Problem: CHAPTER XXI

Graham, riding solitary through the redwood canyons among the hills that overlooked the ranch center, was getting acquainted with Selim, the eleven-hundred-pound, coal-black gelding which Dick had furnished him in place of the lighter Altadena. As he rode along, learning the good nature, the roguishness and the dependableness of the animal, Graham hummed the words of the "Gypsy Trail" and allowed them to lead his thoughts. Quite carelessly, foolishly, thinking of bucolic lovers carving their initials on forest trees, he broke a spray of laurel and another of redwood. He had to stand in the stirrups to pluck a long- stemmed, five-fingered fern with which to bind the sprays into a cross. When the patteran was fashioned, he tossed it on the trail before him and noted that Selim passed over without treading upon it. Glancing back, Graham watched it to the next turn of the trail. A good omen, was his thought, that it had not been trampled.

More five-fingered ferns to be had for the reaching, more branches of redwood and laurel brushing his face as he rode, invited him to continue the manufacture of patterans, which he dropped as he fashioned them. An hour later, at the head of the canyon, where he knew the trail over the divide was difficult and stiff, he debated his course and turned back.

Selim warned him by nickering. Came an answering nicker from close at hand. The trail was wide and easy, and Graham put his mount into a fox trot, swung a wide bend, and overtook Paula on the Fawn.
1. What is the horse's name?
2. Who's riding him?
3. Where?
4. What music is running through his mind?
5. What brushed his face?
6. From what tree?
7. What did he make as he rode?
8. What did he do with it?
9. Where?
10. How did the horse react?
11. Was that a bad sign?
12. What was it?
13. What did he keep doing?
14. For how long?
15. What did the horse do then?
16. Of what?
17. What replied?
18. From whom?
19. Who was there?
20. What was her horse's name?
21. What did Graham do when he saw them?
22. How was the path?
Answer: 1. Selim
2. Graham
3. through the redwood canyons
4. Gypsy Trail"
5. branches
6. redwood
7. a cross
8. he tossed it
9. on the trail
10. Selim passed over without treading upon it
11. No
12. A good omen
13. the manufacture of patterans
14. An hour
15. warned him
16. the trail
17. an answering nicker
18. close at hand
19. Paula
20. Fawn
21. put his mount into a fox trot
22. wide and easy

Problem: (CNN) -- Fernando Alonso savored the sweet taste of victory in front of his home fans after kickstarting his Formula One title bid with a commanding victory in Sunday's Spanish Grand Prix.

The two-time world champion won by more than nine seconds from Lotus' Kimi Raikkonen after starting from fifth on the grid, as he reduced his deficit behind overall leader Sebastian Vettel to 17 points.

"It's very special winning at home, it doesn't matter how many times you do, it's always like starting from zero," said the 31-year-old, whose only other victory at the Circuit de Catalunya was back in 2006 in the same season he won his second world title with Renault.

"It was fantastically emotional and the fans really helped because you feel the support from everyone.

"The last laps are very long because you want the race to finish as soon as possible, but I'm very happy for the team."

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It was a good day for Ferrari, as Felipe Massa bounced back from the three-place grid penalty that dropped him to ninth at the start, with the Brazilian claiming third on the podium ahead of Vettel and the German's Red Bull teammate Mark Webber.

"I was a little disappointed after qualifying yesterday, but the race was very good for us and we were very aggressive," Massa said.

"We struggled a bit on the tires to survive in a good way -- and the race was very good for us."

Alonso, who made a flying start, had four pit stops as opposed to the three of Raikkonen due to an early puncture but was able to take the checkered flag for the 32nd time in his career to move above Lewis Hamilton into third place overall.
1. Who won the Spanish Grand Prix?
2. When?
3. What place did he start in?
4. How much did he win by?
5. Who was the leader overall?
6. How far behind him is Alonso?
7. How many times has he been a World Champion?
8. What title is he trying to get?
9. Where was he when he won?
10. How old is he?
11. How do the fans help?
12. When did he win at his home track previously?
13. What is the name of the track?
14. What else happened that season?
15. With who?
16. How many pit stops did he have?
17. What about Raikkonen?
18. Why?
19. How many times did he win?
20. What place did that put him in?
Answer: 1. Fernando Alonso
2. Sunday
3. fifth
4. more the nine seconds
5. Sebastian Vettel
6. 17 points
7. two
8. Formula One
9. home
10. 31
11. he could feel support
12. 2006
13. Circuit de Catalunya
14. he won his second world title
15. Renault
16. four
17. three
18. a puncture
19. 32
20. third

Problem: Even though there is a broad scientific agreement that essentialist and typological conceptualizations of race are untenable, scientists around the world continue to conceptualize race in widely differing ways, some of which have essentialist implications. While some researchers sometimes use the concept of race to make distinctions among fuzzy sets of traits, others in the scientific community suggest that the idea of race often is used in a naive or simplistic way,[page needed] and argue that, among humans, race has no taxonomic significance by pointing out that all living humans belong to the same species, Homo sapiens, and subspecies, Homo sapiens sapiens.

There is a wide consensus that the racial categories that are common in everyday usage are socially constructed, and that racial groups cannot be biologically defined. Nonetheless, some scholars argue that racial categories obviously correlate with biological traits (e.g. phenotype) to some degree, and that certain genetic markers have varying frequencies among human populations, some of which correspond more or less to traditional racial groupings. For this reason, there is no current consensus about whether racial categories can be considered to have significance for understanding human genetic variation.
1. Do people think race labels are natural or made by society?
2. Do they think race can be attributed strictly to biology?
3. Does everyone agree?
4. Why not?
5. Do they have any other reasons?
6. What are they?
7. Does this cause a division of opinion?
8. About what?
9. Are there any wide ranging things that are generally agreed upon?
10. What are they?
11. Anything else?
12. What core group are all people a part of?
13. What's that called?
14. Is there a subgroup?
15. And what is that?
16. What do most science enthusiasts agree about essentially?
17. Does this cause the majority to view it the same then?
18. How do some folks feel racial comparisons come across?
19. What do they think isn't significant?
20. Do some folks have distinct racial concepts for hyper clear trait settings?
Answer:
1. socially constructed
2. no
3. no
4. some argue that racial categories correlate with biological traits
5. yes
6. certain genetic markers correspond to traditional racial groupings
7. yes
8. about whether racial categories can have significance for understanding human genetic variation
9. yes
10. racial categories are socially constructed
11. and racial groups cannot be biologically defined
12. the same species
13. Homo sapiens
14. yes
15. subspecies, Homo sapiens sapiens
16. that essentialist and typological conceptualizations of race are untenable
17. no
18. naive or simplistic
19. race has no taxonomic significance
20. no