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Agriculture is the world's most important industry. It provides us with almost all our fooD. It also supplies materials for two other basic human needs clothing and shelter. In addition, agriculture provides materials in making many industrial products, such as paints and medicines. About half of the world's workers are employed in agriculture - far more than in any other industry.

Agriculture is one of the world's oldest industries. It began about 10,000 years ago in the Middle East. By that time, certain Middle East tribes had discovered how to grow plants from seeds and how to raise animals in captivity. Having mastered these skills, they could begin to practice agriculture. Before the development of agriculture, people got all their food by gathering wild plants, hunting and fishing. They had to search for food continually, which left them little time for activities. But as agriculture develop the arts, crafts, trades and other activities of civilized life. Agriculture, therefore, not only greatly affected the food supply but also made civilization possible.

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Computer programmer David Jones earns £ 35,000 a year by designing new computer games, yet he cannot find a bank prepared to let him have a cheque carD. Instead, he has been told to wait another two years, until he is 18.

The 16-year-old boy works for a small firm in Liverpool, where the problem of most young people of his age is finding a joB. David's firm releases two new games for the expanding home computer market each month.

But David's biggest headache is what to do with his money. Despite his salary, earned by investing new programs within tight schedules, with bonus payments and profit sharing. he cannot drive a car, take out a mortgage, or obtain credit cards.

He lives with his parents in their council house in Liverpool, where his father is a bus driver. His company has to pay £ 150 a month in taxi fares to get him the five miles to work and back every day because David cannot drive.

David got his job with the Liverpool based company four months ago, a year after

leaving school with six O-levels and working for a time in a computer shop. "I got the job because the people who run the firm knew I had already written some programs", he saiD. "I suppose £ 35,000 sounds a lot but actually that's being pessimistiC. I hope it will come to more than that this year". He spends some of his money on records and clothes, and gives his mother £20 a week. But, most of his spare time is spent working.

uc24h.Com "Unfortunately, computing was not part of our studies at school," he saiD. "But I had been studying it in books and magazines for four years in my spare time. I knew what I wanted to do and never considered fairly young, anyway." on at school. Most people in this business are David added: "I would like to earn a million and I suppose early retirement is a possibility. You never know when the market might disappear..

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Unlike the eye, the ear has no lid; therefore noise penetrates without protection Loud noises instinctively signal danger to any organism with a hearing mechanism, including human beings In response, heartbeat and respiration accelerate. In fact, there is a general increase in functioning brought about by the flow of adrenaline released in response to fear.

Because noise is unavoidable in a complex, industrial society, we are constantly responding in the same ways that we could respond to danger. Recently, researchers have concluded that noise and our response may be much more than an annoyance. It may be a serious threat to physical and psychological health and well-being, causing damage not only the ear and brain but also to the heart and stomach. We have long known that hearing loss is America's number one nonfatal health problem, but now we are learning that some of us with heart disease and ulcers may be victims of noise as well.

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Robert Edwards was blinded in an automobile accident nine years ago. He was also partially deaf because of old age. Last week, he was strolling near his home when a thunderstorm approacheD. He took refuge under a tree and was struck by lightning. He was knocked to the ground and woke up some 20 minutes later lying face down in water below a tree. He went into the house and lay down in beD. A short time later, he awoke. His legs were numb and he was trembling, but, when he opened his eyes, he could see the clock across the room fading in and out in front of him. When his wife entered, he saw her for the first time in nine years. Doctors confirm that he has regained his sight and hearing apparently from the flash of lightning, but they are unable to explain the occurrence. The only possible explanation offered by one doctor was that, since Edwards lost his sight as result of trauma in a terrible accident, perhaps the only way it could be restored was by another trauma.

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In his book "The Making of the President", 1960, Theodore White made some insightful observations about the television debates between Kennedy and Nixon He contended that the debates had to be analyzed within the context of the explosion in the field of the communications. During the previous debate, Americans had purchased television sets at a phenomenal rate. By the evening of the debate, 88 percent of all American families owned a television set, and a very large percentage turned into the debate.

The format was really less like a debate than like a press conference. Each candidate was allowed an opening statement of eight minutes, and then two and a half minutes to respond to each question proposed by a panel. There was no provision for dialogue between the candidates. As White observed, despite this format, Nixon proceeded as though he was in a personal debates with Kennedy, trying to score points from the reporters on the panel. In contrast, Kennedy spoke directly to the television viewers, concentrating on creating a dynamic and appealing image in order to influence them.

Later Kennedy claimed that the debate were the single most important factor in the election. In White's view the debates did change the direction of the campaign. From research studies, Including Gallup Poll, it appeared that Kennedy had gained at least 2 million votes as a result of the televised programs. When you consider that Kennedy won by a little more than 100,000 votes, the debates had to have made the difference. It has been clear to candidates since then that television debates are a very powerful tool