Zaman International School Newspaper Issue 37

Volume 3 Issue 37

NEWSPAPER

15 May 2006

King Sihamoni’s Birthday King Sihamoni was born in 1953, the year Cambodia finally achieved independence from France.

year genocidal regime, which resulted in the deaths of more than a million people, King Sihamoni - along with most of his family - was kept under house The eldest son of former King arrest in the palace in Phnom Sihanouk and his sixth wife Penh.

Monique, his name is derived from the first syllables of his Even Cambodia's royal houseparents' names. hold was not spared tragedy at the hands of Pol Pot's brutal As a young man, King Sihamoni henchmen. Five of Sihanouk's l e f t C a m b o d i a t o s t u d y i n 14 children died in the genocide.

Czechoslovakia - first at Prague Shortly after the Khmer Rouge High School and then specialis- fell to Vietnamese forces in 1979, ing in music and dance at the King Sihamoni left Cambodia for National Conservatory.

France, where he pursued his love of classical dance at some In 1975 he went to North Korea to of the leading conservatories in study cinematography - an Paris. interest he shares with his father.

But he returned to Cambodia In 1992 he was given the position soon after the ultra-Maoist of Cambodia's ambassador to Khmer Rouge took over the Unesco, a post he held until country. earlier this year, when he moved to Beijing to look after his ailing Some analysts allege he was father. duped into leaving North Korea when he received a letter falsely Succession decision bearing his father's signature.

During the Khmer Rouge's four- The first indication that King Sihamoni might succeed to the throne came at an Independence ZAMAN NEWSPAPER Day ceremony in 2002, when he Zaman, Publisher deputised for the king.

Gurkan Cil, Editor-in Chief to government officials and p i v o t a l r o l e i n s h a p i n g h i s His presence came as a surprise diplomats at the event, who saw country's future.

Gurkan Cil, Editor at Large it as a sign that Sihanouk was Pheak introducing his Prepared By 10-B p r e f e r r e d c a n d idate.

"There might be some surprises if people think of him as a soft touch," the diplomat told Reuters.

Only time will tell whether King Sihamoni will agree to the figurehead role laid out for him, or whether he will wish to play a more

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GENERAL

T h e F i r s t M o t h e r ' s D a y braces? How she made you eat May 9, 1914 those carrots and green beans so you wouldn't grow into an The start of Mother's Day was adult who only eats red meat for especially meaningful for Ana supper? All those times she told Jarvis of Philadelphia. Six years you not to swear so you wouldn't earlier, she began a campaign to develop bad habits, even when establish a national Mother's you caught her saying one once D a y. H e r o w n m o t h e r h a d in a while? And all the worrying recently died, and Jarvis wanted she did over you when you first to remember her along with all started school, first started to mothers. She convinced her date, and took that big move mother's church to celebrate away from home.

Mother's Day on the anniversary of her mother's death, the second Sunday of May. As a result, Woodrow Wilson chose that date for the national holiday.

Sometimes Mother's Day is confused with Mothering Sunday, an English holiday that falls on the fourth Sunday in Lent. But Mother's Day is now observed in England as well, and the traditions associated with Mothering Sunday have been largely forgotten.

tional love can seem a little hard to relate to. Mother's Day can seem like just another holiday that we don't get off work, and you just have to buy a card, a few flowers, and then you're off the hook. But for your mom, remember that the day has much more meaning. She looks to you to be with her after all the times she was there for you.

It isn't because their birthday is about getting a year older - after all, we get older every day, not just on our birthdays.

Mothers enjoy Mother's Day because they want to be acknowledged and appreciated for all they have done for their children throughout the years as their mom.

FAST FACTS

Mother's Day is the third-largest This year, surprise your mom card-sending holiday in the United States, according to Hallmark research.

Industry wide, Americans will send more than 150 million Mother's Day cards.

This year Hallmark offers more than 1,700 card designs for Mother's Day, including Spanishlanguage cards and cards for African-American c o n s u m e r s .

Mother's Day is the second most popular holiday for gift-giving, following Christmas.

What Mother's Day Means to our Moms Have you ever noticed how much moms look forward to celebrating Mother's Day, even more than celebrating their own birthday?

In 1905, when Anna Jarvis died.

Her daughter, also named Anna, decided to memorialize her mother's lifelong activism, and began a campaign that culminated in 1914 when Congress passed a Mother's Day resolution.

