Answer the questions at the end based on the text.

Left unfettered , Anthony Konieczka, 9 years old, would happily play his Game Boy Advance or PlayStation 2 from the minute he gets up to the moment he goes to bed, 14 bleary-eyed hours later.

Anthony's box is stocked with traditional toys--board games, puzzles, art supplies--and as far as he is concerned, they are relics of Christmases past. His sister Michaely, 6 years old, still likes dressing her Barbies. But once she starts playing Game Boy, it's hard to get her away.

Play patterns like this could take up another Christmas for the toy department. Through September, toy sales were down 5% compared with the first nine months of last year, according to the NDP Group. Meanwhile, the video-game industry is heading for another record year. Thanks to hot new games like Halo 2 for the Xbox, the industry is light-years ahead of the toy business when it comes out.

While some new toys emerge every holiday season, toymakers are heading into this one without a monster hit . Indeed, there has not been a Furby-style frenzy in years. Of 10 toy segments only two, arts and crafts and dolls, have generated sales growth over a recent 12-month period. Some of the weakest categories like construction sets and action figures are the ones aimed at boys, who suffer the most from the video games. Analysts expect one of the top stocking stuffers this season to be not a traditional toy but the new generation of Nintendo's Game Boy, the DS, which hit stores last week.

The deeper issue is that shifts in play patterns are forcing toymakers to fight for shelf space in a tightening market. Boys in particular seem to be abandoning traditional toys at earlier ages in favor of consumer electronics, video games, PC software and the Internet. The fact that kids are growing more tech-savvy , a trend called "age compression ", has troubled toy companies for at least a decade. Action figures, for instance, used to be considered healthy for boys up to age 12. Now the items are mainly marketed to boys 4 to 6. A recent study found that nearly half of the US children start on video games at 4 to 5 years old--and 20% at age 3 or younger.

Toy companies, of course, have long seen this trend. Several of the toys expected to sell well this season are, in fact, those that involve video gaming and DVD technologies. Mattel's Fisher-Price introduced a game system called InteracTV this year, featuring DVDs with characters like Dora the explorer. Hasbro came out with a portable color1 video player called VideoNow and has been putting classic games like Battleship and Yahtzee into hand-held electronic format.

1. How old is the boy?
2. And how many hours a day does he play?
3. He gets gifts like board games, puzzles and what?
4. How old is his sister?
5. She plays dressup with what?
6. The sales were down how much percent?
7. Videogames are predicted to be up due to what game in particular?
8. What hasn't there been in years?
9. 2 toy divisions have had growth in purchases over the past year, what are they?
10. Which 2 have been the least selling categories?

Numbered answers:

A: 1. 9 years old
2. 14 bleary-eyed hours later
3. art supplies
4. 6 years old
5. still likes dressing her Barbies.
6. Five
7. Halo 2
8. unknown
9. arts and crafts and dolls
10. construction sets and action figures

Question: On June 26, 2000, two scientists, called Francis Collins and Craig Venter, told the world that they could read the whole "map" of the human body: DNA. DNA is something that everybody has, and it tells the body what to do. DNA is the reason that we look like our mother and father, because we get some of their DNA to make our own. People have been trying to understand the human body for a long time. In 1860, Gregor Mendel discovered a special reason why we look the same as other people in our family. It is because of small things named "genes" in our body. In 1953, James Watson and Francis Crick made another discovery and found out that those small parts are real messages written in the DNA with a special language. In 1961, Marshall Nirenberg and Johann Matthaci found a message in DNA showing how DNA tells the cell to build its parts. Scientists have now found all the words in the DNA map, but we still do not understand what they all do. By understanding what just one "word" means, we can help save more people from several illnesses. Most people hope that this will help make better medicine and help sick people. Other people worry that when people begin to know more words and find out lots of other information, we might use it in a wrong way, just to make people more attractive, or stop sick people from getting jobs. Man would have to meet a lot of trouble if DNA technic wasn't limited in use. 1. What is a map of the human body called?
2. Who said they could read this map?
3. Is RNA why we resemble our parents?
4. Is the study of it new?
5. Who studied it first?
6. What year was that?
7. Did he discover chromosomes?
8. What did he discover?
9. When was the next epiphany on this topic?
10. Who unearthed it?
11. When was the next breakthrough?
12. Are researchers now fully experts in this science? Provide a numbered list of answers.
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A numbered of answers: 1. DNA.
2. Francis Collins and Craig Venter.
3. No, genes are.
4. No.
5. Gregor Mendel
6. In 1860.
7. No.
8. The reason we look like others.
9. In 1953,.
10. James Watson and Francis Crick.
11. In 1961.
12. No.

Q: Tehran, Iran (CNN) -- One of Iran's biggest soccer stars has been kicked off his team for refusing to fast during the holy month of Ramadan, the team's website reported.

According to Steel Azin Football Club's website, star player Ali Karimi was fired from the club after dismissing several warnings by a club official.

"Respecting God's laws and honoring the sacred laws of Islam are of the utmost importance to Steel Azin and unfortunately these matters have not been adhered to by the named player," the report said.

The club also accused Karimi, 31, of insulting Iranian Football Federation officials.

According to Iran's semi-official ISNA news agency, Karimi denied any wrongdoing of that he had insulted Iran's Football Federation.

"I am a Muslim and I do respect Islam," Karimi said, according to ISNA.

Karimi -- dubbed the 'Maradona of Asia' and the 'Wizard of Tehran' -- is one of the most recognizable faces in Iranian sports.

After a four-year stint with UAE-based side Al-Ahli Karimi moved to Bundesliga side Bayern Munich where he played in the title-winning side led by Felix Magath.

Karimi grew into a pivotal attacker for Iran's national team, becoming the second most capped player in the sides' history and scoring 36 goals in 112 appearances.

National law in Iran states that all Muslims are required to observe fasting during the holy month of Ramadan which started on Thursday.

1. Iran's biggest soccer star
2. Ali Karimi
3. refused to fast during the holy month of Ramadan,
4. insulting Iranian Football Federation officials
5. No
6. Islam,
7. 31
8. Steel Azin Football Club
9. Maradona of Asia
10. attacker
11. 112
12. 36
13. Yes
14. Thursday.
15. yes
16. several

Numbered questions:
1. Who was fired?
2. Named?
3. What did he do that caused him to be fired?
4. What else was he accused of?
5. Does he admit guilt?
6. What religion does he claim?
7. How old is he?
8. What team is he leaving?
9. What is one of the nicknames Karimi has received?
10. What position did he play for Iran?
11. How many appearances did he have during his time with the team?
12. And how many goals did he score?
13. Is fasting during Ramadan a national law?
14. When did Ramadan begin?
15. Was Ali warned before he was fired?
16. How many times?