hip joint of the low-flying turkey, pictured
above, resting on the cockpit, was the only remaining recognisable body part.
In true American style, one animal lover hoped out loud that the turkey
was okay, only to be put down by a fellow passenger: “Yes, ma’am, the
buzzard has been airlifted on a life-saver helicopter to George Washington
Hospital emergency-care facility and is currently being fitted with a prosthetic
head and wings.”
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Seeing ghosts: it’s the spirit of the age
The need to believe in ghosts may be an instinct designed to help us cope with the idea of death
Last week it was revealed that more people than in the 1950s now believe in ghosts. This
is less of a scientific age than we think, says Tessa Mayes
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was the sound of your long-gone
grandmother haunting the attic, then
you’re not alone. According to a survey
for UKTV, 42% of us now think ghosts exist,
compared with only a third of people in 1954.
And there’s no shortage of folk willing to
go public about their ghostly experiences. Pop
singer Kylie Minogue claims she has been
“visited” by Michael Hutchence, a former
lover, who died in 1997. And Russell Grant,
the astrologer, has talked of being visited by
Princess Diana in a dream and feeling “clear
signs she wanted to make contact with me”.
“The enthusiasm for things like ghosts,
horoscopes, angels and pixies reflects a backto-the-past frame of mind,” says Francis
Wheen, author of How Mumbo-Jumbo
Conquered the World. “It does seem odd that
the extraordinary technological and scientific
developments of the modern age have been
accompanied by an epidemic of superstition
and pseudo-science.”
Groups of paranormal enthusiasts are
emerging all over the country. “These things
come in cultural fashions,” says David
Taylor, the chairman of Parasearch, a group
of ghost researchers. “First it was UFOs
following television programmes such as The
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X Files and now it’s ghosts because of
programmes about haunted houses.”
But while television shows on the
paranormal offer late night entertainment, can
the investigation of ghosts ever be taken
seriously? In 2003 Professor Richard
Wiseman of Hertfordshire University revealed
his investigations into paranormal experiences
in the British Journal of Psychology, the first
time a serious scientific journal had published
such a paper. His research team had organised
more than 450 people to walk round haunted
sites. Wiseman concluded that people
genuinely experience something but these
feelings are the result of phenomena such as
poor lighting and magnetic fields exciting the
senses.
“I don’t think all apparitions are just
creations of the mind,” argues Bernard Carr,
professor of mathematics and astronomy at
Queen Mary University of London. “For
example, there are collective cases where
several people see the same apparition at the
same or different times. There are also cases
where the apparition gives information that
was unknown at the time but later verified.
Although we don’t fully understand these
phenomena, scientists should investigate
them.”
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risen as there has been a decline in support for
traditional religion is of no surprise to Philip
Corr, a psychologist at the University of
Wales. He says it is part of our survival
instinct. “Psychologically, the death of others
is a highly emotional experience,” he says.
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may well help people cope with the
realisation that death is inevitable and final.”
Of course, believers in ghosts can always
ask non-believers for proof that ghosts don’t
exist. But nobody can prove a negative.
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Weighty matter
Sir,
I find it rather unfortunate that USA
TODAY columnist Craig Wilson has
gone as far as to 10 a health issue in
America that is reaching epidemic
proportions. I am a registered nurse,
and I am continually amazed at how
poorly people care for themselves when
it comes to their weight and general
health (“Euphemisms for gluttony tip
the scales in our favor,” Life,
Wednesday).
I recently traveled to Europe and
was astounded by its citizens’ balanced
diets
and
slimmer
waistlines.
Americans stick out like a sore thumb
there because we eat like hogs and
lumber around like barrel-bellied sows.
It is one thing to make jokes and to
keep a sense of humor, but look around:
Adults, and now children, are increasingly facing dire health consequences because we as a nation do
not eat well, do not exercise, do not
seek health care regularly and are
gluttonous as a whole.
Diabetes, cardiovascular problems
and knee and back problems plague the
overweight.
It’s time to stop making a joke about
it and start making a change.
Matthew D. Byrne
Rochester, Minn.
