Challenge 1

So, reading Ms Diana's blog, here is my attempt at her challenge. I warn you ahead, this may not go well.

1. January 4, 2010 issue: Name the top five movies—and TV shows—of 2009:
Avatar (that was December 2009 right?)...that's all I can even remember at all.

2. February 8, 2010 issue: Americans’ most popular medication is antidepressants. According to top researchers, do antidepressants work?
Sometimes. It depends on the dosage of type of medication. People have different levels and forms of depression. Some medications will work with a certain form of depression but make a different form worse.

3. March 22, 2010 issue: Michelle Obama is on a mission to fight the skyrocketing obesity rates in American children (obesity rates have tripled among kids ages 12-19 since 1980)—what is her movement entitled?
"Let's Move"

4. March 29, 2010 issue: How much did the average American salary increase in the last 30 years (and how much was it then vs. now)?
I'm going to guess it has close to tripled.


5. Also in the March 29, 2010 issue, here is a quote (fill in the blank): “Despite earning higher GPAs, one year out of college, young women will already take home just _____ percent of what their male colleagues do.”
76%

6. April 19, 2010 issue: When President Obama was looking for a Supreme Court replacement for the retiring Justice David Souter, what was the main quality he was searching for? (Hint: it wasn’t years on the bench.)
Empathy.

7. April 26, 2010 issue: The first Earth Day was in 1970—has anything improved on our home planet? (Consider acid rain, the ozone layer, endangered species, and energy use.)
Probably something but I would not be able to think of it off the top of my head.

8. Also in the April 26, 2010 issue: The State Board of Education of Texas is rewriting history by changing the history books—what has changed?
I believe they took out Marshall and Chavez(?)(I amnot certain on the second part) and put in something really random that I do not remember.

9. May 10, 2010 issue: Wall Street doesn’t seem to be making any friends, but the Harvard Business School is trying to change the way future businessmen/women view their profession—so they now ask M.B.A. candidates to take the M.B.A. oath. What does it say?
No clue. I will not short sell the derivatives market then crash it on purpose?

10. May 24 and 31, 2010 issue: The health care debate is still raging. True or false: “Although [Americans] pay the most for our health care, the U.S. has higher rates of preventable deaths than almost all other industrialized nations.”
True.



ANSWERS:
1) Avatar was not on the list. Did I get its date wrong? Of the answers I only saw Harry Potter and watched NCIS a little bit.
2) My answer counts-ish.
3) Thank you Nickelodeon commercials. (Just to clarify, I was watching George Lopez on Nick.)
4) It's gone up less than I thought.
5) Close.
6) The E-bomb.
7) Makes sense.
8) Chavez was right. And, the inventor of the Yo-Yo? Why?
9) Same idea in pretties less specific words.
10) I can do naught but sigh.