schwarzenegger

Rice disputes Clinton on terror claims

According to this article "Rice disputes Clinton on terror claims" from CNN, Rice who is Secretary of State blamed Clinton about trying to kill Osama bin Laden but former President Clnton refuted, moreover, Bush administration excused about 9/11.

I think that it is obviously aggressive attitude to Clinton. When he was president, the war and terror were not occured. After Bush has become president, they appeared. I think that Bush want to dodge his responsiblity so he left result about 9/11 to Clinton. It is wrong way, thus it is dictatorship . I dont understand that situation because Clinton was good president. He always thought people and world.U.S is democracy not communist. I don't why Bush administration bother clinton.

by Park,Jae-Yul

The average of women who want to marry

In this article, , 90% of women want to marry, but 45% without boyfriends, the author says the average that women want to marry is increased in Japan. According to National Institute of Population and Social Security Research, the women think they want to marry. However, 45% of the women do not have boyfriends now, so the average represent that there is a gap between their ideal and the reality. Also, the average of people who do not want to marry within one year is increased. Therefore, people who think to delay their marriage are increased.


In my opinion, marry is one of big event in life. Therefore, everyone think carefully to decide his or her own marriage. As a result, they cannot marry easily. According to the article, the average of women who want to marry is increased in Japan, so it is good way for Japan because the number of Japanese children has decreased every year in Japan. Thus, I hope birthrate in Japan is not decreased any further.

Saori

khalid doubi
eap1
25/09/06


Canadian gunman “killed himself”.

Canadian gunman “killed himself”.Summary:
According to the article in, “Canadian gunman “killed himself””, in BBC NEWS. Said that there was a Canadian killed and injured college students. After this Canadian attack he killed by officer police. The Canadian attack the students in the college and he was holding many guns on his jacket and shutting at the students. Canada is planning to put new rules for holding guns and how to control this problem and have the risk to not let this thing happened again.

Reaction:
What happened in Canada was the government fault, their must be a strict rules for holding guns and getting the permeation from the government, if they put good rules and who is the reasonable to hold a gun this problem will control. In every culture we can find many people how have strange thinking, bad ideas and many ways to get rid of something on their mind but the most dangers people who have brain wash. However, shooting people is bad, if a lot of people do this their will be a no system in these states.

Mad for U.S. beef, herd heads for Tokyo eatery

The article "Mad for U.S. beef, herd heads for Tokyo eatery" written by CNN. http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/asiapcf/09/18/japan.beef.reut/index.html
It is about remove the ban that imports American beef. There is famous fast food, which is called Gyudon that is a bowl of rice topped with beef, in Japan. Yoshinoya, fast-food chain, has been stop order beef from the United States. Thus, the menu has changed. But, their menu has just come back because of this import.

My opinion

I think Japanese government should not enact ban from the beginning of this event because most of food chain had been damaged financially. Undoubtedly, they had to take care of our health, but they should think about economy first because Japan has not much money. Anyway, I like to eat Gyudon in Yoshinoya, so I hope there will not happen like this event in the future.

Masa

Second Life lets slip real-world user data

NEW YORK (Reuters) -- Second Life, the fast-growing online site where hundreds of thousands of people play out fantasy lives online, has suffered a computer security breach that exposed the real-world personal data of its users.

Linden Lab, the San Francisco-based company behind the Second Life site, said in a letter to its 650,000 users this weekend that its customer database, including names, addresses, passwords and some credit card data, had been compromised.

All users -- or residents in Second Life parlance -- are being required to request a new password. Some 286,000 residents have used the site in the past 60 days, according to a count on the home page.

"While we realize this is an inconvenience for residents, we believe it's the safest course of action," Cory Ondrejka, the chief technology officer of Linden Lab said in the message to Second Life customers released late on Friday.

Second Life is a three-dimensional software world on the Web inhabited by animated characters that users design for themselves to interact with other participants. Users buy and sell virtual land and build businesses with currency called "Linden Dollars," which can be exchanged for real currency.

