Question: Navassa Island (; ; also "La Navasse") is a small, uninhabited island in the Caribbean Sea. The island is subject to an ongoing territorial dispute and is claimed as an unorganized unincorporated territory of the United States, which administers it through the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service; and Haiti which claimed sovereignty over Navassa since 1801 through its constitution, as the basis of its objection over the later 1850s' U.S. claim.

Navassa Island is about in area. It is located west of Haiti's southwest peninsula, south of the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and about one-quarter of the way from mainland Haiti to Jamaica in the Jamaica Channel.

Navassa reaches an elevation of at Dunning Hill south of the lighthouse, Navassa Island Light. This location is from the southwestern coast or east of Lulu Bay.

The terrain of Navassa Island consists mostly of exposed coral and limestone, the island being ringed by vertical white cliffs high, but with enough grassland to support goat herds. The island is covered in a forest of just four tree species: short-leaf fig ("Ficus populnea" var. "brevifolia"), pigeon plum ("Coccoloba diversifolia"), mastic ("Sideroxylon foetidissimum"), and poisonwood ("Metopium brownei").

Navassa Island's topography, ecology, and modern history are similar to that of Mona Island, a small limestone island located in the Mona Passage between Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic, which were once centers of guano mining, and are nature reserves for the United States. Transient Haitian fishermen and others camp on the island but the island is otherwise uninhabited. It has no ports or harbors, only offshore anchorages, and its only natural resource is guano; economic activity consists of subsistence fishing and commercial trawling activities. 1. Where is Navassa Island?
2. Who owns it?
3. Does anyone live there?
4. What is the terrain like?
5. Does it have a forest?
6. What are the indigenous trees?
7. Is the island similar to any others?
8. Which?
9. Where is that located?
10. Where is the Mona Passage? Provide a numbered list of answers.
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A numbered of answers: 1. Caribbean Sea
2. United States and Haiti
3. no
4. mostly coral and limeston
5. Yes
6. short-leaf fig ("Ficus populnea" var. "brevifolia"), pigeon plum ("Coccoloba diversifolia"), mastic ("Sideroxylon foetidissimum"), and poisonwood ("Metopium brownei").
7. Yes
8. Mona
9. the Mona Passage
10. between Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic

Question: CHAPTER X

MYSTERIES IN MAYFAIR

That night, and for many nights afterwards, Macheson devoted himself to his work in the East End. The fascination of the thing grew upon him; he threw himself into his task with an energy which carried him often out of his own life and made forgetfulness an easy task. Night after night they came, these tired, white-faced women, with a sprinkling of sullen, dejected-looking men; night after night he pleaded and reasoned with them, striving with almost passionate earnestness to show them how to make the best of the poor thing they called life. Gradually his efforts began to tell upon himself. He grew thinner, there were shadows under his eyes, a curious intangible depression seemed to settle upon him. Holderness one night sought him out and insisted upon dinner together.

"Look here, Victor," he said, "I have a bone to pick with you. You'd better listen! Don't sit there staring round the place as though you saw ghosts everywhere."

Macheson smiled mirthlessly.

"But that is just what I do see," he answered. "The conscience of every man who knows must be haunted with them! The ghosts of starving men and unsexed women! What keeps their hands from our throats, Dick?"

"Common sense, you idiot," Holderness answered cheerfully. "There's a refuse heap for every one of nature's functions. You may try to rake it out and cleanse it, but there isn't much to be done. Hang that mission work, Victor! It's broken more hearts than anything else on earth! A man can but do what he may." 1. WHo is the main character?
2. What was he devoted to?
3. What location?
4. Who wanted to have dinner?
5. Who grew thinner?
6. Was anyone angry at Victor?
7. Who?
8. What did he say?
9. Did Macheson smile?
10. In what way? Provide a numbered list of answers.
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A numbered of answers: 1. Macheson
2. work
3. East End
4. Holderness
5. Macheson
6. Yes
7. Holderness
8. I have a bone to pick with you
9. Yes
10. mirthlessly

Question: A patient on the brink of death has received the world's first self--contained artificial heart--a battery--powered device about the size of a softball that runs without the need for wires,tubes sticking out of the chest.It is powered by a small battery pack worn outside the body that transmits current through the skin.

Two surgeons from the University of Louisville implanted the titanium and plastic pump during a seven-hour operation at Jewish Hospital Monday.The hospital said the patient was''awake and responsive''Tuesday and resting comibrtably.It refused to eve personal details.

The patient had been expected to die within a month without the operation, and doctors said they expected the artificial heart to extend the person's life by only a month.But the device is considered a major step toward inlproving the patient's quality of life.

The new pump,called AbioCor,is also a technological leap from the mechanical hearts used in the l980s, which were attached by wires and tubes to large machinery outside the body.The most famous of those, the Jarvic-7,used air as a pumping device and was attached to an apparatus about the size of a washing machine.

''I think it's potentially a major step forward in the artificial heart development,''said Dr.David Faxon,president of the American heart Association.However,he said the dream of an implantable,permanent artificial heart is not yet a reality:''This is obviously an experimental device whose long--term success has to be demonstrated."Only about half of the 4,200 Americans on a waiting list for donor hearts received them last year,and most of the rest died.

Some doctors,including Robert Higgins,chairman of cardiology at the Medical College of Virginia in Richmond,said artificial hearts are unlikely to replace donor hearts."A donor heart in a good transplant can last l5 to 30 years.''he said.''It's going be hard replace that with a machine.'' 1. What was implanted on MOnday?
2. Was this common?
3. How many times has it been done?
4. Who implanted it?
5. from where?
6. How does the heart work?
7. Where is the battery?
8. and how does it work?
9. how is the patient doing?
10. How was the persons health before?
11. and now?
12. how many are on the donor list?
13. how many will receive a transplant?
14. how about the rest?
15. will these replace donor hearts?
16. who says?
17. where is he from?
18. where?
19. Does a donor heart extend life?
20. for how long? Provide a numbered list of answers.
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A numbered of answers:
1. artificial heart
2. no
3. this is the first
4. Two surgeons
5. University of Louisville
6. battery--powered
7. outside the body
8. transmits current through the skin.
9. awake and responsive
10. expected to die within a month
11. xtend the person's life by only a month
12. 4,200
13. about half
14. die
15. unlikely
16. Robert Higgins
17. chairman of cardiology
18. Virginia
19. yes
20. l5 to 30 years