Bury him with iPod, please美流行手机 iPod 陪葬

Noelle Potvin, a counselor ( 顾问） for the Hollywood Forever Funeral Home and Cemetery （公

墓） , claims recently that there is a weird （ unusual and very strange ） new trend in the burial industry － more and more people request that their l

oved ones be buried with their beloved gadgets（小玩意）－ an iPod, for example. According to Potvin, many others want to take their cell phones or even Bluetooth headset with them when they are bu

ried.

Bury him with iPod, please

Cat lovers protest 广东人吃猫恶习遭抗议

• A group of cat lovers in Guangzhou held a protest and rescue action recently at the Guangzhou railway station after hearing a message that said 1000 cats will be sent from Wuchang to Guangzhou for food. Though they didn‘t find any cats, the group’s organizer said they found some animals like civet cats （果子狸） . She said they want to persuade more Cantonese （广

东人） to abandon the habit of eating cats.

A high school has sparked(make sb become interested in sth.) great controversy(argument) among area residents after it tried to persuade an overweight female student to quit school or transfer to another one in Sanya, Hainan province.

Liu Guangming, 15, who weighs more than 90 kg, is often the object of laughter by her classmates who calls her "Fatty" at the Sanya Experimental High School.

School tries to get rid of overweight student

Liu Yubin, father of Liu Guangming, complained the school should not deprive(take sth from sb) his daughter of her right to go to school, despite her weight.

But the school argued Liu Guangming should transfer to another school. Liu has few friends in the school.

Many local residents are also in support of Liu, saying it is the school's responsibility to educate Liu, and handle the relations between Liu and her classmates on campus.