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"Mohawk Guy," a Mars rover flight director, isn't just a social media sensation -- he made an impression on President Barack Obama, too.

"I, in the past, thought about getting a mohawk myself, but my team keeps on discouraging me," Obama told scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in a phone call Monday broadcast on NASA TV.

"And now that he's received marriage proposals and thousands of new Twitter followers, I think that I'm going to go back to my team and see if it makes sense," he said to the sound of laughter from dozens of NASA employees.

Obama called NASA mission specialists to congratulate them on the successful landing of the rover Curiosity, which reached Mars one week ago. He praised them for their achievements in the phone call, which was both laudatory and lighthearted.

"Mohawk Guy," whose real name is Bobak Ferdowsi, has become famous for his look during the rover landing last week. As the world waited for Curiosity to touch down, Ferdowsi sported a red-and-black mohawk; the sides of his head featured yellow dyed stars.

Decoding the workplace dress code

"It does sound like NASA has come a long way from the white-shirt, black dark-rimmed glasses and the pocket protectors," Obama told Jet Propulsion Laboratory Director Charles Elachi and colleagues. "You guys are a little cooler than you used to be."

More seriously, Obama thanked the scientists for devoting their lives to the cause of exploration outside our planet.

"What you've accomplished embodies the American spirit," he said. "Our expectation is that Curiosity is going to be telling us things that we did not know before," he said, and that the rover will lay the groundwork for an even more "audacious undertaking," which would be "a human mission to the red planet."
1. What is his nickname?
2. Who has he impressed?
3. What impressed him?
4. What was it?
5. Where does he work?
6. What is his name?
7. What were they watching?
8. What was it called?
9. Where did it go?
10. What is it's name
11. What did they used to wear?
12. Who did the president tell this to?
13. Who is he?

Numbered answers:
1. Mohawk Guy,
2. President Barack Obama
3. his look during the rover landing
4. a red-and-black mohawk; the sides of his head featured yellow dyed stars.
5. NASA
6. Bobak Ferdowsi
7. the rover landing
8. Curiosity
9. the red planet."
10. Mars
11. white-shirt, black dark-rimmed glasses and the pocket protectors
12. Charles Elachi
13. Jet Propulsion Laboratory Director

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CHAPTER XVI

ON A BUSINESS BASIS

Captain Horn found Edna at the entrance to the caves, busily employed in filling one of the Rackbirds' boxes with ship-biscuit.

"Miss Markham," said he, "I wish to have a little business talk with you before I leave. Where is Ralph?"

"He is down at the boat," she answered.

"Very good," said he. "Will you step this way?"

When they were seated together in the shade of some rocks, he stated to Edna what he had planned in case he should lose his life in his intended expedition, and showed her the will he had made, and also the directions for herself and Mrs. Cliff. Edna listened very attentively, occasionally asking for an explanation, but offering no opinion. When he had finished, she was about to say something, but he interrupted her.

"Of course, I want to know your opinion about all this," he said, "but not yet. I have more to say. There has been a business plan proposed by two members of our party which concerns me, and when anything is told concerning me, I want to know how it is told, or, if possible, tell it myself."

And then, as concisely as possible, he related to her Maka's anxiety in regard to the boss question, and his method of disposing of the difficulty, and afterwards Mrs. Cliff's anxiety about the property, in case of accident to himself, and her method of meeting the contingency.

During this recital Edna Markham said not one word. To portions of the narrative she listened with an eager interest; then her expression became hard, almost stern; and finally her cheeks grew red, but whether with anger or some other emotion the captain did not know. When he had finished, she looked steadily at him for a few moments, and then she said:
1. Where was Edna?
2. What's her last name?
3. Who found her?
4. Why did he want to talk to her?
5. Where did they sit down?
6. What created the shade?
7. What did he show her?
8. Who are the directions for?
9. And who else?
10. Did Edna have any questions?
11. Did she say what she thought about the plan?
12. How many people made a business plan?
13. How does Horn feel about the plan?
14. Who was feeling anxious?
15. What is she anxious about
16. What color were Edna's cheeks?
17. Why did that happen?
18. What was she doing when he found her?
19. Where is Ralph?

Numbered answers:
1. the entrance
2. Markham
3. Captain Horn
4. a little business
5. in the shade
6. rocks
7. the will he had made
8. herself
9. Mrs. Cliff
10. Yes
11. she was about to say something, but he interrupted her.
12. two
13. It concerns him
14. Mrs. Cliff
15. about the property
16. red
17. the captain did not know
18. filling one of the Rackbirds' boxes with ship-biscuit
19. at the boat

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Charleston is the oldest and second-largest city in the U.S. state of South Carolina, the county seat of Charleston County, and the principal city in the CharlestonNorth CharlestonSummerville Metropolitan Statistical Area. The city lies just south of the geographical midpoint of South Carolina's coastline and is located on Charleston Harbor, an inlet of the Atlantic Ocean formed by the confluence of the Ashley and Cooper Rivers, or, as is locally expressed, "where the Cooper and Ashley Rivers come together to form the Atlantic Ocean."

Founded in 1670 as Charles Town in honor of King Charles II of England, Charleston adopted its present name in 1783. It moved to its present location on Oyster Point in 1680 from a location on the west bank of the Ashley River known as Albemarle Point. By 1690, Charles Town was the fifth-largest city in North America, and it remained among the 10 largest cities in the United States through the 1840 census. With a 2010 census population of 120,083 (and a 2014 estimate of 130,113), current trends put Charleston as the fastest-growing municipality in South Carolina. The population of the Charleston metropolitan area, comprising Berkeley, Charleston, and Dorchester Counties, was counted by the 2014 estimate at 727,689 the third-largest in the state and the 78th-largest metropolitan statistical area in the United States.
1. What year was Charleston founded?
2. After whom?
3. Of what country?
4. Is it the oldest city in a particular state?
5. Which one?
6. Of what county is it the seat?
7. In what year did the city take on its current moniker?
8. What was it originally known as?
9. In what year did it move to Oyster Point?
10. From where?
11. Is that location associated with a river?
12. Which one?
13. And on what bank of it?
14. Which harbor is Charleston on?
15. And that's associated with what ocean?
16. What two rivers are associated with the harbor?
17. What was the population of the city as of 2010?
18. And the 2014 population count?
19. What counties make up the great metro area of the city?
20. What was the population of this metro area in 2014?
Numbered answers:
1. 1670
2. King Charles II
3. England
4. Yes
5. South Carolina
6. Charleston
7. 1783
8. Charles Town
9. 1680
10. Albemarle Point
11. Yes
12. Ashley River
13. the West
14. Charleston Harbor
15. Atlantic
16. Ashley and Cooper
17. 120,083
18. 130,113
19. Berkeley, Charleston, and Dorchester
20. 727,689