Question: The nation's largest group of pediatricians on Monday urged its members to "firmly oppose boxing for any child or adolescent."

In a statement, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) said thousands of boys and girls take part in the sport in North America, despite risks of serious brain and facial injuries. The group's position was approved by some experts.

"There is very little one can do in order to increase the chance of having a healthy brain when you get old," said Dr. Hans Forstl, who has studied boxing injuries.

" One of the best things you can do is avoid boxing." He said.

According to the new statement, published in the journal Pediatrics, information from Canada shows a rise in boxing injuries over the past decade.

Pat Russo, a retired police officer who runs a boxing gym in Brooklyn, New York, said injuries are rare in amateur boxing. After 26 years and training thousands of kids, he has seen just one split lip among his students.

" If the gym is run properly, injuries are at an absolute minimum," Russo said. "Football is ten times more dangerous. While tennis or football might also help kids gain confidence, boxing holds a special attraction for children in poor neighborhoods, because it allows them to act tough while in trouble."

Dr. Robert Cantu, a surgeon at Emerson Hospital in Concord, Massachusetts, said AAP's attitude makes sense for upper-class and middle-class kids.

" Clearly boxing is safer today than it was 20 or 30 years ago, but it is still a very risky activity," he said.

"For kids in poor areas, however, the situation is different," said Cantu. " The most dangerous thing for the majority of people in boxing is just where they live. They are far safer in the ring , even taking blows to the head, than they are out in the neighborhood." 1. What sport are they trying to keep kids away from?
2. Why?
3. What shows the injuries have become more over the decade?
4. Where can you find it?
5. Does Pat agree?
6. Why?
7. Who agrees with him?
8. What is more dangerous?
9. Why?
10. Who is the doctor? Provide a numbered list of answers.
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A numbered of answers: 1. boxing
2. risks of serious brain and facial injuries
3. information from Canada
4. the journal Pediatrics
5. no
6. he has seen just one split lip among his students.
7. unknown
8. where they live
9. They are far safer in the ring
10. Dr. Robert Cantu

Question: Long ago, Bluebird's feathers were the colour of dust. She did not like her ugly colour. She was attracted by the colour of the lake near her home. It was as blue as the sky after a storm. Bluebird wanted to be the colour of that beautiful lake very much. Flapping her wings one morning, Bluebird flew from her tree to the blue lake. Then she bathed in the water three times. After each bath, she sang, "Blue water. Still water. I went in. I am blue." Bluebird repeated this every morning. On the third day, she came out of the lake with beautiful blue feathers. Now Coyote was a trickster --and hungry too. He stayed behind Bluebird's tree for a long time every day and watched her go to the lake. He pretended to be interested in everything she did. He wanted Bluebird for lunch, but he was afraid of the blue water. On the third morning, Coyote saw Bluebird come out of the lake with beautiful blue feathers. Impressed, he sat next to Bluebird's tree and waited for her. When she returned, he asked, "How did you get blue feathers? I want to be blue like the mountains too." Bluebird didn't believe Coyote, but she taught him how to bathe three times each morning and how to sing her song. Coyote did what she said, and after three days of bathing in the lake, his white fur turned deep blue. Convinced that blue fur was even more beautiful than blue feathers, Coyote forgot all about being hungry. He ran as fast as he could to the top of the hill. Standing on his back legs, he raised his front legs off the ground and howled. But Coyote slipped and rolled down the hill. He couldn't stop himself, and the dust and dirt covered his new blue fur. He rolled and rolled until he hit into Bluebird's tree heavily. No matter how much he tried, foolish Coyote could not shake the dust from his fur. And so the fur of all coyotes had the dull colour of dust to this very day. 1. What color were Bluebirds feathers?
2. When?
3. Did she like them?
4. What color did she like?
5. How blue was it?
6. Where had she seen this color?
7. Did she fly there?
8. From where?
9. Did she bathe in the water?
10. Twice?
11. Three times?
12. When did she sing?
13. At night?
14. When?
15. For how many days?
16. What happened on the 3rd day?
17. Was anyone watching Bluebird?
18. Who?
19. Was he hungry?
20. Where did he stay? Provide a numbered list of answers.
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A numbered of answers: 1. the colour of dust
2. Long ago
3. no
4. blue
5. the sky after a storm
6. lake
7. yes
8. her tree
9. yes
10. no
11. yes
12. After each bath
13. no
14. every morning
15. three
16. came out of the lake with blue feathers
17. yes
18. Coyote
19. yes
20. behind Bluebird's tree

Question: (CNN)A Georgia police chief who said he accidentally shot and seriously injured his wife while the couple were sleeping in bed has resigned, the Peachtree City Police Department said Wednesday.

William McCollom stepped down as chief of police in Peachtree City nearly a week after a prosecutor announced that although the New Year's Day shooting appeared accidental, McCollom could eventually face a misdemeanor charge accusing him of recklessly taking a gun to bed after drinking alcohol and taking sleeping medication.

The shooting in Peachtree City, an upscale community of 35,000 people south of Atlanta, left Margaret McCollom paralyzed below the waist.

"I have had had two families in Peachtree City -- my police family and my personal family. In light of the recent tragedy in my personal family, I need to continue to focus my time and efforts there," William McCollom said in a message posted Wednesday on the police department's Facebook page.

Medics and police rushed to the McColloms' home early on January 1 after the chief called 911 to say he accidentally shot his wife as both were sleeping -- by inadvertently moving a gun that he had taken to bed with him.

"The gun was in the bed, I went to move it, put it to the side, and it went off," McCollom says in a recording of the 911 call.

Later in the call, the operator asked McCollom, "Were you asleep also when this happened?"

"Yes," the chief, 57 at the time, replied.

Last week, Scott Ballard, district attorney for a several-county area that includes Peachtree City, said a Georgia Bureau of Investigation probe found the following: 1. Who did the man accidentally shoot
2. Who was the man'
3. What was his occupation
4. Where
5. What city?
6. Did he step down?
7. When?
8. Was it an accident?
9. How many people are in the city
10. Where is it in reference to Atlanta
11. When did William post the message?
12. Where did he post it
13. Which page Provide a numbered list of answers.
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A numbered of answers:
1. his wife
2. William McCollom
3. police chief
4. Georgia
5. Peachtree
6. Yes
7. nearly a week after prosecutor announced he could face a misdemeanor charge
8. according to McCollom
9. 35,000
10. south of Atlanta
11. Wednesday
12. Facebook
13. police department's