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Tu Youyou has become the first Chinese woman to win a Nobel Prize, for her work in helping to create an anti-malaria medicine. The 84-year-old's route to the honour has been anything but traditional. In China, she is being called the "three nos" winner: no medical degree, no doctorate, and she's never worked overseas. In 1967, malaria, a then deadly disease, spread by mosquitoes was _ Chinese soldiers fighting Americans in the jungles of northern Vietnam. A secret research unit "Mission 523 "was formed to find a cure for the illness. Two years later, Tu Youyou was instructed to become the new head of "Mission 523". "Mission523" read ancient books carefully for a long time to find historical methods of fighting malaria. When she started her search for an anti-malarial drug, more than 240,000 compounds around the world had already been tested, without any success. Finally, the team found a brief reference to one substance, sweet wormwood , which had been used to treat malaria in China around 400 AD. The team took out one active compound in wormwood, and then tested it. But nothing was effective until Tu Youyou returned to the original ancient text. After another careful reading, she changed the drug recipe one final time, heating the compound without allowing it to reach boiling point. After the drug showed promising results in mice and monkeys, Tu Youyou volunteered to be the first human recipient of the new drug. " In any case, Tu Youyou is consistently praised for her drive and passion. One former colleague. Lianda Li, says Ms Tu is "unsociable and quite straightforward", adding that "if she disagrees with something, she will say it." Another colleague, Fuming Liao, who has worked with Tu Youyou for more than 40 years, describes her as a "tough and stubborn woman". Stubborn enough to spend decades piecing together ancient texts, she applies them to modern scientific practices. The result has saved millions of lives.
1. What is the name of the first Chinese woman to win a Nobel Prize?
2. What was her work?
3. How do they call her in China?
4. Does she have a medical degree?
5. How is the malaria spread?
6. What is the name of the secret research unit?
7. How many compounds were testes around the world?
8. Which compost did the team find that was used to treat maria in China around 400 AD?
9. Did it work?
10. What did Tu Youyou find out about this compost?
11. What did Lianda say about Tu Youyou?
12. How long Fuming Liao has been working with Tu Youyou?
13. How many lives are saved because Tu Youyou?

Numbered answers:
1. Tu Youyou
2. helping to create an anti-malaria medicine
3. she is being called the "three nos" winner:
4. No
5. Mosquitos
6. Mission 523
7. 240,000
8. sweet wormwood
9. Yes
10. heating the compound without allowing it to reach boiling point.
11. unsociable and quite straightforward
12. More than 40 years
13. millions of lives.

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Dry Tortugas National Park, Florida (CNN) -- Weather and time have inflicted more damage to Fort Jefferson than hostile cannon fire ever did.

The crumbling citadel rises 40 feet from the turquoise water of the Gulf of Mexico, an outpost of a bygone era. Built on an island in Florida's Dry Tortugas, 70 miles past Key West, the fort is being restored by a squad of craftsmen who spend three-week shifts there between hurricane seasons.

A cocoon of mesh and scaffolding shrouds one section of its 8-foot-thick walls as they work. It's a grueling job, but it's one Dennis Wood, a mason from Massachusetts, says he's glad to have.

"Things are slow today, you know," Wood said. "Got a job offer to come down here for the winter, so we took it."

Efforts to restore Fort Jefferson have been under way for about 30 years. The current phase received a boost from the economic stimulus bill that passed Congress in 2009, which devoted $7 million to the project. But planners estimate another $13 million is needed, and that money has yet to be allocated.

The six-sided fort, roughly the size of Yankee Stadium, was designed to protect shipping lanes through the Gulf of Mexico. Construction began in 1846, but advancements in the science of artillery rendered it obsolete before it was finished. During the Civil War, the Confederacy never bothered to try to seize it from Union forces.

The Union kept a garrison of about 2,000 men there and used it mostly as a prison for Confederate captives and deserters. It wasn't until after the war that it received its most famous inmate -- Samuel Mudd, the Maryland doctor convicted of aiding Abraham Lincoln's assassin, John Wilkes Booth, by setting his broken leg.
1. What is the name of the park?
2. In what State is it located?
3. How far from the Keys?
4. Where was this built?
5. Who's Wood?
6. What's he doing?
7. How many sides does the place gong under restoration have?
8. Why was it created that way?
9. When was it started?
10. Who had control of it during the War?
11. What baseball field is it comparable in area?
12. What did the Union use it for?
13. How many were garrisoned there?

Numbered answers:
1. Dry Tortugas National Park
2. Florida
3. 70 miles
4. an island in Florida's Dry Tortugas
5. a mason
6. restoring Fort Jefferson
7. six
8. it was designed to protect shipping lanes through the Gulf of Mexico
9. 1846
10. the Union
11. Yankee Stadium
12. as a prison for Confederate captives and deserters
13. 2,000

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(CNN) -- Julia Roberts, star of the new movie "Eat, Pray, Love," which tells the story of a soul-searching character, is now a practicing Hindu.

Roberts, in an interview with Elle magazine, says she worships with her husband, cameraman Danny Moder, and their three children, People.com says.

The family, she told Elle, goes to temple together to "chant and pray and celebrate. I'm definitely a practicing Hindu." Roberts grew up in Georgia, the daughter of Christian parents.

Other celebrities who have practiced Hinduism include former Beatle George Harrison, author J.D. Salinger and NFL player Ricky Williams.

In her September cover interview, Roberts, 42, decries the use of botox and plastic surgery.

"It's unfortunate that we live in such a panicked, dysmorphic society where women don't even give themselves a chance to see what they'll look like as older persons," she says.

The star of "Pretty Woman" and "Erin Brokovich" also spoke about her relationship with her family.

"You make these people and you love them and you want them around for a thousand years," she said about her three kids -- 3-year-old Henry and 5-year-old twins Phinnaeus and Hazel. "And you want to be there for them for a thousand years."

1. What movie star is featured in this article?
2. Name a movie she was in.
3. What decision did she make after that movie?
4. Has she always been Hindu?
5. What was she before?
6. Is her family Hindu?
7. Who is she married to?
8. What does he do?
9. How old are her kids?
10. How are two 5?
11. What is the name of the youngest?
12. Who are the twins?
13. How old is Roberts?
14. Does she like having a family?
15. How do you know?
16. What other movies has she been in?
17. Who else practices Hindu?
18. Has she been interviewed by anyone?
19. Who?
Numbered answers:
1. Julia Roberts
2. Eat, Pray, Love
3. She became a practicing Hindu
4. no
5. Christian
6. yes, her husband and three children are Hindu
7. Danny Moder
8. he is a cameraman
9. One is 3 and two are 5
10. they are twins
11. Henry
12. Phinnaeus and Hazel.
13. 42
14. yes
15. she loves them and wants them around
16. Pretty Woman, Erin Brokovich
17. George Harrison, J.D. Salinger, Ricky Williams.
18. yes
19. Elle magazine