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　　SECTION C NEWS BROADCAST

　　News 1:

　　A Moscow company is now marketing "Sleepboxes"-freestanding, mobile boxes with beds insidefor travelers stranded overnight, or those in need of a quick snooze . The Sleepboxes aremeant to be installed in airports and rented for 30 minutes to several hours at a time . ASleepbox is currently installed at the Sheremetyevo International Airport in Moscow. "We travela lot and many times we faced a problem of rest and privacy in airports," says co-designerMikhail Krymov of design firm Arch Group, who together with Alexei Goryainov came up with theidea of Sleepbox. "And as we are architects, we like to think of solutions." Measuring 1.4 meterswide, two meters in length and 2.3 meters in height, Sleepboxes star feature is a two-meter-long bed made of polymer foam and pulp tissue that changes bed linen automat- ically. It 'alsocomes with luggage space, a ventilation system, WiFi, electric sockets and an LCD TV.

　　News 2:

　　Police in London are lining up a huge police operation for the Notting Hill Carnival in the wake ofthe rioting and looting that hit the city earlier this month. More than a million people areexpected to head to west London over the course of the colorful two-day event, which featuresmusic, parades, dancing and stalls serving up Caribbean favorites like jerk chicken and rice andpeas. Some 5,500 officers will be on duty at the carnival on Sunday and 6,500 on Monday-apublic holiday in Britain-with 4,000 additional officers deployed elsewhere across the city ontop of usual police numbers, London's Metropolitan Police said. Commander Steve Rodhousesaid creating a safe environment at the carnival is "a top priority" for the police force.

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　　Growing up starved of calories may give you a higher risk of heart disease 50 years on,research suggests. Researchers in the Netherlands tracked the heart health of Dutch womenwho lived through the famine at the end of World War II. Those living on rations of 400-800calories a day had a 27% higher risk of heart disease in later life. It's the first direct evidencethat early nutrition shapes future health, they report in the European Heart Journal. The Dutchfamine of 1944-45 gave researchers in Hol- land a unique opportunity to study the long-term effects of severe malnutrition in childhood and adolescence. A combination of factors-including failed crops, a harsh winter and tlie war-caused thousands of deaths among peopleliving in the west of the Netherlands.The women, who were aged between 10 and 17 at thetime, were followed up in 2007.The team found those who were severely affected by thefamine had a 27% greater risk of developing heart disease than those who had enough to eat.

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