Question: You might think that Olympic athletes are the healthiest people in the world. It's true that many are. However, it's also true that many Olympic athletes had to overcome illnesses early in their lives. One excellent example is Wilma Rudolph. She competed in track-and-field events in the 1960 Olympics. She didn't win just one gold. She won three. At the time, people called her "the fastest woman in the world." As a young child, Wilma could not take part in sports. She had a series of serious illnesses, and then, at the age of 4, she got _ . She lost the use of her left leg, and the doctor said she would never walk again. The people in Wilma's family did everything they could to help her walk again. Wilma and her mother often traveled 100 miles to get treatments for her leg. Her brothers and sisters took turns giving her leg a daily massage. Four times a day, they helped her do special exercises for her leg. Amazingly, by the time Wilma was 9 years old, she was able to walk again. Before long, she started playing basketball and running. In high school, she was a track star and then she went to the Olympics. Wilma stopped being a runner when she was 22 years old. She then became a teacher and track coach. Her story encouraged many people to work hard and to overcome difficulties. 1. When did she quit running?
2. What did she do next?
3. Was she inspirational?
4. Who is the article about?
5. Has she vied for an Olympic medal?
6. Did she win any?
7. How many?
8. Was she a healthy girl?
9. What did she lose when four years old?
10. Did the physician believe that she would walk again?
11. Was she able to overcome this?
12. At what age?
13. Could she get treated locally?
14. How far did she have to go?
15. Who went with her?
16. Who gave her massages?
17. How often?
18. How often each day?
19. Were they successful?
20. What sport was she in? Provide a numbered list of answers.
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A numbered of answers: 1. when she was 22
2. became a teacher and coach
3. yes
4. Wilma Rudolph
5. yes
6. yes
7. three
8. no
9. the use of her left leg
10. no
11. yes
12. Nine
13. no
14. 100 miles
15. her mother
16. Her brothers and sisters
17. daily
18. once
19. yes
20. basketball and track


Question: The engineer who was involved in Sunday's New York train derailment apparently "was nodding off and caught himself too late" before the accident that killed four people and injured 67 others, a union representative who has been meeting with the man told CNN on Tuesday. 

Anthony Bottalico, the union representative, said engineer William Rockefeller Jr. recognizes his responsibility in the incident. 

"I think most people are leaning towards human error," Bottalico said. 

Rockefeller's lawyer, Jeffrey Chartier, characterized what happened as "highway hypnosis." He said his client had had a full night's sleep before the crash, and that Rockefeller had no disciplinary record. 

In a brief conversation with investigators, Rockefeller said that moments before the derailment of the Hudson Line train in the Bronx he was "going along and I'm in a daze. I don't know what happened," according to a law enforcement official familiar with that conversation. 

Asked by investigators what he was thinking when he said he was dazed, the engineer said he couldn't say. Rockefeller spoke to Metropolitan Transportation Authority and New York Police detectives at the crash site before he was taken to the hospital Sunday. 

National Transportation Safety Board member Earl Weener told a news conference that Rockefeller would have had a chance to get the necessary sleep prior to his 5 a.m. shift the day of Sunday's accident, echoing comment from Rockefeller's lawyer. 

According to NTSB representatives, results from alcohol breath tests for the train engineer were negative, and both the brake and signal systems in the deadly Metro-North accident appeared to be working. Other toxicology results have not yet come back.  1. When was the accident?
2. where?
3. What kind of vehicle was it?
4. how did it happen?
5. who?
6. was anyone killed?
7. was anyone injured? yes or no only
8. was it human error?
9. Who was Rockefeller's attorney?
10. What does he say about it?
11. Did the engineer answer as to what he was thinking at the time?
12. was there a news conference?
13. What was said?
14. Did the lawyer agree?
15. was there an alcohol test?
16. what was the result?
17. what was said about the break systems?
18. what about signal systems?
19. when did rockefeller talk to the police?
20. where? Provide a numbered list of answers.
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A numbered of answers: 1. Sunday
2. New York
3. train
4. was nodding off and caught himself too late
5. engineer
6. killed four people
7. injured 67 others
8. most people are leaning towards human error
9. Jeffrey Chartier
10. He said his client had had a full night's sleep before the crash, and that Rockefeller had no disciplinary record
11. going along and I'm in a daze. I don't know what happened
12. Yes
13. Rockefeller would have had a chance to get the necessary sleep prior to his 5 a.m. shift the day of Sunday's accident,
14. Yes
15. Yes
16. negative
17. appeared to be working
18. appeared to be working
19. day of the crash
20. at the crash site


Question: Mothers and daughters go through so much--yet when was the last time a mother and daughter sat down to write a book together about it all? Perri Klass and her mother, Sheila Solomon Klass, both gifted professional writers, prove to be ideal co-writers as they examine their decades of motherhood, daughterhood, and the wonderful ways their lives have overlapped . 

Perri notes with amazement how closely her own life has mirrored her mother's: both have full-time careers; both have published books, articles, and stories; each has three children; they both love to read. They also love to travel--in fact, they often take trips together. But in truth, the harder they look at their lives, the more they acknowledge their big differences in circumstance and basic nature. 

A child of the Depression , Sheila was raised in Brooklyn by parents who considered education a _ for girls. Starting with her college education, she has fought for everything she's ever accomplished. Perri, on the other hand, grew up privileged in the New Jersey suburbs of the 1960s and 1970s. For Sheila, wasting time or money is a crime, and luxury is unthinkable while Perri enjoys the occasional small luxury, but has not been successful at trying to persuade her mother into enjoying even the tiniest thing she likes. 

Each writing in her own unmistakable voice, Perri and Sheila take turns exploring the joys and pains, the love and bitterness, the minor troubles and lasting respect that have always bonded them together. Sheila describes the adventure of giving birth to Perri in a tiny town in Trinidad where her husband was doing research fieldwork. Perri admits that she can't sort out all the mess in the households, even though she knows it drives her mother crazy. Together they compare thoughts on bringing up children and working, admit long-hidden sorrows, and enjoy precious memories. 

Looking deep into the lives they have lived separately and together, Perri and Sheila tell their mother-daughter story with honesty, humor, enthusiasm, and admiration for each other. A written account in two voices, Every Mother Is a Daughter is a duet that produces a deep, strong sound with the experiences that all mothers and daughters will recognize. 1. what did they have published
2. did they have any kids
3. how many each?
4. what did she battle with
5. where was she raised
6. what city
7. what schooling did she have
8. where did she give birth
9. what drove her mom crazy
10. what did her and her husband do Provide a numbered list of answers.
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A numbered of answers:
1. a book
2. yes
3. three
4. Depression
5. Brooklyn
6. New Jersey
7. college education,
8. Trinidad
9. all the mess in the households
10. research fieldwork