News Of Choice 5

Google Has A Plan For Safer,
More Useful Online Drug Ads

- Summary

Google and FDA had different opinion to apear drug's side effects on the website. Google didn't want to apear hole tings of drug's side effects on their website.

- Reaction

I don't care so much to drug's side effects, because every drug has side effects. Whenever we take some drug, we have to endure some risk. It's very natural, so I understand enough to Google's reaction. They don't have to do to apear hole things. It is OK to just warnning, like now Google's done.

- Source

http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2009/11/google_has_a_plan_for_safer_on.html

Weekly Words 3

* If you don't mind / When you get some agree from another person, you can use this words / I talked something to my roommate. At that time, I needed that means words. I use that If you be fine. But my cousin fixed my sentence. She said that If you don't mind is more useful than If you be fine.

* epidemic / Epidemic is a trand of disease or disease which has possible of infection / I found this word in my news of choice.

* encounter / Meet with each other accidentally / I want to use this word in my journal, so I found this in my dictionary.

* duplicate / People who was duplicated, called a human clone / I found this word in my news of choice.

* rather than / I prefer walking rather than riding. This sentence means walikng is preferer than riding. A rather than B = B than A / I wanted to use this means in my routine conversation, but I didn't think up that. So, I founded this words by using my dictionary.

* side effect / Opposite words of effect. Side effect is bader than ineffective. It is like minus / I found this word in my news of choice.

News Of Choice 4

Swine Flu Sweeps Through Austin, Hitting The Young

- summary

Swine Flu, a worldwide epidemic, arrived Austin and it killed two teenagers already. But it is not serious as you think. Because there are some treatment like Tamiflu. And it get better when you take some break.

- Reaction

I surprised. Because 15-year-old Helen Burnett's symptoms are exactly same to mine. Yesterday, I had a headache, some stomach pain and all-around didn't have much energy too!! Maybe.. did I take a Swin Flu on yesterday? I'm not sure, but it's really similar. Now I feel better, but still little haedache remaind. But it's okey to homework... Just I feel little scary.

- Source

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=113347469

News Of Choice 3

Bananas, A Storied Fruit with an Uncertain Future

- Summary

A Banana, most Americans prefer fruit, have some endangered future. According to Dan Koeppel who is Popular Science writer, banana's unique reproductive system— each new fruit is a genetic duplicate of the next —makes it especially susceptible to epidemics.

- Reaction

When I found this article, I feel really hartbreaking. Because Banana is one of my favorait breakfast. Anyway, whenever I hear "genetically modified food" like Banana, I don't think that is good idea. Because I heard that gene manipulation has some side effect. Also, I think that nature is fine when it was natural.

Green words = use dictionary

- Source

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=19097412

Weekly Words 2

* offend / If you offend someone, you say or do something rude which upsets or embarrasses them / When I choose my news, I saw this word in one article's title.

* despite / You use despite to introduce a fact which makes the other part of the sentence surprising / I heard this word in routine conversation. My cousin use this word.

* perception / Your perception of something is the way that you think about it or the impression you have of it / I saw this word in my NOC's news.

* express / An express or an express train is a fast train which stops at very few stations / When I visit my friend's home, I saw some advertise postcard. Express was used in that card. Until now, I know that express's meaning is just I show what I think or feel.

* freight train / A freight train is a train on which goods are transported / When Chris introduced one popsong for us, I saw this word in popsong's script.

* bunch / A bunch of people is a group of people who share one or more characteristics or who are doing something together / I saw this word in my picture which was taken in sixflags.

News Of Choice 2

Sexy Wins Halloween Costume Contest

- Summary And Reaction

Although it's the political season, almost people choose a sexy costume for Halloween. But there is one exception, North Korean leader Kim Jeong-il. Kim Jeong-il is very popular. It's very interesting that Kim Jeong-il costume is popular. Of course, it was a satire. Anyway, this Halloween is the first holiday after I came to USA. So, I really expect to this Saturday. When I have a chance, I want to challenge political costume, like Kim Jeong-il.

- Source

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6404941

Weekly Words

* jumbo / means very large / When I went to HEB, I found some eggs for eating. Jumbo is painted on egg's pack. Untill now I thought jumbo is Japanese.

* indentation / The space at the beginning of a line of writing when it starts further away from the edge of the paper than all the other lines / In classes I heard it. But I didn't understand indentation's meaning, so I choose. Now I understand it.

* nightmarish / If you describe something as nightmarish, you mean that it is extremely frightening and unpleasant / In Sixflag, I saw a signboard. Nightmarish was in there. I could guess it's meaning, because of it's surrounding environment.

* harvest / the time of year when the crops are gathered in on a farm, etc / When I took a bus, I saw a signboard on the street. Although it's a moment, I read it. I thought it's like herbal, but it's meaning was very different.

* slave / someone who is the property of another person and has to work for that person / In Gladiator I saw this word.

* recruitment / The recruitment of workers, soldiers, or members is the act or process of selecting them for an organization or army and persuading them to join / When I choose my news, I saw this word. Recruitment was one of keyword on my news.