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Internet: Boon or
bane for kids?
By Ruth Peters
A few years ago, a parent came to my
office with a new problem: Her child was
spending so much time on Internet chats and
downloading music that her grades were
slipping and her social life deteriorating.
Since then, the Internet has increasingly
become a regular topic in my counseling
sessions as a psychologist who specializes in
treating children and families.
The bold promise that the Internet would
greatly improve children’s lives now seems
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Consider recent headlines. MSN closed off
its free chat rooms out of concern that sexual
predators were using them. Parents have been
sued by the Recording Industry Association of
America for file swapping done by their
children. Unsavory spam infects e-mails.
Nearly one in five parents now 13 that
children spend too much time online, up from
11% in 2000, reports the Center for
Communication Policy at the University of
California, Los Angeles (UCLA).
And moms and
dads don’t know
the half of it. A
study in the social
science
journal
Youth & Society,
for
example,
found that while
one out of every
four
young
Internet
users
were unwittingly
exposed to sexual
material online in
the past year, only
about a third of their parents knew about it.
National
School
Boards
Foundation
researchers found that parents tend to
underestimate how much time kids spend
online and overestimate how much they spend
at educational sites. These are legitimate
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overreact to them.
Any tool can be hazardous
The Internet’s promise is still true: It is an
incredibly powerful tool that offers our
children unprecedented opportunities to learn
and grow. As with any such tool, however,
adult supervision is required to make it work
safely and effectively.
In the same UCLA study, nearly 23% of
parents said the Internet boosted their kids’
grades; fewer than 4% felt it hurt them. The
National School Boards Foundation found
that Internet use tends to steal time from TV
viewing and that wired kids tend to spend
more time reading newspapers, magazines and
books.
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connections. I’ve counseled children suffering
from painful shyness or speech anomalies
who have blossomed in the new world of
cyber-socializing opened up by chat rooms
and instant messaging.
Parents don’t have to take extreme
measures – or be techno-geeks – to maximize
while keeping their kids’ online
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neighborhoods safe and clean. Filtering
software is getting better at blocking
questionable sites while leaving the door open
to legitimate, kid-friendly ones. Online timers
can automatically shut off access once the
allotted time has expired. Web trackers will email reports to parents about their children’s
online activities.
Plenty of wheat mixed with the chaff
Finding an amazing array of great kidfriendly sites that make learning fun and
exciting isn’t hard, either. The federal
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a
site
government,
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(www.kids.gov) that posts links to dozens of
worthwhile kids’ sites. Sites such as National
Geographic Kids, PBSKids.org and Time for
Kids have educational games, as does
America Online’s kid-focused service, called
KOL, which also has a homework help site
and chat rooms supervised by adults.
The bottom line is that parents can relax
and learn to enjoy the Internet once they’ve
taken a few simple steps to minimize its risks
and maximize its potential.
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Fear itself
The police are supposed to reduce fear of crime as well as crime. That’s hard
when there’s little relationship between the two
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statistics this week brought mixed
news to those in the law-and-order
business. Contrary to reports in the
national newspapers, the actual
number of crimes committed has
fallen by around 2%; an apparent
increase is explained by new
recording practices. But there was bad
news, too. Thanks in part to the
aforementioned newspaper reports,
fear of crime is on the rise.
According to the British Crime
Survey, 38% of people believe that
crime has risen “a lot” in the past two
years – up from 25% for those
surveyed two years ago. A further
third of the population reckons crime
has gone up a little, while only 4%
take the optimistic (and accurate)
view that it has fallen. The number of
people who worry about walking the
streets at night and perceive their
neighbourhoods to be disordered is
also up.
For a government that concerns
itself as much with perception as with
reality, this is a problem; and the
government has made it a problem for
the police. Police forces have to keep
track of fear levels and think up ways
of calming people down. In the
coming year, watch for a lot more
bobbies on the beat.
All this will be of little use. Fear of
crime is a serious matter – when
keenly felt, it can prevent people from
living productive and fulfilling lives.
