Life in colour

We live our lives in colour from our earliest days in Western cultures pink for a girl or blue for a
boy. We use it both as a badge of identity and a way of expressing our individuality. we use
different colours to send out very different messages.
decoration the Huli villager in the photo is getting ready for a local festival. he's applying the
treditional colours of red, bleck and white in his own personal pettern.
Messages marketing experts understand the power of colour very well. Packaging and lebels
in eye catching colours stand out on the supermarket shelf. And companies always select the
colour of their brand very carefully a calm blue for a bank you can trust, dark green says quality
and sophistication or brown and green means eco-friendiness.

Red is for winners

when competitors in sport are equally matched the team dressed in red is more likely to win
according to a new study.that is the conclusion of British anthropologists Russell Hill and Robert
Barton of the university of Durham, after studying the results of one-on-one boxing.

Hill and Barton report that when one contestant is much better than the other, colour has no
effect on the result. However when there is only a small difference between them, the effect of
colour is sufficient to tip the balance.

Joanna Satchell a primate researcher at the University of Cambridge has found similar results in
nature. she studies the large African monkeys known as mandrills. Mandrills have brith red
noses that stand out against their white faces.

Satchell says that the finding that red also has an advantage in human sporting event does not
surprise her and she adds that the idea of the study is very clever. Red seems to be the colour
across speciess that signals male dominance. Barton says. They thought that there might be a
similar effect in humans.
As well as the studies on primates by Satchell another study demonstrates the effect of red
among birds. in an experiment, scientists put red plastic rings on the legs of male zebra finches
and this increased the birds success with female zebra finches.
 Dance across america
Before there was the written world, there was the language of dance. dance express love and
hate joy and sorrow, life and death and everything else in between. Dance in America is
everywhere. we dance from florida to alaska. from horizon and sea to sea. we dance at
weddings, birthdays.

I adore dancing says laster bridges the owner of a dance studio in lowa. i can't imagine doing
anything else with my life. Bridges runs dance classes for all ages. teaching dance is wonderful.
my older students say it makes them feel young. it's marvellous to watch them.
so why do we dance? I can tell you about one young couple says bridges. they're learning to do
treditional dances. they arrive at the class in a bad mood and they leave with a smile. dancing
seems to change their mood completely.

so do we dance in order to make ourselves feel better calmer, healthier? andrea hillier a
choreographer says dance like the rhythm of a beating heart is life. even after all these years I
want to get better and better. I kep practising even when I'm exhausted. I find it hard to stop!
dancing reminds me I'm alive.

A world together
once I start looking for them, I realise these moments are everywhere. one day I'm sitting in a
coffee shop in London having a cup of italian espresso served by an Algerian waiter, listening to
the Beach boys playing in the background. Another day I'm eating in a restaurant in New Delhi
that serves Lebanese food to the music of a filipino band.These are globalisation moments we
are in the middle of a worldwide change in cultures a transformation of entertainment
business and politics.
How do people feel about globalisation? it depends to a large extent on where they live and
how much money they've got. however globalisation as one report has stated is a reality not a
choice. humans have always developed commercial and cultural connections but these days
computers the internet mobile phones, cable tv and cheaper air transport have accelerated and
complicated these connections.
In Los Angeles I saw more diversity than I thought possible at Hollywood high school where the
students body represents 32 different languages . in shanghai i found that the television show
sesame street has been redesigned by chinese educators to teach Chinese values and
treditions.
So what's next? it's the eve of the millennium and the remote Himalayan country of Bhutan has
just granted its citizens access to television the last country on the planet to do so. the outside
world has suddenly appeared in shops and living rooms across the land.

Return to titanic
it was height of the Cold war and in fact I was on a secret mission when we found Titanic. the
US Navy had agreed to finance the development of our underwater video technology. In return
we had agreed to use the technology to find two Us nuclear submarines which had disappeared
in the 1960s. not at first because many ships had sunk in that area. when we realised it was
Titanic we jumped for joy.