Blurring the line between a multiplayer game and an online business, the popularity of the site has spurred Fortune 500 corporations such as Coca-Cola Co. and Wells Fargo & Co., along with architects, authors, and musicians to erect virtual outposts of their organizations or personas.

Retailer American Apparel has created a business to sell clothing for the Second Life avatars users create to represent themselves inside the online world. Musicians such as Duran Duran and Suzanne Vega have held concerts inside Second Life.

The database breach potentially exposed customer data including the unencrypted names and addresses, and the encrypted passwords and encrypted payment information of all Second Life users, Linden Lab said in the message to users. Unencrypted credit card information, which is stored on a separate database, was not compromised, it said.

The breach was discovered on September 6. The company launched an investigation that revealed an intruder was able to access the Second Life databases utilizing a "Zero-Day Exploit" through commercial software used on Second Life servers.

"Due to the nature of the attack, the company cannot determine which individual data were exposed," Linden Lab's statement said. A technical probe is ongoing, it said.

The company said it will announced additional security plans on its blog at http://blog.secondlife.com/?tag-security/.

BY ALI

king Abdullah Economic city

The article says, that Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is going to open the biggest economic city in the Middle East in order to expend the economic of Saudi Arabia and the government will dicrease the dependance on oil. In addition, the economic city will fouces on investment and it will create a lot of jobs for the youthful population. Moreover, the city has several section. Each section has it own function; the section are financial island, Industril district, Education zone, Sea port, the Resident area and the waterfront villas. Finally, the project will open the opportunity to makes the economy of the country increase.

In my openion, I think it is a good idea to open an economic city that attracts investment to Saudi Arabia because the oil of the country will not last in the country forever, so they should depaned on investment and business instead of oil money only. However, I am very happy because the article said that the economic city will create up to 500,000 employment opportunities which is good for me because the economic city is very close to my city. Nevertheless, the Saudi government should dicrease the depaned on oil and it should depaned on investment and business.

September 11, 2001 attack

Khalid Doubi
14/09/2006
EAP1

September 11, 2001 attack.

Summary:
This disaster happened in September 11, 2001 by 19 terrorists; they hit the trade center and the pentagon in the united state in purpose by air planes. United state totally changed their policy after the attack, there was a problem between two group in the united state these two groups forget all their problems and consecrates on how to mange their problem and how to find out what they are missing such as the terrorist. Allot of people died in this attack. Perfational said there is something wired from the collapse that happened, they said that the trader center collapse should not happened just for air plane damage.

Reaction:
I agree with some idea in this article. This attack was unaccepted from people in the united state but there are many things improve that there is some thing wrong and wired about the attack, and who help the terror to do what they did, there are many video and it show different things they are different from what we know and hared. About the trade center, fire department heard an exploding after the crash, and about the pentagon they said that their was no air plain crash it just explode from a reason. We have a short saying we use to say it in Saudi Arabia, “if you didn’t see the fact don’t believe what you heard about it”. This attack was a treble effect that shock people and scare them. It’s a murderer crime did by a wash brain people

meanings of intimacy in cross_and sam_sex friendships

Summary

According to the article"meaninggs of intimacy in cross_and same_sex friendships".< a herf= "htttp://sagepublications.com">"sagepublications"<.a>.The relation between the male"cross_sex" as the outer call it is complex.Also, the aricle gave the meaning of 'intimacy' that means colseness between the famles and males and do the girls comfortable with the guys and who are more express about how they feel.Also,the cross sex are more sexualy active than the same sex and this is what this article about.



reaction

I think the article are very intersting and the relation between the guy's and the girl's are very complected specially between the famles and males because it must be limet between males and famle because the relation might change from friends to lover.for me i reather to hung out with girls not with the guy's .

