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US Inmates Uses Instant Ramen as Currency

  Tobacco was the preferred currency that inmates use in prisons before. Nowadays, the chosen currency of inmates is ramen. Jailbirds were no longer happy with the food’s quality and quantity inside the prison that they have begun depending on ramen noodles as a form of cash in the subterranean economy. Ramen turned into an invaluable product used to trade for other goods inside the prison as it is economical, palatable and rich in calories. 60 inmates were interviewed as a part of the study to learn how the inmates responded to the declining services in prison. The food received by the inmates is either inedible or too little to…
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Programming, a new fun way of learning

  The number of classes that teach programming to children is amplifying. This is in accordance to plans on having programming as an elementary school subject by academic year 2020. These kinds of classes are expected to induce creative and logical thinking among students at an early age. Last September, around 60 elementary school students assembled in a room to study programming. A second-grade student made a computer game about a parrot that rescues the monkey on a cloud by sprucing up on-screen commands such as changing the X coordinate by 10. CA Tech Kids, Inc. runs classes for elementary school students in eight locations since its foundation in 2013….
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Researchers Announced the Countries with Tallest Man and Woman

  Dutch men and Latvian ladies are the planet’s tallest individuals , as indicated by the biggest ever investigation of stature around the globe. Americans, once among the world’s tallest individuals, have dropped from having men and ladies at third and fourth in the worldwide tallness rankings, a 100 years prior to setting 37th and 42nd separately in 2014. The exploration, initiated by researchers at Imperial College London and distributed in the diary eLife, likewise discovered a few countries have quit staying in the course for the last 30 to 40 years. The United States was one of the main well-off nations to date, trailed by others including Britain, Finland,…
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Halloween party in Shibuya

  The traffic confinement will be a massive help in retaining the Halloween party. Thus, opening up some routes could boost the people who sneak into felony. The Metropolitan Police Department will provide two routes in the vicinity for pedestrians. However, the routes will only be available from Friday until Monday. The two routes are liable to conveyance confinement including the Shibuya scramble crossing. The Shibuya scramble crossing will not be available to conveyance due to its high volume of traffic. However, by seizing vehicular traffic, pedestrians will enjoy the event more. In addition to that, another big Halloween dilemma is the tons of trash left in parades, yet everyone’s…
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Education ministry experts want to know what is “serious” school abuse

  A council of scholars are calling the attention of the Education Ministry to specify “serious” bullying and create guidelines for investigation. The standard law decreed the schools and boards of education to establish teams to investigate on “serious” school bullying cases, which are detrimental to students’ development. Despite this decree, the scope of “serious” cases under the law is nebulous so response of authorities are inefficient. The ministry must enumerate comprehensive examples of grave penalties for bullying so that “serious” cases will be defined. The scholars also required the ministry to create concrete guidelines on how to scrutinize cases of bullying, which includes: selection of third-party committee members, investigation…
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China’s October Exports, Imports Drop

  China’s October exports declined 7.3 percent, while imports dwindled 1.4 percent compared with preceding year’s figures–both dropped more than what’s expected. According to the General Administration of Customs, China currently has a trade surplus of $49.06 billion for October as a result. Compared against September’s trade surplus of $41.99 billion, their forecast is to have inflated to $51.70 billion. Analysts said that the changes in statistics lead to the recurring slack global demand.   Vocabulary: dwindle – to gradually become smaller preceding – existing, happening trade surplus – a situation in which a country sells more to other countries than it buys from other countries forecast – to say…
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Paris reveals plans to win back tourists

The French government publicized their new scheme in revitalizing the agitating tourism industry of Paris. This scheme of French government includes the employment of English-speaking tourism volunteers. The administration is also pushing for the term ‘state of emergency’ to be changed to ‘state of high security’. Terror attacks and flooding in France led to a 13% fall in visitor numbers between January and August this year, compared to the same period in 2015. It caused the loss of €1billion in monthly tourism revenue. The authorities came with their six-point plan to attract foreign sightseer back to the French capital. The plan will mainly focus on security, hospitality, and quality of…
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United Nations talks about climate change

MARRAKESH, MOROCCO– Fifteen thousand negotiators, CEOs and activists congregate for the Paris Agreement amidst US Elections. The Paris Agreement binds all countries equally to offset global warming. Despite the congregation of 196 nations for the twelve-day UN talks, the world is focused on the United States elections that could propel climate denier Donald Trump to the White House. US President Barack Obama warns that all the steps made for climate change now depends on the votes of the American citizens. Democrat candidate Hillary Clinton promised to preserve Obama’s policies in the cessation of global warming. Issues on each nations’ CO2 emissions shall be addressed in 2018. 2018 shall also be…
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Skin Patch for Children with Peanut Allergies

A new method to fight off peanut allergy has been devised that makes use of a wearable skin patch which trains the body to build up immunity to peanuts. According to a research published in the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, it had a fifty-percent success rate on its initial test run that enabled takers to tolerate doses of peanut protein that are 10 times more than they could before undergoing the therapy Children from ages 4 to 11 years old are found to benefit more from the immunotherapy. Those who are older than 12, on the other hand, didn’t seem to enjoy the same advantage. Although the method…
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Lowest bus service in Tokyo and Narita

Finding the cheapest transport to get to Tokyo from Narita is a worthy quest since Narita airport is not in the middle of Tokyo. The transport service to and from Tokyo is indeed pricey. However, an economical transport connecting Narita International Airport and Osaki station in Shinagawa Ward, Tokyo was launched last Monday. The leading-edge for transport is now available for as low as ¥1,000 to ¥1,200. The Access Narita is the cheapest bus preference as of the moment. The said company claimed that their services is the most fitting transport service due to its features and amenities. Thus people anticipate that lowering the transport service fee will ease access…
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