It is, however, hard for police to do
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feelings about crime, and you will
dredge up a mess of concerns about
things like society falling apart, sexual
permissiveness, immigration and
racial mixing. As Elizabeth Stanko,
professor of criminology at Royal
Holloway College, London, says, “fear
of crime is like a sponge: it absorbs all
kinds of social anxieties.”
A further problem with targeting
people’s fears is that they scarcely
bear a relation to patterns of crime.
This year’s figures show that 16% of
women over 60 think they are likely to
be mugged – a fate that actually
befalls fewer than one in two
hundred. Meanwhile young men, who
are victimised at more than three
times the national rate, are unusually
unbothered. So allocating police
resources to people who are afraid
may mean taking them away from
people who are really likely to be
victims.
What’s more, gathering
information about fear may generate
more of the stuff. Stephen Farrall, a
Keel University criminologist who has
surveyed Glaswegians, says that one
man, who had reported very low
levels of anxiety, rang a few weeks
later to report that he had thought
about nothing else in the intervening
period. Mr Farrall has persuaded the
Home Office to start surveys by
asking people about how many times
they actually experienced fear in the
past year. Under this line of
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over-60s.
Given the intangible and messy
nature of crime fears, it hardly seems
reasonable to expect the police to
relieve them. To try to do so may even
turn out to be counter-productive.
After all, much the easiest way to
reduce fear of crime is not to cut crime
itself, but to convince people that bad
things are unlikely to happen to them.
At first glance, that sounds
reasonable; but it risks turning the
police into public relations officers
and lowering people’s natural
defences against crime.
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Don’t disguise looks
Sir,
Nature bestowed upon Charlize
Theron magnificent beauty. Why
on earth would the producers of
such movies as Monster or last
year’s The Hours go out of their
way to make Theron and Nicole
Kidman plain and unrecognizable
in their films? Why create fake
teeth or a prosthetic nose and have
stars “get ugly for a role” through
a physical reinvention?
Why not award these highly
desirable roles to any of the
talented actresses who have to rely
mostly on their artistic talents, not
looks, to get a leading role?
Award make-up artists for their
creativity in the Lord of the Rings
films and leave leading roles to
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Sundeep Tucker and Sanah, blissfully unaware of the problems in choosing her name
Name and Sikh
Ananaya or Sanah? Sundeep Tucker has a new baby on his hands
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baby? A rather long time if the
parents are Sikh Punjabis. The
naming of a Sikh child is a good
pointer to where power in the clan
lies and, among other things, can
illustrate how much the parents
respect their elders.
Our second child, a girl, was
born two agonising weeks late, on
July 1. To the amazement of friends
and colleagues, we called her
“Princess” for three weeks. It’s just
as well English law sets a six-week
limit on the all-important visit to
the register office – or she might
have been called Princess for the
rest of the summer.
For any moderately relig ious
family, the naming process begins
at the Gurudwara, or temple. The
priest looks at the Sikh holy book
and fishes out some meaningful
initials for the baby. Then the fun
begins.
After a solemn ceremony we
were handed the initials R, S and J.
The job then was to throw open the
event to friends and family. In the
old days this would have required
sending a letter by ship or
screaming
down
a
crackly
telephone line. These days, my wife
could text message her parents and
sisters in India in the car on the way
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list. The suggestions split into
various
camps.
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elders
suggested traditional names (each
orthodox Sikh name, often unisex,
has a meaning). Other ideas fell
into the modernist camp, which we
favoured.
Three weeks later, we plumped
for Sanah (brilliance). My wife and
I felt it was short and sweet, with a
pretty meaning and, crucially,
neither set of grandparents was
aggrieved.
Some non-Sikh friends saw
benefits in our naming process.
Many had ploughed through name
books and were still at a loss. And
when they did find one, they
irritated the mother-in-law by
naming the grandson after a car
dealer.
Not that we plan to do it again
in a hurry. I gave my son the
warrior-sounding Sikh name of
Sartej (aura). That name game was
a more bruising experience and I
staggered into a register office with
the six weeks’ limit all but used up.
On second thoughts, perhaps we are
getting the hang of it.
