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[] 02/18/10 Author: Unknown Topic: Health
 * Fat War Wages On in the Skies**

There is a debate about passengers in flights being overweight. Kevin Smith was made to get out of a flight because he was overweight. The airline, Southwest, later apologized to him for getting him out of the airplane because he was overweight and gave him a refund. He was taken out of the airplane because they said he needed more than one seat to complete his flight, but he says he was able to fit in the required seat. Overweight people are now scared to get on an airplane because they don't want to be put through the embarrasment of getting kicked out of the airplane just because they are overweight. All of the people should be able to get on an airplane even if they are overweight or not.

I think this is kind of mean that the people have to go through this just because they are overweight. Overweight people should still be able to get on a flight no matter how many seats they have to take, because they are paying to to go on that flight and they want to get good service. With what Southwest did I think they lost many of their customers. I think some of the overweight people chose another airline to go in instead of Southwest so they won't be treated the way they treated Kevin Smith.

[] 02/17/10 Author: Unknown Topic: U.S.
 * Suburban Homeless: Rising Tide of Families**

There are many homeless people in the world, without being able to go to shelters. There are people that need government help, but don't seek help. Of course there are some of the people that seek government help for their whole family or just for their children. Many of the people that seek help for the first time don't get accepted. The number of people not being accepted has increased more now. Many of the men that seek help from the government is mostly because they have lost their job and don't have money to maintain themselves or their family. Also because they man of the house looses their job, they also loose their homes because they have rents to pay, and at the end end up in the street because their bills are stacking up. People without homes live under bridges, in the woods, and many other places where they can use as a home. Fortunately, there are shelters that help the homeless and some of the homeless get help from the government, but unfortunately there are some people that don't seek help at all.

I think it is sad that people don't have homes or money to maintain themselves or their family. This is more sad especially for the children because many of the children loose everything, even their education. I think all of the homeless people should seek for help and try to get help no matter what it takes so they can start their lifes again and get a good job and be successful. People that need money should go to the shelters or get help from the government.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/02/03/health/main6170930.shtml?tag=cbsnewsLeadStoriesAreaMain;cbsnewsLeadStoriesHeadlines 02/05/10 Report: 40% of Cancers Are Preventable Author: Unknown Topic: Health

It has been known that 40% of cancers can be prevented. Many people don't prevent the cancers but they can easily be prevented if people stopped smoking, eating too much, not drink that much, exercise more, and get vaccines to prevent cancer-causing infections. Offices of the International Union Agains Cancer released a report to focus on the steps the public can take to avoid a disease. It has been shown that cancer is responsible for one out of eight deaths worldwide, more than aids. Experts say that 21 percent of all the cancers are due to infections, and people should do something to prevent all these infections so it won't cause you to get a disease. In Western nations many of the cancers can be avoided if people changed their lifestyle habits.

I don't get it why people don't really care about their health. People always think they're not gonna get sick or anything, but at the end they do. People should just prevent all the diseases and do what they're supposed to do to prevent diseases like cancer. If people don't prevent the disease you can even die. It's better to prevent diseases now than to die later on because of the disease.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/01/26/politics/washingtonpost/main6142801.shtml?tag=cbsnewsLeadStoriesAreaMain;cbsnewsLeadStoriesHeadlines 1/27/09 Teen Pregnancy, Abortions Up Author: Unknown Topic: Politics

The pregnancy rates of teenage girls in the United States has gone very high for the first time since more than a decade. This jump in the rate is raising alarm that teenage girls are getting pregnant at a young age. The pregnancy rate among 15 and19-year-olds has increased 3 percent between the years 2005 and 2006. Teen pregnancy has triggered intense political debates over the sex education for teens. They are trying to encourage teens for abstinence until marriage or birth control. Not not has the teen pregnancy rates inscreased, but also the abortion rate has went up. They are having groups for the teens so they can give them information about the teen pregnancy and what can happen. These groups will encourage the students more to wait to have babies until they are married.

I think it is really good that they are doing these groups, because it informs the students more about all this. They should talk more about how they should not abort the babies. I think it is really sad when a mom aborts their baby because they don't want them. I think that they should have them and that if they don't want them to give them to adoption so they can live and have a good life with another family. Overall students should get for sex education, because most of the schools don't talk about that to the students.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/01/25/world/main6138362.shtml?tag=cbsnewsLeadStoriesAreaMain;cbsnewsLeadStoriesPrimary 1/25/10 Author: Unknown Topic: World
 * 90 May Be Dead in Ethiopian Airlines Crash**

An airplane from Ethiopian Airlines carrying 90 people was caught on fire and crashed into the sea. This happened minutes after taking off from Beirut on a Monday morning. There were passenger seats, baby sandals, and other things are in the sea. No survivors were found, emergency workers only recovered 21 bodies. They said terrorism was not suspected, but the stormy weather had to do with this accident becaise the weather was really bad. Helicopters and naval ships went for rescue, but there was many waves. A day of morning was announced because and schools and government offices were closed. Labanese officials are sending a search plane to the crash site to continue looking for survivors. There were 83 passangers and 7 crew members, and so far it looks like there are no survivors.

I think this is really sad because when you least expect it one of your loved ones can go away. It makes it more sad that this accident occured a little bit after they took off. There are a lot of people hoping that the people are still alive some where, and hopefully many people got to survive.