Problem: What would you do if you found a snake in your house? Many people might be afraid or try to kill it. However, if you live in North Carolina in the USA, one thing you can do is to call the Snake Catchers. The Snake Catchers are four men who love snakes, even poisonous ones. Their newspaper advertisement says, "Snake Catchers: free snake removal Please do not kill them -- Call us. " The Snake Catchers, who started their service in 1998, don't charge anything for helping people. "We do this as a hobby," explained Fred Johnson, one of the Snake Catchers. Because of their love of snakes, the Snake Catchers try to keep them alive. "One man asked us to kill a python , so he could make a pair of boots from the skin. We refused, because we like snakes, and we don't want to see them killed, " said Fred. Some of the snakes that they catch are kept as pets; some are given to the North Carolina State University. Most, including the poisonous snakes, are set free in the wild, usually in a national park. Fred suggests that people should treat snakes with care. "Actually snakes are very shy and gentle creatures. They only attack if they are frightened. However, you have to know how to treat a snake properly!" According to one happy family, the Snake Catchers are good. One day, the Greenwood family found a snake skin in the kitchen. They looked very carefully and saw a snake sleeping behind a cupboard. They thought about what to do. Then Steve Greenwood remembered the advertisement for the Snake Catchers. He called them. "The Snake Catchers arrived within an hour and they finished the job quickly too," said Steve Greenwood. "One of them went into the kitchen, found the snake and took it out alive. The Snake Catchers did a very good job." Last year, the Snake Catchers removed more than seventy snakes from houses in North Carolina.
1. Where are the Snake Catchers located?
2. How many people are in the group?
3. When did they start?
4. Where do they place ads?
5. What is the name of one of the families that contacted them?
6. Where did they find a creature?
7. What was it doing?
8. When did the Snake Catcher arrive?
9. What did they do?
10. How many did they remove last year?
11. All in North Carolina?
12. Do they ever kill the snakes?
13. Why not?
Answer: 1. North Carolina
2. four
3. 1998
4. North Carolina State University
5. the Greenwood family
6. kitchen
7. sleeping
8. within an hour
9. found the snake and took it out alive
10. seventy
11. Yes
12. No
13. they like snakes

Problem: (CareerBuilder.com) -- Co-workers are always a great topic of conversation. You never run out of things to say when it comes to talking about the different types of people you work with, what you love, what you hate and how you deal with it all.

We thought we'd do a little research into some of the best co-workers out there. Not just the different personality types, but real people, who do real good things.

What we found found is that many workers out there are generous, kind people who put their colleagues' lives before their own without hesitation.

Here are 5 of the most heroic co-workers people encountered this year.

The heroes

1. Co-worker helps to save a fellow employee's life

Claude Marlowe, a diabetic, went to work one morning like any other day. When he went to shake a colleague's hand, he had a heart attack and dropped dead -- literally.

That's when Debi Coffman and another co-worker, Larry Garrett, realized that this wasn't a diabetic episode; Marlowe had no pulse. The two performed CPR and chest compressions and revived Marlowe three times before emergency crews arrived. He suffered five heart attacks and was brain dead for at least two hours. He would not be alive had his co-workers not known what to do. (Nascar.com)

2. Chandler worker helps colleague get new artificial leg

For 30 years, Gregory Lewis, a retail maintenance worker, walked with the same prosthetic device on his left leg. As the years wore on, so did his artificial leg. One day, he lifted his foot off the ground to get into his car, and the artificial leg fell off.
1. How many co workers are they talking about?
2. Who is the second one about?
3. What did Gregory do?
4. What was wrong?
5. How long had he had it?
6. Why did it fall off?
7. Who was the first one about?
8. Was he sick?
9. With what?
10. Did he die?
11. Who helped him?
12. What were their names?
13. What did they do to help?
14. How many times did they revive him?
15. Why did they stop?
16. How many heart attacks did he have?
Answer: 1. Two
2. Chandler
3. maintenance
4. his artificial leg fell off
5. For 30 years
6. it fell off while getting into his car
7. Claude Marlowe
8. yes
9. he had a heart attack
10. yes
11. his co-workers
12. Debi Coffman and Larry Garrett
13. CPR and chest compressions
14. three times
15. emergency crews arrived
16. five

Problem: The longest-serving lawmaker in U.S. congressional history, a legendary Motown artist, and the matriarch of a renowned political family will be among this year's recipients of the nation's highest civilian honor, the White House announced Monday.

Rep. John Dingell, Stevie Wonder and Ethel Kennedy are three of the nineteen Americans who Obama will bestow the Presidential Medal of Freedom upon later this month.

Dingell has served nearly 60 years in Congress representing a district outside Detroit. He'll retire at the end of this session. Wonder has won 25 Grammys and an Oscar for his fusion of soul, rhythm and blues and jazz. And Kennedy, who is the widow of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, became an activist for human rights and the environment after her husband's death.

Other honorees this year include Meryl Streep, the prolific actress known for holding the most Oscar nominations of any actor in history. She stars this winter in "Into the Woods," the musical composed by Stephen Sondheim, to whom Obama will also award the Medal of Freedom on November 24.

Tom Brokaw, the former "NBC Nightly News" anchor, will be honored as well, alongside actress Marlo Thomas, golfer Charles Sifford and author Isabel Allende.

The other medalists are scientist Mildred Dresselhaus; Native American activist Suzan Harjo; former Reps. Abner Mikva of Illinois and Patsy Takemoto Mink of Hawaii; and economist Robert Solow.

Five awards will be delivered posthumously: to "Freedom Summer" civil rights activists James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner; to the well-known choreographer Alvin Ailey, who founded the namesake dance company; and to Rep. Edward Roybal, the founder of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus.
1. How many people got medals?
2. How many medals were to people who have died?
3. Who is the medalist from Michigan?
4. What is he known for?
5. He's a representative from near which city?
6. What is Alvin Ailey famous for?
7. Who did the music for Into the Woods?
8. Is he getting a medal?
9. When is the medal ceremony?
Answer:
1. 19.
2. Five
3. Dingell
4. He served nearly 60 years in Congress.
5. Detroit.
6. As a choreographer.
7. Stephen Sondheim
8. No.
9. Later this month.