HISTORY If you're a parent, you know that most parental good deeds go unnoticed. Mother's Day is the perfect time to think back on all that your mother has gone through for you. Remember the financial strain your mother endured to get you those braces? How she made you eat those carrots and green beans so you wouldn't grow into an adult who only eats red meat for supper? All those times she told you not to swear so you wouldn't develop bad habits, even when you caught her saying one once in a while? And all the worrying she did over you when you first started school, first started to date, and took that big move away from home.

If you're a parent, you know that most parental good deeds go unnoticed. Mother's Day is the perfect time to think back on all that your mother has gone through for you. Remember the For those of us who aren't moms, financial strain your mother such sacrifices and uncondiendured to get you those

Anna M. Jarvis, born in 1864 in Webster, Va., is credited as the force behind Mother's Day. When Jarvis was 41, her mother died. On the second anniversary of her mother's death (the second Sunday in May 1908), Jarvis made public Mother's Day began: her plans to establish a day to In 1858, when Anna Jarvis, a honor mothers. young Appalachian homemaker, organized "Mother's Work Days" Other sources report “mother's to improve the sanitation and day� church services on May 10, avert deaths from disease- 1908, in Grafton, W.Va., and a bearing insects and seepage of celebration of mothers at the Wannamaker Auditorium in polluted water.

Philadelphia on the same day.

In 1872, when Boston poet, The observance became official pacifist and women's suffragist in 1914. and d o something special for her this Mother's Day. It isn't the present that she's looking forward to, it's you. Appreciate her for all that she's done, and all that she means to you.

Julia Ward Howe established a special day for mothers --and for Hallmark has been producing peace-- not long after the bloody cards for this holiday since the early 1920s.

Franco-Prussian War. BUN MENG

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ASTRONOMY

Spacecraft October 1, 1958, the official start of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), was the beginning of a rich history of unique scientific and technological achievements in human space flight, aeronautics, space science, and space applications. Formed as a result of the Sputnik crisis of confidence, NASA inherited the earlier National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA), and other government organizations, and almost immediately began working on options for human space flight.

NASA's first high profile program was Project Mercury, an effort to learn if humans could survive in space, followed by Project Gemini, which built upon Mercury's successes and used spacecraft built for two astronauts. NASA's human space flight efforts then extended to the Moon with Project Apollo, culminating in 1969 when the Apollo 11 mission first put humans on the lunar surface.

After the Skylab and ApolloSoyuz Test Projects of the early and mid-1970s, NASA's human space flight efforts again resumed in 1981, with the Space Shuttle program that continues today to help build the International Space Station.

Building on its NACA roots, NASA has continued to conduct many types of cutting-edge aeronautics research on aerodynamics, wind shear, and other important topics using wind tunnels, flight testing, and computer simulations. NASA's highly airplane that flew above the atmosphere and then glided back to Earth unpowered, providing Shuttle designers with much useful data.

many other aircraft including the Shuttle and high performance airplanes that would have been powered uncontrollable otherwise. NASA has also done important research on such topics as "lifting bodies" (wingless airplanes) and "supercritical wings" to dampen the effect of shock waves on

Earth Observing System spacecraft have contributed many important scientific findings. NASA technology has also resulted in numerous "spinoffs" in wide-ranging scientific, technical, and commercial fields.

Overall, while the tremendous technical and scientific accomplishments of NASA demon-

ing (barely) but is no longer being tracked regularly due to budget cutbacks. The last data was received from it on 1997 March 31. They are heading off into interstellar space, the first craft ever to do so.

As the first two spacecraft to leave our solar system, Pioneer 10 & 11 carry a graphic message in the form of a 6- by 9inch gold anodized plaque bolted to the spacecraft's main frame.

Mariner 10

transsonic aircraft. successful X15 program involved a rocketAdditionally, NASA has launched a number of significant scientific probes such as the Pioneer and Voyager spacecraft that have explored the Moon, the planets, and other areas of our solar system. NASA has sent several spacecraft to investigate Mars including the Viking and Mars Pathfinder spacecraft. The Hubble Space Telescope and other space science spacecraft have enabled scientists to make a number of significant astronomical discoveries about our universe.

