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Section II
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Introduction
Questions
The World Is Hottest It Has Been since the End of the Ice Age – and the Temperature’s Still
Rising...................................................................................................................................................260
Obesity.................................................................................................................................................261
Democracy...........................................................................................................................................261
Recession.............................................................................................................................................262
Eyes in the Skies..................................................................................................................................263
Gun License.........................................................................................................................................265
The Environment.................................................................................................................................265
Your Room at a Glance . .....................................................................................................................267
Joseph Pulitzer ....................................................................................................................................269
Traffic Accidents. ................................................................................................................................271
Car-free Cities.....................................................................................................................................272
Fiend on the Road................................................................................................................................273
The Creators of Grammar....................................................................................................................274
Smart Energy.......................................................................................................................................276
Mark Rothko........................................................................................................................................279
Congress Doesn’t Understand Facebook.............................................................................................280
Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist.............................................................................................................281
Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest..................................................................................282
Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre ................................................................................................................284
Ex-Forbes Reporter Says Trump Posed as Executive, Lied to Him to Crack Forbes 400 List...........285
Get Ahead in Your Career by Avoiding These Body Language Mistakes...........................................287
World War II Bomb Successfully Defused After Evacuation in Central Berlin..................................288
Europe’s Mars Rover Takes Shape......................................................................................................289
Armed Forces of the United States......................................................................................................291
The Fallout from the Global Slowdown in the Airline Industry Is Still Casting a Shadow over
Airline Suppliers, Despite the Resurgence of Budget Airlines...........................................................293
In 1999 Jack Straw, then Britain’s Home Secretary, Was Attacked for Being Rude about an
Ethnic Minority...................................................................................................................................294
The Treasury Select Committee is to Launch an Inquiry into the Planned Take-over of Liffe, the
London Futures exchange, by Euronext..............................................................................................295
Child Soldiers .....................................................................................................................................296
About 150 National Guard Troops Responding to Hawaii Volcano Crisis.........................................299
Post-traumatic Stress Disorder............................................................................................................300
Meteorite Impact and Dinosaur Extinction ........................................................................................302
A New Giant in Forest Upon Further Review, Sequoia Tops No. 2 General Grant ...........................305
Solutions..............................................................................................................................................308