question: Last month we reported about a study that showed eating even a little less salt could greatly help the heart. The study was published in the New England Journal of Medicine. The scientists used a computer model to predict how just three grams less salt a day would affect heart disease in the United States.

The scientists said the results would be thirteen percent fewer heart attacks, eight percent fewer strokes , four percent fewer deaths and eleven percent fewer new cases of heart disease And two hundred forty billion dollars in health care savings. Researchers said it could prevent one hundred thousand heart attacks and ninety-two thousand deaths every year.

They and public health professionals in the United States are interested in a national campaign to persuade people to eat less salt. Such campaigns are already in place in Britain, Japan and Finland.

Michael Alderman is among the critics. He is a high blood pressure expert and professor at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York. Doctor Alderman says that eating less salt results in lower blood pressure. But he says studies have not clearly shown that lowering salt means fewer heart attacks or strokes. And he says salt has other biological effects. He says calling for reduction in the national diet could have good effects, but it could also have harmful results. He says there is not enough evidence _ .

Another critic is David McCarron, a nutrition and kidney disease expert at the University of California, Davis. He and his team looked at large studies of diets in thirty-three countries. They found that most people around the world eat about the same amount of salt. Most of them eat more salt than American health officials advise. Doctor McCarron says the worldwide similarity suggests that a person's brain might decide how much salt to eat.

Both Doctor McCarron and Doctor Alderman have connections to the Salt Institute, a trade group for the salt industry. Doctor Alderman is a member of an advisory committee. But he says he receives no money from the group. Doctor McCarron is paid for offering advice to the Salt Institute.
1. What is the name of the salt trade's group?
2. Who is on the advisory committee?
3. Who gets money for the advice he gives them?
4. Where was a study printed?
5. What food was it about?
6. Should we eat less according to the study?
7. How much less?
8. What do they claim this will help with?
9. Does everyone agree?
10. Who is one of the critics?
11. What does he specialize in?
12. What does he claim is the benefit of less salt?
13. What does he think may not be a benefit?
14. What does David specialize in?
15. Where does he work?
16. Did he do his own research?
17. Did he review other people's research?
18. How many countries had their diets studied?
19. How did their salt intake compare?
20. Was it more than Americans are advised to eat?
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answer: 1. Salt Institute
2. Doctor Alderman
3. Doctor McCarron i
4. The sthe New England Journal of Medicine
5. salt
6. yes
7. a little less
8. less heart attacks, strokes, deaths and heart disease
9. no
10. Michael Alderman
11. high blood pressure
12. lower blood pressure
13. fewer heart attacks or strokes.
14. nutrition and kidney disease
15. University of California, Davis
16. no
17. yes
18. thirty-three
19. about the same
20. yes

question: The University of Melbourne (informally Melbourne University) is a public research university located in Melbourne, Australia. Founded in 1853, it is Australia's second oldest university and the oldest in Victoria. Times Higher Education ranks Melbourne as 33rd in the world, while the Academic Ranking of World Universities places Melbourne 40th in the world (both first in Australia).

Melbourne's main campus is located in Parkville, an inner suburb north of the Melbourne central business district, with several other campuses located across Victoria. Melbourne is a sandstone university and a member of the Group of Eight, Universitas 21 and the Association of Pacific Rim Universities. Since 1872 various residential colleges have become affiliated with the university. There are 12 colleges located on the main campus and in nearby suburbs offering academic, sporting and cultural programs alongside accommodation for Melbourne students and faculty.

Melbourne comprises 11 separate academic units and is associated with numerous institutes and research centres, including the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health, the Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research and the Grattan Institute. Amongst Melbourne's 15 graduate schools the Melbourne Business School, the Melbourne Law School and the Melbourne Medical School are particularly well regarded.
1. What institution is in focus?
2. When was it founded?
3. How many academic units does it have?
4. Where is the main campus located?
5. If travelling from Melbourne, in which direction would you travel to get to it?
6. Where are there other campuses?
7. What is the "age" of the institution there?
8. How many graduate institutions in Melbourne?
9. Are any of them from The University of Melbourne?
10. Is any of them law related?
11. What's its name?
12. Is there a medicine one?
13. What's its name?
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answer: 1. The University of Melbourn
2. 1853
3. 11
4. Melbourne, Australia
5. north
6. some across Victoria
7. Since 1872, so 146
8. 15
9. Yes
10. yes
11. Melbourne Law School
12. yes
13. Melbourne Medical School

question: Los Angeles (CNN) -- You wouldn't have expected Charlie Sheen to go quietly after his increasingly bizarre behavior prompted his TV bosses to fire him from "Two and a Half Men," and Sheen would not want to disappoint you.

He spewed an eight-and-a-half-minute, grandiloquent, profanity-laced tirade online late Tuesday, a day after he was sacked.

At first Sheen comes across like a college student who's read too much of the Beat writers Jack Kerouac or Allen Ginsberg, referring to himself as the "raven-wise, Gibson-shredding napalm poet before you, alone and unshackled.

"Oh how they once begged to attend my perfect banquet in the nude," Sheen intones. "Now they just beg for the keys to my gold."

He calls himself the "Malibu Messiah" and repeatedly refers to himself as a warlock.

But, clearly reading a prepared speech in video recorded live on Ustream.com, Sheen goes on long enough to make it hard for viewers to laugh off his rant.

Chuck Lorre, the creator of the program that starred Sheen for eight years, comes in for the greatest abuse.

"I see you, you little worm, I see you behind your plastic smile, your bitchy pout, and your desperate need to be liked," Sheen says, calling the TV executive "Chuck E. Cheese Ball," not using Lorre's full name.

He accuses Lorre of "narcissism, greed (and) hatred of yourself -- or women," one of several moments in the video that should give armchair psychiatrists plenty of material to mine.

He says of CBS chief executive Les Moonves: "You gave me your word so you gave me nothing. It must really suck being your missus," again mangling the name.
1. Who made a rant on Tuesday?
2. What happened a day before this?
3. What prompted his firing?
4. What poets does the writer compare him to?
5. Any others?
6. What instrument does Sheen claim to "shred?"
7. In what condition does he assert guests wanted to go to his banquet?
8. What does he think they grovel for?
9. What nickname has he given himself?
10. What mystic vocation does he claim to belong to?
11. On what platform did he issue this rant?
12. Did it seem impromptu?
13. Was it easy for viewers to laugh off?
14. Who was the creator of the show he got fired from?
15. Who was the primary target of his ravings?
16. What animal did Sheen compare him to?
17. And what nickname did Sheen grant him?
18. How did he characterize Lorre's smile?
19. And what character flaws did he accuse Lorre of possessing?
20. Does he feel the CBS chief's wife is happy being married to him?
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answer:
1. Charlie Sheen
2. he was fired
3. his increasingly bizarre behavior
4. Jack Kerouac
5. Allen Ginsberg
6. Gibson
7. nude
8. keys to my gold."
9. Malibu Messiah
10. a warlock
11. Ustream.com
12. no
13. no
14. Chuck Lorre
15. Chuck Lorre
16. a worm
17. Chuck E. Cheese Ball
18. as plastic
19. narcissism and greed
20. no