Question: How many riders are on the Northeast Corridor each day?

These troubles have become all too common on the Northeast Corridor, the nation’s busiest rail sector, which stretches from Washington to Boston and carries about 750,000 riders each day on Amtrak and several commuter rail lines. The corridor’s ridership has doubled in the last 30 years even as its old and overloaded infrastructure of tracks, power lines, bridges and tunnels has begun to wear out. And with Amtrak and local transit agencies struggling for funding, many fear the disruptions will continue to worsen in the years ahead.

Answer: 750,000

<hl> These troubles have become all too common on the Northeast Corridor, the nation’s busiest rail sector, which stretches from Washington to Boston and carries about 750,000 riders each day on Amtrak and several commuter rail lines. <hl> The corridor’s ridership has doubled in the last 30 years even as its old and overloaded infrastructure of tracks, power lines, bridges and tunnels has begun to wear out. And with Amtrak and local transit agencies struggling for funding, many fear the disruptions will continue to worsen in the years ahead.

These troubles have become all too common on the Northeast Corridor, the nation’s busiest rail sector, which stretches from Washington to Boston and carries about <hl> 750,000 <hl> riders each day on Amtrak and several commuter rail lines. The corridor’s ridership has doubled in the last 30 years even as its old and overloaded infrastructure of tracks, power lines, bridges and tunnels has begun to wear out. And with Amtrak and local transit agencies struggling for funding, many fear the disruptions will continue to worsen in the years ahead.


Question: who released the pronouncement?

Analysts and commentators from across the political spectrum welcomed the agreement. Iranian officials called the agreement a “statement” and a “solution,” in keeping with Mr. Khamenei’s pronouncement that any deal would have to lift all sanctions in one step. The American negotiators had preferred a step-by-step approach, but the Iranians seem to have gotten their way, for the most part.

Answer: Mr. Khamenei

Analysts and commentators from across the political spectrum welcomed the agreement. <hl> Iranian officials called the agreement a “statement” and a “solution,” in keeping with Mr. Khamenei ’s pronouncement that any deal would have to lift all sanctions in one step. <hl> The American negotiators had preferred a step-by-step approach, but the Iranians seem to have gotten their way, for the most part.

Analysts and commentators from across the political spectrum welcomed the agreement. Iranian officials called the agreement a “statement” and a “solution,” in keeping with <hl> Mr. Khamenei <hl>’s pronouncement that any deal would have to lift all sanctions in one step. The American negotiators had preferred a step-by-step approach, but the Iranians seem to have gotten their way, for the most part.

Iranian officials called the agreement a “statement” and a “solution,” in keeping with <hl> Mr. Khamenei <hl> ’s pronouncement that any deal would have to lift all sanctions in one step.


Question: What is the name of the team co-owner?

EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. —  Giants defensive end Jason Pierre-Paul, who lost his right index finger in a Fourth of July fireworks accident, did not report for the first day of training camp Thursday, and the team co-owner John Mara said the Giants had no information on the condition of Pierre-Paul, their best defensive player. “I don’t know how many fingers he has,” Mara said. “We have no idea what type of condition he is in, and that doesn’t give us any comfort. We don’t know anything more than you know.” Asked if he had any idea when Pierre-Paul planned to report to training camp, Mara answered, “None.” Mara added that until the Giants examined Pierre-Paul, they could not count on him playing this year. “We have to plan on moving forward without him,” Mara said. “Until we see him, I don’t see how we can count on him, certainly not for the opening of the season.” Mara spoke in a calm voice but frequently voiced his frustration with Pierre-Paul, who did not allow Giants medical personnel to visit him at a Florida hospital shortly after the accident, which caused other unspecified injuries to his right hand. In March, the Giants made Pierre-Paul their franchise player, which guaranteed him $14.8 million this season if he signed the franchise offer, which Pierre-Paul did not do.

Answer: John Mara

<hl> EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — Giants defensive end Jason Pierre-Paul, who lost his right index finger in a Fourth of July fireworks accident, did not report for the first day of training camp Thursday, and the team co-owner John Mara said the Giants had no information on the condition of Pierre-Paul, their best defensive player. <hl> “I don’t know how many fingers he has,” Mara said. “We have no idea what type of condition he is in, and that doesn’t give us any comfort. We don’t know anything more than you know.” Asked if he had any idea when Pierre-Paul planned to report to training camp, Mara answered, “None.” Mara added that until the Giants examined Pierre-Paul, they could not count on him playing this year. “We have to plan on moving forward without him,” Mara said. “Until we see him, I don’t see how we can count on him, certainly not for the opening of the season.” Mara spoke in a calm voice but frequently voiced his frustration with Pierre-Paul, who did not allow Giants medical personnel to visit him at a Florida hospital shortly after the accident, which caused other unspecified injuries to his right hand. In March, the Giants made Pierre-Paul their franchise player, which guaranteed him $14.8 million this season if he signed the franchise offer, which Pierre-Paul did not do.

EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — Giants defensive end Jason Pierre-Paul, who lost his right index finger in a Fourth of July fireworks accident, did not report for the first day of training camp Thursday, and the team co-owner <hl> John Mara <hl> said the Giants had no information on the condition of Pierre-Paul, their best defensive player. “I don’t know how many fingers he has,” Mara said. “We have no idea what type of condition he is in, and that doesn’t give us any comfort. We don’t know anything more than you know.” Asked if he had any idea when Pierre-Paul planned to report to training camp, Mara answered, “None.” Mara added that until the Giants examined Pierre-Paul, they could not count on him playing this year. “We have to plan on moving forward without him,” Mara said. “Until we see him, I don’t see how we can count on him, certainly not for the opening of the season.” Mara spoke in a calm voice but frequently voiced his frustration with Pierre-Paul, who did not allow Giants medical personnel to visit him at a Florida hospital shortly after the accident, which caused other unspecified injuries to his right hand. In March, the Giants made Pierre-Paul their franchise player, which guaranteed him $14.8 million this season if he signed the franchise offer, which Pierre-Paul did not do.


Question: What percent of urban Chinese households held stock?

Credit Suisse estimated in a research note this week that 80 percent of urban Chinese households held stakes in the stock market, either directly or through equity funds that invest in it. By midway through this year, 8.8 percent of all Chinese households had bought stocks directly, and the vast majority were urban dwellers, according to the China Household Finance Survey, conducted by the Southwestern University of Finance and Economics in Chengdu. Under Mr. Xi, the government has urged households to invest in the stock market to meet several economic imperatives: to generate more capital for state-run companies being weaned off bank loans, to strengthen the private companies that create many of the country’s jobs, and to lift the confidence of consumers so that they will play a bigger role in driving economic growth.

Answer: 80 percent

<hl> Credit Suisse estimated in a research note this week that 80 percent of urban Chinese households held stakes in the stock market, either directly or through equity funds that invest in it. <hl> By midway through this year, 8.8 percent of all Chinese households had bought stocks directly, and the vast majority were urban dwellers, according to the China Household Finance Survey, conducted by the Southwestern University of Finance and Economics in Chengdu. Under Mr. Xi, the government has urged households to invest in the stock market to meet several economic imperatives: to generate more capital for state-run companies being weaned off bank loans, to strengthen the private companies that create many of the country’s jobs, and to lift the confidence of consumers so that they will play a bigger role in driving economic growth.

Credit Suisse estimated in a research note this week that <hl> 80 percent <hl> of urban Chinese households held stakes in the stock market, either directly or through equity funds that invest in it. By midway through this year, 8.8 percent of all Chinese households had bought stocks directly, and the vast majority were urban dwellers, according to the China Household Finance Survey, conducted by the Southwestern University of Finance and Economics in Chengdu. Under Mr. Xi, the government has urged households to invest in the stock market to meet several economic imperatives: to generate more capital for state-run companies being weaned off bank loans, to strengthen the private companies that create many of the country’s jobs, and to lift the confidence of consumers so that they will play a bigger role in driving economic growth.


Question: After clicking the right tab, you click what icon?

If you bought a song in the iTunes Store on your work computer, open iTunes on your home computer, click Sign In (or on your account name) at the top of the window and select Purchased from the menu. Click the Not In My Library tab to see the songs not on that machine, and then click the cloud-shaped Download icon to copy the files to the iTunes library on that Mac or PC. (Apple’s iTunes Match and Apple Music services can also make all your music easily available on all your devices, but are subscription-based and cost money.)

Answer: the cloud-shaped Download icon

If you bought a song in the iTunes Store on your work computer, open iTunes on your home computer, click Sign In (or on your account name) at the top of the window and select Purchased from the menu. <hl> Click the Not In My Library tab to see the songs not on that machine, and then click the cloud-shaped Download icon to copy the files to the iTunes library on that Mac or PC. <hl> (Apple’s iTunes Match and Apple Music services can also make all your music easily available on all your devices, but are subscription-based and cost money.)

If you bought a song in the iTunes Store on your work computer, open iTunes on your home computer, click Sign In (or on your account name) at the top of the window and select Purchased from the menu. Click the Not In My Library tab to see the songs not on that machine, and then click <hl> the cloud-shaped Download icon <hl> to copy the files to the iTunes library on that Mac or PC. (Apple’s iTunes Match and Apple Music services can also make all your music easily available on all your devices, but are subscription-based and cost money.)


Question: What has led to the situation of marketplace confusion?

But the rapidly shifting film school landscape has led to what a business professor might refer to as marketplace confusion. Never have the film school options been so many, and never has there been greater bewilderment about where to go — or whether to go at all. “You practically need a degree just to sort through it,” said Reed Martin, author of “The Reel Truth,” a guide for aspiring filmmakers. A lot of the confusion seems to be centered on the hard-charging for-profits that have stepped in to pick up spillover from more selective traditional schools. Full Sail, which offered its first bachelor’s degree programs in 2003 and master’s programs in 2007, says it received 2,800 film-related applicants last year, a 47 percent increase over 2013. Other major for-profit schools, almost all of which practice open enrollment, include the Los Angeles Film School and the New York Film Academy.

