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Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic (CNN) -- Officials are forcing the 25-year-old model who won the Dominican Republic's top beauty pageant to hand over her crown, saying she violated contest rules when she hid her marriage.

Pageant organizers claim Carlina Duran had been married since 2009 but told Miss Dominican Republic contest organizers she was single. Contestants in the pageant cannot be married or divorced, organizers said.

The runner-up in last week's Miss Dominican Republic contest, Dulcita Lieggi, will represent the Caribbean nation in the Miss Universe pageant, organizers said.

Dominicans were divided over the pageant's decision.

"If there is an established rule, and it comes out that she is married, she is violating the rule," said Rafael Concepcion.

On Duran's official Facebook page, fans lamented the move.

Dari Baez said taking away Duran's crown was unfair. "She already won it," Baez said.

Beauty queens from dozens of countries are scheduled to compete in the Miss Universe pageant in Las Vegas in June.

Journalist Diulka Perez contributed to this report.

1. Where will the contest be held?
2. Where is the next contest?
3. When?
4. What is the name of the contest?
5. Who will try to win it?
6. Who was married?
7. How long?
8. What is her title?
9. How old is she?
10. What is her occupation?
11. Did she lie about her marital status?
12. Who will replace her?
13. What was Lieggi's position?
14. What will she represent?
15. Are people in agreement with the decision?
16. Who added to this story?

Numbered answers:
1. Dominican Republic
2. Las Vegas
3. June
4. Miss Universe
5. Beauty queens from dozens of countries
6. Carlina Duran
7. Since 2009
8. Miss Dominican Republic
9. 25
10. Model
11. Yes
12. Dulcita Lieggi
13. Runner-up
14. the Caribbean nation of Dominican Republic
15. No
16. Journalist Diulka Perez

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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?

Numbered answers:
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

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CHAPTER THIRTY TWO.

TOUCHES ON LOVE AND ON PILCHARD FISHING.

There can be no doubt that "Fortune favours the brave," and Maggot was one of those braves whom, about this time, she took special delight in favouring.

Wild and apparently reckless though he was, Maggot had long cherished an ambitious hope, and had for some time past been laying by money for the purpose of accomplishing his object, which was the procuring of a seine-net and boats for the pilchard fishery. The recent successes he had met with in Botallack enabled him to achieve his aim more rapidly than he had anticipated, and on the day following that in which Clearemout received his deserts, he went to Penberth Cove to see that all was in readiness, for pilchards had recently appeared off the coast in small shoals.

That same day Oliver Trembath, having spent a night of misery in Penzance, made up his mind to return to St. Just and face his fate like a man; but he found it so difficult to carry this resolve into effect that he diverged from the highroad--as he had done on his first memorable visit to that region--and, without knowing very well why, sauntered in a very unenviable frame of mind towards Penberth Cove.

Old Mr Donnithorne possessed a pretty villa near the cove, to which he was wont to migrate when Mrs D felt a desire for change of air, and in which he frequently entertained large parties of friends in the summer season. In his heart poor Mr Donnithorne had condemned this villa "to the hammer," but the improved appearance of things in the mines had induced him to suspend the execution of the sentence. News of the appearance of pilchards, and a desire to give Rose a change after her late adventure, induced Mr Donnithorne to hire a phaeton (he had recently parted with his own) and drive over to Penberth.
1. Who is the first character mentioned in the story?
2. Is he a coward?
3. What is he favored by?
4. Is he a cautious individual?
5. What has he been accumulating?
6. To what end?
7. What is his object?
8. What does he need those for?
9. Has he had recent failures?
10. Where did he manage some success?
11. Was his plan taking a long time?
12. Where did he go to check on his preparations?
13. What kind of fish did he seek there?
14. Who had a bad night?
15. Where?
16. Where did he decide to go back to?
17. To do what?
18. Was this easy for him to do?
19. Where did he end up heading for instead?
20. Who was the owner of a nice house near the area?
Numbered answers:
1. Maggot
2. No
3. Fortune
4. No
5. money
6. accomplishing his object
7. the procuring of a seine-net and boats
8. the pilchard fishery
9. No
10. in Botallack
11. No
12. Penberth Cove
13. pilchards
14. Oliver Trembath
15. in Penzance
16. St. Just
17. face his fate
18. No
19. Penberth Cove
20. Mr Donnithorne