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tower. We started yesterday morning. ? Reporter: Have you started to dig under the tower yet? ? Architect: Yes, we’ve started to dig under the tower. ? Reporter: Have you had any results yet? ? Architect: No, we haven’t had any results yet. We only started the project yesterday. ? Reporter: Have you spoken to any members of the government about getting more money for the project yet? ? Architect: Yes. I’ve spoken to several members of the government about getting more money for the project. ? Reporter: Haven’t they given you an answer yet? ? Architect: No, they haven’t given us an answer yet. We hope to get as much money as we need to continue the project. ? Reporter: Thank you for meeting with me today, and good luck with the project to save the Leaning Tower of Pisa. I fully support the project. In fact, I’ve already made my own donation to the “Save Pisa fund!” 2. The puter and the Inter make it possible for both employees and students to work at home rather than travel daily to offices and schools. Write about the advantages and disadvantages of this situation. Read articles on the subject before you begin to write. Combine the information you find with your own ideas. This task will probably also require Inter searches. Discuss with the students what keywords might be useful and remind them to quote their sources. Here is an example: Tens of millions of people around the world are now working from their homes or from centralized call centers. The integration of several technologies such as long distance telephone service and the Inter along with the development of the service economy now enables people to work anywhere in the world without actually being physically present. Commuting consists of moving a niykilogram body in an automobile that weighs one ton, forty or fifty kilometers in order to work on a puter that produces information. The puter is housed in an office building that costs rent, insurance, maintenance, security, sanitation services and parking. Telemuting consists of working at home, or an information center close to home and sending the information to the consumer simply by pressing “enter” on the keyboard. People can live in Ireland or in Ghana and work in an Insurance pany in New York, or in India and work in a customer service center in Germany. Millions of people around the world already work in this fashion. The one thing they have in mon, however, is the ability to speak the English language. English is the language of telemuting. End of General Review Byebye!