Answer: rapidly shifting film school landscape

<hl> But the rapidly shifting film school landscape has led to what a business professor might refer to as marketplace confusion. <hl> Never have the film school options been so many, and never has there been greater bewilderment about where to go — or whether to go at all. “You practically need a degree just to sort through it,” said Reed Martin, author of “The Reel Truth,” a guide for aspiring filmmakers. A lot of the confusion seems to be centered on the hard-charging for-profits that have stepped in to pick up spillover from more selective traditional schools. Full Sail, which offered its first bachelor’s degree programs in 2003 and master’s programs in 2007, says it received 2,800 film-related applicants last year, a 47 percent increase over 2013. Other major for-profit schools, almost all of which practice open enrollment, include the Los Angeles Film School and the New York Film Academy.

But the <hl> rapidly shifting film school landscape <hl> has led to what a business professor might refer to as marketplace confusion. Never have the film school options been so many, and never has there been greater bewilderment about where to go — or whether to go at all. “You practically need a degree just to sort through it,” said Reed Martin, author of “The Reel Truth,” a guide for aspiring filmmakers. A lot of the confusion seems to be centered on the hard-charging for-profits that have stepped in to pick up spillover from more selective traditional schools. Full Sail, which offered its first bachelor’s degree programs in 2003 and master’s programs in 2007, says it received 2,800 film-related applicants last year, a 47 percent increase over 2013. Other major for-profit schools, almost all of which practice open enrollment, include the Los Angeles Film School and the New York Film Academy.


Question: What closed onto Ms. Brody's car?

The witness told investigators that a crossing arm closed onto Ms. Brody’s car, prompting her to walk outside and touch the gate shortly before getting back into the car and moving the vehicle forward, into the train’s path. Thirty-nine seconds before the crash, Mr. Sumwalt said, warning lights at the crossing had illuminated — brightly enough to have been seen by drivers. Then the arms closed. Meanwhile, the approaching train sounded the proper warning cadence — two long blasts, followed by a short blast and a long blast. It was going 2 miles per hour under the speed limit, at 58 m.p.h., Mr. Sumwalt said.

Answer: a crossing arm

<hl> The witness told investigators that a crossing arm closed onto Ms. Brody’s car, prompting her to walk outside and touch the gate shortly before getting back into the car and moving the vehicle forward, into the train’s path. <hl> Thirty-nine seconds before the crash, Mr. Sumwalt said, warning lights at the crossing had illuminated — brightly enough to have been seen by drivers. Then the arms closed. Meanwhile, the approaching train sounded the proper warning cadence — two long blasts, followed by a short blast and a long blast. It was going 2 miles per hour under the speed limit, at 58 m.p.h. , Mr. Sumwalt said.

The witness told investigators that <hl> a crossing arm <hl> closed onto Ms. Brody’s car, prompting her to walk outside and touch the gate shortly before getting back into the car and moving the vehicle forward, into the train’s path. Thirty-nine seconds before the crash, Mr. Sumwalt said, warning lights at the crossing had illuminated — brightly enough to have been seen by drivers. Then the arms closed. Meanwhile, the approaching train sounded the proper warning cadence — two long blasts, followed by a short blast and a long blast. It was going 2 miles per hour under the speed limit, at 58 m.p.h., Mr. Sumwalt said.


Question: What university studied attitudes towards global warming?

Misinformation about climate change is distressingly common in the United States — a 2014 Yale study found that 35 percent of Americans believe that global warming is caused mostly by natural phenomena rather than human activity, and 34 percent think there is a lot of disagreement among scientists about whether global warming is even happening. (In fact, an overwhelming majority of scientists agree that climate change is here and that it is caused by humans.) One way to stop the spread of this misinformation is to teach children about climate change.

Answer: Yale

<hl> Misinformation about climate change is distressingly common in the United States — a 2014 Yale study found that 35 percent of Americans believe that global warming is caused mostly by natural phenomena rather than human activity, and 34 percent think there is a lot of disagreement among scientists about whether global warming is even happening. <hl> (In fact, an overwhelming majority of scientists agree that climate change is here and that it is caused by humans.) One way to stop the spread of this misinformation is to teach children about climate change.

Misinformation about climate change is distressingly common in the United States — a 2014 <hl> Yale <hl> study found that 35 percent of Americans believe that global warming is caused mostly by natural phenomena rather than human activity, and 34 percent think there is a lot of disagreement among scientists about whether global warming is even happening. (In fact, an overwhelming majority of scientists agree that climate change is here and that it is caused by humans.) One way to stop the spread of this misinformation is to teach children about climate change.


Question: What does the article consider "a low point for Jermy Corbyn?"

The run-up to the vote also amounted to a low point for Jeremy Corbyn, the new leader of the opposition Labour Party. While Mr. Corbyn opposes British military action over Syria, some of Labour’s senior figures, including the party’s spokesman on foreign affairs, Hilary Benn, supported it, and Mr. Corbyn was forced to allow his lawmakers to vote freely on the issue in an effort to avoid a intraparty clash amid threatened resignations. In an impassioned speech that won a rousing reception Wednesday night, Mr. Benn argued that “every state has the right to defend itself” and asked “why would we not uphold the settled will of the United Nations?”

Answer: The run-up to the vote

<hl> The run-up to the vote also amounted to a low point for Jeremy Corbyn, the new leader of the opposition Labour Party. <hl> While Mr. Corbyn opposes British military action over Syria, some of Labour’s senior figures, including the party’s spokesman on foreign affairs, Hilary Benn, supported it, and Mr. Corbyn was forced to allow his lawmakers to vote freely on the issue in an effort to avoid a intraparty clash amid threatened resignations. In an impassioned speech that won a rousing reception Wednesday night, Mr. Benn argued that “every state has the right to defend itself” and asked “why would we not uphold the settled will of the United Nations?”

<hl> The run-up to the vote <hl> also amounted to a low point for Jeremy Corbyn, the new leader of the opposition Labour Party. While Mr. Corbyn opposes British military action over Syria, some of Labour’s senior figures, including the party’s spokesman on foreign affairs, Hilary Benn, supported it, and Mr. Corbyn was forced to allow his lawmakers to vote freely on the issue in an effort to avoid a intraparty clash amid threatened resignations. In an impassioned speech that won a rousing reception Wednesday night, Mr. Benn argued that “every state has the right to defend itself” and asked “why would we not uphold the settled will of the United Nations?”


Question: What was the group united about?

He emerged saying the group “is united in strongly opposing the proposed deal,” contending it “would pose a grave danger to the region and to the world, and would threaten the very survival of the state of Israel.”

Answer: opposing the proposed deal

<hl> He emerged saying the group “is united in strongly opposing the proposed deal ,” contending it “would pose a grave danger to the region and to the world, and would threaten the very survival of the state of Israel.” <hl>

He emerged saying the group “is united in strongly <hl> opposing the proposed deal <hl>,” contending it “would pose a grave danger to the region and to the world, and would threaten the very survival of the state of Israel.”

He emerged saying the group “is united in strongly <hl> opposing the proposed deal <hl> ,” contending it “would pose a grave danger to the region and to the world, and would threaten the very survival of the state of Israel.”


Question: What is the new platform on Facebook being used to share political ads by campaigns?

But at the same time, more partisan political videos may trickle into news feeds as campaigns deploy Facebook’s new video advertising platform to reach specific groups. A video by the Clinton campaign, for instance, would probably not be targeted toward those using Mr. Cruz’s campaign logo as their avatar. And Facebook is ready to tap these intensifying political passions as a revenue stream. Some campaigns are proving particularly nimble at steering the conversation on Facebook. Vincent Harris, the chief digital strategist for Senator Rand Paul’s campaign, equipped the candidate’s many followers with avatars, photographs, videos, memes and links to post on their Facebook walls on the day Mr. Paul announced that he was running for president. Tagged correctly, the posts were intended to bombard others’ news feeds as well. The rise of political chatter on Facebook does not mean the site has become as polarized as Texas is red or California is blue. Some actually do use the site to stay informed about the other side.

Answer: video advertising platform

<hl> But at the same time, more partisan political videos may trickle into news feeds as campaigns deploy Facebook’s new video advertising platform to reach specific groups. <hl> A video by the Clinton campaign, for instance, would probably not be targeted toward those using Mr. Cruz’s campaign logo as their avatar. And Facebook is ready to tap these intensifying political passions as a revenue stream. Some campaigns are proving particularly nimble at steering the conversation on Facebook. Vincent Harris, the chief digital strategist for Senator Rand Paul’s campaign, equipped the candidate’s many followers with avatars, photographs, videos, memes and links to post on their Facebook walls on the day Mr. Paul announced that he was running for president. Tagged correctly, the posts were intended to bombard others’ news feeds as well. The rise of political chatter on Facebook does not mean the site has become as polarized as Texas is red or California is blue. Some actually do use the site to stay informed about the other side.

But at the same time, more partisan political videos may trickle into news feeds as campaigns deploy Facebook’s new <hl> video advertising platform <hl> to reach specific groups. A video by the Clinton campaign, for instance, would probably not be targeted toward those using Mr. Cruz’s campaign logo as their avatar. And Facebook is ready to tap these intensifying political passions as a revenue stream. Some campaigns are proving particularly nimble at steering the conversation on Facebook. Vincent Harris, the chief digital strategist for Senator Rand Paul’s campaign, equipped the candidate’s many followers with avatars, photographs, videos, memes and links to post on their Facebook walls on the day Mr. Paul announced that he was running for president. Tagged correctly, the posts were intended to bombard others’ news feeds as well. The rise of political chatter on Facebook does not mean the site has become as polarized as Texas is red or California is blue. Some actually do use the site to stay informed about the other side.


Question: What is the novelist trying to tell you at the end?

Having gotten to know these people and watched their undoing as if it were a slow-motion car accident, we long for a happy ending. There can be second acts in seemingly broken marriages. (Read Jenny Offill’s “Dept. of Speculation” for a recent literary example.) But in a daring interim chapter called “That Year and Those That Followed,” Ms. Pierpont widens her lens, temporarily abandoning her pointillistic moment-by-moment descriptions for a panoramic shot that sweeps years into paragraphs, projecting far out into the Shanleys’ future. It has the leaden sting of inevitability and cannot help dampening what is still to come. The die is cast, she seems to be saying. There is no going back.

