CHAPTER XXVI

TOGETHER ONCE MORE

"Tom!"

"Dick and Sam!"

"How in the world did you get here?"

"Where are the others?"

These and a dozen other questions were asked and answered as the three Rover boys shook hands over and over again. Even though prisoners, they were delighted to be together once more, and doubly delighted to know that each was well.

"Oh, these chaps are first-class rascals," said Dick after they had settled down a bit. "They have treated us most shamefully. At first, they gave us pretty good eating, but now they are starving us."

"Starving you?" cried Tom.

"Yes--they want us to tell all we know," put in Sam. "They are very suspicious."

"Didn't you try to get away?"

"No use of trying. The walls are too solid and so is the door," said Dick. He caught Tom by the arm and added in a faint whisper in his brother's ear: "They are listening. We have a hole."

"Then we'll have to stay here," said Tom loudly, catching his cue instantly.

"Yes, and it's a shame," added Sam in an equally loud voice. "I suppose the others have gone on?"

"Certainly," said Tom calmly. "I was a chump to remain behind--only I wanted to find you. I got hold of a letter by accident."

A moment later, they heard the guards walk away, and then Tom told the truth about the letter, and Sam and Dick led him to the hole in the wall.

"It is not quite big enough to use, yet," whispered the eldest Rover. "But we hope to have it big enough by to-morrow. It's slow work, when you have got to be on your guard all the while." What are the answers to this following set of questions: 1. How many boys are there?
2. were they free?
3. Were they fed?
4. can they escape?
5. Was was found accidently?
6. Who stayed behind?
7. Can they open freely?
8. Were they planning an escape?
9. When?
10. Where was the hole?
11. Who started the hole?
Answer: 1. three Rover boys
2. No
3. No
4. No
5. letter
6. Tom
7. No
8. Yes
9. tomorrow?
10. In the wall.
11. Sam and Dick

Public policy and political leadership helps to "level the playing field" and drive the wider acceptance of renewable energy technologies. Countries such as Germany, Denmark, and Spain have led the way in implementing innovative policies which has driven most of the growth over the past decade. As of 2014, Germany has a commitment to the "Energiewende" transition to a sustainable energy economy, and Denmark has a commitment to 100% renewable energy by 2050. There are now 144 countries with renewable energy policy targets.

Total investment in renewable energy (including small hydro-electric projects) was $244 billion in 2012, down 12% from 2011 mainly due to dramatically lower solar prices and weakened US and EU markets. As a share of total investment in power plants, wind and solar PV grew from 14% in 2000 to over 60% in 2012. The top countries for investment in recent years were China, Germany, Spain, the United States, Italy, and Brazil. Renewable energy companies include BrightSource Energy, First Solar, Gamesa, GE Energy, Goldwind, Sinovel, Trina Solar, Vestas and Yingli. What are the answers to this following set of questions: 1. What levels the playing field?
2. What else do they do?
3. Who leads the way in this?
4. What is Germany comitted to?
5. As of when?
6. What about Denmark?
7. of what?
8. by when?
9. How many countries have these policy targets?
10. What was the total investment in renewable energy?
11. in what year?
12. was that up?
13. why?
14. What are the top countries for investment?
15. Is GE Engery one of the companies?
16. what grew in 2000?
17. to what in 2012?
18. what were the policy targets for?
19. Who has driven most of the growth?
20. total investment includes what?
Answer: 1. Public policy and political leadership
2. drive the wider acceptance of renewable energy technologies
3. Germany, Denmark, and Spain
4. Energiewende
5. 2014
6. a commitment to 100%
7. renewable energy
8. 2050
9. 144
10. 244 billion
11. 2012
12. no
13. lower solar price
14. China, Germany, Spain, the United States, Italy, and Brazil.
15. yes
16. total investment in power plants, wind and solar PV
17. over 60%
18. renewable energy
19. Germany, Denmark, and Spain
20. small hydro-electric projects

When he was a teenager, Hunter Adam was very unhappy and he spent many years in a special hospital for people with mental health problems. When he left the hospital, Adam decided to become a doctor, so he went to a medical school in Virginia, USA. But when he was there, he did things in a different way. For example, he didn't like the doctor's white coats, so he wore shirts with flowers on them when he visited his patients and he tried to make them laugh. The doctors at the medical school didn't like Adams because he was too different. But Adams believed that people in hospital need more than medicine. He saw unhappy and lonely people, and he tried to help them as patients, but as people too. He spent a lot of time with children in the hospital and often dressed up like a clown to make the children laugh When he finished medical school and become a doctor, Adams opened his own hospital, called "the Gusundheit Institute",together with some other doctors. They wanted it to be a place with a different way of working with sick people. Hunter Adams became famous during the 1980s, and in 1988, Universal Pictures made a film about his life. It was very successful. In the film, Robin Williams played Adams. Williams said,:"hunter is a really warm person, who believes that patients need a doctor who is a friend. I enjoyed playing him." What are the answers to this following set of questions: 1. What did Adam want to be?
2. Why?
3. Did he go to college?
4. Where?
5. Was he like everyone else?
6. What did he do that was odd?
7. Who did he see a lot?
8. Did he do anything special for them?
9. What?
10. Where did he work after graduation?
11. Was there anything unique about it?
12. What?
13. Who made a movie about him?
14. When?
15. Who played him?
Answer:
1. A doctor
2. Because he spent many years in a special hospital for people with mental health problems.
3. Yes
4. Virginia, USA.
5. No.
6. He wore shirts with flowers on them when he visited his patients.
7. Children.
8. Yes
9. He often dressed up like a clown to make the children laugh.
10. The Gusundheit Institute.
11. Yes.
12. unknown
13. Universal Pictures
14. 1988
15. Robin Williams