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London (CNN) -- Pierre Omidyar, founder of online auction site eBay, said Wednesday he is teaming up with journalist Glenn Greenwald, who has led reporting on secret U.S. surveillance programs, to create a new online mass media venture.

Greenwald announced late Tuesday that he was quitting The Guardian for "a once-in-a-career dream journalistic opportunity" but said he was not ready to give more details.

Now Omidyar has confirmed to CNN's Christiane Amanpour that he is behind the new media venture, which includes Greenwald and others -- and that he will personally fund it.

Greenwald has been at the forefront of a series of high-profile reports based on leaks from former U.S. National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden.

Journalist Jeremy Scahill and documentary filmmaker Laura Poitras will also be joining the venture, Omidyar said.

Greenwald has been working with Poitras, based in Berlin, on NSA-related stories. Scahill is the author of the New York Times best-seller "Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army."

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Greenwald, who lives in Brazil, said Tuesday that it had not been easy to leave The Guardian, but that he could not turn down the "momentous new venture."

"My partnership with the Guardian has been extremely fruitful and fulfilling: I have high regard for the editors and journalists with whom I worked and am incredibly proud of what we achieved," he said.

"The decision to leave was not an easy one, but I was presented with a once-in-a-career dream journalistic opportunity that no journalist could possibly decline. "
1. Where does Greenwald live?
2. Which organization is he leaving?
3. Was he pleased with his work there?
4. What will be his new opportunity?
5. Who is he partnering with?
6. What business did he create?
7. Who will be funding this new project?
8. Has this information been confirmed?
9. To whom?
10. At what company?
11. Which journalist is also involved in the project?
12. Which of his works became a best-seller?
13. Where is Laura Poitras based out of?
14. What is her profession?
15. Is she a part of the new team?
16. Who has she already had some experience working with?
17. On what?
18. Who was the former NSA contractor who exposed several leaks?
19. Who thinks he deserves a Nobel Prize?
20. Who has already reported on secret surveillance programs in the past?

Numbered answers:
1. Brazil
2. The Guardian
3. Yes
4. a new online mass media venture
5. Pierre Omidyar
6. eBay
7. Omidyar
8. yes
9. Christiane Amanpour
10. CNN
11. Jeremy Scahill
12. "Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army."
13. Berlin
14. documentary filmmaker
15. Yes
16. Greenwald
17. NSA-related stories
18. Edward Snowden
19. his father
20. Glenn Greenwald

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Yu Pengnian is an 88-year-old real estate Chinese businessman. He amassed a fortune of $1.3 billion dollars during his career but instead of keeping the money and living like an emperor, he decided to give it all away. All of his fortune will be spent on helping poor Chinese students get a better education.

And Yu isn't the only super-rich person in China who has this spirit of giving. Chen Guangbiao, a Jiangsu recycling tycoon, has given millions of dollars to charity and promises to give all of his money to charity when he dies.

Yu and Chen are among the many businessmen who have become prosperous during China's economic rise. An American business magazine, Forbes, estimates that there are 117 billionaires in China and hundreds of thousands of millionaires. What sets Yu and Chen apart from the rest, though, is their tremendous generosity(,) when it comes to donating money to charity.

Last week Bill Gates and Warren Buffett came to Beijing. Gates and Buffett, two of the world's richest men, are also the world's biggest philanthropists. They invited fifty of China's richest people to have dinner with them and talk about the spirit of giving. At first, only a few people accepted their invitation. It seemed some of the invited guests were afraid that Buffett and Gates were going to pressure them into giving their wealth to charity.

A lot of people are angry at the billionaires who are not willing to give away their fortunes. They _ hem for being miserly and not caring about the poor and the less fortunate. But I think this criticism is wrong. A gift, any gift, should come from the heart. Instead of criticism, these reluctant billionaires should be encouraged to follow the examples of Yu Pengnian and Chen Guangbiao. Encouragement is always a better strategy than criticism. As we say in English, "You can catch more flies with honey than with vinegar."
1. Who came to Beijing last week?
2. How many billionaires are there in China?
3. Gates and Buffett invited fifty to do what?

Numbered answers:
1. Bill Gates and Warren Buffett
2. 117
3. to have dinner with them and talk about the spirit of giving.

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CHAPTER VIIITHE MAIL GUARD

Somewhere about two in the morning a squall had burst upon the castle, a clap of screaming wind that made the towers rock, and a copious drift of rain that streamed from the windows. The wind soon blew itself out, but the day broke cloudy and dripping, and when the little party assembled at breakfast their humours appeared to have changed with the change of weather. Nance had been brooding on the scene at the river-side, applying it in various ways to her particular aspirations, and the result, which was hardly to her mind, had taken the colour out of her cheeks. Mr. Archer, too, was somewhat absent, his thoughts were of a mingled strain; and even upon his usually impassive countenance there were betrayed successive depths of depression and starts of exultation, which the girl translated in terms of her own hopes and fears. But Jonathan was the most altered: he was strangely silent, hardly passing a word, and watched Mr. Archer with an eager and furtive eye. It seemed as if the idea that had so long hovered before him had now taken a more solid shape, and, while it still attracted, somewhat alarmed his imagination.

At this rate, conversation languished into a silence which was only broken by the gentle and ghostly noises of the rain on the stone roof and about all that field of ruins; and they were all relieved when the note of a man whistling and the sound of approaching footsteps in the grassy court announced a visitor. It was the ostler from the 'Green Dragon' bringing a letter for Mr. Archer. Nance saw her hero's face contract and then relax again at sight of it; and she thought that she knew why, for the sprawling, gross black characters of the address were easily distinguishable from the fine writing on the former letter that had so much disturbed him. He opened it and began to read; while the ostler sat down to table with a pot of ale, and proceeded to make himself agreeable after his fashion.
1. who was at the river ?
2. what was he doing ?
3. is nance male or female ?
4. who was altered ?
5. what else was he ?
6. how was he looking at archer ?
7. and what ?
8. did the conversation grow quiet ?
9. and what broke the silence ?
10. and the roof was made of what ?
11. who gave archer a letter ?
12. from where ?
13. who began to read ?
14. who sat at the table ?
15. what was in the pot ?
16. what relieved everybody ?
17. anything else ?
18. and what did it announce ?
19. what time was the squall ?
20. where ?
Numbered answers:
1. Nance
2. brooding
3. female
4. Jonathan
5. silent
6. eager
7. urtive eye
8. yes
9. noises of the rain
10. roof
11. ostler
12. Green Dragon
13. Archer
14. ostler
15. ale
16. note of a man whistling
17. footsteps
18. a visitor
19. two in the morning
20. castle