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FIGHTING BACK
When Al Gore lost the 2000 presidential
elections in the US, many people thought
he would disappear. But just seven years
later he is in the headlines again. This
year he has won both the Principe de
Asturias award for International
Cooperation and the Nobel Peace Prize.
Now he is looking to build a worldwide
'green army' to publicise environmental
issues around the globe. Join him on
page 14. On CD we learn about some
more outspoken men: writer Jeffrey
Archer and Formula 1driver Lewis
Hamilton, We also travel to two booming
destinations: Harlem in NewYork and
Dublin in Ireland. There are tips on howto
get your life in order on page 22 and
advice on using newtechnology to listen
to music in our Futurology series. For
more on music, read the interviewwith
hot young singing star Rihanna.
18
Jennifer Aniston
has relationship
troubles in this
month's movie
The Break-Up.
4 ~ EASY ENGLISH
On CD we profile rising Formula 1
star Lewis Hamilton and celebrate the
reunion of rock group Genesis.
12 ~ JEFFREY ARCHER
The politician, businessman and
author talks about his eventful life.
14ALGORE
The Nobel Prize winner brings his
Climate Project to Spain.
18 ~ JENNIFER ANISTON
Hear all about her role in Speak Up's
movie this month, The Break-Up.
22 PUTnNG YOUR LIFE IN ORDER
Are your closet and your life in a mess?
You need a professional de-clutterer.
24 I'VE GOT A BIKE
We visit an unusual auction house,
which specialises in antique bikes.
26 ~ HARLEM RENAISSANCE
We tour New York's hottest
neighborhood, Harlem.
30 FUTVROLOGY PART 2
Speak Up's new series looks at hi-tech
ways oflistening to music.
32 ~ COST OF TIlE CELnC nGER
Ireland is now the second richest
country in the ED. But what are the
costs of its economic success?
36 RIHANNA
The Umbrella Girl talks about her hits
and working with rap star Jay-Z.
38 MEET THE PRESS
The Guardian fights bank robbers and
The Economist tries health drinks.
40 ~ ROOM FULL OF MIRRORS
An extract from a biography of rock
superstar Jimi Hendrix.
46 ~ THE LAST LAUGH
A parrot and a magician provide the
laughs in our jokes section.
ILanguage level: IBASICI
EASY ENaLISH / PROFILE / 0 ON CD1
BY JOHN RIGG - SPEAKER JUSTIN RATCLIFFE STANDARD BRITISH ACCENT
E
~
6
INSPIRATION 1 TRAILER: remolque 2 STEP-MUM:
madrastra 3 IT HIT ME HARD: me afect6 mucho
~ 1 TO OVERTAKE: adelanrar 2 RELEVANT:
~ significativo 3 NEVER MISSED A RACE:
nunca se perdi6 una carrera 4 IS NOT IN QUESTION: em!
fuera de duda 5 KARTING: carreras de cars 6 TO SET UP:
organizar 7 ULTIMATE GOAL: objetivo final 8 TO BLAME:
echar la culpa 9 DELAY: retraso
Hamilton's ability is not in question
4
~
He's been a champion driver since the 6'
age of 10 and has won at every level of
the sport from junior karting
5
to the
GP2 series. His father bought him his
first go-kart at the age ofsix, and he was
racing by his eighth birthday. Hamilton
first met McLaren team boss Ron Den-
nis in 1994 when he was just nine years
old. He told Dennis that one day he
wanted to drive for McLaren. Four years
later the McLaren and Mercedes-Benz
Young Driver Support Programme was
set Up6, and Hamilton was one of the
first to obtain financial and technical
help. Today he says, "Racing in Formula
One with McLaren was the ultimate
goal? for me. It's a dream come true.
One person remains unimpressed by
Hamilton's driving abilities: his girl-
friend Jodi Ma reveals that, on a recent
trip from Paris to London, he got lost
twice. Hamilton took seven hours to
find his way home and blamed
8
the de-
lay on his car's navigation system.
El debut del britanico Lewis Hamilton, el primer piloto de
color de Formula 1, ha sido impresionante. Aunque
corta, su vida profesional ha sido intensa y muy rapida.
Hamilton, who grew up in Tewin in
Hertfordshire, England, is also the first
black Grand Prix driver, but he doesn't
see that as relevane: "Being the first
black man isn't important to me person-
ally, but it will introduce motor racing to
a newaudience.
He is often compared to golfchampi-
on Tiger Woods for his maturity and
concentration, and there are similarities
in their family backgrounds. Hamilton's
father, Anthony, has always encouraged
and supported his son: he had three jobs
to finance him in the early days, and
never missed a race
3
Lewis
Hamilton
L
ewis Hamilton, McLaren's 22-
year-old Formula One driver,
made an incredible impact
on his debut at this year's
Australian Grand Prix: he over-
took' Alonso, the reigning world cham-
pion, at the first corner. He finished that
race in third place, the first debutant to
reach the podium since Jacques
Villeneuve in 1996. He then broke all
records by taking second place in his
next four races, and led the world cham-
pionship. The only racing driver with
a comparable record is the legendary
Italian, Giuseppe 'Nino' Farina. Many
believe Hamilton will become the great-
est driver ofall time.
4 SPEAK UP
EXERCISES
Listening Questions
11 Choose the best option in each case.
A. Lewis Hamilton finished in (SECOND / THIRD)
place in four consecutive races.
B. His family background is often compared
to that of (JACQUES VILLENEUVE / TIGER
WOODS).
C. Hamilton received (PSYCHOLOGICAL /
ECONOMIC) support from the Mercedes
Benz Young Driver Support Programme.
D. He was given his first lGO-KART / TOY CARl at
the age of six.
E. [HAMILTON / HAMILTON'S FATHER) had to
do three jobs in order to help pay for
his training.
F. Jodi Ma claims that Hamilton got lost
(TWICE / ONCE) on the way from Paris.
21 Match these celebrated Grand Prix
drivers with their countries.