I saw champagne bottles intact with the corks still in. the box holding the bottles had
disappeared long ago. Suddenly my eye was drawn to a woman's shoe. Nearby I saw a pair of
smaller shoes that had perhaps belonged to a child. I felt that the people who had died here in
1912 were speaking to me again.

it was exactly what I didn't want to happen. I'd asked people to treat Titanic's remains with
dignity. instead they'd turned her into a freak show. the story of titanic in not about the ship it's
about the people.

Love and death in the sea

The sea has almost killed me a couple of times. it wasn't her fault it was mine for not respecting
her. I still remember the last time a stormy day off the Costa Brave of spain in early summer
2008. every time I think about it my heart reces and my guts jump to my throat
In a moment of Catalan bravado I put on my swimming suit mask and fins and got into the
water. it was crazy but I did it. I awallowed mouthfuls of sand and salt while I was trying to
break through, the surf zone. Unpleasantly fighting I swam I still don't know why for twenty
minutes.

I tried to bodysurf one wave to the shore but it collapsed suddenly and took me down under
the water. when I surfaced to take a breath I turned around and a second wave hit me just as
hard taking me down again. I hit the sandly bottom. I pushed myself up but once again. waves
were coming and I coudn't rest or breathe.
 the sea is our mother sister and home and as such I love her. we get so much from the sea. she
gives us life. oxygen, food. she regulates the climate and she makes ours a wonderful life. we
should thank the sea the ocean every day.
I have learned my lesson. I now thank the sea every day the surface is calm the waters are
clear and diving is easy.

Fast Lane to the Future

In Bangalore Meena shekaran a 23 year-old accountant for a company that imports exercise
equipment has just 5 purchased a scooter. she's about to go for her first drive on a newly
finished section of the superhighway. do you have a driving licence? I ask her. No sir no she
giggles. Do you know how to drive? no sir not really she shouts back cheerfully. Don't worry I'II
be fine!

Near Chennai Tamil selvan's family are coconut fermers. Farming is hard work and badly paid.
As a chils Tamil rode to school several miles away on his father's bicycle. Now the 29 year-old
works as a senior technician at the giant Hyundai car factory.

In Mumbai Swede Morten Andersen is a manager at a Nokia factory which employs

9000people. He says India is full of entrepreneurs. people here are creative driven full of energy
and new ideas. the new superhighway is an example of this. The road will certainly bring lots of
jobs and help many people. That's the nature of progress.

A better life
The beginning of a Chinese factory town is always the same: in the beginning nearly everybody
is a construction worker. the growing economy means that everything moves fast and new
industrial districts rise in several stages. Those early labourers are men who have migrated from
rural villages and immediately they are joined by small entrepreneurs.

these pioneers sell meat fruit and vegetables on informal stalls and later when the first real
shops appear they stock construction materials. After that cellphone companies arrive. Sell
prepaid phonecards to migrants in the south-esatern province of Zhejiang one popular product
is called the Homesick card. When the factories start production you start to see women. Young
women have a reputation for being hard-working.
Chinese schools have been very successful. The literacy is over 90 per cent. The next step is to
develop higher education. Many people are looking for better training. In a Chinese factory
town, there are many private courses. English classes typing classes technical classes. In
Zhejiang I met Luo Shouyun who had spent a quarter of his wager on training. Now he is a
master machinist with a salary that makes him midle class. Another young man had learned
Arabic in order to translate for middle Eastern buyers.

Walking for wildlife

He’s a biologist with the Widlife Conversation Society. He’s lived in central Africa for six years.
Fay has worked on several major conversation projects in Africa and America. He’s counted all
the elephants in the central African country of chad twice. He’s walked nearly 3000 kilometres
across North America.he spends so much time outdoors the he hasn’t slept in a bed more than
50 times in the last ten yeras.

Fay travels light he usually just takes a T-shirt a pair of shorts and his favourite footwear,
sandals. His most recent pair of sandals lasted 2000 kilometres before they fell apart. The few
items he never travels without include his penknife a lighter and seeping mat.

The real cost of travel

The tourism industry took off in the middle of the last century and it’s been growing ever since.
In the last ten years especially, more and more people have been travelling to remote places
around the world.

