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People joke that no one in Los Angeles reads; everyone watches TV, rents DVD, or goes to the movies. The most popular reading material is comic books, movie magazines,and TV guides. City 1 have only 10 per-cent of the traffic that car washes have.
But how do you explain the following?An annual book festival in west Los Angeles is “ 2 ” year after year. People wait half an hour for a parking space to become 3 .
This outdoor festival, 4 by a news-paper, occurs every April for one weekend.This year's attendance was about 145 000.There were about 90 talks given by authors,with an 5 question period following eachtalk. Book lovers were also able to collect some of the signatures of their favourite au-thors. A food store sold all kinds of popular foods. 6 a $ 7 parking fee, the festival was free. Even so, some people 7 the food store prices by 8 taking in their own sandwiches and drinks.
The idea for the festival occurred years ago, but nobody knew if it would succeed. 9 book festivals were already popular in other US cities, would Los Angeles people welcome one? “Los Angeles people are very 10 , ”said one of the festival founders.
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Most children want to be pop stars or footballers when they grow up. But 11-year-old Amy Jones had the chance to 1 more about her 2 job -- a medical biologist when she won an essay writing competition for primary students.
Amy's 3 for the best essay on "What I want to be when I'm older" was a day at the Oxford Medical Science Institute. Staff organized a special programme for the would-be 4 , introducing her to the projects being worked on by medical biologists at Oxford. The sessions included a look at the 5 of medical biologists in fighting cancers and 6 to become a medical biologist.
Amy said she was 7 to become a biologist after watching a television programme. In her essay she wrote: "The medical biologist plays a big role in many discoveries and it would be a challenging, exciting and 8 job."
Dr Kathryn Robson, the Institute director said: "It's 9 that we encourage young people to study science and think about scientific research as a job. I hope Amy now has a better 10 of what it takes to become a medical biologist."
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