A. Ayrton Senna 1Germany
B. Mika Hiikkinen 2Spain
c. Niki Lauda 3 Brazil
D. Alain Prost 4 Finland
E. Michael Schumacher 5Austria
F. Jackie Stewart 6 UK
G. Fernando Alonso 7 France
Answers
11 A. second, B. Tiger Woods, c. economic,
D. go-kart, E. Hamilton's father, F. twice
2)A3,B4,c5, D7,E1,F6,G2
More exercises on CD
Le\Nis Hamilton was
inspired by Ayrton Senna,
who died when Lewis was
just nine years old: "He was
my hero. I remember racing
the weekend he died. My
dad had a small Vauxhall
Cavalier and a trailer' at the back. We
always sat in the Cavalier and waited
for my turn to race. And that day my
step-mum
2
came and told us Senna
had just died. It hit me hard
3
- but I
never liked to show emotion in front
of my dad, so I went behind the trailer
and cried. That was the turning point
of my life - because when you're so
young, you believe people like Senna
are invincible. And then you realise
that they're also mortal. I decided to
make the most of my talent."
EASY ENaLISH / LANGUAGE
BY JOHN RIGG
ILanguage level: I BASICI
Words,Words
Este mes, en la habitual secci6n dedicada a las palabras
mas utiles en ingles, hablamos de algunos de los diferentes
sentidos y combinaciones que tiene el utilizadisimo take.
This month we discover a new take,
that's a new perspective, on the word
take, so take a seat (sit down) and get
comfortable. Basically, to take means to
obtain; sometimes it's as easy as picking
up a biscuit from a plate. Other times it
involves violence: a mugger' takes an
old woman's handbag
2
and escapes.
That's a shocking experience, which
is very difficult to take in (or
understand); everyone is taken by
surprise (or shocked) by the situation.
Time Out
Here are some more examples. Ifyou
see an unusual bird, you "do a double
take" - you see the
bird the first time,
look away in
disbelief, and then
look again to check.
Someone says "Take five." What does
that mean? Well, it's the same as "Let's
take a break," or let's have a five-minute
6 SPEAK UP
rese. Perhaps you need a real break, so
take a few days offwork (go on
holiday), and fly to somewhere exotic.
Ifyou book last minute, the agent
takes off 30 per cent - that's a big
discount. In no time at all" you take
your seat on a plane, the plane takes
off, and you're flying high above the
clouds. So take offyour jacket, sit back
and take it easy, just relax.
~ ~ T A K E FIVE
~ ~ B L U E RONOOA LA TURK
THE DAVE BRUBECK QUARTET
.l.l.nnsnm Nl!.to's
On Location
On holiday you take photographs with
your camera. When a movie director
makes a film, he often asks his actors to
repeat a scene - each attempt is called a
take, so you have take 1, take 2 and so
on. One fight scene in Jackie Chan's
The YoungMaster was so difficult to
perform, the actors needed 329 takes.
Take can also mean "need" or
"involve". "It takes two to make a
dream come true\" sang Marvin Caye.
He was absolutely right because the
song was a duet, and he needed
partner Kim Weston to sing with
him. Barbra Streisand didn't agree:
in the musical HelLo Dolly she sang
"It takes a woman ... to bring the
sweet things in life."
~ 1 MUGGER: arracador 2 HANDBAG:
~ bolso 3 REST: descanso 4 IN ND TIME
AT ALL: en un sanriamen 5 TO TAKE DFF: despegar
6 IT TAKES TWD TO MAKE A DREAM COME TRUE:
se necesiran dos personas para que un suefio
se conviena en realidad
LANGUAGE / EASY ELISH
SY JOHN RIGG
ILanguage level: I BASICI
Internet es un buen lugar para buscarse la vida: se puede
conseguir un sofa para pernoctar en Islandia y, tambien,
reciclar todo tipo de mobiliario, con transporte incluido.
It's aStranlQ,
Strange Worlll
~ 1 UNWANTED DESIGNER CLOTHES: la
~ ropa de disefio que ya no quieren
2 ITEM: prenda de vestir 3 SUITABLE: adecuado
4 WORKSHOP: taller 5 GARMENT: artfculo de ropa
6 FASHION LABEL: etiqueta 7 CATWALK: pasarela de
moda 8 COUCH: sofa 9 TO THROW OUT: tirar
worldwide, and there's probably a group
in your town. So join in, sit back, feel
generous and watch that old sofa-
or couch in American English - go
our ofthe door.
couch surfing. American college
student Casey Fenton planned a trip to
Iceland, bought a plane ticket, bur
had nowhere to stay. His
solution was unique: he
sent emails to 1,500
Icelandic students asking
for their help. He received
many answers and offers ofa
free couch to sleep on. He
decided to organise a network
for what he called "couch
surfers", and set up a web site:
www.couchsurfing.com.There
are now over 170,000 couch
surfers around the planet, and
members can find a free couch
to sleep on practically anywhere
in the world.
Couch Recycling...
Do you have an old piece
offurniture that you
want to throw our
9
?It's
too heavy to move
yourself, but here's the
perfect answer: join
wwwfreecycle.org.
Freecycle mem-
bers advertise
objects they
don't want,
then any mem-
ber can come and
collect them
for free. The net-
work has over 2.8
million members
They say the best things in life are free.
NewYorker WendyTremayne believes
this. She wants to encourage the recy-
cling ofclothes through her movement,
called Swap-O-Rama-Rama.
People come to the Swap-O-Rama-
Rama meetings with unwanted designer
clothes'. They pay a small donation,
and then look for items
2
that they would
like to wear. Once they have found
something suitable
J
, they move on to a
Swap-O-Rama-Rama workshop', where
they learn how to modifY their new gar-
ments. They can then add their own
fashion label
6
and even parade the
newdesign on the special Swap-O-Ra-
ma-Rama catwalk? For more informa-
tion visit www.swaporamarama.org.
Couch Surfing...
A couchBpotato is someone who never
goes anywhere, they simply sit on their
couch and eat in front ofthe television.
So here's an interesting innovation:
EASY EN.LISH / MUSIC / 0 ON C02
BY JOHN RIGG - SPEAKER CONOR GLEESON STANDARD BRITISH ACCENT
ILanguage level: I BASICI
TheGenesis
Reunion
and incredible lighting
2
. Fans accused
Genesis ofselling out\ but the group be-
came a worldwide success with the 1983
album Genesis and songs like Mama.
Empezaron a tocar juntos hace cuarenta anos. Triunfaron
y se separaron. Hoy han vuelto a reunirse, aunque ya no
est<in todos. El grupo Genesis no se pierde el siglo XXl.
