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Levassor and his partner Panhard operated one of the largest machine shops in Paris in 1887, when a Belgian engineer named Edouard Sarazin convinced Levassor to manufacture a new high-speed engine for the German automaker Daimler, for which Sarazin had obtained the French patent rights.

_____ (Q) In 1889, visitors to the Paris exposition celebrating the 100th anniversary of the French Revolution were able to admire not only Gustave Eiffel's now-famous tower, but also a Daimler-produced automobile with one of the new Panhard et Levassor-constructed engines. 

_____ (R) In the years to come, this arrangement, known as the Systeme Panhard, would become the model for all automobiles.

_____ (S) When Sarazin died later that year, the rights passed to his widow, Louise.

_____ (T) The year after the opening of the exposition, Levassor married Louise Sarazin. 

_____ (U) By 1891, Levassor had built a drastically different automobile, placing the engine vertically in front of the chassis rather than underneath or behind the driver--a radical departure from the carriage-influenced design of earlier vehicles--and put in a mechanical transmission that the driver engaged with a clutch, allowing him to travel at different speeds. 

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/first-auto-race-held-from-paris-bordeaux-paris

The dawn that followed the dark and frigid night of December 15, 1944 was foggy, dreary, and foreboding to the troops of the VIII Corps in their positions along the front line between Echternach and just south of Konschau in Belgium, a distance of approximately 75 miles, facing the defensive structures the Germans called the Siegfried Line. 

_____ (Q) It had been a quiet sector since early October, and the American front was thinly held, with three infantry divisions on the line and an armored division in reserve. 

_____ (R) Indeed there was no strong or aggressive force facing them, at least in the supposedly trained judgment of unit, divisional, and corps intelligence. 

_____ (S) But it would have been "thinly held" if it had had twice those troops, consisting as it did of widely separated strong points connected generally by a few motorized patrols.

_____ (T) However the risk must have been considered extremely slight, for commanders all the way down the line were urged to make their men comfortable for the hard winter ahead, and to take measures to reduce the serious problem of trench foot, a disabling disorder resulting from repeatedly wet feet in very cold wet weather.       

_____ (U) They were consequently taking what General Eisenhower described as a "calculated risk" when he had depleted VIII Corps' strength by numerous units to assist Field Marshal Montgomery's planned attack in the north.

http://www.militaryhistoryonline.com/wwii/articles/bastogne.aspx

The Bohr Model is probably familiar as the "planetary model" of the atom and is used as a symbol for atomic energy (a bit of a misnomer, since the energy in "atomic energy" is actually the energy of the nucleus, rather than the entire atom).

_____ (Q) This similarity between a planetary model and the Bohr Model of the atom ultimately arises because the attractive gravitational force in a solar system and the attractive Coulomb (electrical) force between the positively charged nucleus and the negatively charged electrons in an atom are mathematically of the same form.

_____ (R) The form is the same, but the intrinsic strength of the Coulomb interaction is much larger than that of the gravitational interaction.

_____ (S) Gravitation is always, however, attractive in our present Universe.

_____ (T) In addition, there are positive and negative electrical charges so the Coulomb interaction can be either attractive or repulsive.

_____ (U) In the Bohr Model the neutrons and protons occupy a dense central region called the nucleus, and the electrons orbit the nucleus much like planets orbiting the Sun (but the orbits are not confined to a plane as is approximately true in the Solar System).

http://csep10.phys.utk.edu/astr162/lect/light/bohr.html

Amenhotep IV changed his name to Akhenaton, meaning "the Servant of Aten" early in his reign. 

_____ (Q) At first he attempted to place temples for Aten next to the temples for other gods. 

_____ (R) Eventually he closed all the other temples and took their revenues. 

_____ (S) But fairly early in his reign he introduced a monotheistic worship of Aten, the Sun God. 

_____ (T) Akhenaton started his reign as most Egyptian kings. 

_____ (U) Ultimately, Akhenaton placed himself as the intermediary between Aten and the people, helping eliminate the need for the priesthood. 

http://ehistory.osu.edu/ancient/egypt/PeopleView.cfm?pid=326

answers are below:






answers:

autos----->  2,5,1,3,4   --->   Q=2, R=5, S=1, T=3, U=4
battle/bulge ------>  1,3,2,5,4
bohr -------> 2,3,5,4,1
akhenaton ------>   3,4,2,1,5



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4 new scrambled paragraphs

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Nobunaga first heard of Yasuke when the news reached him in 1581 of the great crush that had occurred when Valignano had brought him to Kyoto where his skin color and height attracted a huge crowd.

