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Physically, clothing serves many purposes: it can serve as protection from the elements, and can enhance safety during hazardous activities such as hiking and cooking. It protects the wearer from rough surfaces, rash-causing plants, insect bites, splinters, thorns and prickles by providing a barrier between the skin and the environment. Clothes can insulate against cold or hot conditions. Further, they can provide a hygienic barrier, keeping infectious and toxic materials away from the body. Clothing also provides protection from harmful UV radiation.

There is no easy way to determine when clothing was first developed, but some information has been inferred by studying lice. The body louse specifically lives in clothing, and diverge from head lice about 107,000 years ago, suggesting that clothing existed at that time. Another theory is that modern humans are the only survivors of several species of primates who may have worn clothes and that clothing may have been used as long ago as 650 thousand years ago. Other louse-based estimates put the introduction of clothing at around 42,00072,000 BP.
1. what does clothing do?
2. from what?
3. what does it protect from?
4. what else?
5. how does it protect from those things?
6. do other mammals today wear them?
7. how long have people had clothes?
8. how do we know that?
9. how do we know they've been around for many years?
10. can wearing it us safe from the sun?

Numbered answers:
1. serve many purposes
2. it can serve as protection and enhance safety
3. the elements
4. rough surfaces, rash-causing plants, insect bites, splinters, thorns and prickles by \
5. by providing a barrier between the skin and the environment
6. no
7. as long ago as 650 thousand years ago
8. unknown
9. The body louse specifically lives in clothing, and diverge from head lice about 107,000 years ago, suggesting that clothing existed at that time.
10. yes

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The Ministry for Culture and Heritage (MCH) (Maori: "Manatu Taonga") is the public service department of New Zealand charged with advising the government on policies and issues involving the arts, culture, heritage, sport and recreation, and broadcasting sectors, and participating in functions that advance or promote those sectors.

The Ministry was founded in 1999 with the merger of the former Ministry of Cultural Affairs and the history and heritage functions of the Department of Internal Affairs, as well as some functions from the Department of Conservation and Ministry of Commerce. The purpose of the merger of functions and departments was to create a coherent, non-fragmented overview of the cultural and heritage sector, rather than spreading services and functions across several departments.

Minister for Cultural Affairs Marie Hasler oversaw the transition of functions into the new agency. Opposition Labour MP Judith Tizard, who would later serve as an Associate Minister for the ministry in the Fifth Labour Government of New Zealand, accused the restructure of being "all hype, no substance," lacking the funding and human resource necessary to be effective.

The Ministry of Cultural Affairs had been created in 1991; prior to this, the Department of Internal Affairs had provided oversight and support for arts and culture functions.
1. What was founded in 1999
2. for what?
3. What is the full name of the Ministry?
4. What is the traditional name for it?
5. What language is that?
6. What are the Ministry's initials?
7. Who is Marie Hasler?
8. What did she do
9. Who is Judith Tizard?
10. Which party?
11. Did she serve in the government?
12. Which one?
13. What was created in 1991
14. Is the MCH a public service?
15. In which country?
16. Who does it advise?
17. On what?
18. On just one thing?

Numbered answers:
1. The Ministry
2. to create an overview
3. The Ministry for Culture and Heritage
4. Manatu Taonga
5. Maori
6. MCH
7. Minister for Cultural Affairs
8. oversaw the transition of functions
9. a politician
10. Labour
11. Yes
12. the Fifth Labour Government of New Zealand
13. The Ministry of Cultural Affairs
14. Yes
15. New Zealand
16. the government
17. on policies
18. also on issues

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Washington (CNN) -- When Paul Ryan struggled to explain a budget-balancing timeline under Mitt Romney, he highlighted the difficulty of trying to run a substantive campaign without being too specific.

While Ryan's interview Tuesday with Fox News' Brit Hume was no Sarah Palin-Katie Couric moment, the Republican vice presidential candidate's discomfort in answering when Romney's proposal would balance the budget was evident.

Ryan, a seven-term congressman from Wisconsin and chairman of the House Budget Committee, said he was unsure when Romney's proposals would balance the federal budget. Romney's plans say he would "put the federal government on a course toward a balanced budget" but does not say when.

Mitt Romney's 5-point plan for the economy

Hume repeatedly pressed Ryan on the question of "when" Romney's budget would balance.

Hume: "The budget plan you're now supporting would get to balance when?"

Ryan: "Well, there are different -- the budget plan that Mitt Romney is supporting gets us down to 20% of GDP (gross domestic product) government spending by 2016. That means get the size of government back to where it historically has been. What President Obama has done is he brought the size of government to as high as it hasn't been since World War II. We want to reduce the size of government to have more economic freedom."

Hume: "I get that. What about balance?"

Ryan: "I don't know exactly what the balance is. I don't want to get wonky on you, but we haven't run the numbers on that specific plan. The plan we offer in the House balances the budget. I'd put a contrast. President Obama, never once, ever, has offered a plan to ever balance the budget. The United States Senate, they haven't even balanced, they haven't passed a budget in three years."
1. Who interviewed Paul Ryan?
2. Who is he with?
3. What is Ryan's occupation?
4. How many terms has he served?
5. Was he certain when Romney's plan would balance the budget?
6. How many parts does Romney's plan have?
7. Did Hume only ask him once about when it would be balanced?
8. What percentage does the plan get the GDP down to?
9. Which President is referenced?
10. How long has it been since the senate passed a budget?
11. What did he say about Obama's government size?
Numbered answers:
1. Brit Hume
2. Fox News' Journalist
3. congressman
4. seven
5. no
6. Five
7. no
8. 20%
9. Obama
10. three years
11. high