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[Dear Youngziners: This is the first of 3 parts of History With Harry, a series by Andrew Gabriel where he brings History alive through a story. We would love to hear what you think. Add your comments below]
Frankie rang the doorbell. He felt sweaty, unsure, running a hand through his short, dirty blonde hair. He thought about the day that had led him to be standing on the old front porch. His mother, he thought shaking his head, and the stupid homework he had been given.

The British exit from the European Union (EU), or 'Brexit' as it was called, had been the topic in school. On June 23, British voters had passed a referendum to leave the European Union, sending immediate ripples through the global stock markets. The British pound, their currency, had dropped in value to a decade low.

"Write an essay on what the effects of Brexit might be on the EU, and whether you support or oppose it."

His teacher's words rang in his ears, rolling his big blue eyes for the hundredth time that day. He didn't want to do this. He wanted to be out with friends. What did it matter to him if Britain left this union?

"Go ask your grandfather about it. He had been a history teacher. You two could do with spending some time together."

Frankie fought his Mom, but here he was now, standing on his grandfather's porch. It's not that Frankie didn't like him...it's just that he didn't want to spend time with his grumpy, stubborn Poppop. Before he could change his mind and walk away, Frankie heard a dog bark.

The front door opened. A tall man holding a cane, with green eyes and thinning white hair stood, staring. The dog, a mix, with features of a yellow Labrador retriever, shot past Poppop, happily jumping on Frankie, tail wagging in a circular motion, like a propeller. The dog's bark changed to a singing howl. Frankie thought his ears would burst.

A squirrel in the yard caught the dog's attention, and he growled. "Get in the house, Harry," Poppop ordered gruffly. Harry slowly walked back inside, eyes still on the rodent.

"Frankie," Poppop said sternly. "What brings you by?"

"Hi," Frankie hesitated. "I...uh...I was wondering if you'd help me with my history homework."

"The topic," Poppop asked, eyeing his grandson.

"It's...uh...Brexit. Y'know, Britain voting to leave the EU?"

Poppop nodded slowly. "Which side of the argument do you support?" Frankie shrugged.

"You a supporter? Should Britain have control over its own economic policies, and protect its identity," Poppop asked. "Or do you oppose it, feeling that it's better for Britain's economy to stay in the EU?"

Frankie stared blankly. Poppop huffed, rolling his eyes. "Do you even know why the EU was formed?"

Frankie slowly shrugged again, feeling like he was being quizzed in school. He wanted to back down the porch and run away. Poppop sighed, shaking his head. He turned, hobbling into the house. "Come in. Seems you need to learn more than you're letting on."

Frankie entered the old, dusty house, packed with books and antiques. He didn't feel like being lectured by his grandfather any more than he wanted to do this assignment.

"Let's start with the EU's origins," Poppop said, rummaging through books in the next room. "With Winston Churchill."

Harry rubbed up against Frankie for a scratch, and Frankie mindlessly put his hand on the dog's neck. "Wish I could just talk to Churchill, and be done with this," Frankie muttered, scratching Harry.

Suddenly, there was a bright, white flash of light. Frankie felt the room spinning. When his eyes readjusted, and the light had faded, Frankie and Harry were standing in a green field. The grass was damp, the skies cloudy. An old house stood on a hill nearby. It reminded Frankie of pictures of the English countryside.

"OK! We're here," an almost cartoonish voice said in a funky accent, as Frankie looked around, confused.

And then Frankie felt his legs quiver, almost fainting, as he realized that the voice had come from Harry...the dog.
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On July 14, seven countries, including the U.S and Iran, reached a historic agreement on Iran's nuclear program.

For a long time now, countries around the world have been concerned that Iran is trying to build a nuclear bomb. The U.S had been in negotiations with Iran for almost two years, with support from UK, France, China, Russia and Germany.

When the deal was announced in Vienna, Austria, there was jubilation on the streets of Tehran, Iran's capital. However, the deal sparked controversy all across the world. While many called it a 'win-win situation', others such as Israel's prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu perceived the deal as a 'historic mistake'.

In the U.S, Republicans vowed to block the deal with a vote. Last Thursday, the U.S Senate delivered a victory to President Obama, allowing the Iran deal to go through.