_____ (Q) Nobunaga ordered the Jesuit to bring Yasuke to his court so that he could see this sensation in the flesh.

_____ (R) Ultimately Nobunaga became so fond of Yasuke that he was given the honor of being made a member of the samurai class, a rare honor among foreigners.

_____ (S) Upon seeing Yasuke Nobunaga allegedly ordered him stripped to the waist and scrubbed, believing that his skin was painted.

_____ (T) Nobunaga was further intrigued by the fact that Yasuke could speak Japanese and ordered Valignano to leave Yasuke in his care when the Jesuit prepared to leave again.

_____ (U) Yasuke, thus, became a permanent fixture in Nobunaga’s retinue, his size and strength acting as a deterrent to assassination, not to mention a flavor of exoticism to accompany the warlord’s other Western possessions.

http://thedailybeagle.net/2013/03/07/yasuke-the-african-samurai/

(The Daily Beagle is an interesting blog where you can learn tons of interesting things.)


Your eye produces a clear fluid called aqueous humor in the chamber at the front of the eye and this fluid nourishes nearby tissues and helps to maintain proper pressure balance within the eye. 

_____ (Q) As the normal level of fluid builds up, it can trigger an increase of pressure within the eye and this condition, called high IOP, can lead to open-angle glaucoma.  

_____ (R) For reasons that are not fully understood, the drainage canal can become clogged over time. 

_____ (S) In a healthy eye, it flows through a tiny drain called the trabecular meshwork in the front of the eye. 

_____ (T) Open-angle glaucoma represents at least 90% of all glaucoma cases – making it the most common form of the disease. 

_____ (U) Other times, your eye can produce too much fluid, which can result in elevated intraocular pressure (IOP).   

http://www.myeyes.com/glaucoma/open-angle-glaucoma.shtml

In 1974, Congress passed the Safe Drinking Water Act.

_____ (Q) The MCLG for benzene is zero. 

_____ (R) These non-enforceable health goals, based solely on possible health risks and exposure over a lifetime with an adequate margin of safety, are called maximum contaminant level goals (MCLG).

_____ (S) This law requires the EPA to determine the level of contaminants in drinking water at which no adverse health effects are likely to occur.

_____ (T) The EPA has set this level of protection for benzene based on the best available science to prevent potential health problems.

_____ (U) Contaminants are any physical, chemical, biological or radiological substances or matter in water.

http://water.epa.gov/drink/contaminants/basicinformation/benzene.cfm

Though it is a remarkable piece of rhetoric, inspiring his men to an unexpected victory at the Battle of Agincourt, the attentive reader or playgoer will notice that Henry's speech is transparently untrue.

_____ (Q) His speech is a means to that end — he is rallying his troops because he needs them to make himself famous and he is lying to them even as he asks them to give up their lives on his behalf.

_____ (R) After all, the play is called Henry V for a reason — because it is Henry, and Henry alone, who is remembered for the victory at Agincourt. 

_____ (S) Henry readily admits, “...if it be a sin to covet honour,/I am the most offending soul alive.” 

_____ (T) They are fighting for Henry’s glory, not their own. 

_____ (U) The men that make up his “band of brothers” are almost all unnamed in the play and have been forgotten by history. 

http://www.themillions.com/2011/10/celebrating-st-crispin%E2%80%99s-day.html

Answers are below:

Answers:

Yasuke -------->  1,5,2,3,4
glaucoma -------> 4,2,1,5,3  -------------->  Q=4, R=2, S=1, T=5, U=3

Benzene ---------->  4,2,1,5,3

(The tough part about this one is that you have to realize what "non-enforceable health goals" refers back to.)

Band of Brothers -----> 5,1,4,3,2

5 new, free scrambled paragraphs

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Invasive species are a major concern for the ecology of sand dunes.

_____ (Q) Because they are not native to the region, they often have no natural predators or other controls. 

_____ (R) As they did not evolve along with all the other species in the area, they provide limited habitat values. 

_____ (S) Scotch Broom and European Beachgrass are two common examples. 

_____ (T) Some invasive species are so well-established that their eradication is not feasible without substantial cost and effort.

