yes, xsboy is in catholic school and this assigment is not a big deal, like i said, it is a makework kind of BS assignment, the handout comes from TimeforKIDS and so is biased by its very nature. the entire exercise is just to try to get kids reading about current events. i just thought it would make for interesting class discussion HERE in WFTD. he will write up a few sentences incorporating the ideas about the classification lists that HD, Hobbes and Doubled have posed here and i think that will be a nice answer.