Popular cartoonlist Rin Inumaru jumps to her death from roof of building

One Japanese lady called Rin Inumaru who is famous as a cartoonist, essayist and novelist jumped from roof of building in Tokyo. She was still breathing when police found her, but she soon died because she injured badly. It was a neighbor who found her first and that person lives at same place. There were suicide notes in Inumaru’s room. She found it difficult to continue her work.
People die because of stress comes from their jobs these days. I think it is not happen in Japan, but also in the world. People who are working in society have a lot of stress. It depends on person but the most reason they have stress is they have to work to earn money for themselves and for their family. They can’t retire job easily and it causes big stress. These people can’t tell their pain to other people, no how. And it bring them to suicide. Perhaps it is difficult to know those people’s problem but they friend or family should know it or workers should tell them their own problems. It may won’t solve the problem but it set their mind at rest by making a clear breast of their problems.

[CORRECTING 'TWISTED' HISTORY]Civic groups bash 'twisted' textbooks

This article, "[CORRECTING 'TWISTED' HISTORY]Civic groups bash 'twisted' textbooks", appeared in the koreanow. It is about relationship between Korea and Japan. According to LEE, S's "Correcting Twisted History 'Civic Groups Bash Twisted textbook'," this article's main idea is to correct the twisted history. Many civic groups take pains to persuade Japanese school from no choosing textbooks authorized by the Japanese Ministry including twisted history. As one of that groups, there is a Korean civic group Asia Peace and History Education Network. Nowadays a total of 14 nongovernmental organizations in Korea, China and Japan declared a joint campaign against the twisted history textbooks and too many people are exerting their energies in reforming that rightly. In accordance with this article, Yang mi-gang who is a director of Asia peace and history education network said that we have to make a precedent about how we treat these problems with wide vision. But as time goes by, people forget this accident.

I disagree that we should let "twisted" history textbook in Japan as it is although history tell wrong stories. That is to say, I agree that we have to correct rightly the textbook written by twisted history. There is a case that the wrong thing isn't changed correctly as if that is right. This is wrong. We have to corret the wrong thing, and if the twisted facts has been known, we have to set right them. I heard that Japan committed what we can't image to our ancestors when our country was a colony of them. But, that isn't in the twisted textbook. The contents of them are too different from real history. For example, Japan took women of our country illegally and deal with them as sexual thing. But they hide this fact, and they said that the women wanted to do that. In my opinion, we have to revise the wrong thing, and prevent for wrong fact to be announced clearly. If the happening of Japan's twisted histoty textbook is understood by people, it is certain that Japan will make the similar case again in the future. Time is going, and history is passing and changing. Let's think. Should we let "twisted" histort textbook in Japan as it is although history tell wrong stories? No. we should not. I think that especially something which is related to history is more important than any other things. Something wrong will be fixed to the right way. In my esteem, it's the same as fighting for justice; that is to say, that is fighting in the cause of justice to gain or find or rewrite revise history to the right way. Since the beginning of history, many things happened. There were a lot of things include some wrong and right accidents. To solve the problem, we can think about it in many ways. First, we can think about strongly protest to the Japanese government for allowing twisted textbooks to many school and many place. And we can hold the Japanese government accountable for passing these textbooks which is clearly written to the right way. Not distorted textbook. Just guess. If any country meet this situation, it's possible occurrence to correct wrong history. Whoever see this trouble. This has a connection with the pride of country. And when we think about it in relation to history, we clear ourselves of the false charge for the image of our country and just justice. Anyway, there is no doubt that the two things are connected in some way. We should strongly demand that the Japanese government sincerely consider and comply with the demands for corrections of the textbook that was written by the wrong way or method. Second, a joint action with Japan and other Asian countries is another good way to solve the problem. That will be helpful to correct wrong things. And we have to prevent using the distorted textbook written wrongly in the schools' classroom. Third, we strongly desire that we work together toward creating an Asia of peace and human rights for everyone on the basis of trust and reconciliation. And creating that kind of history textbooks is treated strongly. That will help to correct something wrong. Moreover, it is also useful at leading children to the right way. In other word, I think that it is important to make a justice actually and collect the wrong things for the future. In conclusion, these things help us to solve the problem about twisted textbook which is written by the wrong way. it is worse than anything we can do to distort history. And the methods that I said in advance give us supports at the many fields to solve the twisted textbook row. Futhermore, when we meet this situation, we should deal with it by reasonable attitude instead of emotional attitude. If we do like this, we'll be able to solve this problem, obviously!





