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The highs in the north will gradually climb into the 80 again by this timenext week. In the south, next week looks to be much like this one has been so far.Situation 6Hi, this is Sheila Lancaster from Terrific Travel calling with a message for Robert Pierce. I wasunable to book a flight on the 30th, so I booked a flight at 8:30 a.m.
the 31st with Arizona Air.You'll need to be at the airport two hours before departure, and your tickets will be waiting at thecheck-in counter. When the plane lands in Arizona Springs, Mr. Tim Lazarro will meet you atthe gate and drive you to the Desert Oasis hotel. Look for a man holding a sign with your nameon it. You're booked into the Desert Oasis for four nights, with a return flight scheduled for 3p.m.
on the Fourth. If you have any questions, Mr. Pierce, please give me a call at 559-3447.260Situation 7I'm Wendy Wilkens with a 5 p.m. news update. Firefighters now say they have the wildfire burning in the eastern foothills under control. The blaze, which has been raging for three days, destroyed nearly 500 acres of land and damaged 10 homes. No injuries have been reported. Firechief Mike Montgomery said the department is still investigating the cause of the fire, and it'stoo early to determine if it was set intentionally. Montgomery said fires start easily in this dryweather, and cautioned people again to be very careful with matches and lighters.
Campfireshave been banned in the eastern foothills, where the fire danger is high, but are still allowed inthe northern and western foothills, where the fire danger is currently rated medium. Montgomerysaid it will take crews another day or two to completely douse the flames, and then cleanup willbegin.Situation 8I’ve been to a lot of big cities, but Shanghai is a whole another level of big. It’s like the movieBlade Runner mixed with the movie The Matrix. I mean, it is so futuristic and I just—it reallyblew me away to be in the city. And it also has hints of Europe. I mean, Shanghai is famous forbeing famous in the 1920s and '30s with ex-patriots coming there, and it’s very international.And it really does have sort of a charm that a lot of places in China lack because cities in Chinaare so new; a 10 million person city just sort of pops up overnight.Task B1-B8- Is it true that most part of Japanese employees will have to do fat tests in future?- Yes, it is true that the fat tests will start next month.
All existing employees of major Japanesecompanies, aged over 40, both men and women will have to undergo annual health checks. Butthis time the health checks will include having their waistlines measured. The idea is that it willgive a sort of indications as to whether the employees are suffering from the risk of developingmetabolic syndrome, the word which has become quite prominent in Japan and in other countriesfor the last few years. It’s a collection of symptoms associated with being overweight, if left unchecked it could develop into something more serious.
We’re talking about heart diseases thatkind of thing.- In the UK we hear about obesity epidemic. Is it a big problem in Japan as well?- It’s not. Certainly by the standards of the US and some European countries, the Japanese arestill relatively slim, fit and healthy and ,of course, the traditional Japanese diet is quite high insalt and is low in fat as in tofu and misu soup, grilled fish, lots of boiled vegetables that kind ofthing. But the Japanese are abandoning their traditional diet. They don’t eat it not so often as261they should .do. Instead, they are turning to eating more meat, more bread, dairy products, certainly fast food. The fact that they do less exercise than they used to, people tend to sit in a car ortrain or sit in front of the TV for long periods of time, changes in a diet means that Japan has anddoes have an obesity problem particularly among middle aged men, it’s not sort of scale as in theUS.- Why are companies taking these steps? Is it up to individuals to source their waistlines?- Yes, it is.
But in Japan corporate culture means that companies are always taken in a rather paternalistic attitude towards their employees. They want to be more closely involved in their welfare way as you could see in the west. One of the reasons is that Japan’s health budget, the ageing society, the fact that there are so many people aged over 60, who are more susceptible to developing illnesses and they need to be looked after at old age, means that Japan’s health budgethas to be under control. And the idea of the Health Ministry is that if they stop people from developing lifestyle related diseases by encouraging them to eat more sensibly, to take exercise. Itcould save the state lots of money in a long run.- In the UK companies do random drop tests. Do you think these tests will stop people with abigger waist line getting a job in the first place?- That remains to be seen.
Companies are being set targets by the Health Ministry and if they failto reach those targets they could be fined or could be asked to pay surcharges on welfare payments to the national fund for the elderly. This means that perhaps some companies will start tolook at new recruits every April when the Japanese business year begins. I think that, perhaps, itis better to employ slimmer people than people of a bit on a podgy side.
That remains to be seen.Well, these tests will be just sprung on people. They don’t know exactly when they are going totake place. They will be given time to use their spare time to get a bit of exercise.Task B9-B14Speaker 1While many countries in Europe, including Britain, fear that too many migrants are movingthere, there is an argument that allowing more migration would actually be a powerful influence on development in the home countries because people who move get skills and betterjobs, and that can feed back into their communities.
But the other side is that many people leavebecause of a lack of development and opportunity, so more should be done to develop athome so that not so many people want to leave.Speaker 2If we look at the history of the UK, the history of Cameroon, the history of my own country, theUS, they involve the movement of people. No one can imagine the economy of London in the18th/19th/20th centuries without the circulation of people between other places and Lon-262don, other parts of the UK and London, and now increasingly other parts of the world and London. In the last census, I believe, 37% of the population of London were born in other countriesand they are the economy of London — it's the same for developing countries.Speaker 3So, in the case of Cameroon, for example, we have a leader who has been there for 30 years.There are many, many Cameroonians who are very well educated.
That is a little-known fact thatmost migrants from Africa are very, very educated, but they haven't got the opportunities toexercise their skills, so for the brains there to contribute to development there are systems thatneed to be changed. I do believe that until we start looking at the causes that lead to migration asthe point of departure, there won't be any change.Speaker 4It is my understanding — and we see evidence in our region — that companies, industry andbusinesses tend to profit more and gain more from the input of migrant labour than the migrantcommunity. Money that people earn, income from their wages, is essential.
It is essential fortheir survival but it is not enough for them to have a secure, stable future; it is often notenough for them to invest back in their villages and their communities to have longer term opportunities.Speaker 5There are reasons why people leave. If these reasons have not been identified and the solutionhas not been found, people will not go back. But even if they do go, they will have only a limitedimpact on the country. And second, it's difficult to see people going back because many of thesepeople have been in host countries for many years; their roots are there, they feel they belongboth there and in their countries of origin, and they may not even have the desire to go home.Or they may have the desire but not the incentives.
They see that their lives back home wouldnot be the way they are in the destination country.Speaker 6Generally, development is associated with urbanization and with a huge increase in populationdensity. So I think, again there’s no easy correlation. There are particular places where a highpopulation pressure is undoubtedly causing local environmental stress.
And that’s a problem.Now, traditionally, the way the people have coped with that is to move, is to move to cities.There is no reason to think. There is no particular reason why the situation, for example, inUganda is so unique. That will happen there. Generally, that has been a positive thing for the development.263Task A9-A15S.M. The United Nations had hoped that by 2015 every child will be able to go to primary schoolbut the last time they reported on progress on that goal they said that 69 million children werenot still getting primary education. Most of these are in Sub-Saharan Africa. My guest today,Michael Barber, has advised around the world governments about education.
He’s now workingfor the international company Pearson. It recently announced that it would invest millions in private schools for the world’s poorest families. Is that a right way to tackle a problem or could itundermine what government are trying to do? So Michael Barber welcome to our talk.M.B. Thank you very much.S.M. So Pearson called it the affordable learning fund. Tell us how it is going to work.N.B. The idea is to invest 15 million dollars every next few years and chains of local privateschools in developing world, chains aimed at the poorest families in the developing world toprovide education for their children.
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