G
enesis are back. The 1970s rock
heroes have reunited and spent
a busy summer touring around
the world for the first time in
many years. Tony Banks, Phil
Collins and Mike Rutherford brought
their Turn It on Again tour to 22 Euro-
pean cities in June and July, continuing
in North America in September and
October. Loyal fans were treated to a
selection of their hits such as Follow lOu
FollowMe and Invisible Touch.
Genesis were a progressive rock band in
the 1970s, when they enjoyed cult suc-
cess with albums such as SellingEngland
by the Pound. Vocalist Peter Gabriel was
a spectacular performer who wore
bizarre costumes during their live
shows. Yet they had their greatest suc-
cess in the 1980s after drummer Phil
Collins replaced Gabriel as vocalist. The
band revolutionised their live shows by
introducing hypnotic drum machines
Why have Genesis reunited now? Phil
Collins says, "Well, we certainly don't
need the money. It's rewarding' to know
that so many people still like us."
Initially, they wanted to re-form the
1970s line-ups, with Peter Gabriel and
guitarist Steve Hackett, and perform
their legendary concept album The
Lamb Lies Down on Broadway. Unfortu-
nately, Gabriel had other commitments
6
and Hackett refused. In the
end, they decided to tour with Phil
Collins as vocalist.
~ 1 SELLING ENGLAND BY THE POUND:
~ Lit. vender Inglarerra por unas libras
2 LIGHTING: iluminaci6n 3 TO SELL OUT: venderse,
rraicionar sus principios 4 REWARDING: grariflcanre
5 LINE-UP: inregranres 6 COMMITMENT: compromiso
THE OLD SCHOOL 1 BOARDING SCHOOL: inrernado
2 TO BREAK UP: separarse
MR COLLINS... 1 HIT: exira 2 ENVY: envidia
MR COLLINS
Phil Collins is the most famous former
member of the band, thanks to his solo career
and hits' like In the Air Tonightand Another
Day in Paradise. He has won seven Grammies,
and has worked as an actor. He appeared in
the American TV series Miami Vice and played
a gangster in the British movie Buster.
Today, Collins is an award-winning composer,
writing songs for animated Disney films such
as Tarzan, which he has recently adapted as
a Broadway musical.
The other band members admit their env/of
Collins's success, but Tony Banks says, 'We
joke about how short he is; he's a very short
man, you know?" The band completed their
world tour with dates in North America in
September and October, and hope to reunite
with Peter Gabriel next year.
8 SPEAK UP
THE OLD SCHOOL
Genesis were formed in 1967 by
Peter Gabriel [insetl and keyboard
player Tony Banks when they were still
schoolboys at the exclusive boarding
school', Charterhouse, in Surrey,
England. They were discovered by
record producer Jonathan King,
another former Charterhouse student,
who gave the band their name.
Phil Collins, who came from a more
modest background, joined the group
in 1970 as their drummer. Gabriel left
the group in 1975 because the other
members felt his insistence on bizarre
costumes made
it impossible to
perform serious
music. Ironically, the band then
became a commercial success, while
Peter Gabriel continued as a cult solo
artist. In 1996, Phil Collins left Genesis;
Tony Banks and Mike Rutherford
tried to replace him with new vocalist
RayWilson, but the band finally broke
Up2 in 1998.
EXERCISES
Listening Questions
1) Decide whether the following statements
are true or false.
A. The lead singer of Genesis was originally
Phil Collins. TRUE/FALSE
B. Peter Gabriel used to wear extravagant
costumes during Genesis shows.
TRUE/FALSE
c. Genesis became a more commercial
group with their 1983 self-titled album.
TRUE/FALSE
D. The group has reunited now for financial
reasons. TRUE/FALSE
E. The band had hoped to reconstruct the
group's original 1970s line-up. TRUE/FALSE
F. Peter Gabriel refused under any
circumstances to tour again with his
former colleagues. TRUE/FALSE
G. Steve Hackett was the band's lead
vocalist on the Turn It on Again tour.
TRUE/FALSE
2) Insert the correct word in the gaps in
the sentences below. Some of these words
are nouns that are used here adjectivally.
The first letter of each word has been given
to help you.
A. Genesis were a Ipl rock band.
B. They enjoyed !cl success during
the 70s and 80s.
c. They were famous for their spectacular
III shows.
D. The group had lwl __success with
their 1983 self-titled album.
E. The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway is an
example of a !c) __album.
F. You can play percussion with a (dl __
machine.
3) Insert the correct word from the list in the
box below to make titles of Genesis albums.
One of the words does not apply.
Tail Broadway Touch
Sides Nursery Wind
England Stations
A. The Lamb Lies Down on _
B. Selling by the Pound
c. A Trick of the _
D. Invisible -,-,---__
E. Calling All __
F. and Wuthering
G. __Crymes
Answers
1IA. False, B. True, c. True, D. False, E. True
F. False, G. False
21A. progressive, B. cult, c. live, D. worldwide,
E. concept, F. drum
31A. Broadway, B. England, c.Tail, D.Touch
E. Stations, F. Wind, G. Nursery
Nick Harper
,
John Williams
guitarist John Williams. There are
newcomers
3
too, such as singer-song-
writer Martyn Joseph from Wales
and Nick Harper, son of the legendary
musician Roy Harper.
Everyone is encouraged to bring their
guitars to the festival: each year
there are workshops' where
you learn new playing styles
and how to look after
s
your
guitar. This year, finger-
picking guitarist Eric
Lugosch will lead a class
on playing techniques.
~ 1 WEALTH:
IiiiiiMiMI abundancia
2 FORMER: amiguo 3 NEWCOMER:
novara 4 WORKSHOP: taller
5 TO LOOK AFTER: cuidar
Visit the festival website www.bes-
tguitarlest.comfor detailed infor-
mation about the artists, dates and
online booking. There is also a list
of hotels etc. which offer discounts
during the festival.
Clasica, flamenca, jazz, rock. .. La guitarra puede tocarse
de muchlsimas maneras. Para comprobarlo, ~ q u e mejor
lugar que el festival de Wirral, que se celebra este mes?
his month sees the 19th edition
of the Wirral's International
Guitar Festival ofGreat Britain.
From 7-26 November, top gui-
tarists from all over the world
will come to the Wirral peninsula, an
area to the west of Liverpool, a short
ferry ride across the River Mersey. Festi-
val Director Rob Smith says, "We have a
concert programme that inspires people
to discover both new and old artists."
