Problem: Abidjan, Ivory Coast (CNN) -- The European Union announced a recovery package of 180 million euros for the Ivory Coast on Tuesday as residents of the African nation attempted to adjust to life with a clear leader and relative stability after months of bloodshed.

Forces arrested former President Laurent Gbagbo after storming his residence on Monday. Gbagbo defied calls to step down after an electoral commission declared he lost a presidential election in November to Alassane Ouattara. Ouattara has been recognized internationally as the legitimate winner.

A violent power struggle followed the standoff, with supporters loyal to both sides taking to the streets in protests since December. Hundreds have been killed, according to the United Nations and the International Committee of the Red Cross.

Andris Piebalgs, EU commissioner for development, announced the recovery package on Tuesday.

"We will stand by Ivory Coast and its people by immediately starting to work with the government of President Ouattara to support him in getting the country on the right track towards reconciliation, democracy, economic recovery and sustainable development," he said.

The funding will provide support to ensure basic needs for citizens such as health, water, sanitation and to support the agricultural sector, Piebalgs said in a statement. It also will clear the Ivory Coast's debt accumulated through the European Investment Bank.

Top military brass pledged their support to Ouattara in a ceremony Tuesday at a hotel in Abdijan. Gen. Phillipe Mangou, Gbagbo's former army chief of staff, said on state television that the generals were received by Ouattara and given orders to take measures to restore order in the country.
1. Which country will get the package?
2. Who was arrested?
3. What was his name?
4. Is the situation okay now?
5. Who actually won the election?
6. Did he former president step down after election loss?
7. What ensued that?
8. What the supporters did?
9. How much was the package in value?
10. What support this funding would provide?
11. For example?
12. Who said that?
13. Who is he?
14. How many people died in the conflict?
15. Who estimated that?
Answer: 1. the Ivory Coast
2. former President
3. Laurent Gbagbo
4. yes
5. Alassane Ouattara
6. no
7. They stormed his residence
8. They took to the street
9. 180 million euros
10. to ensure basic needs
11. health, water, sanitation
12. Piebalgs
13. EU commissioner for development
14. Hundreds
15. the United Nations and the International Committee of the Red Cross

Q: Researches at Johns Hopkins University's. Applied Physics laboratory ( APL) in Laurel , Maryland have designed a new human-like robot, Its name is Robo Sally. The machine can be controlled from a distance and can he used to do work that is dangerous for human beings.

Roho Sally has two long arms with human-like hands. She can use her fingers to pick up small objects .examine them in detail and do most things that human hands can do Each finger contains a tiny motor capable of squeezing 20 pounds of pinch foree ,.enough to defuse a bomb under the direction of an operator. She sits on a metal base with wheels that let her move around. turn in tight spaces and climb over small objects, .

Mike McLoughlin is the main investigator for the Applied Physics Laboratory's Prosthetics Program. "The purpose of that program is to develop prosthetic arms that have all the capability of your natural arms .and you do all the complex motions that we can do with the natural arm- with the robot. "

It was a difficult job. Mr. McLoughlin says the device had to have many small motors to. have the ability to do what a human hand does; It also needs to have human-like strength. The thumb was especially difficult because it permits the hand .to hold objects. And everything had. to fit into a space about the size of a human hand.

The next problem .he says .was to figure out how to control the artificial hand. " So we had to figure out how to make the connection between the brain and this arm.

For search-and-rescue duties.Roho Sally will be operated by a human being using a wire- less machine that is far from the robot. The operator will also wear special gloves and glasses. The glasses permit the operator to see the robot's hands .even though they are far away.

Mr. McLoughlin says this kind of robots could be used in what he calls "dull , dirty or dan- gerous" situations where fine human finger movements are required. He says the technology is not ready for everyday application .but he predicts that within five years we will see some won- derful improvements.

Answer the following questions:
1. What is the name of the Robot that the story talks about?
2. Who is the person in charge of the design?
3. Where was this?
4. Where is this located?
5. What were they trying to achieve?
6. Was it easy?
7. What were some of the features?
8. Why small motors?
9. Did they run into difficulty?
10. With what?
11. Why was that?
12. Were there other difficulties?
13. Which was?
14. What was involved?
15. What will be the main purpose of the robot?
16. How will they make the connection?
17. How will it know to do something?
18. Why?
19. Is the robot ready yet?
20. When?
A: 1. Robo Sally.
2. Mike McLoughlin.
3. Applied Physics laboratory
4. Laurel , Maryland.
5. Make arms that were natural
6. No.
7. Many small motors.
8. it had to do what a human hand does.
9. Yes.
10. The thumb.
11. It holds objects.
12. Yes.
13. How to control it.
14. The connection from brain to arm.
15. Search and rescue.
16. Wireless
17. The operator will wear gloves and glasses.
18. He can see the gloves with the glasses.
19. No.
20. Five years.

Problem: (CNN) -- Here's what I want for Father's Day: I want my children to develop a passion for science. I've decided to grease the wheels. I've called the best for advice.

His name is Brian Greene, professor of physics and mathematics at Columbia University. He's getting kids engaged at his World Science Festival. He has even written a children's book based on relativity, "Icarus at the Edge of Time."

Icarus was the boy in the ancient Greek myth whose father crafted him wings of wax. The father warned Icarus not to fly too close to the sun. Icarus ignored him. His wax wings melted, and he died.

Greene's reincarnation of Icarus was born on a space ship -- part of a community of explorers on a 25-trillion mile search for life on another planet. He is 14, which gets my attention, because it's about the same age as my oldest daughter.

The length of the spaceship's journey means Icarus must live his whole life within the confines of that ship. "But," writes Brian Greene, the boy "had a palpable yearning for something beyond the life he'd been handed." One day the ship's captain, Icarus' father, announces: "We are making an emergency course diversion to avoid an uncharted black hole."

Icarus has built his own small spacecraft. He has done the calculations. He ignores his father's warning. He sets out to approach the black hole, to get within "a hairsbreadth above the point of no return."

He miscalculates ever so slightly and is thrust 10,000 years into the future. He is found by a new generation and is briefed on the long history he just missed, including the fact that the universe was now, as a result of the mission his father commanded, in an era of interstellar cooperation and lasting peace.
1. who is the article about?
2. what is his profession
3. where does he teach?
4. what does he want for fathers day
5. what is his festival called?
6. Has he written anything?
7. what?
8. what is it called?
9. who is Icarus?
10. how old is he in the story?
11. where is he living?
12. who is driving the ship?
13. what does his father announce?
14. Does he listen to his father?
15. what does he use?
16. did he build it?
17. does his plan work?
18. what happens?
19. how far does he travel ahead?
20. is he found?
Answer:
1. Brian Greene,
2. physics and mathematics
3. Columbia University
4. his children to develop a passion for science.
5. World Science Festival.
6. yes
7. a children's book
8. Icarus at the Edge of Time."
9. a boy
10. 14
11. a space ship
12. Icarus
13. We are making an emergency course diversion to avoid an uncharted black hole
14. no
15. his own small spacecraft.
16. yes
17. no
18. He miscalculates
19. 10,000 years into the future
20. yes