NASA also has done pioneering work in space applications satellites. NASA has helped bring about new generations of communications satellites such a s t h e E c h o , Te l s t a r, a n d Syncom satellites. NASA's Earth The watershed F-8 digital-fly-by- science efforts have also literally wire program laid the ground- changed the way we view our work for such electronic flight in home planet; the Landsat and

strate vividly that humans can achieve previously inconceivable feats, we also are humbled by the realization that Earth is just a tiny "blue marble" in the cosmos.

used Venus as a gravity assist to Mercury in 1974. The probe did return the first close-up images of the Venusian atmosphere in ultraviolet, revealing previously unseen d e ta i l s i n th e c l o u d cover, plus the fact that the entire cloud system circles the planet in four Earth days. Mariner 10 eventually made three flybys of Mercury from 1974 to 1975 before running out of attitude control gas. The probe revealed Mercury as a heavily cratered world with a mass much greater than thought. This would seem to indicate that Mercury has an iron core which makes up 75 percent of the entire planet.

Pioneer 10 and Pioneer 11 Rathanak Leng & Kean Hong Pioneer 10 was the first spacecraft to flyby Jupiter in 1973.

Pioneer 11 followed it in 1974, and then went on to become the first probe to study Saturn in 1979. The Pioneers were designed to test the ability of spacecraft to survive passage thru the asteroid belt and Jupiter's magnetosphere. The asteroid belt was easy, but they were nearly fried by ions trapped in Jupiter's magnetic field. This information was crucial to the success of the Voyager missions.

Pioneer 11's RTG power supply is dead. Its last communication with Earth was in November 1995. Pioneer 10 is still function-

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SCIENCE

A DAY WITHOUT FRICTION Friction is the force that resists motion of a solid object. There are two types of kinetic friction: sliding and rolling. Sliding friction occurs because of the interference of irregularities on two surfaces, and rolling friction occurs because of interference of small indentations formed as one surface rolls over another.

Static friction acts between surfaces at rest. In order to start motion, enough force must be n e e d e d to o v e r c o m e s ta ti c friction. This force is always greater than required to continue the motion (i.e. kinetic friction).

There is also internal friction, which affects within a solid's molecules. This form of friction causes oscillating objects to stop oscillating, for example the strings of a guitar or violin. A day without friction will mean these forces do not exist!

during the cold winter night, except it wasn't cold, it was just… slippery. I was fully in panic mode now, realizing something wasn't quite right, and pushed against the wall next to my bed. My body slid off the bed as if I was floating on air, and fell on the carpeted floor with a grunt. To my surprise, I was slowly sliding away from the bed still, on the carpeted floor! I clawed on the carpet in a desperate attempt to stop myself, but my fingers simply slipped past each strand of the carpet as if the carpet was made of algae. I crashed into the bookshelf against the wall, and thousands of books rained down

on the ground again within seconds. I discovered that a little push against the wall would send me coasting along the ground, and managed to move around that way. It reminded me a lot of my experience in the ice skating ring.

Not just the floor had suddenly become slippery though, everything had. Including my toothbrush, toothpaste, comb, and even toilet paper to my dismay it was impossible to use them. Soon, I was out of the bathroom and sliding down the hall, flat on my stomach. I passed the opened kitchen door, and

Beep beep, Beep beep, and Beep beep!

It was a fine Monday morning when I was waked by my alarm clock be side my bed. I stirred, groaning, realizing today was a school day, and reached for the “off” button on my alarm clock. I lay still in my bed for a few minutes, getting ready to get off bed and wash up in the bathroom. Somehow, things felt different. My bed sheet, blanket and pajamas felt like silk, which was unusual. And there was no sound of traffic outside, which was also unusual, since we lived next to a main road and there should be the faint but noticeable swishing of early cars driving past. I shrugged off an unpleasant thought that came to my mind. In one smooth motion, I threw my blanket aside, rolled over to my right and off the bed, landed on my furry slippers and walked towards my bathroom.

onto me.

When I opened my eyes they were not sitting nicely on the ground as I expected and hoped.

