Q: Answers to life can be found in everyday events. Watching nature, watching people and watching animals communicate with each other provide some of the simplest ways to life's biggest problems. This became clearer to me yesterday. It caused me to ask myself, "How do I respond to the storms in life?" People usually run when it starts to rain. I love to walk in it, stand on my front door and feel it. I grew up doing it and have never really felt the fear many people do. The animal world senses changes in the weather far earlier than humans. My dog, Ricky, begins to shake long before the storm is close enough to be noticed. I was about to feed my three dogs yesterday and as usual, I let them out in the yard first. They didn't move when thunder came across the skies. So I placed their food in their bowls and called Ricky into the kitchen. Ricky was just standing there in place next to his bowl. The thunder became louder, which forced him to stop eating his meal. Then I watched Phil. He made his way across the kitchen floor and stood over Ricky's bowl. He ate all the remaining food. Generally, if Ricky was standing there, he wouldn't dare come close. But today, he took advantage of the storm and got what he wanted. His hope for the prize outweighed his fear of the storm. That's when it hit me. As men, we face all kinds of storms. They come in unannounced. Sometimes we stay in a corner or under the blankets, hoping it will all pass. However, if you dare put your head out, you'll discover there're people doing what they must to get what they must have out of life. Isn't it time you decided to take advantage of the storm?

1. run
2. changes in the weather
3. Ricky
4. begins to shake
5. thunder
6. yes
7. Phil
8. ate all thefood
9. two
10. no
11. go in the yard

Numbered questions:
1. What action do people usually take when is begins to rain?
2. What do creatures sense before humans do?
3. What is the dog in the story called?
4. What does he do when a storm is near?
5. What made him stop eating his food?
6. Does the narrator of the story like to take strolls in the rain?
7. Who positioned himself next to Ricky's bowl?
8. And what did he proceed to do?
9. How many dogs does the narrator own?
10. Does Phil generally get near Ricky's bowl?
11. What are the narrator's dogs allowed to do before they eat?

Q: "Mobile phones killed our man,"screamed one headline last year. Also came claims that an unpublished study had found that mobile phones cause memory loss. And a British newspaper devoted its front page to a picture supposedly showing how mobile phones heat the brain.

For anyone who uses a moblie phone, these are worring times. But speak to the scientists whose work is the focus of these scared and you will hear a different story.

What we do have, however, are some results suggesting that mobile phones'emission have a variety of strange effects on living tissue that can't be explained by the general radiation biology. And it's only when the questions raised by these experients are answered that we'll be able to say for sure what moblie phones might be doing to the brain.

One of the odd effects comes from the now famous"merrory loss" study. Alan Preece and his colleagues at the prefix = st1 /UniversityofBristolplaced a device that imitated the microwave emission of mobile phones to the left ear of volunteers. The volunteers were all goood at recalling words and pictures they had been shown on a computer screen. Preece says he still can't comment on the effects of using a mobile phone for years on end. But he rules out the suggestion that mobile phones have an immediate effect on our cognitive abilities."I'm pretty sure there is no effect on short-term memory," he says.

Another expert, Tatterasll, remarked that his latest findings have removed fears about memory loss. One result, for instance, suggests that nerve cell synapses exposed to microwaves become more----rather than less-----receptive to under-going changes linked to the memory formation.

It would be an even happier outcome if microwave turned out to be good for you. It sounds crazy, but a couple of years ago a team led by William Adey at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in California, found that mice exposed to microwave for two hours a day were less likely to develop brain tumours when given a cancer-causing chemical.

So should we forget about mobile phone radiation causing brain tumours and scrambling our minds?

"If it doesn't certainly cause cancer in animals and cells, then it probably isn't going to cause cancer in humans,"says William. And while there's still no evidence that mobile phone does mangle your memories or give your cancer, the _ is:Don't panic.

1. Mobile phones
2. no
3. mobile phones causing memory loss
4. hot
5. Alan Preece
6. yes
7. there is no effect on short-term memory
8. yes
9. Tatterasll
10. mice exposed to microwave for two hours a day were less likely to develop brain tumours when given a cancer-causing chemical
11. William Adey
12. the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in California

Numbered questions:
1. What common tool is the subject of this article?
2. Is it about how high roaming prices are?
3. Then what it is about?
4. Do they make the head get hot or cold?
5. Who did an experiment to see if they make you remember poorly?
6. Did he come to a conclusion about immediate use?
7. What was it?
8. Did someone suggest it might help prevent forgetting things?
9. Who?
10. What happened to rodents that were tested?
11. Who tested them?
12. Where?

Q: (CNN) -- If Barack Obama could make three wishes, he would probably ask for the crisis in Syria to go away. That would help him receive another wish: Getting reelected as president of the United States.

Unfortunately for Obama, and tragically for the people in Syria, history has brought the American presidential campaign and the Syrian revolution to the same pages of the calendar. That means Obama will do whatever he can, for as long as he can, to keep the carnage in Syria from interfering with his reelection plan.

That means the killings in Syria could go on longer than if the uprising had erupted during a nonelection year.

Anyone who doubts that electoral considerations have become a major factor in U.S. foreign policy should look to Obama's own words from a few months ago. Obama did not realize his microphone was on during a meeting in Seoul with then-Russian President Dimitry Medvedev, so he leaned in close and whispered, "This is my last election. After my election I have more flexibility." In this instance, Obama was referring to the contentious issue of missile defense.

It's not uncommon for presidents to worry about reelection while charting foreign policy. In Robert Caro's new biography of President Lyndon B. Johnson, "The Passage of Power," he describes how Johnson made decisions about Vietnam with an eye towards the elections. Caro concluded that "the steps he took had, as their unifying principle, an objective dictated largely by domestic indeed, personal political concerns."

1. the crisis in Syria to go away
2. Getting reelected as president of the United States
3. Dimitry Medvedev,
4. Russian President
5. no
6. Seoul
7. one
8. missile defense
9. Yes
10. Robert Caro
11. Lyndon B. Johnson
12. The Passage of Power
13. Vietnam
14. yes
15. Yes
16. a few months ago
17. no

Numbered questions:
1. What would Obama's first wish be?
2. And the second?
3. Who did Obama meet with?
4. What was his job?
5. Does he still have it?
6. Where did they meet?
7. How many more elections did Obama have?
8. What was he referring to?
9. Was that debatable?
10. Who wrote a biography?
11. About whom?
12. Titled what?
13. What did Johnson decide about?
14. Was he concerned about voting?
15. Is there a war in Syria?
16. When were Obama's comments?
17. Did he know his mike was hot?