_____ (U) Therefore, invasive species can create dense monocultures that crowd out other species.


http://www.crd.bc.ca/watersheds/ecosystems/coastalsanddunes.htm



Route 66's decline began around the same time On the Road was published.

_____ (Q) To keep up with growing traffic demands, pieces of Route 66 were slowly upgraded to, replaced by or became supplementary to new four-lane highways. 

_____ (R) Route 66's last stretch in Arizona was decommissioned when I-40 was completed in 1984 and, the following year, the entire route was decommissioned.

_____ (S) Inspired by the German autobahn he had seen during World War II, Eisenhower sought to make the highways more efficient. 

_____ (T) In 1956 President Eisenhower enacted the Federal Aid Highway Act. 

_____ (U) By the 1970s, the route was largely replaced by five different interstates including Interstate 40, serving most of the Southwest, which replaced the longest portion of the route. 


http://content.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,2000095,00.html

What harm can having too little of a vitamin do?

_____ (Q) This is because the human body needs vitamin B₁₂ to make red blood cells, nerves, DNA, and to carry out other functions. 

_____ (R) Over the course of two months, a 62-year-old man developed numbness and a “pins and needles” sensation in his hands, had trouble walking, experienced severe joint pain, and became progressively short of breath. 

_____ (S) The average adult should get 2.4 micrograms a day, but, like most vitamins, B₁₂ can’t be made by the body: it must be gotten from food or supplements.

_____ (T) The cause was a lack of vitamin B₁₂ in his bloodstream, according to a case report from Harvard-affiliated Massachusetts General Hospital published in The New England Journal of Medicine. 

_____ (U) It could have been worse—a severe vitamin B₁₂ deficiency can lead to deep depression, paranoia and delusions, memory loss, loss of taste and smell, and more.


http://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/vitamin-b12-deficiency-can-be-sneaky-harmful-201301105780

The name "Anasazi" has come to mean "ancient people," although the word itself is Navajo, meaning "enemy ancestors."

_____ (Q) Subsequently some archaeologists who would try to change the term have worried that because the Pueblos speak different languages, there are different words for "ancestor," and using one might be offensive to people speaking other languages.

_____ (R) Wetherill knew and worked with Navajos and understood what the word meant.

_____ (S) The term was first applied to ruins of the Mesa Verde by Richard Wetherill, a rancher and trader who, in 1888-1889, was the first Anglo-American to explore the sites in that area.
  
_____ (T) The name was further sanctioned in archaeology when it was adopted by Alfred V. Kidder, the acknowledged dean of Southwestern Archaeology. 

_____ (U) Kidder felt that is was less cumbersome than a more technical term he might have used.


http://cpluhna.nau.edu/People/anasazi.htm

On Christmas Eve, many German soldiers put up Christmas trees, decorated with candles, on the parapets of their trenches.

_____ (Q) Instead of trickery, however, the British soldiers heard many of the Germans celebrating.  

_____ (R) Hundreds of Christmas trees lighted the German trenches and although British soldiers could see the lights, it took them a few minutes to figure out what they were from. 

_____ (S) British soldiers were ordered not to fire but to watch them closely.

_____ (T) Indeed, occasionally the guttural tones of a German were to be heard shouting out lustily, 'A happy Christmas to you Englishmen!'

_____ (U) Time and again during the course of that day, the Eve of Christmas, the sounds of singing and merry-making wafted toward the English. 

  http://history1900s.about.com/od/1910s/a/christmastruce_2.htm

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Answers:

Invasive species ------>  2,4,1,5,3   ----> 2=Q, 4=R, 1=S, 5=T, 3=U
Route 66 --------> 3,5,2,1,4
B12 -------> 4,1,5,2,3
Anasazi ------> 5,2,1,3,4
X-Mas Truce ------> 3,1,2,5,4

4 more free scrambled paragraphs: Kleist, Evolution, Arch, Machine Gun

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Like many Germans involved in efforts to kill Hitler, Mr. von Kleist was a soldier — a lieutenant in the German Army — but his family had long been active in the German resistance.

_____ (Q) When he asked his father for advice, “He got up from his chair, went to the window, looked out of the window for a moment, and then he turned and said: ‘Yes, you have to do that because a man who doesn’t take such a chance will never be happy again in his life.’ ” 

_____ (R) In January 1944, he was 22 and recuperating in Berlin from wounds he suffered in combat when he was approached by Col. Claus von Stauffenberg to join an assassination plot. 
      