Sundeep Tucker is editor of the FT
Observer diary
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Nature bites back
Stephen Moss reviews David Quammen’s study of predators with a taste for human flesh
Monster of God: The Man-eating Predator in the Jungles of History and the Mind
by David Quammen
516pp, Hutchinson, £25
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TV executives in the US are fond of saying that there are only three certainties in life: death, taxes
and Shark Week on the Discovery Channel. The extraordinary popularity of wildlife programmes –
especially those featuring sharks, big cats and crocodiles – confirms our obsession with what
David Quammen calls “the alpha predators”: animals that not only kill humans, but eat them too.
The relationship between human beings and this diverse group of creatures (linked by dietary
preference rather than zoology) is the subject of this book.
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were simply in awe of their power, and then we fought back, ultimately taking our revenge on them
through wholesale massacre. Only in the 20th century, when most large predators had become
globally endangered, did we finally consider protecting them.
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Quammen looks ahead to the year 2150, when the world’s population is predicted to peak at 11
billion. By then, he believes, most of the alpha predators will have been eliminated. So while he
still can, he has gone to see some of them for himself. He travels to India for Asiatic lions, to
northern Australia for saltwater crocodiles, Romania for brown bears, and finally to Siberia for the
elusive Siberian tiger. At each location he finds the usual conflict between predators and people.
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over the animals, Quammen describes an extraordinary episode in the life of the Romanian
dictator Nicolae Ceausescu. The despised leader was brought by helicopter to a forest clearing,
into which bears were driven so he could massacre them in cold blood – not hunting but butchery,
as one observer noted bitterly.
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rather awkward subtitle. Following Quammen’s brilliant debut, The Song of the Dodo, this book
feels a bit like that “difficult second album” – a collection of very readable but disconnected essays
in search of a unifying theme.
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And while he is excellent on examples from the Bible and from classical literature, he chooses to
ignore some more popular references. In a work dealing with the relationship between humans and
alpha predators, the impact of the film Jaws on our attitude towards sharks surely rates a mention.
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with these creatures can be defined by his or her socio-economic status. The poorer you are, the
more likely it is that a meeting with an alpha predator will end in your death.
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in the flesh, yet we are probably more familiar with their lives than at any time in human history.
Look at the recent success of BBC1’s Big Cat Week, in which seven million people regularly tuned
in to watch a television programme deliberately conceived, produced and marketed as a wildlife
soap opera. Despite – or possibly because of – the danger they pose, we just cannot get enough
of these magnificent beasts. To put it bluntly: rich people are entertained by predators; poor people
are eaten by them.
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critics’ choice
fortnight, limiting themselves to using
a single old-fashioned phone and
barred from making calls to mobile
numbers on it. By disconnecting them
from their friends, this threatens, in
one stroke, to rob Amy, Emma,
Michelle and Hayley of their social
life. As they are left out of the usual
making of arrangements, they
become isolated, 1970s-style teens,
anxiously waiting for the lone phone
to ring.
Relations between parents and
daughters also deteriorate, because
both the night-time taxi service that
the former provide for the girls, and
their ability to control what time they
get home from their nights out,
depend on calls to check up on them.
Rows, sulks and curfew breaches are
the result, and two of the girls
become so frustrated that they break
into the strongbox and remove a
forbidden mobile.
John Dugdale
Can You Live
Without...?
(C4, 8pm)
Usually the answer to the
question posed by the title of this
occasional TV series is “yes” –
those guinea pigs who volunteer
to live without, say, television or
make-up cope very well, and
resolve to become less
dependent in future.
However, when a 10-phone
household is asked to turn the
clock back to the era before
mass mobile use, the fascinating
result is instant family
breakdown.
The Coles – parents Steve
and Jo, four girls aged between
12 and 17, and a 14-year-old boy
who is so unfazed by the
experiment that he gets little
screen time – agree to lock their
mobiles in a strongbox for a
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TUBE CHAOS
BY P AUL MARSTON
TRANSPORT C ORRESPONDENT
HUNDREDS of thousands of London Underground passengers had their journeys disrupted
yesterday by a strike over a driver who was
caught playing squash after being absent from
work for nine weeks because of an ankle sprain.
