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Four years after Michael Jackson died, his oldest son is ready to tell a jury about the last days of his life.

Prince Jackson, now 16, was 12 when he followed an ambulance carrying his father to Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center on the afternoon of June 25, 2009.

On Monday, in the Jackson family's wrongful death lawsuit, Jackson lawyers informed AEG Live attorneys that Prince will be the next witness after a doctor who is an expert in medical conflicts of interest completes his testimony Tuesday.

That would likely put Prince on the stand Wednesday, a day after the fourth anniversary of his father's death.

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Prince, Paris and Blanket Jackson and their grandmother Katherine Jackson are suing AEG Live, accusing their father's last concert promoter of negligently hiring, retaining or supervising Dr. Conrad Murray, who was convicted of involuntary manslaughter in Jackson's death.

Jackson lawyers argue that the promoter and producer of the "This Is It" shows pressured Murray to get Jackson to rehearsals but failed to get Jackson help despite numerous red flags that he was in trouble.

Murray told police he used the surgical anesthetic propofol nearly every night for two months to treat Jackson's insomnia. The coroner ruled that an overdose of propofol killed him.

AEG Live lawyers argue that Jackson chose and supervised Murray and that their executives had no way of knowing the doctor was using the dangerous treatment.

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A medical conflict of interest
1. What deceased person is an important part of this story?
2. When did he die?
3. What hospital was he taken to?
4. How was he transported there?
5. What family member went with him?
6. What is the name of this son?
7. How many years after the death is this story written?
8. What medical person was convicted of a crime concerning the death of Michael Jackson?
9. What specific crime was he convicted of?
10. What medication was involved in this crime?
11. What condition was this medication being used to treat?
12. Who is being sued?
13. Which of the children of Michael Jackson will testify?
14. How old is he at the time of the article?
15. How old was he at the time of the death?

Numbered answers:
1. Michael Jackson
2. June 25, 2009
3. to Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center
4. bu ambulance
5. his son
6. Prince Jackson
7. Four years
8. Dr. Conrad Murray
9. involuntary manslaughter
10. the anesthetic propofol
11. insomnia
12. the promoter and producer of the "This Is It" shows
13. Prince
14. 16
15. 12

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Many children have a "bug period"--a time of life when bugs are a source of endless fascination and learning. Naturalist Edward O. Wilson jokes that unlike other kids, he never grew out of his bug period.

Luckily for this biologist, his lifelong passion for ants has led to a career rich in accomplishments and praise. He is not just the world's foremost expert on the social behavior of ants, but also the receiver of the National Medal of Science and two Pulitzer Prizes for nonfiction. Now, at the age of 80, Wilson has tried his hand at fiction. His first novel, Anthill, combines two of his greatest loves -- his childhood home, Alabama, and the ants that have been his lifelong friends.

Described as a "six-legged Iliad," Wilson's Anthill draws parallels between human and ant societies. Though there are no ant bands, secret police, or schools of philosophy, both ants and man conduct wars, divide themselves into specialized classes of workers, build cities, maintain infant nurseries and cemeteries, take slaves and practice agriculture, though ant societies are more energetic, selfless, and efficient than human ones.

The book's first and third sections deal with the adventures of an Alabama boy, Raphael Semmes Cody, who goes by the name Raff. The boy grows up knocking around the Nokobee woods; he's drawn to its natural wonders, and uses the forest to escape from his parents' unhappy marriage. In the woods he leaves almost no stone unturned as he discovers the forest's rich flora and fauna . Raff grows up and heads to Harvard to study law, but returns later in life to protect the Nokobee from crazy developers. But fans of Wilson's science will be most interested in the book's middle section, where the author inserts a mini-novel describing the trials and sufferings of the ants living in the endangered forest.

Reviews of the book have been mixed. Writing for The New York Review of Books, Margaret Atwood praised Wilson for his first novel, saying that it is highlighted by a diversity of ideas and an imaginative plot. And -- with the exception of some dull preachiness -- it is entertaining.
1. Who never grew out of his bug period?
2. Did he have a lifelong passion for bugs?
3. What has he received for his non fiction work?
4. How old is he?
5. Has he written a fiction?
6. What's the name of the fiction?
7. Where is his childhood home?
8. Who is the main character in Anthill?
9. Did the book receive mixed reviews?
10. What does bug period mean?

Numbered answers:
1. Edward O. Wilson
2. yes
3. the National Medal of Science and two Pulitzer Prizes
4. 80
5. yes
6. Anthill
7. Alabama
8. Raphael Semmes Cody
9. yes
10. a time of life when bugs are a source of endless fascination and learning

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CHAPTER IV.

A LITTLE MUSIC.

After lunch, Herbert Le Breton went off for his afternoon ride--a grave social misdemeanour, Ernest thought it--and Arthur Berkeley took Edie round to show her about the college and the shady gardens. Ernest would have liked to walk with her himself, for there was something in her that began to interest him somewhat; and besides, she was so pretty, and so graceful, and so sympathetic: but he felt he must not take her away from her host for the time being, who had a sort of proprietary right in the pleasing duty of acting as showman to her over his own college. So he dropped behind with Harry Oswald and old Mrs. Martindale, and endeavoured to simulate a polite interest in the old lady's scraps of conversation upon the heads of houses, their wives and families.

'This is Addison's Walk, Miss Oswald,' said Berkeley, taking her through the gate into the wooded path beside the Cherwell; 'so called because the ingenious Mr. Addison is said to have specially patronised it. As he was an undergraduate of this college, and a singularly lazy person, it's very probable that he really did so; every other undergraduate certainly does, for it's the nearest walk an idle man can get without ever taking the trouble to go outside the grounds of Magdalen.'

'The ingenious Mr. Addison was quite right then,' Edie answered, smiling; 'for he couldn't have chosen a lovelier place on earth to stroll in. How exquisite it looks just now, with the mellow light falling down upon the path through this beautiful autumnal foliage! It's just a natural cathedral aisle, with a lot of pale straw-coloured glass in the painted windows, like that splendid one we went to see the other day at Merton Chapel.'
1. Who went on an outing?
2. Where did they go?
3. Did Arthur wish he could be alone with her?
4. Who did?
5. Was she very plain looking?
6. When did they leave for the outing?
7. Who else went out?
8. Was he on foot?
9. Was it bright out?
10. Was it during the summer?
11. What time of year was it?
12. What was special about the windows?
13. Who was attending the school?
14. Had they seen anything similar before?
15. When?
16. Where?
17. Was Edie a callous person?
18. What is the trail called?
19. Why was it named that?
20. How is he described?
Numbered answers:
1. Ernest-Arthur Berkeley and Edie
2. The college and gardens.
3. No
4. Ernest
5. No, she was pretty.
6. After lunch
7. Herbert Le Breton
8. No, a ride
9. No, the light was mellow
10. no.
11. Autumn.
12. They were painted.
13. Mr. Addison
14. Yes.
15. The other day.
16. Merton Chapel.
17. No.
18. Addison's Walk
19. Mr. Addison patronised the path.
20. Ingenious