question: Electronic books have changed the way many people read for pleasure. Now online textbooks are changing the way some students learn and some teachers teach.

More than one hundred seventy-five thousand students attend the public schools in Fairfax County, Virginia, outside Washington. Last year, the school system used digital books in fifteen schools. This school year, middle schools and high schools changed from printed to electronic textbooks in their social studies classes.

Luke Rosa is a history teacher at Falls Church High School. His students work on laptop computers at school. He explains the idea to them this way. "I mean, it's just like a regular textbook, except it's got it all online."

Peter Noonan, an assistant superintendent of schools, said, "The world's changing. And the online textbooks can change right along with the events that are happening." Digital books also cost less than printed textbooks, he said.

A student named Melanie Reuter said, "I don't have to carry a textbook around, so that's nice."

But another student said, "I don't like it because the Internet sometimes doesn't work."

Students also need access to the Internet when they are not at school. About ten percent of students in Fairfax Country do not have a computer or online access at home. Public libraries in the country have free Internet. There are also after-school computer labs as well as computer clubhouse supported by the country. Middle school student Slieman Hakim is happy about that. He said, "My family only has one computer; my sister and I both do our homework on it. So I come here to do my homework. It's good."

Other school systems in the area are also considering online textbooks.
1. What is having an impact on education?
2. How does Melanie feel about them?
3. Why?
4. Does anyone mention a downside?
5. What is it?
6. Who teaches history?
7. Where?
8. What does the superintendant like about them?
9. Can they be updated more easily?
10. How many kids attend school in Fairfax county?
11. What state is it located in?
12. How many schools had digital text books last year?
13. Is anyone getting them this year?
14. Who?
15. For all courses?
16. Which one?
17. Do people use them for reading other things?
18. Is the school located in Washington?
19. Is it near there?
20. Who has students who work on computers in class?
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answer: 1. Now online textbooks
2. She likes it
3. She doesn't have to carry a textbook around
4. Yes
5. because the Internet sometimes doesn't work
6. Luke Rosa
7. Falls Church High School
8. Digital books also cost less than printed textbooks
9. Yes
10. one hundred seventy-five thousand
11. Virginia
12. fifteen
13. Yes
14. middle schools and high schools
15. No
16. social studies
17. Yes
18. No
19. Yes
20. Luke Rosa

question: (Oprah.com) -- When Chicagoan Tammy Jo Long visited Savannah, Georgia, ten years ago, she was delighted by its fountain-filled parks, corner cafes -- and grand architecture.

Long had always been a design aficionado, but the Italianate and Victorian homes she encountered in Savannah became "an obsession," she says. "I saw a mansion with enormous cornices and cast-iron window surrounds, and I was hooked." So hooked, in fact, that she decided to buy a second home there, closing the deal on her next visit.

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Her learning curve:

Long was determined to restore her new house to its original glory. Though she'd remodeled a few kitchens and bathrooms over the years, a historically accurate renovation that did justice to the Savannah architecture she loved was daunting.

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But the all-nighters spent poring over floor plans and scouring eBay for doorknobs paid off: Every detail of the home -- from the crown moldings to the brass finger pulls -- is as it was in the 1800s. Yearning to share her handiwork, Long turned the home into a vacation rental. Soon, enchanted out-of-towners were eagerly booking their stays.

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Her business model:

In 2003 Long quit her job in sales and bought and restored four more homes, traveling between Savannah and Chicago (where she and her ex-husband share custody of their 9-year-old son). "Some of the properties had been vacant for 20 years," Long says. "They had rats you could put a saddle on."
1. In what year did Long quit her job?
2. What was her line of work at that time?
3. What did she buy?
4. How many?
5. How many cities did she travel between?
6. Which ones?
7. Does she have a daughter or son?
8. How old is he?
9. Is she currently married?
10. What sort of animals were in some of the properties?
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answer: 1. 2003
2. sales
3. homes
4. four
5. two
6. Savannah and Chicago
7. son
8. Nine
9. unknown
10. rats

question: CHAPTER XVI Old Man Coyote is Very Crafty.

Coyote has a crafty brain; His wits are sharp his ends to gain.

There is nothing in the world more true than that. Old Man Coyote has the craftiest brain of all the little people of the Green Forest or the Green Meadows. Sharp as are the wits of old Granny Fox, they are not quite so sharp as the wits of Old Man Coyote. If you want to fool him, you will have to get up very early in the morning, and then it is more than likely that you will be the one fooled, not he. There is very little going on around him that he doesn't know about. But once in a while something escapes him. The coming of Paddy the Beaver to the Green Forest was one of these things. He didn't know a thing about Paddy until Paddy had finished his dam and his house, and was cutting his supply of food for the winter.

You see, it was this way: When the Merry Little Breezes of Old Mother West Wind first heard what was going on in the Green Forest and hurried around over the Green Meadows and through the Green Forest to spread the news, as is their way, they took the greatest pains not to even hint it to Old Man Coyote because they were afraid that he would make trouble and perhaps drive Paddy away. The place that Paddy had chosen to build his dam was so deep in the Green Forest that Old Man Coyote seldom went that way. So it was that he knew nothing about Paddy, and Paddy knew nothing about him for some time.
1. What is the name of this chapter?
2. what kind of brain does he have
3. how are his wits?
4. is there anything more true?
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answer:
1. Old Man Coyote is Very Crafty
2. a crafty brain
3. sharp
4. His wits are sharp his ends to gain