The walkout by the RMT Union1) led to the
closure of the Circle and Hammersmith & City
lines, normally used by nearly 400,000 travellers
a day. The union called for a reinstatement of
Chris Barrett, who was dismissed by LU last
month.
Mr Barrett last worked on May 4 before
reporting sick with an ankle injury. On July 10,
LU attendance staff saw him entering a sports
centre in full squash kit, then watched him play a
three-game match “vigorously”.
London Underground had been suspicious
about his reason for absence because he had
reported absent on 218 days in five years.
In August, a disciplinary hearing recommended that Mr Barrett be dismissed from his
£32,000-a-year post. His appeal was rejected.
Mr Barrett’s defence was that he was not
playing squash, merely “exercising my ankle on a
squash court”.
Bob Crow, RMT general secretary, shook
hands with Mr Barrett on a picket line yesterday.
Mr Crow said: “It is a great pity that the company
has devoted so much time, energy and public
money snooping on an employee guilty of
nothing more than trying to get fit enough to
return to work.”
For the first time since becoming London
mayor, Ken Livingstone criticised the RMT. “I
am only surprised Mr Barrett was allowed to get
away with it for so long,” he said.
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Our drive-thru fancy feast
M
aybe there’s hope for modern
civilization after all: Fast-food
chains are giving menus a facelift
in a quest for fitness and flavor.
And fuller houses.
To head off obesity lawsuits and recapture
the interest of baby boomers, corporate
kitchen wizards are serving up products that
supposedly are more nutritious and tastier than
the still-dominant burger-and-fries fare. Blue
cheese and orange slices now lurk in those
black plastic salad bowls. In pouches of
McDonald’s Grilled Chicken California
Cobb Salad
I couldn’t hear the crunch of the veggies over the din
of lite rock and heavy teen angst. But the roughage
looked and tasted fresh, except for the tomatoes,
which were ripe but shriveled. The blue cheese,
grilled chicken (there’s also crispy chicken) and
smoky bacon are well-integrated and enticing, but the
dressing drowns them out. Still, this entrée salad is
good enough that I would choose it over the burgers
but not good enough to allow me to resist the fries.
Kudos for a well-done nutritional information section
at www.mcdonalds.com.
Burger King Santa Fe Fire-Grilled
Chicken Baguette
I had high hopes for this new line of “Fire-Grilled
Chicken” sandwiches (there’s also a Chicken
Whopper and a Chicken Caesar Club), because I’ve
always been a sucker for BK’s flame-licked burgers.
But this bland entry owes more to Peoria than Santa
Fe. The unnaturally shaped chicken part was moist but
needed more grilled/smoked flavor; the “baguette,”
while soft and chewy, deals another blow to FrancoAmerican relations; the sauce is just so-so salsa; and
the veggies kept smooshing out the end of the bread.
If I’m putting my new Metallica T-shirt at risk, there
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dressing, herbs and spices share space with
sodium benzoate and xanthan gum.
But can this neo-sophisticated chow taste
divine, fatten the bottom line and, in some
cases, even trim the waistline?
USA TODAY food and wine writer Jerry
Shriver visited eateries in California (the
spiritual home of grown-up salads), sampled
the newer fare and filed these curbside
comments. (Prices and ingredients may vary;
nutritional information comes from company
Web sites.)
In the mix
White-meat chicken chunks, mixed greens,
shaved carrots, blue cheese, chopped egg,
grape tomatoes and bacon bits. Comes with
a packet of Newman’s Own Cobb Dressing,
a creamy vinaigrette with cheeses. $3.99
In the mix
All white-meat chicken filet,
roasted peppers and onions,
baguette and Fire-Roasted Sauce,
similar to a salsa. $2.89
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Arby’s Philly Beef Supreme Sandwich
Yes, I know Arby’s wins the most praise for its neoclassic Market Fresh Sandwiches. The bread on the
Ultimate BLT ($4.19; 820 calories, 49 grams of fat) is
terrific. But ultimately, I was seduced by this limitedtime-only offering, because it contained a huge heap
of the strange, salty, shaved brown/gray roast beef that
is the chain’s hallmark. Ignoring all gourmet precepts
and nutritional common sense, I can’t get enough of
the stuff, especially when it’s slathered with Horsey
Sauce. Here, the casing is a soft, buttery hoagie bun
that combines with the gooey processed cheese to
keep the meat and generous toppings snugly in place.
