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CHAPTER XVI

THE BLOWING UP OF THE BRIDGE

"Say, this is something fierce, Dave!"

"I agree with you, Roger. I don't see how we are going to do such a long lesson."

"Old Haskers is getting worse and worse," growled Phil. "I think we ought to report it to Doctor Clay."

"Just what I think," came from Ben. "He keeps piling it on harder and harder. I think he is trying to break us."

"Break us?" queried our hero, looking up from his book.

"Yes, make us miss entirely, you know."

"Why should he want us to do that?" asked Roger.

"Then we wouldn't be able to graduate this coming June."

"Would he be mean enough to do that?" asked Dave.

"I think he would be mean enough for anything," responded Phil. "Oh, I am not going to stand it!" he cried.

The boys had just come upstairs, after an extra hard session in their Latin class. All were aroused over the treatment received at the hands of Job Haskers. He had been harsh and dictatorial to the last degree, and several times it had looked as if there might be an outbreak.

The next day the outbreak came. Phil sprang up in class and denounced the unreasonable teacher, and Ben followed. Then Dave and Roger took a hand, and so did Buster and several others.

"Sit down! Sit down!" cried Job Haskers, growing white in the face. "Sit down, and keep quiet."

"I won't keep quiet," answered the shipowner's son. "You are treating us unfairly, Mr. Haskers, and I won't stand for it."
1. Where did the boys go?
2. Which class had they just had?
3. With which teacher?
4. Was he nice?
5. Who stood up?
6. What did he say?
7. Who went next?
8. Whose father owns a ship?
9. When do they graduate?
10. Who could they tell about the teacher's conduct?
11. Which chapter is this?
12. And its title?

Numbered answers:
1. Upstairs
2. Latin
3. Job Haskers
4. He was harsh and dictorial
5. Phil
6. Sit down
7. Ben
8. the shipowner's son
9. in June
10. Doctor Clay
11. 16
12. THE BLOWING UP OF THE BRIDGE

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On the way home from his job at a bakery in Wainscot, New York, one August evening,Craig Schum,33,stopped his car at the East Hampton Airport. A group was protesting, airplane noise,and Schum,who had kicked off his shoes,got out of the car.

Within seconds, though,Schum saw something astonishing.A small plane dived and crashed into the woods about l00 yards from the runway."I don't remember making the decision that I should go help out," he recalls."I just started running."

Sehum ran across the street barefoot,climbed over a six--foot-high chain link fence, and dashed about l00 yards toward the woods.When he got there, he discovered 5l yea r-old pilot Stephen Bochter,his head bleeding,beside the burning plane.Bochter's passenger,his wife, Kim Brillo,was on the ground, unconscious "She had blood all over her."says Schum."I thought she was dead."

Jack Gleeson,17,a high school student working a summer job at the airport,caught up to Schum and,with Bochter's help, 1ifted the chain-link fence and brought Brillo underneath it.Moments later,the entire plane exploded.

After the rescue team arrived,Bochter and Brillo were airlifted to a nearby hospital and treated for cuts,injuries and Brillo's broken arm, Bochter, an experienced pilot, 1ater said that the plane's electrical system had failed shortly after takeoff.He had been attempting to land at the East Hampton Airport when the plane began to nosedive.He managed to level the wings before crashing into the woods.

"Everything was on fire,and Schum came out of nowhere to save us."says Bochter."We're blessed to have lived through it"
1. Who is Jack Gleeson?
2. How old is he?
3. Where did Craig Schum stop his car?
4. What did he do with his shoes?
5. What did he see next?
6. What did he climb over?
7. Who did he find?
8. And who else?
9. Were they ok?
10. Who caught up to Schum to help?
11. When did the plane explode?
12. How did Bochter and Brillo get to the hospital?
13. What failed shortly after taking off?
14. Where was Bochter trying to land?
15. How old was Craig Schum?
16. Where did the plane crash?
17. Where did it crash?
18. How far was it from the runway?
19. What did Schum start doing right after?
20. How old was Stephen Bochter?

Numbered answers:
1. a high school student
2. 17
3. East Hampton Airport
4. kicked them off
5. a plane crashed
6. a chain link fence
7. Stephen Bochter
8. Kim Brillo
9. no
10. Jack Gleeson
11. Moments later
12. They were airlifted
13. the plane's electrical system
14. at the East Hampton Airport
15. 33
16. August
17. Wainscot, New York
18. about l00 yards
19. running
20. 5l

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(CNN) -- Lewis Hamilton has always been driven by his emotions -- for better or for worse -- but has he found a new level of maturity with Mercedes?

The double world champion has been schooled in the harsh lessons that Formula One can mete out since he joined McLaren's junior program when just 13 years old.

But, despite this careful education by one of the most straight laced teams in F1, the British boy racer cannot help wearing his heart on his sleeve.

There have been some heady highs and mesmerizing meltdowns in his eight-year career at the highest level of motorsport.

Fizzing with energy, he bounded into the sport in 2007 and refused to lie down when faced with Fernando Alonso, a double world champion, as his feisty McLaren teammate.

With Alonso gone after a single acrimonious season, Hamilton drove the McLaren to the 2008 title with "my heart in my mouth."

At just 23 years old, he had sensationally clinched the championship at the last corner, of the last lap, of the last race to deny Ferrari's Felipe Massa -- and a seething crowd of home fans -- in Brazil.

If 2008 was the young gun's giddy zenith, the 2011 campaign was his gut-wrenching nadir.

His long-distance relationship with American pop star Nicole Scherzinger was more off than on and he had ditched his dad Anthony as manager in favor of a high-profile agency.

Hamilton teetered on the edge of controversy and despair. The torch paper was lit at the Monaco Grand Prix when he was penalized by the race stewards.
1. Who was a double world champion?
2. In what?
3. At what age did he join McLaren's junior program?
4. Who did Hamilton have a long distance relationship with?
5. Where is she from?
6. And what kind of star is she?
7. Who did Hamilton let go of as his manager?
8. What's his name?
9. What has Hamilton been schooled in?
10. How many years has his career been?
11. What year did he start in the sport?
12. And what year did he clinch the championship?
13. How old was Hamilton when he clinched the championship?
14. Does he have a lot of energy?
15. What teammate did he refuse to give in to?
16. What was his romance with Nicole Scherzinger like?
17. What balanced on the edge of controversy and sadness?
18. Which race was he penalized in?
19. By who?
20. Who did Hamilton replace his father with?
Numbered answers:
1. Lewis Hamilton
2. racer
3. 13 years old.
4. Nicole Scherzinger
5. American
6. pop star
7. his dad
8. Anthony
9. the harsh lessons that Formula One can mete out
10. eight
11. 2007
12. 2008
13. 23
14. yes
15. Fernando Alonso
16. more off than on
17. Hamilton
18. the Monaco Grand Prix
19. the race stewards.
20. a high-profile agency.