Question: What kind of regulations did Mr. Hatz refer to?

While Mr. Hatz was referring to carbon dioxide regulations, and Volkswagen’s cheating scandal is centered on smog-forming pollutants, managing both kinds of emissions presents an interlocking puzzle for automakers. At times, Mr. Hatz could sound defeatist. “Perhaps we have just small Korean and Japanese cars in this country,” he said. “We have to be realistic.” And he was dismissive of the prospects for the big Detroit automakers. “I cannot see a way with their program that they can fulfill these regulations,” he said. “There’s no way.” At the time, California regulators, along with regulators in Washington, already had rules in place for emissions of nitrogen oxides and other smog-forming pollutants that were the toughest in the world, and California was also proposing to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from cars. While diesels have better fuel economy and, by extension, lower emissions of global warming gases, they have higher emissions of nitrogen oxides and other smog-forming pollutants that require special treatment systems. The company was plunged into an internal struggle about how to proceed. Wolfgang Bernhard, a former Daimler executive who ran the Volkswagen brand, had championed a technology-sharing agreement with Mercedes-Benz and BMW to jointly develop a system using urea, which neutralizes nitrogen oxides. Publicly, Mr. Hatz supported the technology, which Mercedes markets as Bluetec.

Answer: carbon dioxide

<hl> While Mr. Hatz was referring to carbon dioxide regulations, and Volkswagen’s cheating scandal is centered on smog-forming pollutants, managing both kinds of emissions presents an interlocking puzzle for automakers. <hl> At times, Mr. Hatz could sound defeatist. “Perhaps we have just small Korean and Japanese cars in this country,” he said. “We have to be realistic.” And he was dismissive of the prospects for the big Detroit automakers. “I cannot see a way with their program that they can fulfill these regulations,” he said. “There’s no way.” At the time, California regulators, along with regulators in Washington, already had rules in place for emissions of nitrogen oxides and other smog-forming pollutants that were the toughest in the world, and California was also proposing to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from cars. While diesels have better fuel economy and, by extension, lower emissions of global warming gases, they have higher emissions of nitrogen oxides and other smog-forming pollutants that require special treatment systems. The company was plunged into an internal struggle about how to proceed. Wolfgang Bernhard, a former Daimler executive who ran the Volkswagen brand, had championed a technology-sharing agreement with Mercedes-Benz and BMW to jointly develop a system using urea, which neutralizes nitrogen oxides. Publicly, Mr. Hatz supported the technology, which Mercedes markets as Bluetec.

While Mr. Hatz was referring to <hl> carbon dioxide <hl> regulations, and Volkswagen’s cheating scandal is centered on smog-forming pollutants, managing both kinds of emissions presents an interlocking puzzle for automakers. At times, Mr. Hatz could sound defeatist. “Perhaps we have just small Korean and Japanese cars in this country,” he said. “We have to be realistic.” And he was dismissive of the prospects for the big Detroit automakers. “I cannot see a way with their program that they can fulfill these regulations,” he said. “There’s no way.” At the time, California regulators, along with regulators in Washington, already had rules in place for emissions of nitrogen oxides and other smog-forming pollutants that were the toughest in the world, and California was also proposing to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from cars. While diesels have better fuel economy and, by extension, lower emissions of global warming gases, they have higher emissions of nitrogen oxides and other smog-forming pollutants that require special treatment systems. The company was plunged into an internal struggle about how to proceed. Wolfgang Bernhard, a former Daimler executive who ran the Volkswagen brand, had championed a technology-sharing agreement with Mercedes-Benz and BMW to jointly develop a system using urea, which neutralizes nitrogen oxides. Publicly, Mr. Hatz supported the technology, which Mercedes markets as Bluetec.


Question: What, according to a reader, did the article say that women lacked?

To the Sports Editor: Re “Balancing Body Image With Ambition,” July 11: As a female athlete training on the United States rowing team, I was deeply disappointed and frustrated by this article. The opinions and comments from arguably the world’s most prominent female athletes incited second-hand embarrassment for those women. The word “feminine” was used by some of these athletes to describe the way they want to be perceived by the public. That word has a fluid definition, but it was clear that for these women, their definition of feminine is based on body image, and it can be inferred that the body type they desire is lacking in strength or substance.

Answer: strength or substance

To the Sports Editor: Re “Balancing Body Image With Ambition,” July 11: As a female athlete training on the United States rowing team, I was deeply disappointed and frustrated by this article. The opinions and comments from arguably the world’s most prominent female athletes incited second-hand embarrassment for those women. The word “feminine” was used by some of these athletes to describe the way they want to be perceived by the public. <hl> That word has a fluid definition, but it was clear that for these women, their definition of feminine is based on body image, and it can be inferred that the body type they desire is lacking in strength or substance . <hl>

To the Sports Editor: Re “Balancing Body Image With Ambition,” July 11: As a female athlete training on the United States rowing team, I was deeply disappointed and frustrated by this article. The opinions and comments from arguably the world’s most prominent female athletes incited second-hand embarrassment for those women. The word “feminine” was used by some of these athletes to describe the way they want to be perceived by the public. That word has a fluid definition, but it was clear that for these women, their definition of feminine is based on body image, and it can be inferred that the body type they desire is lacking in <hl> strength or substance <hl>.

That word has a fluid definition, but it was clear that for these women, their definition of feminine is based on body image, and it can be inferred that the body type they desire is lacking in <hl> strength or substance <hl> .


Question: What is California's level of air quality rules?

He mused about dropping muscular diesel engines into sporty cars like the Audi R8 coupe — “My dream is an R8 with a diesel engine,” he said at the Los Angeles auto show in 2007. At the same time, he had to bring engines to market that could meet a complex suite of toughening regulations in the United States, particularly in California and other states like New York that opt to follow California’s more stringent air quality rules. “We will do what is possible, but we should keep the pleasure” and keep cars “fun to drive,” he said in remarks in October 2007 at the California technology demonstration. His remarks were filmed by DrivingtheNation.com, an auto website. “It’s not just about transport; our business, it’s also about pleasure,” he said.

Answer: stringent

He mused about dropping muscular diesel engines into sporty cars like the Audi R8 coupe — “My dream is an R8 with a diesel engine,” he said at the Los Angeles auto show in 2007. <hl> At the same time, he had to bring engines to market that could meet a complex suite of toughening regulations in the United States, particularly in California and other states like New York that opt to follow California’s more stringent air quality rules. <hl> “We will do what is possible, but we should keep the pleasure” and keep cars “fun to drive,” he said in remarks in October 2007 at the California technology demonstration. His remarks were filmed by DrivingtheNation.com, an auto website. “It’s not just about transport; our business, it’s also about pleasure,” he said.

He mused about dropping muscular diesel engines into sporty cars like the Audi R8 coupe — “My dream is an R8 with a diesel engine,” he said at the Los Angeles auto show in 2007. At the same time, he had to bring engines to market that could meet a complex suite of toughening regulations in the United States, particularly in California and other states like New York that opt to follow California’s more <hl> stringent <hl> air quality rules. “We will do what is possible, but we should keep the pleasure” and keep cars “fun to drive,” he said in remarks in October 2007 at the California technology demonstration. His remarks were filmed by DrivingtheNation.com, an auto website. “It’s not just about transport; our business, it’s also about pleasure,” he said.


Question: Who released a report saying car-polling was just over 9% in 2013?

The new services come after a long decline of car-pooling. According to a report released by the Census Bureau in August, car-pooling fell to a low of just over 9 percent in 2013, the last year for which figures are available, from nearly 20 percent in 1980. About 76 percent of people who traveled to work drove alone in 2013, according to the report. Christopher Koopman, a research fellow at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, gained firsthand experience in the sharing economy. After landing at Reagan National Airport in Washington, he considered the traditional options: taking a taxi or riding on mass transit. In the end, he used UberPool, a recent venture by Uber that offers shared rides on demand. Although the trip to his office took a detour to a hotel to drop off his traveling companion, the price of the ride fell to $8, from $12 if he had ridden solo.

Answer: the Census Bureau

The new services come after a long decline of car-pooling. <hl> According to a report released by the Census Bureau in August, car-pooling fell to a low of just over 9 percent in 2013, the last year for which figures are available, from nearly 20 percent in 1980. <hl> About 76 percent of people who traveled to work drove alone in 2013, according to the report. Christopher Koopman, a research fellow at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, gained firsthand experience in the sharing economy. After landing at Reagan National Airport in Washington, he considered the traditional options: taking a taxi or riding on mass transit. In the end, he used UberPool, a recent venture by Uber that offers shared rides on demand. Although the trip to his office took a detour to a hotel to drop off his traveling companion, the price of the ride fell to $8, from $12 if he had ridden solo.

The new services come after a long decline of car-pooling. According to a report released by <hl> the Census Bureau <hl> in August, car-pooling fell to a low of just over 9 percent in 2013, the last year for which figures are available, from nearly 20 percent in 1980. About 76 percent of people who traveled to work drove alone in 2013, according to the report. Christopher Koopman, a research fellow at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, gained firsthand experience in the sharing economy. After landing at Reagan National Airport in Washington, he considered the traditional options: taking a taxi or riding on mass transit. In the end, he used UberPool, a recent venture by Uber that offers shared rides on demand. Although the trip to his office took a detour to a hotel to drop off his traveling companion, the price of the ride fell to $8, from $12 if he had ridden solo.


Question: How much does the ferry weigh that Korea is trying to raise?

SEOUL, South Korea — South Korea formally announced on Wednesday that it would try to raise the 6,825-ton ferry that sank more than a year ago, killing more than 300 people, most of them high school students. The overloaded ferry Sewol capsized off the southwestern tip of South Korea last April, and it now lies on its side about 145 feet underwater. Rapid currents and poor visibility complicated the monthslong underwater search of the ship, which ended in November after 295 bodies were recovered. Bereaved families have demanded salvaging the ship in hopes that the bodies of nine people still missing, including four teenage students, will be found inside. Earlier this month, thousands of protesters, including family members of the victims, marched in downtown Seoul, the South Korean capital, to mark the anniversary of the sinking, some of them clashing with riot police officers spraying tear gas. A key demand from the protesters was the raising of the ferry, which they said would provide more clues on why the ship sank.

