The job of a pilot is difficult and risky, but prestigious. Airline pilots often travel thousands of kilometers and can find themselves in a different time and climate zones every day. see all parts of the world and get to know new people almost all the time. But a pilot also faces problems. often suffer from jet lag and can become tired when flying through different time zones. spend many days away from home and families.

Although many people think it is a real dream job, pilots must be responsible people, because they have the lives of up to a few hundred passengers in their hands. They have to have hundreds of hours of training before they can do their job. Pilots must remain calm in dangerous situations and always have to make the right decisions. They need to see and hear perfectly. About 60 % of all pilots fly commercial airplanes, the rest fly cargo and private planes, as well as air force planes.

On average pilots spend about 70 to 100 hours a month in the air.

(Adapted from http:// www.english.online.at/travel/airline-pilot)

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Should we fear that someday a huge asteroid would fulfill one of the apocalyptic scenarios envisaged for Earth, when a space rock smashes into our planet causing a global disaster? Judit Gyorgyey-Ries, an experienced astronomer at the University of Texas’ McDonald Observatory becalms the worried doomsdayers with a scientific approach to the matter. In an interview with astrowatch.net, she discusses potential asteroid threats, her current research and misinterpretation of her words by tabloid newspapers.

Taken from www.spacedaily.com/Deep_Impact.html

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A Region’s Soccer Strongmen are facing a hard fall

After rising as a governor under Brazil’s military dictatorship, José Maria Marin became such a towering figure in the world of Brazilian sports that the headquarters of the nation’s soccer federation was recently named in his honor.

Now, the United States Justice Department’s charging Mr. Marin, 83, and 13 other senior sports officials and executives across the Americas with taking part in a sweeping bribery and kickback scheme within FIFA, the governing body of global soccer.

Of the 14 men named as defendants in the indictment, all but two of them are citizens of Latin American and Caribbean nations, a reflection of the investigation’s focus on corruption in the hemisphere.

(Fonte: www.nytimes.com)

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bribery: suborno
headquarters: sede

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The story of a blind girl

There was a blind girl who hated herself just because she was blind. She hated everyone, except her loving boyfriend. He was always there for her. She said that if she could only see the world, she would marry her boyfriend.

One day, someone donated a pair of eyes to her and then she could see everything, including her boyfriend. Her boyfriend asked her, “Now that you can see the world, will you marry me?”

The girl was shocked when she saw that her boyfriend was blind too, and refused to marry him. Her boyfriend walked away in tears, and later wrote a letter to her saying: “Just take care of my eyes dear.”

Fonte: http://academictips.org/

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