You'll find every style of guitar-playing
at the Wirral: classical, jazz, rock, blues,
slide, country and flamenco. This year's
festival includes a wealth1 of talent, with
experienced players such as former
2
Soft
Machine guitaristJohn Etheridge, a jazz-
fusion performer who will be playing a
duet with fellow legend, classical
IllASY II.GLISH / THIS MONTH
BY JOHN RIGG
ILanguage level: IBASICI
Guitar Legends
TRAVEL / EASY ENGLISH
BY JOHN RIGG
ILanguage level: IBASICI
The Reali Really
FreeMar et
En San Francisco, cada ultimo sabado de mes, tiene
lugar un mercadillo realmente curioso en el que no se
permiten ni el dinero ni el trueque: todo, todo, se regala.
he Really Really Free Market
takes place on the last Saturday
ofevery month in Dolores Park,
in the beautiful Californian city
of San Francisco. This month's
Really Really Free Market, or RRFM,
will take place on 24 November.
What is a Really Really Free Market? It's
a community event where everyone
brings something to give awa/ and ex-
pects nothing in return
2
People bring
CDs, books, old clothes, pieces offurni-
ture; other people bring food and drink,
while others offer a free massage, a hair-
cue, or a musical performance. The im-
portant factor here is that money isn't
welcome and there's no bartering';
At the Really Really Free Market in Dolores Park in
San Francisco, relaxed shoppers swap ideas as well
as unwanted books, clothes, music and massages!
everything is 100 per cent free. The mar-
ket takes place on the last Saturday of
every month - an occasion for people to
forget the stress ofmodern life and to re-
discover the value ofcommunity.
The Really Really Free Market
movement didn't originate in San
Francisco; political activists in Florida
and North Carolina organized the first
markets as part ofa protest against glob-
alization and the FTAA (Free Trade Area
ofthe Americas).
Dolores Park was once predominantly
working class
5
; nearby in Valencia Street
Really Free Markets are practicaL
and easiLy organized and are
catching on
7
aLL over the United
States, from California and Nevada
in the west to North Carolina and
NewYork in the east.
The idea is very simpLe and the onLy
ruLe is that everything must be
offered 100 per cent free. Everyone
is weLcome to bring gifts and
anyone can organize their own
market. It may not be a reaL revoLu-
tion, but the movement is quietly
bringing a Little happiness into
many people's lives.
Mission Dolores
332116th St
San Francisco,
CA 94114, USA
Email: doloressflaaol.com
Levi Strauss Museum
250 VaLencia Street
San Francisco,
CA 94110, USA
Tours: Tue-Wed 9.00,11.00,13.30
Admission: Free
is the Levi Strauss factory, which pro-
duced jeans for over 90 years. It closed in
2002 and today functions as a museum,
where you can buy authentic reproduc-
tions ofvintage
6
Levis.
~ 1 TO GIVE AWAY: regalar 2 EXPECTS
~ NOTHING IN RETURN: no espera nada a
cambio 3 HAIRCUT: corte de pelo 4 TO BARTER: rracar
5 WORKING CLASs: c1ase obrera 6 VINTAGE: anriguos
modelos 7 TO CATCH ON: rener exira, hacerse popular
SPEAK UP '1
ILanguage level: IINTERMEDIATEI
Jeffrey Archer: No, I don't think the
time in prison made any difference at all.
I was writing prison diaries then, I was
Jeffrey Archer (Standard British
accent): Well, they aren't running to the
shops to buy it in the way they do a
normal book, except in Ireland, where
it went straight to number three,
and the Italians are going mad about it
and the Brazilians are going mad
about it, bur the normal places, it's been
very steady, very solid, bur only reached
number three.
LIFE BEHIND BARS
JeffreyArcher was released from prison
in 2003, after having served half of a
four-year sentence. We asked him
whether the experience of prison had
influenced his latest book:
Rich List, he is worth' an estimated
70 million (l00 million euros).
As a writer, Archer's credits include
thrillers such as Not a Penny More, Not a
Penny Less, Kane and Abel and First
Among Equall. His latest offering\
written in collaboration with Irish the-
ology professor Francis JMaloney, is a
little differenr. It's called The GospelAc-
cording to Judas' by Benjamin Iscariot.
When Jeffrey Archer met with Speak
Up, we asked him how his regular fans
had reacted to his latest book:
JEFFREYARCHER
INTERVIEW /0ON CD3
BY LOUISE BROWN - SPEAKER JUSTIN RATCLIFFE STANDARD BRITISH ACCENT
Jeffrey Archer deja de escribir best-sellers como Kane
y Abel para dedicarse a la polltica. Recibia titulos
nobiliarios y fue condenado a una pena de carcel por
perjurio. Ahora vuelve a la ficcian con Judas Iscariote.
J
effrey Archer, 67, is a decidedly
conrroversial figure. His life has
consisted of a series of highs
and lows1 in which he has built a
business fortune
2
, gone bank-
rupt, built another fortune writing
best-sellers and served a prison sen-
tence for perjurl. A former Conserva-
tive Member of Parliament, he is a
member of the House of Lords, having
received the title Baron Archer of We-
ston-super-Mare in 1992. And, ac-
cording to the latest Sunday Times
far more interested in observing prison
from the inside and writing what I saw
in front of me, so no, I could say to you
it didn't affect me either way.
But we were curious to know
whether prison had changed his own
viewoflife:
Jeffrey Archer: Only in the sense that
I'm aware
9
what a privileged life I've had
and continue to have and how many
people who have no parental upbring-
ing
10
, no opportunity, are immediately
disadvantaged. In that sense, yes.
THE MAGIC FORMULA
And yet, in spite of the disasters in his
life, Archer has enjoyed immense suc-
cess as a writer. In conclusion, we asked
him what was the secret:
Above: Jeffrey Archer, 67. and his latest book.
He says: "Whenever you analyse anyone who
has had any success and they're in the
headlines, you will find they are people and
make mistakes. I'm certainly that and I've
made a lot of mistakes."'
Jeffrey Archer: Hard work, energy,
you need a bit ofluck, in the sense that
being able to write a tale, being able to
write a story, being able to write a yarn",
is a God-given gifi
J2
.
EXERCISES
Listening Questions
1) Put the following facts into the order in
which they are mentioned in the report.
A. A list of books that he has published.
B. His life in prison and his release.
c. His life as a Conservative MP.
D. His immense success in life.
E. The sales of his latest book.
F. The recognition that he has had a very
privileged life.
