GIAQUINTO+Alessandra

**May 22, 2011. I have made a few corrections to Subway Superman and Multitasking. ** **Molly Rogers**

He is called "subway superman" but he considers himself only a good citizen.But how many good citizens would have thrown themselves into the subway rails to save **the **life to **of **another person?Wesley Autrey did it,in a station in Harlem,New York,just before starting his work shift as builder.  Autrey is 50,is afroamerican **Afro-American **and a veteran of U.S Navy and of Vietnam.He has been living in New York since he was born.It was about 12:45,Autrey was taking his two daughters home for lunch,-Syshe ,who's 4 and Shuqui,who's 6-,as he daily does **every day ** before going to work.  While he was waiting for the subway,a man in front of him fell to the ground struck by sudden convulsions.The man,Cameron Hollopeter,who's 20,tried to pick himself up but he fell again,just in the middle of the rails.The lights of the train number one,which was arriving,could be seen from afar."I had to decide rapidly",Autrey explained."I really didn't know what would happen to me,but I had to try to save him." <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> He threw himself <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: line-through; vertical-align: baseline;">into **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">onto **the other man,covered him with his body,lowered his head -and also lowered his **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">own **-while the train was arriving **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">at a high ** speed.Autrey from the ground,heard the noise of the brakes and five carriages crossing **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">over ** his head,before the subway managed to stop. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> "We <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: line-through; vertical-align: baseline;">fell **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">feel **good,we're **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">down ** here"-he shouted when the convoy stopped.But his first worry was his daughters :"I have two daughters up there,tell them that I'm well,that their father is OK.!!" <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> The employees of the subway took the two men out and Hollopeter was taken to the St.Luke's Roosevelt Hospital Center.Autrey refused to let the doctors examine him."I didn't have anything that <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: line-through; vertical-align: baseline;">ached **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">hurt **me" he said.The day after, he went to the hospital to visit the boy. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> "I don't believe that I did something exceptional-he explained to the journalists-I only saw somebody who needed helping ...I did the right thing!". <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">MULTITASKING ** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> It starts in the morning,taking the children to school.Then there's the office,the shop**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">ping ** to be done,the house to be tidied up,the dinner to be prepared.This is the typical day of <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: line-through; vertical-align: baseline;">million **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">millions of **women,above all of those who have a job away from home,like <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: line-through; vertical-align: baseline;">too **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">very **many women today.Fortunately,women can count on a brain suitable for "multitasking". <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> According to the old classic stereotype,women were always careless and confused in complex <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: line-through; vertical-align: baseline;">affairs **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">situations **and wanted men to solve all their problems.The supporters of this stereotype **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">certainly **didn't <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: line-through; vertical-align: baseline;">certainly believe that women would be <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: line-through; vertical-align: baseline;">more good **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">better **than men <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: line-through; vertical-align: baseline;">in **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">at **managing the confusion of modern life. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Instead,according to a research conducted by the English University <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: line-through; vertical-align: baseline;">in the **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">of **Hertfordshire,the female brain,is up to 70% more able than the male one when it's a question of organizing tasks or planning strategies,especially if somebody is under pressure because of other <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: line-through; vertical-align: baseline;">offices **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">tasks **to be carried out.Perhaps it's <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: line-through; vertical-align: baseline;">merit of **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">thanks to **the estrogens:another study has recently showed that the female hormones increase the connections between neurons.This could help to explain why women seem more communicative than men. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> But there's the concrete risk of exaggerating.Too many women,continually under stress,adopt typically male life style**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">s **, such as smoking cigarettes or drinking alcohol. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> And the price paid is very high.For some years,women have been suffering from health problems that once were more common among men ,such as for example cardiovascular diseases.