It’s so bad it’s good – my ultimate fast-food tribute.
Taco Bell Southwestern Steak Bowl
Despite the festive presentation and promise of
complex flavors, the bulky beans and rice, excess
cheese and unripe tomatoes suck the vitality from this
dish. The Fire Packet adds some vibrato but also
ramps up the heartburn potential. Instead of being the
centerpiece, the tender but meagerly portioned steak
bits are little brown after-thoughts. (Of course,
subliminally, I might have been acting out my
annoyance at that yappy Chihuahua in the ads.)
Jack in the Box Turkey Jack Sandwich
I’m not sure what’s going on here. Most of Jack’s
burgers and chicken sandwiches have fewer calories
than this one, and it’s hard to imagine they have less
flavor than this one, so what’s the attraction? You do
save a little on fat content because of the turkey, but
this is one tepid tom. Most of the flavor comes from
the red onion, pickle and cheese, and that’s just
wrong. I gave up halfway through and tried the new
Ultimate Asian Chicken Salad ($4.99; 610 calories,
35.5 grams of fat with dressing). It’s essentially a
decent knock-off of the Wendy’s version, only with
carrot shards, red onions and grill marks on the
chicken. Attractive flavors, though not a great value.
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In the mix
Baguette, mayonnaise,
roasted red and green
bell peppers and onions,
Swiss-style cheese and
shaved roast beef. $5.99
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Refried beans, green onions,
rice, grilled beef, tomato and
yellow and white cheeses,
topped with a packet of creamy
jalapeño sauce. $3.49
In the mix
Turkey patty, cheese, lettuce,
tomatoes, red onion, pickles,
ketchup and mayo-onion sauce
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Any volunteers?
Sight Night
Instead of ruining your teeth
this Halloween, why not help
improve someone’s vision?
Sight Night, part of the Give
the Gift of Sight project run by
LensCrafters and Lions Clubs
International, is encouraging
all trick-or-treaters to collect
used eyeglasses for t housands
of people who desperately
need them in developing
countries. Since 1999, Sight
Night has provided more than
half a million refurbished specs
to people in 25 nations. You can
increase that number by
encouraging all of the goblins you
know to ask for glasses alon g
with their gummy bears. Or, if yo u
don’t know any kids, set up a
collection station in your office,
community center or apartment
building.
Call 877-605-4242 or visit
www.sightnight.org to receive
instructions and a free
eyeglasses-collection kit.
New York Cares Day
Go to school but leave your
pencils and notebooks (and
laptops) at home! The 12thannual New York Cares school
cleanup takes place on October
18, from 9am to 3pm. Join
thousands of fellow New Yorkers
in coloring murals, fences,
classrooms and lines for outdoor
games, like hopscotch and
basketball. If the pungent fumes
aren’t for you, then put your
ABCs to work by reorganizing a
library or counting trash bags as
you clean up a playground.
Call 212-598-5800 or register at
www.nycares.org. Registration
deadline is Friday 10, so get
moving! Volunteers must bring
their own lunch.
Cooking for Survival
Are you a closeted Julia Child?
Emeril? Naked Chef? Wait, keep
those clothes on! Your help is
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sacrifice it to students honing
their tuning skills.
Contact Kalman Detrich at 212406-5242 or visit
www.museumforpianos.org
needed at Hamilton-Madison
House, a nonprofit settlement
house in Chinatown.
Professional chefs and the
culinarily inclined are needed to
work with teenagers for two hours
per week, in the evening, for the
duration of the school semester.
You’ll teach these eager eaters
how to create simple, nutritious,
budget-conscious meals. Leave
your wok at home: All equipment
and ingredients are provided.
Contact Jessica Tynan at
212-349-3724, ext 338; e-mail
[email protected] or visit
www.hmh100.com. A brief
training session is required.
