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Time：第 58次例會，2009年12月12日（週六）下午2:30 ~5:30點
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Agenda
14:30~15:40 Introductions+Topic Discussion
15:40~15:45 Change Group+Break
15:45~16:50 Article Discussion
16:50~17:15 Host invite attendant to share feedback
17:15~17:30 Happy Time Conductor conduct Happy Time Session:
Host: Tom
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Topic："Everest hosts Nepal cabinet meeting"
[ATTENTION: BECAUSE OF COPYRIGHT CONCERNS, WE CANNOT REPRODUCE THE WHOLE ARTICLE HERE. PLEASE VISIT THE SOURCE TO READ AND PRINT THE ENTIRE ARTICLE]
Kathmandu, Nepal (CNN) -- Nepal's cabinet met at the base of Everest on Friday to highlight the impact of climate change on the Himalayas and adopted a 10-point Everest Declaration.
"The Himalayas are important not only for the people of Nepal but for 1.3 billion people who depend on waters from the mountains for their livelihoods," said Nepal's Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal at the cabinet meeting broadcast live by state-owned Nepal Television.
Wearing oxygen masks and warm jackets, the cabinet met for about half an hour at Kala Patthar at an altitude of 5,242 meters surrounded by the world's highest mountains and glaciers.
The ministers flew in to Lukla, in the Everest region where the nearest airstrip is, a day earlier to acclimatize to the rarefied atmosphere of Kala Patthar. The cabinet met out in the open where tables had been set up. The ministers spoke through microphones because it was difficult to hear even over a short distance with the wind blowing.
Of the 27 cabinet ministers, 24 were present at the meeting and they were wearing blue sashes that said "Save the Himalayas."
Source: http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiap ... =allsearch
Questions:
1. What do you know about Nepal? As your opinion, what is Nepal famous for?
2. Nepal was reported as one of the happiest conutry in the world. Accordng to this article, what worries Nepal's cabinet so much?
3. What has been proposed in the 10-point Everest Declaration?
4. Napel's Cabinet ministers risk their life to make the media to highlight the problems resulting from global warming. Again, can you make a proposal that might be helpful to mitigate the global warming?
5. Are you willing to visit this once-happy country in the future? What do you expect to experience then? A beautiful place? Nice people? Or a mountain area without water source and, hope?
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