Q: Way back in 1662,John Evelyn,a brilliant Englishman known for his detailed diaries,wrote

About disastrous effects of coal-burning on the city of London .In it,he described an infernal scene of

smog.air filled with "Columns and Clouds of Smoke''given out by small industries and residences

that burned coal for fuel.

I found the description in the 2003 book When Smoke Ran like Water,by epidemiologist and environmental advocator Devra Davis.In it,Davis looks back at several historic pollution events and their disastrous effect on human human health-and at how these phenomena were often Ignored or even actively covered up by then people in charge at that time.

As Davis points out,John Evelyn was ahead of his time when writing about how London's

polluted air affected the well-being of its residents.It wasn't until nearly 300 years later,after what

became well-known as the Great Smog of 1952,that the government began to address the problem in a systematic way.

For four days.Between December 5th"and 9th",due to all accident of the weather pattern,the city

was buried in a heavy fog .People were still burning coal for fuel,and low-grade coal at that time,

because 0f wartime condition.A temperature inversion trapped the smoke from the city's fires,

creating a black cloud in which people could barely find their way down the most familiar streets

Some tried to protect themselves,but most people simply went about their business

But l952's fog was far worse than any other in memory.In the same week of the previous year,

1852 people had died in London;inl952,that number was 4703 And the deaths didn't stop when

the weather changed and the fog lifted.Davis and her colleagues analyzed data from the next several

months and found that about 13000 more people died between December and March than one would

have predicted from historical averages Many of them died of pneumonia .The government,

she writes.Tried to blame a bad flu season.Her detailed analysis found that explanation simply did

not pan out.

Davis writes that even today in this country ,we still have not completely absorbed the lessons

0f similar events.Sixty years the killer fog lifted in London,people are dying preventable

deaths and suffering life.changing illnesses,simply because they must breathe the air of the cities

where they live

Answer the following questions:
1. who is Devra Davis?
2. what book did he write?
3. when?
4. what is it about?
5. what did he say about John Evelyn?
6. when was the Great Smog?
7. does Davis think we have learned a lesson?
8. who is John Evelyn?
9. is he Irish?
10. where is he from?
11. what did he write about?
12. what event was he writing about?
13. of what?
14. where was the smoke from?
15. why were they burning it?
A: 1. epidemiologist and environmental advocator
2. When Smoke Ran like Water
3. 2003
4. historic pollution events
5. ahead of his time
6. 1952
7. no
8. known for his detailed diaries
9. no
10. England
11. smog
12. disastrous effects
13. of coal-burning
14. small industries and residences
15. burned coal for fuel.
Q: (CNN) -- Jason Baldwin paused Saturday on his first morning of freedom in 18 years to share a revelation he gleaned in prison while serving a life sentence.

The "West Memphis Three" member recalled telling inmates he had figured out the secret of life.

"What is it?" they asked.

"I said, 'Enjoy it. Enjoy it,'" Baldwin told CNN Memphis affiliate WMC.

And enjoy it he did Friday and Saturday. Baldwin, Damien Echols and Jessie Misskelley Jr. -- freed Friday in Arkansas after a complicated plea arrangement -- spent time with family, friends and supporters.

Echols and Baldwin saw the sunset Friday from the rooftop of the Madison Hotel in Memphis, across the Mississippi River from West Memphis, Arkansas. Supporters Eddie Vedder of Pearl Jam and Natalie Maines of the Dixie Chicks joined the party.

The three men, who served 18 years in prison following their convictions in a 1993 triple-slaying in West Memphis, walked free Friday to cheers from a supportive crowd after entering rarely used pleas in which they maintained their innocence but acknowledged that prosecutors have evidence to convict them.

They had been imprisoned for the slayings of second-graders Steven Branch, Christopher Byers and Michael Moore.

The boys' bodies were mutilated and left in a ditch, hogtied with their own shoelaces. Prosecutors argued that the defendants, teenagers at the time, were driven by satanic ritual and that Echols, sentenced to death, had been the ringleader. Baldwin and Misskelley received life sentences.

Attorney Stephen Braga, who represented Echols, said his newly freed client and Baldwin were fascinated by new foods, cell phones and other technology Friday.

Answer the following questions:
1. How many kids were killed?
2. Was someone put in jail for the killings?
3. who?
4. How long was Jason Baldwin in jail?
5. Were they all there that long?
6. When were they found guilty?
7. Where did the murders happen?
8. What grade were the murdered kids in?
9. Where were the bodies found?
10. Where the bodies in good shape?
11. What was wrong with them?
12. How were they tied?
13. with what?
14. whose?
15. Who was the lawyer for Echols?
16. How old were the people arrested
17. Whose idea was it?
18. What was his punishment?
19. What did the other two get?
20. Did they ever get out?
A: 1. three
2. yes
3. Baldwin, Damien Echols and Jessie Misskelley
4. 18 years
5. yes
6. 1993
7. West Memphis
8. second
9. a ditch
10. no
11. they were mutilated
12. hogtied
13. shoelaces
14. theirs
15. Stephen Braga
16. teenagers
17. Echols
18. death
19. life
20. yes
Q: CHAPTER XXIX

DAYS OF ANXIETY

"I wonder what Davenport will say when he finds those men are working here?" remarked Fred.

"I don't care what he says," answered Jack.

"Do you think he'll dare come over here and have it out with Uncle Dick?" questioned Andy.

"I don't think so," answered his brother. "I believe behind it all he is afraid we'll have him arrested for the theft of those documents."

"If he really took them, what do you think he did with them?" came from Fred.

"More than likely he destroyed them," answered Jack. "He wouldn't want evidence like that lying around loose, you know."

When Carson Davenport learned that six of his men had deserted and gone over to the Rovers he was more angry than ever.

"They're going to do their best to undermine us," he said to Tate. "I wish I knew just how to get square with them."

"We'll get square enough if we strike oil here," said Tate. "Those Rovers will feel sick enough if they learn we are making a barrel of money."

"It's easy enough to talk about making a barrel of money," came from Jackson, who was present. "But I don't see the money flowing in very fast." He had been talking to a number of his friends, and many of them had said they thought the chances of getting oil from the Spell claim were very slim.

"Oh, you just hold your horses, Jackson," said Carson Davenport smoothly. "Take my word for it, this well we are putting down is going to be one of the biggest in this territory."

Answer the following questions:
1. What item do the men think will make them rich?
2. Does Andy have any relatives in the group he is talking to?
3. How is this person related to him?
4. Is Carson Davenport happy with recent events?
5. Do the people speaking think that the Rovers will be happy if the speakers have good fortune?
6. Is Carson Davenport hopeful about their chance of success?
7. Are the speakers hoping that the Rovers will be successful?
8. Do the other friends of Jackson believe that Jackson will be successful?
9. Was something stolen?
10. What do the speakers believe has happened to them?
A:
1. oil
2. yes
3. his Uncle
4. no
5. no
6. yes
7. no
8. no
9. documents."
10. he destroyed them,