Question: Jerusalem (CNN) -- A wheelchair-bound Israeli veteran died Wednesday, days after setting himself on fire in a protest over his economic situation, a spokeswoman for Sheba Medical Center in Tel Aviv said.

Akiva Mafa'i, who was badly injured two decades ago during his service in the Israel Defense Forces, had set himself alight Sunday.

The 45-year-old poured gasoline over his body and ignited it at a bus station in the town of Yehud. Passersby extinguished the flames with bottles of water and a fire extinguisher but he was left with 70% burns.

The veteran had spent four months in a coma at the Beer Sheva Medical Center after he was injured at age 23, according to local media reports. He was to be married a month after he was hurt but the marriage was canceled.

Mafa'i is the second person to die in a self-immolation in Israel in less than a week.

Moshe Silman, a bed-ridden member of a movement to lower the cost of living in Israel, set himself alight during a demonstration in Tel Aviv on July 14. He died two weeks later.

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According to local media reports, he left a note accusing the conservative Netanyahu government of "taking from the poor and giving to the rich." Israeli media have reported other suicide attempts apparently motivated by economic hardship.

The social protest movement has been gaining ground since large demonstrations were held in cities last summer, led by members of Israel's middle class, over soaring costs of living. 1. Where does this take place?
2. Where is Yehud?
3. On what day did he die?
4. How?
5. Did he pass away on the same day he did this?
6. Who reported the news?
7. From?
8. Located where?
9. What had he done about 20 years before?
10. While serving what branch?
11. Where did he light himself up?
12. How old was he?
13. Was he able to run around while burning?
14. Did someone put him out?
15. Who? Provide a numbered list of answers.
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A numbered of answers: 1. Yehud.
2. Israel,
3. Wednesday
4. set himself on fire
5. No
6. a spokeswoman
7. Sheba Medical Center
8. Tel Aviv
9. He was badly
10. Israel Defense Forces
11. A bus station
12. 45
13. Unknown
14. Yes
15. Passersby

Question: The Linguasphere Observatory (or "Observatoire", based upon its original French and legal title: ) is a transnational linguistic research network.

It was created in Quebec in 1983 and was subsequently established and registered in Normandy as a non-profit association under the honorary presidency of the late Leopold Sedar Senghor, a French-language poet and the first president of Senegal. Its founding director is David Dalby, former director of the International African Institute and emeritus reader in the University of London, and its first research secretary was Philippe Blanchet, a Provencal-language poet currently serving as Professor of Sociolinguistics at the University of Rennes. Since 2010, the deputy director and webmaster of the Observatoire has been Pierrick le Feuvre,with the chairman of its research council being Roland Breton, emeritus professor at the University of Paris VIII. The Observatoire's research hub is currently based in the European Union, in Carmarthenshire, Wales (UK) and in Paris. Its title in Welsh is Wylfa Ieithoedd, literally the "Observatory (of) languages", and its publishing associate (also in Wales) is the Gwasg y Byd Iaith, i.e., "Linguasphere Press" or literally "Press (of) the world (of) language".

The Observatoire has developed an innovative scheme of philological classification, coding all living and recorded languages within a global referential framework or "linguascale". This Linguascale Framework uses a decimal structure (see below) to record both genetic and geographic categories of relationship (termed "phylozones" and "geozones", respectively). 1. When was the Linguashere Observatory created?
2. Where?
3. Was it a non-profit?
4. Who was its president?
5. Was he a poet?
6. In which language?
7. What other position has he held?
8. What's its name in French?
9. What scheme has the Observatoire developed?
10. Does the scheme code all living languages?
11. Within which framework?
12. Who was Philippe Blanchet?
13. Is he a poet?
14. In which language?
15. In which position does he currently serve?
16. In which field?
17. Where?
18. Where is the Observatoire's research hub currently based?
19. In which country?
20. What does its title in Welsh mean? Provide a numbered list of answers.
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A numbered of answers: 1. 1983
2. in Quebec
3. yes
4. Leopold Sedar Senghor
5. yes
6. French
7. president of Senegal
8. Observatoire
9. innovative
10. yes
11. global referential
12. research secretary
13. yes
14. Provencal-language
15. Professor
16. Sociolinguistics
17. University of Rennes
18. European Union
19. UK
20. Observatory (of) languages

Question: "Oh,you must have been a spoiled kid.You must be really bossy.I wonder what you're going to be like to deal with?" That's often the response Angela Hult gets when people find out she's an only child,she told ABC News.Despite such negative remarks,Hult has decided to have only one child herself.And she's not alone.

According to the US' Office for National Statistics,women approaching the end of their childbearing years had an average of 1.9 children in 2004,compared with 3.1 for their counterparts in 1976.The percentage of onechild families in Britain had risen from 18 percent in 1972 to 26 percent in 2007.

But even though only children are becoming increasingly common,the traditional view that they're selfish,spoiled and lack social skills holds strong.Even parents of only children,like Hult,are made to feel guilty about having only one child.Worried that they're being selfish and endangering their child's future,they flock to online discussion forums seeking advice.Soon,however,they ask themselves:is this social prejudice really reasonable?

"There have been hundreds and hundreds of research studies that show that only children are no different from their peers ," Susan Newman,a social psychologist at Rutgers University in the US,told ABC News.

This raises another question:why are only children still viewed with such suspicion?

"There is a belief that's been around probably since humans first existed that to have just one child is somehow dangerous,both for you and for the continuation of your race," Toni Falbo,a professor of educational psychology,told the Guardian."In the past a lot of children died.You'd have had to be crazy to only have one."

Times,of course,have changed and infant mortality has largely reduced.So what do only children themselves say?

Kayley Kravitz,a blogger for The Huffington Post,grew up as an only child and highly recommends the experience."Being an only child taught me the most valuable skill of all:the ability to be alone," she said. 1. What office presented statistics on women?
2. Is Angela Hult an only child?
3. Do people tell her that she is spoiled?
4. How many children is she having?
5. Does she feel guilty about it?
6. Why?
7. How many families in Britain have only one child?
8. Is that an increase or decrease from the 70s?
9. From what?
10. From what percent? Provide a numbered list of answers.
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A numbered of answers:
1. US' Office for National Statistics
2. yes
3. yes
4. one
5. yes
6. of being selfish and endangering their child's future
7. 26 percent
8. increase
9. onechild families
10. 18 percent