2. Kristen Stewart Discusses “Breaking Dawn” The Twilight Series Wraps Up with Two “Breaking Dawn” Movies

By Rebecca Murray, About.com Guide

Now that you've done three of these are there things that you wish had made into the movie from the book that didn't?

Kristen Stewart: "Yeah, totally. There are a million things. I mean every single time we watch one of the movies, especially when the cast watches it together, it's always an incredibly frustrating experience. That's why I'm glad that Breaking Dawn is going to be two movies, which I can finally say. So there's going to be less of that, less of having to lose stuff."

How long have you known that Breaking Dawn was going to be two films and how long will the shoot be?

Kristen Stewart: "The shoot is going to be something like six months. We start in October. I think we're not going to be finished until maybe March or something, maybe February. I clearly don't really look at the schedule."

"I had to hold onto this forever. They've been talking about it for a really long time and we all definitely knew that it was going to be two movies forever now. It's been really hard not to say that. We're all really stoked on that."

Is there a scene in Breaking Dawn that you hope makes the movie?

Kristen Stewart: "There are a million and we haven't even shot it yet. I can't wait to get married and have a kid. It's all of that. It's going to be crazy."

In Robert Pattinson's interview last week he said in reference to Breaking Dawn that he wanted to make it rated R and stick to the book. Would you like to stick to the book and bring the rating up, or do you think it should be toned down?

Kristen Stewart: "I guess that everybody interprets those things differently. My guess is that it'll be PG-13. I have no idea, but I guess we'll all see when it comes out. "

Do you see an opportunity in Breaking Dawn, since it's two films, to create two interpretations of Bella, pre-vampire and post-vampire?

Kristen Stewart: "Yeah, actually. I really can't wait to get into that because I've been on the outskirts of what it would feel like to play one of them. I had to think about it a lot, considering that Bella is dating one of them very seriously. It's been years of dealing with these issues and I've thought about it a lot and I can't wait to actually be it. It's going to be a trip. It's going to be weird and I think she does change a lot. I think she's going to be the coolest vampire out of all of them. She's got the greatest power. She's untouchable. Nothing can touch her and I think that literally she can protect the whole clan. She's such a mother, too."

"I think it'll be awesome to see how much she's changed from Twilight where she's this 17 year old kid who really doesn't care about whole lot other than herself. To see her become this matriarch will be really cool."

Task 7: Writing Complete News Stories

Y ou are a journalist who works in a local editorial office. Your editor-in-chief has asked you to write a news story based on the suggested information. Choose any situation you like and write a complete news story. First of all critically examine the information’s language and organization, improving it whenever possible. To provide a pleasing change of pace, also use some quotations in your stories. Assume that you have enough space to report every important and interesting detail. Correct any errors you may find in grammar, spelling and punctuation. Don’t forget to take into consideration discourse categories you are familiar with. If you have forgotten some information about the structure of a news story, then you may come back to the texts about the story structure you have studied in this unit.

It was almost like a popular movie titled “Home Alone”. It involved an 11-year-old girl in your city, Andrea Jones of 4851 Edmee Cir. When you interviewed her today, Andrea said she doesn’t feel much like a hero. “I was scared,” she said. “I thought he was going to see me and beat me up or something if he got in, so I tried to hide at first.” In fact, Andrea used her imagination and a baseball bat – to thwart a would-be burglar who tried to break into her family’s home when she was home alone. The incident began when Andrea was home alone, watching television at approximately 6 p.m. last night. Her parents and 3 sisters had left the house to go pick up a pizza for dinner. They had been gone for only a few minutes and were due back very shortly. Andrea

told you that she was watching television and heard a noise. “I saw a man at the window and ran to my bedroom to hide in the closet,” she said. “Then I remembered the bat there. I went back into the dining room and saw this guy opening the window. He put his hand in first. He was coming in the window, and had his left hand on a table there. I took the bat and hit it as hard as I could. I, uh, really smashed it hard. He screamed like real loud, man, and ran away. Then, uh, I called 911.” Police Detective Jack Noonan was at the scene and, when questioned by you, commented on the case, stating that: “Preferably, we would like to see someone in an incident like this call 911 first. It's safer that way. Someone could get really hurt in a situation like this. In this case, the girl was lucky. She kept her head, and she was

really brave about it. She was home alone and decided she should protect herself and her house. She must have really walloped the guy. There’s a lot of blood on the window and table, so now we’re looking for someone who’s injured.” Police found the bad guy later last night. After the break-in, they notified hospital emergency wards to be on the look-out for a man suffering from trauma to his left hand and, shortly after 1 a.m., received a call from the Regional Medical Center, where a man matching a description Andrea gave the police came in for treatment of a very badly cut, broken, swollen, and painful left hand. He has been arrested and charged with attempted burglary. Police identified the man as Steven Jabil, 23, of 800 Crestbrook Loop, Apt. 314.

