input: The discovery of an ancient giant panda skull has confirmed its bamboo diet dates back more than 2 million years and may have played a key part in its survival.[:

A Chinese-US research team reports its results today following studies on a fossil skull found in south China's Cuangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region in 2001.

The six fossils unearthed in Jinyin Cave are dated between 2.4 and 2 million years ago, according to the report in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, an influential US journal.

Jin Changzhu, of the chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and lead author of the paper, said the smaller fossil skull indicates the giant pandas were about a third smaller than today's pandas.

Researchers knew the panda reached its maximum size about 500,000 years ago, when it peaked ,and then gradually became smaller.

Jin, a paleontologist at the Institute of Vertebrate paleontology and Paleoanthropology attached to the CAS, said the size _ was a basic rule of evolution.

"A species tends to grow bigger when it reaches the peak of its population , but becomes smaller when numbers decline," he said.

The dental remains of the skull, which is the oldest giant panda skull ever found, are similar to today's pandas, indicating the type of teeth that could munch mountains of bamboo. A panda can eat up to 40kg of bamboo per day.

Paleoanthropologist Russell Ciochon, the US co-author at the University of lowa, said the panda's focus on bamboo could have helped it survive all these years.

"Once an animal begins to rely on a common and stable food source, such as bamboo, it tends to evolve a larger body size," he said. "As individuals of the evolving species grow bigger, they have a better chance not to be eaten by predators due to their larger body size." 1. was something found?
2. what?
3. more than one?
4. how many?
5. where were they discovered?
6. how old are they?
7. who reported this?
8. is an anthropologist mentioned?
9. named?
10. does he have another profession?
11. what?
12. where does he work?
13. did he say something?
14. what?
15. how many years?
16. when was the specimen discovered?
17. in what country?
18. in the Northern section of the the country? Return numbered answers in your output.

output: 1. yes
2. fossils
3. Yes
4. six
5. in Jinyin Cave
6. they are between 2.4 and 2 million years old
7. the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
8. Yes
9. Russell Ciochon
10. Yes
11. co-author
12. the University of lowa
13. Yes
14. that the panda's focus on bamboo could have helped it survive all these years.
15. more than 2 million
16. 2001.
17. China
18. No

input: CHAPTER XIV

IN DISTRESS

The clear night was falling when Jimmy leaned on the bridge-rails as the _Shasta_ steamed out of the Inlet beneath a black wall of pines. Over her port quarter the pale lights of the climbing city twinkled tier on tier, with dim forest rolling away behind them into the creeping mist. Beyond that, in turn, a faint blink of snow still gleamed against the dusky blueness of the east. All this was familiar, but he was leaving it behind, and ahead there lay an empty waste of darkening water, into which the _Shasta_ pushed her way with thumping engines and a drowsy gurgle at the bows. It seemed to Jimmy, in one sense, appropriate that it should be so. He had cut himself adrift from all that he had been accustomed to, and where the course he had launched upon would lead him he did not know.

That, however, did not greatly trouble him. His character was by no means a complex one, and it was sufficient for him to do the obvious thing, which, after all, usually saves everybody trouble. It was clear that Tom Wheelock needed him, and he could, at least, look back a little, though this was an occupation to which he was not greatly addicted. He understood now how his father, who had perhaps never been a strong man, had slowly broken down under a load of debt that was too heavy for him, though the nature of the man who had with deliberate intent laid it on his shoulders was incomprehensible. Jimmy, in fact, could scarcely conceive the possibility of any man scheming and plotting to ruin a fellow-being for the value of two old schooners. The apparently insufficient motive made the thing almost devilish. Merril, he felt, was outside the pale of humanity, a noxious creature to be shunned or, on opportunity, crushed by honest men. 1. What was the night like when jimmy leaned on the bridge rails?
2. What boat traveled out of the inlet beneath a black wall of pines?
3. Was his character a complex one?
4. What did this allow him to do sufficiently?
5. What twinkled over the quarter of the Shasta's port?
6. Was the place he was Familiar to him?
7. Even though it was familar what was he going to do?
8. Who broke down under a load of debt?
9. Who in the storey is said to of needed Jimmy?
10. What is it Jimmy couldn't possibly conceive?
11. What had Jimmy cut himself adrift from?
12. Did he know where his life was taking him?
13. What rolled away behind the city?
14. What was beyond that? Return numbered answers in your output.

output: 1. clear
2. the Shasta
3. No
4. the obvious thing
5. the pale lights of the climbing city
6. yes
7. he was going to leave it behind
8. Jimmy's father
9. Tom Wheelock
10. the possibility of any man scheming and plotting to ruin a fellow-being for the value of two old schooners.
11. from all that he had been accustomed to,
12. no
13. dim forest
14. a faint blink of snow still gleamed against the dusky blueness of the east.

input: LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) -- Michael Jackson's sister, LaToya Jackson, told a London newspaper she suspects her brother was "murdered" in a conspiracy by "a shadowy entourage."

Michael Jackson "was surrounded by a bad circle," LaToya Jackson told a British newspaper.

London's Daily Mail newspaper paid for the interview, according to a source close to the Jackson family and another source familiar with the interview arrangements. The amount of money paid was not disclosed.

LaToya Jackson was "very candid" throughout the four-hour interview, which took place in Los Angeles, California, last Thursday, said Caroline Graham, the Daily Mail reporter who conducted the interview.

Jackson cited no evidence of a murder conspiracy, Graham said, but she did tell the paper the family has seen results from the private autopsy it ordered. She would not reveal the findings, Graham said. Watch reporter describe LaToya's demeanor "

"There indeed had been concern among several family members about the circumstances around Michael's death," said Bryan Monroe, the last journalist to interview Michael Jackson. "Some folks have hesitated to go as far as saying it was murder."

The Los Angeles coroner could release his autopsy report on Jackson within a week, according to assistant chief coroner Ed Winter.

Los Angeles police Chief William Bratton told CNN last week that he was waiting for the coroner to determine the exact cause of Jackson's death. "And based on those, we will have an idea of what it is we are dealing (with)," he said.

The Jackson family knows that the probe into his June 25 death might turn into a criminal case, a source close to the family told CNN last Thursday. "The family is aware of a potential criminal prosecution," said the source, who did not want to be identified. 1. Who is the article about?
2. Who told the story? Return numbered answers in your output.

output:
1. Michael Jackson and his death
2. CNN