Answer: 6,825-ton

<hl> SEOUL, South Korea — South Korea formally announced on Wednesday that it would try to raise the 6,825-ton ferry that sank more than a year ago, killing more than 300 people, most of them high school students. <hl> The overloaded ferry Sewol capsized off the southwestern tip of South Korea last April, and it now lies on its side about 145 feet underwater. Rapid currents and poor visibility complicated the monthslong underwater search of the ship, which ended in November after 295 bodies were recovered. Bereaved families have demanded salvaging the ship in hopes that the bodies of nine people still missing, including four teenage students, will be found inside. Earlier this month, thousands of protesters, including family members of the victims, marched in downtown Seoul, the South Korean capital, to mark the anniversary of the sinking, some of them clashing with riot police officers spraying tear gas. A key demand from the protesters was the raising of the ferry, which they said would provide more clues on why the ship sank.

SEOUL, South Korea — South Korea formally announced on Wednesday that it would try to raise the <hl> 6,825-ton <hl> ferry that sank more than a year ago, killing more than 300 people, most of them high school students. The overloaded ferry Sewol capsized off the southwestern tip of South Korea last April, and it now lies on its side about 145 feet underwater. Rapid currents and poor visibility complicated the monthslong underwater search of the ship, which ended in November after 295 bodies were recovered. Bereaved families have demanded salvaging the ship in hopes that the bodies of nine people still missing, including four teenage students, will be found inside. Earlier this month, thousands of protesters, including family members of the victims, marched in downtown Seoul, the South Korean capital, to mark the anniversary of the sinking, some of them clashing with riot police officers spraying tear gas. A key demand from the protesters was the raising of the ferry, which they said would provide more clues on why the ship sank.


Question: What did employees at Zaro's know about their customers as soon as they saw them?

Several people had tears in their eyes as they wondered what they would do without people who knew their order before they opened their mouths. “I can’t believe we have to leave,” Mr. Moznu said.

Answer: their order

<hl> Several people had tears in their eyes as they wondered what they would do without people who knew their order before they opened their mouths. <hl> “I can’t believe we have to leave,” Mr. Moznu said.

Several people had tears in their eyes as they wondered what they would do without people who knew <hl> their order <hl> before they opened their mouths. “I can’t believe we have to leave,” Mr. Moznu said.


Question: Who is the solitary world power that Putin claims is causing an imbalance of power?

By proposing a grand coalition against the Islamic State and providing the weapons to back it up, Mr. Putin has already leveraged himself into a meeting expected Monday with a reluctant President Obama. The leaders of Turkey, Israel and the Palestinian Authority have all held talks with the Russian leader in the last week. “All these preparations are aimed at attracting more attention to Putin,” said Nicolai Petrov, a political science professor at the Higher School of Economics in Moscow. “It helped change Obama’s mind about meeting Putin, which showed that it is effective.” Mr. Putin has claimed repeatedly in recent years that the chaotic state of the world, particularly the level of violence in the Middle East, is because the United States is the solitary power. The underlying idea is that things were better off when the Soviet Union was around to check American might. Some expect Mr. Putin to frame his arguments in those terms at the United Nations, where he is likely to find a receptive audience. “It will be about establishing a new pillar so that power in the world is more balanced,” Mr. Remchukov said. Traditionally, Brazil opens the General Assembly, followed by a speech by the president of the United States. After that, the audience scatters. But Mr. Putin is due to speak sixth. Given the intense interest in what he will say, the government heads might actually stick around to listen and applaud.

Answer: United States

By proposing a grand coalition against the Islamic State and providing the weapons to back it up, Mr. Putin has already leveraged himself into a meeting expected Monday with a reluctant President Obama. The leaders of Turkey, Israel and the Palestinian Authority have all held talks with the Russian leader in the last week. “All these preparations are aimed at attracting more attention to Putin,” said Nicolai Petrov, a political science professor at the Higher School of Economics in Moscow. “It helped change Obama’s mind about meeting Putin, which showed that it is effective.” Mr. Putin has claimed repeatedly in recent years that the chaotic state of the world, particularly the level of violence in the Middle East, is because <hl> the United States is the solitary power. <hl> The underlying idea is that things were better off when the Soviet Union was around to check American might. Some expect Mr. Putin to frame his arguments in those terms at the United Nations, where he is likely to find a receptive audience. “It will be about establishing a new pillar so that power in the world is more balanced,” Mr. Remchukov said. Traditionally, Brazil opens the General Assembly, followed by a speech by the president of the United States. After that, the audience scatters. But Mr. Putin is due to speak sixth. Given the intense interest in what he will say, the government heads might actually stick around to listen and applaud.

By proposing a grand coalition against the Islamic State and providing the weapons to back it up, Mr. Putin has already leveraged himself into a meeting expected Monday with a reluctant President Obama. The leaders of Turkey, Israel and the Palestinian Authority have all held talks with the Russian leader in the last week. “All these preparations are aimed at attracting more attention to Putin,” said Nicolai Petrov, a political science professor at the Higher School of Economics in Moscow. “It helped change Obama’s mind about meeting Putin, which showed that it is effective.” Mr. Putin has claimed repeatedly in recent years that the chaotic state of the world, particularly the level of violence in the Middle East, is because the <hl> United States <hl> is the solitary power. The underlying idea is that things were better off when the Soviet Union was around to check American might. Some expect Mr. Putin to frame his arguments in those terms at the United Nations, where he is likely to find a receptive audience. “It will be about establishing a new pillar so that power in the world is more balanced,” Mr. Remchukov said. Traditionally, Brazil opens the General Assembly, followed by a speech by the president of the United States. After that, the audience scatters. But Mr. Putin is due to speak sixth. Given the intense interest in what he will say, the government heads might actually stick around to listen and applaud.


Question: what type of competition were done in Fallon's show?

I’m realizing that people have their time and they have their guy. In the same way that you have a band: People just love U2, and they go, “This is my band, and they understand me and they get me. And I don’t like Charli XCX.” It is such an intimate and personal connection that you’re making. But at some point, we’ll be sitting somewhere, sharing a drink, going, “Ugh, when Fallon used to come out, he wouldn’t do any of this! He wouldn’t do any of this 3-D virtual camera stuff. He’d just come out and do lip-sync battles, and they were the great days.”

Answer: lip-sync battles

I’m realizing that people have their time and they have their guy. In the same way that you have a band: People just love U2, and they go, “This is my band, and they understand me and they get me. And I don’t like Charli XCX.” It is such an intimate and personal connection that you’re making. But at some point, we’ll be sitting somewhere, sharing a drink, going, “Ugh, when Fallon used to come out, he wouldn’t do any of this! He wouldn’t do any of this 3-D virtual camera stuff. <hl> He’d just come out and do lip-sync battles , and they were the great days.” <hl>

I’m realizing that people have their time and they have their guy. In the same way that you have a band: People just love U2, and they go, “This is my band, and they understand me and they get me. And I don’t like Charli XCX.” It is such an intimate and personal connection that you’re making. But at some point, we’ll be sitting somewhere, sharing a drink, going, “Ugh, when Fallon used to come out, he wouldn’t do any of this! He wouldn’t do any of this 3-D virtual camera stuff. He’d just come out and do <hl> lip-sync battles <hl>, and they were the great days.”

He’d just come out and do <hl> lip-sync battles <hl> , and they were the great days.”


Question: Besides Daryl, who took the stand against AT&T?

And just the other day, Robyn went on, Emily had been chatting in the kitchen with her mother and Bev. After Emily walked out, Sandy turned to Bev and asked, “Who is that person’s mother?” “You are,” Bev said, trying not to cry. “I thought so,” Sandy said. ”I thought it might be me.” Emily now understood that Sandy was deteriorating rapidly. Karen organized a small gathering on Sunday, May 18, to celebrate Sandy’s life. It was very intimate, just Sandy, Daryl, Emily, Karen, Bev and Robyn. (Jeremy had moved out West and still wasn’t in contact with his family, though Sandy and Daryl left a voice mail message to let him know when Sandy would die.) At the gathering, Daryl talked about a lawsuit that the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission filed in 1972 against AT&T for sex discrimination in its recruitment practices, in which he and Sandy took the stand together to testify as a team.

Answer: Sandy

And just the other day, Robyn went on, Emily had been chatting in the kitchen with her mother and Bev. <hl> After Emily walked out, Sandy turned to Bev and asked, “Who is that person’s mother?” <hl> “You are,” Bev said, trying not to cry. “I thought so,” Sandy said. ” I thought it might be me.” Emily now understood that Sandy was deteriorating rapidly. Karen organized a small gathering on Sunday, May 18, to celebrate Sandy’s life. It was very intimate, just Sandy, Daryl, Emily, Karen, Bev and Robyn. (Jeremy had moved out West and still wasn’t in contact with his family, though Sandy and Daryl left a voice mail message to let him know when Sandy would die.) At the gathering, Daryl talked about a lawsuit that the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission filed in 1972 against AT&T for sex discrimination in its recruitment practices, in which he and Sandy took the stand together to testify as a team.

And just the other day, Robyn went on, Emily had been chatting in the kitchen with her mother and Bev. After Emily walked out, <hl> Sandy <hl> turned to Bev and asked, “Who is that person’s mother?” “You are,” Bev said, trying not to cry. “I thought so,” Sandy said. ”I thought it might be me.” Emily now understood that Sandy was deteriorating rapidly. Karen organized a small gathering on Sunday, May 18, to celebrate Sandy’s life. It was very intimate, just Sandy, Daryl, Emily, Karen, Bev and Robyn. (Jeremy had moved out West and still wasn’t in contact with his family, though Sandy and Daryl left a voice mail message to let him know when Sandy would die.) At the gathering, Daryl talked about a lawsuit that the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission filed in 1972 against AT&T for sex discrimination in its recruitment practices, in which he and Sandy took the stand together to testify as a team.


Question: When was porcelain invented?