They were scattered and sliding everywhere on my bedroom floor. Suddenly I had trouble breathing, and tried to release a cry of help but my voice failed and it came out as a whimper Except that didn't happen instead. 'This is a dream', I told I opened one eye, expecting to myself, closing my eyes and find myself on my feet off the bed, concentrating. 'This is just a bad but instead, found myself face dream…’ down on my bed. I rolled over again, and the world around me I did not wake up, as I had hoped. spun. Still on my bed, I would I tried to get up on my feet, but have thought my bed sheet had that proved fruitless, once I did mysteriously turned into ice get onto my feet I would end up

reached the wooden stool next to the dining table. After resting for a few seconds, I launched myself onto the sliding stool, but as soon as I sat down, the elusive stool slipped sideways and I was on the floor again, with a sore hip this time. After a few tries however, I managed to wrap and twine my legs around the wooden bars of the stool quick enough to hold my position, and breathed a sigh or relief.

The cornflakes box and milk bottle were sitting innocently on the middle of the table, a bowl in front of me. I reached for the box, trying to grab it by the side, but

instead of holding the box, my fingers clumsily slipped off.

Using my right arm as a hook, I placed it around the cornflakes box and drew it closer to me. I scratched my head for a way to pour its contents into my bowl, and found one. I drew the box closer to the edge until it jutted halfway out the edge of the table, put my left hand under the box, pushed the whole box off the table and, with incredible dexterity, brought up my right hand to the side of the box before it fell and cradled it with both hands. I then lowered my right hand, tipping the box slightly over, and poured the contents out into my bowl.

'How clever of me to use gravity, since friction doesn't work', I thought to myself. Being too lazy to put the box back to its original position, I simply threw it onto the floor and grains of cornflakes burst out the opening, scattering and colonizing the whole kitchen floor. At a glance, I knew I would have to eat my cornflakes without any milk this morning there was no way in the world I would attempt to unscrew the lid of the plastic milk bottle. I also knew carrying a spoon would be clumsy, and to save the trouble, I lowered my face to the bowl of cornflakes and started eating in that position.

An hour later, I was dressed in my school uniform with the buttons undone. I slid out of the house through the small swinging door for my dog, it was impossible to turn the handles on the front and back doors.

Everything looked the same, except there were no cars “makes sense I guess wheels can't work without rolling friction”, I thought to myself again. Pieces of rubbish and leaves floated on the road. I heard chirps coming from overhead, and looked up to see two pigeons hanging upside down like bats on the electricity lines, probably complaining about the slippery wires to each other. With a strong kick, I sent myself flying along the driveway and out into the streets.

Sok Rachana

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TECHNOLOGY

A Brief History of the Web Many people use the terms World Wide Web and Internet interchangeably, but they're really two very different things.

The Internet is a global "network of networks," linking millions of computers that share information via a set of shared software protocols. Other applications, in turn, use the Internet as a communications medium. These include popular services such as email, Internet chat, and the World Wide Web.

Illinois graduate student named Marc Andreessen developed software that displayed Web pages in a graphical form.

Andreessen's software, called a browser, allowed people to publish images as well as text on their Web pages. As a result, the Web quickly grew beyond its

t h a t m a k e t h e We b s u c h a powerful medium, because they allow publishers to tie together information in a limitless number of ways. When you refer to another information source on the Web, you can also link to it, letting your audience see that T h e r e a r e s e v e r a l w a y s t o information for themselves. software that automates the development process, so you no longer have to learn any HTML at all. As a result, millions of people with little or no technical experience have published their own Web sites.

Although the early World Wide Web supported only text and basic graphics, today the Web supports an amazing variety of multimedia content. Many Web pages now include animations, audio, video and embedded applications that perform the same tasks as traditional computer software. Web browsers such as Netscape Navigator and Microsoft Internet Explorer usually include built-in support for this content, although in some cases you will need to download special software, called plug-ins, that allow Web browsers to recognize certain types of material.

The History of the Web The Web began in 1989, w h e n p h y s i c i s t Ti m Berners-Lee envisioned a way for scientists to exchange research papers over the Internet.

Berners-Lee wanted a way not only to publish text on the Internet, but also to embed links that could take the reader to other parts of the document or even to documents located elsewhere on the Internet creating a global "web" of interconnected content.

Berners-Lee's idea wasn't completely original other researchers had described similar systems as long ago as the 1940s, and by the 1980s applications such as standard generalized markup language (SGML) were using complex sets of hyperlinks to connect documents. But Berners-Lee developed a basic system that didn't require expensive software or advanced programming skills. He invented a basic protocol for publishing documents on the Internet, called hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP), as well as a simple set of commands called hypertext markup language (HTML) that described the structure of a document.

Looking Ahead

original scientific audience, and Andreessen went on to cofound Netscape Communications the first great success story of the Internet Revolution.