Answer: There is no going back

There is no going back .

Having gotten to know these people and watched their undoing as if it were a slow-motion car accident, we long for a happy ending. There can be second acts in seemingly broken marriages. (Read Jenny Offill’s “Dept. of Speculation” for a recent literary example.) But in a daring interim chapter called “That Year and Those That Followed,” Ms. Pierpont widens her lens, temporarily abandoning her pointillistic moment-by-moment descriptions for a panoramic shot that sweeps years into paragraphs, projecting far out into the Shanleys’ future. It has the leaden sting of inevitability and cannot help dampening what is still to come. The die is cast, she seems to be saying. <hl> There is no going back . <hl>

Having gotten to know these people and watched their undoing as if it were a slow-motion car accident, we long for a happy ending. There can be second acts in seemingly broken marriages. (Read Jenny Offill’s “Dept. of Speculation” for a recent literary example.) But in a daring interim chapter called “That Year and Those That Followed,” Ms. Pierpont widens her lens, temporarily abandoning her pointillistic moment-by-moment descriptions for a panoramic shot that sweeps years into paragraphs, projecting far out into the Shanleys’ future. It has the leaden sting of inevitability and cannot help dampening what is still to come. The die is cast, she seems to be saying. <hl> There is no going back <hl>.


Question: How many said they smoked cigarettes?

Suzanne Ciechalski, a freshman at St. John’s University in Queens, said technology that might appear social in nature could in fact lead to stress and feelings of depression. “I feel like people spend a lot of time on social networks trying to create this picture of who they want to be,” Ms. Ciechalski said. “Maintaining that takes a lot of effort. I feel like being a teenager or young adult, the pressure to try and make people see you’re the best is really high.” Contrary to some reports of high rates of drinking among high school students, the survey found a continued decline in college freshmen reporting those behaviors. About one-third said they had drunk beer, wine or hard alcohol at least occasionally in the past year, compared with almost half just 10 years ago. Fewer than one in 50 students reported smoking cigarettes.

Answer: Fewer than one in 50

Suzanne Ciechalski, a freshman at St. John’s University in Queens, said technology that might appear social in nature could in fact lead to stress and feelings of depression. “I feel like people spend a lot of time on social networks trying to create this picture of who they want to be,” Ms. Ciechalski said. “Maintaining that takes a lot of effort. I feel like being a teenager or young adult, the pressure to try and make people see you’re the best is really high.” Contrary to some reports of high rates of drinking among high school students, the survey found a continued decline in college freshmen reporting those behaviors. About one-third said they had drunk beer, wine or hard alcohol at least occasionally in the past year, compared with almost half just 10 years ago. <hl> Fewer than one in 50 students reported smoking cigarettes. <hl>

Suzanne Ciechalski, a freshman at St. John’s University in Queens, said technology that might appear social in nature could in fact lead to stress and feelings of depression. “I feel like people spend a lot of time on social networks trying to create this picture of who they want to be,” Ms. Ciechalski said. “Maintaining that takes a lot of effort. I feel like being a teenager or young adult, the pressure to try and make people see you’re the best is really high.” Contrary to some reports of high rates of drinking among high school students, the survey found a continued decline in college freshmen reporting those behaviors. About one-third said they had drunk beer, wine or hard alcohol at least occasionally in the past year, compared with almost half just 10 years ago. <hl> Fewer than one in 50 <hl> students reported smoking cigarettes.


Question: Who is co-founder of the museum?

The museum will open early, at 9:30, with a daylong pi scavenger hunt. (It closes at 5 p.m.) “The idea is to find places where aspects of pi come up in the exhibits,” said Glen Whitney, co-founder of the museum and president of its board. Children can also do pi puzzles there and play a circular version of tick-tack-toe involving four concentric loops divided into wedges. Visitors can explore pi further by filling the spaces on a circular grid with candy, and feeding a chosen set of digits (a birthday, a phone number) into a computer and learning where that sequence appears in pi.

Answer: Glen Whitney

The museum will open early, at 9:30, with a daylong pi scavenger hunt. (It closes at 5 p.m.) <hl> “The idea is to find places where aspects of pi come up in the exhibits,” said Glen Whitney , co-founder of the museum and president of its board. <hl> Children can also do pi puzzles there and play a circular version of tick-tack-toe involving four concentric loops divided into wedges. Visitors can explore pi further by filling the spaces on a circular grid with candy, and feeding a chosen set of digits (a birthday, a phone number) into a computer and learning where that sequence appears in pi.

The museum will open early, at 9:30, with a daylong pi scavenger hunt. (It closes at 5 p.m.) “The idea is to find places where aspects of pi come up in the exhibits,” said <hl> Glen Whitney <hl>, co-founder of the museum and president of its board. Children can also do pi puzzles there and play a circular version of tick-tack-toe involving four concentric loops divided into wedges. Visitors can explore pi further by filling the spaces on a circular grid with candy, and feeding a chosen set of digits (a birthday, a phone number) into a computer and learning where that sequence appears in pi.

“The idea is to find places where aspects of pi come up in the exhibits,” said <hl> Glen Whitney <hl> , co-founder of the museum and president of its board.


Question: What feeling among lenders might ease in the coming months?

These products allow borrowers to close on a short-term construction loan, which covers the building phase, and the longer-term permanent financing in one transaction. This all-in-one option is more convenient and less expensive than separate closings. But it is still unclear how lenders are supposed to handle the disclosure for these loans under the new regulations, as well as for stand-alone construction loans, according to Mr. Weinberg. “And whenever there are gray areas, lenders move away from the margins to make sure they don’t cause compliance violations,” Mr. Weinberg said. Lender nervousness might ease in coming months, however. After pressure from industry leaders, who warned that lenders weren’t ready for the massive change and that consumers might suffer, the bureau announced plans to postpone the implementation date to Oct. 1 from Aug. 1. The bureau’s director, Richard Cordray, also said that once the rules go into effect, he would allow for a good-faith enforcement grace period as lenders adjust. The new rules are intended to make the mortgage process more transparent for consumers, mainly by providing them with simpler forms and giving them more time to review final loan terms before closing. The nearly 1,900-page rules integrate the Truth in Lending and Real Estate Settlement Procedures Acts.

Answer: nervousness

These products allow borrowers to close on a short-term construction loan, which covers the building phase, and the longer-term permanent financing in one transaction. This all-in-one option is more convenient and less expensive than separate closings. But it is still unclear how lenders are supposed to handle the disclosure for these loans under the new regulations, as well as for stand-alone construction loans, according to Mr. Weinberg. “And whenever there are gray areas, lenders move away from the margins to make sure they don’t cause compliance violations,” Mr. Weinberg said. <hl> Lender nervousness might ease in coming months, however. <hl> After pressure from industry leaders, who warned that lenders weren’t ready for the massive change and that consumers might suffer, the bureau announced plans to postpone the implementation date to Oct. 1 from Aug. 1. The bureau’s director, Richard Cordray, also said that once the rules go into effect, he would allow for a good-faith enforcement grace period as lenders adjust. The new rules are intended to make the mortgage process more transparent for consumers, mainly by providing them with simpler forms and giving them more time to review final loan terms before closing. The nearly 1,900-page rules integrate the Truth in Lending and Real Estate Settlement Procedures Acts.

These products allow borrowers to close on a short-term construction loan, which covers the building phase, and the longer-term permanent financing in one transaction. This all-in-one option is more convenient and less expensive than separate closings. But it is still unclear how lenders are supposed to handle the disclosure for these loans under the new regulations, as well as for stand-alone construction loans, according to Mr. Weinberg. “And whenever there are gray areas, lenders move away from the margins to make sure they don’t cause compliance violations,” Mr. Weinberg said. Lender <hl> nervousness <hl> might ease in coming months, however. After pressure from industry leaders, who warned that lenders weren’t ready for the massive change and that consumers might suffer, the bureau announced plans to postpone the implementation date to Oct. 1 from Aug. 1. The bureau’s director, Richard Cordray, also said that once the rules go into effect, he would allow for a good-faith enforcement grace period as lenders adjust. The new rules are intended to make the mortgage process more transparent for consumers, mainly by providing them with simpler forms and giving them more time to review final loan terms before closing. The nearly 1,900-page rules integrate the Truth in Lending and Real Estate Settlement Procedures Acts.


Question: Who is joining Boko Haram?

But as our military pushes Boko Haram back, as it will, we must be ready to focus on what else must be done to counter the terrorists. We must address why it is that young people join Boko Haram. There are many reasons why vulnerable young people join militant groups, but among them are poverty and ignorance. Indeed Boko Haram — which translates in English, roughly, as “Western Education Is Sinful” — preys on the perverted belief that the opportunities that education brings are sinful. If you are starving and young, and in search of answers as to why your life is so difficult, fundamentalism can be alluring. We know this for a fact because former members of Boko Haram have admitted it: They offer impressionable young people money and the promise of food, while the group’s mentors twist their minds with fanaticism.

Answer: young people

But as our military pushes Boko Haram back, as it will, we must be ready to focus on what else must be done to counter the terrorists. <hl> We must address why it is that young people join Boko Haram. <hl> There are many reasons why vulnerable young people join militant groups, but among them are poverty and ignorance. Indeed Boko Haram — which translates in English, roughly, as “Western Education Is Sinful” — preys on the perverted belief that the opportunities that education brings are sinful. If you are starving and young, and in search of answers as to why your life is so difficult, fundamentalism can be alluring. We know this for a fact because former members of Boko Haram have admitted it: They offer impressionable young people money and the promise of food, while the group’s mentors twist their minds with fanaticism.

But as our military pushes Boko Haram back, as it will, we must be ready to focus on what else must be done to counter the terrorists. We must address why it is that <hl> young people <hl> join Boko Haram. There are many reasons why vulnerable young people join militant groups, but among them are poverty and ignorance. Indeed Boko Haram — which translates in English, roughly, as “Western Education Is Sinful” — preys on the perverted belief that the opportunities that education brings are sinful. If you are starving and young, and in search of answers as to why your life is so difficult, fundamentalism can be alluring. We know this for a fact because former members of Boko Haram have admitted it: They offer impressionable young people money and the promise of food, while the group’s mentors twist their minds with fanaticism.