**May 7, 2011 I have made a few corrections.**
=LOTTERY WINNER=
 * -- Molly Rogers**

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">He wasted more than 4 million euros won at the lottery but he doesn't regret a cent of that money:"I wouldn't have liked to become the richest man **in** <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-decoration: line-through;">of the cemetery,I wanted to enjoy my life and I did it".The person who is speaking is Michael Antonucci,a 58 year-old man from Plymouth,in Devon,who works again as junk dealer,after 12 years lived as a rich man.In 1995 the lottery jackpot let him win 2.8 million pounds (over 4 million euros)-with an investment of only 10 pounds ,borrowed from his mother-. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> "That's what I can do-he explained to the journalists-and for me there's nothing wrong or strange about it.I can't manage to stay without anything to do.Once I have my health and a good bottle of wine,I'm happy". <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Where many of those millions went,is simply said:he bought a former convent and a recording studio(he invested **almost** <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-decoration: line-through;">hardly 60 000 euros trying to **launch** <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-decoration: line-through;">set up a pop band without any success).In the list of the expenses there are also cars,clothes,a boat,holidays and his fairytale wedding on a beach in the Bahamas with Kelly Arkins ,a 22 year-old dancer.The marriage lasted for 12 weeks and in the end Kelly kept the house costing 513 000 euros bought by Antonucci as a love nest.Fortunately,at least the flat in Plymouth where he currently lives.remained to him,while about 6 years ago,he had to sell the nightclub,the massage center and the pub that he had opened in order to pay the creditors. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> At the moment Antonucci drives a second hand lorry,with which he looks **for** used furniture to send to America,and yet,he swears he couldn't be happier than he now is. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> " I wouldn't say that things are so different from 12 years ago.I'm doing the same job I did before the winning and I'm also earning some money ,even if not so much.I didn't believe that I would do my job again ,but I don't regret anything.I'm happy that I won the lottery because I could live an experience that otherwise I **would** never have had".

=<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">LA RABBIA- RAGE =

====<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-decoration: line-through;">The **repressed rage is dangerous and at this time of economic crisis **everybody is** <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-decoration: line-through;">all the people are angry.Katsuya Hara ,a chiropractor from Tokyo,gives people the possibility of expressing their rage against objects such as dishes or cups.Hara claims that ,in order to express **<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-decoration: line-through;">the **repressed rage,there isn't **anything** <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-decoration: line-through;">nothing better than to break something,making a great noise.The chiropractor,began this new enterprise because he wanted his frustrated patients to get rid from their stress.However,even Hara didn't expect that many people would **try [future in the past is would + INFINITIVE]** <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-decoration: line-through;">tried his method. ==== <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Besides, the patients must wear protective clothes and plastic glasses in order to avoid **injuries caused** <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-decoration: line-through;">dangers provoked by the splinters and consequently,they are taken into a van.In this van,they are free to shatter their dishes and cups against a cement slab and to yell insults and curses against people who make them angry!
 * For** <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-decoration: line-through;">Since some months,there has been a queue of people waiting for their **<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-decoration: line-through;">own **turn in a corner of the electronic gadgets quarter of Sunda,in order to try Katsuya Hara's cure.His patients choose some dishes ,glasses and china that they want to break.A little cup only costs 200 yens(more or less one euro),while the big serving dishes cost 1000 yens.


 * April 30, 2011**
 * I have made some corrections.**
 * -- Molly Rogers**

HERCULES BEETLE

The latest mania concerning pets **is** are the Hercules beetles(Dynastes Hercules),insects as big as a sparrow,able to satisfy the people who adopt them because,according to **their** the fans,<<They are good-natured and recognize **the person** who takes care of them>>. These insects only live in the woods of Central and Southern America and they're making a Colombian rich ,who has been managing an export activity with Japan for some years. German Viasus,36,is an engineer who found a nest full of Hercules beetle's eggs while he was working in the wood."I 've carried with me **carried** those eggs **with me** and I 've taken **took** care of them as if they were my children-as he explained to the journalists-." At the beginning I had no idea of what ** it **would be born". 40 days passed before the eggs became larvas and then ,another year ,before he had giant beetles **in his** at home. One day some Japanese **businessmen** business men came to visit him and kept on looking the beetles saying:"How pretty!".At that moment Viasus thought **of setting** to set up a breeding and understood that the best market was the Japanese one. Viasus friends' reaction can be imagined.Nobody believed that this strange idea to breed animals would work,and this perplexity is certainly comprehensible.It's really difficult to believe that a large amount of people desire to keep a giant insect **on their** in hand,as it would be done with a hamster or a little bird.According to Viasus,it was not easy to make his friends understand the possibilities of success of his new enterprise. Today,however,the facts speak clearly.Each beetle costs 350 dollars and Viasus sends about 300 a month to Japan.He **emphasizes** underlines that his activity is wholly lawful. "I don't collect beetles from their natural habitat.Each exported animal is born in my breeding".

