Daily Round Up: Fill in the Blanks Edition
By shazia haq, August 7, 2008 12:35 pm | RSS | trackback | commentAnswers and sources after the jump! (Spaces not word-length sensitive!)
1) From Democracy Now!: “In ________, three major hospitals are being accused of using homeless people to defraud millions of dollars from government programs. On Wednesday, FBI agents raided the hospitals and arrested two suspects, including the CEO of __________Hospital. Prosecutors contended the hospitals submitted phony ________ bills for hundreds of homeless patients…”
2) From BBC World News: “Andrea Pininfarina, head of a world-famous Italian car design group, has been killed in a road accident. Mr Pininfarina was riding a scooter which was hit by a car on the outskirts of Turin early on Thursday. He was 51. He was chief executive officer of the family firm Pininfarina, which has designed sports cars for _______ _______ ________ & _________. ”
3) From the NY Times: “Construction has been banned” in _________” since July 20; factories with noxious emissions were closed all across the city. The scores of unfinished buildings that dot the skyline, their facades cloaked in ________ banners, are a testament to the boom interrupted.”
4) From Slate: “__________is this summer’s precise equivalent to Superbad: a Judd Apatow-produced buddy comedy directed by a proxy from the indie world… “
5) From LiveScience: “A group of scientists studied thousands of pottery shards from sites all over the Near East and the Balkans….found that ______ was already being used and processed by societies there by the seventh millennium B.C….”
1) Los Angeles, City of Angels Hospital, Medicare
2) Ferrari, Maserati, Volvo and Fiat
5) Milk
Have a fantastic Thursday!


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