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Promising that the fiscal reform was
"good news for Mexicans", President Enrique Pena Nieto unveiled a
wide-ranging proposal which managed to sidestep a political controversy about
sales tax on food and medicine.
Those would remain unchanged, undermining a central part of the left's opposition to the reform programme. But a hike in the tax on soft drinks was included. In part, the government hope it will help tackle the country's serious obesity problem. Mexico has the second-highest obesity rates in the world after the United States.
However, the reform is also intended to
deal with Mexico's weak tax revenues. The country's coffers urgently need
bolstering and the intention was that long-running loopholes, which have
allowed large corporations to benefit for decades, would be closed.
In particular, there were calls to impose
greater taxes on the country's top earners, including the world's richest man,
Carlos Slim.
However, the final document appears to have
been watered down in that regard. The proposal must now be approved by Congress
and the Senate, as well as a majority of Mexico's states.
Questions:
1. Do you think Taiwan should impose a
tax on soft drinks?
Do you agree to pay tax on soft drinks?
2. Do you think introducing a sugar tax
will help cut obesity rates?"
3. Do you think obesity is a disease?
What do you think causes obesity? And how to prevent obesity?
4. Are the soft drinks bad for your health?
Side effects of drinking soda?
5. Should rich people pay more taxes?
6. What do you think of fitness centers?
Why people go to the fitness center?
7. Ways for overweight people to lose
weight?
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Have
they found the elixir of eternal youth? Scientists reverse the ageing process
in landmark trial ( Mail Fiona Macrae)
The secret of eternal youth has been
unlocked by scientists in remarkable research that paves the way for a ‘forever
young’ drug.
Lives could be longer and healthier, free
from illnesses such as Alzheimer’s and heart disease, with skin and hair
retaining its youthful lustre.
Such a drug might allow men and women to
have children naturally until they are a ripe old age.
Increasing the number of years of healthy
life would greatly ease health service costs and reduce the burden on families
of caring for frail relatives.
The experiments mirror the plot of the film
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, where the lead character played by Brad
Pitt ages in reverse.
Is this the end of ageing? How we can hold
back the years
Doctor Ronald DePinho of Harvard University
reversed the effects of ageing in animals for the first time in experiments on
mice.
Before treatment, their skin, brains, guts
and other organs resembled those of an 80-year-old person.
Within just two months of being given a
drug that switches on a key enzyme, the creatures had grown so many new cells that
they had almost completely rejuvenated.
The Elixir
of Life (wiki)
In ancient China, various emperors sought
the fabled elixir with varying results. In the Qin Dynasty, Qin Shi Huang sent
Taoist alchemist Xu Fu with 500 young men and 500 young women to the eastern
seas to find the elixir, but he never came back. When Shi Huang Di visited, he
brought 3000 young girls and boys, but none of them ever returned.
The ancient Chinese believed that ingesting
long-lasting precious substances such as jade, cinnabar or hematite would confer
some of that longevity on the person who consumed them. Gold was considered
particularly potent, as it was a non-tarnishing precious metal; the idea of
potable or drinkable gold is found in China by the end of the third century BC.
Questions:
1. Do you think 'elixir of life' could be real?
Want to try the elixir of life?
2. Do you really want to live forever?
How long do you want to live?
3. What would you do with your life if you can live forever ?
4. How to keep your youth forever?
5. Do you fear aging/getting old.?
Ways to prevent and slow aging?
6. Do you want to go back to your childhood again?
7. Do you think immortality would be real in the future?
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