Question: What was beneath the prison?

Night after night for months, David Sweat slipped through a hole he had sawed at the back of his cell in the Clinton Correctional Facility in northern New York. He would plumb the catacomb-like tunnels beneath the prison, where he was serving a life sentence for murder, searching for an escape route, confident that the guards would have no idea he was gone because they were asleep. Then he would return to his empty bunk. His explorations began this past winter and continued through the spring. They took him underground almost every night for hours until he finally stumbled on what would become, through trial and error and countless hours of grueling work, his subterranean route out. Mr. Sweat felt free during his nightly journeys into the maze, as though he had already escaped the ugliness of his day-to-day prison life.

Answer: catacomb-like tunnels

Night after night for months, David Sweat slipped through a hole he had sawed at the back of his cell in the Clinton Correctional Facility in northern New York. <hl> He would plumb the catacomb-like tunnels beneath the prison, where he was serving a life sentence for murder, searching for an escape route, confident that the guards would have no idea he was gone because they were asleep. <hl> Then he would return to his empty bunk. His explorations began this past winter and continued through the spring. They took him underground almost every night for hours until he finally stumbled on what would become, through trial and error and countless hours of grueling work, his subterranean route out. Mr. Sweat felt free during his nightly journeys into the maze, as though he had already escaped the ugliness of his day-to-day prison life.

Night after night for months, David Sweat slipped through a hole he had sawed at the back of his cell in the Clinton Correctional Facility in northern New York. He would plumb the <hl> catacomb-like tunnels <hl> beneath the prison, where he was serving a life sentence for murder, searching for an escape route, confident that the guards would have no idea he was gone because they were asleep. Then he would return to his empty bunk. His explorations began this past winter and continued through the spring. They took him underground almost every night for hours until he finally stumbled on what would become, through trial and error and countless hours of grueling work, his subterranean route out. Mr. Sweat felt free during his nightly journeys into the maze, as though he had already escaped the ugliness of his day-to-day prison life.


Question: What had McConnell and the Democrats already agreed on?

“It has been a mess for a very long time under majorities of both parties, and I am going to try very hard to fix that next year,” Mr. McConnell said as he warned Democrats against trying the same tactic again. “Hopefully we will not see some new excuse for not doing the basic work of government because we have already agreed on how much we are going to spend.” Mr. McConnell considered the appropriations fight a low point in the year, while he rated his chief victory the mere fact that the Senate showed actual signs of life. “We have demonstrated that if you open the place up, give people the opportunity to participate, they will cooperate in getting an outcome in a body that requires fairly significant bipartisan buy-in to get somewhere,” he said.

Answer: how much we are going to spend.

“It has been a mess for a very long time under majorities of both parties, and I am going to try very hard to fix that next year,” Mr. McConnell said as he warned Democrats against trying the same tactic again. <hl> “Hopefully we will not see some new excuse for not doing the basic work of government because we have already agreed on how much we are going to spend. ” Mr. McConnell considered the appropriations fight a low point in the year, while he rated his chief victory the mere fact that the Senate showed actual signs of life. <hl> “We have demonstrated that if you open the place up, give people the opportunity to participate, they will cooperate in getting an outcome in a body that requires fairly significant bipartisan buy-in to get somewhere,” he said.

“It has been a mess for a very long time under majorities of both parties, and I am going to try very hard to fix that next year,” Mr. McConnell said as he warned Democrats against trying the same tactic again. “Hopefully we will not see some new excuse for not doing the basic work of government because we have already agreed on <hl> how much we are going to spend. <hl>” Mr. McConnell considered the appropriations fight a low point in the year, while he rated his chief victory the mere fact that the Senate showed actual signs of life. “We have demonstrated that if you open the place up, give people the opportunity to participate, they will cooperate in getting an outcome in a body that requires fairly significant bipartisan buy-in to get somewhere,” he said.

“Hopefully we will not see some new excuse for not doing the basic work of government because we have already agreed on <hl> how much we are going to spend. <hl> ” Mr. McConnell considered the appropriations fight a low point in the year, while he rated his chief victory the mere fact that the Senate showed actual signs of life.


Question: The chairman of Ways and Means and who took responsiblity for budget negotiations?

“He is resolved to fight the case, but realized doing the budget while doing the case would be a distraction,” said a person involved in the discussions this weekend who was not authorized to speak on the record because of the sensitive nature of the talks. Under the tentative plan developed on Sunday, the Assembly majority leader, Joseph D. Morelle of the Rochester area, and the chairman of the powerful Ways and Means Committee, Herman D. Farrell Jr., Democrat of Manhattan, would assume responsibility for budget negotiations.

Answer: Joseph D. Morelle

“He is resolved to fight the case, but realized doing the budget while doing the case would be a distraction,” said a person involved in the discussions this weekend who was not authorized to speak on the record because of the sensitive nature of the talks. <hl> Under the tentative plan developed on Sunday, the Assembly majority leader, Joseph D. Morelle of the Rochester area, and the chairman of the powerful Ways and Means Committee, Herman D. Farrell Jr., Democrat of Manhattan, would assume responsibility for budget negotiations. <hl>

“He is resolved to fight the case, but realized doing the budget while doing the case would be a distraction,” said a person involved in the discussions this weekend who was not authorized to speak on the record because of the sensitive nature of the talks. Under the tentative plan developed on Sunday, the Assembly majority leader, <hl> Joseph D. Morelle <hl> of the Rochester area, and the chairman of the powerful Ways and Means Committee, Herman D. Farrell Jr., Democrat of Manhattan, would assume responsibility for budget negotiations.


Question: Who did Mr. Norris call first?

Walking toward his family in the parking lot, Mr. Norris wore heavy gray sweatpants and heavier gray whiskers, some pounds having migrated from his barrel chest to his belly, but still with the muscular shoulders of his distant youth. (His brother-in-law remarked, “Man, he looks good.”) Mr. Norris’s younger son, Raymond, who could not travel to the reunion from New Mexico, received Mr. Norris’s first phone call and a promise: “It’ll be my last game of basketball — I’m going to show you what Daddy’s got left and then retire.”

Answer: Raymond

Walking toward his family in the parking lot, Mr. Norris wore heavy gray sweatpants and heavier gray whiskers, some pounds having migrated from his barrel chest to his belly, but still with the muscular shoulders of his distant youth. (His brother-in-law remarked, “Man, he looks good.”) <hl> Mr. Norris’s younger son, Raymond , who could not travel to the reunion from New Mexico, received Mr. Norris’s first phone call and a promise: “It’ll be my last game of basketball — I’m going to show you what Daddy’s got left and then retire.” <hl>

Walking toward his family in the parking lot, Mr. Norris wore heavy gray sweatpants and heavier gray whiskers, some pounds having migrated from his barrel chest to his belly, but still with the muscular shoulders of his distant youth. (His brother-in-law remarked, “Man, he looks good.”) Mr. Norris’s younger son, <hl> Raymond <hl>, who could not travel to the reunion from New Mexico, received Mr. Norris’s first phone call and a promise: “It’ll be my last game of basketball — I’m going to show you what Daddy’s got left and then retire.”

Mr. Norris’s younger son, <hl> Raymond <hl> , who could not travel to the reunion from New Mexico, received Mr. Norris’s first phone call and a promise: “It’ll be my last game of basketball — I’m going to show you what Daddy’s got left and then retire.”


Question: How many guests could be accommodated?

He has not recouped his initial investments, including about $350,000 for structures that accommodate as many as 80 guests, and $6,000 for solar heaters and water filtration and biogas-capture systems. The expense “almost killed my company,” he said with a laugh, referring to his motorcycle touring business.

Answer: 80

<hl> He has not recouped his initial investments, including about $350,000 for structures that accommodate as many as 80 guests, and $6,000 for solar heaters and water filtration and biogas-capture systems. <hl> The expense “almost killed my company,” he said with a laugh, referring to his motorcycle touring business.

He has not recouped his initial investments, including about $350,000 for structures that accommodate as many as <hl> 80 <hl> guests, and $6,000 for solar heaters and water filtration and biogas-capture systems. The expense “almost killed my company,” he said with a laugh, referring to his motorcycle touring business.


Question: Who is the State Department's spokesman mentioned?

News of Mr. Bashir’s plan to participate in the United Nations development meeting, which takes place after the annual General Assembly, first emerged Aug. 3 when his name appeared on the provisional itinerary of speakers for Sept. 26. The United States, as the United Nations’ host country, is obliged by treaty to issue visas to visiting heads of state, even those it finds distasteful. A State Department spokesman, Mark C. Toner, said then that he was unaware a visa had been requested, but that “we’ve been very clear how we feel about the president of Sudan and that he’s wanted for crimes, and we want to see him held accountable.”

Answer: Mark C. Toner

News of Mr. Bashir’s plan to participate in the United Nations development meeting, which takes place after the annual General Assembly, first emerged Aug. 3 when his name appeared on the provisional itinerary of speakers for Sept. 26. The United States, as the United Nations’ host country, is obliged by treaty to issue visas to visiting heads of state, even those it finds distasteful. <hl> A State Department spokesman, Mark C. Toner , said then that he was unaware a visa had been requested, but that “we’ve been very clear how we feel about the president of Sudan and that he’s wanted for crimes, and we want to see him held accountable.” <hl>

News of Mr. Bashir’s plan to participate in the United Nations development meeting, which takes place after the annual General Assembly, first emerged Aug. 3 when his name appeared on the provisional itinerary of speakers for Sept. 26. The United States, as the United Nations’ host country, is obliged by treaty to issue visas to visiting heads of state, even those it finds distasteful. A State Department spokesman, <hl> Mark C. Toner <hl>, said then that he was unaware a visa had been requested, but that “we’ve been very clear how we feel about the president of Sudan and that he’s wanted for crimes, and we want to see him held accountable.”

A State Department spokesman, <hl> Mark C. Toner <hl> , said then that he was unaware a visa had been requested, but that “we’ve been very clear how we feel about the president of Sudan and that he’s wanted for crimes, and we want to see him held accountable.”


Question: When did Eaton Vance win regulatory approval?