=LOTTERY WINNER=

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">He wasted more than 4 million euros won at the lottery but he doesn't regret a cent of **that** <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-decoration: line-through;">those money:"I wouldn't have liked to become the richest man of the cemetery,I<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-decoration: line-through;">'d like **wanted** to enjoy my life and I did it".The person who **is speaking** <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-decoration: line-through;">speaks is Michael Antonucci,a 58 year-old man **from** <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-decoration: line-through;">of Plymouth,in <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-decoration: line-through;">the Devon,who works again as junk dealer,after 12 years lived as a rich man.In 1995 the lottery jackpot let him win 2.8 million pounds (over 4 million euros)-with an investment of only 10 pounds ,borrowed from his mother-. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> "That's what I can do-he explained to the journalists-and for me there's nothing wrong or strange **about it**.I <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-decoration: line-through;">don **can**'t manage to stay without anything to do.Once I have **my** <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-decoration: line-through;">the health and a good bottle of wine,I'm happy". <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Where **many** <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-decoration: line-through;">much of those millions went,is simply said:he bought a former convent and a record**ing** studio(he invested hardly 60 000 euros trying to set up a pop band without any success).In the list of the expenses there are also cars,clothes,a boat,holidays and his fairytale **wedding** <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-decoration: line-through;">marriage on a beach in the Bahamas with Kelly Arkins ,a 22 year-old dancer.The **marriage** <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-decoration: line-through;">weddings have lasted for 12 weeks and **in the end Kelly kept** <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-decoration: line-through;">finally Kelly obtained the house **costing** <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-decoration: line-through;">of 513 000 euros bought by Antonucci as a **love** <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-decoration: line-through;">love's nest.Fortunately,<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-decoration: line-through;"> almost **at least** the flat in Plymouth where he currently lives.remained to him,while about 6 years ago,he had to sell the nightclub,the massage center and the pub that he had opened in order to pay **<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-decoration: line-through;">for **the creditors. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> At the moment Antonucci drives a second hand lorry,with which he **looks** <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-decoration: line-through;">is looking for used furniture to send to America,and yet,he swears he couldn't be happier than he now is. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> " I wouldn't say that things are so different from 12 years ago.I'm doing the same job I did before the winning and I'm also earning some money ,even if not so much.I didn't believe that I would do my job again ,but I don't regret anything.I'm happy that I won the lottery because I could live an experience that otherwise I never could **have had** <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-decoration: line-through;">live ".


 * 19 April 2011. I have added some corrections.**
 * -- Molly Rogers**

It's the biggest treasure ever found on the sea floor.The experts are endeavouring to understand who such a big treasure could belong to.The unbelievable fortune has been discovered by the American company Odyssey Marine Exploration,near the Scilly isles in the Atlantic **Ocean** ocean ,in a ship sunk about 400 years ago.According to the experts,the value of the gold and silver coins is more than 500 **million** millions of dollars. The Odyssey Marine Exploration decided to have this fortune transported to ** the **Florida,in the headquarters of the **company** society. It's difficult to identify the nationality of the wrecked ship. According to Greg Stemm,co-president of Odyssey Marine Exploration,the place of the shipwreck can be found in international waters.He said: "It's like a fable ;everything is perfect.We're surprised because __the first coins picked up present a very good state__ [meglio: the state of the first coins collected is very good and surprising].They had been **lying** laying on the ocean floor for more than 400 years,we didn't believe that they would be in such perfect **condition** conditions !"

** Cara Alessandra, **
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 * -- Molly Rogers **** March 29, 2011 **

TEARING DOWN VILLAS-
 * The more natural tense for this story would be the simple past. The use of the present perfect in the entire text, while not incorrect from a grammatical point of view, is not the use that a native speaker would choose. The second sentence would be in present perfect and the other tenses would be simple past. Remember, the simple past is the tense of story-telling in English. **