_____ (S) At the time, Lieutenant von Kleist led a unit that was scheduled to meet with Hitler to show him new Army uniforms. 

_____ (T) Lieutenant von Kleist agreed to go through with the plan, but Hitler canceled at the last moment — he frequently changed his schedule late in the war — and Colonel von Stauffenberg and others began devising a new plan. 

_____ (U) Colonel von Stauffenberg asked Lieutenant von Kleist to take along hidden explosives, which he would then detonate at the meeting, killing Hitler and himself. 

             

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/13/world/europe/ewald-heinrich-von-kleist-anti-hitler-plotter-dies-at-90.html

When most of us think about evolution, we tend to think in terms of simple organisms evolving into more complex ones.

_____ (Q) It's no longer believed that humans are at the top of the evolutionary ladder, but evolution does tend to drive organisms towards greater complexity, does it not?

_____ (R) Greater complexity is sometimes a consequence of evolution, but simplification can also, therefore, be a winning strategy -- it all depends on the environment. 

_____ (S) Well, this is not always so. 

_____ (T) In fact, those organisms that leave the most offspring behind, simple or complex, seem to do best.

_____ (U) Simple chemical reactions evolved into simple cells, which later evolved into more complex organisms, and so on all the way up to humans. 

http://www.actionbioscience.org/newfrontiers/jeffares_poole.html

After more than 2,000 years of architectural use, the arch continues to feature prominently in bridge designs and with good reason: its semicircular structure elegantly distributes compression through its entire form and diverts weight onto its two abutments, the components of the bridge that directly take on pressure.

_____ (Q) The natural curve of the arch and its ability to dissipate the force outward greatly reduces the effects of tension on the underside of the arch.

_____ (R) The greater the degree of curvature (the larger the semicircle of the arch), the greater the effects of tension on the underside of the bridge. 

_____ (S) Tensional force in arch bridges, on the other hand, is virtually negligible. 

_____ (T) But as with beams and trusses, even the mighty arch can't outrun physics forever. 

_____ (U) Build a big enough arch, and tension will eventually overtake the support structure's natural strength.

http://science.howstuffworks.com/engineering/civil/bridge5.htm

In 1881 the American inventor, Hiram Maxim, visited the Paris Electrical Exhibition and met a man who told him: "If you want to make a lot of money, invent something that will enable these Europeans to cut each other's throats with greater facility."

_____ (Q) Maxim used the energy of each bullet's recoil force to eject the spent cartridge and insert the next bullet.  

_____ (R) Trials showed that the machine-gun could fire 500 rounds per minute and therefore had the firepower of about 100 rifles. 

_____ (S) In 1885 he was able to demonstrate the world's first automatic portable machine-gun to the British Army. 

_____ (T) Maxim moved to London and over the next few years worked on producing an effective machine-gun.  

_____ (U) The Maxim Machine-Gun would therefore fire until the entire belt of bullets was used up.  


http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/FWWmaximgun.htm


Answers are below:

Answers:

Kleist  ----------->     4,1,2,5,3     ---> Q=4, R=1, S=2, T=5, U=3

Evolution-------------> 2,5,3,4,1

Arch Bridges --------> 2,4,1,3,5
maxim gun -------->  3,5,2,1,4
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5 more free scrambled paragraphs (Flu, Cuba, LaGuardia, Lucy, Raven)

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In the fall of 1918, the Great War in Europe was winding down and peace was on the horizon.

_____ (Q) The Americans had joined in the fight, bringing the Allies closer to victory against the Germans.

_____ (R) Then, however, in pockets across the globe, something erupted that, at first, seemed as benign as the common cold, yet the influenza of that season was far worse than a cold. 

_____ (S) The numbers for the US were even worse, in that the flu infected 28% of all Americans with an estimated 675,000 Americans dying of influenza during the pandemic - ten times as many as in the world war. 

_____ (T) Deep within the trenches these men had lived through some of the most brutal conditions of life, and it seemed that conditions could not become any worse. 

_____ (U) In the two years that this scourge ravaged the earth, a fifth of the world's population was infected, with the flu being most deadly for people ages 20 to 40. 


http://virus.stanford.edu/uda/

During the Cuban Missile Crisis, leaders of the U.S. and the Soviet Union engaged in a tense, 13-day political and military standoff in October 1962 over the installation of nuclear-armed Soviet missiles on Cuba, just 90 miles from U.S. shores.