Invented in China, about 1,000 years ago, porcelain is a ceramic made from a varying mixture of materials, the most indispensable of which is a whitish clay, kaolin. The city of Jingdezhen produced the most beautiful of these objects: bowls, jars, vases and other items created in vast quantities for the imperial court. Porcelain was so abundant in China that when Marco Polo made the first mention of the material in Western literature, it was to marvel that the pieces he encountered in China were “so plentiful and cheap that for a Venetian groat you might buy three bowls of such beauty that nothing lovelier could be imagined.” Not so in Europe, where, for 400 years after they laid eyes on it, no one knew how to make the stuff. Aristocrats and monarchs regarded imported “china” as treasure. It was nicknamed “white gold.” Augustus II, elector of Saxony, an omnivorous collector of both mistresses and china, wrote, “The same is true for oranges as for porcelain, that once one has the sickness of one or the other, one can never get enough of the things and wishes to have more and more.” In the early 18th century, under his orders, an odd couple of proto-scientists — an urbane mathematician and a young, eccentric alchemist — finally figured out how to make porcelain in Dresden. A few years later, William Cookworthy, a mild-mannered Quaker apothecary living in Devon, noticed that the clay in a nearby Cornish hill resembled the kaolin described in newly published letters from China. He became the first person to make true porcelain in England. This is the rough origin story Edmund de Waal sets out to tell in “The White Road: Journey Into an Obsession.” He would appear to be the ideal candidate for the job: A celebrated ceramist who makes austere white porcelain vessels, he is also the author of a surprise best seller: “The Hare With Amber Eyes,” published in 2010. That book followed the fate of a collection of netsuke (small Japanese carvings) acquired by his fabulously wealthy Jewish family during the belle epoque, lost when they fled Austria following the Anschluss and then recovered again when a former servant revealed that she had stealthily secreted the little objects in her mattress. What makes “The Hare With Amber Eyes” so entrancing is not the netsuke, however charming they may be, but the family, beginning with the suave cousin of his great-grandfather, one of the models for Proust’s Charles Swann and an early enthusiast and collector of Japanese art and a patron of the Impressionists. De Waal has a wicked gift for dissecting the tricky relations between artists and the rich people whose whims make it possible for them to both work and eat. He applies it to delicious effect in the strongest section of “The White Road,” which describes the travails of Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus — student of Spinoza, friend of Newton and Leibniz — as he rattled around Europe seeking an aristocrat to fund his research: “If you are interested in optics or mineralogy or funding a dictionary of philosophy, you are lucky to get two minutes of the attention of a margrave who lives for killing stags or boar in inventive ways.”

Answer: 1,000 years ago

<hl> Invented in China, about 1,000 years ago , porcelain is a ceramic made from a varying mixture of materials, the most indispensable of which is a whitish clay, kaolin. <hl> The city of Jingdezhen produced the most beautiful of these objects: bowls, jars, vases and other items created in vast quantities for the imperial court. Porcelain was so abundant in China that when Marco Polo made the first mention of the material in Western literature, it was to marvel that the pieces he encountered in China were “so plentiful and cheap that for a Venetian groat you might buy three bowls of such beauty that nothing lovelier could be imagined.” Not so in Europe, where, for 400 years after they laid eyes on it, no one knew how to make the stuff. Aristocrats and monarchs regarded imported “china” as treasure. It was nicknamed “white gold.” Augustus II, elector of Saxony, an omnivorous collector of both mistresses and china, wrote, “The same is true for oranges as for porcelain, that once one has the sickness of one or the other, one can never get enough of the things and wishes to have more and more.” In the early 18th century, under his orders, an odd couple of proto-scientists — an urbane mathematician and a young, eccentric alchemist — finally figured out how to make porcelain in Dresden. A few years later, William Cookworthy, a mild-mannered Quaker apothecary living in Devon, noticed that the clay in a nearby Cornish hill resembled the kaolin described in newly published letters from China. He became the first person to make true porcelain in England. This is the rough origin story Edmund de Waal sets out to tell in “The White Road: Journey Into an Obsession.” He would appear to be the ideal candidate for the job: A celebrated ceramist who makes austere white porcelain vessels, he is also the author of a surprise best seller: “The Hare With Amber Eyes,” published in 2010. That book followed the fate of a collection of netsuke (small Japanese carvings) acquired by his fabulously wealthy Jewish family during the belle epoque, lost when they fled Austria following the Anschluss and then recovered again when a former servant revealed that she had stealthily secreted the little objects in her mattress. What makes “The Hare With Amber Eyes” so entrancing is not the netsuke, however charming they may be, but the family, beginning with the suave cousin of his great-grandfather, one of the models for Proust’s Charles Swann and an early enthusiast and collector of Japanese art and a patron of the Impressionists. De Waal has a wicked gift for dissecting the tricky relations between artists and the rich people whose whims make it possible for them to both work and eat. He applies it to delicious effect in the strongest section of “The White Road,” which describes the travails of Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus — student of Spinoza, friend of Newton and Leibniz — as he rattled around Europe seeking an aristocrat to fund his research: “If you are interested in optics or mineralogy or funding a dictionary of philosophy, you are lucky to get two minutes of the attention of a margrave who lives for killing stags or boar in inventive ways.”

Invented in China, about <hl> 1,000 years ago <hl>, porcelain is a ceramic made from a varying mixture of materials, the most indispensable of which is a whitish clay, kaolin. The city of Jingdezhen produced the most beautiful of these objects: bowls, jars, vases and other items created in vast quantities for the imperial court. Porcelain was so abundant in China that when Marco Polo made the first mention of the material in Western literature, it was to marvel that the pieces he encountered in China were “so plentiful and cheap that for a Venetian groat you might buy three bowls of such beauty that nothing lovelier could be imagined.” Not so in Europe, where, for 400 years after they laid eyes on it, no one knew how to make the stuff. Aristocrats and monarchs regarded imported “china” as treasure. It was nicknamed “white gold.” Augustus II, elector of Saxony, an omnivorous collector of both mistresses and china, wrote, “The same is true for oranges as for porcelain, that once one has the sickness of one or the other, one can never get enough of the things and wishes to have more and more.” In the early 18th century, under his orders, an odd couple of proto-scientists — an urbane mathematician and a young, eccentric alchemist — finally figured out how to make porcelain in Dresden. A few years later, William Cookworthy, a mild-mannered Quaker apothecary living in Devon, noticed that the clay in a nearby Cornish hill resembled the kaolin described in newly published letters from China. He became the first person to make true porcelain in England. This is the rough origin story Edmund de Waal sets out to tell in “The White Road: Journey Into an Obsession.” He would appear to be the ideal candidate for the job: A celebrated ceramist who makes austere white porcelain vessels, he is also the author of a surprise best seller: “The Hare With Amber Eyes,” published in 2010. That book followed the fate of a collection of netsuke (small Japanese carvings) acquired by his fabulously wealthy Jewish family during the belle epoque, lost when they fled Austria following the Anschluss and then recovered again when a former servant revealed that she had stealthily secreted the little objects in her mattress. What makes “The Hare With Amber Eyes” so entrancing is not the netsuke, however charming they may be, but the family, beginning with the suave cousin of his great-grandfather, one of the models for Proust’s Charles Swann and an early enthusiast and collector of Japanese art and a patron of the Impressionists. De Waal has a wicked gift for dissecting the tricky relations between artists and the rich people whose whims make it possible for them to both work and eat. He applies it to delicious effect in the strongest section of “The White Road,” which describes the travails of Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus — student of Spinoza, friend of Newton and Leibniz — as he rattled around Europe seeking an aristocrat to fund his research: “If you are interested in optics or mineralogy or funding a dictionary of philosophy, you are lucky to get two minutes of the attention of a margrave who lives for killing stags or boar in inventive ways.”

Invented in China, about <hl> 1,000 years ago <hl> , porcelain is a ceramic made from a varying mixture of materials, the most indispensable of which is a whitish clay, kaolin.


Question: What couldn't Mr. Monzu believe?

Answer: we have to leave

Several people had tears in their eyes as they wondered what they would do without people who knew their order before they opened their mouths. <hl> “I can’t believe we have to leave ,” Mr. Moznu said. <hl>

Several people had tears in their eyes as they wondered what they would do without people who knew their order before they opened their mouths. “I can’t believe <hl> we have to leave <hl>,” Mr. Moznu said.

“I can’t believe <hl> we have to leave <hl> ,” Mr. Moznu said.


Question: Who did Russian's invaded last year in unmarked unmarked unifrom?

The training aims to remold the Ukrainian units by increasing the responsibilities of noncommissioned officers, fixing a Soviet legacy of an officer-heavy infantry. Without sergeants paying attention, basic mistakes were being made, the trainers said. Capt. Nicholas Salimbene, an American trainer, noticed with alarm that the Ukrainians were carrying their rifles with the safeties off. “It’s about the professionalism of the force,” he said. “We want them to look like soldiers.” “You see reports about the little green men,” he said, referring to the Russian soldiers who invaded the Crimean Peninsula last year in unmarked uniforms, “and they all walk around professionally, and carry their weapons professionally.” The Ukrainians should, too, Captain Salimbene said. The United States is also providing advanced courses for military professionals known as forward observers — the ones who call in targets — to improve the accuracy of artillery fire, making it more lethal for the enemy and less so for civilians. Oleksandr I. Leshchenko, the deputy director for training in the National Guard, was somewhat skeptical about the value of the training, saying that “99 percent” of the men in the course had already been in combat.

Answer: Crimean Peninsula

The training aims to remold the Ukrainian units by increasing the responsibilities of noncommissioned officers, fixing a Soviet legacy of an officer-heavy infantry. Without sergeants paying attention, basic mistakes were being made, the trainers said. Capt. Nicholas Salimbene, an American trainer, noticed with alarm that the Ukrainians were carrying their rifles with the safeties off. “It’s about the professionalism of the force,” he said. “We want them to look like soldiers.” <hl> “You see reports about the little green men,” he said, referring to the Russian soldiers who invaded the Crimean Peninsula last year in unmarked uniforms, “and they all walk around professionally, and carry their weapons professionally.” <hl> The Ukrainians should, too, Captain Salimbene said. The United States is also providing advanced courses for military professionals known as forward observers — the ones who call in targets — to improve the accuracy of artillery fire, making it more lethal for the enemy and less so for civilians. Oleksandr I. Leshchenko, the deputy director for training in the National Guard, was somewhat skeptical about the value of the training, saying that “99 percent” of the men in the course had already been in combat.

The training aims to remold the Ukrainian units by increasing the responsibilities of noncommissioned officers, fixing a Soviet legacy of an officer-heavy infantry. Without sergeants paying attention, basic mistakes were being made, the trainers said. Capt. Nicholas Salimbene, an American trainer, noticed with alarm that the Ukrainians were carrying their rifles with the safeties off. “It’s about the professionalism of the force,” he said. “We want them to look like soldiers.” “You see reports about the little green men,” he said, referring to the Russian soldiers who invaded the <hl> Crimean Peninsula <hl> last year in unmarked uniforms, “and they all walk around professionally, and carry their weapons professionally.” The Ukrainians should, too, Captain Salimbene said. The United States is also providing advanced courses for military professionals known as forward observers — the ones who call in targets — to improve the accuracy of artillery fire, making it more lethal for the enemy and less so for civilians. Oleksandr I. Leshchenko, the deputy director for training in the National Guard, was somewhat skeptical about the value of the training, saying that “99 percent” of the men in the course had already been in combat.


