News and Current Events 201

[Mutanatia]

Week #34

Welcome to NPR’s Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me! This is a news quiz, featuring the funny, the zany, and serious news—but with a panel to make fun of it!

Here is the link: www.npr.org/templates/rundowns/rundown.php?prgId=35&prgDate=6-25-2011

This is a fun-yet-serious one, so enjoy the goofiness as you click on each of the events. These questions are in chronological order.

HW Questions:
1) What was the controversy with Libya?
2) What is the new type of delivery service?
3) What sports tradition has its roots going way back to ancient times?
4) Describe the Clinton Global Initiative.
5) What is Thailand banning tourists from doing?
6) What is the “worst sound in the world?”
7) How are patients in a nursing home in England supposed to call for nurses now?

DISCUSSION: Do moderates like Huntsman fit in ANY party currently?

[Markanite]

I think so yes. As I understand it there conservative democrats and as huntsman is an example of , there are liberal republicans. However I think Huntsman fits in better with the Republicans due to his social policy.

[Mutanatia]

I know that this has been moved to the archive, but I wanted to finish this course.

warnewsradio.org/2011/10/14/this-week-on-war-news-radio-unlikely-connections/

Article 1: Describe how the "numb3rs" of terrorism works.

Article 2: What does the woman get out of the honking horns at her sign?

Article 3 (warning: Trigger: Rape. Sorry >.<) : Describe the ways in which women's rights have been abused in Libya. (this was before Ghaddafi was killed)

Discussion Question: Do you think protestors of wars sometimes lose sight of why the war was fought to begin with?