Sooner or later it had to happen.A bank has made tear down **had** sixteen luxurious villas **torn down in order** not to lose other money.In September 2007,when the Guaranty Bank had given the loan for their building, the medium **average** selling price of a villa was **of** 385 **millions** **of** **million** dollars,while now, the price has brought **come** down and the buyers don't **can’t** manage to honour the contracts.They have been paying nothing for many months and the bank has reseized **repossessed** the villas.Other buyers haven't been found.Keeping the houses empty would have cost **the bank** various millions of dollars for the bank, and with a **much** lower cost,the bank itself has found the solution to this problem. The episode has happened in Victorville,a small town in **to** the North of Los Angeles.The inhabitants of Victorville didn't want the bank to destroy the villas and nobody believed that it would be really made **would really do it**.Instead,at **in** the sight of an amazed and infuriated mob,the buildings have been razed. Yvonne Herter,the spokeswoman of the bank,has declared:<<We had no more choice.Taking care of the houses,the gardens,the streets,would have cost too much>>. Curtis Forrester,a bricklayer who had been involved in the construction of the villas,has said:<<It's like a nightmare.Destroying them,is a real pity>>.And abandoning them?<<It's impossible>>,as Yvonne Herter has explained ,<<It is forbidden by the codes and gradually,they would have polluted the environment>>. Nobody has though **thought** of assigning them**, even temporarily,** to the homeless.  Twenty years ago Howard-Yana Shapiro,a 61-year-old American man,founded "Seeds for Change",a small farm **firm** which sold seeds for organic farming.Business were being right **went well** and the company is grown **grew**.Then a **one** day in 1997,an unexpected offer arrived:"Mars",the giant company known for the chocolate bars,would like **wanted** to purchase "Seeds for Change". Although his friends didn't want him to sell-and also called him traitor-, Shapiro decided to sell his farm **firm**.Since 1997 Shapiro has been working for the "Mars",as Global Director of Plant Science and External Research. His friends didn't believe that Shapiro could take **do** good in a giant like "Mars".Shapiro instead,explains his decision as follows:"If you are interested in defending nature,the scale of your actions has a decisive importance".Shapiro's project consists of making the food industry change its behaviour with respect to the protection of the environment.Today it can be said that he has gained **reached** a first important result. The Mars,the biggest company for the production of chocolate all over **in** the world,has announced that starting from now, all its production of cacao **cocoa** will follow the rules of sustainable economy:lowest **minimum** salary guaranteed to the farmers,biodiversity in the developement of agriculture,preservation of water resources.This choice will be proved **verified** and certified by the ecological organization Rainforest Alliance.Shapiro says:"I'm convinced that following the example of the Mars ,all the food industry will undertake this way **follow this path**".

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<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 1.066em; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 5px 0px 0px;">TEARING DOWN VILLAS-
<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Sooner or later it had to happen.A bank has made tear down sixteen luxurious villas not to lose other money.In September 2007,when the Guaranty Bank had given the loan for their building, the medium selling price of a villa was of 385 millions of dollars,while now, the price has brought down and the buyers don't manage to honour the contracts.They have been paying nothing for many months and the bank has reseized the villas.Other buyers haven't been found.Keeping the houses empty would have cost various millions of dollars for the bank, and with a lower cost,the bank itself has found the solution to this problem. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> The episode has happened in Victorville,a small town in the North of Los Angeles.The inhabitants of Victorville didn't want the bank to destroy the villas and nobody believed that it would be really made.Instead,at the sight of an amazed and infuriated mob,the buildings have been razed. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Yvonne Herter,the spokeswoman of the bank,has declared:<<We had no more choice.Taking care of the houses,the gardens,the streets,would have cost too much>>. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Curtis Forrester,a bricklayer who had been involved in the construction of the villas,has said:<<It's like a nightmare.Destroying them,is a real pity>>.And abandoning them?<<It's impossible>>,as Yvonne Herter has explained ,<<It is forbidden by the codes and gradually,they would have polluted the environment>>. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Nobody has though of assigning them to the homeless.  <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Twenty years ago Howard-Yana Shapiro,a 61-year-old American man,founded "Seeds for Change",a small farm which sold seeds for organic farming.Business were being right and the company is grown.Then a day in 1997,an unexpected offer arrived:"Mars",the giant company known for the chocolate bars,would like to purchase "Seeds for Change". Although his friends didn't want him to sell-and also called him traitor-, Shapiro decided to sell his farm.Since 1997 Shapiro has been working for the "Mars",as Global Director of Plant Science and External Research. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">His friends didn't believe that Shapiro could take good in a giant like "Mars".Shapiro instead,explains his decision as follows:"If you are interested in defending nature,the scale of your actions has a decisive importance".Shapiro's project consists of making the food industry change its behaviour with respect to the protection of the environment.Today it can be said that he has gained a first important result. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The Mars,the biggest company for the production of chocolate all over the world,has announced that starting from now, all its production of cacao will follow the rules of sustainable economy:lowest salary guaranteed to the farmers,biodiversity in the developement of agriculture,preservation of water resources.This choice will be proved and certified by the ecological organization Rainforest Alliance.Shapiro says:"I'm convinced that following the example of the Mars ,all the food industry will undertake this way".

