Question: how many groundwater basins are connected to surface water?

If the connection between groundwater and surface water is considered, that time frame for running out of water altogether will almost certainly be even shorter. Arizona’s top water official told ProPublica that it was both politically difficult and costly to properly account for the interconnection. But deep in a 685-page document that is part of Arizona’s water plan, the state lists 42 groundwater basins that it says are connected to surface water, indicating a potential conflict over rights to those supplies. It’s unclear how much water flows from one into the other, but the documents show that many of the water sources are heavily relied on as sources of both groundwater and surface supplies at the same time. Thomas Buschatzke, the director of Arizona’s Department of Water Resources, acknowledged that pumping from wells could dry up streams, but said the current law kept the two resources separate, and “it would be a huge upset to the economy to do away with that.”

Answer: 42

If the connection between groundwater and surface water is considered, that time frame for running out of water altogether will almost certainly be even shorter. Arizona’s top water official told ProPublica that it was both politically difficult and costly to properly account for the interconnection. <hl> But deep in a 685-page document that is part of Arizona’s water plan, the state lists 42 groundwater basins that it says are connected to surface water, indicating a potential conflict over rights to those supplies. <hl> It’s unclear how much water flows from one into the other, but the documents show that many of the water sources are heavily relied on as sources of both groundwater and surface supplies at the same time. Thomas Buschatzke, the director of Arizona’s Department of Water Resources, acknowledged that pumping from wells could dry up streams, but said the current law kept the two resources separate, and “it would be a huge upset to the economy to do away with that.”

If the connection between groundwater and surface water is considered, that time frame for running out of water altogether will almost certainly be even shorter. Arizona’s top water official told ProPublica that it was both politically difficult and costly to properly account for the interconnection. But deep in a 685-page document that is part of Arizona’s water plan, the state lists <hl> 42 <hl> groundwater basins that it says are connected to surface water, indicating a potential conflict over rights to those supplies. It’s unclear how much water flows from one into the other, but the documents show that many of the water sources are heavily relied on as sources of both groundwater and surface supplies at the same time. Thomas Buschatzke, the director of Arizona’s Department of Water Resources, acknowledged that pumping from wells could dry up streams, but said the current law kept the two resources separate, and “it would be a huge upset to the economy to do away with that.”


Question: What is the price of Dortmunder Gold Lager?

Amber, hoppy aroma but not overbearing; pleasantly bitter and deliciously refreshing. ($1.70, 12 oz.) NINKASI BREWING VENN DORTMUND-STYLE LAGER, EUGENE, ORE. ★★1/2 Golden, aromas of malt and hops, balanced and refreshingly bitter. ($2, 12 oz.) GREAT LAKES BREWING DORTMUNDER GOLD LAGER, CLEVELAND ★★1/2 Pale amber, lightly bitter, with lively flavors of malt and hops. ($1.70, 12 oz.) CALDERA BREWING LAWNMOWER LAGER, ASHLAND, ORE. ★★1/2 Golden with grassy aromas, fresh, subtle and pleasantly bitter. ($1.90, 12 oz.) SAMUEL ADAMS BOSTON LAGER, BOSTON/CINCINNATI ★★1/2

Answer: $1.70

( $1.70 , 12 oz.)

Amber, hoppy aroma but not overbearing; pleasantly bitter and deliciously refreshing. <hl> ( $1.70 , 12 oz.) <hl> NINKASI BREWING VENN DORTMUND-STYLE LAGER, EUGENE, ORE. ★★1/2 Golden, aromas of malt and hops, balanced and refreshingly bitter. ($2, 12 oz.) GREAT LAKES BREWING DORTMUNDER GOLD LAGER, CLEVELAND ★★1/2 Pale amber, lightly bitter, with lively flavors of malt and hops. ($1.70, 12 oz.) CALDERA BREWING LAWNMOWER LAGER, ASHLAND, ORE. ★★1/2 Golden with grassy aromas, fresh, subtle and pleasantly bitter. ($1.90, 12 oz.) SAMUEL ADAMS BOSTON LAGER, BOSTON/CINCINNATI ★★1/2

Amber, hoppy aroma but not overbearing; pleasantly bitter and deliciously refreshing. (<hl> $1.70 <hl>, 12 oz.) NINKASI BREWING VENN DORTMUND-STYLE LAGER, EUGENE, ORE. ★★1/2 Golden, aromas of malt and hops, balanced and refreshingly bitter. ($2, 12 oz.) GREAT LAKES BREWING DORTMUNDER GOLD LAGER, CLEVELAND ★★1/2 Pale amber, lightly bitter, with lively flavors of malt and hops. ($1.70, 12 oz.) CALDERA BREWING LAWNMOWER LAGER, ASHLAND, ORE. ★★1/2 Golden with grassy aromas, fresh, subtle and pleasantly bitter. ($1.90, 12 oz.) SAMUEL ADAMS BOSTON LAGER, BOSTON/CINCINNATI ★★1/2


Question: Why did Pat want to boycott the trailer?

Pat Cordova-Goff, an 18-year-old who describes herself as a “trans woman of color” and a student at Citrus College in Glendora, Calif., created the Gay-Straight Alliance Network petition calling for a boycott of “Stonewall” after watching the trailer. The petition has now racked up more than 24,100 signatures. “There was so much potential in this movie,” she said, adding: “The argument that the best person for the role of a trans person is a cis person ignores the fact that there are so many trans actors and actresses waiting for their big break. There are so many marginalized stories within our queer marginalized community, and we don’t give them a chance to be told.”

Answer: there are so many trans actors and actresses waiting for their big break

Pat Cordova-Goff, an 18-year-old who describes herself as a “trans woman of color” and a student at Citrus College in Glendora, Calif., created the Gay-Straight Alliance Network petition calling for a boycott of “Stonewall” after watching the trailer. The petition has now racked up more than 24,100 signatures. “There was so much potential in this movie,” she said, adding: “The argument that the best person for the role of a trans person is a cis person ignores the fact <hl> that there are so many trans actors and actresses waiting for their big break . <hl> There are so many marginalized stories within our queer marginalized community, and we don’t give them a chance to be told.”

Pat Cordova-Goff, an 18-year-old who describes herself as a “trans woman of color” and a student at Citrus College in Glendora, Calif., created the Gay-Straight Alliance Network petition calling for a boycott of “Stonewall” after watching the trailer. The petition has now racked up more than 24,100 signatures. “There was so much potential in this movie,” she said, adding: “The argument that the best person for the role of a trans person is a cis person ignores the fact that <hl> there are so many trans actors and actresses waiting for their big break <hl>. There are so many marginalized stories within our queer marginalized community, and we don’t give them a chance to be told.”

that <hl> there are so many trans actors and actresses waiting for their big break <hl> .


Question: Which type of medal was awarded to Steinem?

Justice Ginsburg was appointed by President Jimmy Carter to the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit in 1980. In 1993, President Bill Clinton elevated her to the Supreme Court, making her the court’s second female justice, following Sandra Day O’Connor. (Justice Ginsburg is the subject of a tribute biography, “Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg,” by Irin Carmon and Shana Knizhnik.) Meanwhile, Ms. Steinem was an editor at Ms. for nearly 20 years, becoming the public face of the women’s movement. (She continues at the magazine as an adviser.) She has traveled extensively, speaking out for women’s and human rights, winning numerous awards for her work in media and advocacy, including the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2013. Her new book, “My Life on the Road,” was published last month.

Answer: Presidential Medal of Freedom

Justice Ginsburg was appointed by President Jimmy Carter to the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit in 1980. In 1993, President Bill Clinton elevated her to the Supreme Court, making her the court’s second female justice, following Sandra Day O’Connor. (Justice Ginsburg is the subject of a tribute biography, “Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg,” by Irin Carmon and Shana Knizhnik.) Meanwhile, Ms. Steinem was an editor at Ms. for nearly 20 years, becoming the public face of the women’s movement. (She continues at the magazine as an adviser.) <hl> She has traveled extensively, speaking out for women’s and human rights, winning numerous awards for her work in media and advocacy, including the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2013. <hl> Her new book, “My Life on the Road,” was published last month.

Justice Ginsburg was appointed by President Jimmy Carter to the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit in 1980. In 1993, President Bill Clinton elevated her to the Supreme Court, making her the court’s second female justice, following Sandra Day O’Connor. (Justice Ginsburg is the subject of a tribute biography, “Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg,” by Irin Carmon and Shana Knizhnik.) Meanwhile, Ms. Steinem was an editor at Ms. for nearly 20 years, becoming the public face of the women’s movement. (She continues at the magazine as an adviser.) She has traveled extensively, speaking out for women’s and human rights, winning numerous awards for her work in media and advocacy, including the <hl> Presidential Medal of Freedom <hl> in 2013. Her new book, “My Life on the Road,” was published last month.


Question: Who is the candidate running for office?

“To take in foreigners — it just isn’t possible,” said Jacky Roussell, a retired worker at the closed Goodyear tire factory, wearing a two-day stubble. “We’re already living in poverty here. There are French people living in the street. Besides, you don’t even know if there are jihadists among them,” Mr. Roussell said. “We can’t take in everyone, can we?” Ms. Le Pen, after a month of inflammatory words on migrants in media appearances and speeches to supporters, only alluded to the issue as she launched her regional elections campaign, aboard a boat here in front of a gaggle of French journalists.

