Newsmaker contest.Are you up on the news? Match each person or event in column/l with the correct answer in column B, and you could win a $500 U.S. Savings Bond Savings bond A government bond issued in face value denominations from $50 to $10,000, with local and state tax-free interest and semiannually adjusted interest rates. savings bond A nonmarketable security issued by the U.S. . * 1. Hurricane Katrina  Editing of this page by unregistered or newly registered users is currently disabled due to vandalism. devastated dev·as·tate tr.v. dev·as·tat·ed, dev·as·tat·ing, dev·as·tates 1. To lay waste; destroy. 2. To overwhelm; confound; stun: was devastated by the rude remark. this state's largest city. -- 2. She is the U.S. Secretary of State. -- 3. This alien returned to movie screens this summer. -- 4. The -- has urged Congress to pass a new immigration policy. 5. He was famous for bodybuilding bodybuilding Developing of the physique through exercise and diet, often for competitive exhibition. Bodybuilding aims at displaying pronounced muscle tone and exaggerated muscle mass and definition for overall aesthetic effect. and action films before becoming California's Governor. -- 6. The U.S. wants this country to accept limits on its nuclear program. -- ?. North America's first permanent English colony is celebrating its 400th anniversary. -- 8. This November, voters across the United States will elect members of the 110th -- 9. She is the United Kingdom's head of state. -- 10. President George W. Bush wants to drill for oil in this state's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) covers 19,049,236 acres (79,318 km²) in northeastern Alaska, in the North Slope region. It was originally protected in 1960 by order of Fred A. Seaton, the Secretary of the Interior under U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower. . -- Jamestown, Virginia [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Condoleeza Rice [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Superman [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Louisiana [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] U.S. President [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Queen Elizabeth II [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] U.S. Congress [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Alaska [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Arnold Schwarzenegger [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Iran [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Send this page (or a photocopy) with the answers by October 15, 2006, to: Newsmaker news·mak·er n. One that is newsworthy. Contest Junior Scholastic 557 Broadway New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of , NY 1002-3999. * See www.scholastic.com/juniorscholastic for details. ABOUT YOU (please print) Name: -- Grade: -- School: -- Street: -- City: -- State: -- ZIP: -- Teacher: -- ANSWERS Iran Map, p. 13 1. Persia 2. Islamic republic 3. petroleum 4. Tabas 5. about 460 miles 6. Shia Islam 7. Iraq and Turkey 8. salt desert 9. Persian 10. oil |
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