G. Energy, hard work and determination
H. Prison and his latest book.
2) Choose the best option in each case.
A. His latest book is written in collaboration
with an !ITALIAN / IRISH] professor.
B. The book has been a [GREAT / REASONABLE)
success everywhere in comparison with
his previous titles.
c. Archer served (TWO / FOUR) years of his
prison sentence.
D. He wrote about the world (OUTSIDE /
INSIDE) the prison when he was there.
E. He realises that he has been very
(UNLUCKY / LUCKY) in life,
F. For Archer, [TALENT / ENERGY) on its own is
not worth anything at all.
Answers
11 C,A,E, B,H,F, D,G
2) A. Irish, B. reasonable, c. two, D. inside,
E. lucky, F. talent
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I mean, otherwise everybody would
be doing it; so is playing the violin, so is
painting a picture. So that side... but
you've still then got to have the energy
and determination and application to
actually do it
13
.I Mejora tu pronunoaCiOn.
Gr6bate hablando en ingles a traves del
microfono que incorpora la consola, y despues
compara tu pronunciaci6n con la del profesor.
_' nll\o
lor ' ..
.I Pon a prl)eba II) comprensi6n con h)s exarnenes
Escucha di61ogos y responde preguntas para
demostrar tu comprensi6n. Es una forma excelente
de fortalecer tu confianza al hablar ingles.
.I Escucha Ingles en situaCiores practicas
Practise English te permite escuchar a nativos
pronunciando palabras, para luego pedirte que
escribas en la pantalla t6ctillo que has escuchado.
EI vocabulario utilizado cubre una amplia gama de
situaciones: negocios, viajes, comercios, restaurantes...
Practise English es un programa que esta enfocado
a exponerte al idioma a traves de mas de 400 situaciones
y 2000 frases del dia a dia, para mejorar tu ingles hablado
y escrito (comprensi6n, ortografia, pronunciaci6n.. .l .
Con Practise English: Ingles para el dfa a dfa ahora puedes
entrenar y reforzar tu ingles de forma priktica y sencilla
"con tu propio profesor de ingles interactivo".
01J&JITOw
ITUOOlJITOD&J[Ju@ @ITO
.I Eurobar6metro Los europoos y sus lengl)as
Suspenso en ingles. Esa es la nota que sacamos los espaiioles en la ultima edici6n del
estudio "Eurobar6metro: Los europeos y sus lenguas", realizado por la Comisi6n Europea.
.I ME-jora II) Ir,gles 8n un enlcmc ILidico
EI entorno ludico del juego favorece el
aprendizaje. Con Practise English tambien podr6s
aprender con divertidos juegos en ingles.
M6s de la mitad de los espaiioles (un 56%) no conoce otra lengua que no sea la
materna. Yde los que conocen algun otro idioma, s610 un 27% asegura que su nivel
de ingles es 10 bastante decente como para mantener una conversaci6n. Y no es que
no nos parezca importante el asunto, ya que un 80% de los espaiioles encuestados
confiesa que conocer otro idioma Ie resultaria util, tanto en el trabajo como en su vida
privada (a la hora de viajar, navegar en Internet 0 conocer nuevas culturas).
.I ,:,OU8 ofrece Pracllse English Ingles para 131 dia a dia':'
Un programa de entrenamiento del ingles, de uso sencillo, que hace al usuario
exponerse al idioma a traves de m6s de 400 situaciones cotidianas.
La forma de interactuar es muy f6ci!. Gracias a la pantalla t6ctil y al micr6fono
de la consola, podremos escribir y hablar con nuestro entrenador de ingles "port6til".
Puedes seguir tu aprendizaje dia a dia mediante
un calendario que muestra con un gr6fico tu nivel
y tu evoluci6n.
Adem6s de las 400 situaciones, el programa
incluye canciones, escenas de peliculas y una
colecci6n de mini-juegos para aprender de
una forma amena.
LQUe opinan los que ya 10 han probado?
SONIA, 46 & CARLOS, 49:
"Hemos tratado de mejorar nuestro ingles
con metodos convencionales, pero no
conseguiamos resultados. Los ejercicios
de Practise English nos han permitido,
por fin, usar el idioma de forma fluida
en situaciones de la vida diaria."
RAMON, 35:
"Cuando estoy en el extranjero necesito
utilizar mi ingles de forma regular en hoteles,
al preguntar por direcciones y cosas por
el estilo. Practise English me prepara para
estas situaciones."
TIPS ON HOW TO SAVE
YOUR OWN LIFE
Decluttering has become a
profession in Britain for two
simple reasons: the size of the
average home has declined in
recent years, while the amount of
things people buy - clothes,
shoes or books that will be used,
worn or read once and thrown
into the back of the cupboard -
has increased dramatically.
Britain now has an Association of
Professional Declutterers and
Organisers (web site: www.apdo-
uk. co. uk!. Yet members say that
the hardest part of their work is
often getting through the client's
doo,.z: people can feel very
ashamed when others see their
home in a state of total chaos.
Decluttering can even save
relationships, according to one
member of the association.
She tells the story of a couple
on the edge of separation
3
after
the husband had thrown out all
of his wife's shoes in an effort to
get some space.
Decluttering can also have some
financial benefits. As one
declutterer said: "Take a deep
breath, put it all onto eBay and
have yourself a jolly good holiday
from the proceeds
4
."
GLOSSARY 1TO INCREASE ORAMATICALLY:
aumentar enormemente
2 TO GET THROUGH DOOR: conseguir entrar en
la casa del cliente 3 ON THE EDGE OF SEPARATION:
a punto de separarse 4 PROCEEDS: ganancias
ADVANCED
La figura del organizador domestico nace en Estados Unidos
y ya ha llegado al Reino Unido, donde cada vez son mas
las casas que sufren las consecuencias del desorden. Pauline
Morgan nos explica en que consiste su curioso oficio.
T
here aren't many people who
don't have a few things lying
around the home' that they
know they should really tidy upz
- if only they had time. A few
books to put away, newspapers to throw
out\ some clothes that haven't beenworn
for ages
4
and which could go to charity:
before you know it, your house is full of
things you don't really need, but can't
bear to part with
5
. That's when it's time
to bring in a professional 'declutterer
6
',
someone who's trained to help you re-
arrange your life - or at least your home.