Answer: Ms. Le Pen

“To take in foreigners — it just isn’t possible,” said Jacky Roussell, a retired worker at the closed Goodyear tire factory, wearing a two-day stubble. “We’re already living in poverty here. There are French people living in the street. Besides, you don’t even know if there are jihadists among them,” Mr. Roussell said. <hl> “We can’t take in everyone, can we?” Ms. Le Pen , after a month of inflammatory words on migrants in media appearances and speeches to supporters, only alluded to the issue as she launched her regional elections campaign, aboard a boat here in front of a gaggle of French journalists. <hl>

“To take in foreigners — it just isn’t possible,” said Jacky Roussell, a retired worker at the closed Goodyear tire factory, wearing a two-day stubble. “We’re already living in poverty here. There are French people living in the street. Besides, you don’t even know if there are jihadists among them,” Mr. Roussell said. “We can’t take in everyone, can we?” <hl> Ms. Le Pen <hl>, after a month of inflammatory words on migrants in media appearances and speeches to supporters, only alluded to the issue as she launched her regional elections campaign, aboard a boat here in front of a gaggle of French journalists.

“We can’t take in everyone, can we?” <hl> Ms. Le Pen <hl> , after a month of inflammatory words on migrants in media appearances and speeches to supporters, only alluded to the issue as she launched her regional elections campaign, aboard a boat here in front of a gaggle of French journalists.


Question: Who is Tim's wife visiting in the movie, "Digging for Fire"?

As things threaten to get out of hand for Tim, his wife is courting some disruption of her own, visiting some better-off friends whose relationship looks like a bad New Yorker short story from the ’70s and then setting off alone into the night. Everywhere she goes she finds a copy of Dr. David Schnarch’s “Passionate Marriage,” which feels like both an earnest, obvious metaphor and a sly running joke. Mr. Swanberg has made a tight, satisfying narrative that unfolds almost entirely in the subjunctive mood. This is a story about what almost happens, what might happen and what is happening under the banal surface of things. The modesty of “Digging for Fire” is among its virtues, and Mr. Swanberg has become an increasingly trustworthy filmmaker. He doesn’t necessarily have a lot to say, but he always makes sure that he knows what he’s talking about.

Answer: some better-off friends

<hl> As things threaten to get out of hand for Tim, his wife is courting some disruption of her own, visiting some better-off friends whose relationship looks like a bad New Yorker short story from the ’70s and then setting off alone into the night. <hl> Everywhere she goes she finds a copy of Dr. David Schnarch’s “Passionate Marriage,” which feels like both an earnest, obvious metaphor and a sly running joke. Mr. Swanberg has made a tight, satisfying narrative that unfolds almost entirely in the subjunctive mood. This is a story about what almost happens, what might happen and what is happening under the banal surface of things. The modesty of “Digging for Fire” is among its virtues, and Mr. Swanberg has become an increasingly trustworthy filmmaker. He doesn’t necessarily have a lot to say, but he always makes sure that he knows what he’s talking about.

As things threaten to get out of hand for Tim, his wife is courting some disruption of her own, visiting <hl> some better-off friends <hl> whose relationship looks like a bad New Yorker short story from the ’70s and then setting off alone into the night. Everywhere she goes she finds a copy of Dr. David Schnarch’s “Passionate Marriage,” which feels like both an earnest, obvious metaphor and a sly running joke. Mr. Swanberg has made a tight, satisfying narrative that unfolds almost entirely in the subjunctive mood. This is a story about what almost happens, what might happen and what is happening under the banal surface of things. The modesty of “Digging for Fire” is among its virtues, and Mr. Swanberg has become an increasingly trustworthy filmmaker. He doesn’t necessarily have a lot to say, but he always makes sure that he knows what he’s talking about.


Question: Who acknowledged that the militias were harassing the locals?

“The militias also beat and kill people; they ask for a share,” Mr. Qul said. “They have taken up weapons to bring security, but they are doing the looting themselves.” A senior security official acknowledged that the militias were harassing the locals, but said they had been warned “not to touch people’s property.” “It was a tradition here: when the Taliban raided a village, they would loot and burn houses,” the official said, speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss the trouble. “And when the government took back the area, the militias would do the same, they would be so happy to come with us on the operation.”

Answer: senior security official

“The militias also beat and kill people; they ask for a share,” Mr. Qul said. “They have taken up weapons to bring security, but they are doing the looting themselves.” <hl> A senior security official acknowledged that the militias were harassing the locals, but said they had been warned “not to touch people’s property.” <hl> “It was a tradition here: when the Taliban raided a village, they would loot and burn houses,” the official said, speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss the trouble. “And when the government took back the area, the militias would do the same, they would be so happy to come with us on the operation.”

“The militias also beat and kill people; they ask for a share,” Mr. Qul said. “They have taken up weapons to bring security, but they are doing the looting themselves.” A <hl> senior security official <hl> acknowledged that the militias were harassing the locals, but said they had been warned “not to touch people’s property.” “It was a tradition here: when the Taliban raided a village, they would loot and burn houses,” the official said, speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss the trouble. “And when the government took back the area, the militias would do the same, they would be so happy to come with us on the operation.”


Question: Who is the director of Salon 94?

The perception that video or sound art is difficult to grasp is something that Mr. Gryn hopes will change with Daata. “We are not a gallery — we are not art advisers,” he said. “What we are is a commissioning platform that works with artists who work in those mediums and who promote their art form and nurture awareness. My idea is that you make a self-sustaining business that commissions the next round of artists’ works.” By the beginning of September, all the inaugural artists had sold several editions of their works, and there were over 500 downloads of a free Jon Rafman video. By Mr. Gryn’s standards, “that is fantastic,” he wrote in an email, because it means the work is being seen and bought. Jessica Witkin, the director of the New York gallery Salon 94, which specializes in new media, drew a parallel with how collectors eventually warmed to photographic art, accepting the idea that more than one edition could be available.

Answer: Jessica Witkin

The perception that video or sound art is difficult to grasp is something that Mr. Gryn hopes will change with Daata. “We are not a gallery — we are not art advisers,” he said. “What we are is a commissioning platform that works with artists who work in those mediums and who promote their art form and nurture awareness. My idea is that you make a self-sustaining business that commissions the next round of artists’ works.” By the beginning of September, all the inaugural artists had sold several editions of their works, and there were over 500 downloads of a free Jon Rafman video. By Mr. Gryn’s standards, “that is fantastic,” he wrote in an email, because it means the work is being seen and bought. <hl> Jessica Witkin , the director of the New York gallery Salon 94, which specializes in new media, drew a parallel with how collectors eventually warmed to photographic art, accepting the idea that more than one edition could be available. <hl>

The perception that video or sound art is difficult to grasp is something that Mr. Gryn hopes will change with Daata. “We are not a gallery — we are not art advisers,” he said. “What we are is a commissioning platform that works with artists who work in those mediums and who promote their art form and nurture awareness. My idea is that you make a self-sustaining business that commissions the next round of artists’ works.” By the beginning of September, all the inaugural artists had sold several editions of their works, and there were over 500 downloads of a free Jon Rafman video. By Mr. Gryn’s standards, “that is fantastic,” he wrote in an email, because it means the work is being seen and bought. <hl> Jessica Witkin <hl>, the director of the New York gallery Salon 94, which specializes in new media, drew a parallel with how collectors eventually warmed to photographic art, accepting the idea that more than one edition could be available.

<hl> Jessica Witkin <hl> , the director of the New York gallery Salon 94, which specializes in new media, drew a parallel with how collectors eventually warmed to photographic art, accepting the idea that more than one edition could be available.


Question: What kind of car was Clarkson driving in Argentina?

Last year, the crew fled Argentina after being attacked by local residents during the filming of an episode in which Mr. Clarkson drove a Porsche sports car with the license plate H982 FKL, which some took as a reference to the British victory over Argentina in the 1982 Falklands War. Mr. Clarkson and his team insisted — with a wink — that they had no idea what the license plate meant. But most observers saw it as a typical Clarkson ploy to seem both naughty and patriotic. In May 2014, in film not intended for broadcast, Mr. Clarkson seemed to use a racist term while reciting the “eeny, meeny, miney, moe” rhyme. He denied uttering an offensive word but acknowledged “that it sounds like I did.” He has also been accused of racist comments aimed at Indians, Mexicans and Asians.

Answer: Porsche

<hl> Last year, the crew fled Argentina after being attacked by local residents during the filming of an episode in which Mr. Clarkson drove a Porsche sports car with the license plate H982 FKL, which some took as a reference to the British victory over Argentina in the 1982 Falklands War. <hl> Mr. Clarkson and his team insisted — with a wink — that they had no idea what the license plate meant. But most observers saw it as a typical Clarkson ploy to seem both naughty and patriotic. In May 2014, in film not intended for broadcast, Mr. Clarkson seemed to use a racist term while reciting the “eeny, meeny, miney, moe” rhyme. He denied uttering an offensive word but acknowledged “that it sounds like I did.” He has also been accused of racist comments aimed at Indians, Mexicans and Asians.

Last year, the crew fled Argentina after being attacked by local residents during the filming of an episode in which Mr. Clarkson drove a <hl> Porsche <hl> sports car with the license plate H982 FKL, which some took as a reference to the British victory over Argentina in the 1982 Falklands War. Mr. Clarkson and his team insisted — with a wink — that they had no idea what the license plate meant. But most observers saw it as a typical Clarkson ploy to seem both naughty and patriotic. In May 2014, in film not intended for broadcast, Mr. Clarkson seemed to use a racist term while reciting the “eeny, meeny, miney, moe” rhyme. He denied uttering an offensive word but acknowledged “that it sounds like I did.” He has also been accused of racist comments aimed at Indians, Mexicans and Asians.


Question: "Ocular Concepts" is photographs taken by who?

