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(CNN) -- Here's what I want for Father's Day: I want my children to develop a passion for science. I've decided to grease the wheels. I've called the best for advice.

His name is Brian Greene, professor of physics and mathematics at Columbia University. He's getting kids engaged at his World Science Festival. He has even written a children's book based on relativity, "Icarus at the Edge of Time."

Icarus was the boy in the ancient Greek myth whose father crafted him wings of wax. The father warned Icarus not to fly too close to the sun. Icarus ignored him. His wax wings melted, and he died.

Greene's reincarnation of Icarus was born on a space ship -- part of a community of explorers on a 25-trillion mile search for life on another planet. He is 14, which gets my attention, because it's about the same age as my oldest daughter.

The length of the spaceship's journey means Icarus must live his whole life within the confines of that ship. "But," writes Brian Greene, the boy "had a palpable yearning for something beyond the life he'd been handed." One day the ship's captain, Icarus' father, announces: "We are making an emergency course diversion to avoid an uncharted black hole."

Icarus has built his own small spacecraft. He has done the calculations. He ignores his father's warning. He sets out to approach the black hole, to get within "a hairsbreadth above the point of no return."

He miscalculates ever so slightly and is thrust 10,000 years into the future. He is found by a new generation and is briefed on the long history he just missed, including the fact that the universe was now, as a result of the mission his father commanded, in an era of interstellar cooperation and lasting peace.
1. who is the article about?
2. what is his profession
3. where does he teach?
4. what does he want for fathers day
5. what is his festival called?
6. Has he written anything?
7. what?
8. what is it called?
9. who is Icarus?
10. how old is he in the story?
11. where is he living?
12. who is driving the ship?
13. what does his father announce?
14. Does he listen to his father?
15. what does he use?
16. did he build it?
17. does his plan work?
18. what happens?
19. how far does he travel ahead?
20. is he found?

Numbered answers:
1. Brian Greene,
2. physics and mathematics
3. Columbia University
4. his children to develop a passion for science.
5. World Science Festival.
6. yes
7. a children's book
8. Icarus at the Edge of Time."
9. a boy
10. 14
11. a space ship
12. Icarus
13. We are making an emergency course diversion to avoid an uncharted black hole
14. no
15. his own small spacecraft.
16. yes
17. no
18. He miscalculates
19. 10,000 years into the future
20. yes

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People think of ice cream as an American food. Yet, ice cream really came from Asia. In the late 1200s Marco Polo, the great explorer, is said to have seen rich Asians eating dishes of ice. Camels had brought the ice from distant mountains. Before it was served, the ice had been flavored with fruits. Marco Polo brought this new dish to Italy, In France cooks changed the ice recipe and made ice cream. At first, cooks tried to keep the recipe a secret. They wanted it to be a special dish for rich people. By the late 1700s, though, ice cream was sold throughout Europe and America. Some great Americans loved ice cream. George Washington was the first to buy a special machine for making it. When Thomas Jefferson returned from France, he brought an ice cream recipe home with him. Dolly Madison, wife of President James Madison, also liked ice cream, and she often served it at the White House. Actually, a famous brand of ice cream was even named after her. In the late 1800s, the ice cream industry began to grow. A way of keeping ice cream frozen had been found, so ice cream makers did not have to worry about ice cream melting anymore.
1. What is the story about?
2. Where was it invented?
3. How did it get world wide?
4. What did he do?
5. How did he learn about it?
6. When did this happen?
7. Where did they get the ice?
8. Did they have flavors?
9. Where else did it become popular?
10. When was cream first added?
11. When did it get to America?
12. Did any famous people eat it?
13. Who, for example?
14. How do we know he liked it?
15. Who else?
16. How did Jefferson learn about it?
17. Anyone else?
18. Did they ever serve it to guests?
19. When did it really become popular?
20. How come it became popular?

Numbered answers:
1. ice cream
2. Asia
3. Marco Polo
4. brought this new dish to Italy
5. seen rich Asians eating dishes of ice
6. the late 1200s
7. Camels had brought the ice from distant mountains
8. the ice had been flavored with fruits
9. France
10. In France cooks changed the ice recipe and made ice cream
11. By the late 1700s
12. Yes
13. George Washington
14. He was the first to buy a special machine for making it
15. Thomas Jefferson
16. When Thomas Jefferson returned from France, he brought an ice cream recipe home with him
17. Dolly Madison, wife of President James Madison, also liked ice cream
18. Yes
19. In the late 1800s,
20. A way of keeping ice cream frozen had been found,

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CHAPTER XIII

Captain Doane worked hard, pursuing the sun in its daily course through the sky, by the equation of time correcting its aberrations due to the earth's swinging around the great circle of its orbit, and charting Sumner lines innumerable, working assumed latitudes for position until his head grew dizzy.

Simon Nishikanta sneered openly at what he considered the captain's inefficient navigation, and continued to paint water-colours when he was serene, and to shoot at whales, sea-birds, and all things hurtable when he was downhearted and sea-sore with disappointment at not sighting the Lion's Head peak of the Ancient Mariner's treasure island.

"I'll show I ain't a pincher," Nishikanta announced one day, after having broiled at the mast-head for five hours of sea-searching. "Captain Doane, how much could we have bought extra chronometers for in San Francisco--good second-hand ones, I mean?"

"Say a hundred dollars," the captain answered.

"Very well. And this ain't a piker's proposition. The cost of such a chronometer would have been divided between the three of us. I stand for its total cost. You just tell the sailors that I, Simon Nishikanta, will pay one hundred dollars gold money for the first one that sights land on Mr. Greenleaf's latitude and longitude."

But the sailors who swarmed the mast-heads were doomed to disappointment, in that for only two days did they have opportunity to stare the ocean surface for the reward. Nor was this due entirely to Dag Daughtry, despite the fact that his own intention and act would have been sufficient to spoil their chance for longer staring.
1. Who is the captain?
2. Who didn't like his navigation?
3. what's his last name?
4. Is he a painter?
5. What did he shoot at?
6. and?
7. and?
8. had he seen the Lion's Head ?
9. How did he feel?
10. How long had he been at the mast head?
11. Was he wondering about the price o f something?
12. How much did the captain say they'd be?
13. Were they new chronometers he was asking about?
14. What kind of money was it?
Numbered answers:
1. Doane
2. Simon
3. Nishikanta
4. yes
5. whales
6. sea-birds
7. all things hurtable
8. no
9. downhearted
10. five hours
11. have been divided
12. hundred
13. no
14. gold