Problem: Attorney General Eric Holder is not entirely ruling out a scenario under which a drone strike would be ordered against Americans on U.S. soil, but says it has never been done previously and he could only see it being considered in an extraordinary circumstance.

He began to winnow the list of those possible extraordinary circumstances Wednesday. In testimony Wednesday before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, pressed Holder whether he believed it would be constitutional to target an American terror suspect "sitting at a cafe" if the suspect didn't pose an imminent threat.

"No," Holder replied.

But he also said the government has no intention of carrying out drone strikes inside the United States. Echoing what he said in a letter to U.S. Sen. Rand Paul, R-Kentucky, he called the possibility of domestic drone strikes "entirely hypothetical."

That letter, released Tuesday, was prompted by questions raised over the nomination of John Brennan to head the CIA. Specifically, members of the Senate Intelligence Committee sought the Obama administration's legal rationale for its use of drones to kill terror suspects overseas.

But Sen. Rand Paul, a Kentucky Republican who has said he would do what he could to hold up Brennan's nomination until he got a full answer to his query, wanted to know whether the administration considered that policy applicable domestically.

Holder: Drone strike against Americans in the U.S. possible

In a letter to Paul dated on Monday, Holder said it was possible, "I suppose," to imagine an "extraordinary circumstance in which it would be necessary and appropriate" under U.S. law for the president to authorize the military to "use lethal force" within the United States.
1. Who was testifying?
2. Who is he?
3. What was he testifying about?
4. What type of strikes are being discusseds
5. Who would they be against?
6. Who questioned him?
7. What's his job?
8. and his political party?
9. Who questioned the man testifying?
10. what's his job
11. where's he from
Answer: 1. Eric Holder
2. Attorney General
3. Drone strikes
4. against Americans
5. Americans on U.S. soil
6. the Senate Judiciary Committee
7. Attorney General
8. Republican
9. Sen. Ted Cruz
10. Senator
11. Texas

Problem: Erica McElrath calls herself " The Happy Lady". And by now, you may have caught her singing and dancing with her mp3 player on any of several city street corners. " I don't want money," said McElrah, 40, of St. Louis. " I come out here to make people smile."

McElrah lost her full-time job in January. Since then, she has spent her days doing what she loves-dancing in the street. Her message to people in hard times: do something that you enjoy, no matter what your circumstances. " Life isn't that bad," she said. " If you're working 40 hours a week, you shouldn't be complaining."

McElrah graduated from parkway Central High School and has spent the past 21 years working as a nursing assistant, She began singing and dancing publicly on her days off a few years ago to help her through the pain of her second divorce.

Her favorite spot is the northwest corner of Chouteau Avenue and South Grand Boulevard near St. Louis University. McElrah's mp3 player is loaded with hundreds of classic rock hits and 80's pop songs, including those by Joe Cocker, Tina Turner, Neil Diamond and Toto. But her favorite artist, by far, is Stevie Nicks.

Videos of McElrah have appeared on YouTube, a video-sharing website on which users can upload, share, and view videos. "People think I'm crazy, but I don't care," She said. " I can dance a little. I just go with the music." Even a rude gesture from a passing motorist doesn't bother her either. " I just smile and wave," she said.

McElrah's show of bravery recently earned her a job opportunity with Liberty Tax Service, which temporarily offered her a job as a dancer Statute of Liberty to promote a new place near Grand Center starting in January.

" Just be happy and do what you love," she said. "The money will come."
1. who calls herself the happy lady?
2. where does she dance and sing?
3. why did she start doing this?
4. was she divorced before?
5. how many times in all?
6. what kind of songs she has in her player
7. how old is she?
8. does she ask for money form people?
9. what does she need?
10. what was she working as
11. how long
12. when did she lose her full time work?
Answer: 1. Erica McElrath
2. city street corners
3. to help her through the pain of her divorce.
4. Yes
5. Two
6. classic rock hits
7. 40
8. No
9. to make people smile.
10. a nursing assistant
11. 21 years
12. January

Problem: In physics, energy is a property of objects which can be transferred to other objects or converted into different forms. The "ability of a system to perform work" is a common description, but it is difficult to give one single comprehensive definition of energy because of its many forms. For instance, in SI units, energy is measured in joules, and one joule is defined "mechanically", being the energy transferred to an object by the mechanical work of moving it a distance of 1 metre against a force of 1 newton.[note 1] However, there are many other definitions of energy, depending on the context, such as thermal energy, radiant energy, electromagnetic, nuclear, etc., where definitions are derived that are the most convenient.

Common energy forms include the kinetic energy of a moving object, the potential energy stored by an object's position in a force field (gravitational, electric or magnetic), the elastic energy stored by stretching solid objects, the chemical energy released when a fuel burns, the radiant energy carried by light, and the thermal energy due to an object's temperature. All of the many forms of energy are convertible to other kinds of energy. In Newtonian physics, there is a universal law of conservation of energy which says that energy can be neither created nor be destroyed; however, it can change from one form to another.
1. What is a common definition of energy?
2. How is it defined in physics?
3. Are there many forms of energy?
4. what are some kinds of energy?
5. What are some comon kinds of energy?
6. can one form be transformed into another?
7. Can it be made?
8. can it be destroyed?
9. are there different ways of measuring it?
10. what is one way?
11. what is a joule?
12. Is there a single way of defining it?
13. How are different meanings contrived?
14. what is radiant energy?
15. What is potential energy?
16. Are there more than one kind of force field?
17. how many?
18. what are they?
19. what comes from burning?
20. What kind of energy comes from a thing's temperature?
Answer:
1. the ability of a system to do work
2. a property of objects which can be transferred or converted
3. yes
4. thermal, radiant, nuclear, electromagnetic
5. kinetic, potential, elastic, chemical, therma;, radiant
6. yes
7. no
8. no
9. yes
10. in joules
11. a measure of energy transfer
12. no
13. it depends on the context
14. energy in light
15. the energy stored by an object in a force field
16. yes
17. three
18. gravitational, electric, magnetic
19. chemical energy
20. thermal