POUND RIDGE The Lionheart Gallery “Art by Whit,” Whit Conrad. Through April 26. Wednesdays through Saturdays, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Sundays, noon to 5 p.m.; and by appointment. The Lionheart Gallery, 27 Westchester Avenue. 914-764-8689; thelionheartgallery.com. PURCHASE Neuberger Museum of Art of Purchase College “Kuba Textiles: Geometry in Form, Space and Time.” Through June 14. $3 to $5. Tuesdays through Sundays, noon to 5 p.m. Neuberger Museum of Art of Purchase College, 735 Anderson Hill Road. 914-251-6100; www.neuberger.org. . RHINEBECK Betsy Jacaruso Studio and Gallery “Art Show Benefit for Scenic Hudson.” Through April 30. Thursdays through Saturdays, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Sundays, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.; and by appointment. Betsy Jacaruso Studio and Gallery, 43 East Market Street. betsyjacarusoartist.com; 845-516-4435. RHINEBECK Montgomery Row Second Level “Ocular Concepts,” photographs by Andrew Halpern. Through April 24. Daily, 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Montgomery Row Second Level, 6423 Montgomery Street. 845-876-0543; montgomeryrow.com.

Answer: Andrew Halpern

POUND RIDGE The Lionheart Gallery “Art by Whit,” Whit Conrad. Through April 26. Wednesdays through Saturdays, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Sundays, noon to 5 p.m.; and by appointment. The Lionheart Gallery, 27 Westchester Avenue. 914-764-8689; thelionheartgallery.com. PURCHASE Neuberger Museum of Art of Purchase College “Kuba Textiles: Geometry in Form, Space and Time.” Through June 14. $3 to $5. Tuesdays through Sundays, noon to 5 p.m. Neuberger Museum of Art of Purchase College, 735 Anderson Hill Road. 914-251-6100; www.neuberger.org. . RHINEBECK Betsy Jacaruso Studio and Gallery “Art Show Benefit for Scenic Hudson.” Through April 30. Thursdays through Saturdays, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Sundays, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.; and by appointment. Betsy Jacaruso Studio and Gallery, 43 East Market Street. betsyjacarusoartist.com; 845-516-4435. <hl> RHINEBECK Montgomery Row Second Level “Ocular Concepts,” photographs by Andrew Halpern . <hl> Through April 24. Daily, 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Montgomery Row Second Level, 6423 Montgomery Street. 845-876-0543; montgomeryrow.com.

POUND RIDGE The Lionheart Gallery “Art by Whit,” Whit Conrad. Through April 26. Wednesdays through Saturdays, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Sundays, noon to 5 p.m.; and by appointment. The Lionheart Gallery, 27 Westchester Avenue. 914-764-8689; thelionheartgallery.com. PURCHASE Neuberger Museum of Art of Purchase College “Kuba Textiles: Geometry in Form, Space and Time.” Through June 14. $3 to $5. Tuesdays through Sundays, noon to 5 p.m. Neuberger Museum of Art of Purchase College, 735 Anderson Hill Road. 914-251-6100; www.neuberger.org. . RHINEBECK Betsy Jacaruso Studio and Gallery “Art Show Benefit for Scenic Hudson.” Through April 30. Thursdays through Saturdays, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Sundays, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.; and by appointment. Betsy Jacaruso Studio and Gallery, 43 East Market Street. betsyjacarusoartist.com; 845-516-4435. RHINEBECK Montgomery Row Second Level “Ocular Concepts,” photographs by <hl> Andrew Halpern <hl>. Through April 24. Daily, 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Montgomery Row Second Level, 6423 Montgomery Street. 845-876-0543; montgomeryrow.com.

RHINEBECK Montgomery Row Second Level “Ocular Concepts,” photographs by <hl> Andrew Halpern <hl> .


Question: What other job did Huckabee previously hold?

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

Answer: pastor

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

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


Question: what is one of the things that mr. boire highlighted on the call?

Toys and games, a small but increasingly critical part of the business, provided a bright spot, growing nearly 15 percent in the last quarter. In a conference call with investors, Mr. Boire underscored this point by singling out coloring books and strong sales of Adele’s new album “25” among the company’s recent successes.

Answer: coloring books

Toys and games, a small but increasingly critical part of the business, provided a bright spot, growing nearly 15 percent in the last quarter. <hl> In a conference call with investors, Mr. Boire underscored this point by singling out coloring books and strong sales of Adele’s new album “25” among the company’s recent successes. <hl>

Toys and games, a small but increasingly critical part of the business, provided a bright spot, growing nearly 15 percent in the last quarter. In a conference call with investors, Mr. Boire underscored this point by singling out <hl> coloring books <hl> and strong sales of Adele’s new album “25” among the company’s recent successes.


Question: What emotional experience is intertwined with identity?

There is yearning at the core of “A Cure for Suicide,” and in that yearning is the reason for carrying on when doing so feels impossible. Ball asks whether, given the chance to shed our pain and start over with the mind of a child, we would want to do so — to what extent pain informs identity, and what parts of us would remain were we to shed that pain. In the hands of a less skilled writer, these questions could be mistaken for science fiction cliché, a riff on “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind,” but Ball deftly explores questions with the eye of a poet and the logic of a philosopher, revealing new facets with perfect timing and acuity. At each unforeseeable turn, “A Cure for Suicide” is a story Ball ensures we understand and, because it is subtle and breathtaking, we are happy to be told.

Answer: pain

There is yearning at the core of “A Cure for Suicide,” and in that yearning is the reason for carrying on when doing so feels impossible. <hl> Ball asks whether, given the chance to shed our pain and start over with the mind of a child, we would want to do so — to what extent pain informs identity, and what parts of us would remain were we to shed that pain. <hl> In the hands of a less skilled writer, these questions could be mistaken for science fiction cliché, a riff on “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind,” but Ball deftly explores questions with the eye of a poet and the logic of a philosopher, revealing new facets with perfect timing and acuity. At each unforeseeable turn, “A Cure for Suicide” is a story Ball ensures we understand and, because it is subtle and breathtaking, we are happy to be told.

There is yearning at the core of “A Cure for Suicide,” and in that yearning is the reason for carrying on when doing so feels impossible. Ball asks whether, given the chance to shed our <hl> pain <hl> and start over with the mind of a child, we would want to do so — to what extent pain informs identity, and what parts of us would remain were we to shed that pain. In the hands of a less skilled writer, these questions could be mistaken for science fiction cliché, a riff on “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind,” but Ball deftly explores questions with the eye of a poet and the logic of a philosopher, revealing new facets with perfect timing and acuity. At each unforeseeable turn, “A Cure for Suicide” is a story Ball ensures we understand and, because it is subtle and breathtaking, we are happy to be told.


Question: What is Heinrichs's achievement?

Heinrichs is trying to keep the Americans at the forefront at a time when a number of European girls are playing primarily against boys to develop their technical skills and are turning professional as young as 14. One solution, Heinrichs believes, is to accelerate the development of female players in the United States by having them play up in age as they advance through the club and national-team systems and by having them play more often against boys, who tend to be faster and stronger. “When people say the gap is closing, I would say the gap has closed and we’re falling behind in these areas,” Heinrichs, 51, said of the disparity between the United States and other countries. Perhaps no one can match her breadth of experience in American women’s soccer. Heinrichs won three N.C.A.A. championships while playing at North Carolina. She served as captain of the United States team that won the inaugural Women’s World Cup, in 1991. And she coached the American team to a gold medal at the 2004 Athens Olympics, a silver at the 2000 Sydney Games and third place at the 2003 World Cup.

Answer: Heinrichs won three N.C.A.A. championships while playing at North Carolina.

Heinrichs is trying to keep the Americans at the forefront at a time when a number of European girls are playing primarily against boys to develop their technical skills and are turning professional as young as 14. One solution, Heinrichs believes, is to accelerate the development of female players in the United States by having them play up in age as they advance through the club and national-team systems and by having them play more often against boys, who tend to be faster and stronger. “When people say the gap is closing, I would say the gap has closed and we’re falling behind in these areas,” Heinrichs, 51, said of the disparity between the United States and other countries. Perhaps no one can match her breadth of experience in American women’s soccer. <hl> Heinrichs won three N.C.A.A. championships while playing at North Carolina. She served as captain of the United States team that won the inaugural Women’s World Cup, in 1991. <hl> And she coached the American team to a gold medal at the 2004 Athens Olympics, a silver at the 2000 Sydney Games and third place at the 2003 World Cup.

Heinrichs is trying to keep the Americans at the forefront at a time when a number of European girls are playing primarily against boys to develop their technical skills and are turning professional as young as 14. One solution, Heinrichs believes, is to accelerate the development of female players in the United States by having them play up in age as they advance through the club and national-team systems and by having them play more often against boys, who tend to be faster and stronger. “When people say the gap is closing, I would say the gap has closed and we’re falling behind in these areas,” Heinrichs, 51, said of the disparity between the United States and other countries. Perhaps no one can match her breadth of experience in American women’s soccer. <hl> Heinrichs won three N.C.A.A. championships while playing at North Carolina. <hl> She served as captain of the United States team that won the inaugural Women’s World Cup, in 1991. And she coached the American team to a gold medal at the 2004 Athens Olympics, a silver at the 2000 Sydney Games and third place at the 2003 World Cup.


Question: What do Puerto Rico and Greece have in common?

Q. How does Puerto Rico compare to Greece?  A. The two places may share pristine beaches and balmy weather. But they have less in common when it comes to how their fiscal problems are likely to play out.

Answer: pristine beaches

Q. How does Puerto Rico compare to Greece? A. <hl> The two places may share pristine beaches and balmy weather. <hl> But they have less in common when it comes to how their fiscal problems are likely to play out.

Q. How does Puerto Rico compare to Greece? A. The two places may share <hl> pristine beaches <hl> and balmy weather. But they have less in common when it comes to how their fiscal problems are likely to play out.


Question: How old is Arjen Robben?