Thomas E. Faust Jr. does not come across as an industry disrupter. He is the chief executive of Eaton Vance, a midsize fund company in Boston that has carved out a solid yet unspectacular niche as a provider of investment funds and advice. But since last November, when his company won regulatory approval for a new fund vehicle that seeks to marry the best features of active and passive investing, Mr. Faust has been arguing that the mutual fund industry — or stock-picking funds at least — must either embrace his model or die.

Answer: last November

Thomas E. Faust Jr. does not come across as an industry disrupter. He is the chief executive of Eaton Vance, a midsize fund company in Boston that has carved out a solid yet unspectacular niche as a provider of investment funds and advice. <hl> But since last November , when his company won regulatory approval for a new fund vehicle that seeks to marry the best features of active and passive investing, Mr. Faust has been arguing that the mutual fund industry — or stock-picking funds at least — must either embrace his model or die. <hl>

Thomas E. Faust Jr. does not come across as an industry disrupter. He is the chief executive of Eaton Vance, a midsize fund company in Boston that has carved out a solid yet unspectacular niche as a provider of investment funds and advice. But since <hl> last November <hl>, when his company won regulatory approval for a new fund vehicle that seeks to marry the best features of active and passive investing, Mr. Faust has been arguing that the mutual fund industry — or stock-picking funds at least — must either embrace his model or die.

But since <hl> last November <hl> , when his company won regulatory approval for a new fund vehicle that seeks to marry the best features of active and passive investing, Mr. Faust has been arguing that the mutual fund industry — or stock-picking funds at least — must either embrace his model or die.


Question: What was the private equity business once known as?

Yet Mr. Kohlberg and his protégés grew apart, separated by philosophies over corporate strategy and lifestyle. Where Mr. Kravis and Mr. Roberts were willing to pursue large-scale, hostile takeovers, Mr. Kohlberg instead chose to focus on smaller deals, always on friendly terms. By the time Mr. Kohlberg retired from the sector altogether in 1994, the leveraged-buyout business — since renamed “private equity” — was on its path to becoming immense, eventually making billionaires of Mr. Kravis and Mr. Roberts, as well as rivals like Stephen A. Schwarzman of the Blackstone Group and David Rubenstein of the Carlyle Group. Mr. Kohlberg maintained a less ostentatious life, shunning the high-roller social soirees for tennis, reading and later yoga.

Answer: the leveraged-buyout business

Yet Mr. Kohlberg and his protégés grew apart, separated by philosophies over corporate strategy and lifestyle. Where Mr. Kravis and Mr. Roberts were willing to pursue large-scale, hostile takeovers, Mr. Kohlberg instead chose to focus on smaller deals, always on friendly terms. <hl> By the time Mr. Kohlberg retired from the sector altogether in 1994, the leveraged-buyout business — since renamed “private equity” — was on its path to becoming immense, eventually making billionaires of Mr. Kravis and Mr. Roberts, as well as rivals like Stephen A. Schwarzman of the Blackstone Group and David Rubenstein of the Carlyle Group. <hl> Mr. Kohlberg maintained a less ostentatious life, shunning the high-roller social soirees for tennis, reading and later yoga.

Yet Mr. Kohlberg and his protégés grew apart, separated by philosophies over corporate strategy and lifestyle. Where Mr. Kravis and Mr. Roberts were willing to pursue large-scale, hostile takeovers, Mr. Kohlberg instead chose to focus on smaller deals, always on friendly terms. By the time Mr. Kohlberg retired from the sector altogether in 1994, <hl> the leveraged-buyout business <hl> — since renamed “private equity” — was on its path to becoming immense, eventually making billionaires of Mr. Kravis and Mr. Roberts, as well as rivals like Stephen A. Schwarzman of the Blackstone Group and David Rubenstein of the Carlyle Group. Mr. Kohlberg maintained a less ostentatious life, shunning the high-roller social soirees for tennis, reading and later yoga.


Question: What is the market value of NXP as of Friday?

NXP Semiconductors, a big chip manufacturer, is near a deal to acquire a smaller peer, Freescale Semiconductor, in a cash-and-stock transaction, people briefed on the matter said on Sunday. An agreement could be announced as soon as Sunday evening, one of these people said, while cautioning that the talks could still collapse. If completed, the combination would unite two big makers of chips for industries ranging from automobiles to networking to mobile payments. As of Friday evening, NXP had a market value of about $21 billion, while Freescale had a market capitalization of about $11 billion.

Answer: $21 billion

NXP Semiconductors, a big chip manufacturer, is near a deal to acquire a smaller peer, Freescale Semiconductor, in a cash-and-stock transaction, people briefed on the matter said on Sunday. An agreement could be announced as soon as Sunday evening, one of these people said, while cautioning that the talks could still collapse. If completed, the combination would unite two big makers of chips for industries ranging from automobiles to networking to mobile payments. <hl> As of Friday evening, NXP had a market value of about $21 billion , while Freescale had a market capitalization of about $11 billion. <hl>

NXP Semiconductors, a big chip manufacturer, is near a deal to acquire a smaller peer, Freescale Semiconductor, in a cash-and-stock transaction, people briefed on the matter said on Sunday. An agreement could be announced as soon as Sunday evening, one of these people said, while cautioning that the talks could still collapse. If completed, the combination would unite two big makers of chips for industries ranging from automobiles to networking to mobile payments. As of Friday evening, NXP had a market value of about <hl> $21 billion <hl>, while Freescale had a market capitalization of about $11 billion.

As of Friday evening, NXP had a market value of about <hl> $21 billion <hl> , while Freescale had a market capitalization of about $11 billion.


Question: Who is liked by their colleagues in spite of their legal troubles?

Despite Mr. Silver’s legal troubles, several Democrats said the former speaker continued to be well liked by his colleagues, noting that some old-guard members had privately complained that the prosecution and news media coverage of the trial seemed overzealous. But even with such complaints, few expect Mr. Silver to challenge Speaker Heastie, in part because of Mr. Heastie’s success in navigating the transition of power. “There is certainly a large reservoir of affection and respect for Shelly,” one Democratic lawmaker said. “And there has been a similar growth of affection and respect and support for Carl.”

Answer: Mr. Silver

<hl> Despite Mr. Silver ’s legal troubles, several Democrats said the former speaker continued to be well liked by his colleagues, noting that some old-guard members had privately complained that the prosecution and news media coverage of the trial seemed overzealous. <hl> But even with such complaints, few expect Mr. Silver to challenge Speaker Heastie, in part because of Mr. Heastie’s success in navigating the transition of power. “There is certainly a large reservoir of affection and respect for Shelly,” one Democratic lawmaker said. “And there has been a similar growth of affection and respect and support for Carl.”

Despite <hl> Mr. Silver <hl>’s legal troubles, several Democrats said the former speaker continued to be well liked by his colleagues, noting that some old-guard members had privately complained that the prosecution and news media coverage of the trial seemed overzealous. But even with such complaints, few expect Mr. Silver to challenge Speaker Heastie, in part because of Mr. Heastie’s success in navigating the transition of power. “There is certainly a large reservoir of affection and respect for Shelly,” one Democratic lawmaker said. “And there has been a similar growth of affection and respect and support for Carl.”

Despite <hl> Mr. Silver <hl> ’s legal troubles, several Democrats said the former speaker continued to be well liked by his colleagues, noting that some old-guard members had privately complained that the prosecution and news media coverage of the trial seemed overzealous.


Question: Both company's IPO's were described as what?

Both companies were previously parts of bigger corporations: NXP was formerly a division of Philips, while Freescale was a division of Motorola. Both were also owned by groups of private equity firms and returned to the public markets in rocky initial public offerings. Representatives for NXP and Freescale were not immediately available for comment. News of the discussions was reported earlier by Reuters.

Answer: rocky

Both companies were previously parts of bigger corporations: NXP was formerly a division of Philips, while Freescale was a division of Motorola. <hl> Both were also owned by groups of private equity firms and returned to the public markets in rocky initial public offerings. <hl> Representatives for NXP and Freescale were not immediately available for comment. News of the discussions was reported earlier by Reuters.

Both companies were previously parts of bigger corporations: NXP was formerly a division of Philips, while Freescale was a division of Motorola. Both were also owned by groups of private equity firms and returned to the public markets in <hl> rocky <hl> initial public offerings. Representatives for NXP and Freescale were not immediately available for comment. News of the discussions was reported earlier by Reuters.


Question: How many offers were there beyond asking price?

He started the hunt last summer at open houses. There was always “that essential element that kept you from continuing,” he said. Usually it was size. He was coming from a 5,400-square-foot five-bedroom house, and every one-bedroom he saw seemed small. Places with sufficient space were going for well over $1 million. In one case, he intended to bid, but was told “there are already three offers beyond the asking price,” he said. “This does not happen in Florida.” The mother of an employee at García Media was a friend of Lisa Greenblatt, a saleswoman at Douglas Elliman, who helped him with his search.

Answer: three

He started the hunt last summer at open houses. There was always “that essential element that kept you from continuing,” he said. Usually it was size. He was coming from a 5,400-square-foot five-bedroom house, and every one-bedroom he saw seemed small. Places with sufficient space were going for well over $1 million. <hl> In one case, he intended to bid, but was told “there are already three offers beyond the asking price,” he said. <hl> “This does not happen in Florida.” The mother of an employee at García Media was a friend of Lisa Greenblatt, a saleswoman at Douglas Elliman, who helped him with his search.

He started the hunt last summer at open houses. There was always “that essential element that kept you from continuing,” he said. Usually it was size. He was coming from a 5,400-square-foot five-bedroom house, and every one-bedroom he saw seemed small. Places with sufficient space were going for well over $1 million. In one case, he intended to bid, but was told “there are already <hl> three <hl> offers beyond the asking price,” he said. “This does not happen in Florida.” The mother of an employee at García Media was a friend of Lisa Greenblatt, a saleswoman at Douglas Elliman, who helped him with his search.


Question: When was Stevie Wonders last national tour as of this article?

