Women Drivers

For the years many people thought women drivers were bad drivers. However, a survey carried out for the British television network, the BBC, semms to tell a different story. According to the survey, men are more likely to drive too close to the car in front or read a map while they are driving! The more men appear drive when they are tired and in danger of failing asleep. Women stop at red traffic lights and have fewer serious accidents. Is this due to traditional characteristics of men and women such aggression and the intelligence? According the royal Automobile Club of Britain things change as men get more older. Generally, after the age of 30, so they to become safer drivers.

Technology Changes Our Lives

Coputers changed life for all of us. Two computer inventions in particular changed the way we communicate: email an the World Wide Web.

Email,or electronic mail, allows us to spend messages without paper or a stamp. In an instant, aperson at a computer anywhere in the world can send and receive messages. Ray Tominson sent the first email in 1971. He worked for a company that was doing projects for the U.S. miitary. Their goal was to create a new way for people tocommunicate with each other.

The company created a network called ARPANET. Computer programs helped organize email. Today, there are about 600 million email accounts.

The invention of this network led to the development of the World Wide Web. Tim Berners-Lee created the ''Web'' in 1990. It allows us to connect to people and businesses around the world. It lets usdo things in seconds that used to take a long time. We can do research. We can shop onine. We can go to different websites and compare prices. We can find maps and plan trips. We can buy airplane tickets or get hotel rooms without making a phone call.

Coputers make our lives easier. Now, we can do almost anthing without leaving our desks.

The witch of wall street

Hetty Robinson learnt all about money when she was very young. As a child, she read the financial pages of the newspaper to her wealthy father. Her father died when Hetty was 30 years old and she inherited $1 million. When she herself died in 1916, she left a fortune of almost $100 million to her two children.

Hetty made her money on the New York stock exchange. She was a financial genius. She made money so easily that people called her the Witch of Wall Street. But although she was one of the richest women in the world, she was very mean. She counted every cent and she spent as little as possible. She didn't own a house, because she didn't want to pay property taxes. So she and her children lived in cheap hotels.

She spent almost nothing on clothes, and wore the same long black dress every day. She washed it herself, but to save soap she only washed the bottom of the dress when it touched the ground. Other people had their own officies, but Hetty kept her money in the bank and use a desk there, because it didn't cost anything. She sat in the bank and ate her sandwiches while she bought and sold stocks and shares. If the bank complainet, she just moved all her money to another bank.

Hetty's family paid the price for her meanness. When she was 33 she married a millionaire Edward Green and they had two children. Green, however, lost all his money, so Hetty left him. When her son, Ned, injured his knee, Hetty didn't want to pay for a doctor, so she took him to a free hospital for poor people. Unfortunately the doctor knew that Hetty was rich and she asked for money. Hetty refused and took the boy away. His leg didn't better and two years laer doctors removed it.

But eventually Ned got his revenge. At the age of 81 Hetty had an argument with a shop assistant about the price of a bottle of milk. She became o angry that she had a stroke and died. So Hetty's meanness finally killed her. Ned inherited half his mother's fortune, and he spent it all on parties, holidays and expensive jewellery. he even bought a chamber pot covered with diamonds!

Steve Jobs Modern Inventor

Steve jobs, the inventor of the Apple computer, worked for many years for a salary of $1 a year. Today he is one of the richest men in the world.

Jobs was born in Winconsin and grew up in california. He was a good student, but he dropped out of colege aftr just one semester. Jobs went home and joined a compuer club. There, he met Steve Wozniak. The two became friends. Both sarted working at a company that made coputer games.

In 1976, Jobs and Wozniak built the first personal computer, the Apple in a garage. The friends started their company Apple Computer. The next year, they built the very popular Apple II. In 1984, they built the macintosh. Small pictures called 'icons' helped people use the computer. Jobs added a '' mouse''. The mouse made the computer easy to use. The two friends made millions of dollars with their computers.

In 1986, Jobs started a movia company, Pixar. Pixar makes movies with computers. There are no actors, just dravings. Some of Pixar's best-known movies are Toy Story and Finding Nemo.

Now, Jobs works with other invertors on usefulthings such as iPod. People can store their favourite songs on this tiny machine. Tony Fadell developed the iPod. Then he sold his invention to Apple.

Steve Jobs is a creative man. He has a special ability to guess what people will like and what they will use. Millions of people own one of his inventions.