That is not even half the question of what Bayern needs to know. The team against Barcelona was gutted by injuries, most importantly to its flying wingers, Arjen Robben and Franck Ribéry. But it was also without the key defenders David Alaba and Holger Badstuber, and aches and fatigue also affected some who did play, like Xabi Alonso, Philipp Lahm and Bastian Schweinsteiger. The Germans among those players deny themselves the excuse that the Champions League semifinals they lost last year and this year sandwiched an event that was just as important to them, and arguably more so: the 2014 World Cup. Age is becoming a factor to the German club, too. Six from the Bavarian team — which peaked two years ago when it won the treble of the Champions League, the Bundesliga and the German Cup in the same season — are now over 30. That need not be a terminal age for a player today, thanks to improved medical and dietary care and rosters that are large enough to rotate star players. However, Ribéry and Robben may never again reach the peak they did in 2013 under Jupp Heynckes’s final season as coach. Ribéry is 32 now and Robben is 31. Alonso is 33, Lahm 31, and dear old Schweinsteiger, though only just 30, looks what he is — a ferocious competitor who has pushed himself through countless knocks and strains while playing for both club and country.

Answer: 31

Ribéry is 32 now and Robben is 31 .

That is not even half the question of what Bayern needs to know. The team against Barcelona was gutted by injuries, most importantly to its flying wingers, Arjen Robben and Franck Ribéry. But it was also without the key defenders David Alaba and Holger Badstuber, and aches and fatigue also affected some who did play, like Xabi Alonso, Philipp Lahm and Bastian Schweinsteiger. The Germans among those players deny themselves the excuse that the Champions League semifinals they lost last year and this year sandwiched an event that was just as important to them, and arguably more so: the 2014 World Cup. Age is becoming a factor to the German club, too. Six from the Bavarian team — which peaked two years ago when it won the treble of the Champions League, the Bundesliga and the German Cup in the same season — are now over 30. That need not be a terminal age for a player today, thanks to improved medical and dietary care and rosters that are large enough to rotate star players. However, Ribéry and Robben may never again reach the peak they did in 2013 under Jupp Heynckes’s final season as coach. <hl> Ribéry is 32 now and Robben is 31 . <hl> Alonso is 33, Lahm 31, and dear old Schweinsteiger, though only just 30, looks what he is — a ferocious competitor who has pushed himself through countless knocks and strains while playing for both club and country.

That is not even half the question of what Bayern needs to know. The team against Barcelona was gutted by injuries, most importantly to its flying wingers, Arjen Robben and Franck Ribéry. But it was also without the key defenders David Alaba and Holger Badstuber, and aches and fatigue also affected some who did play, like Xabi Alonso, Philipp Lahm and Bastian Schweinsteiger. The Germans among those players deny themselves the excuse that the Champions League semifinals they lost last year and this year sandwiched an event that was just as important to them, and arguably more so: the 2014 World Cup. Age is becoming a factor to the German club, too. Six from the Bavarian team — which peaked two years ago when it won the treble of the Champions League, the Bundesliga and the German Cup in the same season — are now over 30. That need not be a terminal age for a player today, thanks to improved medical and dietary care and rosters that are large enough to rotate star players. However, Ribéry and Robben may never again reach the peak they did in 2013 under Jupp Heynckes’s final season as coach. Ribéry is 32 now and Robben is <hl> 31 <hl>. Alonso is 33, Lahm 31, and dear old Schweinsteiger, though only just 30, looks what he is — a ferocious competitor who has pushed himself through countless knocks and strains while playing for both club and country.

Ribéry is 32 now and Robben is <hl> 31 <hl> .


Question: What does the Fed think of the economy?

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

Answer: pretty decent shape

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

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

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


Question: How many years does Isa believe it will take before some of Iran's areas are uninhabitable?

In Tehran, officials barely managed to keep the water running this summer as reservoirs shrank to dangerously low levels. Subsidies for water and electricity encourage overconsumption in urban areas. Isa Kalantari, a former minister of agriculture, warns that more than half of Iran’s provinces could become uninhabitable within 15 years, displacing millions of people. As in drought-stricken California, agriculture accounts for about 90 percent of water consumption in Iran. And here, matters are not helped by the prevalence of crude, centuries-old irrigation methods and other wasteful practices.

Answer: within 15 years

In Tehran, officials barely managed to keep the water running this summer as reservoirs shrank to dangerously low levels. Subsidies for water and electricity encourage overconsumption in urban areas. <hl> Isa Kalantari, a former minister of agriculture, warns that more than half of Iran’s provinces could become uninhabitable within 15 years , displacing millions of people. <hl> As in drought-stricken California, agriculture accounts for about 90 percent of water consumption in Iran. And here, matters are not helped by the prevalence of crude, centuries-old irrigation methods and other wasteful practices.

In Tehran, officials barely managed to keep the water running this summer as reservoirs shrank to dangerously low levels. Subsidies for water and electricity encourage overconsumption in urban areas. Isa Kalantari, a former minister of agriculture, warns that more than half of Iran’s provinces could become uninhabitable <hl> within 15 years <hl>, displacing millions of people. As in drought-stricken California, agriculture accounts for about 90 percent of water consumption in Iran. And here, matters are not helped by the prevalence of crude, centuries-old irrigation methods and other wasteful practices.

Isa Kalantari, a former minister of agriculture, warns that more than half of Iran’s provinces could become uninhabitable <hl> within 15 years <hl> , displacing millions of people.


Question: What is the shortest name for the building that appears to be the topic of the reading?

The Stonewall is not architecturally distinguished and would not earn landmark status on aesthetic grounds, several speakers noted. The Stonewall was already part of the city-designated Greenwich Village Historic District, and it was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999. But speakers at the hearing said the individual city landmark designation was necessary to preserve the Stonewall and recognize its historic importance. “It must be protected against rapacious developers who would destroy the history of this sacred place and all it represents,” Letitia James, the city’s public advocate, said.

Answer: Stonewall

<hl> The Stonewall is not architecturally distinguished and would not earn landmark status on aesthetic grounds, several speakers noted. <hl> The Stonewall was already part of the city-designated Greenwich Village Historic District, and it was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999. But speakers at the hearing said the individual city landmark designation was necessary to preserve the Stonewall and recognize its historic importance. “It must be protected against rapacious developers who would destroy the history of this sacred place and all it represents,” Letitia James, the city’s public advocate, said.

The <hl> Stonewall <hl> is not architecturally distinguished and would not earn landmark status on aesthetic grounds, several speakers noted. The Stonewall was already part of the city-designated Greenwich Village Historic District, and it was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999. But speakers at the hearing said the individual city landmark designation was necessary to preserve the Stonewall and recognize its historic importance. “It must be protected against rapacious developers who would destroy the history of this sacred place and all it represents,” Letitia James, the city’s public advocate, said.


Question: Which current is popular in Russia today?

The other current has been the neo-Westernizer, which re-exerted itself strongly during the Mikhail Gorbachev years and gave rise to his world-transforming ideas and ideals. In contrast to the neo-Slavophile current that is anti-Western, this liberal rival outlook actually seeks integration with the West, which Mr. Gorbachev assiduously pursued during his tenure. Unimagined opportunities for cooperation to fashion a more peaceful world may have been possible if Mr. Gorbachev had been able to continue his revolution. Unfortunately, given the popularity of the neo-Slavophile current in today’s Russia, the world is facing a new Cold War. Reza Fakhari, Brooklyn, N.Y.

Answer: neo-Slavophile

The other current has been the neo-Westernizer, which re-exerted itself strongly during the Mikhail Gorbachev years and gave rise to his world-transforming ideas and ideals. <hl> In contrast to the neo-Slavophile current that is anti-Western, this liberal rival outlook actually seeks integration with the West, which Mr. Gorbachev assiduously pursued during his tenure. <hl> Unimagined opportunities for cooperation to fashion a more peaceful world may have been possible if Mr. Gorbachev had been able to continue his revolution. Unfortunately, given the popularity of the neo-Slavophile current in today’s Russia, the world is facing a new Cold War. Reza Fakhari, Brooklyn, N.Y.

The other current has been the neo-Westernizer, which re-exerted itself strongly during the Mikhail Gorbachev years and gave rise to his world-transforming ideas and ideals. In contrast to the <hl> neo-Slavophile <hl> current that is anti-Western, this liberal rival outlook actually seeks integration with the West, which Mr. Gorbachev assiduously pursued during his tenure. Unimagined opportunities for cooperation to fashion a more peaceful world may have been possible if Mr. Gorbachev had been able to continue his revolution. Unfortunately, given the popularity of the neo-Slavophile current in today’s Russia, the world is facing a new Cold War. Reza Fakhari, Brooklyn, N.Y.


Question: What kind of instruments will be played at the Welles symposium?

Ms. Dow said she was struck by Welles’s account of a wine-soaked session with Ernest Hemingway, who had just won the Nobel Prize for literature. “It should have gone to Isak Dinesen,” Hemingway said, according to Ms. Dow’s description of Welles’s remembrance. Ms. Dow said it would take perhaps five months to arrange the papers for public use. In early June, Ms. Kodar is expected to attend a university-sponsored Welles symposium that will honor donors to the film archive. It promises to be an unusual affair, one that Welles may have appreciated. One presentation, Mr. Hallman said, will feature music composed for an ensemble that plays toy instruments. Ms. Kodar, he added, may have something else up her sleeve. “She has asked us to tell people she’s planning to do magic tricks with the audience,” Mr. Hallman said.

Answer: toy instruments

Ms. Dow said she was struck by Welles’s account of a wine-soaked session with Ernest Hemingway, who had just won the Nobel Prize for literature. “It should have gone to Isak Dinesen,” Hemingway said, according to Ms. Dow’s description of Welles’s remembrance. Ms. Dow said it would take perhaps five months to arrange the papers for public use. In early June, Ms. Kodar is expected to attend a university-sponsored Welles symposium that will honor donors to the film archive. It promises to be an unusual affair, one that Welles may have appreciated. <hl> One presentation, Mr. Hallman said, will feature music composed for an ensemble that plays toy instruments . <hl> Ms. Kodar, he added, may have something else up her sleeve. “She has asked us to tell people she’s planning to do magic tricks with the audience,” Mr. Hallman said.