The __seat__ of Toyota in __kentucky__ has a huge vegetable garden of tomatoes and courgettes.PepsiCo,the food colossus specialized in junkfood like Mountain Dew,Cheetos and Rice-a-Roni has created a corporate garden inside __of it missing__ strictly organic,farmed by the employees. To raise employees' __spirit__,American companies,that can't afford a wage rise any more,have invented a new benefit:__missing__ corporate garden. Nobody thought that __thr__ repeated appeals of the first lady Michelle Obama to convince the Country to eat healthier,organic and local food,would reach such big results. As a matter of __facts__ until last year the vegetable garden-mania involved just an èlite of progressive companies like Google,Yahoo,and Sunset Magazine.They were from Silicon Valley,where being able to make a tomato grow is as crucial as being able to program a computer.For several months,on the contrary,hundreds of American companies have been giving the opportunity to their employees work as __farmed__ "part-time" during working hours. A person who __work__ in a company with a garden takes home kilos of free vegetables and he can also enjoy the fruits of his work at __missing__ work canteen.Working fields helps employees also to keep fit. But these aren't the only advantages. Sheila Golden,senior manager of PepsiCo and __ferver farmed__ says,"we want employees to be free from the office __hierchiefs__,digging fields together at least for some hours.We are all on the same level in the garden.
 * I have underlined the parts of the translation that need to be corrected. You can put a corrected form on this page, and I will correct it again for you, if you like. The annotation "missing" means that something is missing from the translation.**
 * Molly Rogers 29 Nov. 2010**

The seat of Toyota in kentucky has a huge vegetable garden of tomatoes and courgettes.PepsiCo,the food colossus specialized in junkfood like Mountain Dew,Cheetos and Rice-a-Roni has created a corporate garden inside of it strictly organic,farmed by the employees. To raise employees' spirit,American companies,that can't afford a wage rise any more,have invented a new benefit:corporate garden. Nobody thought that thr repeated appeals of the first lady Michelle Obama to convince the Country to eat healthier,organic and local food,would reach such big results. As a matter of facts until last year the vegetable garden-mania involved just an èlite of proggressive companies like Google,Yahoo,and Sunset Magazine.They were from Silicon valley,where being able to make a tomato grow is as crucial as being able to program a computer.For several months,on the contrary,hundreds on American companies have been giving the opportunity to their employees work as farmed "part-time" during working hours. A person who work in a company with a garden takes home kilos of free vegetables and he can also enjoy the fruits of his work at work canteen.Working fields helps employees also to keep fit. But these aren't the only advantages. Sheila Golden,senior manager of PepsiCo and ferver farmed says,"we want employees to be free from the office hierchiefs,digging fields together at least for some hours.We are all on the same level in the garden.

=ELEVATOR GHOST-= Since March 2008 it has been possible to watch on the website Youtube.com, a video of about two minutes,called "elevator ghost".Youtube,for the people who don't know it ,is a website which allows the **sharing** condivision of videos among its users and it is the fourth among the most visitated **visited** websites in the world. In the video "elevator ghost",two employees come in an elevator.During the **descent** descence ,they chat quietly.They are filmed by the security cameras.After a couple of minutes they exit from the elevator ,but behind them a terrifying figure appears:the ghost of an old woman.The video seems to be real but it could be a hoax.Everybody would like to know the origin of that video and **wondered** wandered why someone had created such a product. Now an answer exists.The GMP Group,a job recruitment agency in Singapore,asserts **that it** to have produced the video.Their small **masterpice** headwork ,has been created-as they say-in order to make us reflect about the risks of ** the **"workaholism",the illness of the people who work too much. They hoped that many people would watch the video and would understand that they had to work less.Josh Goh,GMP manager ,in a second video explains what are the dangers **are**:"stress,tiredness and health problems are only a few.And if you are very very unlucky,you could meet a ghost...I'm joking!!" And if the second video was a hoax?Mysteries of the web.