A Little Background

It was in 2002 that the world learned about Iran's secret plans for developing capability to build nuclear weapons. The matter came to light when a group opposed to the Government, revealed information about Iran's nuclear activity.

The country by that time had already acquired nuclear material and was making substantial progress to enrich uranium. Uranium is the fuel that is used by reactors to generate nuclear power. But it also has the capability to build weapons.

Worried about the safety and security in the region, US and its European allies began pressing Iran to stop enriching uranium. Talks failed to make progress and the inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) referred the matter to the UN Security Council. Sanctions were imposed on Iran on several occasions, each one more severe than the previous one.

What Does The New Deal Involve?

Per the Vienna agreement, Iran has agreed to limit its uranium production and reduce its stockpile by 98%. It will also be required to shut down some of its most important nuclear plants, one of which will be converted for scientific research. In addition, Iran will stop manufacturing weapon-grade plutonium (another radioactive material), and not build any additional plutonium reactors for at least 15 years.

Iran has also agreed to provide greater visibility into its nuclear program. It will allow the International Atomic Energy Agency to keep constant surveillance and carry out inspections up to a period of 25 years. In return, the US and other countries will lift the harsh economic sanctions they have currently placed on Iran.

Why Did Iran Agree To The Deal?

The sanctions that had been in place so far were quite severe, and had crippled the country. Iran's ability to export oil was restricted, which in turn had affected the country's economy. Iranian banks could not work with the West, which affected the value of Iran's money. These sanctions had led to rising food and fuel prices which were affecting the common people.

Iran is also worried about the spread of ISIS extremists who have taken over large parts of Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan. ISIS extremists practice the Sunni form of Islam and could be a potential threat to Shia Iran's existence (Read about Sunni and Shia Islam here). Iran has been engaged in a war with ISIS, and support from the international community is important at this time.

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When we think of Nepal, the massive earthquake that devastated the country earlier this year comes to mind (read here). But, the country has also been in the midst of a political quake.

Nepal has been transitioning from a kingdom to a republic. The country has not had an official constitution, with the different political groups failing to agree on details. The earthquake in April 2015 was a wake up call. Nepal was ill-equipped to handle the scale of the disaster as 9,000 people died. The lack of a working constitution was blamed for the poor response.

This past week, Nepal's Parliament approved the country's first official constitution. The country has been divided into seven states, each with a legislative body and a Chief Minister (head of state). Nepal has also decided that it would be secular country - in other words, it will not have any official religion. This move has angered the majority Hindus, and led to protests.

A Royal Kingdom

Nepal lies on the crossroads of India and China. It is the starting point for trekkers eager to scale Mt. Everest, the world's highest peak. For centuries, the country has attracted settlers from India, and been a resting stop on trading routes. It is also the birthplace of Gautama Buddha - a royal prince who abandoned his kingdom in pursuit of enlightenment, and founded the religion of Buddhism.

In 1768, Prithvi Narayan Shah, the ruler of a tiny mountain kingdom, unified the country by attacking and conquering neighboring kingdoms. Nepal came under one ruling family - the Shahs. The Shahs, originally from India, practiced Hinduism (the main religion in India today). Hence Nepal became a Hindu kingdom.

For more than two centuries, the Shah dynasty enjoyed complete control. The King was considered an incarnation of God, and ruled by divine right. But all that changed in 2001.

The Dawn Of Democracy

When democratic movements started sweeping across the world in the late 1980's, Nepal was caught in the storm. Opposition groups demanded that the country be handed back to its people, and the King declared a constitutional head (similar to the British monarchy).

King Birendra of Nepal agreed to the will of the people and elections were held. But the King retained the right to dissolve the Parliament and controlled the army. The initial experiments in democracy failed, and the country fell into a long drawn civil war.

The beginning of the end for the Shah kings came in the summer of 2001. King Birendra, along with nine other members of the royal family, was assassinated in the palace by his son - crown prince Dipendra, who was drunk and later killed himself. The King's younger brother, Gyanendra took over the kingdom. Many in Nepal believe that Gyanendra had a hand in the assassination, and that he suspended investigations into the killings too quickly.

Gyanendra tried to change Nepal back into a monarchy and seized absolute power. But he did not succeed and was ousted in 2006 by the rebels. Since then, Nepal has been on a long and rocky road to democracy. The new constitution is certainly a step in the right direction.

