HANGZHOU, China -- Millions of Chinese basketball fans who were upset about the retirement of Yao Ming, are excited to see another even more shining star, Jeremy Lin, rising from the N.B.A and becoming a household name all across China. "We are amazed by Lin Shuhao's magic performance and should cheer him on," one Internet user wrote. "His sport shirts have sold out, even including the counterfeit ones," said Zheng Xiaojun, a 24-year-old clerk. Lin's amazing success over the last month has caught the imagination of the Chinese. He has been particularly popular here in northern Zhejiang province, from which his grandmother went to Taiwan in the late 1940s. Cai Qi, a well-known micro blogger, posted a message on micro blog over the weekend stating that Lin's hometown is Jiaxing, a city near Hangzhou where Lin's grandmother grew up. Cai Qi's nephew Yu Guohua, a 56-year-old factory worker, is Lin's closest still living in northern Zhejiang. He said in a telephone interview that Lin had come to play basketball with the Jiaxing High School team last May and had been surrounded by admirers. Yu said he did not have a chance to meet Lin in the crowd, but managed to speak with his family. "His father was very supportive of Lin's playing basketball, but his grandmother was not, for fear he would be injured," Yu said. Lin may owe his height, 6 feet 3 inches, to his grandmother's family, Yu said. Chen Weiji, the father of Lin's grandmother, was well over 6 feet and all of Chen's children were tall as well, he said. The N.B.A. believes that 300 million people in China play basketball. The retirement last year of Yao Ming took its main Asian draw away from the N.B.A. But Lin's appearance has helped the league remain a hot topic of Chinese online chatter. What are the answers to this following set of questions: 1. Who does China hope will be their new star?
2. In what?
3. Who is the old star?
4. What happened to him?
5. How did the fans feel about that?
6. Who is Zheng Xiaojun?
7. Does he sell fake products?
8. What are they?
9. Did he sell all he had?
10. How tall is Lin?
11. What side of the family does that come from?
12. How tall was her father?
13. What is his name?
14. Where any of his kids short?
15. Does his grandma like him playing the sport?
16. Why not?
17. What about his dad?
18. Why did his grandmother grow up?
19. When did she move to Taiwan
20. How many in China participate in this sport?
Answer: 1. Jeremy Lin
2. Basketball
3. Yao Ming
4. He retired
5. Upset
6. A clerk
7. Yes
8. Sport shirts
9. Yes
10. 6 foot 3
11. His grandmother's
12. Well over 6 feet
13. Chen Weiji
14. No
15. No
16. She's afraid he'd be injured
17. He was supportive
18. unknown
19. The late 1940s
20. 300 million people in China

However, some scholars contest the idea of a Proto-Euphratean language or one substrate language. It has been suggested by them and others, that the Sumerian language was originally that of the hunter and fisher peoples, who lived in the marshland and the Eastern Arabia littoral region, and were part of the Arabian bifacial culture. Reliable historical records begin much later; there are none in Sumer of any kind that have been dated before Enmebaragesi (c. 26th century BC). Professor Juris Zarins believes the Sumerians were settled along the coast of Eastern Arabia, today's Persian Gulf region, before it flooded at the end of the Ice Age.

Native Sumerian rule re-emerged for about a century in the Neo-Sumerian Empire or Third Dynasty of Ur (Sumerian Renaissance) approximately 2100-2000 BC, but the Akkadian language also remained in use. The Sumerian city of Eridu, on the coast of the Persian Gulf, is considered to have been the world's first city, where three separate cultures may have fused that of peasant Ubaidian farmers, living in mud-brick huts and practicing irrigation; that of mobile nomadic Semitic pastoralists living in black tents and following herds of sheep and goats; and that of fisher folk, living in reed huts in the marshlands, who may have been the ancestors of the Sumerians. What are the answers to this following set of questions: 1. When did Native Sumerian rule come back for a time?
2. What was that era called?
3. Did it have another name?
4. What was it?
5. Was there another language being used then as well?
6. What was that called?
7. What is thought to be the first city on earth?
8. What people lived there?
9. Is that on the Mediterranean?
10. How many cultures are said to have come together there?
11. Which of those followed sheep and goats?
12. Did they live in green tee pees?
13. What did the fishing culture live in?
14. Did they live in the mountains?
15. What people were they related to?
16. Who used water for their livlihood?
17. Do all scholars agree that there was one substrate language?
18. Where do they suspect the Sumerian language originated from?
19. Are their good historical records of this time period?
20. What happened to this region at the end of the ice age?
Answer: 1. 2100-2000 BC,
2. Neo-Sumerian Empire
3. yes
4. Third Dynasty of Ur (Sumerian Renaissance)
5. yes
6. Akkadian
7. Eridu
8. Sumerians
9. no
10. Three
11. Semitic pastoralists
12. no
13. reed huts
14. no
15. Sumerians.
16. Ubaidian farmers
17. no
18. that of the hunter and fisher peoples
19. no
20. it flooded

When SpongeBob SquarePants skips onto shelves in boxes of Kraft Macaroni & Cheese next year, he may be a little less, well, yellow than your kids are used to.

Kraft has revamped its character-shaped product line for 2014, according to company spokeswoman Lynne Galia. The new versions will have six additional grams of whole grains, be lower in sodium and saturated fat, and will use spices instead of artificial food dyes to recreate the pasta's famous yellow-orange color.

"Parents have told us that they would like fun Mac & Cheese varieties with the same great taste, but with improved nutrition," Galia said in an e-mail.

The company will remove Yellow No. 5 and Yellow No. 6 from boxes containing pasta shaped like SpongeBob SquarePants and those with Halloween and winter shapes. Two new shapes of the popular pasta -- Nickelodeon's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and "How to Train Your Dragon 2" from Dreamworks -- will also be free of food coloring, Galia said.

Check out Eatocracy's recipe for homemade Mac & Cheese

The Center for Science in the Public Interest hailed Kraft's decision on Friday. Michael Jacobson, the center's executive director, said he is pleased with the announcement but is "puzzled" as to why Kraft would not change its iconic elbow-shaped macaroni product as well.

"As Kraft has today shown, it is clearly possible to make macaroni and cheese without these harmful chemicals," Jacobson said in a statement.

The company tries to offer a wide variety of choices to consumers, Galia responded. "Making ingredient changes isn't as simple as it would seem," she said. "All of the ingredients must work together to deliver the distinctive taste, appearance and texture consumers expect and love from Original KRAFT Mac & Cheese. Our fans have made it clear they won't settle for anything less." What are the answers to this following set of questions: 1. What did the company remove?
2. What are the two new shapes?
3. Will they be free of food coloring?
4. Who is Michael Jacobson?
5. The new version has how many grams of whole grains?
6. What is being used for the color instead of food dyes?
7. What did Kraft do in 2014?
8. Who said the company tried to offer variety?
9. What was Jacobson puzzled about?
10. Who does Jacobson work for?
Answer:
1. Yellow No. 5
2. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and How to Train Your Dragon 2
3. Yes
4. executive director
5. six more
6. spices
7. revamped its character-shaped product line
8. Galia
9. why Kraft would not change its elbow-shaped macaroni product
10. The Center for Science in the Public Interest