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Tiger Aspect, one of the UK's leading TV production companies are producing a program for the Discovery Network that reveals the reality behind America's lips. We are looking for people who have stories to tell about their dodgy dental experiences abroad.
Are you American? Are you a dental tourist? Have you travelled to Mexico/South America/elsewhere for treatment on your teeth or are you intending to do so?
Discovery Network is seeking people for a one hour program to tell their stories about their teeth problems.
We are interested in why people travel abroad for treatment. Do you want a perfect smile? Are you looking for affordable treatment? Perhaps you have already been abroad for treatment; did it work out well or did it go wrong?
If you have a story to tell please email your story and contact details to me at kategriffiths@tigeraspect.co.uk
Last year, a Quebec cheese company lost its sunken cheese. La Fromagerie Boivin thought it would make its cheese taste better if it was submerged in water, so it dropped 800 kg of cheese into the Saguenay fjord, north of Quebec City. The idea was that 50 metres underwater would produce a cheese that would taste unique, but the plan has backfired as the company could not find the cheese, worth more than $50,000 - it has gone missing. Divers and high-tech tracking equipment were used to try to find the lost cheese. “It's a mystery,” said master diver Pierre Dufour, who assisted in the hunt. “All we know is that the cheese is no longer where it was left.”
A new UN report details that life in Zimbabwe is shorter than anywhere else in the world, with the average person not expected to live to 40. Zimbabwe's women have an average life expectancy of 34 years and men on average do not live past 37. The World Health Organisation report said women's life expectancy had fallen by two years in the last 12 months. Correspondents cite poverty due to the crumbling economy, and deaths from Aids are responsible for the decline. Zimbabwean women have the lowest life expectancy of women anywhere in the world, according to the report. Women in the country are also more likely than men to be infected by the HIV virus. According to the report, all 10 countries with the world's lowest life expectancy were in Africa. Japan was said to have the highest life expectancy in the world, people living on average until 82.
A UK conservation group recently said that whale meat caught under Japan's “research” programme is so abundant it is being sold as pet food. The Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society (WDCS) say that thousands of tonnes of whale meat has been stockpiled as more animals are killed each year. The Japanese government has attempted to sell the whale meat to schools but the price has continued to fall. “A quiet whale meat boom is starting,” says the website hakudai.com. “The number of pet-owners who care about their animals' health are growing, recognising the nutritious value of whale meat,” it adds.
There's a new car rental company started called the bio-beetle, the worlds first truly ECO rental car company in the world who power all their cars on vegetable oil biodiesel. Based in Los Angeles California and Maui, Hawaii right now and growing. Take a look at http://www.bio-beetle.com
Easyjet one of the UK's low cost airlines has just announced flights to three new destinations: London Luton to Rijeka starting 30th June and also to Istanbul starting 29th June plus London Gatwick to Marrakesh starting 4th July. See their website.
Related Link: Easyjet
Spotted by Tony of London: ever needed to know what the time was half way round the world? This website tells you the current time just about anywhere in the world.
In considerably bad taste, here's a website that offers tours to see Schappelle Corby in her prison cell in Bali.
The Space Adventures company, the American company that arranged for multi millionaire tourists to hitch a ride into space on Russian rockets is planning to turn Singapore into the world's main centre for space tourism. The company wants to set up its own launch pad and astronaut training centre on Singapore and also make the price of a space flight more affordable. Space Adventures currently charges $20m (£11.5m) per passenger to arrange a ride into orbit on a Russian spacecraft. But it says the new service will be a comparative snip at $102,000 (£59,000) a head.
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