Leaders Of The World

If I am elected leader, I wil begin by revolutionizing the education system. Adults have their places as teachers, but we can use our peers to assist in classrooms, especially for younger children who have learning difficulties.

Every single person will receive the same amount of money, regardless of whether they are employed or not. This will be a minimum wage and teh savings made will be distributed equally so that everone has an adequate home for their needs, and they will be given all the appliances they adeserve: fridge, washing machine, TV and so on. No one should live in a shanty town and no one should have to live without pure drinking water. We need to think on a global rather than a personal basis.

I promise to make the industrialized world responsible for the developing world and to improve the economy of all countries. With a sound economic policy we can begin new space exploration missions, and try to colonize other planets. More money will be given to medical research and all weapon factories will be closed. Anyone manufacturing arms will be imprisoned in open prisons and do community service for the rest of their lives.

The global community will be responsible for peace and if anyone commits murder under any circumstances, they will be given a lethal injection.

If you elect me, you will be able live in a teenagers paradise. There will be free concerts every evening, featuring groups from all over the world. Everyone will be able to learn to play any musical instrument they want- for free. I will change the school curriculum so that all subjects are interesting, and calsses will stop at 1:00 pm every day. The afternoons will be for excursions and other fun activities. And teenagers will finally have the same rights as adults: we'll be able to drive a car, to move out of home and take charge of our lives.

We need to improve our environment. There will br harsh penalties imposed no anyone who causes pollution. Renewable sources energy will supply all our fuel needs in five years' ime. There will be no more destruction of forests, and the global eco system will be protected to prevent further damage to this planet.

People will be encouraged to lead healthierlives and grow their own organic food. We need to keep fit and active, both mentally and physically.

Double Fun in Hamburg

People watching the premiere of ''The Seagull'' - ballet based on the play b Chekhov- at the 28th Annual Hamburg Ballet days found it difficult to believe their eyes: the two rival lovers, Triplev and Trigotin, were identical. But this simiarity has a very simple explanation: the dancers are Czech twin brothers Jiri and Otto Bubenicek.

The brothers are not only similar in their appearance but they are also able to move in perfect harmony with each other. '' We can feel each other move '' Jiri explains. ''when we are both on stage'' Otto adds, ''my brother knows that I'll do the next second and I can do the same with him.'' Sometimes, ''Jiri says, '' I think I'm looking into a mirror when I watch Otto.'' There are also some small differences between tha ways in which the brothers dance. Jiri is faster, stronger, and jump higher. Otto moves more smoothly,''like a panther'' as his brother suggests.

The two ''bubis'' are sons of a travelling circus cyclist from prague. They completed their ballet training at the Conservatory in Prague and in 1993 joined the famous Hamburg Ballet group directed by Neumeier. Both of them are now the principal dancers in this group. As actors, they developed in a slightly different way. Otto is more sensitive and silent, and that's maybe often plays more romantic characters. Jiri who is more extroverted and lively, plays black devilish parts.

The wins have never been apart from each other for long. ''We will always stay together,'' Otto declares. As Byron once wrote ' Happiness was bor a twin.''Fort he Bubeniceks-and the people whowatch them on stage- that'sdoubly true.

The Perfect Body

Most people were surpised when Renee Zellweger got the part of Bridget in the film Bridget Jones's Diary. The film is About a young woman who worries about work, her weight and men. Zellweger is a slim American woman - completely different from Bridget who is English en overweight.

So, what did Zellweger do to get the part right? She had lessons to improve her English accent and she put on about eleven kilos. For several months she didn't do any exercises and she ate a lot of pizza, oeanut butter sandwiches and chocolate. Although it was fun at first, she often felt quite sick.

Zellweger put on weight on because she thought it was important to be as real as possible. She was surprised, however, by people's criticisms. People criticised her for being fat when she put on weight for the film. Then they criticised her again for being too skinny when she lost weight after the film. She realised it's almost impossible to have the perfect body in the eyes of the media.

So why did she do it? Well, money was probably one reason. On top of her $15 million salary, she earned $225,000 for every kio she put on. That's an extra $2.5 million! And it didn't stop there. A british slimming magazine paid her $3.5 million to lose all the weight again. So perhaps Zellweger doesn't need to care about the criticism when she earns all this money!