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(CNN) -- Niki Gianni was 11 or 12 when she found a video on YouTube called "Meet Your Meat." Saddened and disgusted by the footage from a slaughterhouse, the Chicago girl announced she was no longer going to eat meat. Her parents were less than thrilled.

"When she first said she wanted to be a vegetarian, we were just looking at each other and we said, 'We can't be switching meals for you. You are not going to get your protein.' We were not educated in the health benefits," said Gianni's mother, Julie Gianni.

While many parents worry whether their vegetarian or vegan children will receive adequate nutrition for their growing bodies, the American Dietetic Association says such diets, as long as they are well-planned, are appropriate for all phases of life, including childhood and adolescence. "Appropriately planned" vegetarian or vegan diets are healthful, nutritionally adequate and may provide health benefits in the prevention and treatment of certain diseases, the dietetic association says.

"You can really feel the difference when you are eating something from the ground and something from a factory," said Niki Gianni, an animal activist who became a vegan shortly after embracing the vegetarian lifestyle.

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Now an 18-year-old college freshman, Niki Gianni said her eating habits expanded her palate and turned her away from processed foods. Her food choices also influenced her family: Her mother is now a vegan and her father and sister are vegetarians.

The number of vegetarians in the United States is expected to increase over the next decade, according to the dietetic association. A vegetarian diet is associated with a lower risk of death from ischemic heart disease, and vegetarians also appear to have lower overall cancer rates, lower blood pressure and lower rates of hypertension than nonvegetarians.
1. What video turned Niki against meat?
2. Is the number of vegetarians expected to go up or down in the next ten years?
3. According to who?
4. How many health issues have lower risk of death for vegetarians?
5. Name one.
6. Were Niki's parents educated on the healthy aspects of being vegetarian?
7. Is eating all vegetables okay for any age group?
8. Including childhood, if planned carefully?
9. Does Niki support animal rights?
10. How old is she now?
11. Is she in school?
12. Does she eat at McDonald's?

Numbered answers:
1. "Meet Your Meat."
2. up
3. according to the dietetic association
4. four
5. ischemic heart disease
6. no
7. yes
8. yes
9. yes
10. 18
11. yes
12. unknown

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CHAPTER SEVENTY.

MEETING AGAIN.

On the fourteenth of April Romola was once more within the walls of Florence. Unable to rest at Pistoja, where contradictory reports reached her about the Trial by Fire, she had gone on to Prato; and was beginning to think that she should be drawn on to Florence in spite of dread, when she encountered that monk of San Spirito who had been her godfather's confessor. From him she learned the full story of Savonarola's arrest, and of her husband's death. This Augustinian monk had been in the stream of people who had followed the waggon with its awful burthen into the Piazza, and he could tell her what was generally known in Florence--that Tito had escaped from an assaulting mob by leaping into the Arno, but had been murdered on the bank by an old man who had long had an enmity against him. But Romola understood the catastrophe as no one else did. Of Savonarola the monk told her, in that tone of unfavourable prejudice which was usual in the Black Brethren (Frati Neri) towards the brother who showed white under his black, that he had confessed himself a deceiver of the people.

Romola paused no longer. That evening she was in Florence, sitting in agitated silence under the exclamations of joy and wailing, mingled with exuberant narrative, which were poured into her ears by Monna Brigida, who had backslided into false hair in Romola's absence, but now drew it off again and declared she would not mind being grey, if her dear child would stay with her.
1. Who did April learn the story of Savonarola's arrest from?
2. What else did he tell her?
3. What date was this?
4. Where was she once again?
5. What kind of reports did she receive?
6. About what?
7. Where did she move on to?
8. What kind of monk did she speak to?
9. What could he tell her about Florence?
10. From what?
11. How?
12. What happened to him after that?
13. By whom?

Numbered answers:
1. The monk of San Spirito
2. About her husband's death
3. On the fourteenth of April
4. Within the walls of Florence
5. Contradictory.
6. The Trial by Fire
7. Prato
8. An Augustinian monk
9. That Tito had escaped
10. An assaulting mob
11. Leaping into the Arno
12. He was murdered
13. an old man

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(CNN) -- Choosing to step down from a top job can be an extraordinary decision, whether the person is a pontiff or a politician. But George Pataki, former governor of New York, says making the switch from public figure to John Q. Public wasn't difficult for him.

"I made up my mind that I was never going to let my public title become my personal identity," he says. He embraced what he calls a sense of normalcy after he left office, going to movies and basketball games.

A year or two after he left office, Pataki went to Madison Square Garden with a group of friends to see the Knicks play. And he wanted to stand in line to get himself a hot dog -- something elected officials tend not to do.

"I loved it," he says. Even though fellow fans recognized him and offered to let him jump the queue, Pataki waited in line for his hot dog with mustard and sauerkraut. "I felt really good about the fact that it was just comfortable for me to be on line with the rest," he says.

Pataki decided in the middle of his third term in office that he would not seek a fourth term. He left office in 2006, after 12 years as governor.

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"I had no doubts that this was the right decision for me, for my family, for the team that had worked so hard with me, and for the state," he says.
1. Who said the switch from public life to private wasn't hard for him?
2. What position did he have?
3. What kind of decision did he say it often is?
4. Did he confuse his personal/professional identities?
5. What did he embrace instead?
6. By doing what?
7. When did he go to Madison Square Garden?
8. Who with?
9. Why did he go?
10. What did he stand in line for?
11. Is this something politicans usually do?
12. Did he enjoy it?
13. How do we know?
14. Did others recognize him?
15. What did they offer to let him do?
16. Did he accept?
17. What did he get on his hot dog?
18. Did he enjoy waiting in line?
19. How many terms did he serve?
20. When did he leave office?
Numbered answers:
1. George Pataki
2. governor of New York
3. an extraordinary decision
4. no
5. a sense of normalcy after he left office
6. going to movies and basketball games
7. A year or two after he left office
8. a group of friends
9. to see the Knicks play
10. a hot dog
11. no
12. yes
13. he said "I loved it,"
14. yes
15. jump the queue
16. no
17. mustard and sauerkraut
18. yes
19. Three
20. 2006