Museum of the American Piano
A tiny bit of serenity in a chaotic
city, the Museum of the American
Piano is devoted to all things
ebony and ivory: In addition to
offering courses on piano tuning
and restoration, the museum
welcomes visitors to its collection
(Mon-Sat 10am-4pm), hosts a
weekly concert series and
publishes a newsletter. This
small, elegant operation needs
volunteers to work the reception
desk, book musicians, write or
collect articles about its
instruments, and issue press
releases. Plus, in the unlikely
event you’ve got a piano lying
around that you’d like to donate,
the museum will add it to the
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Children’s Village Mentoring
Program
Little did you know that your
daily routine could be lifealtering for a parentless child.
Children’s Village needs you to
take a foster child, age 7 to 18,
under your wing for just a few
hours a month for one year.
While CV invites you to play
some hoops, visit museums or
watch movies with your student, it
also encourages you to expose
these kids to a responsibly led
adult life: Drag your charge along
on errands, show the kid how to
pay bills, or teach him or her how
to organize a desk drawer. CV,
which runs group homes
throughout the metropolitan area,
provides you with ongoing
support and chances to
participate in monthly group
activities. If you’re still not sure
you want to commit, ask about its
onetime-volunteer opportunities.
Contact Eartha Johnson at
212-932-9009, ext 7210, or
914-693-0600, ext 1819; e-mail
[email protected]
or visit www.childrensvillage.org.
Volunteers must be at least 21
years old and submit to state
background and DMV checks.
Drug screening and a TB test are
also required and can be handled
on site at the Manhattan office or
the Dobbs Ferry campus.
Look for the next installment of
this guide in TONY 423. To list
volunteer opportunities, fax
information to Daphne Uviller
at 212-673-8382 or e-mail it to
[email protected].
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“Yes, ma’am … wings.” (last sentence)
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As comforting.
As emotional.
As matter-of-fact.
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British people are still more superstitious than people in most other countries.
More and more people believe in the supernatural and openly talk about it.
People report far more sightings of famous ghosts than of ghosts of ordinary people.
The belief in ghosts has increased since celebrities started sharing their stories with the
public.
“The enthusiasm … of mind” (lines 15-17)
How does this sentence relate to the phenomenon introduced in paragraphs 1 and 2?
This sentence
is aimed at making fun of the phenomenon.
mentions harmful consequences of the phenomenon.
offers a possible explanation for the phenomenon.
stresses the seriousness of the phenomenon.
What does David Taylor suggest in paragraph 4 about the widespread belief in ghosts?
It is a logical effect of the large number of television programmes about aliens.
It is a temporary trend inspired by the attention that TV pays to the subject.
It is becoming such a hype that serious research into the paranormal is hardly possible.
It is usually based on a lack of information of what the supernatural is actually about.
Waardoor worden waarnemingen van het bovennatuurlijke veroorzaakt volgens Richard
Wiseman (alinea 5)?
“I don’t think all apparitions are just creations of the mind” (regels 47-48)
Welke twee voorbeelden gebruikt Bernard Carr om deze uitspraak te ondersteunen?
How does Philip Corr view the “fascination with the paranormal” (line 59)?
As a basic human instinct that has been suppressed for a long time.
As a means to make it easier to accept that people do not live forever.
As a phenomenon that is stimulated by the religious concept of an afterlife.
As proof that modern people are guided by feelings rather than by sense.
What is the tone of the last paragraph?
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What is the main point made in Matthew D. Byrne’s letter?
Americans are less interested in their appearance than Europeans.
Americans should be careful not to lose their sense of humour.
Americans should take their obesity problem very seriously.
Americans tend to make too big an issue of their health problems.
Tekst 4 Internet: Boon or bane for kids?
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“But there was bad news, too.” (regels 9-10)
Wat was dan het goede nieuws?
Which of the following phrases is paragraph 2 meant to illustrate?
“mixed news” (lines 2-3)
“the actual number of crimes committed has fallen” (lines 5-7)
“fear of crime is on the rise” (line 12)
What is the main point made in paragraph 3?
