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(CNN) -- The United States will not bargain with al Qaeda over the life of an American worker filmed making an emotional plea to President Barack Obama to save his life, U.S. officials said Monday.

"We don't make concessions to terrorists," State Department spokesman Mark Toner said when asked whether the United States would meet the demands contained in a video posted Sunday to several Islamist websites featuring Warren Weinstein.

"My life is in your hands, Mr. President," said the American captured in August from his home in the Pakistani city of Lahore. "If you accept the demands, I live. If you don't accept the demands, then I die."

White House spokesman Jay Carney reiterated the point, saying that while the administration's hearts go out to Weinstein and his family, "we cannot and will not negotiate with al Qaeda."

Ayman al-Zawahiri, leader of the al Qaeda terror network, listed eight demands that he said, if met, would result in Weinstein's release. The demands related to issues in the Middle East, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Somalia.

"It is important that you accept these demands and act quickly and don't delay," Weinstein said in the video posted Sunday.

Toner said that U.S. officials had not corroborated the video and could not say with certainty that the man in the video is Weinstein.

He said he believes Weinstein is likely being held in the tribal areas of Pakistan, but that the United States has no way to verify it.

The State Department said Monday that U.S. officials, including the FBI, are assisting Pakistani authorities in the investigation.

1. where was the American worker captured?
2. where is that?
3. who is the white house spokesman?
4. what department does he work for?
5. who is Jay Carney?
6. does he say that we can negotiate with al qaeda?
7. what is the name of the capitve?
8. where do they think he is being held?
9. is it verified?
10. who is assisting Pakistani authorities?
11. with what?
12. when did the state department divulge that?
13. when was the video of weinstein posted?
14. who is the leader of al Qaeda?
15. how many demands did he have?
16. what were they related to?
17. what would he do if they were met?

Numbered answers:

A: 1. Lahore
2. Pakistan
3. Mark Toner
4. State Department
5. White House spokesman
6. No
7. Weinstein
8. tribal areas of Pakistan
9. There is no way to verify it.
10. U.S. officials, including the FBI
11. the investigation.
12. Monday
13. Sunday
14. Ayman al-Zawahiri
15. eight
16. issues in the Middle East, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Somalia.
17. would result in Weinstein's release

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CHAPTER XXVI

TOGETHER ONCE MORE

"Tom!"

"Dick and Sam!"

"How in the world did you get here?"

"Where are the others?"

These and a dozen other questions were asked and answered as the three Rover boys shook hands over and over again. Even though prisoners, they were delighted to be together once more, and doubly delighted to know that each was well.

"Oh, these chaps are first-class rascals," said Dick after they had settled down a bit. "They have treated us most shamefully. At first, they gave us pretty good eating, but now they are starving us."

"Starving you?" cried Tom.

"Yes--they want us to tell all we know," put in Sam. "They are very suspicious."

"Didn't you try to get away?"

"No use of trying. The walls are too solid and so is the door," said Dick. He caught Tom by the arm and added in a faint whisper in his brother's ear: "They are listening. We have a hole."

"Then we'll have to stay here," said Tom loudly, catching his cue instantly.

"Yes, and it's a shame," added Sam in an equally loud voice. "I suppose the others have gone on?"

"Certainly," said Tom calmly. "I was a chump to remain behind--only I wanted to find you. I got hold of a letter by accident."

A moment later, they heard the guards walk away, and then Tom told the truth about the letter, and Sam and Dick led him to the hole in the wall.

"It is not quite big enough to use, yet," whispered the eldest Rover. "But we hope to have it big enough by to-morrow. It's slow work, when you have got to be on your guard all the while."

1. How many boys are there?
2. were they free?
3. Were they fed?
4. can they escape?
5. Was was found accidently?
6. Who stayed behind?
7. Can they open freely?
8. Were they planning an escape?
9. When?
10. Where was the hole?
11. Who started the hole?

Numbered answers:

A: 1. three Rover boys
2. No
3. No
4. No
5. letter
6. Tom
7. No
8. Yes
9. tomorrow?
10. In the wall.
11. Sam and Dick

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The child of today owes much of its pleasant school life to the work of Maria Montessori and others who felt as she did.

Maria Montessori was born in 1870 in northern prefix = st1 /Italy. Both her parents were well educated.

While Maria was a student, she took great interest in the study of the particular nature of the child's mind. It came to her that small children should have freedom to learn.

Maria became a doctor and a professor at RomeUniversity. In 1907, after working with backward students, she was given a chance to try out her ideas on children. There were sixty children, aged three to six, in the Children's House. The rooms were bright and color1ful. Maria let the children make their own choice of what they wanted to do and work with their own speed. They became busy, peaceful and happy.

Maria Montessori was one of the world's great teachers. She traveled in Europe, Americaand Far East. She thought that true education, providing for the real needs of the child, would produce wise and happy grown-ups and therefore a peaceful world. Her original way of education has changed our whole idea of what childhood is.

Maria Montessori died in Hollandat the age of eighty-two.

1. When was Montessori born?
2. Where?
3. Were her parents educated?
4. What did she take interest in as a student?
5. What profession did she have?
6. Where?
7. How many children did she work with in 1907?
8. How old?
9. Did she give them time limits for learning?
10. Where did she travel to?
11. How old was she when she died?

Numbered answers:

A:
1. 1870
2. Italy
3. yes
4. the child's mind
5. doctor and a professor
6. RomeUniversity
7. sixty
8. three to six
9. no
10. Europe, America and Far East
11. 82