★ Stevie Wonder  (Sunday) “Sir Duke” will ride again when the venerable Mr. Wonder visits Barclays Center, continuing his first national tour since 2009. He will perform his quintessential 1976 record, “Songs in the Key of Life,” the double album that has inspired scores of R&B dreamers; in 2005, the Library of Congress added it to the National Recording Registry. The fortunate audiences of his recent festival performances — including sets at the Global Citizen Festival and Bonnaroo — can assert to his charisma, still broad onstage. At 8 p.m., 620 Atlantic Avenue, at Flatbush Avenue, Brooklyn, 800-745-3000, ticketmaster.com. (Anderson)

Answer: 2009

★ Stevie Wonder (Sunday) <hl> “Sir Duke” will ride again when the venerable Mr. Wonder visits Barclays Center, continuing his first national tour since 2009 . <hl> He will perform his quintessential 1976 record, “Songs in the Key of Life,” the double album that has inspired scores of R&B dreamers; in 2005, the Library of Congress added it to the National Recording Registry. The fortunate audiences of his recent festival performances — including sets at the Global Citizen Festival and Bonnaroo — can assert to his charisma, still broad onstage. At 8 p.m., 620 Atlantic Avenue, at Flatbush Avenue, Brooklyn, 800-745-3000, ticketmaster.com. (Anderson)

★ Stevie Wonder (Sunday) “Sir Duke” will ride again when the venerable Mr. Wonder visits Barclays Center, continuing his first national tour since <hl> 2009 <hl>. He will perform his quintessential 1976 record, “Songs in the Key of Life,” the double album that has inspired scores of R&B dreamers; in 2005, the Library of Congress added it to the National Recording Registry. The fortunate audiences of his recent festival performances — including sets at the Global Citizen Festival and Bonnaroo — can assert to his charisma, still broad onstage. At 8 p.m., 620 Atlantic Avenue, at Flatbush Avenue, Brooklyn, 800-745-3000, ticketmaster.com. (Anderson)

“Sir Duke” will ride again when the venerable Mr. Wonder visits Barclays Center, continuing his first national tour since <hl> 2009 <hl> .


Question: How much did data center chips bring in a year ago?

Now, the new hot trend of cloud computing — data centers filled with tightly connected servers — is remaking Intel. On Tuesday, Intel, based in Santa Clara, Calif., said that in the three months that ended Sept. 26, PC chips brought in $8.5 billion and chips for servers in cloud computing data centers brought in $4.1 billion. A year ago, PC chips brought in $9.2 billion and data center chips brought in $3.7 billion. The shifting businesses at Intel reflect broader changes in the computing industry, and what Intel chooses to focus on can affect the choices of many other companies.

Answer: $3.7 billion

Now, the new hot trend of cloud computing — data centers filled with tightly connected servers — is remaking Intel. On Tuesday, Intel, based in Santa Clara, Calif., said that in the three months that ended Sept. 26, PC chips brought in $8.5 billion and chips for servers in cloud computing data centers brought in $4.1 billion. <hl> A year ago, PC chips brought in $9.2 billion and data center chips brought in $3.7 billion . <hl> The shifting businesses at Intel reflect broader changes in the computing industry, and what Intel chooses to focus on can affect the choices of many other companies.

Now, the new hot trend of cloud computing — data centers filled with tightly connected servers — is remaking Intel. On Tuesday, Intel, based in Santa Clara, Calif., said that in the three months that ended Sept. 26, PC chips brought in $8.5 billion and chips for servers in cloud computing data centers brought in $4.1 billion. A year ago, PC chips brought in $9.2 billion and data center chips brought in <hl> $3.7 billion <hl>. The shifting businesses at Intel reflect broader changes in the computing industry, and what Intel chooses to focus on can affect the choices of many other companies.

A year ago, PC chips brought in $9.2 billion and data center chips brought in <hl> $3.7 billion <hl> .


Question: What is the intimate exhibition called at the Picasso Museum?

These friendships have inspired an intimate exhibition, “Picasso I Els Reventós,” at the Picasso Museum in Barcelona through Jan. 10. The show includes letters and drawings that reveal the artist’s lifelong connection to an adopted family whose influence came at a pivotal time in his life. “When Picasso came to Barcelona after studying in Madrid, he tried to establish himself here as an artist,” said Malén Gual, curator of the exhibition, during a recent tour. “He met Ramón, who introduced Picasso to his family.” “The Reventós home was a lively place where Picasso met lots of people at parties,” Ms. Gual continued. “The father was a poet and was in all the social meetings around the city. Picasso became an important friend for both Ramón and Jacint.” Picasso’s early works are a far cry from his Cubist and Surrealist work later in his career. The museum chronicles these early works, including his Blue Period (1901-4) and Rose Period (1904-6). But it is the period around 1900 that began to shape the young artist — and his connection to his native country and his sense of home.

Answer: Picasso I Els Reventós

<hl> These friendships have inspired an intimate exhibition, “ Picasso I Els Reventós ,” at the Picasso Museum in Barcelona through Jan. 10. <hl> The show includes letters and drawings that reveal the artist’s lifelong connection to an adopted family whose influence came at a pivotal time in his life. “When Picasso came to Barcelona after studying in Madrid, he tried to establish himself here as an artist,” said Malén Gual, curator of the exhibition, during a recent tour. “He met Ramón, who introduced Picasso to his family.” “The Reventós home was a lively place where Picasso met lots of people at parties,” Ms. Gual continued. “The father was a poet and was in all the social meetings around the city. Picasso became an important friend for both Ramón and Jacint.” Picasso’s early works are a far cry from his Cubist and Surrealist work later in his career. The museum chronicles these early works, including his Blue Period (1901-4) and Rose Period (1904-6). But it is the period around 1900 that began to shape the young artist — and his connection to his native country and his sense of home.

These friendships have inspired an intimate exhibition, “<hl> Picasso I Els Reventós <hl>,” at the Picasso Museum in Barcelona through Jan. 10. The show includes letters and drawings that reveal the artist’s lifelong connection to an adopted family whose influence came at a pivotal time in his life. “When Picasso came to Barcelona after studying in Madrid, he tried to establish himself here as an artist,” said Malén Gual, curator of the exhibition, during a recent tour. “He met Ramón, who introduced Picasso to his family.” “The Reventós home was a lively place where Picasso met lots of people at parties,” Ms. Gual continued. “The father was a poet and was in all the social meetings around the city. Picasso became an important friend for both Ramón and Jacint.” Picasso’s early works are a far cry from his Cubist and Surrealist work later in his career. The museum chronicles these early works, including his Blue Period (1901-4) and Rose Period (1904-6). But it is the period around 1900 that began to shape the young artist — and his connection to his native country and his sense of home.

These friendships have inspired an intimate exhibition, “ <hl> Picasso I Els Reventós <hl> ,” at the Picasso Museum in Barcelona through Jan. 10.


Question: What three characteristics does Audrey Hepburn have?

Tights are the main differentiator. In venues, I tend to get cold, so no matter what time of year it is, I’ll wear tights. But for festivals you’re outside and tights are way too hot to handle. That’s pretty much the only difference. What inspires your overall style? Audrey Hepburn is a huge influence on my style. She’s classy, confident and simplistic. She’s a tomboy and also super feminine. Overall, I have a relaxed yet put together kind of thing going on at all times. Except for my hair, I can’t quite seem to keep that together.

Answer: classy, confident and simplistic

Tights are the main differentiator. In venues, I tend to get cold, so no matter what time of year it is, I’ll wear tights. But for festivals you’re outside and tights are way too hot to handle. That’s pretty much the only difference. What inspires your overall style? Audrey Hepburn is a huge influence on my style. <hl> She’s classy, confident and simplistic . <hl> She’s a tomboy and also super feminine. Overall, I have a relaxed yet put together kind of thing going on at all times. Except for my hair, I can’t quite seem to keep that together.

Tights are the main differentiator. In venues, I tend to get cold, so no matter what time of year it is, I’ll wear tights. But for festivals you’re outside and tights are way too hot to handle. That’s pretty much the only difference. What inspires your overall style? Audrey Hepburn is a huge influence on my style. She’s <hl> classy, confident and simplistic <hl>. She’s a tomboy and also super feminine. Overall, I have a relaxed yet put together kind of thing going on at all times. Except for my hair, I can’t quite seem to keep that together.

She’s <hl> classy, confident and simplistic <hl> .


Question: When did Stein preside over the avant-garde salon?

Answer: in early-20th-century

<hl> Stein, a modernist American writer who presided over one of the great avant-garde salons of all time in early-20th-century Paris, has rarely been anyone’s idea of light entertainment. <hl>

Stein, a modernist American writer who presided over one of the great avant-garde salons of all time <hl> in early-20th-century <hl> Paris, has rarely been anyone’s idea of light entertainment.


Question: What did the middle class once believe?

“A middle class that believed deeply that the motherland would become strong has been eviscerated,” said an essay circulating on Chinese websites this week that was credited to an investor who had lost most of his savings. “This was a stock wipeout that thoroughly damaged middle-class assets from a decade of striving. For us, the China Dream really is just a dream.” The giddiest investors, including those who took on debt to buy stock, are wondering if they can recover their fortunes. Some have posted notices on property rental and sales websites saying they need to sell their homes quickly to raise cash.

Answer: believed deeply that the motherland would become strong

<hl> “A middle class that believed deeply that the motherland would become strong has been eviscerated,” said an essay circulating on Chinese websites this week that was credited to an investor who had lost most of his savings. <hl> “This was a stock wipeout that thoroughly damaged middle-class assets from a decade of striving. For us, the China Dream really is just a dream.” The giddiest investors, including those who took on debt to buy stock, are wondering if they can recover their fortunes. Some have posted notices on property rental and sales websites saying they need to sell their homes quickly to raise cash.

“A middle class that <hl> believed deeply that the motherland would become strong <hl> has been eviscerated,” said an essay circulating on Chinese websites this week that was credited to an investor who had lost most of his savings. “This was a stock wipeout that thoroughly damaged middle-class assets from a decade of striving. For us, the China Dream really is just a dream.” The giddiest investors, including those who took on debt to buy stock, are wondering if they can recover their fortunes. Some have posted notices on property rental and sales websites saying they need to sell their homes quickly to raise cash.


Question: How long did it take for the train to come to a complete stop?

