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(CNN) -- Ohio State's former marching band director is speaking out for the first time since the university fired him over the band's overly sexual culture.

Jonathan Waters was fired in July after a university investigation concluded he "should have known about sexual harassment that created a hostile environment."

Waters told CNN affiliate WBNS on Tuesday that he was "absolutely shocked by the one-sidedness of the report," and called his firing a "rush to judgment."

He also said that despite the school's conclusion to the contrary, he was sanitizing the marching band's historically tawdry culture that he first experienced as a sousaphone player in the 1990s.

"That cultural change is also evident in the many, many letters from current and former band members, which attest to Jonathan's efforts and concrete success at moving the band's culture in a positive direction," his attorney, David Axelrod, said Tuesday.

The investigation's report, released July 23, told of bawdy band member nicknames and risque traditions such as the "midnight ramp," in which band members entered the stadium through a ramp wearing only their underwear.

Axelrod said Waters knew about some of the band's bad behavior, but he said he did "everything he possibly could to end it."

"You know he experienced inappropriate behavior as a rookie band member himself. He was deeply affected by it and that's why as band director he did everything he could to stop anything inappropriate," he said.

The attorney said Waters "left the band with a far improved culture from the one that he inherited," and slammed the report that ousted him.
1. Who was fired?
2. From where?
3. Why?
4. When was he fired?
5. When did he first experience the culture?
6. What was his job?
7. What did he play?
8. What did he tell the reporter?
9. Who was his lawyer?
10. When did the report come out?
11. What was he trying to do?
12. Was there any evidence?
13. Was there any proof that he was fixing the band?
14. What was a tradition?
15. Who said the report was wrong?

Numbered answers:
1. Jonathan Waters
2. Ohio State
3. the band's overly sexual culture
4. in July
5. the 1990s
6. marching band director
7. sousaphone
8. he was shocked
9. David Axelrod
10. July 23,
11. end the bad behavior
12. just the report
13. yes
14. the midnight ramp
15. Waters

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(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?

Numbered answers:
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

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(CNN) -- Defending champion Serena Williams will miss the Australian Open in January to give herself more time to recover from foot surgery.

The former world number one has not played competitively since winning her fourth Wimbledon crown in July.

She sustained the original injury after standing on broken glass at a restaurant shortly after winning her second grand slam of the year and 13th of her glittering career.

Williams attempted to come back ahead of the season-ending WTA Championships in Qatar, but had to abandon her attempts after aggravating the injury in training.

The American was also due to compete in the Hopman Cup in Australia next month, but in a statement released Thursday said she had been left with no choice but to pull out.

She said: "As I continue to rehabilitate my foot after the second surgery last month, it is with the utmost regret that I am withdrawing from the Hopman Cup and the 2011 Australian Open Championships.

"As I recently learned, pushing myself back into my intense training too early only caused me further injury and damage.

"While I desperately want to be back on the court and competing in the first grand slam tournament of the year, it is imperative for my health that I continue to work with my doctors to ensure my foot heals properly."

Williams dominated the early part of the 2010 season, with victories at the Australian Open and the grass of Wimbledon, but in her absence Caroline Wozniacki of Denmark claimed top spot in the global rankings.
1. How many Wimbledon crowns has Serena won?
2. When did she win the last one?
3. Is she going to be in the Aussie's open in January?
4. Why not?
5. From what?
6. How did she originally injure her foot?
7. Where?
8. What had she just won?
9. What win of her career was that?
10. What nationality is she?
11. What was she scheduled to compete in next month?
12. Did she have any choice but to pull out?
13. How much regret did she have about it?
14. What did she recently learn?
15. What source is this article from?
16. What year of Open Championships won't she be in now?
17. Who is she working with to ensure her foot heals properly?
18. Who claimed the top spot when Williams was absent?
19. Where's she from?
20. Are the rankings for the whole world?
21. Is Williams going to intensely train earlier or later now?
Numbered answers:
1. Four
2. July
3. No
4. To give herself more time to recover
5. From foot surgery
6. Standing on broken glass
7. Restaurant
8. Grand slam of the year
9. 13th
10. American
11. Hopman Cup
12. No
13. Utmost
14. "Pushing myself back into my intense training too early only caused me further injury and damage."
15. In a statement released Thursday
16. 2011
17. Her doctors
18. Caroline Wozniacki
19. Denmark
20. Yes
21. Later