_____ (Q) Kennedy also secretly agreed to remove U.S. missiles from Turkey.

_____ (R) He further explained his decision to enact a naval blockade around Cuba and made it clear the U.S. was prepared to use military force, if necessary, to neutralize this perceived threat to national security. 

_____ (S) In a TV address on October 22, 1962, President John Kennedy (1917-63) notified Americans about the presence of the missiles.

_____ (T) However, disaster was avoided when the U.S. agreed to Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev's (1894-1971) offer to remove the Cuban missiles in exchange for the U.S. promising not to invade Cuba.

_____ (U) Following this news, many people feared the world was on the brink of nuclear war. 


http://www.history.com/topics/cuban-missile-crisis

New York City Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia, for whom a famous New York airport is named, was popular for riding in fire trucks with firefighters, joining police officers on their beats and taking orphaned children to baseball games. 

_____ (Q) A short time later, an old woman dressed in threadbare clothing stood before him, on a charge of stealing a loaf of bread, but she explained that her daughter’s husband had run out on the family, her daughter was sick and that her two grandchildren had nothing to eat.   

_____ (R) LaGuardia found her guilty but then took out a ten dollar bill from his wallet and gave it to the bailiff to pay the woman's fine.

_____ (S) He then looked around the crowded, bustling court room and fined everyone there 50 cents for living in a city in which a grandmother had to steal a loaf of bread to feed her grandchildren (he gave the fine to the woman). 

_____ (T) The shopkeeper felt sorry for the woman but told the Mayor that he was in a bad neighborhood and that this woman needed to be punished to set an example for everyone else. 

_____ (U) One chilling night in January, 1935, during the depths of the Great Depression, Mayor LaGuardia arrived at a night court in one of the poorest areas in the city and told the judge to take the night off so he could preside over the court.


http://www.kazantoday.com/WeeklyArticles/wk31_5_Fiorello_LaGuardia.html

 


After death, several things can happen to the body.

_____ (Q) Known informally as Lucy and formally as AL-288-1 (Afar Locality #288), she was found in a sedimentary layer that eventually was dated at 3.5 MaBP.

_____ (R) This "something" turned out to be the exposed portion of a hominid arm bone. 

_____ (S) Johanson, along with colleague Tom Gray, had been mapping another locality at the Afar site, but, feeling "lucky," Johanson took a short detour into another area later mapped as locality 288 and "noticed something lying on the ground partway up the slope."

_____ (T) From the perspective of the physical anthropologist, the best thing that can happen is that the body lies in an area where it will be covered quickly by sediment.  

_____ (U) Such must have been the case with the 40-percent-complete skeleton found by Dr. Johanson. 

 http://www.anthro4n6.net/lucy/

In the story, the old man hides light in a box because he's afraid to see whether or not his daughter is ugly.

_____ (Q) When the old man finally opens the box containing the light, Raven grabs it and flies out of the house---causing light to spread throughout the world and revealing that the old man's daughter is as beautiful as the fronds of a hemlock tree.

_____ (R) In a ploy to steal the light, Raven shrinks himself to become a hemlock seed in a basket of drinking water so that the daughter swallows him. 

_____ (S) Soon Raven is reborn from her as a raven/human child. 

_____ (T) As Raven flies away, Eagle sees him and tries to steal the light, causing Raven to drop some of it, which becomes the Moon and the stars.

_____ (U) The old man accepts him as a grandson, and soon Raven begins begging that he open his various boxes, one after another, each time pleading and crying until the old man yields.

http://www.amnh.org/exhibitions/past-exhibitions/totems-to-turquoise/cosmology/raven-the-trickster

 

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Answers:


Spanish flu -------> 1,3,5,2,4    Q=1, R=3, S=5, T=2, U=4
Cuban Missile Crisis -------------> 5,2,1,4,3
LaGuardia --------->2,4,5,3,1
Lucy -------> 3,5,4,1,2
Raven ----------->4,1,2,5,3
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Yes, I'm the guy who created the scandal in Asia awhile ago. I felt that the Korean performers I was teaching in New York City were not being treated up to acceptable standards, and I reported this to a Korean newspaper to help ensure that, in the future, performers would be treated better. 