The government is more worried about its image than about fighting crime.
The government is very serious in its efforts to bring down crime rates.
The police and the government do not agree on how to prevent crime.
The police have been given the task of tackling public anxiety about crime.
“All this will be of little use.” (line 35)
Why is that, according to paragraph 4?
Because fear of crime
has been ignored by the authorities for too long.
is often based on negative personal experiences that cannot be undone.
is often caused by worries about developments in society.
will only go down if crime levels go down.
What is the information in the sentences “This year’s … unusually unbothered.”
(lines 53-60) meant to illustrate?
Many people misjudge the risk they run of becoming crime victims.
Older people are more likely to become victims of crime than younger people.
The official statistics on crime are not in accordance with the facts.
The police tend to give some groups of people more protection than others.
Which of the following is true according to paragraph 6?
Levels of fear are higher in one part of the country than in another.
Statistics about levels of fear are influenced by the way the data are collected.
Stephen Farrall is the first scientist who has conducted research into levels of fear.
University research shows that levels of fear have been going down lately.
How can the last paragraph be characterised?
It expresses a view.
It offers solutions.
It urges the police to take action.
It warns the public.
In het artikel Fear itself zijn de volgende drie tekstgedeelten te onderscheiden:
1 inleiding
2 bezwaren
3 conclusie
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Tekst 6 Don’t disguise looks
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“How long … Sikh Punjabis.” (eerste alinea)
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volgens deze tekst?
Geef voor elk van de onderstaande uitspraken aan of deze wel of niet juist is volgens de
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1 Sundeep Tucker en zijn vrouw hadden hun dochter het liefst Princess genoemd.
2 De grootouders van Sanah accepteerden de naam Sanah zonder problemen.
3 Alleen Sikhs zelf zien de voordelen van hun ingewikkelde naamgevingsmethode.
4 Sanah is het oudste kind van Sundeep Tucker en zijn vrouw.
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How does Stephen Moss introduce his review in paragraph 1?
By blaming television for people’s feelings of horror towards alpha predators.
By correcting the mistaken view that most people have of alpha predators.
By focusing on the special fascination that people have for alpha predators.
By questioning the commercial exploitation of people’s fear of alpha predators.
Which aspect of the book Monster of God does paragraph 2 deal with?
The history of human attitudes and behaviour towards alpha predators.
The human inability to understand the behaviour of alpha predators.
The reasons why humans are so deeply impressed by alpha predators.
The view that humans have proved to be superior to alpha predators.
“it may now be too late” (paragraph 3)
Too late to do what?
To prevent overpopulation of the earth.
To save the alpha predators from extinction.
To stop mankind from destroying the planet.
Why does Quammen bring up the story about Ceausescu, according to paragraph 4?
To demonstrate the senseless cruelty of the Romanian dictator.
To point out how people can abuse their power over animals.
To show his disgust at the brutal killing of alpha predators.
To stress the urgent need for wildlife protection.
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1 De inhoud van het boek heeft niets te maken met de ondertitel.
2 Er is te weinig samenhang in het boek.
3 Het boek besteedt te weinig aandacht aan haaien.
4 Het boek is minder geslaagd dan Quammens eerste boek.
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The more educational wildlife programmes are, the more people enjoy them.
The more wildlife programmes we watch, the less we seem to learn from them.
Those who have little to fear from alpha predators know a lot about them.
Those who show most interest in alpha predators also kill most of them.
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Tekst 9 critics’ choice
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1 De dochters maakten buitenshuis stiekem toch gebruik van hun mobieltje.
2 De gezinsleden kregen ruzie over het gebruik van de enige overgebleven telefoon.
3 De verhoudingen binnen het gezin Cole waren al slecht voordat de opnames begonnen.
4 In de reportage kregen de dochters meer aandacht dan de zoon.
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Tekst 10 Tube chaos
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Bob Crow.
Ken Livingstone.
London Underground.
The writer of this article.
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Tekst 11 Our drive-thru fancy feast
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Tekst 12 Any volunteers?
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boven deze activiteit in de tekst staat.
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