Question: how old is Harris?

“I played 27 more tests than I ever thought I would,” Harris said Saturday. “I relished every single moment of them.” His departure robs Australia of its one bowler who has proved effective in English conditions, as he was its leading wicket-taker in England in 2013. Harris, 35, was a subtle craftsmen among a clutch of flamethrowers, relying on control and variation. rather than sheer speed. His loss increases Australia’s likely reliance on its two fearsome left-armers, Mitchell Starc and Mitchell Johnson, and it is also a reminder of one potential vulnerability of the defending champion — its age. Brad Haddin, the wicketkeeper, and Chris Rogers, an opening batsman, are both 37. Middle-order batsman Adam Voges is a 35-year-old test rookie. Johnson is 33, while captain Michael Clarke is 34 and has a history of back trouble. Much will depend on Clarke’s heir apparent as captain, Steve Smith. The 26-year-old was once regarded as a “bits and pieces” player who was not quite good enough in any of his roles, but he has developed into a batting specialist who now tops the world rankings.

Answer: 35

“I played 27 more tests than I ever thought I would,” Harris said Saturday. “I relished every single moment of them.” His departure robs Australia of its one bowler who has proved effective in English conditions, as he was its leading wicket-taker in England in 2013. <hl> Harris, 35 , was a subtle craftsmen among a clutch of flamethrowers, relying on control and variation. <hl> rather than sheer speed. His loss increases Australia’s likely reliance on its two fearsome left-armers, Mitchell Starc and Mitchell Johnson, and it is also a reminder of one potential vulnerability of the defending champion — its age. Brad Haddin, the wicketkeeper, and Chris Rogers, an opening batsman, are both 37. Middle-order batsman Adam Voges is a 35-year-old test rookie. Johnson is 33, while captain Michael Clarke is 34 and has a history of back trouble. Much will depend on Clarke’s heir apparent as captain, Steve Smith. The 26-year-old was once regarded as a “bits and pieces” player who was not quite good enough in any of his roles, but he has developed into a batting specialist who now tops the world rankings.

“I played 27 more tests than I ever thought I would,” Harris said Saturday. “I relished every single moment of them.” His departure robs Australia of its one bowler who has proved effective in English conditions, as he was its leading wicket-taker in England in 2013. Harris, <hl> 35 <hl>, was a subtle craftsmen among a clutch of flamethrowers, relying on control and variation. rather than sheer speed. His loss increases Australia’s likely reliance on its two fearsome left-armers, Mitchell Starc and Mitchell Johnson, and it is also a reminder of one potential vulnerability of the defending champion — its age. Brad Haddin, the wicketkeeper, and Chris Rogers, an opening batsman, are both 37. Middle-order batsman Adam Voges is a 35-year-old test rookie. Johnson is 33, while captain Michael Clarke is 34 and has a history of back trouble. Much will depend on Clarke’s heir apparent as captain, Steve Smith. The 26-year-old was once regarded as a “bits and pieces” player who was not quite good enough in any of his roles, but he has developed into a batting specialist who now tops the world rankings.

Harris, <hl> 35 <hl> , was a subtle craftsmen among a clutch of flamethrowers, relying on control and variation.


Question: The refugees make what type of artwork?

A major focus of the Iraqi pavilion this year (held at Ca’ Dandolo, a palazzo on the Grand Canal) is a set of drawings by adult Iraqi refugees who fled the Islamic State’s onslaught. These depictions — a hooded militant shooting a mother and child, a bandaged man whose bleeding heart is shaped like Iraq — were produced when the Ruya Foundation took paper, pencils and crayons to refugees in three camps in northern Iraq. All 546 submissions were then flown to Beijing and shown to the Chinese artist Ai Weiwei, who made a selection for a book published by the foundation. (That book is on sale at the exhibition and proceeds will go to the refugees.)

Answer: drawings

<hl> A major focus of the Iraqi pavilion this year (held at Ca’ Dandolo, a palazzo on the Grand Canal) is a set of drawings by adult Iraqi refugees who fled the Islamic State’s onslaught. <hl> These depictions — a hooded militant shooting a mother and child, a bandaged man whose bleeding heart is shaped like Iraq — were produced when the Ruya Foundation took paper, pencils and crayons to refugees in three camps in northern Iraq. All 546 submissions were then flown to Beijing and shown to the Chinese artist Ai Weiwei, who made a selection for a book published by the foundation. (That book is on sale at the exhibition and proceeds will go to the refugees.)

A major focus of the Iraqi pavilion this year (held at Ca’ Dandolo, a palazzo on the Grand Canal) is a set of <hl> drawings <hl> by adult Iraqi refugees who fled the Islamic State’s onslaught. These depictions — a hooded militant shooting a mother and child, a bandaged man whose bleeding heart is shaped like Iraq — were produced when the Ruya Foundation took paper, pencils and crayons to refugees in three camps in northern Iraq. All 546 submissions were then flown to Beijing and shown to the Chinese artist Ai Weiwei, who made a selection for a book published by the foundation. (That book is on sale at the exhibition and proceeds will go to the refugees.)


Question: Who stated that they may or may not sign off on the bill?

The Senate on Tuesday approved legislation that would make California the first state to extend health coverage to children who are in the country illegally and seek federal authorization to sell private insurance to immigrants without documentation. The bill would allow children under 19 from low-income families to qualify for state-funded Medi-Cal, regardless of their legal status. It would seek a federal waiver for California to sell unsubsidized private insurance through the state’s health exchange. The bill goes to the Assembly. Gov. Jerry Brown has not said whether he would sign it.

Answer: Gov. Jerry Brown

The Senate on Tuesday approved legislation that would make California the first state to extend health coverage to children who are in the country illegally and seek federal authorization to sell private insurance to immigrants without documentation. The bill would allow children under 19 from low-income families to qualify for state-funded Medi-Cal, regardless of their legal status. It would seek a federal waiver for California to sell unsubsidized private insurance through the state’s health exchange. The bill goes to the Assembly. <hl> Gov. Jerry Brown has not said whether he would sign it. <hl>

The Senate on Tuesday approved legislation that would make California the first state to extend health coverage to children who are in the country illegally and seek federal authorization to sell private insurance to immigrants without documentation. The bill would allow children under 19 from low-income families to qualify for state-funded Medi-Cal, regardless of their legal status. It would seek a federal waiver for California to sell unsubsidized private insurance through the state’s health exchange. The bill goes to the Assembly. <hl> Gov. Jerry Brown <hl> has not said whether he would sign it.


Question: how much did nook backslide?

Still, the company’s struggles are probably far from over. Barnes & Noble has been battered by Amazon, its powerful online rival, and has incurred big financial losses from its largely failed attempt to carve out territory in the e-book space with the Nook. While the company posted lower losses in its Nook division in the most recent quarter, sales were still disappointing, as the Nook segment tumbled 31.9 percent to $43.5 million, primarily because of lower digital content sales. The chain has closed more than 70 stores around the country in the last five years, and plans to close 10 more in the coming year.

Answer: 31.9 percent to $43.5 million

Still, the company’s struggles are probably far from over. Barnes & Noble has been battered by Amazon, its powerful online rival, and has incurred big financial losses from its largely failed attempt to carve out territory in the e-book space with the Nook. <hl> While the company posted lower losses in its Nook division in the most recent quarter, sales were still disappointing, as the Nook segment tumbled 31.9 percent to $43.5 million , primarily because of lower digital content sales. <hl> The chain has closed more than 70 stores around the country in the last five years, and plans to close 10 more in the coming year.

Still, the company’s struggles are probably far from over. Barnes & Noble has been battered by Amazon, its powerful online rival, and has incurred big financial losses from its largely failed attempt to carve out territory in the e-book space with the Nook. While the company posted lower losses in its Nook division in the most recent quarter, sales were still disappointing, as the Nook segment tumbled <hl> 31.9 percent to $43.5 million <hl>, primarily because of lower digital content sales. The chain has closed more than 70 stores around the country in the last five years, and plans to close 10 more in the coming year.

While the company posted lower losses in its Nook division in the most recent quarter, sales were still disappointing, as the Nook segment tumbled <hl> 31.9 percent to $43.5 million <hl> , primarily because of lower digital content sales.


Question: Who did Mr. Robins represent?

Mr. Robins sued under a part of the credit law that provides damages of up to $1,000 without proof of direct harm, and he sought to represent a class of people with similar claims. Spokeo responded that Congress did not have the power to create a legal right to sue for plaintiffs who have suffered no direct and concrete injuries. The United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit last year disagreed. “A plaintiff can suffer a violation of the statutory right without suffering actual damages,” a unanimous three-judge panel ruled.

Answer: a class of people with similar claims

<hl> Mr. Robins sued under a part of the credit law that provides damages of up to $1,000 without proof of direct harm, and he sought to represent a class of people with similar claims . <hl> Spokeo responded that Congress did not have the power to create a legal right to sue for plaintiffs who have suffered no direct and concrete injuries. The United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit last year disagreed. “A plaintiff can suffer a violation of the statutory right without suffering actual damages,” a unanimous three-judge panel ruled.

Mr. Robins sued under a part of the credit law that provides damages of up to $1,000 without proof of direct harm, and he sought to represent <hl> a class of people with similar claims <hl>. Spokeo responded that Congress did not have the power to create a legal right to sue for plaintiffs who have suffered no direct and concrete injuries. The United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit last year disagreed. “A plaintiff can suffer a violation of the statutory right without suffering actual damages,” a unanimous three-judge panel ruled.

Mr. Robins sued under a part of the credit law that provides damages of up to $1,000 without proof of direct harm, and he sought to represent <hl> a class of people with similar claims <hl> .


Question: What is the first name of Mr. Foley's mother?