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Talk about record breaking. It seems folks are willing to do anything - weird and wacky, to somehow get their names into the Guinness Book of World Records.

From flipping pancakes, to scaling Mount Everest twice in one year, or doing mass massage or line dancing, there is no dearth of ideas on what one can do to get into the record books! On September 11, the iconic book released its 2016 edition.

With 40,000 records being tracked, and more added each year, there is always something new. For one, the latest edition has an entry for the world's largest feet belonging to Jeison Hernandez of Venezuela - a size 26! It is not just people, but animals have been making their way into the record books too. Bertie is the Usain Bolt of tortoises, capable of reaching speeds of 0.6 miles per hour.

Unfortunately the world's shortest man passed away earlier this month. Chandra Bahadur Dangi of Nepal was 75 years old and measured 21-1/2 inches.

For The Records...

Wondering how the Guinness Book of World Records came to be? In May 1951, Sir Hugh Beaver, the owner of a beer brewery in England got into an argument with fellow members of his hunting party over the question - "Which is the fastest game bird in Europe, the golden plover or the grouse?" Realizing that there were no reference books that carried such information and how useful they might be to resolve debates such as his, he came up with the idea of a book of world records.

Well as they say, the rest is history. The first 197-page edition of the Guinness Book of World Records came out in May 1955, and since then, nearly 100 million copies have been sold worldwide and updated annually. From the most tattoos and piercings, to the longest burrito, fastest talker, longest hair and more, there are nearly 40,000 record categories, some of which are not active.

The book however publishes only 4000 records each year and while some are standard fare -- like the tallest and the shortest, nearly eighty percent are new.

Want To Get In?

Well it may no be so easy as you may think. Guinness says it receives requests from tens of thousands of people each year who want to set a record. Guinness's motto for a record is that it should be "provable, quantifiable and breakable".

Once a request is made, Guinness officials take a month to decide whether to accept the request, eighty percent of which are rejected. If the request is accepted, detailed instructions follow. They may send an official to witness the record in public, or it has to be verified by witnesses not known to the individual and accompanied by photographs and video recordings.

Now, even if the record is verified, it may still not make it into the book! But that does not stop people from trying. Lets look at two records.

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Talk about record breaking. It seems folks are willing to do anything - weird and wacky, to somehow get their names into the Guinness Book of World Records. From flipping pancakes, to scaling Mount Everest twice in one year, or doing mass massage or line dancing, there is no dearth of ideas on what one can do to get into the record books!

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Pluto pictures are pouring in

The spigot has opened again, and Pluto pictures are pouring in once more from NASA's New Horizons spacecraft.

These newest snapshots reveal an even more diverse landscape than scientists imagined. New Horizons swept past Pluto in July. It became the first spacecraft to ever visit the distant dwarf planet.

"If an artist had painted this Pluto before our flyby, I probably would have called it over the top. But that's what is actually there," said Alan Stern. He is the New Horizons' principal scientist from Southwest Research Institute. It is in Boulder, Colorado.

In one picture, dark ancient craters border much younger icy plains. Dark ridges also are visible. Some scientists speculate they might be dunes.

One outer solar-system geologist, William McKinnon of Washington University in St. Louis, said if the ridges are, in fact, dunes, that would be "completely wild." That is because of Pluto's thin atmosphere.

"Either Pluto had a thicker atmosphere in the past, or some process we haven't figured out is at work. It's a head-scratcher," McKinnon said in a written statement.

The jumble of mountains, on the other hand, may be huge blocks of ice. They could be floating in a softer, vast deposit of frozen nitrogen.

After several weeks of collecting engineering data from New Horizons, scientists started getting fresh Pluto pictures. The latest images were released Sept. 10.

Besides geologic features, the images show that the atmospheric haze surrounding Pluto has multiple layers. What's more, the haze creates a twilight effect. It enables New Horizons to study places on the night side that scientists never expected to see.

It has been more than two months since New Horizons' close encounter with Pluto. That was on July 14. Its journey began at Cape Canaveral, Florida. The flight has spanned 3 billion miles and 9 1/2 years. As of Sept. 11, the spacecraft was 44 million miles past Pluto.