Links:

http://nwww.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20100511000742

http://nwww.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20100512000682

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I'm Daniel Gauss, and I created these scrambled paragraphs for your amusement and edification. 

5 More New Scrambled Paragraphs

Answers are beneath the exercise:


Useful vocabulary:

seminal - this word comes from the Latin word for seed.  A seminal work is a work that is a type of seed for other authors or books.  It is an original work from which other people take ideas.

profound - deep

deprivation - if you lack something, you are deprived of that thing. Economic deprivation means poverty.

hardship - difficulties

to alleviate - to make something better


The book that had made such an immediate and profound impact on Gandhi was John Ruskin’s seminal work Unto This Last.

_____ (Q) The focus of Ruskin’s work was on the nature of economic inequality in society, which was seen to be morally wrong because it generated, in large sections of the population, deprivation and hardship.

_____ (R) Originally a collection of four articles published in the Cornhill Magazine (London) and Harper’s (New York) in 1860, they were later published in book form. 

_____ (S) "There is no wealth but life.” Ruskin wrote, and life incorporated everybody, there were no exceptions.

_____ (T) A copy of the work was given to Gandhi, as a gift, whilst he was practicing law as a young man in South Africa and it led to a deep reassessment of his life.

_____ (U) The solution, he thought, was a fairer distribution of wealth to alleviate this suffering. 

http://www.michaellewin.org/articles/gandhi/writers-that-shaped-gandhi/

to subsume - to take over and destroy something and replace it with something else

Celtic culture survived longer in Ireland than in continental Europe, and in many ways it still survives today. 

_____ (Q) The Romans never occupied Ireland, nor did the Anglo-Saxons who invaded Britain after the Romans withdrew in the 5th century, so Celtic culture survived more strongly in Ireland than elsewhere (partly because of hill forts). 

_____ (R) Julius Caesar conducted a successful campaign against the Gauls in 52-58 B.C., and as part of that campaign invaded Britain in 54 B.C. but was unsuccessful in conquering the island. 

_____ (S) Christianity came to Ireland in the 4^th century, St. Patrick coming in 432, so that many of the Celtic cultural elements integrated with Christianity. 

_____ (T) Ninety-seven years later, in 43 A.D., the Romans invaded Britain again, pushing the Britons to the west (Wales and Cornwall) and north (Scotland). 

_____ (U) On the continent, the expanding Romans defeated various Celtic groups and subsumed their culture. 

http://ww2.shoreline.edu/seanrody/celts/outline2.htm

collaboration - when people work together instead of competing with each other

to enhance something - to make it better

to transcend something - to move beyond something that seems common or normal

to shrug something off - to indicate or feel that something is not important

a bias - a prejudice

When diversity is embraced and collaboration sought, productivity and creativity can be enhanced, as Harvard education professor Todd Pittinsky has argued in Us Plus Them.

_____ (Q) There are recent examples of such transcendence. 

_____ (R) Support for gay marriage has increased rapidly, and differences are now shrugged off in many countries as not that important, when everyone wants the same thing -- a committed relationship and possibly children.

_____ (S) Interdependence is an even a better tribalism-buster - although mere contact doesn't erase fear and mistrust, a shared task that all parties care about replaces tribal instincts with other motivations.

_____ (T) Research on how groups of mostly one social type treat people who are different confirmed that it takes structural change -- vastly increasing numbers and points of contact -- to overcome casual biases.

_____ (U) One key to getting the benefits is to normalize those who are different by stressing similarities, making them not-so-different after all.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rosabeth-moss-kanter/is-tribalism-inevitable_b_3661436.html

an entrepreneur - a business person

the heyday of something - the most popular time of something

Since the early 1800s, Coney Island, “playground of the world,” has played many roles in the lives and imaginations of New Yorkers and the world.

_____ (Q) From its beginnings as a quiet seaside town, Coney Island went on to boom years in the 1880s, as entrepreneurs rushed to stake their claims and make their fortunes. 

_____ (R) Nevertheless, Coney Island continued to provide an accessible and affordable opportunity for a diverse population, always looming large in the history of New York. 

_____ (S) The amusement parks struggled to stay afloat and Coney Island began to experience hard economic times. 

_____ (T) The area enjoyed brief stability in the late 1890's and early 1900's, the heyday of Luna Park (1903-1946), Dreamland (1904-1911) and Steeplechase Park (1897-1907, 1908-1964), Coney Island’s famed amusement parks, but with the Great Depression, Coney Island transformed once again. 