Ms. Dow said she was struck by Welles’s account of a wine-soaked session with Ernest Hemingway, who had just won the Nobel Prize for literature. “It should have gone to Isak Dinesen,” Hemingway said, according to Ms. Dow’s description of Welles’s remembrance. Ms. Dow said it would take perhaps five months to arrange the papers for public use. In early June, Ms. Kodar is expected to attend a university-sponsored Welles symposium that will honor donors to the film archive. It promises to be an unusual affair, one that Welles may have appreciated. One presentation, Mr. Hallman said, will feature music composed for an ensemble that plays <hl> toy instruments <hl>. Ms. Kodar, he added, may have something else up her sleeve. “She has asked us to tell people she’s planning to do magic tricks with the audience,” Mr. Hallman said.

One presentation, Mr. Hallman said, will feature music composed for an ensemble that plays <hl> toy instruments <hl> .


Question: What was one of the consequences that Hal and his family have to deal with after refusing to pay?

Beyond these attacks, extortionists went after two longtime Bitcoin advocates last year, threatening to exploit personal information about the men’s families if they did not pay up. When one of the men, Hal Finney, refused to submit, the assailant called the local police and reported a murder at Mr. Finney’s home, resulting in a SWAT team taking over the home, the family has said. The other victim, Roger Ver, threw off his attacker by offering a Bitcoin bounty of roughly $20,000 for his attacker’s arrest.

Answer: SWAT team taking over the home

Beyond these attacks, extortionists went after two longtime Bitcoin advocates last year, threatening to exploit personal information about the men’s families if they did not pay up. <hl> When one of the men, Hal Finney, refused to submit, the assailant called the local police and reported a murder at Mr. Finney’s home, resulting in a SWAT team taking over the home , the family has said. <hl> The other victim, Roger Ver, threw off his attacker by offering a Bitcoin bounty of roughly $20,000 for his attacker’s arrest.

Beyond these attacks, extortionists went after two longtime Bitcoin advocates last year, threatening to exploit personal information about the men’s families if they did not pay up. When one of the men, Hal Finney, refused to submit, the assailant called the local police and reported a murder at Mr. Finney’s home, resulting in a <hl> SWAT team taking over the home <hl>, the family has said. The other victim, Roger Ver, threw off his attacker by offering a Bitcoin bounty of roughly $20,000 for his attacker’s arrest.

When one of the men, Hal Finney, refused to submit, the assailant called the local police and reported a murder at Mr. Finney’s home, resulting in a <hl> SWAT team taking over the home <hl> , the family has said.


Question: Executives from which company tried to paint themselves as victims?

“For Petrobras to say, ‘We’re the victims,’ when their executives were perpetrating this scheme suggests that they haven’t learned their lesson,” said Jeremy A. Lieberman of the Pomerantz law firm, which has been appointed lead counsel in the case. “This is not just an incident of a few rotten apples on an otherwise pristine tree.” For all of its malign effects, Lava Jato has underscored that Brazil has a robust and independent group of federal police officers, judges and prosecutors, a rarity in nations plagued by corruption. Last month, for instance, the police searched the home of Fernando Collor, a former president and current senator, leaving with a Ferrari, a Lamborghini and a Porsche. (Mr. Collor has not been charged and denies involvement in Lava Jato.) Mr. Dallagnol and another prosecutor flew to Washington a few months ago to visit officials in the Justice Department, hoping to interest the United States in lending a hand. He says that he and his team could, if unhindered, investigate Lava Jato for years.

Answer: Petrobras

<hl> “For Petrobras to say, ‘We’re the victims,’ when their executives were perpetrating this scheme suggests that they haven’t learned their lesson,” said Jeremy A. Lieberman of the Pomerantz law firm, which has been appointed lead counsel in the case. <hl> “This is not just an incident of a few rotten apples on an otherwise pristine tree.” For all of its malign effects, Lava Jato has underscored that Brazil has a robust and independent group of federal police officers, judges and prosecutors, a rarity in nations plagued by corruption. Last month, for instance, the police searched the home of Fernando Collor, a former president and current senator, leaving with a Ferrari, a Lamborghini and a Porsche. (Mr. Collor has not been charged and denies involvement in Lava Jato.) Mr. Dallagnol and another prosecutor flew to Washington a few months ago to visit officials in the Justice Department, hoping to interest the United States in lending a hand. He says that he and his team could, if unhindered, investigate Lava Jato for years.

“For <hl> Petrobras <hl> to say, ‘We’re the victims,’ when their executives were perpetrating this scheme suggests that they haven’t learned their lesson,” said Jeremy A. Lieberman of the Pomerantz law firm, which has been appointed lead counsel in the case. “This is not just an incident of a few rotten apples on an otherwise pristine tree.” For all of its malign effects, Lava Jato has underscored that Brazil has a robust and independent group of federal police officers, judges and prosecutors, a rarity in nations plagued by corruption. Last month, for instance, the police searched the home of Fernando Collor, a former president and current senator, leaving with a Ferrari, a Lamborghini and a Porsche. (Mr. Collor has not been charged and denies involvement in Lava Jato.) Mr. Dallagnol and another prosecutor flew to Washington a few months ago to visit officials in the Justice Department, hoping to interest the United States in lending a hand. He says that he and his team could, if unhindered, investigate Lava Jato for years.


Question: At the Bilkent University near Ankara, who is the dean of economics faculty?

Russia had also been one of Turkey’s biggest sources of tourists until the past year, when the combination of the fall of the ruble and Western sanctions on Russia for its support of Ukrainian insurgents began steeply eroding the number of Russians who could afford to travel. The decline in tourism was a worry for economists here even before the Russian jet was shot down. “The trade deficit is out of hand, exports cannot meet the import bill, so tourism revenues are a major item in our balance sheet,” said Erinc Yeldan, the dean of the economics faculty at Bilkent University near Ankara. Still, Cengiz Kamil Firat, the deputy director general of general and bilateral economic affairs at Turkey’s foreign ministry, said that the nation’s economy was in better shape than it might seem.

Answer: Erinc Yeldan

Russia had also been one of Turkey’s biggest sources of tourists until the past year, when the combination of the fall of the ruble and Western sanctions on Russia for its support of Ukrainian insurgents began steeply eroding the number of Russians who could afford to travel. The decline in tourism was a worry for economists here even before the Russian jet was shot down. <hl> “The trade deficit is out of hand, exports cannot meet the import bill, so tourism revenues are a major item in our balance sheet,” said Erinc Yeldan , the dean of the economics faculty at Bilkent University near Ankara. <hl> Still, Cengiz Kamil Firat, the deputy director general of general and bilateral economic affairs at Turkey’s foreign ministry, said that the nation’s economy was in better shape than it might seem.

Russia had also been one of Turkey’s biggest sources of tourists until the past year, when the combination of the fall of the ruble and Western sanctions on Russia for its support of Ukrainian insurgents began steeply eroding the number of Russians who could afford to travel. The decline in tourism was a worry for economists here even before the Russian jet was shot down. “The trade deficit is out of hand, exports cannot meet the import bill, so tourism revenues are a major item in our balance sheet,” said <hl> Erinc Yeldan <hl>, the dean of the economics faculty at Bilkent University near Ankara. Still, Cengiz Kamil Firat, the deputy director general of general and bilateral economic affairs at Turkey’s foreign ministry, said that the nation’s economy was in better shape than it might seem.

“The trade deficit is out of hand, exports cannot meet the import bill, so tourism revenues are a major item in our balance sheet,” said <hl> Erinc Yeldan <hl> , the dean of the economics faculty at Bilkent University near Ankara.


Question: What is withheld from them?

A legal fight over the struggle for ownership of an artwork is hardly the stuff of high drama. And the screenplay can’t find a way to make that conflict, or the ethical and moral issues involved, compelling beyond the obvious guessing game of who will win. Maria’s ambivalence about continuing to pursue what sometimes seems to be a hopeless quest is the dramatic core of the film. Once she and Randy arrive in Vienna, the paperwork concerning the painting’s history is withheld from them. Only with the help of a local journalist (Daniel Brühl) can they penetrate the wall of secrecy and evasion and learn that the painting, commissioned by Adele’s husband, and later acquired by the Belvedere’s duplicitous curator, belonged not to Adele, but to her husband, who willed it to his heirs.

Answer: the paperwork concerning the painting’s history

A legal fight over the struggle for ownership of an artwork is hardly the stuff of high drama. And the screenplay can’t find a way to make that conflict, or the ethical and moral issues involved, compelling beyond the obvious guessing game of who will win. Maria’s ambivalence about continuing to pursue what sometimes seems to be a hopeless quest is the dramatic core of the film. <hl> Once she and Randy arrive in Vienna, the paperwork concerning the painting’s history is withheld from them. <hl> Only with the help of a local journalist (Daniel Brühl) can they penetrate the wall of secrecy and evasion and learn that the painting, commissioned by Adele’s husband, and later acquired by the Belvedere’s duplicitous curator, belonged not to Adele, but to her husband, who willed it to his heirs.

A legal fight over the struggle for ownership of an artwork is hardly the stuff of high drama. And the screenplay can’t find a way to make that conflict, or the ethical and moral issues involved, compelling beyond the obvious guessing game of who will win. Maria’s ambivalence about continuing to pursue what sometimes seems to be a hopeless quest is the dramatic core of the film. Once she and Randy arrive in Vienna, <hl> the paperwork concerning the painting’s history <hl> is withheld from them. Only with the help of a local journalist (Daniel Brühl) can they penetrate the wall of secrecy and evasion and learn that the painting, commissioned by Adele’s husband, and later acquired by the Belvedere’s duplicitous curator, belonged not to Adele, but to her husband, who willed it to his heirs.