The train engineer applied the emergency brake, but the train did not come to a stop until almost 1,000 feet down the track, the car still pinned to its nose. Investigators’ findings on Thursday about track safety did little to illuminate the question of why a train-on-car collision put train passengers into such peril. Cars are struck by trains regularly across the country, according to Federal Railroad Administration records. Since 2006, there has been an average of 2,261 rail crossing accidents a year and an average of 273 deaths a year.

Answer: almost 1,000 feet down the track

<hl> The train engineer applied the emergency brake, but the train did not come to a stop until almost 1,000 feet down the track , the car still pinned to its nose. <hl> Investigators’ findings on Thursday about track safety did little to illuminate the question of why a train-on-car collision put train passengers into such peril. Cars are struck by trains regularly across the country, according to Federal Railroad Administration records. Since 2006, there has been an average of 2,261 rail crossing accidents a year and an average of 273 deaths a year.

The train engineer applied the emergency brake, but the train did not come to a stop until <hl> almost 1,000 feet down the track <hl>, the car still pinned to its nose. Investigators’ findings on Thursday about track safety did little to illuminate the question of why a train-on-car collision put train passengers into such peril. Cars are struck by trains regularly across the country, according to Federal Railroad Administration records. Since 2006, there has been an average of 2,261 rail crossing accidents a year and an average of 273 deaths a year.

The train engineer applied the emergency brake, but the train did not come to a stop until <hl> almost 1,000 feet down the track <hl> , the car still pinned to its nose.


Question: Which work was about working in hotels?

Literature has given us especially brilliant stories about office work — “Bartleby the Scrivener,” by Melville; “Something Happened,” by Joseph Heller; “Then We Came to the End,” by Joshua Ferris — and, also, oddly enough, about working in hotels: “An American Tragedy,” by Theodore Dreiser; “I Served the King of England,” by Bohumil Hrabal; “Confessions of Felix Krull,” by Thomas Mann. Another through-line, of work that is miserable to do, can be traced from Émile Zola to Upton Sinclair to Barbara Ehrenreich. But then there are books that are about work not by having some kind of work as their subject matter, but instead by being incarnations of an extraordinary amount of work: a luxurious, wonderful kind of work, the elective work of learning. In order to finish his vast projects, amid his other state responsibilities, Pliny barely slept, never married and had someone read to him or take dictation even as he prepared for his bath. His nephew tells the story of how once after a dinner, when a book was being read aloud and another diner interrupted to correct the reader’s pronunciation of a word, Pliny the Elder scolded him: “We have lost more than 10 lines through your interruption.”

Answer: An American Tragedy

<hl> Literature has given us especially brilliant stories about office work — “Bartleby the Scrivener,” by Melville; “Something Happened,” by Joseph Heller; “Then We Came to the End,” by Joshua Ferris — and, also, oddly enough, about working in hotels: “ An American Tragedy ,” by Theodore Dreiser; “I Served the King of England,” by Bohumil Hrabal; “Confessions of Felix Krull,” by Thomas Mann. <hl> Another through-line, of work that is miserable to do, can be traced from Émile Zola to Upton Sinclair to Barbara Ehrenreich. But then there are books that are about work not by having some kind of work as their subject matter, but instead by being incarnations of an extraordinary amount of work: a luxurious, wonderful kind of work, the elective work of learning. In order to finish his vast projects, amid his other state responsibilities, Pliny barely slept, never married and had someone read to him or take dictation even as he prepared for his bath. His nephew tells the story of how once after a dinner, when a book was being read aloud and another diner interrupted to correct the reader’s pronunciation of a word, Pliny the Elder scolded him: “We have lost more than 10 lines through your interruption.”

Literature has given us especially brilliant stories about office work — “Bartleby the Scrivener,” by Melville; “Something Happened,” by Joseph Heller; “Then We Came to the End,” by Joshua Ferris — and, also, oddly enough, about working in hotels: “<hl> An American Tragedy <hl>,” by Theodore Dreiser; “I Served the King of England,” by Bohumil Hrabal; “Confessions of Felix Krull,” by Thomas Mann. Another through-line, of work that is miserable to do, can be traced from Émile Zola to Upton Sinclair to Barbara Ehrenreich. But then there are books that are about work not by having some kind of work as their subject matter, but instead by being incarnations of an extraordinary amount of work: a luxurious, wonderful kind of work, the elective work of learning. In order to finish his vast projects, amid his other state responsibilities, Pliny barely slept, never married and had someone read to him or take dictation even as he prepared for his bath. His nephew tells the story of how once after a dinner, when a book was being read aloud and another diner interrupted to correct the reader’s pronunciation of a word, Pliny the Elder scolded him: “We have lost more than 10 lines through your interruption.”

Literature has given us especially brilliant stories about office work — “Bartleby the Scrivener,” by Melville; “Something Happened,” by Joseph Heller; “Then We Came to the End,” by Joshua Ferris — and, also, oddly enough, about working in hotels: “ <hl> An American Tragedy <hl> ,” by Theodore Dreiser; “I Served the King of England,” by Bohumil Hrabal; “Confessions of Felix Krull,” by Thomas Mann.


Question: How many of Mr. Cradles prior arrests were the result of violent crime?

The circumstances of the shooting remained under investigation. The police did not immediately say whether the gun they were searching for in the apartment had been found or why they believed it was there. Mr. Cradle, who was on probation for driving while intoxicated, had several prior arrests, though some were sealed. None of the unsealed arrests were for violent offenses, the police said. Public records indicated that in 2008 he pleaded guilty to a felony drug conspiracy charge — one of 37 defendants in a long-term narcotics investigation in the Cypress Hills housing development — and served less than a year in state prison.

Answer: None

The circumstances of the shooting remained under investigation. The police did not immediately say whether the gun they were searching for in the apartment had been found or why they believed it was there. Mr. Cradle, who was on probation for driving while intoxicated, had several prior arrests, though some were sealed. <hl> None of the unsealed arrests were for violent offenses, the police said. <hl> Public records indicated that in 2008 he pleaded guilty to a felony drug conspiracy charge — one of 37 defendants in a long-term narcotics investigation in the Cypress Hills housing development — and served less than a year in state prison.

The circumstances of the shooting remained under investigation. The police did not immediately say whether the gun they were searching for in the apartment had been found or why they believed it was there. Mr. Cradle, who was on probation for driving while intoxicated, had several prior arrests, though some were sealed. <hl> None <hl> of the unsealed arrests were for violent offenses, the police said. Public records indicated that in 2008 he pleaded guilty to a felony drug conspiracy charge — one of 37 defendants in a long-term narcotics investigation in the Cypress Hills housing development — and served less than a year in state prison.


Question: What does Islam teach?

They tell the world that though the mass murderer was quoting from the Quran, he got the Quran wrong. Some of the gutsy ones don’t forget to add: What about your own secular mass murderers? They are suggesting that Muslim mass murderers should be treated like non-Muslim mass murderers, like those shooters on American college campuses or the invaders of Iraq. Should we thank them for striving for parity among mass killers? Did someone say peace? They say that Islam teaches us to respect all religions. They again point to the Holy Book: Look, here’s Jesus; he is our prophet, too. But they don’t explain the point of having a religion if its god and its prophet are no bigger or better or faster than yours. We are encouraged to look at Sufi Islam as a model of moderation. Yet Sufi Muslims, brandishing Rumi and whirling like couplets in a bad poem, don’t even pretend to offer any solution. When asked about Islam they say, let’s listen to some music. At least they are more honest than our spokesmen. And thank you, our spokesmen, for reminding the world that Muslims are not a race. Some of us speak Chinese, others Swahili. Some of us are gay, painters, lawyers, prostitutes, pimps or drummers, and of course mass murderers. Muslims disagree over most things, about this life and the afterlife as well. I have a household of six and can never get us to agree on anything, even though one is an infant and two are dogs.

Answer: teaches us to respect all religions

They tell the world that though the mass murderer was quoting from the Quran, he got the Quran wrong. Some of the gutsy ones don’t forget to add: What about your own secular mass murderers? They are suggesting that Muslim mass murderers should be treated like non-Muslim mass murderers, like those shooters on American college campuses or the invaders of Iraq. Should we thank them for striving for parity among mass killers? Did someone say peace? They say that <hl> Islam teaches us to respect all religions . <hl> They again point to the Holy Book: Look, here’s Jesus; he is our prophet, too. But they don’t explain the point of having a religion if its god and its prophet are no bigger or better or faster than yours. We are encouraged to look at Sufi Islam as a model of moderation. Yet Sufi Muslims, brandishing Rumi and whirling like couplets in a bad poem, don’t even pretend to offer any solution. When asked about Islam they say, let’s listen to some music. At least they are more honest than our spokesmen. And thank you, our spokesmen, for reminding the world that Muslims are not a race. Some of us speak Chinese, others Swahili. Some of us are gay, painters, lawyers, prostitutes, pimps or drummers, and of course mass murderers. Muslims disagree over most things, about this life and the afterlife as well. I have a household of six and can never get us to agree on anything, even though one is an infant and two are dogs.

They tell the world that though the mass murderer was quoting from the Quran, he got the Quran wrong. Some of the gutsy ones don’t forget to add: What about your own secular mass murderers? They are suggesting that Muslim mass murderers should be treated like non-Muslim mass murderers, like those shooters on American college campuses or the invaders of Iraq. Should we thank them for striving for parity among mass killers? Did someone say peace? They say that Islam <hl> teaches us to respect all religions <hl>. They again point to the Holy Book: Look, here’s Jesus; he is our prophet, too. But they don’t explain the point of having a religion if its god and its prophet are no bigger or better or faster than yours. We are encouraged to look at Sufi Islam as a model of moderation. Yet Sufi Muslims, brandishing Rumi and whirling like couplets in a bad poem, don’t even pretend to offer any solution. When asked about Islam they say, let’s listen to some music. At least they are more honest than our spokesmen. And thank you, our spokesmen, for reminding the world that Muslims are not a race. Some of us speak Chinese, others Swahili. Some of us are gay, painters, lawyers, prostitutes, pimps or drummers, and of course mass murderers. Muslims disagree over most things, about this life and the afterlife as well. I have a household of six and can never get us to agree on anything, even though one is an infant and two are dogs.