What Makes the Web So Successful?

The Web is popular not only because it is easy to use, but because anyone can publish their own Web pages. Basic HTML is very easy to learn it uses a set of simple tags that describe headlines, paragraphs, lists, tables, and other page The Web got a huge boost in elements. More recently, many 1993, when a University of companies have developed

navigate the Web with browser software. Every Web page has a unique text address, called a uniform resource locator (URL).

When you enter a URL for example, www.yahoo.com the browser takes you to the correct Web page. Browsers can store collections of preselected URLs, called bookmarks or favorites, that help you keep track of your favorite Web sites.

Most Web pages have a number of hyperlinks in them. When you click a link, it takes you to another Web page, either on the same site or at another location. These hyperlinks are one of the things

For several years, the Web has grown at an exponential rate. There may now be tens of millions of Web pages located on many thousands of computers.

This incredible growth raises an interesting question: How do you organize so much information, especially when it changes so rapidly?

Many search engines and online directories try to index and organize the Web, but even the biggest directories barely make a dent in the huge mass of text, images and other content located around the Web. As the Web continues to grow, one of the major challenges will be finding a way to catalogue all of this information and to make it accessible.

Tino Chhay

15 May 2006

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SCIENCE

How to Make and Use a Pinhole Camera Can Or Box Pinhole Camera

paper, sandwich it between two lightweight cards while you make W h e n y o u m a k e a p i n h o l e the pinhole. This will help you camera to accept roll or sheet make a smoother, rounder hole. film, use a small, light-tight can or box as the camera body.

Yo u c a n a l s o m a k e a g o o d pinhole in soft aluminum sheet You can use any can that has a metal. Place the aluminum on a tight-fitting top. A 2-pound coffee hard surface (such as tempered c a n m a k e s a g o o d p i n h o l e hardboard). Make a small hole in camera. You can use a clean the aluminum with an awl or an paint can, a vegetable shorten- ice pick. Don't press too hard-ing can, a peanut can, or even a the tip should just barely break cylindrical oatmeal box. If the can t h r o u g h t h e s u r f a c e . S e e you use has a plastic lid, you can illustration. The hole will be paint the lid black. Be sure to ragged. Enlarge and smooth it by paint it inside and out; then pushing a No. 10 needle into it before using it, check to make from the indented side. You can sure no paint has chipped off. smooth the rough edges with Chipped or peeling paint on the very fine sandpaper and then lid will allow light to enter the open the hole with the tip of the camera and ruin your pictures. needle. You can use the same Paint the inside of the camera method to make the pinhole body with dull black paint or line it directly in the metal of the can by with black paper to prevent light working the hole through from reflections. inside the bottom of the can.

The Pinhole With a noncartridge camera, make the pinhole in the end opposite the removable end. It's easier to attach the film to the removable end. You can make the pinhole in the box or the can itself, but it's much easier to make it in a separate piece of heavy black paper or thin metal.

Then fasten this piece over a larger hole cut in the center of the permanent end of the can or box.

Heavy-duty aluminum foil or the If you make the pinhole in a backing paper from Kodak roll separate piece of black paper or film is good for this purpose. metal, you should now make a hole 1/4 inch or more in diameter For a camera with the pinhole 3 in the center of one end of the to 6 inches from the film, you'll camera body. Then tape your get the best results if the pinhole pinhole in position over the is about 1/75 inch in diameter. center of the hole.

You can make a hole this size by You can check your pinhole to pushing a No. 10 sewing needle make sure it's perfectly round by through the paper or metal to a looking through the back of the point halfway up the needle camera. To see if the image is shank. See illustration. You'll get clearly visible, aim the camera a smoother hole if you rotate the t o w a r d a p r i n t e d p a g e t o needle as you push it through. If determine if you can see the you're using aluminum foil or letters clearly.

The Shutter and Viewfinder The shutter for the camera can be a flap of opaque dark paper hinged with a piece of tape. You can use a small piece of tape to hold the shutter closed while you aren't taking a picture.

A viewfinder for a pinhole camera, while usually not necessary, can be made of cardboard or wire. The larger frame should be slightly smaller than the film size and located directly above the pinhole at the front of the camera. If the film isn't square, the viewfinder should have its longer dimension parallel to the longer dimension of the film. The small frame is a sighting peephole directly above the film and squarely behind the center of the large frame.

