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Fire in the Channel
On September 11th, 2008, a fire broke out in the channel and many people in England and France were stranded, and on the 10th, major earthquakes broke out in Japan and Indonesia.

http://www.mapreport.com/years/2008/september.html#d

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 * Questions:**

7. Mad Cow Disease is an illness causing a cow to act strangely and lose control of its ability to do normal things. It is also known as bovine spongiform encephalopathy. It's called Mad Cow Disease because it affects a cow's nervous system. An infected cow would act "mad," which sometimes means mentally ill.

8. People in England and the United States were scared of Mad Cow Disease because they are big consumers of beef, and the illness from the cows could affect them.

9. The natural disaster that struck Indonesia in 2004 was an earthquake that hit Sumatra. The earthquake was caused by subduction. The subduction caused a series of tsunamis and they killed over 225,000 people.

10. Galileo was an unmanned spacecraft sent by NASA to study the planet Jupiter and its moons. It was launched on October 18, 1989 by the Space Shuttle Atlantis. It arrived on Jupiter on December 7, 1995. On September 21, 2003, after 14 years in space and 8 years of service in the Jovian system, Galileo's mission was terminated.