A large cruise shio can carry as many as 6000 passengers and there are upwards of 50 such
ships currently sailing the seas. Cruise ships dump about 90 000 tons of waste into the oceans
every year. Any harmful effects of this are made even worse by the fact that cruises tend to visit
the same places over and over again, thus concentrating the waste in specific places. In
patagonia this is now having a visible effect on wildlife. The population of animals such as these
Magellanic penguins has been in decline for-some years now.

From remote ocean habitats to the world’s highest mountain our litter is everywhere. Despite
the fact that far fewer people go climbing or trekking in the Himalaya than take a cruise. for
decades climbers have been abandoning their unwanted ewuipment on Everest. For the last
few years clean-up teams have been organising expeditions just to pick up the rubbish.
It’s tourism of a different kind which is causing problems in Europe. Construction on the
Mediterranean coast has been spiralling out of control for years. Beach resorts form an almost
unbroken line from Gibraltar to Greece and natural habitats have disappeared under kilometres
of concrete. And so we pollute the sea the land and the air.

Food Pizza with a pedigree

There is pizza and there is pizza Napoletana. The two, connoisseurs say have as much in
common as virgin olive oil has with generic cooking oil. Now authentic pizza Napoletana has
joined the elite group of European Union-certified food and drink products like Scottish Farmed
Salmon, Spanish Melon from Ia Mancha and English blue stilton cheese. In order to qualify for
this list, these food products had to meet very strict criteria.
Pizza has a long history in italy. The word pizza first appeared in an Ad 997 manuscript from
Gaeta, a southern italian town. A millennium later in 1997, political groups in northern italiy
tried to boycott pizza it was a symbol of their rivals in the sourth. Perhaps they should accept
that pizza Napoletana is here to saty now.

A caffeine fuelled world

Over the countries people have created many rituals to accompany the consumption of their
favourite drinks, tea and coffee.Just think of the Japanese tea ceremony, British afternoon tea
or the morning coffee ritual in countless societies.
Why are these drinks so popular? The answer is their secret ingredient caffeine. In the modern
world, the new caffeine “delivery systems’ are canned ‘energy’ rinks. And the more modern
our world gets, the more we seem to need caffeine. People have known for years that
caffeinated drinks make you less tired and more alert.

it raises blood pressure and thus increases the risk of heart disease. So the widespread use of
caffeine is now a cause for concern among scientists and public health authorities.
United states has no much rule, but many canned energy drinks sold in the USA carry warnings
anyway. On the other hand, much of the research suggests that caffeine may have benefits for
human health. Studies have shown it helps relieve pain, reduces asthma symptoms and
increases reaction speed.
Caffeine helps people try to override the human rhythm that is in all of us says Czeisler.
 Before New york
Of all the visitors to New york city in recent years, one of the most surprising was a beaver
which showed up one morning in 2007. Nobody knows exactly where the beaver came from
and ecologist Eric Sanderson explains that, although beavers used to be common in the area in
the 17 th century there haven’t been any for more than 200 years.

In fact long before the skyscrapers came to dominate the view this place was a pristine
wilderness where animalas like beavers bears ans turkeys would roam freely through forests,
marshes and grassland. Its ecology was as diverse as Yellowstone or Yosemite today. there used
to be sandy beaches along the coasts and 90 kilometres of fresh- water strams.

Sweet songs strong coffee

There’s a dreamy atmosphere to Adjuntas, a coffee town in the Valley of the sleeping Giant
high in the mountains of Puerto Rico. A deep love of the land and its customs runs through this
place, where people say their families have lived since forever and formal good manners rule
daily life. You smell it in the surrounding streets, where food is cooked at roadside barbecues.
You see it in the graceful horses paraded through town on holidays and you feel it in the large,
elegant square with its fountains and stone benches.
Several decades ago this love of the land motivated the local people to oppose a massive
mining operation. The mountains surrounding Adjuntas are rich with gold, silver, copper and
zinc and the Puerto Rican government had reserved about 80 square kilometres for mineral
exploitation.
Traditions in Adjuntas go back centuries to the mountains of ancrestral islands such as
Mallorca, Tenerife and Corsica. People play the old songs in the countryside and in little shops,
like Lauro Yepez’s place where men meet to swap stories and have a drink. When I was there,
troubadour Tato Ramos appeared and began to sing in a centuries-old flamenco style.