When you aim your camera at subjects closer than 5 feet, tip the camera up slightly to allow for parallax--the difference between the view you see through the viewfinder and the image recorded on the film. This effect is caused by the separation between the viewfinder and the pinhole.

Loading a Can or Box Pinhole Camera You can load the camera either with film or fast photographic paper. Paper is easier to handle since you can load it into the camera under a safelight. If you don't have a safelight, you can work by the light of a flashlight covered with several thicknesses of red cellophane paper placed 6 to 8 feet away. Most film, on the other hand, must be handled in total darkness. Your choice of film or paper may depend in part on the exposure times. Paper, because it is less sensitive to light than film, will probably require an exposure of about 2 minutes for sunlit subjects. Film may require only 1 or 2 seconds for subjects in sunlight.

If you decide to use paper, try KODABROMIDE Paper F (glossy), No. 2, Single Weight. You can obtain this paper in the 4 x 5inch size available in 100-sheet packages, or 5 x 7-inch size in 25sheet packages from your photo dealer (corners may have to be trimmed to fit a cylindrical camera). If you use film,

you can cut up a roll of KODAK TRI-X Pan Film or KODAK TMAX 400 Profesional Film, 120 size, into 2 3/8-inch squares or 2 3/8 x 3 1/2-inch pieces. This must be done in total darkness, of course. At night a closet will probably be dark enough if lights in adjoining rooms are turned off.

Sheet film, such as KODAK Tri-X Pan Professional Film, is easier to use because it's flat.

A camera made from a 2-pound coffee can will take a 2 1/4 x 3 1/4-inch piece of film or photographic paper. You can use a 3 1/4 x 4 1/4-inch piece if about 1/2 inch is clipped from each corner of the film or paper. A camera made from a 1-gallon paint can will take a 4 x 5-inch piece of film or paper.

When you have the size of paper or film you need, tape it firmly to the inside of the end of your camera opposite the pinhole.

The emulsion should face the pinhole. The emulsion side of photographic paper is the shiny side. The emulsion on roll film is on the inside of the curl. Sheet film is identified by notches cut into one of the shorter sides.

When you hold the film in a vertical position with the notches in the top edge toward the right side, the emulsion is facing you.

Another way to determine the emulsion side of either paper or film is to touch both sides with a moistened finger. The emulsion side will feel slightly tacky. Test near the edge to avoid a fingerprint in the center of the picture. You will need to tape down the four corners if you use cut-up roll film or paper. Taping two diagonal corners will work for sheet film. Close the camera, making sure the shutter is closed.

RATANA

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MORAL STORY

You'll Never Look At A Cup Of Coffee The Same Way Again. . . .

A young woman went to her mother and told her about her life, how things were so hard for her. She didn't know how she was going to make it, and she wanted to give up. She was tired of fighting and struggling. It seemed as one of her problems was solved, a new one popped up.

liquid interior, but after sitting through the boiling water, its insides became hardened.

The ground coffee beans were unique, however. After they were in the boiling water, they had changed the water!

"Now, which are you?" she asked her daughter, "when adversity knocks on your door, how do you respond? Are you a carrot, an Her mother took her into her egg, or a coffee bean?" kitchen, where she filled three pots with water. In the first pot, Think of it like this. . . Which am I? she placed some carrots, in the Am I a carrot that appears to be second one, she placed some s t r o n g , b u t w i t h p a i n a n d eggs, and in the third pot, she adversity, do I wilt, and become placed some ground coffee soft and lose my strength? beans. She let them sit and boil Am I an egg, that starts out with a without saying a word, then in malleable heart, but changes a b o u t t w e n t y m i n u t e s , s h e with the heat? Did I have a fluid turned off the burners. spirit, but after a death, a breakup, a financial hardship, or She fished out the carrots and some other trial, have I become placed them into a bowl. She hardened and stiff? Does my pulled the eggs out and placed shell look the same, but on the them into another bowl, then she inside am I bitter, and tough, with ladled the coffee into yet another a stiff spirit and a hardened bowl. Turning to her complaining heart? daughter, she asked, "Tell me, what do you see?" "Carrots, Or am I like the coffee bean? The eggs, and coffee," her daughter bean actually CHANGES THE replied.