Mr. Foley (left), 48, is a senior vice president and the director of business development for Rubenstein Communications, the public relations firm in New York, where he oversees the introduction of new clients into the firm. He graduated from Fordham. Mr. Foley is a son of George D. Foley of College Station, Tex., and the late Maryursula W. Foley. Mr. Gaden, 53, works in New York as the chief executive of the music publisher Imagem Music USA and the chief executive of the Rodgers and Hammerstein division of the company. He graduated magna cum laude from Hamilton College and received an M.B.A. from Harvard. He is the son of Joel T. Gaden of Jamestown, N.Y., and the late Nancy F. Gaden. The couple met through mutual friends over cocktails in 1995 in New York.

Answer: Maryursula

Mr. Foley (left), 48, is a senior vice president and the director of business development for Rubenstein Communications, the public relations firm in New York, where he oversees the introduction of new clients into the firm. He graduated from Fordham. <hl> Mr. Foley is a son of George D. Foley of College Station, Tex., and the late Maryursula W. Foley. <hl> Mr. Gaden, 53, works in New York as the chief executive of the music publisher Imagem Music USA and the chief executive of the Rodgers and Hammerstein division of the company. He graduated magna cum laude from Hamilton College and received an M.B.A. from Harvard. He is the son of Joel T. Gaden of Jamestown, N.Y., and the late Nancy F. Gaden. The couple met through mutual friends over cocktails in 1995 in New York.

Mr. Foley (left), 48, is a senior vice president and the director of business development for Rubenstein Communications, the public relations firm in New York, where he oversees the introduction of new clients into the firm. He graduated from Fordham. Mr. Foley is a son of George D. Foley of College Station, Tex., and the late <hl> Maryursula <hl> W. Foley. Mr. Gaden, 53, works in New York as the chief executive of the music publisher Imagem Music USA and the chief executive of the Rodgers and Hammerstein division of the company. He graduated magna cum laude from Hamilton College and received an M.B.A. from Harvard. He is the son of Joel T. Gaden of Jamestown, N.Y., and the late Nancy F. Gaden. The couple met through mutual friends over cocktails in 1995 in New York.


Question: What cities was Boston picked over in January?

Boston 2024 has been in a race against time. For its initial bid, the group had not talked with many of the landlords involved before it identified their properties as the sites of Olympic venues. It obscured financial details. It made several other missteps and was not transparent. That initial plan won the support of just 36 percent of Boston residents in March. And so Boston 2024 underwent an overhaul, including a leadership change. Governor Baker, who has remained neutral but skeptical toward the proposal, told the group to produce a new plan by the end of June. Boston 2024 officials unveiled it Monday so they could fly to California that night and meet with United States Olympic Committee officials, who are conducting a board meeting there. Monday’s plan, called Bid 2.0, was seen as Boston’s major chance to convince the U.S.O.C. to stick with Boston, which it picked over Los Angeles, San Francisco and Washington in January. The U.S.O.C. must enter its American competitor into the international competition by Sept. 15. If Bid 2.0 fails to generate more enthusiasm than the first iteration, the U.S.O.C. could either drop Boston and mount a last-minute alternative bid with Los Angeles or drop out of the 2024 competition altogether.

Answer: Los Angeles, San Francisco and Washington

Boston 2024 has been in a race against time. For its initial bid, the group had not talked with many of the landlords involved before it identified their properties as the sites of Olympic venues. It obscured financial details. It made several other missteps and was not transparent. That initial plan won the support of just 36 percent of Boston residents in March. And so Boston 2024 underwent an overhaul, including a leadership change. Governor Baker, who has remained neutral but skeptical toward the proposal, told the group to produce a new plan by the end of June. Boston 2024 officials unveiled it Monday so they could fly to California that night and meet with United States Olympic Committee officials, who are conducting a board meeting there. <hl> Monday’s plan, called Bid 2.0, was seen as Boston’s major chance to convince the U.S.O.C. to stick with Boston, which it picked over Los Angeles, San Francisco and Washington in January. <hl> The U.S.O.C. must enter its American competitor into the international competition by Sept. 15. If Bid 2.0 fails to generate more enthusiasm than the first iteration, the U.S.O.C. could either drop Boston and mount a last-minute alternative bid with Los Angeles or drop out of the 2024 competition altogether.

Boston 2024 has been in a race against time. For its initial bid, the group had not talked with many of the landlords involved before it identified their properties as the sites of Olympic venues. It obscured financial details. It made several other missteps and was not transparent. That initial plan won the support of just 36 percent of Boston residents in March. And so Boston 2024 underwent an overhaul, including a leadership change. Governor Baker, who has remained neutral but skeptical toward the proposal, told the group to produce a new plan by the end of June. Boston 2024 officials unveiled it Monday so they could fly to California that night and meet with United States Olympic Committee officials, who are conducting a board meeting there. Monday’s plan, called Bid 2.0, was seen as Boston’s major chance to convince the U.S.O.C. to stick with Boston, which it picked over <hl> Los Angeles, San Francisco and Washington <hl> in January. The U.S.O.C. must enter its American competitor into the international competition by Sept. 15. If Bid 2.0 fails to generate more enthusiasm than the first iteration, the U.S.O.C. could either drop Boston and mount a last-minute alternative bid with Los Angeles or drop out of the 2024 competition altogether.


Question: Which team did LeBron James represent?

“I was just tired,” Rose said. That scene was all too reminiscent of the night that everything changed for the Bulls and their star point guard, then 23. They were the top seed in the Eastern Conference, seeking a playoff rematch against LeBron James and the Miami Heat. Late in Game 1 of their playoff opener against Philadelphia, as Rose drove, his knee gave out. The 76ers then dispatched the Bulls. What followed has been well chronicled, with Rose’s career taking on the arc of a tragic novel. The A.C.L. injury cost him all of the next year; his teammates, many battling injuries themselves, fought valiantly in the playoffs, beating the Nets in seven games before succumbing to the Heat.

Answer: Miami Heat

“I was just tired,” Rose said. That scene was all too reminiscent of the night that everything changed for the Bulls and their star point guard, then 23. <hl> They were the top seed in the Eastern Conference, seeking a playoff rematch against LeBron James and the Miami Heat . <hl> Late in Game 1 of their playoff opener against Philadelphia, as Rose drove, his knee gave out. The 76ers then dispatched the Bulls. What followed has been well chronicled, with Rose’s career taking on the arc of a tragic novel. The A.C.L. injury cost him all of the next year; his teammates, many battling injuries themselves, fought valiantly in the playoffs, beating the Nets in seven games before succumbing to the Heat.

“I was just tired,” Rose said. That scene was all too reminiscent of the night that everything changed for the Bulls and their star point guard, then 23. They were the top seed in the Eastern Conference, seeking a playoff rematch against LeBron James and the <hl> Miami Heat <hl>. Late in Game 1 of their playoff opener against Philadelphia, as Rose drove, his knee gave out. The 76ers then dispatched the Bulls. What followed has been well chronicled, with Rose’s career taking on the arc of a tragic novel. The A.C.L. injury cost him all of the next year; his teammates, many battling injuries themselves, fought valiantly in the playoffs, beating the Nets in seven games before succumbing to the Heat.

They were the top seed in the Eastern Conference, seeking a playoff rematch against LeBron James and the <hl> Miami Heat <hl> .


Question: Why has Mr. Rodham's connection to the Clintons raised eyebrows?

On and off for two decades, the affable Mr. Rodham has tried to use his connections with his sister and his brother-in-law, former President Bill Clinton, to further a business career that has seen more failures than successes. The connections to the Clintons have given Mr. Rodham, a self-described “facilitator,” a unique appeal and a range of opportunities, like addressing Chinese investor conferences and joining an advisory board of a company seeking permission to mine for gold in Haiti. But his business dealings have often invited public scrutiny and uncomfortable questions for the Clintons as Mr. Rodham has cycled through a variety of ventures, leveraging his ties to them and sometimes directly seeking their help. When Mr. Clinton worked as a co-chairman of Haiti’s earthquake recovery commission, Mr. Rodham and his partners sought a $22 million deal to rebuild homes in the country. In court proceedings three years ago in an unrelated lawsuit, Mr. Rodham explained how “a guy in Haiti” had “donated” 10,000 acres of land to him and described how he had leaned on Mr. Clinton to get the rebuilding project funded amid bureaucratic delays. “I deal through the Clinton Foundation. That gets me in touch with the Haitian officials,” Mr. Rodham said, according to a transcript of his testimony. “I hound my brother-in-law, because it’s his fund that we’re going to get our money from. And he can’t do it until the Haitian government does it.

Answer: leveraging his ties to them and sometimes directly seeking their help.

On and off for two decades, the affable Mr. Rodham has tried to use his connections with his sister and his brother-in-law, former President Bill Clinton, to further a business career that has seen more failures than successes. The connections to the Clintons have given Mr. Rodham, a self-described “facilitator,” a unique appeal and a range of opportunities, like addressing Chinese investor conferences and joining an advisory board of a company seeking permission to mine for gold in Haiti. <hl> But his business dealings have often invited public scrutiny and uncomfortable questions for the Clintons as Mr. Rodham has cycled through a variety of ventures, leveraging his ties to them and sometimes directly seeking their help. When Mr. Clinton worked as a co-chairman of Haiti’s earthquake recovery commission, Mr. Rodham and his partners sought a $22 million deal to rebuild homes in the country. <hl> In court proceedings three years ago in an unrelated lawsuit, Mr. Rodham explained how “a guy in Haiti” had “donated” 10,000 acres of land to him and described how he had leaned on Mr. Clinton to get the rebuilding project funded amid bureaucratic delays. “I deal through the Clinton Foundation. That gets me in touch with the Haitian officials,” Mr. Rodham said, according to a transcript of his testimony. “I hound my brother-in-law, because it’s his fund that we’re going to get our money from. And he can’t do it until the Haitian government does it.

On and off for two decades, the affable Mr. Rodham has tried to use his connections with his sister and his brother-in-law, former President Bill Clinton, to further a business career that has seen more failures than successes. The connections to the Clintons have given Mr. Rodham, a self-described “facilitator,” a unique appeal and a range of opportunities, like addressing Chinese investor conferences and joining an advisory board of a company seeking permission to mine for gold in Haiti. But his business dealings have often invited public scrutiny and uncomfortable questions for the Clintons as Mr. Rodham has cycled through a variety of ventures, <hl> leveraging his ties to them and sometimes directly seeking their help. <hl> When Mr. Clinton worked as a co-chairman of Haiti’s earthquake recovery commission, Mr. Rodham and his partners sought a $22 million deal to rebuild homes in the country. In court proceedings three years ago in an unrelated lawsuit, Mr. Rodham explained how “a guy in Haiti” had “donated” 10,000 acres of land to him and described how he had leaned on Mr. Clinton to get the rebuilding project funded amid bureaucratic delays. “I deal through the Clinton Foundation. That gets me in touch with the Haitian officials,” Mr. Rodham said, according to a transcript of his testimony. “I hound my brother-in-law, because it’s his fund that we’re going to get our money from. And he can’t do it until the Haitian government does it.


