Answer the questions at the end based on the text.

As kids spend more time online chatting with friends or researching homework, parents are questioning how the Internet is affecting children's lives, a recent study shows.

From 2006 to 2007, the number of parents who think the Internet beneficial to their children declined, according to the study by the Pew Internet & American Life Project. But parents don' t see it as a bad influence, either.

Amanda Lenhart, a senior researcher said, "Technology is not so magic as to make your child get straight A and improve all aspects of your life. As you grow to know it, you realize its power and disadvantages."

But as with the emergence of television in American homes in the 1950s and 1960s, the Internet continues to cause strong reactions from parents.

"There's too much garbage online for kids," said Patrick Thomas as he picked up his 15-year-old son from school. "It's like a kid walking down the street. He's got to watch out. He never knows who he might come across."

Thomas used to have Internet service at home but got rid of it a year ago because he was worried about viruses infecting his computer and strangers taking advantage of his son Zachary. He has purchased a series of educational software to help him with his schoolwork.

"It was a great place to explore, and the information you gathered was great," Zachary said. "Now it's dangerous." But Zachary Thomas still sees benefits from going online and says he can do it at the library or at school. "It can be a good thing for kids," Zachary said. But he wasn't upset when his father pulled the plug .

Zachary's attitude to the Internet is in line with the study's findings, confirming that teens, who have never known a world without online access, generally have a more positive view of the Internet than their parents.

More parents are getting online themselves, making them know about their children's online activities, Lenhart said.

But that doesn't mean they understand everything. It also doesn't mean they needn't monitor the websites their children visit or set limits on the amount of time they spend online.

"I'm still trying to figure out the role of it," said John Horgan, whose daughters are 11, 12 and 15. "If their grades were to go down, that would be it."

The majority of parents surveyed by the Pew Internet & American Life Project said the Internet is a positive influence in their children's lives.

1. how many kids does horgan have ?
2. what is he trying to figure out ?
3. who thinks the internet is a good thing ?
4. what does a recent study says ?
5. who conducted the study ?
6. who is a senior researcher ?
7. how many kids did patrick pick up ?
8. is she a girl ?
9. how old is he ?
10. does he like the internet for kids ?
11. what does he tink ?
12. does he have internet ?
13. for how many reasons ?
14. name a reason
15. who is getting onhline following the children ?
16. who said that ?
17. what happened in the 1950s and 1960 ?
18. in asian homes ?
19. in whos homes ?
20. what kind of reaction did it cause ?

Numbered answers:

A: 1. Three
2. the role of it
3. majority of parents
4. parents are questioning how the Internet is affecting children's lives
5. Pew Internet & American Life
6. Amanda Lenhart
7. One
8. no.
9. 15
10. no
11. There's too much garbage online
12. no
13. Two
14. viruses
15. parents
16. Lenhart
17. emergence of television
18. no
19. American
20. strong

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How to react to Iran's new smiley-faced president, Hassan Rouhani?

Smile back, but don't stop squeezing Iran with sanctions.

Rouhani has offered a series of positive gestures since taking office in early August. He has released some political prisoners. He sent New Year's greetings to Jews in Iran and around the world. He took a phone call from the president of the United States.

Does any of this portend real change in Iran?

The case for skepticism is strong. None of the regime has changed in any way. Iran continues to make mischief through the region, most horrifically by supporting the brutal actions of the Bashar al-Assad regime in Syria. As far as anyone can tell, Iran pursues nuclear weapons as determinedly as ever.

Rouhani himself is no liberal and no Democrat. An early supporter of the Ayatollah Khomeini, Rouhani held senior positions in the Iranian state during the regime's most vicious period of international terrorism, the early 1990s - the years in which Iranian-backed terrorists carried out assassinations in Berlin and Paris and carried out two terrible bombings of Jewish targets in Buenos Aires, killing 114 people and wounding nearly a thousand more.

As Iran's chief nuclear negotiator in the 2000s, Rouhani nimbly evaded international efforts to achieve a peaceful end to the country's drive for weapons of mass death.

More fundamentally, the president of Iran does not govern the country's national security system. The military and the secret police answer to the supreme leader, the Ayatollah Khameini, who has very emphatic geopolitical ideas of his own. Compared with all that, a cheerful tweet and a few words of condemnation of Nazi crimes don't seem much of an offset.

1. Who is the new ruler in Iran?
2. When did he officially start the job?
3. Where else has he had upper government jobs?
4. When was that?
5. Who was he working for in the 2000s?
6. For which country?
7. Did he agree with international efforts of that time?
8. What were they trying to stop Iran from getting?
9. Is he a democrat?
10. A liberal?
11. What has he let go as president?
12. What did he give Jews?
13. Where?
14. Did he talk to the U.S. President?
15. How?
16. Is Iran still after nuclear weapons?
17. Where is Bashar ruling?
18. Does Iran support him?
19. Who directs the secret police?
20. Does he direct the military as well?

Numbered answers:

A:
1. Hassan Rouhani
2. early August
3. Iranian state
4. early 1990s
5. chief nuclear negotiator
6. Iran
7. no he evaded
8. weapons of mass death
9. no
10. no
11. political prisoners
12. New Year's greetings
13. in Iran and around the world
14. yes
15. ook a phone call from
16. yes
17. Syria
18. yes
19. Ayatollah Khamein
20. yes