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Islamabad, Pakistan (CNN) -- Some 200 houses were damaged in a southwestern province of Pakistan after an earthquake with a magnitude of 7.2 struck Wednesday, officials said.

The mud-walled houses were damaged in districts close to the epicenter, said Ahmed Kamal, spokesman for the country's National Disaster Management Authority. Hundreds of tents, blankets and ready-to-eat meals were sent to the affected area, he said.

The earthquake occurred at 1:23 a.m. Wednesday (3:23 p.m. Tuesday ET) at a depth of 84 kilometers (52 miles), the U.S. Geological Survey said. It was centered 45 kilometers (30 miles) west of Dalbandin, and 1,035 kilometers (640 miles) west-southwest of Islamabad, the USGS said on its website.

There were no reports of injuries or deaths, Kamal said.

The United States, China and Australia had offered aid to Pakistan, but it had not been initially accepted, Kamal said.

"The offer was appreciated but not accepted because its not required yet," he said.

Arif Mahmood, director of the Pakistan Meteorological Department, put the epicenter at 320 kilometers (about 200 miles) southwest of Quetta near Kharan, Balochistan, and said it had been felt in Punjab, Sindh, and Balochistan provinces in Pakistan, as well as parts of Iran and India.

Mahmood predicted major aftershocks. "Earthquakes with such magnitudes in the past have brought on aftershocks," he told CNN from Islamabad.

An official at Quetta's Civil Hospital said a female cardiac patient suffered a fatal heart attack during the earthquake. He said two residents raced to the hospital but they proved not to have been injured, just scared.

1. what did Mahmood predict?
2. Were there any deaths?
3. injuries?
4. What did the lady patient suffer from?
5. Are the homes made of brick?
6. then what?
7. How many countries offered help?
8. Which ones?
9. Where was the epicenter?
10. How many dwellings had damage?
11. What was sent to the area?
12. By who?
13. Did they accept the help offered?
14. Was it appreciated?
15. why wasn't it accepted?
16. who said that?
17. What hospital was the cardiac arrest patient?
18. What time did the earthquake happen?
19. How many other countries was it felt in?
20. On what day was it?

Numbered answers:

A: 1. Mahmood predicted major aftershocks.
2. no
3. no
4. a fatal heart attack
5. no
6. The mud-walled houses
7. Three
8. The United States, China and Australia
9. 30 miles west of Dalbandin, 640 miles west-southwest of Islamabad
10. 200
11. tents, blankets and ready-to-eat meals
12. the country's National Disaster Management Authority.
13. no
14. "yes
15. not needed yet
16. Ahmed Kamal
17. Quetta's Civil Hospital
18. at 1:23 a.m. Wednesday
19. Two
20. Wednesday

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(CNN) -- The driver of a Toyota Prius says he was taken on a wild ride Monday after the car's accelerator became stuck, reaching speeds in excess of 90 mph on a winding, hilly portion of a southern California interstate.

It took the California Highway Patrol to bring the car safely to a stop.

The driver, Jim Sikes, said he was traveling east on Interstate 8 outside of the San Diego area when he attempted to pass a slower vehicle.

"I pushed the gas pedal to pass a car, and it just did something kind of funny ... and it just stuck there," he said at a news conference outside a Highway Patrol office. "As I was going, I was trying the brakes ... and it just kept speeding up."

Sikes said he called 911 for help, and dispatchers talked him through instructions on how he might be able to stop the car. But nothing worked.

At one point, Sikes said he reached down to try to pull the accelerator up, but it "stayed right where it was."

Alerted by emergency dispatchers, a California Highway Patrol officer was able to catch up to Sikes' Prius and used the patrol car's public address system to instruct Sikes to apply the brakes and the emergency brake at the same time.

The tactic worked, and the car slowed to about 50 mph. Sikes said he was able to shut off the car, and it rolled to a stop. The responding officer, Todd Neibert, positioned his patrol car in front of the Prius as a precaution to prevent it from moving again.

1. Who called 911?
2. Why?
3. What make and model?
4. Where?
5. What road?
6. Who helped?
7. What did they do?
8. Anything else?
9. Did the patrolman do anything else?
10. What was he doing when it malfunctioned?
11. What was he attempting?

Numbered answers:

A: 1. Jim Sikes
2. His car's accelerator became stuck
3. Toyota Prius
4. California
5. A southern California interstate.
6. The California Highway Patrol
7. They instructed Sikes to apply the brakes and the emergency brake at the same time
8. dispatchers talked him through instructions on how he might be able to stop the car
9. He positioned his patrol car in front of the Prius
10. He pushed the gas pedal to pass a car
11. To pass a car

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CHAPTER XXIII

SMOKE-JACK ALLEY

Launce. It is no matter if the ty'd were lost, for it is the unkindest ty'd that ever man ty'd.

Panthino. What's the unkindest ty'd?

Launce. Why, he that's ty'd here--Crab, my dog. SHAKESPEARE.

John Harewood returned, bringing with him what Alda took for a dressing-case, and Cherry for a drawing-box, but which proved to contain a wonderful genie to save the well-worn fingers many a prick. To Lance he first administered the magical words, 'All right,' and then making an opportunity, he put five sovereigns into his hand. Lance's first impulse was, however, not to thank, but to exclaim, 'Then Poulter has not got it?'

No, Poulter's conscience had forbidden him to purchase 'little Underwood's' treasure at what he knew to be so much beneath its value; but he had given Captain Harewood his best advice and recommendations, and by that means the violin had been taken at a London shop, still at a price beneath his estimate, but the utmost that could be expected where ready money was the point. Lance ought to have been delighted, and his native politeness made him repeat, 'Thank you'; but he could not quite keep down his regret--'Now I shall never see or hear her again.'

However, the next day, when Bernard flew upon him at twelve o'clock, asseverating that there was shade all the way, he allowed himself to be persuaded, prudently carrying with him only ten shillings, and trusting to his blue umbrella rather than to Bernard's shade, which could hardly have been obtained by sidling against the walls.

1. What did Alda think John had brought back?
2. Did Cherry think that too?
3. What did she think it was?
4. Was it?
5. What would it do?
6. Who did John talk to first?
7. What did he say to Lance?
8. How many sovereigns did he pay him?
9. Was Lance thankful?
10. Did Poulter buy the item?
11. Why not?
12. What is little Underwood's treasure?
13. Was it overvalued?
14. Where was the instrument?
15. Did Poulter talk to anyone about the violin?
16. Who?
17. Did Poulter give anyone advice?
18. Who?
19. Who came to see Lance the next day?
20. What time?

Numbered answers:

A:
1. a dressing-case
2. No
3. a drawing-box
4. it contained a wonderful genie
5. save the well-worn fingers many a prick
6. unknown
7. All right,
8. five
9. No
10. No
11. his conscience
12. a violin
13. No
14. a London shop
15. Yes
16. Lance
17. Yes
18. Captain Harewood
19. Bernard
20. twelve o'clock