CNN Student News 12/10/2016
CNN Student News 12/10/2016 Samsung recalls a flagship smartphone, Haitians begin rebuilding after a devastating hurricane, and experts discuss the public’s appetite for a Mars mission.
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Should phones be banned from pub quizzes?
The integrity of pub quizzes used to be beyond question, but the advent of text messaging in the late 1990s has heralded an era of cheating. Otherwise honest people, corrupted by a combination of alcohol and the desire to win promotional t-shirts, were reduced to seeking outside help from friends. With the burgeoning popularity of internet-equipped devices such as iPhones making things even worse, one Belfast bar has taken the drastic step of putting up a sign outside saying mobile phones are banned during their pub quiz. Stephen Duffy has been running a quiz night on Thursdays at the Pavilion […]
CNN Student News – 19/09/2016 – Transcript
CNN Student News 19/09/2016 This Monday, CNN is reporting on some apparent acts of terrorism in New York and Minnesota, and they are exploring the history of oil’s booms and busts in America. Difficult? not a problem –> Transcript
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