Islam <hl> teaches us to respect all religions <hl> .


Question: Who is the creative director at Vogue?

“It’s not like I get impressed once, and I’m over it, and I need something new,” she said. “I love this teacup. It impresses me. When I love something, whether things or people, I love them very deeply.” She is the third Mrs. Chow. (Or maybe even the fourth; some magazine profiles over the years have indicated that Mr. Chow was briefly married in the 1960s. Asked to clarify, he responded: “I’m not a family lawyer, nor an accountant. I don’t think it’s relevant.”) She was preceded by the model Tina Chow, who died in 1992; and, before that, Grace Coddington, who is now the creative director at Vogue.

Answer: Grace Coddington

“It’s not like I get impressed once, and I’m over it, and I need something new,” she said. “I love this teacup. It impresses me. When I love something, whether things or people, I love them very deeply.” She is the third Mrs. Chow. (Or maybe even the fourth; some magazine profiles over the years have indicated that Mr. Chow was briefly married in the 1960s. Asked to clarify, he responded: “I’m not a family lawyer, nor an accountant. I don’t think it’s relevant.”) <hl> She was preceded by the model Tina Chow, who died in 1992; and, before that, Grace Coddington , who is now the creative director at Vogue. <hl>

“It’s not like I get impressed once, and I’m over it, and I need something new,” she said. “I love this teacup. It impresses me. When I love something, whether things or people, I love them very deeply.” She is the third Mrs. Chow. (Or maybe even the fourth; some magazine profiles over the years have indicated that Mr. Chow was briefly married in the 1960s. Asked to clarify, he responded: “I’m not a family lawyer, nor an accountant. I don’t think it’s relevant.”) She was preceded by the model Tina Chow, who died in 1992; and, before that, <hl> Grace Coddington <hl>, who is now the creative director at Vogue.

She was preceded by the model Tina Chow, who died in 1992; and, before that, <hl> Grace Coddington <hl> , who is now the creative director at Vogue.


Question: Are employers treating employees any differently because of the economy?

Fed officials keep saying they are data-dependent in their policy choice, and this data backs up the idea that the United States economy is fundamentally in pretty decent shape, with consistent job growth and a low enough unemployment rate that employers are starting to offer workers higher raises. But because these numbers take some of the mystery out of the next Fed meeting, it’s worth looking at the questions we still don’t know the answers to. For the Fed, March is the new December. Meaning, the question now turns from “when will they first raise rates?” to “when will they raise rates after that?” What really matters for the economy is not so much what the Fed does 12 days from now, which we pretty much know, but how rapid or slow the path is toward higher rates.

Answer: offer workers higher raises

<hl> Fed officials keep saying they are data-dependent in their policy choice, and this data backs up the idea that the United States economy is fundamentally in pretty decent shape, with consistent job growth and a low enough unemployment rate that employers are starting to offer workers higher raises . <hl> But because these numbers take some of the mystery out of the next Fed meeting, it’s worth looking at the questions we still don’t know the answers to. For the Fed, March is the new December. Meaning, the question now turns from “when will they first raise rates?” to “when will they raise rates after that?” What really matters for the economy is not so much what the Fed does 12 days from now, which we pretty much know, but how rapid or slow the path is toward higher rates.

Fed officials keep saying they are data-dependent in their policy choice, and this data backs up the idea that the United States economy is fundamentally in pretty decent shape, with consistent job growth and a low enough unemployment rate that employers are starting to <hl> offer workers higher raises <hl>. But because these numbers take some of the mystery out of the next Fed meeting, it’s worth looking at the questions we still don’t know the answers to. For the Fed, March is the new December. Meaning, the question now turns from “when will they first raise rates?” to “when will they raise rates after that?” What really matters for the economy is not so much what the Fed does 12 days from now, which we pretty much know, but how rapid or slow the path is toward higher rates.

Fed officials keep saying they are data-dependent in their policy choice, and this data backs up the idea that the United States economy is fundamentally in pretty decent shape, with consistent job growth and a low enough unemployment rate that employers are starting to <hl> offer workers higher raises <hl> .


Question: What caused destruction in downtown Ferguson?

But the grand jury could not finish in time, the St. Louis County prosecutor, Robert P. McCulloch, told a law school audience here on Friday. Instead, it finished its work on a Monday and its decision to not indict the police officer was announced that evening. Protests followed that night, leading to looting and arson that left Ferguson’s downtown devastated. Speaking to a symposium on Ferguson at the St. Louis University School of Law, Mr. McCulloch defended the timing of the announcement, along with his handling of the grand jury, which was widely criticized in the days after the rioting.

Answer: looting and arson

But the grand jury could not finish in time, the St. Louis County prosecutor, Robert P. McCulloch, told a law school audience here on Friday. Instead, it finished its work on a Monday and its decision to not indict the police officer was announced that evening. <hl> Protests followed that night, leading to looting and arson that left Ferguson’s downtown devastated. <hl> Speaking to a symposium on Ferguson at the St. Louis University School of Law, Mr. McCulloch defended the timing of the announcement, along with his handling of the grand jury, which was widely criticized in the days after the rioting.

But the grand jury could not finish in time, the St. Louis County prosecutor, Robert P. McCulloch, told a law school audience here on Friday. Instead, it finished its work on a Monday and its decision to not indict the police officer was announced that evening. Protests followed that night, leading to <hl> looting and arson <hl> that left Ferguson’s downtown devastated. Speaking to a symposium on Ferguson at the St. Louis University School of Law, Mr. McCulloch defended the timing of the announcement, along with his handling of the grand jury, which was widely criticized in the days after the rioting.


Question: When did Huckabee first run for President?

HOPE, Ark. —  Mike Huckabee, who excited evangelical voters in his first presidential race in 2008 and retains much of their good will, announced on Tuesday that he would again seek the Republican nomination despite a crowded field of rivals for his natural base in the party. A former Southern Baptist pastor and Arkansas governor, Mr. Huckabee is returning in hopes of once more dominating among social conservatives, but he is acutely aware he needs broader support to avoid the snares of last time, when he ran dry of money and failed to appeal much beyond the South. After describing a childhood of school prayer, fishing for catfish and running for student council in Hope, Mr. Huckabee said, “So it seems perfectly fitting that it would be here that I announce I am a candidate for president of the United States.”

Answer: 2008

<hl> HOPE, Ark. — Mike Huckabee, who excited evangelical voters in his first presidential race in 2008 and retains much of their good will, announced on Tuesday that he would again seek the Republican nomination despite a crowded field of rivals for his natural base in the party. <hl> A former Southern Baptist pastor and Arkansas governor, Mr. Huckabee is returning in hopes of once more dominating among social conservatives, but he is acutely aware he needs broader support to avoid the snares of last time, when he ran dry of money and failed to appeal much beyond the South. After describing a childhood of school prayer, fishing for catfish and running for student council in Hope, Mr. Huckabee said, “So it seems perfectly fitting that it would be here that I announce I am a candidate for president of the United States.”

HOPE, Ark. — Mike Huckabee, who excited evangelical voters in his first presidential race in <hl> 2008 <hl> and retains much of their good will, announced on Tuesday that he would again seek the Republican nomination despite a crowded field of rivals for his natural base in the party. A former Southern Baptist pastor and Arkansas governor, Mr. Huckabee is returning in hopes of once more dominating among social conservatives, but he is acutely aware he needs broader support to avoid the snares of last time, when he ran dry of money and failed to appeal much beyond the South. After describing a childhood of school prayer, fishing for catfish and running for student council in Hope, Mr. Huckabee said, “So it seems perfectly fitting that it would be here that I announce I am a candidate for president of the United States.”


Question: Who left the game Sunday with a concussion?

Coughlin said: “We dedicated the game to him. We showed him the game ball that will be awarded to him. Everyone was able to cheer him on and try to make him feel better. He said he watched the game, and he was very proud of how we finished.” EXTRA POINTS Wide receivers Odell Beckham Jr. and Rueben Randle have hamstring injuries that could jeopardize their readiness for the Giants’ next game, at Philadelphia on Oct. 19. Tom Coughlin said he was hoping Beckham and Randle could practice this week in some capacity, even if they were limited. Coughlin offered no update on the availability of Victor Cruz, another receiver, for the Eagles game. ... Middle linebacker Jon Beason, who left Sunday’s game against the San Francisco 49ers early in the first quarter with a concussion, was in “pretty good shape” on Monday morning, Coughlin said.

Answer: Jon Beason

Coughlin said: “We dedicated the game to him. We showed him the game ball that will be awarded to him. Everyone was able to cheer him on and try to make him feel better. He said he watched the game, and he was very proud of how we finished.” EXTRA POINTS Wide receivers Odell Beckham Jr. and Rueben Randle have hamstring injuries that could jeopardize their readiness for the Giants’ next game, at Philadelphia on Oct. 19. Tom Coughlin said he was hoping Beckham and Randle could practice this week in some capacity, even if they were limited. Coughlin offered no update on the availability of Victor Cruz, another receiver, for the Eagles game. ... <hl> Middle linebacker Jon Beason , who left Sunday’s game against the San Francisco 49ers early in the first quarter with a concussion, was in “pretty good shape” on Monday morning, Coughlin said. <hl>

Coughlin said: “We dedicated the game to him. We showed him the game ball that will be awarded to him. Everyone was able to cheer him on and try to make him feel better. He said he watched the game, and he was very proud of how we finished.” EXTRA POINTS Wide receivers Odell Beckham Jr. and Rueben Randle have hamstring injuries that could jeopardize their readiness for the Giants’ next game, at Philadelphia on Oct. 19. Tom Coughlin said he was hoping Beckham and Randle could practice this week in some capacity, even if they were limited. Coughlin offered no update on the availability of Victor Cruz, another receiver, for the Eagles game. ... Middle linebacker <hl> Jon Beason <hl>, who left Sunday’s game against the San Francisco 49ers early in the first quarter with a concussion, was in “pretty good shape” on Monday morning, Coughlin said.

Middle linebacker <hl> Jon Beason <hl> , who left Sunday’s game against the San Francisco 49ers early in the first quarter with a concussion, was in “pretty good shape” on Monday morning, Coughlin said.