THE WORLD
From Issue #21
Oh Canada...and beyond
School
Project Inspires Low-Cost Airline
Age is just a number proves 18-year-old Daniel Reilly from Merseyside,
England, after launching the low-cost Nexus Airlines from his
bedroom. Daniel was inspired to create Nexus Airlines after
completing a business plan on setting up an airline for his
A-level business studies project. “I called around a few
airlines and asked how they had done it and I slowly realized
it was quite achievable,” says Daniel. “I’ve
always been interested in aviation…I started flying lessons
when I was 16 and my friends and I started joking about buying
a plane and flying people around the world.” Nexus leased
a Boeing 737 plane and plan to fly from Liverpool’s John
Lennon Airport in November. Daniel’s innovative and business
savvy mind has turned him into Britain’s and possibly
the world’s youngest chief executive of an airline. Source:
BBC News
Gaming
Can Kill
Have your parents ever warned you that too much video gaming
is not good for you? The death of a South Korean guy from playing
50 hours of video games proves there’s truth in the matter.
For 3 days, 28-year-old Lee glued himself to a computer at an
Internet café in the southeastern city of Taegu, South
Korea, playing on-line battle simulation games; only leaving
the computer to go to the bathroom and take short naps. His
long absence sent his mother to look for him at the café
as she tried to convince him to return home. He promised to
come home after he finished his mammoth session but died a few
minutes later. “We presume the cause of death was heart
failure stemming from exhaustion,” says a Taegu provincial
police official. According to Lee’s colleagues he quit
his job in order to devote more time to playing video
games. Source: Reuters
MOVE
OVER ATKINS, MCDONALDS NEW DIET SECRET
McDonalds isn’t so bad for your health, according
to Merab Morgan from Henderson, North Carolina. She claims to
have lost 33 pounds by eating mostly burgers for 90 days. Merab
began her diet to prove her exclusive McD diet isn’t as
bad for your health as Super Size Me filmmaker Morgan Spurlock
made it seem. Merab memorized the calories in every menu item
so she would consume only 1400 calories a day. After trying
and failing at Weight Watchers and Atkins diet from lack of
time and money, Merab switched to McDonalds “the poor
man’s” diet. However, the success of Merab’s
diet still worries Nutritionist Barry Popkin. He argues eating
just McDonalds isn’t healthy and insists Merab needs vitamins,
minerals, fiber, and dairy to ensure her health.
Source: NBC
CRAWLING FOR KIDS
Leo Chau and Sean Duffy, two US students, crawled for 45 hours
through hail, lightning and freezing conditions in Colorado
Springs to raise $20,000 for the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric
AIDS Foundation. Leo and Sean crawled for 32 miles and were
forced to remain in their crawl positions on their 15 minute
breaks, even when using their “poop tents.” After
the event both students were taken to the hospital to receive
treatment for dehydration and a toxin called CPK that is secreted
from severe muscle breakdown. During the crawl Sean suffered
hallucinations and motion sickness while Leo suffered severe
dehydration. “Sean was mentally gone. He thought he was
crawling on The Washington Post newspaper. Literally,”
said Leo. “Never before have I seen two humans or any
human for that matter, go through so much pain and agony to
reach a goal,” said spectator Ryan Roth. For their record
breaking crawl Leo and Sean made it into the Guinness Book of
World Records after beating Peter McKinlay and John Murrie’s
1992 record of 31.44 miles.
Source: The Stanford Daily
