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Mini Book Excerpts  Biography    When Salinger learned that a car park was to be built on the land, the middle-aged writer was shocked and quickly bought the neighboring area to protect it ... The towns-people never forgot the rescue and came to help their most famous neighbor.                                 J.D. Sulinger : A Life by Kenneth Slawenski                                                  (Random House, $27) Mystery     " You' re a smart boy. Benny's death was no accident, and you 're the only one who saw it happen. Do you think the murderer should get away with it?" The boy was staring stubbornly at his lap again.   A thought suddenly occurred to Annika, " Did you... You recognized the man in the car, didn't you?"   The boy hesitated, twisting his fingers, " Maybe," he said quietly.                             Red wolf by Liza Marklund (Atria books, $25.99) Short stories    She wants to say to him what she has learned, none of it in class. Some women are born stupid, and some women are too smart for their own good. Some women are born to give, and some women only know how to take. Some women learn who they want to be from their mothers, some who they don't want to be. Some mothers suffer so their daughters won't. Some mothers love so their daughters won't.                                           You Are Free by Danzy Senna                                                ( Riverhead Books, $15) Humor   Do your kids like to have fun? Come to Fun Times! Do you like to watch your kids having fun? Bring them to Fun Times! Fun Times! 's " amusement cycling" is the most fun you can have, legally, in the United States right now. Why spend thousands of dollars flying to Disney World when you can spend less than half of that within a day's drive of most cities?                            Happy: And Other Bad Thoughts by Larry Doyle                                                       (Ecco, $14.99) The book Happy : And Other Bad Thoughts is intended for  _  . A) young children B) Disney World workers C) middle school teachers D) Parents with young children
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In the earliest stages of man's development he had no more need of money than animals have. He was content with very simple forms of shelter, made his own rough tools and weapons and could provide food and clothing for himself and his family from natural materials around him. As he became more civilized, however, he began to want better shelter, more efficient tools and weapons, and more comfortable and more lasting clothing than could be provided by his own neighborhood or by the work of his own unskilled hands. For these things he had to turn to the skilled people such as smiths, leather workers or carpenters. It was then that the question of payment arose. At first he got what he wanted by a simple process of exchange. The smith who had not the time to look after land or cattle was glad to take meat or grain from the farmer in exchange for an axe or a plough  . But as more and more goods which had no fixed exchange value came on the market, exchange became too complicated to be satisfactory. Another problem arose when those who made things wanted to get stocks of wood or leather, or iron, but had nothing to offer in exchange until their finished goods were ready. Thus the difficulties of exchange led by degree to the invention of money. In some countries easily handled things like seeds or shells were given a certain value and farmer, instead of paying the smith for a new axe by giving him some meat or grain, gave him so many shells. If the smith had any shells left when he had bought his food, he could get stocks of the raw materials of his trade. In some countries quite large things such as cows or camels or even big flat stones were used for trade. Later, pieces of metal, bearing values according to the rarity   of the metal and the size of the pieces, or coins were used. Money as we know it had arrived. As men became more civilized they   _  . A) all learnt to make by themselves the things needed B) had to travel a lot to look for what they wanted C) wanted better things than those they themselves could provide D) no longer provided food and clothing for themselves
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A four-year study of 200 college students found that those who drink heavily and started drinking at an early age demonstrate poor decision-making skills, just like long-term, chronic  alcoholics. Researchers at the University of Missouri-Columbia believe early onset binge drinking negatively affects psychological development. The researches examined college students between the ages of 18 and 22. After three years, they tested them using the Iowa Gambling Test, which measures the tendency to make immediate (disadvantageous) or long-term (advantageous) choices. Based on the students' reported drinking habits, they were grouped into four categories: low binge drinkers, moderate binge drinkers, increasing binge drinkers and stable or high binge drinkers. "Students in the stable or high alcohol use category, who had longer histories of binge drinking, made riskier and less advantageous choices, which reflect problems associated with planning for the future," the researchers reported. The study also found that only students who started binge drinking when they were younger showed impairment on the task. "There is reason to think that heavy binge drinking during adolescence, when the brain is still rapidly developing, may have some negative legacy   on psychological development," said Kenneth J. Sher of MU's Midwest Alcoholism Research Center in a news release. "The interesting thing is that if we were to just look at binge drinkers and how impaired they are in the decision-making process as juniors, we'd really be obscuring  the important issue, which is how long they've been binge drinkers and / or how early they started." Which category would make the most disadvantageous choice? A) Low binge drinkers B) moderate binge drinkers C) Increasing binge drinkers D) Stable binge drinkers
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