JIN(jin young, Lee)

Mother strangles 14-year-old daughter following bulling at school.

In the article, "Mother strangles 14-year-old daughter following 'bullying' at school," the author says a mother killed her daughter, so polices took her in custody. Her daughter fell down and was killed in her room. According to police, the mother thought her daughter had been worried about schooling trouble, so the mother wanted to relieve her daughter from the trouble. In addition, the mother cut her wrist a few time by a kitchen knife. Therefore, the police are looking into the matter because the mother may commit suicide after she killed her daughter.


I was very surprised when I read the article because mother killed her own daughter. I cannot understand why the mother did not think other solutions. According to the article, the mother has a depression, so I think her husband or her parents should have taken care more about the mother. I felt really sorry about what had happened to the girl. I want the mother to repent it for her daughter.

Saori

The Stolen Scream

I went to CNN.com and found an article about a famous painting,"The Scream". This painting was stolen for the second time by gangmen, but the police found it and the thieves. The article describes how the operation was done easily. Also, the article gives some information about the history of the painting. Finally, the article talks about the police reaction and what the thieves' penalty is.



I found the article interesting because it talks about a famous painting that has been stolen more than one time. I think that this painting was stolen twice because it was showen in a museum that has no enough security. All I can say is that the museum should incease the security, especially on the famous works.



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Online bets firm boss held in U.S.

The article, Online bets firm boss held in U.S., appears in the CNN news. It reports U.S. authority arrested Peter Dicks, who is the chairman of Sportingbet Plc, which is a big online gambling game company. Two months ago, the U.S. authority also arrested David Carruthers, who is the CEO of BETonSPORTS. The action the U.S. took causes decrease in stocks of online gaming companies. After all, Sportingbet Plc is closing the business in U.S..

In my opinion, although gambling is going to incur many societal problems, it is impossible to remove it by any kind of authority. Gambling is a sort of popular activity from very long-long time ago. Many political powers tried to take control on it, but never succeeded. Meanwhile, gambling is a lure for every degree of people, even in a traditional way. Now, because of the development of internet, the investors are from whole of the world and increase a huge amount. The money involved is incredible. Thus, I am wondering that the blockage from U.S. will effectively resist the new type of gambling in America.

by Bi-Chien

S. Korea Sees Boom in Male Plastic Surgery

According to this article“S. Korea Sees Boom in Male Plastic Surgery” many men start doing plastic surgery in Korea.from CBS, One young man had 24 procedures on his body in a little more than three years, because he wants to have a girl friend and confidence through plastic surgery. After all, the man is happy with his appearance. What is more worse the president of Korea having the procedure done to improve his work. The new idea of man which is not muscularity but unisex leads to male plastic surgery. In addition, number of male-only clinic goes on increasing. According to a survey by AGB Nielsen Media Research, 86% of S.Korean men between age 25 and 37 believe their competitiveness for jobs would be increased by having a good appearance and healthy body. Moreover they want to change even if spend a lot of money.


As you are well aware Korea is kingdom of plastic surgery. One place called to “special plastic surgery area” There are 300 plastic clinics or so. Until now, we thought that the matter is plastic surgery in female. Now a day, male plastic surgery is embossed with the new problem in society. When it comes to self development, surgery for treat a wound is not a problem but having the imprudence to operate cause many side effects. Also many people think that their appearance is best important method to get a better job and get a married. We must to do not forget that the most important thing is not outward but inside in our life.


C.J

Microsoft to Hackers: Take your best shot

I went to CNN web site and I found an article, which is talking about a new version of windows it is called Vista from Microsoft corporation. In fact all employees in Microsoft want to protect this program from hackers. The most important things, which are they want to safe them, are banks accounts and secret or important information. They are testing about 3000 copy of Vista windows to know the disadvantages.