Question: Who had done earlier research?

Dr. Coggan had earlier grown disappointed with the “establishment” science in which, he says, academic research and corporate profit priorities are increasingly indistinguishable. He bootstrapped the research laboratory with his own money and now supports it with funding from a variety of private individual contributions and scientific research grants. NeuroLinx now supports a range of research projects, including an exploration of the way dolphins sleep, an effort to create a computer simulation of the ubiquitous lab worm C. elegans (known as the Open Worm project), and an exploration of nerve damage in diseases like multiple sclerosis. Dr. Ohayon had done early research in the field of autonomous agents based on neural networks, computing models inspired by biological nervous systems, but stopped for almost a decade because of worries about military applications of the technology.

Answer: Dr. Ohayon

Dr. Coggan had earlier grown disappointed with the “establishment” science in which, he says, academic research and corporate profit priorities are increasingly indistinguishable. He bootstrapped the research laboratory with his own money and now supports it with funding from a variety of private individual contributions and scientific research grants. NeuroLinx now supports a range of research projects, including an exploration of the way dolphins sleep, an effort to create a computer simulation of the ubiquitous lab worm C. elegans (known as the Open Worm project), and an exploration of nerve damage in diseases like multiple sclerosis. <hl> Dr. Ohayon had done early research in the field of autonomous agents based on neural networks, computing models inspired by biological nervous systems, but stopped for almost a decade because of worries about military applications of the technology. <hl>

Dr. Coggan had earlier grown disappointed with the “establishment” science in which, he says, academic research and corporate profit priorities are increasingly indistinguishable. He bootstrapped the research laboratory with his own money and now supports it with funding from a variety of private individual contributions and scientific research grants. NeuroLinx now supports a range of research projects, including an exploration of the way dolphins sleep, an effort to create a computer simulation of the ubiquitous lab worm C. elegans (known as the Open Worm project), and an exploration of nerve damage in diseases like multiple sclerosis. <hl> Dr. Ohayon <hl> had done early research in the field of autonomous agents based on neural networks, computing models inspired by biological nervous systems, but stopped for almost a decade because of worries about military applications of the technology.


Question: What was the speed of Syndergaard's fastest pitch?

Syndergaard appeared confident and collected early on. He struck out Jimmy Rollins twice — once swinging, on a 97-mile-per-hour fastball, and then looking, on a 99-m.p.h. fastball. He struck out Joc Pederson, another touted rookie, leaving him flailing at a curveball. He showed improved confidence in his off-speed pitches, using the Dodgers’ aggressiveness against them.

Answer: 99-m.p.h.

Syndergaard appeared confident and collected early on. <hl> He struck out Jimmy Rollins twice — once swinging, on a 97-mile-per-hour fastball, and then looking, on a 99-m.p.h. fastball. <hl> He struck out Joc Pederson, another touted rookie, leaving him flailing at a curveball. He showed improved confidence in his off-speed pitches, using the Dodgers’ aggressiveness against them.

Syndergaard appeared confident and collected early on. He struck out Jimmy Rollins twice — once swinging, on a 97-mile-per-hour fastball, and then looking, on a <hl> 99-m.p.h. <hl> fastball. He struck out Joc Pederson, another touted rookie, leaving him flailing at a curveball. He showed improved confidence in his off-speed pitches, using the Dodgers’ aggressiveness against them.


Question: Who was standing at a busy intersection north of Times Square?

Answer: Mr. Faulkner

<hl> Standing at a busy intersection north of Times Square, periodically drowned out by the noise of construction and traffic, Mr. Faulkner said Mr. de Blasio had proved to be a divisive leader without the charisma to lead a great city. <hl>

Standing at a busy intersection north of Times Square, periodically drowned out by the noise of construction and traffic, <hl> Mr. Faulkner <hl> said Mr. de Blasio had proved to be a divisive leader without the charisma to lead a great city.


Question: Who was the author of the Census Bureau Report?

Whether car-pooling will expand to other cities is unclear. “There are only a handful of cities where people live and work along densely populated corridors,” Mr. Schwieterman said. Bridj, however, said it had plans to enter Kansas City early next year in a partnership with the city. Others have doubts about an expansion as well. “Employment clusters are less geographically concentrated than they once were, so people who live near one another are less likely to be headed in the same direction,” Brian McKenzie, the author of the Census Bureau report, wrote in an email. Still, smartphones have presented a more efficient way to organize commuters based on where they live and work.

Answer: Brian McKenzie

Whether car-pooling will expand to other cities is unclear. “There are only a handful of cities where people live and work along densely populated corridors,” Mr. Schwieterman said. Bridj, however, said it had plans to enter Kansas City early next year in a partnership with the city. Others have doubts about an expansion as well. <hl> “Employment clusters are less geographically concentrated than they once were, so people who live near one another are less likely to be headed in the same direction,” Brian McKenzie , the author of the Census Bureau report, wrote in an email. <hl> Still, smartphones have presented a more efficient way to organize commuters based on where they live and work.

Whether car-pooling will expand to other cities is unclear. “There are only a handful of cities where people live and work along densely populated corridors,” Mr. Schwieterman said. Bridj, however, said it had plans to enter Kansas City early next year in a partnership with the city. Others have doubts about an expansion as well. “Employment clusters are less geographically concentrated than they once were, so people who live near one another are less likely to be headed in the same direction,” <hl> Brian McKenzie <hl>, the author of the Census Bureau report, wrote in an email. Still, smartphones have presented a more efficient way to organize commuters based on where they live and work.

“Employment clusters are less geographically concentrated than they once were, so people who live near one another are less likely to be headed in the same direction,” <hl> Brian McKenzie <hl> , the author of the Census Bureau report, wrote in an email.


Question: With which county will the Southern District of New York be working with?

The office of the United States attorney in Manhattan announced on Thursday that it was joining the investigation into the death of Samuel Harrell, a prisoner at the Fishkill Correctional Facility in Beacon, N.Y., who inmate witnesses say was handcuffed and beaten severely this year by a group of corrections officers. In a brief statement, the United States attorney for the Southern District, Preet Bharara, said that his office would be “coordinating and working” with the Dutchess County district attorney’s office, which is also investigating the case.

Answer: Dutchess County

The office of the United States attorney in Manhattan announced on Thursday that it was joining the investigation into the death of Samuel Harrell, a prisoner at the Fishkill Correctional Facility in Beacon, N.Y., who inmate witnesses say was handcuffed and beaten severely this year by a group of corrections officers. <hl> In a brief statement, the United States attorney for the Southern District, Preet Bharara, said that his office would be “coordinating and working” with the Dutchess County district attorney’s office, which is also investigating the case. <hl>

The office of the United States attorney in Manhattan announced on Thursday that it was joining the investigation into the death of Samuel Harrell, a prisoner at the Fishkill Correctional Facility in Beacon, N.Y., who inmate witnesses say was handcuffed and beaten severely this year by a group of corrections officers. In a brief statement, the United States attorney for the Southern District, Preet Bharara, said that his office would be “coordinating and working” with the <hl> Dutchess County <hl> district attorney’s office, which is also investigating the case.


Question: Who was Mr. Sweat's partner in the escape?

Like many who followed the prison break, Mr. Sweat and Mr. Matt could not help but compare their efforts to the escape in “The Shawshank Redemption.” Indeed, Mr. Sweat told investigators that he and Mr. Matt had joked that while it had taken Andy Dufresne, the character in the movie played by Tim Robbins, 20 years to escape, it would take them only 10 years.

Answer: Mr. Matt

<hl> Like many who followed the prison break, Mr. Sweat and Mr. Matt could not help but compare their efforts to the escape in “The Shawshank Redemption.” <hl> Indeed, Mr. Sweat told investigators that he and Mr. Matt had joked that while it had taken Andy Dufresne, the character in the movie played by Tim Robbins, 20 years to escape, it would take them only 10 years.

Like many who followed the prison break, Mr. Sweat and <hl> Mr. Matt <hl> could not help but compare their efforts to the escape in “The Shawshank Redemption.” Indeed, Mr. Sweat told investigators that he and Mr. Matt had joked that while it had taken Andy Dufresne, the character in the movie played by Tim Robbins, 20 years to escape, it would take them only 10 years.


Question: What percentage of the equipment was manufactured in the past decade?

For a moment, he twirled the rope in his hands like a lasso, then threw the hook over the wire, and tugged hard, testing for explosives. When nothing happened he signaled two comrades, who ran up and started snipping the wire with cutters. Although this was a typical training exercise for raw recruits in an elemental soldierly skill, there was nothing typical about the scene. Far from enlistees, these soldiers were regulars in the Ukrainian National Guard, presumably battle-hardened after months on the front lines in eastern Ukraine. And the trainer was an American military instructor, drilling troops for battle with the United States’ former Cold War foe, Russia, and Russian-backed separatists. “It’s been a long time since I heard a target called an Ivan,” First Sgt. David Dzwik, one of the trainers, said in an interview out in the sunny forest, while observing the Ukrainians run through drills. “Now, I’m hearing it again.” The course on cutting wire is one of 63 classes of remedial military instruction being provided by 300 United States Army trainers in three consecutive two-month courses. Here in western Ukraine, they are far from the fighting, and their job is to instill some basic military know-how in Ukrainian soldiers, who the trainers have discovered are woefully unprepared. The largely unschooled troops are learning such basic skills as how to use an encrypted walkie-talkie; how to break open a door with a sledgehammer and a crowbar; and how to drag a wounded colleague across a field while holding a rifle at the ready. When the war began a year ago, the Ukrainian Army was all but worthless — rife with corruption and Russian spies, and made up largely of “skeleton” battalions of officers with just a few men. About 1 percent of the equipment was manufactured in the past decade.

