question: Some people like to collect stamps. Others prefer posters or coins. But Pinky Bhutia is different. She collects children. In her mountain village, in Sikkim, she is known as the wonderful young woman who adopts all the children she can. Pinky was 14 when she adopted her first child, a Nepali baby girl, whose patents passed away. Pinky's parents did not mind. Pinky left school and started working full time because she had a baby to feed. Today , she has twelve adopted children, and two sons from her marriage. Pinky is about 30 years old and she comes from a common family. If you passed her on the street, you wouldn't give her a second look. She lives in a brown mud-washed house. There is a vegetable garden outside. Red hens with noisy chicks run all over the garden looking for food. If you ask her why she provides a home to so many kids, she smiles shyly. But her eyes are serious. "I know what it is to be poor and hungry." As a child, her only dream was to eat a full meal, and her favorite amusement was watching people with shoes and imagining what it felt like. By adopting poor and homeless children she is making sure that they never feel that hopeless. Pinky feels very proud when she sees her children happy and bright, Her oldest baby, Aarita Rai, is now 20 years old, Then, there is 19-year-old Nimbe who came to Pinky because her mother was unable to look after her. She started to work in a government office two years ago. Ten-year-old Bhim and 14-year-old Kumar came to Pinky five years ago, after their father's death. They started living on a patch of land given by Pinky and grew vegetables for sale. "I like children. It's not one more mouth to feed but one more soul saved," Pinky says.
1. How old is Pinky?
2. What does she collect?
3. Why?
4. When did she adopt her first kid?
5. How did her parents feel about it?
6. What did she do to pay for it?
7. Where was the baby from?
8. What happened to her parents?
9. What is her name?
10. What is her current age?
11. Why did she adopt her second child?
12. How old is she now?
13. Where is she employed?
14. How many kids has she adopted?
15. What kind of house does she have?
16. Where is it?
17. Does she have any other kids?
18. Where did she get them?
19. How does Pinky feel about kids?
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answer: 1. 30
2. children
3. her first baby was an orphan
4. when she was 14
5. they did not mind
6. she started working full time
7. Nepal
8. they passed away
9. Aarita Rai
10. 20
11. her mother was unable to look after her
12. 19
13. in a government office
14. 12
15. a brown mud-washed house
16. Sikkim
17. 2 sons
18. from her marriage
19. she likes children

question: Washington (CNN) -- The federal government said it will recommend that new cars have rear-view video systems, a move immediately denounced as "insufficient" by safety groups who say the cameras should be mandatory.

The camera and monitor system enables drivers to see whether people or objects are in the blind spot behind vehicles.

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said Tuesday it will add the rear-view video systems to its list of recommended features under its New Car Assessment Program, designed to encourage car manufacturers to improve vehicle safety.

But safety groups called the action a stalling tactic, saying the agency is dragging its feet in fulfilling a congressionally imposed deadline to issue a rule on rear visibility.

Passed in 2008, the law had a 2011 deadline. The regulation is now two and a half years overdue.

Death toll from backover accidents grows

The NHTSA action "is an inadequate substitute for issuing a mandatory safety regulation," Jackie Gillan, president of Advocates for Highway and Auto Safety, said in a statement. "In fact, safety advocates are concerned that NHTSA's announcement is an attempt to divert attention from their failure to act."

The NHTSA announcement Tuesday came just one day before a group of safety advocates, including two parents who unintentionally hit their children while backing up, was expected to file suit against the U.S. Department of Transportation, which includes NHTSA.

The suit is to be filed Wednesday morning by Greg Gulbransen, who reportedly backed over his 2-year-old son, Cameron, in his driveway in 2002, killing him, and by Susan Auriemma, who backed over her 3-year-old daughter, Kate, in her driveway in 2005, injuring her.
1. When was the law passed?
2. What was the deadline?
3. What is the NHTSA?
4. What is the new program called?
5. What does it do?
6. Is everyone happy with it's action?
7. Who isn't?
8. Who is she>
9. What does she think it's trying to do?
10. From what?
11. Do safety groups think they are acting too quickly?
12. What do they think?
13. Do they think the cameras shouldn't be mandatory?
14. What do the cameras allow the people to see?
15. Where is that?
16. When was this announced?
17. What was supposed to happen the next day?
18. Against who?
19. Who is included in that?
20. Which individuals are filing suit?
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answer: 1. in 2008
2. 2011
3. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
4. its New Car Assessment Program
5. It's designed to encourage car manufacturers to improve vehicle safety.
6. No
7. Jackie Gillan
8. The president of Advocates for Highway and Auto Safety
9. divert attention
10. their failure to act
11. No
12. It's a stalling tactic
13. No
14. whether people or objects are in the blind spot
15. behind vehicles
16. Tuesday
17. a group was expected to file a suit
18. the U.S. Department of Transportation
19. The NHTSA
20. a group of safety advocates, including two parents

question: By the 1890s the profound effect of adrenal extracts on many different tissue types had been discovered, setting off a search both for the mechanism of chemical signalling and efforts to exploit these observations for the development of new drugs. The blood pressure raising and vasoconstrictive effects of adrenal extracts were of particular interest to surgeons as hemostatic agents and as treatment for shock, and a number of companies developed products based on adrenal extracts containing varying purities of the active substance. In 1897 John Abel of Johns Hopkins University identified the active principle as epinephrine, which he isolated in an impure state as the sulfate salt. Industrial chemist Jokichi Takamine later developed a method for obtaining epinephrine in a pure state, and licensed the technology to Parke Davis. Parke Davis marketed epinephrine under the trade name Adrenalin. Injected epinephrine proved to be especially efficacious for the acute treatment of asthma attacks, and an inhaled version was sold in the United States until 2011 (Primatene Mist). By 1929 epinephrine had been formulated into an inhaler for use in the treatment of nasal congestion.
1. Who isolated epinephrine?
2. Was it pure?
3. What form was it
4. Did someone produce it in a pure state?
5. Who?
6. What was it used for?
7. How was it used?
8. Was there another way it was administered?
9. How?
10. What was the brand name?
11. When could someone buy it in the US?
12. Who else offered the drug?
13. What was it called?
14. What else was epinephrine used to treat?
15. Starting when?
16. What did people want to learn more about?
17. Of what chemicals?
18. Why?
19. What did they want to make?
20. What was an early usage of the chemicals?
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answer:
1. John Abel
2. no
3. in an impure state
4. yes
5. Jokichi Takamine
6. for the acute treatment of asthma attacks
7. it was injected
8. yes
9. inhaled
10. Primatene Mis
11. until 2011
12. Parke Davis
13. Adrenalin
14. nasal congestion
15. 1929
16. the mechanism of chemical signalling
17. adrenal extracts
18. they had a profound effect on many different tissue types
19. new drugs
20. blood pressure raising and vasoconstrictive effects