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CNN Student News - Thursday, May 4

1. A convicted al Qaeda conspirator will be spending the rest of his ______________ behind bars. That's what the jury recommended yesterday for Zacarias Moussaoui.

2. The jury has found the defendant should be sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of _________________________________.

3. After seven days of deliberations the jury has decided the fate of the only person to ever be tried in connection with the _________ attacks on America.

4. President Bush also reacted. He said Zacarias Moussaoui got a fair trial. The jury decided to spare his life. And the administration's fight against __________________________ isn't over.

5. The problem: Millions of Americans between ages six and 19 are _______________________. A possible cause: All the extra calories kids get from sodas.

6. If the Clinton Foundation and the beverage industry have their way, this will be something you no longer see in schools. President ______________________ is teaming up with the leaders of the soft drink industry to try and take sugar laden soft drinks out of school vending machines.

7. Former U.S. President Bill Clinton said, “Cadbury-Sweppes, Coca-Cola, Pepsico and the American Beverage Association have agreed to new guidelines limiting the portion sizes and reducing the number of _________________________ available to children through their products during the school day.”

8. Under the voluntary program, elementary schools would only sell water, 8 oz juices, and reduced fat milk. Middle schools would sell larger sizes of the same products, and high schools could add __________ ______________, and some sports drinks.

9. Dawn Hudson, President and CEO of Pepsi-Cola, North America said, “We're doing our part to offer __________________________ products in schools, no calorie or low calorie beverages, and nutritious and functional beverages. It's important to remember that this is about where we sell our products, not about the products themselves.”

10. Vending machine profits are an additional source of revenue for many schools, and soft drinks are an easy money maker with kids. But a government study found when schools got rid of sweet sodas, ____ of ____ school districts reported increased revenue; four reported no change.

11. The industry hopes to have __________ of schools volunteering for the program by the 2008-2009 school year and ______________________________ the following year.

12. An extremely powerful earthquake struck about 24 hours ago in the southwestern ___________ _____________. Its epicenter was about 95 miles from Tonga, an island east of Australia.

13. The quake had a magnitude of 8.0, which is capable of severe damage. But there seems to be little actual destruction. Although the tremor did generate a small tsunami, the wave was too little to be a _____________ ________________.

14. The White House released a new plan yesterday on what could be done if bird flu strikes the U.S. Currently, the disease cannot spread easily from person to person. But officials are worried that it could change to do that. And if it does, the Bush administration says to watch for travel restrictions and ____________________________ closings.

15. The possibilities are frightening; Up to _______________________ dead, many more infected, nearly half the American workforce off the job; either sick, afraid of getting sick, or caring for someone who is.

16. Under a worst-case scenario, ______million people infected, is this going to look like a ghost town in that scenario?

17. As head of the non-profit American Public Health Association, Dr. Georges Benjamin has spent a lot of time thinking about the worst-case scenarios set out in the Bush administration's pandemic flu plan. Benjamin and other experts say a pandemic could change the way we do the simplest things: Starting with what Benjamin calls 'voluntary social distancing.' Benjamin said, “Snow days, closing schools, changing the way our work schedules are, deciding how we buy our _____________________________.”

18. Like having them delivered to your home, according to experts, or having _________________ food delivered, rather than dining out. What about those who have to be at a workplace?

19. You've got people working within 3-4 feet from each other. What does it do to the American workforce? David Heyman, Center for Strategic & International Studies said, “To the extent to which you could distribute them in space, so that they're not close to each other, you'd do that. You might see people in here wearing _________________. You'd probably see disinfectants on tables so that people can do good infection control. And you'd see people at home or perhaps on tele-boxes, squawk boxes listening to each other on remote communications.”

20. Experts say a lot of these measures would start out being temporary. But like with the public information campaigns during the flu pandemics in the 20th century, once people are in the mindset of doing those basic things, like washing __________________, covering your mouth when you sneeze or cough, it becomes a permanent part of our fabric. But some larger measures will take a lot of time, and pain, to implement, like figuring out when to close schools, and of course, what to do with the kids who are out.

21. The deadliest infectious pandemic in U.S. history was the Spanish flu of ______________.

22. Unlike most flu outbreaks that strike mostly the very old and the very young, this one -- a bird flu -- also zeroed in on __________________ adults. As a result, children were orphaned; families left without wage earners.

23. One horrifying characteristic: Many people died from this killer very quickly. Some people who felt well in the morning became sick by noon and were dead by ___________________. But within a few months the pandemic was over.

24. In its wake, more than 500-thousand Americans dead; worldwide, _____ to _____ million people were killed. In 1957, the Asian flu was first detected in China. Unlike the 1918 virus, this one was quickly identified. It hit the U.S. quietly with a series of small outbreaks in the summer but quickly spread when children went back to school in the fall. In all, about 70-thousand died, with most victims being the elderly.

25. In early 1968, the Hong Kong flu pandemic reached the U.S. Again, the elderly were the hardest hit. By the time it was over in March 1969, nearly _________________ Americans had died; making it the mildest pandemic in the 20th century.