Pauline Morgan is a declutterer in the
north west ofEngland. She says that her
work orren requires psychological skills?:
Pauline Morgan:One of the
things that we did discover
was that people would have
L..-..........-...... some kind of a crisis in their
life and they were unable to cope with
itS. People are totally unable to cope
with a room that is full of stuff. I mean
we've seen rooms that are piled'o high
and to actually try and give them your
vision of what this room can look like
can be very difficult because all they can
see is this mountain of boxes and papers
and stuff everywhere.
So it's a symptom, the way we looked
at it, of a cluttered mind" as well,
but then we found the barriers of
actually going into the home were
just as big because of the amount of
clutter, they were then embarrassed
and ashamed'z.
Pauline reckons that this is more ofa
problem for women than it is for men.
Certainly, her work involves using
plenty ofdiplomacy:
Pauline Morgan: You don't walk in and
say it's a mess'3. You don't even say it's a
problem, really. First of all, it's trying to
identifYwhat their needs are, what they
want to achieve'4 from this exercise.
That's the first thing to establish because
you have to take into account that every-
thing means something to that person in
the room. People have different reasons
for holding on to things'5. A lot of it is a
safety net'6, and that's how it tends to
work. They feel comfortable with these
things around them.
THE BEAUTY OF BOOKS
People will hold on to the strangest
of things, often because of nostalgia
or sentimentality. For some reason,
books are a major problem for a
declutterer: people simply don't want
to part with them, although Pauline
herselfadmits she has a bit ofa problem
getting rid or? hers:
Pauline Morgan: No, I can't bear to
part with any, either. I actually do put
them out and then I take them back,
because I think "No, no!" It's sort of, I
don't know, it's, .. whether it's part of
thinking that's part of my education or I
just enjoy reading that book, but books
seem to... certainly do resonate very
strongly with people's. Bits ofpaper can,
absolutely and utterly19, Yeah, they can,
it's amazing
ZO
, people won't part with
things very easily.
~ 1 A FEW THINGS LYING AROUNO THE
Ii6iIiIIiIiIiII HOME: una cuanras cosas esparcidas
por la casa 2 TO TlOY UP: ordenar 3 TO THROW OUT:
rirar 4 THAT HAVEN'T BEEN WORN FOR AGES: que hace
siglos no se los ponen 5 CAN'T BEAR TO PART WITH: no
soporras deshacerre de elias 6 OECLUTTERER: persona
que limpia la casa de cosas inuriles 7 SKILL: recnica
8 THEY WERE UNABLE TO COPE WITH IT: eran incapaces
de afronrarlo 9 FULL OF STUFF: lIeno de cosas
10 TO PILE: amonronar 11 CLUTTEREO MINO: menre
desorganizada 12 TO BE ASHAMEO: eSrar avergonzado
13 YOU OON'T WALK IN ANO SAY IT'S A MESS: no
comenras al enrrar que esri desordenado
14 TO ACHIEVE: conseguir 15 TO HOLO ON TO THINGS:
guardar cosas 16 SAFETY NET: red de seguridad
17 TO GET RIO OF: desembarazarse de, deshacerse
de 18 BOOKS.. , RESONATE VERY STRONGLY WITH
PEOPLE: la genre sienre mucho apego por sus
libros 19 UTTERLY: [Qralmenre 20 AMAZING: increfble
S ~ ~ h K ~ p 23
BY LORENZA CERBINI
SPECIAL
the bicycles and I asked them: "Would
you come to a bicycle sale?" They all said
yes, they said they'd help me do it and...
that's how it started.
INTERNATIONAL CLIENTELE
Fallon's company also runs auctions of
Americana'o and textiles'
1
, but it is the
bicycles that attract the most interest.
Fallon has clients around the world,
such as Shiro Yagami, who owns a
bicycle museum in Japan, Gert Jan
Moed of the Velorama museum in
Nijmegen in the Netherlands'2, and
last, but not least, one
1J
Sheikh Saud
Al-Thani from Qatar. These individu-
als are prepared to pay good money for
an antique bicycle:
Left: Copake Auction Inc president Mike Fallon with a
penny farthing. Above and right: Inside the Copake
Auction house during a sale. Right. bottom: A detail
from a typical bike sold at the auctions.
Mike Fallon: We started our auction 16
years ago. We ran into
4
a bunch
s
of peo-
ple that had bicycles and we always won-
dered
6
iftheywere sellable
7
I used to race
motorcycles and I always collected an-
tiques. I ended up with a lot of bicycles.
One year I got a collection of high
wheels
B
to sell and there was so much in-
terest that I thought "I can have a... just a
bicycle sale." So I sold the bicycles and I
stopped everybody who was bidding
9
on
ANTIQUE BICYCLEAUCTION
,
ILanguage level:!ADVANCED I
Copake es una tranquila localidad estadounidense en la
que, desde hace dieciseis alios, se organizan importantes
subastas de bicicletas antiguas. Mike Fallon, uno de sus
impulsores, nos explica los secretos de estos vehiculos.
T
he little town of Copake in
upstate New York' has as its
motto, "Where neighbors
2
help
neighbors and strangers are wel-
comed as friends." More impor-
tantly, perhaps, it is home to an unusual
event: the Annual Antique and Classic
Bicycle Auction
J
.
Mike Fallon, who runs Copake Auc-
tion, Inc, told Speak Up how he got the
idea for the auction:
24 SPEAK UP
Mike Fallon: Generally, the class ofbi-
cycle that is most valuable, I would say,
would be 19th-century bicycles like
high-wheels, hard-ryre safeties'\ tricy-
cles from the high-wheel period. Then
you would go up to the pre-war balloon
bicycles
15
, the ones that are art-as-indus-
trial-design models
16
They have art
deco characteristics. Those bikes are
very valuable, also. The most valuable
one we have sold, which was a bargain'7
by today's standard, was $33,000.
A bicycle sold in England a few years
ago for $130,000.
In conclusion, Mike Fallon was
asked to describe the bike that sold
for $33,000:
It was a hard-ryre safety called aWhite
Flyer and it had a very unique ratcheting
mechanism'8 to pedal it. It didn't have
pedals that went around, they went
straight up and straight down when you
pedaled it. Amuseum in Ohio bought it.