WATER!! The very circumstance that brings the pain!! When the She brought her daughter closer, water gets hot, it releases its and asked her to feel the carrots. fragrance and flavor. If you are She did, and noticed that they like the bean, when things are at were now soft. She told her their worst, you get better......and daughter to break an egg, which change the situation around you! she did, and after removing the When the hours are the darkest, shell, she saw that the egg was and trials are their greatest, do now hard-boiled. Finally, she told you elevate to the next level? her daughter to sip the coffee. How do you handle adversity?

The daughter smiled as she tasted the rich flavor, then asked, ARE YOU A CARROT, AN EGG, "What's the point, mother?"

OR A COFFEE BEAN? Her mother explained that each of the three objects had faced the very same adversity, -boiling water, -- but each had reacted differently: The carrot went in strong, hard, and unrelenting. However, after being subjected to the boiling water, it softened, and became weak.

The egg had been fragile. Its thin outer shell had protected its

THE BOY AND THE APPLE TREE A long time ago, there was a huge apple tree. A little boy loved to come and play around it everyday. He climbed to the treetop, ate the apples, and took a nap under the shadow. He loved the tree and the tree loved to play with him. Time went by, the little boy had grown up and he no longer played around the tree every day.

One day, the boy came back to the tree and he looked sad.

"Come and play with me", the tree asked the boy.

"I am no longer a kid, I do not play around trees any more" the boy replied.

"I want toys. I need money to buy them."

"Sorry, but I do not have money, but you can pick all my apples and sell them. So, you will have money."

The boy was so excited. He grabbed all the apples on the tree and left happily.

The boy never came back after he picked the apples. The tree was sad.

One day, the boy who now turned into a man returned and the tree was excited.

"Come and play with me" the tree said.

"I do not have time to play. I have to work for my family. We need a house for shelter. Can you help me?"

"Sorry, but I do not have any house. But you can chop off my branches to build your house".

So the man cut all the branches of the tree and left happily. The tree was glad to see him happy but the man never came back since then. The tree was again lonely and sad.

One hot summer day, the man returned and the tree was delighted.

"Come and play with me!" the tree said.

"I am getting old. I want to go sailing to relax myself. Can you

give me a boat?" said the man.

"Use my trunk to build your boat.

You can sail far away and be happy."

So the man cut the tree trunk to make a boat. He went sailing and never showed up for a long time.

Finally, the man returned after many years. "Sorry, my boy. But I do not have anything for you anymore. No more apples for you", the tree said.

"No problem, I do not have any teeth to bite" the man replied.

"No more trunk for you to climb on".

"I am too old for that now" the man said.

"I really cannot give you anything, the only thing left is my

dying roots," the tree said with tears.

"I do not need much now, just a place to rest. I am tired after all these years," the man replied.

"Good! Old tree roots are the best place to lean on and rest, come sit down with me and rest."

The man sat down and the tree was glad and smiled with tears.

This is a story of everyone. The tree is like our parents. When we were young, we loved to play with our Mum and Dad. When we grow up, we leave them; only come to them when we need something or when we are in trouble.

No matter what, parents will always be there and give everything they could just to make you happy.

You may think the boy is cruel to the tree, but that is how all of us treat our parents. We take them for granted; we don't appreciate all they do for us, until it's too late.

15 May 2006

ZAMAN INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL NEWSPAPER

ENTERTAINMENT

Across 3. Neo in the 1999 movie, The Matrix (5,6) 5. Gary Cooper was Marshal Will Kane in this 1952 movie (4,4) 7. Ingrid Bergman was Ilsa Lund Laszlo in this 1942 classic (10) 9. Col. Walter W. Kurtz in the 1979 movie, Apocalypse Now (6,6) 10. Roy Scheider was Police Chief Martin Brody in this 1975 movie (4) 11. Director of the 1941 movie, The Maltese Falcon (4,6) 12. Martini in the 1975 movie, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (5,2,4) 13. Capt. Virgil in the 1963 movie, The Great Escape (5,7) Down 1. Director of the 2004 movie, Kill Bill:Vol 2 (7,9) 2. Adrien Brody was Wldyslaw Szpilman in this 2002 movie (3,7) 4. Ripley in the 1979 movie, Alien (9,6) 6. Paris, Prince of Troy in the 2004 movie, Troy (7,5) 8. Mel Gibson was William Wallace in this 1995 movie (10) 10. Joel Barish in the 2004 movie, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (3,6)

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