Q: Last month we reported about a study that showed eating even a little less salt could greatly help the heart. The study was published in the New England Journal of Medicine. The scientists used a computer model to predict how just three grams less salt a day would affect heart disease in the United States.

The scientists said the results would be thirteen percent fewer heart attacks, eight percent fewer strokes , four percent fewer deaths and eleven percent fewer new cases of heart disease And two hundred forty billion dollars in health care savings. Researchers said it could prevent one hundred thousand heart attacks and ninety-two thousand deaths every year.

They and public health professionals in the United States are interested in a national campaign to persuade people to eat less salt. Such campaigns are already in place in Britain, Japan and Finland.

Michael Alderman is among the critics. He is a high blood pressure expert and professor at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York. Doctor Alderman says that eating less salt results in lower blood pressure. But he says studies have not clearly shown that lowering salt means fewer heart attacks or strokes. And he says salt has other biological effects. He says calling for reduction in the national diet could have good effects, but it could also have harmful results. He says there is not enough evidence _ .

Another critic is David McCarron, a nutrition and kidney disease expert at the University of California, Davis. He and his team looked at large studies of diets in thirty-three countries. They found that most people around the world eat about the same amount of salt. Most of them eat more salt than American health officials advise. Doctor McCarron says the worldwide similarity suggests that a person's brain might decide how much salt to eat.

Both Doctor McCarron and Doctor Alderman have connections to the Salt Institute, a trade group for the salt industry. Doctor Alderman is a member of an advisory committee. But he says he receives no money from the group. Doctor McCarron is paid for offering advice to the Salt Institute.

Answer the following questions:
1. What is the name of the salt trade's group?
2. Who is on the advisory committee?
3. Who gets money for the advice he gives them?
4. Where was a study printed?
5. What food was it about?
6. Should we eat less according to the study?
7. How much less?
8. What do they claim this will help with?
9. Does everyone agree?
10. Who is one of the critics?
11. What does he specialize in?
12. What does he claim is the benefit of less salt?
13. What does he think may not be a benefit?
14. What does David specialize in?
15. Where does he work?
16. Did he do his own research?
17. Did he review other people's research?
18. How many countries had their diets studied?
19. How did their salt intake compare?
20. Was it more than Americans are advised to eat?
A: 1. Salt Institute
2. Doctor Alderman
3. Doctor McCarron i
4. The sthe New England Journal of Medicine
5. salt
6. yes
7. a little less
8. less heart attacks, strokes, deaths and heart disease
9. no
10. Michael Alderman
11. high blood pressure
12. lower blood pressure
13. fewer heart attacks or strokes.
14. nutrition and kidney disease
15. University of California, Davis
16. no
17. yes
18. thirty-three
19. about the same
20. yes
Q: Although 19-year-old George Dennehy is armless, he isn't letting that stop him from pursuing his dreams and sharing his passion with the world. Born without arms, the young boy's birth parents left him. Luckily, a warm-hearted couple _ him and took good care of him. However, his new parents never allowed him to use his disability as an excuse to be lazy. When George turned eight, they asked him to sign up for cello lessons. The instrument is tough even for people who have the use of both their hands, so it was even more challenging for George, who had to learn to play it with his feet. Thanks to his music teacher, the young boy not only mastered the cello, but also realized that he had a passion and talent for music. During middle school years, he also mastered the piano and guitar. His music talent caught the eye of an American rock band who invited him to perform alongside them at a ten-day-long music festival. The experience has inspired this once shy boy to pursue a career in music. He has also become a motivational speaker who encourages both able and disabled people to pursue their dreams, no matter how impossible these dreams may sound. Geoge Dennehy is armless, he isn't letting that stop him from pursuing his dreams and sharing his passion with the world.

Answer the following questions:
1. What is unique about George?
2. Who made him learn to play Cello?
3. How old was he?
4. How did he play it?
5. Did he also learn the flute?
6. What other instruments did he learn?
7. What grade was he in?
8. Did a British rock band notice him?
9. Who did?
10. Did they go visit him?
11. Did he ever meet them?
12. Where?
13. How did he lose his arms?
14. How old is he now?
15. What happened to his biological parents?
16. When?
17. Did his new parents do everything for him?
A: 1. He is armless.
2. His new parents.
3. He was eight
4. He had to learn to play it with his feet.
5. No.
6. The piano and guitar.
7. middle school.
8. No.
9. An American rock band.
10. No.
11. Yes, he performed with them.
12. A music festival.
13. He was born without arms.
14. 19.
15. They left him.
16. When he was born.
17. No, he couldn't be lazy.
Q: (CNN) -- A man suspected of fatally shooting an Iowa football coach Wednesday was released from a hospital the day before, without the knowledge of police, who had asked to be notified, authorities said.

Ed Thomas had been with the school district for more than 30 years and was well-known in the region.

Mark Becker, 24, faces first-degree murder charges in the death of Ed Thomas, 58, a longtime football coach at Aplington-Parkersburg High School.

Investigators believe Becker walked into the school's weight room, where Thomas was overseeing athletes' weight lifting, about 7:45 a.m. Wednesday and shot him multiple times as about 20 horrified students looked on. Thomas was flown to a hospital, where he later died.

"It's just too early to speculate" on a motive for the shooting, said Kevin Winker, assistant director of the Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation.

Authorities said Becker was a former student at Aplington-Parkersburg, which is about 100 miles northeast of Des Moines, Iowa, and a former football player.

The agency, however, noted that Becker had "recent contact" with police in Cedar Falls, Iowa, about 25 miles to the east of Parkersburg. On June 20, Becker led police on a high-speed chase after he allegedly broke into a man's house, according to a division statement. He was taken into custody, but early the next morning authorities determined he needed medical attention and he was taken to a hospital. Police asked to be notified when he was released, the statement said.

But on Tuesday, Becker was released and spent the night at his parents' Parkersburg home before heading to the high school Wednesday morning, the division said. "Law enforcement was unaware that Becker had been released."

Answer the following questions:
1. Who shot Ed Thomas?
2. Were there any witnesses?
3. Who were they?
4. Where did this happen?
5. Which school?
6. At what time?
7. Where had Becker just been before he did this?
8. But just before that where was he?
9. What had the police asked of the hospital?
10. did the hospital do that?
A:
1. Mark Becker
2. Yes
3. students
4. school's weight room
5. Aplington-Parkersburg High School
6. about 7:45 a.m.
7. his parents' Parkersburg home
8. hospital
9. to be notified
10. No