Question: Global warming is causing more than 300,000 deaths and about $125 billion in economic losses each year, according to a report by the Global Humanitarian Forum, an organization led by Annan, the former United Nations secretary general.

The report, to be released Friday, analyzed data and existing studies of health, disaster, population and economic trends. It found that human-influenced climate change was raising the global death rates from illnesses including malnutrition and heat-related health problems.

But even before its release, the report drew criticism from some experts on climate and risk, who questioned its methods and conclusions.

Along with the deaths, the report said that the lives of 325 million people, primarily in poor countries, were being seriously affected by climate change. It projected that the number would double by 2030.

Roger Pielke Jr., a political scientist at the University of Colorado, Boulder, who studies disaster trends, said the Forum's report was "a methodological embarrassment" because there was no way to distinguish deaths or economic losses related to human-driven global warming amid the much larger losses resulting from the growth in populations and economic development in vulnerable regions. Dr. Pielke said that "climate change is an important problem requiring our utmost attention." But the report, he said, "will harm the cause for action on both climate change and disasters because it is so deeply flawed ."

However, Soren Andreasen, a social scientist at Dalberg Global Development Partners who supervised the writing of the report, defended it, saying that it was clear that the numbers were rough estimates. He said the report was aimed at world leaders, who will meet in Copenhagen in December to negotiate a new international climate treaty.

In a press release describing the report, Mr. Annan stressed the need for the negotiations to focus on increasing the flow of money from rich to poor regions to help reduce their vulnerability to climate hazards while still curbing the emissions of the heat-trapping gases. More than 90% of the human and economic losses from climate change are occurring in poor countries, according to the report. 1. What is causing a lot of death?
2. How much is lost in money?
3. What group tracks this?
4. Is this human influenced?
5. How many other people does it affect?
6. When will this number go up?
7. Is there agreement on the research?
8. Who think's the research is bogus?
9. Who stood up for it?
10. Where are most of the losses happening? Provide a numbered list of answers.
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A numbered of answers: 1. Global warming
2. $125 billion
3. Global Humanitarian Forum
4. human-influenced climate change was raising the global death rates
5. 325 million
6. 2030
7. no
8. Roger Pielke Jr.
9. Soren Andreasen
10. poor countries

Question: (Mental Floss) -- With Mother's Day just around the corner, this week seemed like a great time to give a tip of our caps to stay-at-home moms, including these four who used clever ideas to become business moguls.

Gerber: Of course only a mother could found such a successful baby food company! In the late 1920s, Michigan mom Dorothy S. Gerber was hand-straining food for her baby daughter, Sally, when she realized there must be some way to avoid the messy task.

She pointed out to her husband, Daniel, that if his family's business, the Fremont Canning Company, could puree a tomato all day long, its equipment could probably make short work of other fruits and veggies, too.

Daniel Gerber realized his wife was on to something, and after a year of experimentation -- and an extensive search to find the right drawing for their label's now-iconic "Gerber baby" - the Gerbers introduced their first line of baby foods, a super-yummy menu of strained peas, carrots, prunes, and spinach.

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Baby Einstein: When Alpharetta, Georgia mom Julie Aigner-Clark went looking for educational materials for her newborn daughter in 1996, she found a disappointing hole in the baby market: there weren't really any educational materials to expose babies to music and the arts.

Some parents would just accept whatever the market was offering. Not Aigner-Clark. She shot a video for her daughter in her basement then edited it with her husband, Bill, on the family computer. She even doodled a logo for the video at her kitchen table. 1. When was Gerber founded?
2. who was the founder?
3. How did the idea come to her?
4. Who was her husband?
5. What was his line of work?
6. WHat was his business?
7. How long did it take to find the Gerber baby?
8. Who is Julie Aigner clark?
9. What did she create?
10. Why did she? Provide a numbered list of answers.
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A numbered of answers: 1. In the late 1920s
2. Dorothy S. Gerber
3. was hand straining food
4. Daniel
5. businessman
6. Fremont Canning Company
7. a year
8. a Georgia mom
9. Baby Einstein
10. she looking for educational materials

Question: Capital punishment, also known as the death penalty, is a government sanctioned practice whereby a person is put to death by the state as a punishment for a crime. The sentence that someone be punished in such a manner is referred to as a death sentence, whereas the act of carrying out the sentence is known as an execution. Crimes that are punishable by death are known as capital crimes or capital offences, and they commonly include offences such as murder, treason, espionage, war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide. Etymologically, the term "capital" (lit. "of the head", derived via the Latin "capitalis" from "caput", "head") in this context alluded to execution by beheading.

Fifty-six countries retain capital punishment, 103 countries have completely abolished it "de jure" for all crimes, six have abolished it for ordinary crimes (while maintaining it for special circumstances such as war crimes), and 30 are abolitionist in practice.

Capital punishment is a matter of active controversy in various countries and states, and positions can vary within a single political ideology or cultural region. In the European Union, Article 2 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union prohibits the use of capital punishment. Also, the Council of Europe, which has 47 member states, prohibits the use of the death penalty by its members. 1. how many countries have outlawed the death penalty?
2. how many still use it?
3. what is it's definition?
4. is it called something else?
5. what?
6. what does one have to do to get this sentence?
7. are any specific crimes mentioned?
8. how many?
9. what are the first three?
10. what are the last 3?
11. is this a controversial issue?
12. where?
13. does the EU allow it?
14. is that spelled out somewhere?
15. where?
16. does anyone else ban it's use?
17. who?
18. is that a group of countries?
19. how many? Provide a numbered list of answers.
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A numbered of answers:
1. 103
2. Fifty-six countries
3. is a government sanctioned practice whereby a person is put to death by the state as a punishment for a crime
4. Yes
5. Capital punishment
6. commit a capital crime
7. Yes
8. Six
9. murder, treason,and espionage
10. war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide
11. Yes
12. in various countries and states
13. No
14. Yes
15. Article 2 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union
16. Yes
17. the Council of Europe
18. Yes
19. 47