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WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Eleven-year-old Carl Joseph Walker-Hoover liked football, basketball and playing video games with his little brother.

Rep. Carolyn McCarthy says the effects of bullying are becoming more severe.

But on April 6, after enduring what his mother called "relentless" bullying at school, Carl hanged himself with an extension cord in the family's Springfield, Massachusetts, home.

"What could make a child his age despair so much that he would take his own life? That question haunts me to this day, and I will probably never know the answer," Sirdeaner Walker said in a House Education and Labor Committee hearing on school bullying.

"He had just started secondary school in September, and we had high hopes," she said. "But I knew something was wrong, almost from the start." Watch Sirdeaner Walker describe finding her son's body "

He didn't want to say at first, she said, but reluctantly told her of classmates who called him names, "saying he acted gay and calling him faggot," Walker said.

"Hearing that, my heart just broke," she said.

Rep. Carolyn McCarthy, D-New York, said the emotional and physical effects of bullying are becoming more severe and that the acts of bullying can continue outside school.

According to the National Youth Violence Prevention Resource Center, about 30 percent of school-aged children in the United States are estimated to be involved in bullying, as either a bully or the target of a bully.

Steve Riach, the founder of Heart of a Champion Foundation -- a nonprofit organization that says it offers educators an "innovative and effective approach to developing character in the lives of their students" -- said his organization has learned that students recognize that school safety cannot be accomplished only with security guards and metal detectors.

1. How many school kids are part of bullying in the U.S.?
2. What role can a kid play?
3. Who put that number out?
4. Who started the Heart of a Champion Foundation?
5. What two things does he say is not enough to make schools safe?
6. How old was Carl Joseph Walker-Hoover?
7. What did he begin in the fall?
8. Did it go well?
9. What did kids in his class do
10. like what?
11. What happened on April 6th?
12. With what?
13. Where?
14. Where did he live?
15. Did he have siblings?
16. Which sex?
17. did he like sports?
18. Which ones?
19. Did he have a hobby?
20. What is his mom's name?

Numbered answers:

A: 1. about 30 percent
2. a bully or the target
3. National Youth Violence Prevention Resource Center
4. Steve Riach
5. security guards and metal detectors
6. eleven
7. secondary school
8. no
9. called him names
10. faggot
11. he hanged himself
12. an extension cord
13. at home
14. Springfield, Massachusetts
15. yes
16. male
17. yes
18. football and basketball
19. playing video games
20. Sirdeaner Walker

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An arm, legs, underwear, dark jeans and size 5 Air Jordan sneakers turned up on the Queens side of the East River. The jeans and shoes were the same size of Avonte Oquendo, an autistic 14-year-old last seen last fall walking unsupervised out of his school.

Yet his mother was steadfast: "It's not Avonte until it's Avonte."

That time has come.

On Tuesday -- five days after those body parts and scraps of clothing were found -- Vanessa Fontaine learned that DNA tests proved her son's remains indeed had been found.

Her lawyer said that Fontaine has been stoic, strong, focused and hopeful throughout this ordeal. But after police told her the news on Tuesday, "she finally just broke down ... just crying and crying."

"I kept saying, Vanessa, say it again," David Perecman said of his muddled phone conversation. To which she replied through the tears, "It's Avonte, it's Avonte. (The police) came. It's Avonte."

So ended not just her family's search for the teenager, but that of the United States' most populated city. Police deployed sniffer dogs, combed surveillance footage and repeatedly canvassed each of New York City's 468 subway stations because of Avonte's love of trains.

Missing teen's fascination with trains shifts search

The most poignant, most personal part of the search was Fontaine's recorded voice that was broadcast from patrol cars and other search vehicles. Avonte couldn't communicate verbally and had the mental capacity of a 7- or 8-year-old. But Fontaine hoped that he would hear her and head toward a police car's flashing lights to safety.

1. when did Fontaine find out the news?
2. was she sad?
3. who did police find?
4. how old was he?
5. what was his name?
6. was he autistic?
7. what was his mental capacity in years?
8. what recording did police use while looking for him?
9. what size sneakers did Avonte wear?
10. what kind of shoes?
11. where did they find those?
12. what proved it was her son?
13. who kept saying "say it again"?
14. did police try sniffer dogs?
15. how many subway stations did they search?
16. what else did they comb through?
17. why did they focus on subway stations?
18. could Avonte speak?
19. what side of the river did they find some of his belongings?
20. is the search over?

Numbered answers:

A: 1. On Tuesday
2. yes
3. Her sons bdy
4. 14
5. Avonte Oquendo,
6. yes
7. 7-8 yr old
8. Fontaine's recorded voice
9. 5 1/2
10. Air jordans
11. Int he east river
12. DNA
13. David Perecman
14. Yes
15. 468
16. Footage
17. His fascination with trains
18. No
19. the Queens side
20. Yes

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(CNN) -- Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling has made his proverbial bed. And, oh, is he lying in it now.

The ugly comments about blacks and Latinos attributed to him have hit struck another nerve -- this time with players, fans and most decent-thinking Americans.

NBA players protest racist talk attributed to L.A. Clippers owner Donald Sterling

The tape released a few days ago reportedly shows that the person identified as Sterling can profess his own kind of love for a woman who's black and Latina but refuses to "allow" her to befriend her own kind: blacks and Latinos.

Sterling allegedly says his girlfriend (whom he at one point on the tape calls "stupid") can meet with blacks and sleep with blacks but not take pictures with them (in this case former Lakers star turned entrepreneur Earvin "Magic" Johnson) or bring them to Clippers games.

Like some slave owners who kept their mixed-race female slaves in better living conditions and bestowed privileges upon them, Sterling can allegedly be heard telling a woman identified as V. Stiviano that he doesn't have a problem with her or her race but that she shouldn't fraternize with blacks and Latinos because it disturbs him.

He selected her. So that makes her "special." She's not really black.

It sounds like Sterling, who has been married for nearly 50 years, shared a rarely heard perspective that his lover/girlfriend/mistress can mitigate the "inferiority" (my term) of her racial mixture by spending more time with him. Oh, yeah, Sterling is white.

1. Who are people upset with?
2. What does he own?
3. Did he say bad things about people?
4. About who?
5. Were his remarks recorded?
6. And made public?
7. When?
8. Why is his girlfriend "special"?
9. And what does that mean?
10. Who is she not to be buddies with?
11. Who is he allegedly speaking to on the recording?
12. And her name is?
13. Did he insult her intelligence?
14. What did he call her?
15. What is she allowed to do?
16. Can she bring them to watch the team play?
17. How long has he been married?
18. What race is Sterling?
19. How did the players reaact?
20. Were fans upset?
21. And who else?

Numbered answers:

A:
1. Donald Sterling
2. Los Angeles Clippers
3. yes
4. blacks and Latinos
5. yes
6. yes
7. a few days ago
8. because he selected her.
9. that she can mitigate the "inferiority" of her racial mixture by spending more time with him.
10. blacks and Latinos
11. girlfriend
12. V. Stiviano
13. yes
14. stupid
15. meet with blacks and sleep with blacks
16. no
17. nearly 50 years
18. white
19. they protested
20. yes
21. most decent-thinking Americans.