=SCHOOL UNIFORMS WITH A MICROCHIP-=

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Uniforms that English students wear,could soon be provided with a microchip that would allow the parents to know where their children **are**. A company specialized in the production of school clothes,is considering the possibility **of equipping** its uniforms with a chip that would furnish - **through** a satellite-continuous news about the point in which the pupil is.Most English schools,make the pupils wear a uniform."Trutex" is one of the most important **firms** <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-decoration: line-through;">firm for the production of school uniforms in Great Britain.For several years,it has been carrying out **surveys** <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-decoration: line-through;">a survey to understand the market. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Recently,800 **<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-decoration: line-through;">of **parents have answered **<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-decoration: line-through;">to **the survey on the chip in the school uniform.The Trutex didn't believe that the parents would agree with the " technological uniform",but in spite of this,**<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-decoration: line-through;">the **59% of them **are** <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-decoration: line-through;">is interested in the purchase. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">The parents are afraid that their children can be victims of kidnappings,but they **also** wanted <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-decoration: line-through;">also their children to be protected **from** <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-decoration: line-through;">by the other classmates. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">In this period in Great Britain **people are** <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-decoration: line-through;">we're discussing a lot about the way to stop the violence of young gangs,which **also** includes <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-decoration: line-through;">also very young boys.


 * TREASURE ON THE OCEAN FLOOR-**

It's the biggest treasure ever found on the sea floor.The experts are endeavouring to understand who such a big treasure could belong to.The unbelievable fortune has been discovered by the American company Odyssey Marine Exploration,near the Scilly isles in the Atlantic ocean,in a ship sunk about 400 years ago.According to the experts,the value of the gold and silver coins is more than 500 millions of **million** dollars. The Odyssey Marine Exploration decided to have this fortune transported to ** the **Florida,in the headquarters of the **company** society. It's difficult to identify the nationality of the wrecked ship. According to Greg Stemm,co-president of Odyssey Marine Exploration,the place of the shipwreck can be found in international waters.He said: "It's like a fable ;everything is perfect.We're surprised because the first coins picked up present a very good state.They had been laying on the ocean floor for more than 400 years,we didn't believe that they would be in such perfect conditions!"


 * HERCULES BEETLE**


 * The latest mania concerning pets is the Hercules beetles(Dynastes Hercules),insects as big as a sparrow,able to satisfy the people who adopt them because,according to their fans,<<They are good-natured and recognize the person who takes care of them>>.**
 * These insects only live in the woods of Central and Southern America and they're making a Colombian rich ,who has been managing an export activity with Japan for some years.**
 * German Viasus,36,is an engineer who found a nest full of Hercules beetle's eggs while he was working in the wood."I carried those eggs with me and I took care of them as if they were my children-as he explained to the journalists-." At the beginning I had no idea of what would be born".**
 * 40 days passed before the eggs became larvas and then ,another year ,before he had giant beetles in his home.**
 * One day some Japanese businessmen came to visit him and kept on looking the beetles saying:"How pretty!".At that moment Viasus thought of setting up a breeding and understood that the best market was the Japanese one.**
 * Viasus fiends' reaction can be imagined.Nobody believed that this strange idea to breed animals would work,and this perplexity is certainly comprehensible.It's really difficult to believe that a large amount of people desire to keep a giant insect in hand,as it would be done with a hamster or a little bird.According to Viasus,it was not easy to make his friends understand the possibilities of success of his new enterprise.**
 * Today,however,the facts speak clearly.Each beetle costs 350 dollars and Viasus sends about 300 a month to Japan.He emphasizes that his activity is wholly lawful.**
 * "I don't collect beetles from their natural habitat.Each exported animal is born in my breeding".**

=LOTTERY WINNER=

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">He wasted more than 4 million euros won at the lottery but he doesn't regret a cent of that money:"I wouldn't have liked to become the richest man of the cemetery,I wanted to enjoy my life and I did it".The person who is speaking is Michael Antonucci,a 58 year-old man from Plymouth,in Devon,who works again as junk dealer,after 12 years lived as a rich man.In 1995 the lottery jackpot let him win 2.8 million pounds (over 4 million euros)-with an investment of only 10 pounds ,borrowed from his mother-. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">"That's what I can do-he explained to the journalists-and for me there's nothing wrong or strange about it.I can't manage to stay without anything to do.Once I have my health and a good bottle of wine,I'm happy". <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Where many of those millions went,is simply said:he bought a former convent and a recording studio(he invested hardly 60 000 euros trying to set up a pop band without any success).In the list of the expenses there are also cars,clothes,a boat,holidays and his fairytale wedding on a beach in the Bahamas with Kelly Arkins ,a 22 year-old dancer.The marriage lasted for 12 weeks and in the end Kelly kept the house costing 513 000 euros bought by Antonucci as a love nest.Fortunately,at least the flat in Plymouth where he currently lives.remained to him,while about 6 years ago,he had to sell the nightclub,the massage center and the pub that he had opened in order to pay the creditors. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">At the moment Antonucci drives a second hand lorry,with which he looks used furniture to send to America,and yet,he swears he couldn't be happier than he now is. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">" I wouldn't say that things are so different from 12 years ago.I'm doing the same job I did before the winning and I'm also earning some money ,even if not so much.I didn't believe that I would do my job again ,but I don't regret anything.I'm happy that I won the lottery because I could live an experience that otherwise I never have had".

