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BBC Learning English – Words in the News Everest heroes honoured in Nepal – 13 February 2008 Page 13 of 13 http://www.bbclearningenglishcom/ The government of Nepal has renamed the closest airport to Mount Everest to honour the first two men known to have climbed the mountain, Tenzing Norgay and Sir Edmund Hillary. The two explorers achieved their feat in May 1953. This report from Charles Haviland: Except for the purists who walk all the way in from the nearest road-head, most visitors first experience of Nepals spectacular Everest region is the airstrip at Lukla. Its a dramatic introduction, as the plane has to drop down almost vertically between the mountains and then lands on a runway which slopes steeply upwards. It was actually the New Zealand joint first conqueror of Everest Sir Edmund Hillary, who died a month ago, who inspired the building of the airstrip in the 1960s. And its been a motor for the development of health, education and tourism in the area. Now Nepals

tourism minister, Prithvi Subba Gurung, says it will henceforth be known as Tenzing Hillary Airport, also commemorating Hillarys climbing partner, the Nepalese Sherpa Tenzing Norgay, who died in 1986. As much as anything its a tribute to the friendship between the two men and their families, which remained strong, with Sir Edmund visiting Nepal regularly until the end of his life. BBC Learning English – Words in the News Womens studies to end in UK universities – 26 March 2008 Page 11 of 11 http://www.bbclearningenglishcom/ Women’s Studies is to disappear from British universities as an undergraduate course this summer. It’s part of a gradual decline in the academic discipline which became popular followingthe 1960s feminist movement. This report from BBC Social Affairs reporter Adrian Brown:London’s Metropolitan University stopped taking new students for its undergraduate degree inWomen’s Studies in 2005 and the last 12 students will graduate with a BA in the subject

this July.Its demise follows that of other Women’s Studies departments across Britain that have lost bothfunding and students or been merged into other disciplines. Critics say the subject was a product of its time and that the feminist arguments of the 1970s nolonger apply. It became the butt of many a joke in the mainstream media and in today’s competitive job market students steer clear, preferring degrees that will secure employment. But all is not lost for the subject. Postgraduate studies will continue in this country and Women’sStudies is thriving in many countries such as India and Iran. BBC Learning English – Words in the News Naples in rubbish crisis – 16 January 2008 Page 13 of 14 http://www.bbclearningenglishcom/ Protesters on the Mediterranean islands of Sardinia and Sicily are challenging the Italian governments attempts to transport to their islands rubbish from Naples. The streets of Naples are stinking, piled with thousands of tonnes of rotting rubbish.

This report from David Willey: Not in my backyard is becoming the motto for millions of Italians being asked to accept unwanted trash from Naples. Every merchant ship that docks at ports in Sicily and Sardinia after sailing from the mainland is being scrutinised to see if it is attempting to land some of the accumulated rubbish from the Naples area that the Italian authorities are trying to clear. Up to two hundred thousand tons of stinking household trash is being bulldozed by the army and loaded onto cargo ships and freight trains to destinations in various parts of Italy. Local landfills around Naples are all full. In Sicily and Sardinia several protesters have been injured in scuffles with the police after ships docked with Neapolitan waste. Two men were arrested on charges of planning to hurl firebombs against the residence of the head of Sardinias local regional government, Renato Soru. The government in Rome has asked regional authorities all over the country to accept some of

this huge accumulation of waste that Neapolitans fear is now a health hazard. A former police chief and an army general are in charge of operations to clean up the port city. Meanwhile, former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has added his voice to those criticising the authorities for allowing the rubbish crisis to get out of hand. He said Italys image abroad had been seriously damaged