Chapter 8 1. Robert Kennedy said we need love, wisdom, and compassion in the U.S.

2. James Cagney is remembered for playing gangsters on the screen. But he considered himself a singer and dancer.

3. That the Raiders returned to Oakland angered LA football fans.

4. It angered LA football fans that the Raiders returned to Oakland.

5. The journalism class asked the visiting reporter why she prefers the police beat.

6. America cannot postpone confronting environmental problems.

7. Psychologists who study aphasia want to understand how memory works.

8. The defense attorney s probing displeased the judge.

9. Doctors know that certain hormones can intensify depression.

10. The basic rule in the White House is that debate should be internal.

11. The Nicaraguan refugee went to Los Angeles to join her sister.

12. Some book reviewers criticize Pat Conroy for retelling the story of his dysfunctional family in each of his novels.

13. It doesn t take long for Crystal Gayle s audience to understand that she is Loretta Lynn s sister.

14. Psychiatrists have not shown why Freudian therapy works.

15. The British revere Winston Churchill for rallying their country against Nazi aggression.

16. Internet surfers use electronic bulletin boards to swap software.

17. The Israeli press chided the Syrians for what they called unfriendly activity.

18. Helping fat children lose weight means walking an emotional tightrope.

19. Computer companies haven t shown teachers how they can use technology in the classroom.

20. It takes skill and luck for a gambler to win at blackjack.

| 21. Thomas Edison became famous for inventing the light bulb.

22. Scientists take wondering as a course of action.

23. Calling a Texan a liar will usually provoke a fight.

24. Twenty percent of Americans don t believe that murders should be executed by the state.

25. Martin Luther King Jr. wondered whether the United States was a just country.

Chapter 9 1. Romans believed the appearance of Sirius, known as the Dog Star, made the weather hotter.

2. Many Bronx buildings have been abandoned and torched, leaving streets barren and empty.

3. Buried in a remote Guatemalan rain forest, the ancient city of Tikal contains thousands of Mayan structures.

4. As I walk to my car, I can see the snow-filled mountains that brought me to Wyoming.

5. The J.B. Ford the freighter I worked on as a teenager steams no more.

6. Hoping to catch a last glimpse of their families, their children lingered for a moment before boarding the camp bus.

7. Bruce Springsteen, who exemplifies intelligent rock and roll, has become a political symbol.

8. Pelted by wind and rain, we struggled with the tent flaps in order to keep dry.

9. The camera-toting tourists swarmed from the monorail, joining Epcot s early morning rush.

10. When I think of my grandfather now, I see him on a tractor, tilling ground in wind that cuts a bitter day.

11. The lions rose, yawning and stretching, as they began their search for the day s first meal.

12. Several dozen boats sit on the dry bed of the Aral Sea their anchors buried in the sand.

13. The Range Rover sat near the salt lick, lights off and engine silent, concealing three hunters and their equipment.

14. I stood for hours at Cincinnati s riverfront dock, awaiting the arrival of a Mississippi steamboat a paddle-wheeler named the Memphis Queen.

15. The mother bear curled up beside a tree, while the cub grazed on grass, an important part of a young bear s diet.

16. The mayor of Djenne pointed to the town s masterpiece of Muslim architecture, the great mosque in the city square.

17. I hit the gas pedal instead of the brake, the policeman on the corner staring as I ran the red light.

18. Canyon Ranch a former dude ranch converted into a fitness spa is not a fat-farm for the rich.

19. It s easy to write about Cajun culture when you re living in that world eating seafood gumbo, listening to swamp pop on the radio.

20. Harlem Renaissance writers were important for their own words and because they built an African American literary tradition.

21. Stately and erect, the United Artists Tower looms prominent along the skyline overlooking Nashville s Music Row.

22. As Caribbean cooking becomes popular, plantains exotic bananas eaten as a starch may replace potatoes at the American table.

23. To defend the government of South Vietnam, American forces tore the country apart.

24. One of the strangest comic book villains is Catwoman whose heart belongs to crime and to Batman.

25. Barefoot and dishevelled, my son stood shamefaced before me, as I had once stood before my father.