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2. Some said she shouldn’t be charged with murder. She wasn’t. She’s a doctor. She had a patient with leukemia. She admitted helping her patient commit suicide. Today she was cleared by a state board of charges of misconduct. The 7-member board – your states Board for Professional Medical Conduct – could have revoked her license to practice medicine. Instead it concluded that the actions of Dr. Catrina Lowrie were “legal and ethically appropriate.” Lowrie is an internist at the Regional Medical Center in your city. No one might have known what she did, but she described it in a public speech sponsored by your city’s chapter of the Hemlock Society, and an anonymous caller called the police about what she said. In the speech she described how she prescribed barbiturates for a patient and made sure the patient knew how many to take to kill herself. The patient, who has since been identified as Irma Cain of 427 Hidden Lane, was 37 years old and, her husband and parents said, in terrible, hopeless pain. They supported the doctor in the matter, their attorney said, but they refused to talk to you about it. Cain decided to commit suicide rather than undergo chemotherapy for cancer which would have given her only a 25% chance of survival. Her death occurred six months ago. Last month, a grand jury investigated the matter and then cleared the doctor of criminal responsibility for the woman’s death. Now the board, which issued its ruling late yesterday, said that the doctor did nothing medically improper in prescribing the barbiturates because “she could not have known with certainty what use a patient might make of the drug she prescribed, and which was totally appropriate and needed by her patient.” Lowrie said in a statement that the ruling “seemed like a very thoughtful decision.” The members of the board stated that they were not condoning “so-called assisted suicide.” They added that this case differed from other recently publicized cases in that Lowrie had a longstanding relationship with her patient. In addition, she did not directly take part in ending her patient’s life. Rather, she prescribed pills needed to alleviate the patient’s pain, and the patient, by herself, took them all at once in a successful attempt to terminate her own life and very painful suffering from the deadly disease.

3. There's a totally new idea starting to be implemented in your city. Some call it “a pilot program.” Others call it “a satellite school.” Your School Board likes the idea because it saves the board money. Businesses like it because it helps them attract and retain good employees. There was a meeting of your city’s School Board last night. Greg Hubbard, superintendent of your city’s school system, recommended the idea, and the School Board then proceeded to vote 6-1 in favor of trying the new idea. What’s the idea? It’s to mix companies and classrooms. Recently, plans were announced to construct a major new General Electric manufacturing plant in your city. The plant will employ a total of more than 600 employees, many of them women who will work on assembly lines, helping make small appliances for the new General Electric plant. To attract and retain qualified women, many of whom have young children, the plant wants a

school to be located on its premises. It offered to provide, free of charge, free space: to construct a separate building on its premises with 3 rooms built according to the School Boards specifications. It’s the wave of the future, Hubbard told the School Board last night. It’s a win-win situation, he added. He explained that it is a good employee benefit, and it helps ease crowding in the district’s schools if some students go elsewhere. The details are being negotiated. To start with at first, the school will have three rooms and serve about 60 kindergarten and first-grade children of employees. The school district will equip the classrooms and pay the salaries of a teacher and a teacher’s aide for each classroom. At this point in time there are only approximately 20 school districts in the entire country trying the idea. Students will eat in the factory’s employee cafeteria and play on a playground also provided by the new factory. Parents will provide transportation to and from the facility.

Equipping each classroom will cost in the neighborhood of approximately $10,000. The price is about the same as for a regular classroom. Hubbard said if the program is successful, it will expand to other companies. A company will have to supply a minimum of 20 children to justify the cost of the program which could, if successful, serve young students in 2nd and possibly 3rd grades as well. The program is thought to attract and retain more employees-to reduce the rate of attrition, thus saving companies the cost of training new employees. That is especially important in industries with many low-paying positions in which there is often a high turnover. It’s also a solution to working parents who feel there is never enough time to spend with their children. Hubbard said one of the nice things is that many will have the opportunity to ride to and from work and also have lunch with their children.

4. The announcement is a major one. It was made at a press conference this morning in the office of Enrico Lowdes, director of the Regional Medical Center. The announcement is that the hospital is one of 10 medical facilities located throughout the entire United States selected to participate in an important new study the purpose of which is to determine whether or not a new technique will be successful in helping smokers stop smoking. The hospital will not accept volunteers to participate in the experiment. Rather, Lowdes said, doctors in the city will be asked to refer a total of 800 of their patients who smoke and want to stop smoking to the hospital for participation in the experiment. Lowdes noted that nicotine is as addictive as cocaine or heroin. That may explain why 28% of adult Americans smoke. Experts estimate that as many as 90% of those who now smoke say they would like to quit. Many have tried to kick the habit many times but failed. The most difficult part of kicking the habit, Lowdes said, is acute withdrawal symptoms ranging from physical cravings, nervousness, irritation, difficulty concentrating, difficulty sleeping, and changes in appetite. That is why the Regional Medical Center sought to be one of 10 medical facilities in the United States to test a new nicotine patch that may help smokers who want to discontinue the habit ease the pain of withdrawal. Lowdes explained that smokers asked to participate in the study will be prescribed adhesive patches. They will be instructed that, as soon as they get up in the morning, they are to apply one of the patches to their upper body. The patch releases a steady level of nicotine throughout the day. It is less nicotine, however, than that provided by cigarettes – but is thought to be enough to alleviate withdrawal symptoms. Nicotine gum is designed to work in much the same way, but some evidence indicates that the patch may be more effective because some people find the gum hard to chew, chew it improperly, or don't use it in sufficient quantity. The 800 patients will be monitored monthly for an entire year in an attempt to determine how many are helped by the patches: how many succeed in stopping smoking over a period of 1 year. Lowdes added finally that the patch may also help smokers quit smoking without gaining as much weight as sometimes happens to smokers who quit the habit.