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If you and your friends wish to share a secret, you can write it in code, and no one else will be able to read it. Codes are one way of writing in secret. Ciphers are another. In a code each word is written as a secret code word or a code number. In a cipher each letter is changed.

Codes and ciphers have played an important role in the history of the world. Julius Caesar, the Roman ruler who defeated almost all the countries in Europe about 2,000 years ago, used a cipher when he sent secret messages to his troops. During the American Revolution, George Washington's spies used a kind of code to send his information about the enemy before his military action. In World War II, the Americans"broke"or figured out Japan's most important navy codes and got enough information to destroy a powerful Japanese fleet.

Storekeepers use codes to mark their goods. The codes show how much is paid for the goods or when they are added to the stock. Businessmen use codes to hide plans from their business enemies. Sometimes personal letters or diaries are written in code. Many people enjoy figuring out codes and ciphers simply as a hobby.

In the 16th century, codes and ciphers were very popular among scientists. They wrote messages to each other in code so that no one else would learn their secrets. Geronimo Gardano, an Italian astrologer , mathematician, and doctor, invented the trellis cipher. He took two sheets of paper and cut exactly the same holes in each one. Then he sent one sheet, which he called a trellis, to a friend and kept the other for himself. Whenever he wanted to write a message, he put his trellis over a clean sheet of paper and wrote the secret message through the holes. There he removed the trellis and filled the rest of the paper with words that would make sense. When his friend received it, he put his trellis over the writing and read the secret message.
1. How can you and your friends share a secret?
2. In a code how is each word written?
3. What is done in a cipher?
4. Have codes and ciphers been important in history?
5. What Roman used a cipher to send messages to his troops?
6. Whose spies used code during the American Revolution?
7. What did the Americans do to Japan's code in Word War II?
8. After breaking the code what were they able to do?
9. What do storekeepers use codes for?
10. What do those codes show about payment?
11. What do they display about inventory?
12. Who uses this method to conceal things from their rivals?

Numbered answers:
1. in a code or a cipher
2. as a secret code word
3. In a cipher each letter is changed.
4. yes
5. Julius Caesa
6. George Washington's
7. they broke them
8. they got enough information to destroy a powerful Japanese fleet.
9. to mark their goods
10. how much is paid for the goods
11. when they are added
12. Businessmen

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(EW.com) -- When she gets a look at the latest list on Forbes.com, Drew Barrymore won't be smiling anymore.

The magazine ranked her first on its list of "Hollywood's Most Overpaid Actors," reporting that her films only bring in 40 cents for every dollar she is paid as an actress -- and that's without taking into account the fall TV bust "Charlie's Angels," on which Barrymore served as an executive producer.

Eddie Murphy had the unenviable fate of taking second place, though his return ($2.70 for every dollar he's paid) was significantly higher than Barrymore's. While the jury is still out whether "Tower Heist" (opening today) and his stint as Oscars host will bring Murphy the gold in 2012, his fate for 2011 is sealed. See what other big names made the list after the jump.

For this list, Forbes analyzed Hollywood's 40 top-earning actors and their respective compensation for their starring roles in the last five years and compared it to the operating income on those films. Nicolas Cage (#6) might be the person on the list who is simultaneously the most predictable and unexpected entrant.

As a go-to guy for huge action flicks, it seems like he'd generate healthy revenue stream. Then you remember his recent films include "Season of the Witch," "Drive Angry," and more recently "Trespass," which earned a paltry $16,000 in its first weekend. Yes, friends, that's roughly the going rate for a Honda Fit.

Cage's "Trespass" co-star Nicole Kidman also didn't fare well, landing in tenth place. Her ex Tom Cruise -- another tentpole action star with a questionable ability to return on his asking price -- took ninth place, though perhaps December's "Mission: Impossible" -- Ghost Protocol can turn things around for him next year.
1. which magazine's list is it?
2. which magazine?
3. how many actors are analyzed?
4. what place is Nicole Kidman?
5. who ranks higher, Drew Barrymore or Nicolas Cage?
6. what is her position?
7. will she be happy about this?
8. who follows her on the list?
9. what move of his opens the day this article came out?
10. who is a go-to for action flicks?
11. how many of his movies are mentioned?
12. who hosted the oscars in 2012?
13. how much is a Honda Fit roughly?
14. is that about what trespass made opening week?
15. which mission impossible movie is mentioned?
16. who is in that?
17. besides cage, who else was in trespass?
18. what was Barrymore executive producer on?
19. how much did her films bring in for every dollar she is paid?

Numbered answers:
1. Hollywood's Most Overpaid Actors
2. Forbes
3. 40
4. tenth
5. Drew Barrymore
6. first
7. no
8. Eddie Murphy
9. Tower Heist
10. Nicolas Cage
11. Three
12. Eddie Murphy
13. $16,000
14. yes
15. Ghost Protocol
16. Tom Cruise
17. Nicole Kidman
18. Charlie's Angels
19. 40 cents

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MEXICO CITY, Mexico (CNN) -- Mexican authorities were searching Wednesday for two politicians accused of belonging to the Familia Michoacana drug cartel, which is blamed for killing more than 30 federal police officers in a series of attacks since Saturday.

Drug violence is up in Michoacan state, shown by recent attacks on police in at least a half-dozen cities.

Julio Cesar Godoy Toscano, elected July 5 to the lower house of Congress, is accused of being in charge of protection for the cartel, said Monte Alejandro Rubido Garcia, head of the National Public Security Council. Godoy Toscano is half-brother to Michoacan's governor, Leonel Godoy Rangel, who Wednesday urged his relative to surrender.

Authorities also said they are searching for Saul Solis Solis, alias "El Lince," who lost his bid for a congressional seat this month. He is accused of being in charge of the cartel's activities in the Huacana area. Solis is a cousin of Enrique Plancarte Solis, a Familia Michoacana leader, Rubido said.

Both suspects report to Servando Gomez Martinez, known as "La Tuta," Rubido said.

Godoy Toscano was elected as a member of the opposition Democratic Revolutionary Party, known as the PRD. The party said Wednesday it would not protect Godoy Toscano or any member who has broken the law.

Godoy Rangel, the Michoacan governor, told a radio station there's nothing he could do to help his fugitive brother.

"I cannot protect anyone, not even my children," the government-run news agency Notimex quoted him as saying.

He said Wednesday that he has no intention of resigning, because he has done nothing wrong, Notimex said.
1. What politician is being charged of protecting a cartel?
2. What is his connection to the governor of Michoacan?
Numbered answers:
1. Julio Cesar Godoy Toscan
2. half-brother