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Robert Frost was one of America's best known and most honored serious writers. But his fame came late in his life.

He was born in San Francisco, California in 1874. He lived in California during his early childhood. He was named after the chief Southern general in America's Civil War. The general's name was Robert Edward Lee. The poet was named Robert Lee Frost, because his father wanted to honor the general.

Someone once asked another American writer, Ernest Hemingway, how to become a writer. The best thing, he said, was to have an unhappy childhood. If this is true, Robert Frost's childhood was unhappy enough to make him a very good writer. Robert Frost's father was a reporter who wanted to be a politician. He often drank too much wine and became angry. Robert was the victim of his anger.

Robert Frost finished high school in 1891. After high school, Robert's grandfather offered to pay his costs at Dartmouth College. But Robert left the school after a few months. He did not like it. He spent the next few years working at different jobs. At one time, he worked in a factory. Later, he repaired shoes. He was a teacher. He was a reporter. Always, he wrote poetry.

Robert Frost attended Harvard University for two years. After that, he returned to the many jobs he held before. For a while, Frost tried to take care of a farm in the state of New Hampshire. He was not a successful farmer. And he continued to write poetry. He said that until 1930, he earned only about ten dollars a year from writing.

In 1912, he decided to try to make a new start. He took his family to Britain. The cost of living was low. In Britain, Frost found a publisher for his first book of poems. The book was called A Boy's Will. When it appeared in 1913. Frost received high praise from British readers. Praise was something he had not received in his own country.

Ezra Pound, another American poet living in Britain, read the poems and liked them very much. He wrote a magazine article about Frost. He also helped get Frost's second book of poems published in America. That book was called North of Boston.
1. Which one of America's best known writers is this story about?
2. Who was he named after?
3. What was Robert Lee famous for?
4. So, why was Frost named after him?
5. And where did Frost live as a young child?
6. Was he also born there?
7. In which year?
8. Why did he quit Dartmouth?
9. Did he have a happy childhood?
10. How many years did he go to Harvard?
11. What did he do in New Hampshire?
12. What did he write?
13. What was published in 1913?
14. Did people like it?
15. Who wrote an article about him?
16. What was the name of the book that he helped Frost get published?
17. What did Hemingway say about becoming a writer?
18. Who offered to pay Frost's way at Dartmouth?
19. What did did he graduate high school?
20. Was he ever a reporter like his father?

Numbered answers:
1. Robert Frost
2. Robert Edward Lee.
3. chief Southern general
4. father wanted to honor the general
5. California
6. yes
7. 1874
8. He didn't like it.
9. no
10. two
11. tried to farm
12. poetry
13. A Boy's Will.
14. yes
15. Ezra Pound
16. North of Boston
17. The best thing was to have an unhappy childhood.
18. Robert's grandfather
19. 1891
20. yes

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In an ecosystem, predation is a biological interaction where a predator (an organism that is hunting) feeds on its prey (the organism that is attacked). Predators may or may not kill their prey prior to feeding on them, but the act of predation often results in the death of the prey and the eventual absorption of the prey's tissue through consumption. Thus predation is often, though not always, carnivory. Other categories of consumption are herbivory (eating parts of plants), fungivory (eating parts of fungi), and detritivory (the consumption of dead organic material (detritus)). All these consumption categories fall under the rubric of consumer-resource systems. It can often be difficult to separate various types of feeding behaviors. For example, some parasitic species prey on a host organism and then lay their eggs on it for their offspring to feed on it while it continues to live in or on its decaying corpse after it has died. The key characteristic of predation however is the predator's direct impact on the prey population. On the other hand, detritivores simply eat dead organic material arising from the decay of dead individuals and have no direct impact on the "donor" organism(s).
1. how do parasites support themselves?
2. what do they do with their offspring?
3. what is a detrtitivore?
4. are they harmful to their hosts?
5. What is predation?
6. what happens in that interaction?
7. what is a predator?
8. and prey?
9. is predation always carniverous?
10. What are other ways that predators feed on prey
11. What do herbivores eat?
12. and fungivores?
13. are feeding patterns easily distinguishable?
14. what is the defining quality of predation
15. how are the consumption categories outlined?

Numbered answers:
1. Prey on a host organism
2. Lay their eggs on it
3. They eat dead organic material
4. No
5. A biological interaction
6. A predator feeds
7. An organism that is hunting
8. The organism that is attacked
9. No
10. Herbivory, fungivory, and detritvory
11. Plants
12. Fungi
13. No
14. Predator's direct impact on the prey population
15. They fall under rubric of consumer-resource systems

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(CNN) -- Garrick Utley, who worked as a globetrotting foreign correspondent during the flush decades of network news, has died at age 74 of prostate cancer, his wife of 40 years said Friday.

"He has been fighting -- as you always call it -- prostate cancer for two years," Gertje Utley said. "He had a very, very rare, very aggressive kind."

He died Thursday night at his home in New York overlooking Central Park, she said.

"He was really the old kind of journalist," she said of her husband, who reported from more than 75 countries. "He was the old kind of trenchcoat-clad journalist who wrote his own copy -- always wrote his own copy."

During his early years at NBC, the network did not scrimp on devoting resources to newsgathering, she said. "That's what he always talked about: The early days were the lucky days."

Born in Chicago in 1939 to a radio and television news couple, Clifton and Frayn Utley, Garrick graduated from Carleton College and studied at the Army Language School in Monterey, California, before winning a Fulbright Scholarship and moving to Berlin to study East-West relations, she said.

In 1963, NBC's John Chancellor -- who had worked for Utley's father -- hired him as an office assistant in the network's bureau in Brussels, Belgium, she said.

After NBC News's "Huntley-Brinkley Report" expanded that year from 15 minutes to half an hour, the network was looking for more material, and Utley caught the eye of the brass. "He covered a couple of stories for the Common Market, as it was called then," she said of what is now the European Economic Community, and did some work in London.
1. What is the reporters name?
2. how old is he?
3. what killed him?
4. where did he die?
5. Did he have a partner?
6. what was her name?
7. Where did he write from his early years?
8. What award did he win?
9. Did he have parents?
10. What was his moms name?
Numbered answers:
1. Garrick Utley
2. 74
3. prostate cancer
4. New York
5. wife
6. unknown
7. Berlin
8. unknown
9. yes
10. yes