Read the excerpt from "A Byte Out of History.”The FBI learned of the crime in flight and immediately opened an extensive investigation that lasted many years. Calling it NORJAK, for Northwest hijacking, we interviewed hundreds of people, tracked leads across the nation, and scoured the aircraft for evidence. By the five-year anniversary of the hijacking, we’d considered more than 800 suspects and eliminated all but two dozen from consideration.Who was Cooper? Did he survive the jump? And what happened to the loot, only a small part of which has ever surfaced?It’s a mystery, frankly. We’ve run down thousands of leads and considered all sorts of scenarios. And amateur sleuths have put forward plenty of their own theories. Yet the case remains unsolved.
Read the excerpt from "A Byte Out of History.”It’s a mystery, frankly. We’ve run down thousands of leads and considered all sorts of scenarios. And amateur sleuths have put forward plenty of their own theories. Yet the case remains unsolved.And what of some of the names pegged as Cooper? None have panned out. Duane Weber, who claimed to be Cooper on his deathbed, was ruled out by DNA testing (we lifted a DNA sample from Cooper’s tie in 2001). Kenneth Christiansen, named in a recent magazine article, didn’t match the physical description and was a skilled paratrooper. Richard McCoy, who died in 1974, also didn’t match the description and was at home the day after the hijacking having Thanksgiving dinner with his family in Utah, an unlikely scenario unless he had help.
Read the excerpt from "Gawayne.""What is it?" asked Sir Gawayne." Can I help you to perform your vow?""Yes, you can, fair nephew Gawayne, but I will never ask you to do a thing so terrible," said King Arthur."I am ready to do it, uncle, were it to wed the loathly lady herself.""That is what she asks, that a fair young knight should marry her. But she is too hideous and deformed; no man could make her his wife.""If that is all your grief," replied Sir Gawayne, "things shall soon be settled; I will wed this ill-favoured (favored) dame, and will be your ransom."
Which can a reader learn from "Home Front Diary" as opposed to "Sugihara"?
Read the excerpt from Matilda by Roald Dahl."What about something much harder, like two times four hundred and eighty-seven? Could you tell me that?""I think so, yes," Matilda said."Are you sure?""Why yes, Miss Honey, I'm fairly sure.""What is it then, two times four hundred and eighty-seven?"
Which excerpt from Matilda is an implicit detail that best demonstrates Miss Honey's concern for all her students?
Which quotation from Matilda by Roald Dahl shows Miss Honey's commitment to teaching?
Read this excerpt from “Collision Course.”I also didn’t have words like sprawling. What I had was “bolshoy” – big in Russian. That’s what this school was: spread out like a miniature town with its own buildings, streets, alleys, athletic fields, and parking lots. And everything was neatly trimmed, freshly scrubbed, or otherwise perfect. It did not resemble any school I’d ever seen in the ten years I’d been in school in the United States. There was no graffiti, no peeling paint or linoleum, no flickering fluorescent lights, no plywood covering broken windows, and no metal detector at the entrance.
Read this excerpt from "Collision Course.”Now I felt like a friendless alien in this wide-open suburb. The openness of it just made me feel small and more alone. In our apartment in the Richmond District, there were always people walking around, and the neighborhood was always humming with fruit sellers, taquerias, and restaurants, especially Chinese restaurants and my favorite, dim sum bakeries. And you could rely on the street noise and interesting smells. The Geary and Clement bus lines ran late into the night and started up again early in the morning. Something was always happening. Our neighborhood was alive. It was my dream childhood.
Read the excerpt from "Home Front Diary."Jimmy Simmons stopped by today to tell me that he had enlisted in the army. He asked me if I would write to him, and I said I would. I told him that I've been writing to my Uncle Arthur and Susan's cousin John for about a year, and as an experienced correspondent I had some advice about all the censorship. "Don't write down any information about your location or the number of soldiers in your unit because the censors will cut all of that away," I said. "In my experience, loose lips not only sink ships, they make letters look like snowflake decorations!” Well, he belly laughed over that one.
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