Question: What was the name of Tiziano's wife?

CAMBRIDGE, England — THE light was fading on the hills above the Arno, and my closest friend in the careworn ranks of foreign correspondents was sitting cross-legged on a canopied Chinese daybed, in a lovely old tree-shaded house in his native village, a brisk walk from the heart of Florence. His name was Tiziano Terzani, one of Italy’s most celebrated writers, and on that weekend, a decade ago, he was host with his wife, Angela, for the marriage of their daughter in a soaring renaissance basilica in Florence.

Answer: Angela

CAMBRIDGE, England — THE light was fading on the hills above the Arno, and my closest friend in the careworn ranks of foreign correspondents was sitting cross-legged on a canopied Chinese daybed, in a lovely old tree-shaded house in his native village, a brisk walk from the heart of Florence. <hl> His name was Tiziano Terzani, one of Italy’s most celebrated writers, and on that weekend, a decade ago, he was host with his wife, Angela , for the marriage of their daughter in a soaring renaissance basilica in Florence. <hl>

CAMBRIDGE, England — THE light was fading on the hills above the Arno, and my closest friend in the careworn ranks of foreign correspondents was sitting cross-legged on a canopied Chinese daybed, in a lovely old tree-shaded house in his native village, a brisk walk from the heart of Florence. His name was Tiziano Terzani, one of Italy’s most celebrated writers, and on that weekend, a decade ago, he was host with his wife, <hl> Angela <hl>, for the marriage of their daughter in a soaring renaissance basilica in Florence.

His name was Tiziano Terzani, one of Italy’s most celebrated writers, and on that weekend, a decade ago, he was host with his wife, <hl> Angela <hl> , for the marriage of their daughter in a soaring renaissance basilica in Florence.


Question: What should journalist make a high priority?

The future is in flux. What is certain is that citizens value investigative work. “People don’t know of corruption unless it’s disclosed to them,” said Martin Baron, the Globe’s editor during the church investigation, now editor of The Washington Post. When they see the media bringing wrongdoing to light, he said, they often express appreciation: “If it weren’t for you, nobody would do this work.” That enduring appetite for investigative journalism may hold the key. And so, for the good of the democracy (and their own survival) news organizations, whether start-up or legacy, must make it a high priority to keep digging — with the public’s interest at heart.

Answer: investigative journalism

The future is in flux. What is certain is that citizens value investigative work. “People don’t know of corruption unless it’s disclosed to them,” said Martin Baron, the Globe’s editor during the church investigation, now editor of The Washington Post. When they see the media bringing wrongdoing to light, he said, they often express appreciation: “If it weren’t for you, nobody would do this work.” <hl> That enduring appetite for investigative journalism may hold the key. <hl> And so, for the good of the democracy (and their own survival) news organizations, whether start-up or legacy, must make it a high priority to keep digging — with the public’s interest at heart.

The future is in flux. What is certain is that citizens value investigative work. “People don’t know of corruption unless it’s disclosed to them,” said Martin Baron, the Globe’s editor during the church investigation, now editor of The Washington Post. When they see the media bringing wrongdoing to light, he said, they often express appreciation: “If it weren’t for you, nobody would do this work.” That enduring appetite for <hl> investigative journalism <hl> may hold the key. And so, for the good of the democracy (and their own survival) news organizations, whether start-up or legacy, must make it a high priority to keep digging — with the public’s interest at heart.


Question: What event touched Liz Taylor the most?

At the beginning of the season we discussed how a hotel makes for a natural horror setting Hidden staircases, strangers coming and going, messes made and erased. Liz Taylor, our stylish concierge and bar tender, has seen it all, but what touches her most is an old couple come to the Cortez to end their lives together. Elegant in her cheongsam, the score remarkably similar to Shigeru Umebayashi’s “Yumeji’s Theme,” best known for its use in Wong Kar Wai’s luxurious film “In the Mood For Love,” Liz decides she’s had enough. “I feel like I’ll never be happy again,” she said. “I pretend that I’m O.K. living in a world without Tristan, but it’s... It’s been difficult. Besides, knowing the Countess, it’s just a matter of time before she slits my throat.” Liz isn’t the only one who wants out; even vampire Iris has had enough: “Donovan was my one true love. I thought when he brought me back from the brink of death, it was because he loved me. He doesn’t love me. He never will.” But while the indifference of Iris’s son is driving her to death, Liz’s son, whom she left behind, is the reason their death pact has to wait. Like in other seasons, the mythology of “Hotel” is fairly standard: unfinished business means ghosts will be trapped wherever they died.

Answer: an old couple come to the Cortez to end their lives together

At the beginning of the season we discussed how a hotel makes for a natural horror setting Hidden staircases, strangers coming and going, messes made and erased. <hl> Liz Taylor, our stylish concierge and bar tender, has seen it all, but what touches her most is an old couple come to the Cortez to end their lives together . <hl> Elegant in her cheongsam, the score remarkably similar to Shigeru Umebayashi’s “Yumeji’s Theme,” best known for its use in Wong Kar Wai’s luxurious film “In the Mood For Love,” Liz decides she’s had enough. “I feel like I’ll never be happy again,” she said. “I pretend that I’m O.K. living in a world without Tristan, but it’s... It’s been difficult. Besides, knowing the Countess, it’s just a matter of time before she slits my throat.” Liz isn’t the only one who wants out; even vampire Iris has had enough: “Donovan was my one true love. I thought when he brought me back from the brink of death, it was because he loved me. He doesn’t love me. He never will.” But while the indifference of Iris’s son is driving her to death, Liz’s son, whom she left behind, is the reason their death pact has to wait. Like in other seasons, the mythology of “Hotel” is fairly standard: unfinished business means ghosts will be trapped wherever they died.

At the beginning of the season we discussed how a hotel makes for a natural horror setting Hidden staircases, strangers coming and going, messes made and erased. Liz Taylor, our stylish concierge and bar tender, has seen it all, but what touches her most is <hl> an old couple come to the Cortez to end their lives together <hl>. Elegant in her cheongsam, the score remarkably similar to Shigeru Umebayashi’s “Yumeji’s Theme,” best known for its use in Wong Kar Wai’s luxurious film “In the Mood For Love,” Liz decides she’s had enough. “I feel like I’ll never be happy again,” she said. “I pretend that I’m O.K. living in a world without Tristan, but it’s... It’s been difficult. Besides, knowing the Countess, it’s just a matter of time before she slits my throat.” Liz isn’t the only one who wants out; even vampire Iris has had enough: “Donovan was my one true love. I thought when he brought me back from the brink of death, it was because he loved me. He doesn’t love me. He never will.” But while the indifference of Iris’s son is driving her to death, Liz’s son, whom she left behind, is the reason their death pact has to wait. Like in other seasons, the mythology of “Hotel” is fairly standard: unfinished business means ghosts will be trapped wherever they died.

Liz Taylor, our stylish concierge and bar tender, has seen it all, but what touches her most is <hl> an old couple come to the Cortez to end their lives together <hl> .


Question: Which river did the Boko Haram fighters cross to attack Bosso?

Boko Haram fighters crossed the Komadougou River separating Nigeria from Niger and attacked Bosso, a remote town that is a local seat of government with an open-air market that has been sheltering thousands of refugees from the conflict. An army officer in Niger said the fighters were pushed back after at least three hours of combat. Speaking from Niamey, the capital, the officer said all the Boko Haram fighters who entered Bosso were killed. Other Niger government officials could not be reached on Friday afternoon, and phone lines to Bosso, on Niger’s eastern edge, were not working.

Answer: Komadougou River

<hl> Boko Haram fighters crossed the Komadougou River separating Nigeria from Niger and attacked Bosso, a remote town that is a local seat of government with an open-air market that has been sheltering thousands of refugees from the conflict. <hl> An army officer in Niger said the fighters were pushed back after at least three hours of combat. Speaking from Niamey, the capital, the officer said all the Boko Haram fighters who entered Bosso were killed. Other Niger government officials could not be reached on Friday afternoon, and phone lines to Bosso, on Niger’s eastern edge, were not working.

Boko Haram fighters crossed the <hl> Komadougou River <hl> separating Nigeria from Niger and attacked Bosso, a remote town that is a local seat of government with an open-air market that has been sheltering thousands of refugees from the conflict. An army officer in Niger said the fighters were pushed back after at least three hours of combat. Speaking from Niamey, the capital, the officer said all the Boko Haram fighters who entered Bosso were killed. Other Niger government officials could not be reached on Friday afternoon, and phone lines to Bosso, on Niger’s eastern edge, were not working.


Question: In whose sets does the stone pillars change

The contemporary relevance of “Poliuto” is potentially strong, whether to the centenary of the Armenian genocide or to events in the Middle East. Ms. Clément updates the action, mostly to the interwar period. The costumes nod to dictatorships, maybe Nazi or Italian, less likely the Communism of Armenia. Muddled projections by the videographers fettFilm point obliquely and fleetingly to the 1990s siege of Sarajevo, and to an international criminal court. Towering stone pillars change position in Julia Hansen’s sets, suggesting the protean power of tyranny and the danger of lives lived in the shadows, but they transform awkwardly.

Answer: Julia Hansen’s

The contemporary relevance of “Poliuto” is potentially strong, whether to the centenary of the Armenian genocide or to events in the Middle East. Ms. Clément updates the action, mostly to the interwar period. The costumes nod to dictatorships, maybe Nazi or Italian, less likely the Communism of Armenia. Muddled projections by the videographers fettFilm point obliquely and fleetingly to the 1990s siege of Sarajevo, and to an international criminal court. <hl> Towering stone pillars change position in Julia Hansen’s sets, suggesting the protean power of tyranny and the danger of lives lived in the shadows, but they transform awkwardly. <hl>

The contemporary relevance of “Poliuto” is potentially strong, whether to the centenary of the Armenian genocide or to events in the Middle East. Ms. Clément updates the action, mostly to the interwar period. The costumes nod to dictatorships, maybe Nazi or Italian, less likely the Communism of Armenia. Muddled projections by the videographers fettFilm point obliquely and fleetingly to the 1990s siege of Sarajevo, and to an international criminal court. Towering stone pillars change position in <hl> Julia Hansen’s <hl> sets, suggesting the protean power of tyranny and the danger of lives lived in the shadows, but they transform awkwardly.


