New: why do we sleep?

A recent study may have an answer why do we sleep?
We need around eight hours sleep and babies need 14 hours. Animals as pythons,
and bats are at over 18 hours a day. Sleep is necessary to function well.
The University of Los Angeles, made a study of the sleep times of differents animals.
First of all, migrating birds, can survive long periods without sleeping.
Coinciding with the animals that are more difficult to survive.
In general sleep helps make best use of limited resources
For example In humans recover the energy used, and we can act appropriately.
Study says people who sleep eight hours minimum has more lucky and beauty than others! Sleeping is very positive!

News: Most valuable brands

The global recession has affected the world brand names. According to a recent report of University of California.
Some cars, motocycles, luxury product, clothing, manufacturers have been seriously attack by the economic downturn.
Coca-Cola is currently worth $68bn. Its benefits haven't suffered drastic change,
Car companies, such as BMW and Toyota, along with Harley Davidson motorcycles, have diminished the value of their brands.
Also some luxury firms, like watchmakers Cartier and Rolex, and Armani clothing.
The consumers don't value expensive things they want to cover their basic needs when times are hard.
Meantime firms with relatively cheap products as McDonalds fast food and Kellogg's cornflakes, for example. their brands have suffered recession.
But Google, thanks to the search for bargains online, it has benefited.

According to the report, the world's five most valuable brands are Coca-Cola, IBM, Microsoft, General Electric and Nokia, unchanged from last year.

News: Disappearing languages

UNESCO means United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
This institution confirms that more than two thousand languages of the world's six thousand languages are in danger of extinction.
About five hundred are spoken by less than thousand persons. Every time that a language die, the UNESCO says the world loses valuable cultural heritage. UNESCO says government action is important if the world want to preserve its linguistic diversity. One thing needed is that people must be proud to speak their language to ensure it survives. For example in 2008, Alaska's last native speaker of Eyak died, he and her language.
The eyaks wanted to to save her people's heritage but it's late. And also only three people speak ma tike, an Australian Aboriginal language.

UNESCO says the phenomenon of dying languages appears in different regions and diverse economic conditions.

News: Crime or culture?

In Madrid has take place a small concentration of about 1000 people to call for an end to bullfighting in Spain.
Many see this topic as cruel problem while others says it as an traditional part of Spanish culture.
Animal rights activists and ecologists meet in Puerta del Sol square. The Madrid regional government want to declare this practice as ilegal.
In the manifestation there are a lot of protestors. Their words were - "I feel very abashed of being Spanish when I hear of these crimes, and people say this torture is culture!! But many spaniards reject accusations of cruelty.
Thousands to the country's bullringsare visited by Tourists from around the world. Autonomous region of spain debating a possible ban for bullfighting but actually it's part of the nation's culture.

NEWS: PREGNANT TIGER DEADS IN ZOO

Malyska is a Siberian tiger, which was pregnant with three cubs, has drowned in a strange accident at a zoo.
she had five years old and she was found dead by keepers in a shallow pool.
An autopsy confirmed Malyshka had drowned, but the cause of the accident was a mystery!
The director of Banham Zoo, Malyshka was such a strong and healthy tigress and showed no signs of external or internal injuries. All the zoo staff are very much saddened by her loss.
Malyska is a Amur Tiger, there are believed to be no more than 450 adult Amur tigers left in the wild.

Climatic change

In this moment the temperatures in the Arctic are the highest they've been for 2,000 years. Researchers in the United States say that it is one of the clearest indication that human activity is warming the planet. Scientists have evidence showing dramatically that the current temperature rise there is highly unusual. The humans have destroyed the earth. Yet people are not conscientized.
World Health Organization (WHO) said the global number of swine flu deaths has jumped by more than 1,000 in a week.
At least 7,826 persons have died following infection with the H1N1 virus since April in Mexico.
The biggest rise in deaths was recorded in the Americas, where the death toll rose to 5,360.In most cases the virus continues to produce light symptoms.

Healthy pizza

Food scientists and dieticians have found new ways to make pizza that is good for the people. This is very positive news for pizza lovers and those who worry about their weight. Researchers in the Canada looked at different ways of baking the pizza base. The team from Herty University discovered that leaving pizza dough in the oven for a longer time made it healthier to eat. They said that doubling the amount of baking time increased the levels of antioxidants in the mix by up to 100 percent. Antioxidants help fight cancer and heart disease and are found in most healthy food. Also the team experimented with different cooking temperatures. Their results showed a higher heat also made the dough healthier to eat.

Vocabulary: baking:fornejar dough: masa