~ 1 UPSTATE NEW YORK: en el norte del
~ estado de Nueva York 2 NEIGHBOR:
vecino 3 ANTIQUE AUCTION: subasta anual de bici-
c1etas antiguas y c1:isicas 4 TO RUN INTO: encontrar
5 BUNCH: grupo 6 TO WONDER: preguntarse 7 SELLABLE:
vendible 8 HIGH WHEELS: bicicleta de ruedas a1tas
9 TO BID: pujar 10 AMERICANA: objetos tradicionales
americanos 11 TEXTILES: tejidos 12 NETHERLANDS:
Holanda 13 ONE: un tal 14 HARD-TYRE SAFETY:
bicicleta de ruedas gruesas, mas segura 15 BALLOON
BICYCLE: bicicleta con ruedas de gran diametro que ya
incorporaban la camara de aire 16 ART-AS INDUSTRIAL-
DESIGN MODELS: modelos artfsticos, de vanguardia
17 BARGAIN: ganga 18 RATCHETING MECHANISM:
mecanismo de cambio de marchas
SPEAK UP 25
1 barrio neoyorquino de Harlem se est:i transformando.
Ha dejado de ser una zona marginal y peligrosa para
convertirse en un barrio de negocios, tiendas elegantes y
vecinos de lujo, como el mismo ex presidente Clinton.
26 SPEAK UP
I
n 2001, former' US president Bill
Clinton was looking for an office in
New York City. He could have
relocated anywhere - but he chose
a 14-store/ building on 55 West
125th Street in Harlem. It was another
sign that this unique area of north
Manhattan is on the way upJ. As recent-
lyas the late 1980s, Harlem was consid-
ered a neglected' ghetto, but police
statistics show a massive falls in crime in
the last 15 years.
Harlem is known across the world as
the center of black American culture. It
is famous for its jazz music and livell
nightlife. Through good times and bad,
Harlem has always had a vibrant and
mixed community, says Howard Dod-
son, director of the Schomburg Center
for Research in Black Culture:
Howard Dodson (Standard
American accent): It was al-
ways majority black, but,
within that black popula-
tion, was a very, very diverse mix ofpeo-
ple, from the Caribbean, from the
African continent itself From... people
who were born in ewYork and people
who had migrated to ewYork from all
the other four corners of the United
~ 1 FORMER: ex- 2 14-STOREY: de 14
~ pisos 3 TO BE ON THE WAY UP: estar
en pleno auge 4 NEGLECTEO: abandonado, descuidado
5 MASSIVE FALL: bajada imporrame 6 LIVELY: marcho-
so, animado
States. That, coupled with
7
a Hispanic
population that's been here for, what,
60-70 years, it's been a majority black
community. There's always been a white
presence here. It's certainly becoming
more diverse than it was in previous
time[s], but it's always been a very di-
verse ethnic, racial, religious, national
community. And that diversity is what
really functions as a kind ofcatalyst for a
lot of the cultural energy, but also a lot
of the political energy that makes this
such a vibrant and dynamic place.
28 SPEAK UP
THE GOLDEN AGE
Back in the 1920s, when the Schom-
burg Center was founded, Harlem was
buzzing
8
with creative energy, as musi-
cians, writers and artists flourished
9
in
the Harlem Renaissance. Jazz giants
such as Duke Ellington, Alberta Hunter
and Roland Hayes rubbed shoulders
with'o leading" literaryfigures like Zora
Neale Hurston, Aaron Douglass and
Langston Hughes.
In the 1960s, the most famous
Harlemites were church ministers lead-
ing the struggle'2 for civil rights and so-
cial justice. Their names are nowwrit-
ten on the streets: Seventh Avenue has
been renamed Adam Clayton Powell Jr
Boulevard, while Lenox Avenue has be-
come Malcolm X Boulevard. If you
want to understand Harlem, the
churches are certainIya good place to go.
Many of them are housed in magnifi-
cent buildings - such as the huge'\ un-
finished cathedral ofStJohn the Divine
near Morningside Park. With over 400
places of worship'4 in Harlem, there's
plenty of choice, too. Many visitors
come to hear gospel music, which is how
Rene Calvo, who now runs a bed and
breakfast in Harlem, first arrived here.
Rene Calvo (Standard Ame-
rican accent): My mother
grew up in Harlem, but I
never came up here and I
had a girlfriend in France and when she
came to visit me, she wanted to see
Harlem. And I was like, "Alright!"
So we tried to find out information
about coming up here and there was
nothing really, and nobody I knew
downtown ever, ever came up here! And
she wanted to hear gospel music, so I
said, "Well, we'll just go up on Sunday
morning and we'll see what we see." And
we came up, she said, "Oh, bur I have it
here in my guide book," and in the
French guide book there was like 10 dif-
ferent churches and how to get there
and when we came up, we went to
Abyssinian Baptist Church, there
was a line around the block
15
of French,
Italian, Germans, Japanese people,
'cause tourists from... this has been
an international tourist destination
for decades, but Americans and New
Yorkers never came here.
RENOVATION
For the past five years Rene Calvo has
lovingly restored The Harlem Flop-
house - an 1890s brownstone build-
ing
16
in the middle of the area's famous
jazz district. It's a quiet, pleasant neigh-
borhood
17
and only a short walk to the
legendary jazz haunts
18
of the Cotton
Club and Lenox Lounge.
Harlem has many beautiful build-
ings dating back to the late nineteenth
and early twentieth centuries. Property
prices are now soaring
19
as developers
2o
Above: Typical brownstone buildings in Harlem, New
York. Left: The church has always played a key role in
Harlem life. Many churches are housed in stunning
buildings and gospel music attracts a lot of visitors.
and businesses move into the area. New
hotels will soon open their doors. It
wasn't always like this, says Rene Calvo:
Rene Calvo: When I first moved to this
block I would say over 70 per cent ofthe
buildings were still vacant. They were all
owned
21
, bur they were vacant.
So this block was dark, very dark and
very quiet. And if you look around you
can see, like anywhere you see like a new
door, that's all been done in the last five
years. So there's been a tremendous
amount ofconstruction here.
~ 7 COUPLED WITH: junto can 8 TO
~ BUZZ: hervir, bullir 9 TO FLOURISH:
florecer, prosperar 10 TO RUB SHOULDERS WITH:
codearse can 11 LEADING: desracado 12 CHURCH
MINISTERS LEAOING THE STRUGGLE: pastores que
encabezaban la lucha 13 HUGE: enorme 14 PLACE
OF WORSHIP: lugar de culto 15 THERE WAS A LINE
AROUND THE BLOCK: la cola se exrendia par wda la
manzana 16 BROWNSTONE BUILDING: edificio de
ladrillo 17 NEIGHBORHOOD: barrio 18 HAUNT: local
19 PROPERTY PRICES ARE NOW SOARING: ahara los
precios del mercado inmobiliario esran subiendo
verriginosamenre 20 DEVELOPER: promowr
inmobiliario 21 TO BE OWNED: rener dueiio
EXERCISES
Listening Questions
11 Put the following facts into the order in
which they are mentioned in the article.