Answer: 1 percent

For a moment, he twirled the rope in his hands like a lasso, then threw the hook over the wire, and tugged hard, testing for explosives. When nothing happened he signaled two comrades, who ran up and started snipping the wire with cutters. Although this was a typical training exercise for raw recruits in an elemental soldierly skill, there was nothing typical about the scene. Far from enlistees, these soldiers were regulars in the Ukrainian National Guard, presumably battle-hardened after months on the front lines in eastern Ukraine. And the trainer was an American military instructor, drilling troops for battle with the United States’ former Cold War foe, Russia, and Russian-backed separatists. “It’s been a long time since I heard a target called an Ivan,” First Sgt. David Dzwik, one of the trainers, said in an interview out in the sunny forest, while observing the Ukrainians run through drills. “Now, I’m hearing it again.” The course on cutting wire is one of 63 classes of remedial military instruction being provided by 300 United States Army trainers in three consecutive two-month courses. Here in western Ukraine, they are far from the fighting, and their job is to instill some basic military know-how in Ukrainian soldiers, who the trainers have discovered are woefully unprepared. The largely unschooled troops are learning such basic skills as how to use an encrypted walkie-talkie; how to break open a door with a sledgehammer and a crowbar; and how to drag a wounded colleague across a field while holding a rifle at the ready. When the war began a year ago, the Ukrainian Army was all but worthless — rife with corruption and Russian spies, and made up largely of “skeleton” battalions of officers with just a few men. <hl> About 1 percent of the equipment was manufactured in the past decade. <hl>

For a moment, he twirled the rope in his hands like a lasso, then threw the hook over the wire, and tugged hard, testing for explosives. When nothing happened he signaled two comrades, who ran up and started snipping the wire with cutters. Although this was a typical training exercise for raw recruits in an elemental soldierly skill, there was nothing typical about the scene. Far from enlistees, these soldiers were regulars in the Ukrainian National Guard, presumably battle-hardened after months on the front lines in eastern Ukraine. And the trainer was an American military instructor, drilling troops for battle with the United States’ former Cold War foe, Russia, and Russian-backed separatists. “It’s been a long time since I heard a target called an Ivan,” First Sgt. David Dzwik, one of the trainers, said in an interview out in the sunny forest, while observing the Ukrainians run through drills. “Now, I’m hearing it again.” The course on cutting wire is one of 63 classes of remedial military instruction being provided by 300 United States Army trainers in three consecutive two-month courses. Here in western Ukraine, they are far from the fighting, and their job is to instill some basic military know-how in Ukrainian soldiers, who the trainers have discovered are woefully unprepared. The largely unschooled troops are learning such basic skills as how to use an encrypted walkie-talkie; how to break open a door with a sledgehammer and a crowbar; and how to drag a wounded colleague across a field while holding a rifle at the ready. When the war began a year ago, the Ukrainian Army was all but worthless — rife with corruption and Russian spies, and made up largely of “skeleton” battalions of officers with just a few men. About <hl> 1 percent <hl> of the equipment was manufactured in the past decade.


Question: What day of the week the elections in Venezuela Happened?

CARACAS, Venezuela —  Now comes the hard part. The political opposition here rode discontent over a failing economy to an overwhelming majority in legislative elections on Sunday, but after years of sniping from the sidelines, members have to get down to the difficult task of delivering on promises to fix the country’s many ills. The opposition, under the banner of the Democratic Unity coalition, won 112 of the 167 seats in the National Assembly, which will be sworn in Jan. 5, according to electoral authorities. The government’s United Socialist Party will now have 55 seats.

Answer: Sunday

CARACAS, Venezuela — Now comes the hard part. <hl> The political opposition here rode discontent over a failing economy to an overwhelming majority in legislative elections on Sunday , but after years of sniping from the sidelines, members have to get down to the difficult task of delivering on promises to fix the country’s many ills. <hl> The opposition, under the banner of the Democratic Unity coalition, won 112 of the 167 seats in the National Assembly, which will be sworn in Jan. 5, according to electoral authorities. The government’s United Socialist Party will now have 55 seats.

CARACAS, Venezuela — Now comes the hard part. The political opposition here rode discontent over a failing economy to an overwhelming majority in legislative elections on <hl> Sunday <hl>, but after years of sniping from the sidelines, members have to get down to the difficult task of delivering on promises to fix the country’s many ills. The opposition, under the banner of the Democratic Unity coalition, won 112 of the 167 seats in the National Assembly, which will be sworn in Jan. 5, according to electoral authorities. The government’s United Socialist Party will now have 55 seats.

The political opposition here rode discontent over a failing economy to an overwhelming majority in legislative elections on <hl> Sunday <hl> , but after years of sniping from the sidelines, members have to get down to the difficult task of delivering on promises to fix the country’s many ills.


Question: Which group has approved of Volkswagen proposed changes?

The technical fixes proposed by Volkswagen appeared to be surprisingly simple, deepening the mystery over why the decision had been made to evade pollution testing with illicit software. Volkswagen said German regulators had approved the changes. Cars with 2-liter diesel motors can be repaired by simply updating the engine-control software, the company said.

Answer: German regulators

The technical fixes proposed by Volkswagen appeared to be surprisingly simple, deepening the mystery over why the decision had been made to evade pollution testing with illicit software. <hl> Volkswagen said German regulators had approved the changes. <hl> Cars with 2-liter diesel motors can be repaired by simply updating the engine-control software, the company said.

The technical fixes proposed by Volkswagen appeared to be surprisingly simple, deepening the mystery over why the decision had been made to evade pollution testing with illicit software. Volkswagen said <hl> German regulators <hl> had approved the changes. Cars with 2-liter diesel motors can be repaired by simply updating the engine-control software, the company said.


Question: What year did Barney Frank step down from office?

9 P.M. (Showtime) COMPARED TO WHAT? THE IMPROBABLE JOURNEY OF BARNEY FRANK (2015) Retirement, according to the cranky Mr. Frank, has some benefits. “I don’t even have to pretend to try to be nice to people I don’t like,” that Massachusetts representative and Democrat said before stepping down in 2013, tapping into what Rachel Maddow called “a sense of humor that he wields like a wrecking ball.” This documentary chronicles Mr. Frank’s 32 turbulent years in Congress, where he was chairman of the Financial Services Committee as Wall Street was imploding. He also became the first sitting member to marry a same-sex partner when, in 2012, he and Jim Ready promised to love each other “for better or for worse, on MSNBC or on Fox.” (Image: Mr. Frank, center, and Mr. Ready, right)

Answer: 2013

9 P.M. (Showtime) COMPARED TO WHAT? THE IMPROBABLE JOURNEY OF BARNEY FRANK (2015) Retirement, according to the cranky Mr. Frank, has some benefits. <hl> “I don’t even have to pretend to try to be nice to people I don’t like,” that Massachusetts representative and Democrat said before stepping down in 2013 , tapping into what Rachel Maddow called “a sense of humor that he wields like a wrecking ball.” <hl> This documentary chronicles Mr. Frank’s 32 turbulent years in Congress, where he was chairman of the Financial Services Committee as Wall Street was imploding. He also became the first sitting member to marry a same-sex partner when, in 2012, he and Jim Ready promised to love each other “for better or for worse, on MSNBC or on Fox.” (Image: Mr. Frank, center, and Mr. Ready, right)

9 P.M. (Showtime) COMPARED TO WHAT? THE IMPROBABLE JOURNEY OF BARNEY FRANK (2015) Retirement, according to the cranky Mr. Frank, has some benefits. “I don’t even have to pretend to try to be nice to people I don’t like,” that Massachusetts representative and Democrat said before stepping down in <hl> 2013 <hl>, tapping into what Rachel Maddow called “a sense of humor that he wields like a wrecking ball.” This documentary chronicles Mr. Frank’s 32 turbulent years in Congress, where he was chairman of the Financial Services Committee as Wall Street was imploding. He also became the first sitting member to marry a same-sex partner when, in 2012, he and Jim Ready promised to love each other “for better or for worse, on MSNBC or on Fox.” (Image: Mr. Frank, center, and Mr. Ready, right)

“I don’t even have to pretend to try to be nice to people I don’t like,” that Massachusetts representative and Democrat said before stepping down in <hl> 2013 <hl> , tapping into what Rachel Maddow called “a sense of humor that he wields like a wrecking ball.”


Question: How many photographs did MS. Simpson take between 1987 and 1996 or drag performers?

Between 1987 and 1996, Ms. Simpson (whose birth name is Leslie and who prefers female pronouns when referring to her drag persona) took some 5,000 photographs of drag performers posing in clubs, on the street and on gay-pride parade floats, unwittingly creating a time capsule of an era when drag queens were the de rigueur jesters and goddesses of the underground. The photos are alternately carefree and glamorous, with rising stars like RuPaul, Lady Bunny and Sweetie looking sultry for the camera, and Page Potter Reynolds (the transgender subject of Ms. Simpson’s 2013 photo book, “Pages”) exuding subversive charm in a clown wig.

Answer: 5,000

<hl> Between 1987 and 1996, Ms. Simpson (whose birth name is Leslie and who prefers female pronouns when referring to her drag persona) took some 5,000 photographs of drag performers posing in clubs, on the street and on gay-pride parade floats, unwittingly creating a time capsule of an era when drag queens were the de rigueur jesters and goddesses of the underground. <hl> The photos are alternately carefree and glamorous, with rising stars like RuPaul, Lady Bunny and Sweetie looking sultry for the camera, and Page Potter Reynolds (the transgender subject of Ms. Simpson’s 2013 photo book, “Pages”) exuding subversive charm in a clown wig.