=<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">LA RABBIA- RAGE =

====<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">Repressed rage is dangerous and at this time of economic crisis everybody is angry.Katsuya Hara ,a chiropractor from Tokyo,gives people the possibility of expressing their rage against objects such as dishes or cups.Hara claims that ,in order to express repressed rage,there is nothing better than to break something,making a great noise.The chiropractor,began this new enterprise because he wanted his frustrated patients to get rid from their stress.However,even Hara didn't expect that many people would try his method. ==== <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">For some months,there has been a queue of people waiting for their turn in a corner of the electronic gadgets quarter of Sunda,in order to try Katsuya Hara's cure.His patients choose some dishes ,glasses and china that they want to break.A little cup only costs 200 yens(more or less one euro),while the big serving dishes cost 1000 yens. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">Besides, the patients must wear protective clothes and plastic glasses in order to avoid dangers injuries caused by the splinters and consequently,they are taken into a van.In this van,they are free to shatter their dishes and cups against a cement slab and to yell insults and curses against people who make them angry!

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">SUBWAY SUPERMAN

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">He is called "subway superman" but he considers himself only a good citizen.But how many good citizens would have thrown themselves into the subway rails to save life to another person?Wesley Autrey did it,in a station in Harlem,New York,just before starting his work shift as builder. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">Autrey is 50,is afroamerican and a veteran of U.S Navy and of Vietnam.He has been living in New York since he was born.It was about 12:45,Autrey was taking his two daughters home for lunch,-Syshe ,who's 4 and Shuqui,who's 6-,as he daily does before going to work. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">While he was waiting for the subway,a man in front of him fell to the ground struck by sudden convulsions.The man,Cameron Hollopeter,who's 20,tried to pick himself up but he fell again,just in the middle of the rails.The lights of the train number one,which was arriving,could be seen from afar."I had to decide rapidly",Autrey explained."I really didn't know what would happen to me,but I had to try to save him." <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">He threw himself into the other man,covered him with his body,lowered his head -and also lowered his-while the train was arriving speed.Autrey from the ground,heard the noise of the brakes and five carriages crossing his head,before the subway managed to stop. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">"We fell good,we're here"-he shouted when the convoy stopped.But his first worry was his daughters :"I have two daughters up there,tell them that I'm well,that their father is OK.!!" <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">The employees of the subway took the two men out and Hollopeter was taken to the St.Luke's Roosevelt Hospital Center.Autrey refused to let the doctors examine him."I didn't have anything that ached me" he said.The day after, he went to the hospital to visit the boy. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">"I don't believe that I did something exceptional-he explained to the journalists-I only saw somebody who needed helping ...I did the right thing!".


 * MULTITASKING**

It starts in the morning,taking the children to school.Then there's the office,the shop to be done,the house to be tidied up,the dinner to be prepared.This is the typical day of million women,above all of those who have a job away from home,like too many women today.Fortunately,women can count on a brain suitable for "multitasking". According to the old classic stereotype,women were always careless and confused in complex affairs and wanted men to solve all their problems.The supporters of this stereotype didn't certainly believe that women would be more good than men in managing the confusion of modern life. Instead,according to a research conducted by the English University in the Hertfordshire,the female brain,is up to 70% more able than the male one when it's a question of organizing tasks or planning strategies,especially if somebody is under pressure because of other offices to be carried out.Perhaps it's merit of the estrogens:another study has recently showed that the female hormones increase the connections between neurons.This could help to explain why women seem more communicative than men. But there's the concrete risk of exaggerating.Too many women,continually under stress,adopt typically male life style,such as smoking cigarettes or drinking alcohol. And the price paid is very high.For some years,women have been suffering from health problems that once were more common among men ,such as for example cardiovascular diseases. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 20px; line-height: 29px;">