1. Austria: Vienna
2. Ethiopia: Adis Abbaba
3. Mauritius: Port Louis
4. Swaziland: Mbabane
5. Vanuatu: Port Vila
The winner of last month’s Frommer’s Guidebook on
Spain Moon guide is: Azusa Nakamura congratulations!
This month, win a
"http://www.roughguides.com">Rough Guide guidebook on
Los Angeles. See
"http://www.roughguides.com/">www.roughguides.com
for info on Rough Guides.
Some people have said the quiz is difficult, we say do
some research: try
"http://www.google.com/">google.com or
"http://www.ask.com/">Ask Jeeves, if you need help with
the answers.
1. In which year were the last Olympic Games held in Los
Angeles?
2. You can find cement hand and footprints in the
forecourt of which theatre?
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3. Which famnous ocean liner is moored at Pier H at the
end of Queens Highway South?
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4. Which female movie star appeared in the 1950 film
Sunset Boulevard?
5. What is the abbreviated name of the University based
in Los Angeles?
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Here’s a little Beetle quiz based on capital
cities. See how many you get right! Go on, have a
guess!
What is the capital city of the following countries:
1. Austria
2. Ethiopia
3. Mauritius
4. Swaziland
5. Vanuatu
For the answers, see at the end of the e-newsletter.
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A recent World Values Survey on the levels of happiness
in more than 65 countries shows Nigeria has the highest
percentage of happy people followed by Mexico, Venezuela,
El Salvador and Puerto Rico.
Russia, Armenia and Romania have the fewest. “New
Zealand ranked 15 for overall satisfaction, the U.S. 16th,
Australia 20th and Britain 24th — though Australia beats
the other three for day-to-day happiness,” said New
Scientist magazine, which published the results.
New Scientist says that factors that make people happy
vary: personal success, self-expression, pride, and a high
sense of self-esteem are important in the United States. In
Japan, on the other hand, happiness comes from fulfilling
the expectations of your family, meeting your social
responsibilities, self-discipline, cooperation and
friendliness.
Malaysian Airlines are currently embroiled in a
row over saying “customers prefer to be served by
young, demure and pretty stewardesses, especially Asian
ladies”, and has placed age limits on its female
cabin crews. The flight attendants union has launched a
campaign against an MAS policy which grounds female cabin
crew aged over 40. Those holding supervisory jobs are
allowed to continue until 45. Imagine if this ruling
applied to other airlines – no names mentioned.
British Airways are to resume direct flights
between London Heathrow and Islamabad after halting
services two years ago after the terrorist attacks of
September 11 in the United States.
Singapore Airlines has confirmed that it is now
carrying air marshals on some of its flights as part of
increased security measures. They will also have
surveillance cameras in place which will allow cockpit
crews to check what is going on in the aircraft’s
cabin.
JetBlue, the New York-based low fare airline, is
to start service from Boston Logan Airport early next year.
The service includes flights from Boston to Fort
Lauderdale, Orlando, Tampa and Denver by January 16 2004.
They will be offering leather seats complete with free
television, free on-board snacks and more leg room than its
competitors.
Air France has announced that it intends to sign
a final merger deal with Dutch airline KLM on Thursday in
Amsterdam, creating Europe’s largest airline. The deal,
which is scheduled to be completed in April 2004, would
create a European leader and the world’s third-largest
airline behind American Airlines and Delta.
UK airport update: As at 16th October, nationals of
Angola, Bangladesh, Cameroon, India, Lebanon and Pakistan
will need visas to travel through the UK. Previously,
people from these countries have required visas to visit
the UK, but have been able pass through the UK on their way
to a third country without one.
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small-group expeditions, adventure sports, ideas or simply
inspiration - from classic walks, treks and safaris to the
thrill of adventure sports plus all the latest equipment
will be at Manchester 1st and
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The World Health Organsation (WHO) says that affordable
and effective treatment against malaria should be available
by about 2006. More than one million people, mostly
children under the age of five are killed each year by
malarial parasites. The new treatment is based on the plant
qinghaosu, or sweet wormwood, which Chinese doctors have
recognized for centuries as having anti-malarial
properties. Another component of the new treatment,
pyronaridine, was also first developed in China and has
been proven effective in treating malaria in the Hunan and
Yunan provinces, according to WHO. The new medicine could
be taken as a single tablet dose and appears to be well
tolerated by most patients. there’s also a big problem with
forging of these pills, as the plant only produces the drug
when grown in parts of china.
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