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PROBLEM: His new vampire thriller  "The Passage " published this month  is a best-seller. The unfinished manuscript sold in a bidding war to Fox 2000 for $1.75 million. And Stephen King called during Cronin's interview on ABC's "Good Morning America" to tell him that he is a fan.
 Cronin talked about vampires  his inspiration for "The Passage" and readers' reaction to his book in a recent interview.
 Cronin: It was her dare. In the fall of 2005 my daughter was 8. I was kind of wondering what to do next and she came to me and she said she thought I should write a book  in her words  "about a girl that saves the world and that it should be interesting." I think every interesting thing a man does in his life  he probably does to impress a girl  and so I wrote this book to impress my daughter.
 Cronin: The word "series" isn't quite right. I want each of these books to be a satisfying book all in itself. ... To call it a trilogy is true but not really the whole truth and not the exact truth  but there are three books all taking place in this world with this basic set of characters.
 Cronin: Oh  yeah. My office is the war room. I've got a white board and photographs and maps and every kind of thing up there.

SOLUTION: Justin Cronin: `I always liked vampire stories '

PROBLEM: Leading up to the Olympic figure skating menâs event   Nathan Chen  was a gold medal favorite.  Chen âs teammate Adam Rippon  who does not perform some of the more difficult jumps that  Chen  does  wasnât considered a true threat for a medal in the olympic skating menâs event  but managed to endear  himself  to the world with  his  exuberant â and clean â skate.
Now Rippon sits ahead of  Chen  after the Olympic figure skating menâs short program. Ripponâs error-free skate  albeit minus the quad jumps  landed  him  in seventh place while teammate Vincent Zhou is in 12th.  Chen   who made mistakes on all of  his  jumps  is currently 17th. That means  he  will skate in the second group of six skaters in the free program tomorrow  since the skating order is reversed from the rankings after the short program.
 Chen   who is competing in  his  first Olympics  is having a tough time so far. First there was his error-filled short program in the team skating event earlier this week  in which he botched all of his jumps. Then he did the same in the menâs short program.
 Chen âs arsenal of quadruple jumps sets  him  apart from most of the competition; quadruple jumps are worth far more in points than triples are  and itâs easy for  Chen  to add up points and pull away from the field â if  he  lands them cleanly.
The disastrous short program prompted tweets of encouragement for  Chen   including from Olympian Scott Hamilton. âI respect you. I admire you. I believe in you. Today was a difficult day. Tomorrow is up to you!â
But even if  Chen  skates a dazzling long program peppered with multiple quad jumps  itâs numerically impossible for  him  to climb from 17th place into medal contention â unless most of  his  higher-ranking competitors all come down with the norovirus. âIâve never been in this position before so I donât really know exactly what to do â  he  says.
Even before the menâs short began  Olympian and silver medalist Paul Wylie questioned the fluidity and uncertainty of so much of todayâs Olympic athletesâ schedules.  Chen  has said  he  regularly changes the elements of  his  program  switching jumps depending on how  he  is feeling and whether  he  needs to perform the more challenging ones to game a competition. âI am not a fan of the ultra fluidity of the planned program content â Wylie said. â Nathan  is dealing with a lot of variables. The other variable is  Nathan  is always talking about  his  boots;  he âs got three different pairs of boots. And  he  has been going away [from Gangneung] to practice. So  he âs thinking  where am I practicing today. Iâm not sure those question marks are really what you need in the Olympics.â
Maybe what  Chen  needs is some of teammate Ripponâs infectious exuberance. âIâm able to go out in the individual menâs event and show the world I am a cutthroat competitor and that Iâm an awesome skater â Rippon says. âAnd I want to show why everyone should be involved in skating because it is something that has brought me so much joy  and can bring a lot of other people a lot of joy as well.â

SOLUTION: Olympic Figure Skating Favorite Nathan Chen Is in 17th Place

PROBLEM: Babacho Mama  a former child soldier  heads to English class at the primary school in Pibor  South Sudan. (Peter Bauza for The Washington Post)
The Pibor Boys Primary School  which hosts former child soldiers.  (Peter Bauza for The Washington Post)
 Marko Maze  13  is one of the young former fighters who attend.  (Peter Bauza for The Washington Post)
A boy floats atop a piece of scrap metal in Pibor. According to UNICEF  most children in South Sudan do not finish primary school  and hardly any do in Pibor. (Peter Bauza for The Washington Post)
Baba Kzwa  a soldier turned livestock trader  keeps a gun to secure his business in Pibor.  (Peter Bauza for The Washington Post)
Babacho Mama attends an English class at the Pibor Boys Primary School.  (Peter Bauza for The Washington Post)
 But Mama was done trying to guess.  He  wrote the sentence in  his  notebook and stared straight ahead at the chalkboard.

SOLUTION:
They were rescued from war. Now South Sudanâs child soldiers are going back.