Question: What do regulators say that Deutsche Bank didn't spot?

Regulators around the world, but especially in the United States, are demanding that all banks reduce risk. Deutsche Bank was particularly vulnerable because of its large exposure to businesses that can be lucrative in good times but toxic in bad, like derivatives contracts. The bank said on Monday that it would stop offering some kinds of derivatives and retreat from other risk businesses like commodities trading. Meanwhile, aggressive law enforcement authorities last week extracted a $2.5 billion penalty from Deutsche Bank for misconduct related to an interest rate rigging scandal. The penalty, as well as criticism from regulators who said the bank failed to recognize signs of misconduct, damaged the reputation of the bank as well as Mr. Jain, who was head of Deutsche Bank’s investment bank operations in London, where most of the mischief took place.

Answer: signs of misconduct

Regulators around the world, but especially in the United States, are demanding that all banks reduce risk. Deutsche Bank was particularly vulnerable because of its large exposure to businesses that can be lucrative in good times but toxic in bad, like derivatives contracts. The bank said on Monday that it would stop offering some kinds of derivatives and retreat from other risk businesses like commodities trading. Meanwhile, aggressive law enforcement authorities last week extracted a $2.5 billion penalty from Deutsche Bank for misconduct related to an interest rate rigging scandal. <hl> The penalty, as well as criticism from regulators who said the bank failed to recognize signs of misconduct , damaged the reputation of the bank as well as Mr. Jain, who was head of Deutsche Bank’s investment bank operations in London, where most of the mischief took place. <hl>

Regulators around the world, but especially in the United States, are demanding that all banks reduce risk. Deutsche Bank was particularly vulnerable because of its large exposure to businesses that can be lucrative in good times but toxic in bad, like derivatives contracts. The bank said on Monday that it would stop offering some kinds of derivatives and retreat from other risk businesses like commodities trading. Meanwhile, aggressive law enforcement authorities last week extracted a $2.5 billion penalty from Deutsche Bank for misconduct related to an interest rate rigging scandal. The penalty, as well as criticism from regulators who said the bank failed to recognize <hl> signs of misconduct <hl>, damaged the reputation of the bank as well as Mr. Jain, who was head of Deutsche Bank’s investment bank operations in London, where most of the mischief took place.

The penalty, as well as criticism from regulators who said the bank failed to recognize <hl> signs of misconduct <hl> , damaged the reputation of the bank as well as Mr. Jain, who was head of Deutsche Bank’s investment bank operations in London, where most of the mischief took place.


Question: What was Mr. Stus nominated for?

Others, however, do see a problem. Mr. Medvedchuk, who was the longtime chief of staff to former President Leonid D. Kuchma, is a polarizing figure in Ukraine, known for his ruthlessness in politics and for his checkered past as a young lawyer in the Soviet Union. His role in a Soviet crackdown on dissidents ahead of the 1980 Olympics is widely believed to have contributed to the death of a Ukrainian poet and human rights activist, Vasyl Stus. Mr. Stus, exercising one of his few rights as a dissident defendant, tried to refuse representation by Mr. Medvedchuk, his state-appointed lawyer. Mr. Medvedchuk, however, insisted on speaking at the trial anyway, declaring his client guilty and saying he deserved to be punished. Five years later, Mr. Stus, who had been nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature, died at the age of 47 in a forced labor camp in Russia.

Answer: Nobel Prize in Literature

Others, however, do see a problem. Mr. Medvedchuk, who was the longtime chief of staff to former President Leonid D. Kuchma, is a polarizing figure in Ukraine, known for his ruthlessness in politics and for his checkered past as a young lawyer in the Soviet Union. His role in a Soviet crackdown on dissidents ahead of the 1980 Olympics is widely believed to have contributed to the death of a Ukrainian poet and human rights activist, Vasyl Stus. Mr. Stus, exercising one of his few rights as a dissident defendant, tried to refuse representation by Mr. Medvedchuk, his state-appointed lawyer. Mr. Medvedchuk, however, insisted on speaking at the trial anyway, declaring his client guilty and saying he deserved to be punished. <hl> Five years later, Mr. Stus, who had been nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature , died at the age of 47 in a forced labor camp in Russia. <hl>

Others, however, do see a problem. Mr. Medvedchuk, who was the longtime chief of staff to former President Leonid D. Kuchma, is a polarizing figure in Ukraine, known for his ruthlessness in politics and for his checkered past as a young lawyer in the Soviet Union. His role in a Soviet crackdown on dissidents ahead of the 1980 Olympics is widely believed to have contributed to the death of a Ukrainian poet and human rights activist, Vasyl Stus. Mr. Stus, exercising one of his few rights as a dissident defendant, tried to refuse representation by Mr. Medvedchuk, his state-appointed lawyer. Mr. Medvedchuk, however, insisted on speaking at the trial anyway, declaring his client guilty and saying he deserved to be punished. Five years later, Mr. Stus, who had been nominated for the <hl> Nobel Prize in Literature <hl>, died at the age of 47 in a forced labor camp in Russia.

Five years later, Mr. Stus, who had been nominated for the <hl> Nobel Prize in Literature <hl> , died at the age of 47 in a forced labor camp in Russia.


Question: What is the name of the folklorist from Staten island?

‘African Story Circle’ (Saturday) It’s a long way from West Africa to Staten Island, but this free gathering will bridge that distance with tales that illuminate the relationship between ancient folklore and the modern immigrant family experience. Naomi Sturm, a folklorist from Staten Island Arts, will moderate the event, which will include storytellers from Ghana, Liberia and Sierra Leone. From 1 to 2 p.m., Culture Lounge, St. George Ferry Terminal, 10 Ferry Terminal Drive, St. George, Staten Island, 718-447-3329, statenislandarts.org.

Answer: Naomi Sturm

‘African Story Circle’ (Saturday) It’s a long way from West Africa to Staten Island, but this free gathering will bridge that distance with tales that illuminate the relationship between ancient folklore and the modern immigrant family experience. <hl> Naomi Sturm , a folklorist from Staten Island Arts, will moderate the event, which will include storytellers from Ghana, Liberia and Sierra Leone. <hl> From 1 to 2 p.m., Culture Lounge, St. George Ferry Terminal, 10 Ferry Terminal Drive, St. George, Staten Island, 718-447-3329, statenislandarts.org.

‘African Story Circle’ (Saturday) It’s a long way from West Africa to Staten Island, but this free gathering will bridge that distance with tales that illuminate the relationship between ancient folklore and the modern immigrant family experience. <hl> Naomi Sturm <hl>, a folklorist from Staten Island Arts, will moderate the event, which will include storytellers from Ghana, Liberia and Sierra Leone. From 1 to 2 p.m., Culture Lounge, St. George Ferry Terminal, 10 Ferry Terminal Drive, St. George, Staten Island, 718-447-3329, statenislandarts.org.

<hl> Naomi Sturm <hl> , a folklorist from Staten Island Arts, will moderate the event, which will include storytellers from Ghana, Liberia and Sierra Leone.


Question: Who happened upon the dead man first?

The death of a 23-year-old man found in a Queens park this week has been ruled a homicide, the police said on Thursday. Passers-by found the man, Diego Piedrahita, lying face down in Forest Park shortly before 3:30 p.m. on Wednesday, the police said, in the area of Park Lane South and Woodhaven Boulevard. Responding officers found him lying unconscious and unresponsive with severe trauma to his head. Emergency medical workers pronounced him dead on the scene shortly thereafter. A trail of blood led to Mr. Piedrahita’s body, and the police also recovered a blood-covered tree branch near his body.

Answer: Passers-by

The death of a 23-year-old man found in a Queens park this week has been ruled a homicide, the police said on Thursday. <hl> Passers-by found the man, Diego Piedrahita, lying face down in Forest Park shortly before 3:30 p.m. on Wednesday, the police said, in the area of Park Lane South and Woodhaven Boulevard. <hl> Responding officers found him lying unconscious and unresponsive with severe trauma to his head. Emergency medical workers pronounced him dead on the scene shortly thereafter. A trail of blood led to Mr. Piedrahita’s body, and the police also recovered a blood-covered tree branch near his body.

The death of a 23-year-old man found in a Queens park this week has been ruled a homicide, the police said on Thursday. <hl> Passers-by <hl> found the man, Diego Piedrahita, lying face down in Forest Park shortly before 3:30 p.m. on Wednesday, the police said, in the area of Park Lane South and Woodhaven Boulevard. Responding officers found him lying unconscious and unresponsive with severe trauma to his head. Emergency medical workers pronounced him dead on the scene shortly thereafter. A trail of blood led to Mr. Piedrahita’s body, and the police also recovered a blood-covered tree branch near his body.


Question: When did Stuart Scott die?

David Rosenthal, the president and publisher of Blue Rider, a division of Penguin Random House, said, “If he had gone into remission, it would have been a wonderful miracle.” But Scott died on Jan. 4. Seventeen days later, ESPN’s website carried an excerpt from the book, the existence of which was not widely known, even among some of Scott’s closest associates. “I had no idea — no idea,” said Sage Steele, a friend of Scott’s and the host of ESPN’s “NBA Countdown” show. “Then I kept racking my brain, asking, ‘Did he tell me anything about it?’ ”

Answer: Jan. 4

But Scott died on Jan. 4 .

David Rosenthal, the president and publisher of Blue Rider, a division of Penguin Random House, said, “If he had gone into remission, it would have been a wonderful miracle.” <hl> But Scott died on Jan. 4 . <hl> Seventeen days later, ESPN’s website carried an excerpt from the book, the existence of which was not widely known, even among some of Scott’s closest associates. “I had no idea — no idea,” said Sage Steele, a friend of Scott’s and the host of ESPN’s “NBA Countdown” show. “Then I kept racking my brain, asking, ‘Did he tell me anything about it?’ ”

David Rosenthal, the president and publisher of Blue Rider, a division of Penguin Random House, said, “If he had gone into remission, it would have been a wonderful miracle.” But Scott died on <hl> Jan. 4 <hl>. Seventeen days later, ESPN’s website carried an excerpt from the book, the existence of which was not widely known, even among some of Scott’s closest associates. “I had no idea — no idea,” said Sage Steele, a friend of Scott’s and the host of ESPN’s “NBA Countdown” show. “Then I kept racking my brain, asking, ‘Did he tell me anything about it?’ ”


Question: Where was porcelain invented?