_____ (U) The area became a “Nickel Empire” of cheap amusements; a nickel paid the fare on the new subway line, and visitors were greeted by the original Nathan’s Famous, home of the five-cent hot dog.

  

http://www.vanalen.org/parachutepavilion/background.htm

to wreak havoc - to cause chaos, cause severe problems  


Although consuming a little salt is essential for our physiological well-being (and for the fries to taste good), too little or too much wreaks havoc in our bodies.

_____ (Q) When we consume too much salt, we usually excrete the excess in our urine to keep our bodily fluids isotonic.

_____ (R) This means that every 1,000 grams of fluid contains 9 grams of salt and 991 grams of water. 

_____ (S) For humans, that magic number is 9. 

_____ (T) In medicine, fluids that have the same salinity as blood are referred to as isotonic. 

_____ (U) That's the salinity, or the weight in grams of salt dissolved in 1,000 grams of water, of human blood.

http://science.howstuffworks.com/science-vs-myth/what-if/what-if-you-drink-saltwater.htm




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Gandhi ------------> 3,1,5,2,4       3=Q, 1=R, 5=S, 2=T, 4=U
Celts ------------>  4,2,5,3,1
Diversity ---------> 3,4,5,2,1
Coney Island ---------> 1,5,4,2,3
Salt water ------> 5,3,1,4,2
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Yes, I'm the guy who created the scandal in Asia awhile ago. I felt that the Korean performers I was teaching in New York City were not being treated up to acceptable standards, and I reported this to a Korean newspaper to help ensure that, in the future, performers would be treated better. 

Links:

http://nwww.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20100511000742

http://www.shoutcastblog.com/2010/05/11/wondergirls-were-mistreated-by-jyp-entertainment/

http://nwww.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20100512000682

2 new scrambled paragraphs

With these two new scrambled paragraphs, you now have 150 scrambled paragraphs on which to practice.  Wishing you good luck!


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Su Wu (140 B.C.E. - 60 B.C.E.) was a diplomat and statesman during China's Han Dynasty, and a famous figure in Chinese history remembered for his faithfulness to his mission and his empire.

_____ (Q) When they arrived at the headquarters of Chanyu Qiedihou, Su’s deputies, Zhang Sheng, and Chang Hui, hatched a plot to assassinate Chanyu Qiedihou's half-Chinese adviser Wei Lü and kidnap the Chanyu's mother.   

_____ (R) He remained there for nineteen years under the most difficult circumstances, steadfastly refusing to yield to the Xiongnu, until the Han and Xiongnu were again at peace and the Han Emperor negotiated his release.

_____ (S) In 100 B.C.E., during a brief truce with the Xiongnu, Emperor Wu gave Su, then a Han scholar and the deputy commander of the Imperial Guards, credentials (often depicted as a staff with a banner on it) and sent him as an emissary to Xiongnu. 

_____ (T) His main responsibility was to return some Xiongnu emissaries to their home, and bring back some Han emissaries then being held captive by the Xiongnu. 

_____ (U) The Chanyu learned about the plot, killed Yu and captured Zhang, but Su, who was innocent, refused to surrender and cooperate with the Xiongnu, and was sent into exile as a shepherd in the wilderness. 


http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Su_Wu

Our species is an African one: Africa is where we first evolved, and where we have spent the majority of our time on Earth.

_____ (Q) What set this in motion is uncertain, but we think it has something to do with major climatic shifts that were happening around that time—a sudden cooling in the Earth’s climate driven by the onset of one of the worst parts of the last Ice Age. 

_____ (R) According to the genetic and paleontological record, we only started to leave Africa between 60,000 and 70,000 years ago. 

_____ (S) Although earlier fossils may be found over the coming years, this is our best understanding of when and approximately where we originated.

_____ (T) This cold snap would have made life difficult for our African ancestors, and the genetic evidence points to a sharp reduction in population size around this time, in fact, to fewer than 10,000. 

_____ (U) The earliest fossils of recognizably modern Homo sapiens appear in the fossil record at Omo Kibish in Ethiopia, around 200,000 years ago. 


https://genographic.nationalgeographic.com/human-journey/

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Su wu ------>   3,5,1,2,4     Q=3, R=5, S=1, T=2, U=4

Genetic migration ---->  4,3,2,5,1