Problem: A lot of teenagers are good at art at school, but how would you feel if people called you "the new Picasso " or if presidents and other famous people collected your paintings? Alexandra Nechita was ten when her paintings became famous all over the world. She visited Britain, France, Italy, Japan, Australia, New Zealand and her family's native place Romania where 5,000 fans came to see her at the airport. Alexandra said, "When it all started, I was moved. It was very exciting and I loved the traveling, but I got very tired. And I missed home." Alexandra is a good student. Her studies always come first. She only starts painting after she's done her homework. She works on two or three paintings at a time. The paintings sell for thousands and Alexandra's parents have given up their jobs to work for their daughter. Life for the Nechita family is very different from what it was like a few years ago. Alexandra's father Niki left Romania for political reasons in 1985. At first he tried his best to learn English and had different kinds of low-paid jobs. In 1987, he brought his wife and Alexandra, who was then 18 months old, to America. The family was very poor. Alexandra began to draw at the age of three. She was drawing for four or five hours a day. Soon people offered to buy her paintings and she had her first art show at the age of eight. Stories about this child appeared in the newspapers and television. They now live in a large house with a swimming pool. Her mother said, "We started without anything, but thanks to Alexandra, we have everything we ever dreamed of."
1. Who is well known for art?
2. How old was she?
3. Where?
4. Where are her drawings famous?
5. Where was her dad from originally?
6. How many went to meet her when she went there?
7. What were her feelings?
8. Then what happened?
9. What else?
10. What did she miss?
Answer: 1. Alexandra Nechita
2. Ten when she became famous
3. In America
4. All over the world
5. Romania
6. 5,000 fans met her
7. She was excited
8. She got very tired
9. unknown
10. She missed home

Problem: Since 1989, Dave Thomas, who died at the age of 69, was one of the most recognizable faces on TV. He appeared in more than 800 commercials for the hamburger chain named for his daughter. "As long as it works", he said in 1991, "I'll continue to do those commercials."

Even though he was successful, Thomas remained troubled by his childhood. "He still won't let anyone see his feet, which are out of shape because he never had proper fitting shoes," Wendy said in 1993. Born to a single mother, he was adopted as a baby by Rex and Auleva Thomas of Kalamazoo in Michigan. After Auleva died when he was 5, Thomas spent years on the road as Rex traveled around seeking construction work. "He fed me," Thomas said, "and if I got out of line, he'd beat me."

Moving out on his own at 15, Thomas worked, first as a waiter, in many restaurants. But he had something much better in mind. "I thought if I owned a restaurant," he said, "I could eat for free." A 1956 meeting with Harland Sanders led Thomas to a career as the manager of a Kentucky Chicken restaurant that made him a millionaire in 1968.

In 1969, after breaking with Sanders, Thomas started the first Wendy's Old Fashioned Hamburgers, in Columbus, Ohio, which set itself apart by serving made-to-order burgers. With 6,000 restaurants worldwide, the chain now makes $ 6 billion a year in sales.

Although troubled by his own experience with adoption, Thomas, married since 1954 to Lorraine, 66, and with four grown kids besides Wendy, felt it could offer a future for other children. He started the Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption in 1992.

In 1993, Thomas, who had left school at 15, graduated from Coconut Creek High School in Florida. He even took Lorraine to the graduation dance party. The kids voted him Most Likely to Succeed.

"The Dave you saw on TV was the real Dave," says friend Pat Williams. "He wasn't a great actor or a great speaker . _ ."
1. How old was Dave Thomas when he passed away?
2. What high school did he graduate from in 1993?
3. Did Thomas grow up with his biological family?
4. What were his adoptive parents' names?
5. Was his adoptive father nice to him?
6. What age did he move out on his own?
7. How did he become wealthy before founding Wendy's?
8. What year did he start his first Wendy's?
Answer: 1. 69
2. Coconut Creek High School
3. no
4. Rex and Auleva Thomas
5. "He fed me," Thomas said, "and if I got out of line, he'd beat me."
6. 15
7. a career as the manager of a Kentucky Chicken restaurant
8. 1969

Problem: (CNN) -- The man accused of hacking celebrities' online accounts -- from which private images were ultimately posted on the Internet -- says he became "addicted" to the intrusion and "didn't know how to stop."

"I deeply apologize. I know what I did was probably one of the worst invasions of privacy someone could experience," Christopher Chaney told CNN affiliate WAWS/WTEV in Jacksonville, Florida, Wednesday.

"And these people don't have privacy to begin with. And I was in that little sliver of privacy they do have."

Federal authorities accuse the 35-year-old of hacking into accounts on computers and other devices belonging to more than 50 people, including movie stars Scarlett Johansson and Mila Kunis and singer Christina Aguilera.

Chaney was indicted on charges of accessing protected computers without authorization, damaging protected computers, wiretapping and aggravated identity theft, officials said.

"Unfortunately, Mr. Chaney was able to access nude photos of some of the celebrities and some of them were uploaded on the Internet," U.S. Attorney Andre Birotte Jr. said Wednesday.

A recently circulated nude photo of Johannsson is part of the investigation, he said.

Chaney allegedly "also took financial information, movie scripts and conversations that the celebrities believed to be private," Birotte told reporters.

The FBI's Los Angeles office said he was arrested as part of "Operation Hackerazzi," which looked into computer intrusions targeting individuals associated with the entertainment industry.

In the interview with WAWS/WTEV, Chaney said the hacking "started as curiosity and it turned into just being, you know, addicted to seeing the behind-the-scenes of what's going on with these people you see on the big screen every day."
1. What did the guy that hacked celebrities accounts do?
2. WHat was his problem?
3. Who said that it was the worst case of privacy intrusion that they had seen?
4. How old was he?
5. About how many invasions?
6. Who were some of the celebrities affected?
7. Did he get convicted?
8. What were his charges?
9. What did he do with the nude photos he found?
10. What else did he do?
11. WHAT CELEBRITY HAD PHOTOS RELEASED ON THE INTERNET?
Answer:
1. private images were ultimately posted on the Internet
2. "addicted" to the intrusion and "didn't know how to stop."
3. Christopher Chaney
4. 35
5. 50
6. Scarlett Johansson and Mila Kunis and singer Christina Aguilera.
7. unknown
8. accessing protected computers without authorization, damaging protected computers, wiretapping and aggravated identity theft
9. uploaded on the Internet
10. also took financial information, movie scripts and conversations that the celebrities believed to be private
11. Johannsson