Romeo and Juliet in Turkey- PAU 1996

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The story of 13-year-old schoolgirl Sarah Cook began as a typical holiday romance, two teenagers on a Mediterranean beach. The holiday came to an end, but the romance didn't. There were long, tearful telephone calls. There was desperate pestering, until Sarah's parents agreed to fly back to Turkey with her. Weeks later, Sarah and Musa, her Turkish boyfriend, were married in a Muslim ceremony attended by their parents.

Though it is illegal in Turkey, marriages of girls as young as 12 are common in rural areas, where families are large, and the dowry paid by a husband to his bride's relatives is desperately needed. Elsewhere in the world, child marriages are common. However, perhaps because of publicity, Musa is now in prison in Turkey facing a possible 5-year sentence for rape, and Sarah is threatening to go on hunger strike if she is sent to Britain.

Turkish papers have opposed the British government's demands for Sarah's return. For many people there, it is a Romeo-and-Juliet love affair, the youthful protagonists divided not by a family quarrel but by different cultures, East against West, Islam against Christianity. Turks cannot understand how a society which offers methods of contraception to teenagers can be outraged by a young couple who marry in a religious ceremony with their parents' agreement. Supporters of the couple have placed a bouquet of carnations at the British consulate in Istanbul with the message: "Tolerance for Love", urging that Sarah should be allowed to stay in Turkey.

Eating habits of young citizen of Hong Kong- PAU inglés Madrid

In Hong Kong, the importance of studying and the emphasis on school performance is helping to create a generation of fatties. Recent studies have shown that up to 5 per cent of five to six-year-olds in Hong Kong are obese, and the rate of obesity has increased five-fold in recent years. The British colony also have one of the highest levels of cholesterol in children, even higher than the United States. Such statistics are more alarming when compared to those for the previous generation of Hong Kong Chinese, who stick to a traditional Chinese diet and have relatively low cholesterol levels.

In Hong Kong, few schools provide cooked meals. About 17 per cent of primary pupils buy their own snacks, mostly soft drinks, crisps and ice cream. Many parents also use sweets and high-fat snacks to reward children who do well at school and to bribe them to do their homework. Sport is considered important by many parents and gymnastics is not compulsory in schools.

Most children, particularly girls, become more figure-conscious as they reach their teens. But fewer than 5 per cent of children who became obese at primary school are able to shed their excess weight later, says the study.

Doctors want the government to step up nutrition education in primary schools and say Hong Kong should follow Singapore's example of an obesity prevention programme in schools. After the programme was introduced in 1992, 20 per cent of overweight children in Singapore reached their ideal weight within a year.

Antonio & Melanie

It was only five years ago that Antonio Banderas -then known only to most moviegoers for his Spanish films with Almodóvar- sat down with director Arne Glimcher to talk about appearing in his first English-language role in The Mambo Kings. "I didn't understand a word he was saying," Banderas explains. However, after learning his lines phonetically, Banderas got the part. He wasn't the main attraction in the first movies he made in America. But this was the price he was willing to pay to try to become the first leading man from Spain to succeed in Hollywood.
Banderas is finding out the cost of being a star: newspapers around the world have been talking about his romance with Melanie Griffiths, begun while filming Two Much in Miami. In Spain recently, lots of journalists followed them everywhere. He's hurt by the attacks on Melanie's past problems with alcohol abuse, and by the Spanish press's accusation that he left his wife for a celebrity to gain status in Hollywood. Banderas has no complaints about the course his career has taken in Hollywood. "I'm living the adventure of my life. Now, it's here, tomorrow I don't know," he says.

Do you think you can recycle? Then you must meet the villagers of Kamikatsu, in Japan! - PAU 2009

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Not long ago life in Kamikatsu centred on cultivating rice. Now the tiny village in the densely wooded mountains of Shikoku Island in south-west Japan has a new obsession: rubbish.

Kamikatsu’s aim is to end its dependence on incineration and become Japan’s first zero-waste community. An hour’s drive from the nearest city, the village was forced to change the way it managed its waste in 2000 when new regulations on dioxin emissions forced it to shut down its two incinerators. “We were no longer able to burn our rubbish, so we thought the best policy was not to produce any at first,”  said Sonoe Fujii of the village’s Zero Waste Academy, a non-profit organisation that controls the scheme.

Household waste must be separated into no fewer than 34 categories before being taken to a recycling centre where volunteers reprimand firmly, but politely, anyone who forgets to remove the lid  from a plastic bottle or to wash out an empty been. At first, it was very hard work,” said a 65-year old villager as she emptied another bowl of vegetable peelings into the electric garbage disposal unit next to her back door. “It took ages to sort everything into different types. But it comes naturally now.” Any waste that is not organic is taken to the village’s zero-waste centre. The site has a wide variety of items, from bottles, cans and newspapers to batteries, cigarette lighters, ballpoint pens and a surprisingly large number of broken mirrors.

Despite some opposition, Kamikatsu’s recycling rate has soared from 55% a decade ago to about 80% today.