In my opinion I found this article very interesting and important because millions of people are waiting this version. Also they are worried about the personal things like money and information, so they care about the degree of security in computer programs.

Motref

No DNA match, no KJonBenet Charges

This article “No DNA match, no JonBenet charges,” appeared in the CNN. http://www.cnn.com/2006/LAW/08/28/ramsey.arrest/index.html
It’s about John Mark Karr, a suspected person, didn’t kill JonBenet Ramsey. On Monday, in Boulder, Colorado, his DNA didn’t match with murder one. Also, there is no evidence. He didn’t lie to people and people believe that he is the murder, but it is not the truth and become clear. When the DNA tests finish, he is waiting to go to California. For the reason, people are surprised.

My opinion…

I think John Mark Karr, a school ex-teacher in Thailand, was not murder because there is no evidence. Even DNA didn’t match with murder’s one. For this 2 reason, I think there is relation with this tragedy story.

Masa

"U.S puzzles over N.Korea n-site"

According to article, “U.S puzzles over N.Korea n-site” from CNN, North Korea changed missile testing site. U.S suspected why they changed. North Korea is planning an underground test of nuclear bomb. So, U.S tried to find site but they didn’t. They just guess where testing site is. They don’t have exact information yet. North Korea doesn’t want to stop testing nuclear weapon. They still threat to international community.

As you know, the policy of North Korea is communism. That’s why they are one of the poor countries nowadays. Furthermore they request the food, money and any kind of resource from South Korea and US. Despite we support it, they against to stop testing. It is not affair definitely. As soon as possible, North Korea has to change their attitude for peace between South Korea and U.S.

by Jae-Yul Park

American al Qaeda

In this article,'American al Qaeda'U.S. should convert to Islam, appeared in Cnn and Henry Schuster made this report. It is about American al Qaeda, who appear recently in a new vediotape ask Amercans to invite the Islam. He talks in the whole film. Also he asked president of U.S. and The Prime Minister of U.K. convert to islam. However, exports says maybe they produce this tape to warn people from near attack.
It`s important for Islamic Organization to denail what al Qaeda show in their tapes to all the world, because all the world wait like this tape to show to know how those people thinking. In addition, non-belivers of Islam thinks this is the Islam way to invite non-muslims to it. Al Qaeda brings someone can talks to Amircans in English and warn people they will die if they will not join to Islam and this will be their last day. they are show Islam in wrong way, and people need to not listen to them and if they want to know about Isalm they should ask the right Organizations and take the right knowledge and information about this religion.

Life

"Kaigarajima island is a minuscule dot among the Habomai islets, which are part of the disputed Northern Territories. It is just 3.7 kilometers off the Cape Nosappu at teh tip of the Nemuro Peninsula in eastern Hokkaido. Japan claims sovereignty over the Northerb Territories, but Russia effectively controls them.
Early Wednesday in Aug 16, a Russian border patrol boat fired on a Japanese crab boat operating in water close to Kaigarajima,shooting dead one member of the four-man crew.The Russian outhorities seized the Japanese vessel, which was based in the port of Nemuro and detained the remaining crew members. The ship was operating in an area that has been subject to a long standing border dispute between the two countries.
According to Russian news reports, the Sakhalin maritime security authorities had noticed a suspicious boad and fired warning shots. But it is not clear whether the shooting was really intended as a warning nor if the crab boat was actually taking crab from the water.
Japan's foreign ministry summoned Mikhail Galuzin Russia's acting ambassador in Tokyo, to protect the shooting calling the incidenta an extraordinary act. The ministry demanded the immediate release of the three fishermen."

When I read this article I wondered whether this shooting was a resignedly case or not. In my opinion I think this is not resignedly case. Because we have to think people"s life more havily. We don't know shooting was really intended as a warning, but I think they had to think about human's life. I am no saying it becasuse the man who was killed is Japanese. All I want to say is we need to think about olife more. recently lots of cruel things are happened and lots of people are dying because of that. I think these things happen because most people don't think about people's life.