input: Make use of the article to answer the questions. Attention to detail is something everyone can and should do-especially in tight job market.

Bob Crossley,a human-resources expert notices this in the job applications that come across his desk every day."It's amazing how many candidates eliminate themselves,"he says."Resumes arrive with faults.Some candidates don't bother to spell the company's name correctly.Once I see a mistake,I refuse the candidates,"Crossley concludes,"If they cannot take care of these details,why should we trust them with a job?"

Can we pay too much attention to details?Absolutely not.

Perfectionists struggle over little things instead of something larger they work toward."To keep from losing the forest for the trees,"says Charles Garfield,the professor at the University of California,San Francisco,"We must constantly ask ourselves how the details we're working will influence the larger picture.If they don't,we should drop them and move to something else."

Garfield compares this process to his work as a computer scientist at NASA."The Apollo II moon launch was slightly off-course 90percent of the time,"says Garfield."But a successful landing was still likely because we knew the exact position of our goal.This allowed us to make adjustments as necessary."Knowing where to go helps us judge the importance of every task we undertake.

Again and again,we see that by doing little things within our grasp well,large rewards follow. 1. Where does Garfield work?
2. What does he do there?
3. Which Apollo mission was he involved with?
4. Was he involved with the Challenger?
5. What made a successful landing of the Apollo II likely?
6. Is it important to know where you want to go?
7. What does that allow us to judge?
8. What's Bob Crossley an expert in?
9. What type of apps does he see every day?
10. How come he sees them?
11. What do candidates do to themselves?
12. What do their resumes arrive with?
13. Can you give an example of one?
14. What does Bob do if he sees a mistake?
15. Does he trust them with a job?
16. What does Bob want them to be able to take care of?
17. Is it possible to pay too much attention to them?
18. Where does Garfield teach?
19. Where's that?
20. Should we care how details influence the larger picture?
numbered_answers: 1. NASA
2. he's a computer scientist
3. The Apollo II
4. unknown
5. they knew the exact position
6. yes
7. the importance of tasks
8. human-resources
9. job applications
10. it's part of his job
11. eliminate themselves
12. faults
13. spell the company's name wrong
14. refuses the candidates
15. no
16. details
17. Absolutely not
18. University of California
19. San Francisco
20. yes

input: Make use of the article to answer the questions. This article lists aircraft accidents and incidents which resulted in at least 50 fatalities in a single occurrence involving commercial passenger and cargo flights, military passenger and cargo flights, or general aviation flights that have been involved in a ground or mid-air collision with either a commercial or military passenger or cargo flight.

There have been 539 such accidents, including terrorist or other attacks. Of these, 198 have involved at least 100 fatalities, 33 have had at least 200 fatalities, 8 have had at least 300 fatalities, and 4 accidents have had at least 500 fatalities. Between 1923 (the first year an aircraft accident or incident exceeded 50 fatalities) and the present, these accidents have involved 571 aircraft across all seven continents and the three largest oceans, and have accounted for 56,669 fatalities.

Five years after the pioneering flight of the Wright brothers on 17 December 1903, Thomas Selfridge became the first fatality of powered flight while flying as a passenger with Orville Wright during a demonstration of the Wright Model A at Fort Myer, Virginia, on 17 September 1908. Eugene Lefebvre was the first pilot killed in a power airplane in 1909, while the first fatal mid-air collision occurred on 19 June 1912, near Douai, France, killing the pilot of each aircraft. Since the deaths of these early aviation pioneers, the scale of fatal aircraft accidents has increased in proportion to the size and capacity of airplanes. 1. When did the Wright brothers have their first flight?
2. Who had the first flight fatality?
3. How long after the first recorded flight was that?
4. Was he the pilot?
5. Who was?
6. What type of plane were they in?
7. Where?
8. When was the first pilot killed?
9. What was his name?
10. Where did the accident take place?
11. How did he die?
12. I realize, thank you. I wanted another unknown answer.
13. When was the first deadly collision, mid-air?
14. Where?
15. Was both pilots killed?
16. How many collisions have had at least 50 fatalities since then?
17. When was the first time it happened?
18. How many total fatalities have the collisions been accountable for?
19. How many collisions have had more than 300 fatalities?
numbered_answers: 1. 1903
2. Thomas Selfridge
3. Five years
4. No
5. Orville Wright
6. Wright Model A
7. Fort Myer, Virginia
8. 1909
9. Eugene Lefebvre
10. unknown
11. killed in a power airplane
12. .
13. 1912
14. Douai, France
15. yes
16. 539
17. 1923
18. 56,669
19. Eight

input: Make use of the article to answer the questions. CHAPTER XXV

THE BOMBARDMENT OF THE SANTIAGO BATTERIES

When Walter returned to his friends he was immediately surrounded and asked what had happened in the cabin. "Did the commodore slap you on the back and call you a bully boy?" queried Si.

"Well, hardly," answered Walter, with a quiet smile. "They plied me with questions and said I had had some remarkable adventures; that's all."

"Didn't praise you?" queried Caleb.

"No."

"Didn't rush up and shake hands even?" put in Paul.

"Not at all. I saluted and toed the mark, and kept toeing it until I left."

At this Paul's face fell. "Why, I thought you would be right in it, Walter," he said.

"I guess you've been reading some dime and half-dime colored-cover novels, Paul. I imagine that is the way they do in such books."

"That's it. Why, I've got a story about 'Dewey's Boy Bodyguard.' The hero in that overheard a plot against Dewey, and Dewey clasped him to his breast and made him a captain of marines."

"Indeed! And you believe such a yarn?"

"Dewey couldn't make the boy a captain of marines, not if he was an admiral twice over," put in Caleb. "Those yarns are pure trash. Paul, you had better study some good book on gunnery, and try to become a gun captain."

"I thought the story was slightly overdrawn," said Paul, growing red in the face. "There is another about the 'Boy Hero of Havana,' who saves General Lee's life at the time the Americans are getting out of Havana. I suppose that is untrue, too." 1. What does Paul like to read?
2. Did he read one about Dewey?
3. What did Dewey do for the hero of that story?
4. What did Dewey promote him to?
5. of what?
6. What is the other story he read about?
7. Who saved him?
8. What are the Americans doing?
9. Does Paul believe this stories?
10. What does Caleb call them?
11. What does he suggest he read?
12. What for?
numbered_answers:
1. American Military stories
2. yes
3. Warned him of a plot
4. a captain
5. marines
6. General Lee
7. the 'Boy Hero of Havana,
8. getting out of Havana
9. Not quite
10. pure trash
11. books on gunnery,
12. to try to become a gun captain.