Between 1987 and 1996, Ms. Simpson (whose birth name is Leslie and who prefers female pronouns when referring to her drag persona) took some <hl> 5,000 <hl> photographs of drag performers posing in clubs, on the street and on gay-pride parade floats, unwittingly creating a time capsule of an era when drag queens were the de rigueur jesters and goddesses of the underground. The photos are alternately carefree and glamorous, with rising stars like RuPaul, Lady Bunny and Sweetie looking sultry for the camera, and Page Potter Reynolds (the transgender subject of Ms. Simpson’s 2013 photo book, “Pages”) exuding subversive charm in a clown wig.


Question: What may be done to avoid retail price increase?

Shifts in the diamond business are unlikely to be perceived by the engaged couples who drive demand in the United States, which accounts for 40 percent of global diamond sales. Retail prices are likely to remain stable or even fall a little, although slight changes in diamond quality may be made to avoid increases, analysts and industry representatives say. And buyers may have to pay more as diamond production peaks toward the end of the decade. But there already is acute pressure on the industry’s so-called midstream segment — the companies in China, India, Belgium and elsewhere that buy diamonds from mine operators, then cut and polish the gems for use in jewelry.

Answer: changes in diamond quality

Shifts in the diamond business are unlikely to be perceived by the engaged couples who drive demand in the United States, which accounts for 40 percent of global diamond sales. <hl> Retail prices are likely to remain stable or even fall a little, although slight changes in diamond quality may be made to avoid increases, analysts and industry representatives say. <hl> And buyers may have to pay more as diamond production peaks toward the end of the decade. But there already is acute pressure on the industry’s so-called midstream segment — the companies in China, India, Belgium and elsewhere that buy diamonds from mine operators, then cut and polish the gems for use in jewelry.

Shifts in the diamond business are unlikely to be perceived by the engaged couples who drive demand in the United States, which accounts for 40 percent of global diamond sales. Retail prices are likely to remain stable or even fall a little, although slight <hl> changes in diamond quality <hl> may be made to avoid increases, analysts and industry representatives say. And buyers may have to pay more as diamond production peaks toward the end of the decade. But there already is acute pressure on the industry’s so-called midstream segment — the companies in China, India, Belgium and elsewhere that buy diamonds from mine operators, then cut and polish the gems for use in jewelry.


Question: Who wore gray sweatpants?

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

Answer: Mr. Norris

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

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


Question: What is the golden rule of reporting

The commitment to fairness and balance, and to shunning conventional truths when our reporting leads us in unexpected directions, has been our gold standard — and one that I, like other reporters, undoubtedly failed on occasions when my passions, and the passions of those around me, ran at their highest. Those moments, I fear, might have to include for me the hours after American troops overran Baghdad in April 2003. At the time, I witnessed and shared the wild public rapture at Saddam Hussein’s fall, which gave way almost overnight to grim forebodings about the murderous sectarian chaos that was to ensue, and which continues, with a redoubled vengeance, in Tikrit, Mosul, Ramadi and dozens of other Iraqi cities and towns where the Islamic State has held sway.

Answer: commitment to fairness and balance

<hl> The commitment to fairness and balance , and to shunning conventional truths when our reporting leads us in unexpected directions, has been our gold standard — and one that I, like other reporters, undoubtedly failed on occasions when my passions, and the passions of those around me, ran at their highest. <hl> Those moments, I fear, might have to include for me the hours after American troops overran Baghdad in April 2003. At the time, I witnessed and shared the wild public rapture at Saddam Hussein’s fall, which gave way almost overnight to grim forebodings about the murderous sectarian chaos that was to ensue, and which continues, with a redoubled vengeance, in Tikrit, Mosul, Ramadi and dozens of other Iraqi cities and towns where the Islamic State has held sway.

The <hl> commitment to fairness and balance <hl>, and to shunning conventional truths when our reporting leads us in unexpected directions, has been our gold standard — and one that I, like other reporters, undoubtedly failed on occasions when my passions, and the passions of those around me, ran at their highest. Those moments, I fear, might have to include for me the hours after American troops overran Baghdad in April 2003. At the time, I witnessed and shared the wild public rapture at Saddam Hussein’s fall, which gave way almost overnight to grim forebodings about the murderous sectarian chaos that was to ensue, and which continues, with a redoubled vengeance, in Tikrit, Mosul, Ramadi and dozens of other Iraqi cities and towns where the Islamic State has held sway.

The <hl> commitment to fairness and balance <hl> , and to shunning conventional truths when our reporting leads us in unexpected directions, has been our gold standard — and one that I, like other reporters, undoubtedly failed on occasions when my passions, and the passions of those around me, ran at their highest.


Question: In what country did the vote on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict take place?

Approval came at the church’s general synod in Cleveland, where delegates voted 508 to 124 in favor of divestment and boycott, with 38 abstentions. It was one of two resolutions on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict debated by the church, which has about one million members and more than 5,000 congregations nationwide. The second resolution, which called the actions of Israel against Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip acts of apartheid, received 51 percent of the vote — 312 for, 295 against and 31 abstentions — failing to gain the two-thirds majority required for passage. Nonetheless, the slim majority was regarded by supporters of Israel as troubling. Passage of that measure would have made the church the first in the United States to officially describe Israel’s behavior toward the Palestinians as apartheid.

Answer: United States

Approval came at the church’s general synod in Cleveland, where delegates voted 508 to 124 in favor of divestment and boycott, with 38 abstentions. It was one of two resolutions on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict debated by the church, which has about one million members and more than 5,000 congregations nationwide. The second resolution, which called the actions of Israel against Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip acts of apartheid, received 51 percent of the vote — 312 for, 295 against and 31 abstentions — failing to gain the two-thirds majority required for passage. Nonetheless, the slim majority was regarded by supporters of Israel as troubling. <hl> Passage of that measure would have made the church the first in the United States to officially describe Israel’s behavior toward the Palestinians as apartheid. <hl>

Approval came at the church’s general synod in Cleveland, where delegates voted 508 to 124 in favor of divestment and boycott, with 38 abstentions. It was one of two resolutions on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict debated by the church, which has about one million members and more than 5,000 congregations nationwide. The second resolution, which called the actions of Israel against Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip acts of apartheid, received 51 percent of the vote — 312 for, 295 against and 31 abstentions — failing to gain the two-thirds majority required for passage. Nonetheless, the slim majority was regarded by supporters of Israel as troubling. Passage of that measure would have made the church the first in the <hl> United States <hl> to officially describe Israel’s behavior toward the Palestinians as apartheid.


Question: Who finances the science and technology competition for middle school student?

Intel will continue to support a separate talent search aimed at international student competition at least through 2019, which is Intel’s contractual term, said Ms. Dundas, the Intel spokeswoman. In addition to the Intel-sponsored prize, the society also runs a science and technology competition for middle school students, financed by the Broadcom Foundation. Although Broadcom, another semiconductor company, was bought this year, the Broadcom Foundation is independent and will continue to support the prize.

Answer: Broadcom Foundation

Intel will continue to support a separate talent search aimed at international student competition at least through 2019, which is Intel’s contractual term, said Ms. Dundas, the Intel spokeswoman. <hl> In addition to the Intel-sponsored prize, the society also runs a science and technology competition for middle school students, financed by the Broadcom Foundation . <hl> Although Broadcom, another semiconductor company, was bought this year, the Broadcom Foundation is independent and will continue to support the prize.

Intel will continue to support a separate talent search aimed at international student competition at least through 2019, which is Intel’s contractual term, said Ms. Dundas, the Intel spokeswoman. In addition to the Intel-sponsored prize, the society also runs a science and technology competition for middle school students, financed by the <hl> Broadcom Foundation <hl>. Although Broadcom, another semiconductor company, was bought this year, the Broadcom Foundation is independent and will continue to support the prize.

In addition to the Intel-sponsored prize, the society also runs a science and technology competition for middle school students, financed by the <hl> Broadcom Foundation <hl> .


Question: What had Dr. Ohayon done early research in?

Answer: in the field of autonomous agents based on neural networks, computing models inspired by biological nervous systems

Dr. Coggan had earlier grown disappointed with the “establishment” science in which, he says, academic research and corporate profit priorities are increasingly indistinguishable. He bootstrapped the research laboratory with his own money and now supports it with funding from a variety of private individual contributions and scientific research grants. NeuroLinx now supports a range of research projects, including an exploration of the way dolphins sleep, an effort to create a computer simulation of the ubiquitous lab worm C. elegans (known as the Open Worm project), and an exploration of nerve damage in diseases like multiple sclerosis. <hl> Dr. Ohayon had done early research in the field of autonomous agents based on neural networks, computing models inspired by biological nervous systems , but stopped for almost a decade because of worries about military applications of the technology. <hl>

Dr. Coggan had earlier grown disappointed with the “establishment” science in which, he says, academic research and corporate profit priorities are increasingly indistinguishable. He bootstrapped the research laboratory with his own money and now supports it with funding from a variety of private individual contributions and scientific research grants. NeuroLinx now supports a range of research projects, including an exploration of the way dolphins sleep, an effort to create a computer simulation of the ubiquitous lab worm C. elegans (known as the Open Worm project), and an exploration of nerve damage in diseases like multiple sclerosis. Dr. Ohayon had done early research <hl> in the field of autonomous agents based on neural networks, computing models inspired by biological nervous systems <hl>, but stopped for almost a decade because of worries about military applications of the technology.

Dr. Ohayon had done early research <hl> in the field of autonomous agents based on neural networks, computing models inspired by biological nervous systems <hl> , but stopped for almost a decade because of worries about military applications of the technology.