[Newspoetry] hailp

[Anne Bargar]

Ok, here's a poem.

Word Problem

Directions: read through the folowing scenario.  Then try answering the
questions at the bottom of the page.


There is a disabled Russian submarine sitting at the Bottom of the Berent
Sea.  There are anywhere between 106 and 130 people trapped inside it.  No
one knows how many of them are alive.  No one really knows how long the
survivors will be able to survive; the estimate has been 48 hours.  The
nuclear reactors on the sub have been shut down, which is suppossed to
minimize environmental damage.  That also means that there is no way to
filter the air as it slowly becomes sutrated with carbon dioxide.  It also
means that they can't heat the sub, and will be surrounded by the stench
of decaying bodies.  The paper was printed on Tuesday, and the accident
happened on Sunday, which means that most of those sailors are probably
dead by not.  This disaster is said to "highlight the rundown state of
Russia's navy," according to today's Chicago Tribune.


With Russia's military in the state that it is, can someone please explain
why we need that damned proposed missle defense system?  And hasn't anyone
figured out yet that being in the military is just plain dangerous?


-babz