Invented in China, about 1,000 years ago, porcelain is a ceramic made from a varying mixture of materials, the most indispensable of which is a whitish clay, kaolin. The city of Jingdezhen produced the most beautiful of these objects: bowls, jars, vases and other items created in vast quantities for the imperial court. Porcelain was so abundant in China that when Marco Polo made the first mention of the material in Western literature, it was to marvel that the pieces he encountered in China were “so plentiful and cheap that for a Venetian groat you might buy three bowls of such beauty that nothing lovelier could be imagined.” Not so in Europe, where, for 400 years after they laid eyes on it, no one knew how to make the stuff. Aristocrats and monarchs regarded imported “china” as treasure. It was nicknamed “white gold.” Augustus II, elector of Saxony, an omnivorous collector of both mistresses and china, wrote, “The same is true for oranges as for porcelain, that once one has the sickness of one or the other, one can never get enough of the things and wishes to have more and more.” In the early 18th century, under his orders, an odd couple of proto-scientists — an urbane mathematician and a young, eccentric alchemist — finally figured out how to make porcelain in Dresden. A few years later, William Cookworthy, a mild-mannered Quaker apothecary living in Devon, noticed that the clay in a nearby Cornish hill resembled the kaolin described in newly published letters from China. He became the first person to make true porcelain in England. This is the rough origin story Edmund de Waal sets out to tell in “The White Road: Journey Into an Obsession.” He would appear to be the ideal candidate for the job: A celebrated ceramist who makes austere white porcelain vessels, he is also the author of a surprise best seller: “The Hare With Amber Eyes,” published in 2010. That book followed the fate of a collection of netsuke (small Japanese carvings) acquired by his fabulously wealthy Jewish family during the belle epoque, lost when they fled Austria following the Anschluss and then recovered again when a former servant revealed that she had stealthily secreted the little objects in her mattress. What makes “The Hare With Amber Eyes” so entrancing is not the netsuke, however charming they may be, but the family, beginning with the suave cousin of his great-grandfather, one of the models for Proust’s Charles Swann and an early enthusiast and collector of Japanese art and a patron of the Impressionists. De Waal has a wicked gift for dissecting the tricky relations between artists and the rich people whose whims make it possible for them to both work and eat. He applies it to delicious effect in the strongest section of “The White Road,” which describes the travails of Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus — student of Spinoza, friend of Newton and Leibniz — as he rattled around Europe seeking an aristocrat to fund his research: “If you are interested in optics or mineralogy or funding a dictionary of philosophy, you are lucky to get two minutes of the attention of a margrave who lives for killing stags or boar in inventive ways.”

Answer: China

<hl> Invented in China , about 1,000 years ago, porcelain is a ceramic made from a varying mixture of materials, the most indispensable of which is a whitish clay, kaolin. <hl> The city of Jingdezhen produced the most beautiful of these objects: bowls, jars, vases and other items created in vast quantities for the imperial court. Porcelain was so abundant in China that when Marco Polo made the first mention of the material in Western literature, it was to marvel that the pieces he encountered in China were “so plentiful and cheap that for a Venetian groat you might buy three bowls of such beauty that nothing lovelier could be imagined.” Not so in Europe, where, for 400 years after they laid eyes on it, no one knew how to make the stuff. Aristocrats and monarchs regarded imported “china” as treasure. It was nicknamed “white gold.” Augustus II, elector of Saxony, an omnivorous collector of both mistresses and china, wrote, “The same is true for oranges as for porcelain, that once one has the sickness of one or the other, one can never get enough of the things and wishes to have more and more.” In the early 18th century, under his orders, an odd couple of proto-scientists — an urbane mathematician and a young, eccentric alchemist — finally figured out how to make porcelain in Dresden. A few years later, William Cookworthy, a mild-mannered Quaker apothecary living in Devon, noticed that the clay in a nearby Cornish hill resembled the kaolin described in newly published letters from China. He became the first person to make true porcelain in England. This is the rough origin story Edmund de Waal sets out to tell in “The White Road: Journey Into an Obsession.” He would appear to be the ideal candidate for the job: A celebrated ceramist who makes austere white porcelain vessels, he is also the author of a surprise best seller: “The Hare With Amber Eyes,” published in 2010. That book followed the fate of a collection of netsuke (small Japanese carvings) acquired by his fabulously wealthy Jewish family during the belle epoque, lost when they fled Austria following the Anschluss and then recovered again when a former servant revealed that she had stealthily secreted the little objects in her mattress. What makes “The Hare With Amber Eyes” so entrancing is not the netsuke, however charming they may be, but the family, beginning with the suave cousin of his great-grandfather, one of the models for Proust’s Charles Swann and an early enthusiast and collector of Japanese art and a patron of the Impressionists. De Waal has a wicked gift for dissecting the tricky relations between artists and the rich people whose whims make it possible for them to both work and eat. He applies it to delicious effect in the strongest section of “The White Road,” which describes the travails of Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus — student of Spinoza, friend of Newton and Leibniz — as he rattled around Europe seeking an aristocrat to fund his research: “If you are interested in optics or mineralogy or funding a dictionary of philosophy, you are lucky to get two minutes of the attention of a margrave who lives for killing stags or boar in inventive ways.”

Invented in <hl> China <hl>, about 1,000 years ago, porcelain is a ceramic made from a varying mixture of materials, the most indispensable of which is a whitish clay, kaolin. The city of Jingdezhen produced the most beautiful of these objects: bowls, jars, vases and other items created in vast quantities for the imperial court. Porcelain was so abundant in China that when Marco Polo made the first mention of the material in Western literature, it was to marvel that the pieces he encountered in China were “so plentiful and cheap that for a Venetian groat you might buy three bowls of such beauty that nothing lovelier could be imagined.” Not so in Europe, where, for 400 years after they laid eyes on it, no one knew how to make the stuff. Aristocrats and monarchs regarded imported “china” as treasure. It was nicknamed “white gold.” Augustus II, elector of Saxony, an omnivorous collector of both mistresses and china, wrote, “The same is true for oranges as for porcelain, that once one has the sickness of one or the other, one can never get enough of the things and wishes to have more and more.” In the early 18th century, under his orders, an odd couple of proto-scientists — an urbane mathematician and a young, eccentric alchemist — finally figured out how to make porcelain in Dresden. A few years later, William Cookworthy, a mild-mannered Quaker apothecary living in Devon, noticed that the clay in a nearby Cornish hill resembled the kaolin described in newly published letters from China. He became the first person to make true porcelain in England. This is the rough origin story Edmund de Waal sets out to tell in “The White Road: Journey Into an Obsession.” He would appear to be the ideal candidate for the job: A celebrated ceramist who makes austere white porcelain vessels, he is also the author of a surprise best seller: “The Hare With Amber Eyes,” published in 2010. That book followed the fate of a collection of netsuke (small Japanese carvings) acquired by his fabulously wealthy Jewish family during the belle epoque, lost when they fled Austria following the Anschluss and then recovered again when a former servant revealed that she had stealthily secreted the little objects in her mattress. What makes “The Hare With Amber Eyes” so entrancing is not the netsuke, however charming they may be, but the family, beginning with the suave cousin of his great-grandfather, one of the models for Proust’s Charles Swann and an early enthusiast and collector of Japanese art and a patron of the Impressionists. De Waal has a wicked gift for dissecting the tricky relations between artists and the rich people whose whims make it possible for them to both work and eat. He applies it to delicious effect in the strongest section of “The White Road,” which describes the travails of Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus — student of Spinoza, friend of Newton and Leibniz — as he rattled around Europe seeking an aristocrat to fund his research: “If you are interested in optics or mineralogy or funding a dictionary of philosophy, you are lucky to get two minutes of the attention of a margrave who lives for killing stags or boar in inventive ways.”

Invented in <hl> China <hl> , about 1,000 years ago, porcelain is a ceramic made from a varying mixture of materials, the most indispensable of which is a whitish clay, kaolin.


Question: what is the target amount of oil produced per day?

“The solutions are good for all as they stand,” Mr. Zarif said on Twitter. “There is no need to spin using ‘fact sheets’ so early on.” Reviving the economy is now the primary issue for most people. Mr. Rouhani has been leading an effort to bring down inflation, while the end of sanctions might mean a return to oil production of more than two million barrels per day, only half what Iran once produced but twice its output in recent years. “We need to wait for the final deal to be signed in order to see the positive effects on our economy,” said Hamidreza Taraghi, an analyst close to Ayatollah Khamenei. “But all in all, this statement is close to what we have been expecting.” Nader Karimi Joni, a journalist and former member of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, said European companies would come back and invest. He added, “The future looks bright.”

Answer: more than two million barrels

“The solutions are good for all as they stand,” Mr. Zarif said on Twitter. “There is no need to spin using ‘fact sheets’ so early on.” Reviving the economy is now the primary issue for most people. <hl> Mr. Rouhani has been leading an effort to bring down inflation, while the end of sanctions might mean a return to oil production of more than two million barrels per day, only half what Iran once produced but twice its output in recent years. <hl> “We need to wait for the final deal to be signed in order to see the positive effects on our economy,” said Hamidreza Taraghi, an analyst close to Ayatollah Khamenei. “But all in all, this statement is close to what we have been expecting.” Nader Karimi Joni, a journalist and former member of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, said European companies would come back and invest. He added, “The future looks bright.”

“The solutions are good for all as they stand,” Mr. Zarif said on Twitter. “There is no need to spin using ‘fact sheets’ so early on.” Reviving the economy is now the primary issue for most people. Mr. Rouhani has been leading an effort to bring down inflation, while the end of sanctions might mean a return to oil production of <hl> more than two million barrels <hl> per day, only half what Iran once produced but twice its output in recent years. “We need to wait for the final deal to be signed in order to see the positive effects on our economy,” said Hamidreza Taraghi, an analyst close to Ayatollah Khamenei. “But all in all, this statement is close to what we have been expecting.” Nader Karimi Joni, a journalist and former member of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, said European companies would come back and invest. He added, “The future looks bright.”