A. Property prices
B. Churches in Harlem
c. Bill Clinton's office
D. Buzzy 1920s Harlem
E. A fall in the crime rate
F. The Harlem Flophouse
G. Streets which change names
H. Gospel music
2) Decide whether the following statements
are true or faLse.
A. PoLice have seen a great decline in crime
in Harlem in the last 50 years. TRUE/FALSE
B. Harlem has always been a black
community with very little presence of
other ethnic groups. TRUE/FALSE
c. Creative energy was prevalent in Harlem
in the 1920s. TRUE/FALSE
D. Langston Hughes was one of the great
jazz artists of the time. TRUE/FALSE
E. A good way to understand the
neighborhood is to visit its churches.
TRUE/FALSE
F. Rene Calvo's mother came from HarLem
but he himself had never visited the area
until quite recently. TRUE/FALSE
G. Rene's hotel is located in a pleasant
neighborhood famous for its jazz clubs.
TRUE/FALSE
3) Match the words in the coLumns to make
collocations or common word combinations
as found in the article.
A. police 1 rights
B. Lively 2justice
c. diverse 3 nightlife
D. creative 4 energy
E. literary 5 statistics
F. civil 6 figures
G. social 7 mix
41 Write the first names of these famous
jazz musicians and singers. The first Letter
has been given to heLp you.
A. [D) __Ellington
B. [J) Coltrane
c.IMl Davis
D. IB) __HoLiday
E. III Armstrong
F. IC) Parker
Answers
11 C, E,D, B,G,H,F,A
21 A. False, B. FaLse, c. True, D. False,
E. True, F. True, G. True
31A5, B3,c7, D4,E6, F1,G2
4) A. Duke, B. John, c. Miles, D. Billie, E. Louis,
F. Charlie
More exercises on CD
TECHNOLOGY
BY WILLIAM SUTTON
ILanguage level: IINTERMEDIATEI
El articulo de este mes, de la serie para entender las claves
de los nuevos tiempos, esta. dedicado a los nuevos soportes
musicales y radiof6nicos. Del iPod al MP3, con todas sus
ventajas e inconvenientes, mas un glosario tecno16gico.
THE BOOK
For more on the iPod story, read
British journalist Dylan Jones'
book, iPod Therefore I Am: A
Personal Journey Through Music
[published by Phoenix last year!. It
offers insights into the phenome-
non, but also has some amusing
anecdotes, not to mention great
suggestions for your playing list!
Whether it's a Dean Martin song
that your grandmother remembers
from the 1950s, or the latest Amy
Winehouse tune
15
on the radio, it takes
seconds to buy it and costs only 99 cents.
Listen on your computer, or download
to your iPod. Fantastic!
But researchers are now wondering
16
whether constant entertainment is
stressful. Dr Richard RaUey says bore-
dom17 is essential for emotional and in-
tellectual recuperation. It stimulates so-
cial interaction and creative drivelS.
So iPod addicts may become lonely,
stressed and uninspired. Are there any
other dangers?
A 2006 Canadian study found
distracting gadgets19 responsible for 8
out of 10 road accidents. Last summer
So not everybody is happy?
Record companies were initially terrified
by internet piracy. They took toughl'
legal action against web sites such as
Napster, which copied music illegally.
Legitimacy came with Apple's iTunes
store. Apple developed sophisticated
cryptographic keys: downloaded songs
cannot be pirated to more than five
computers. (CDs, however, have no
such data protection.)
football or Chinese pop. You can down-
load audio books or create YOut own
tailor-made
12
radio station.
Are MP3s good quality?
No. To squeeze CD tracks into three
or four megabytes, MP3s remove
frequencies that are inaudible to
humans, compressing the remaining
information. Audio purists consider
MP3 sound quality impoverished.
There are also questions about
longevity. Although vinyl does deterio-
rate with use, Thomas Edison's original
cylinders are still playable. Recendy,
old CDs are becoming erratic
13
from
oxidising or bronzing. Are computer
drives secure? We won't know until the
technology grows older.
We've had portable music for
decades. What's so new?
When German student Karlheinz Bran-
denburg began his doctorate in 1989 he
didn't intend to revolutionise the waywe
listen to music. His work on digital com-
pression and perception of music led to
the MP3, a file format that compresses
audio into manageable digital files.
The Walkman pioneered portable
music, but you had to carry tapes
1
or
CDs. Imagine squeezing
2
aU your
records onto a small drive
3
, with no
shelves" record sleeves
5
or tape-to-tape
recording: hundreds of songs in YOut
pocket, selected with a simple click, easy
to copy and email.
The iPod is the quintessential
6
MP3
player. The "i" denotes Apple's internet
products. Pods are small containers: peas
7
grow in pods; spaceships carry escape
pods
s
. Elegant and well-marketed, iPods
dominate the market ahead of cheaper
competitors. (Internet ironists suggest
they are so ubiquitous
9
we are becoming
"Pod People", the brainless10 zombies
born from pods in the sci-fi horror movie
Invasion a/the Body Snatchers
11
.)
Audio compression also makes inter-
net radio possible. Anyone in the
world can listen to BBC news, Brazilian
futurology 2
TheMusic
Revolution
30 SPEAK UP
TECHNOLOGY GLOSSARY
MP3: the most popular format, developed as the
third audio layer of MPEG-l video files
WMA: Windows Media Audio
.AAe: Advanced Audio Coding
rip: to compress a CD track into MP3 format
burn: to copy music tracks onto a recordable CD
.stream: to send and display data continuously, as
in internet radio or video
There will be more about streaming and podcasts
in upcoming articles ...
one English teenager caused a fatal road
accident when showing her friend how
to use her iPod; a teenage cyclist with an
iPod collided with a tractor.
A New York senator proposed intro-
ducing $100 fines
zo
for crossing
the street using an iPod. Many countries
are considering banning listening
devices
z1
from roads.
Other drawbacks
22
?
The demise
z3
of the album: no more
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