So much data was collected during the Pluto flyby that it will take until next fall to retrieve it all on Earth. The spacecraft is operated from the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory. It is in Laurel, Maryland. The physics lab also designed and built it.

New Horizons' next target is awaiting formal approval by NASA. The plan is for it to reach a much smaller object that orbits 1 billion miles beyond Pluto. It, too, lies in the so-called Kuiper Belt. That is a frigid twilight zone on the outskirts of our solar system. Following a set of maneuvers, New Horizons would reach PT1 - short for Potential Target 1 - in 2019.

CRITICAL THINKING QUESTION

Why did it take so long to get more photos from Pluto?

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(NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute via AP) Pluto pictures are pouring in The spigot has opened again, and Pluto pictures are pouring in once more from NASA's New Horizons spacecraft. These newest snapshots reveal an even more diverse landscape than scientists imagined. New Horizons swept past Pluto in July.

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What's up with Saturn's rings?

You asked us, "What's up with Saturn's rings?"

Although Saturn can be seen with the naked eye, its rings are invisible without a telescope. Galileo was the first to spot them. That was in 1610.

And there are 7 creatively named rings. They span up to about 175,000 miles wide, roughly 3/4 of the distance between the Earth and the Moon.

The gigantic rings are super thin, though, and some are just 30 feet high.

The rings look continuous, but they aren't. They're made of billions of particles, from dust-sized frozen grains to much larger pieces of water ice and rocky particles wrapped in ice. The frozen grains whirl around Saturn in different orbits.

We don't know how the rings formed or when. It could have been as early as when Saturn came to be. Or as late as when dinos roamed the Earth.

But we do know that the rings aren't static - their formation is a continuous process.

Thanks to tech like the probes we've been sending to Saturn since the late 1970s, we're making new discoveries all the time.

We're even identifying new rings like the 7.4-million-mile-wide behemoth that was discovered in 2009.

And that's just one of the many reasons why you've gotta love science.

CRITICAL THINKING QUESTION

How can particles appear as rings?

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What's up with Saturn's rings? You asked us, "What's up with Saturn's rings?" Although Saturn can be seen with the naked eye, its rings are invisible without a telescope. Galileo was the first to spot them. That was in 1610. And there are 7 creatively named rings.

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Big clock fixed with a few small pennies

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(AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis) Big clock fixed with a few small pennies Don't set your watch by Big Ben. Officials say the famous clock at Britain's Parliament has recently been slow by as much as six seconds. It has been used by Londoners for decades to check the time.

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Garbage collector creates library from rescued books

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Garbage collector creates library from rescued books

A second-grade education has not stopped garbage collector Jose Gutierrez from bringing the gift of reading to thousands of Colombian children.

Gutierrez started rescuing books from the trash almost 20 years ago. He was driving a garbage truck at night through the country's wealthier neighborhoods. The discarded reading material slowly piled up. And now the ground floor of his small house is a makeshift community library. It is stacked from floor to ceiling with some 20,000 books. They range from chemistry textbooks to children's classics.

He says books are luxuries for boys and girls in low-income neighborhoods such as his. New reading material at bookstores is too expensive. There are 19 public libraries in Bogota. It is a city of 8.5 million. But the libraries tend to be located far away from poorer areas.

"This should be in all neighborhoods and on each corner of every neighborhood. In all the towns, in all departments and all the rural areas," says Gutierrez. "Books are our salvation. And that is what Colombia needs."

The 53-year-old Gutierrez has a love of reading that he says comes from his mother. She always read to him even though she was too poor to keep him in school.

"She used to read me stories every night," said Gutierrez. He has traveled to book fairs in Mexico and Chile to share his experience of starting a library with discarded reading material. "To me, books are the greatest invention and the best thing that can happen to a human being."

Gutierrez still sifts through the rubbish for additions to his library. But, his fame as Colombia's "Lord of the Books" has also brought him thousands of donated tomes. He has sent many to other libraries around the country. That is because he does not have room for them all.

Gutierrez is an avid reader of works by authors such as Leo Tolstoy, Victor Hugo and Mario Vargas Llosa. His favorite books include "One Hundred Years of Solitude" and "The General in his Labyrinth" by Colombia's Nobel Prize-winning novelist Gabriel Garcia Marquez.

He says he does not reject technology that allows books to be read digitally. But he prefers to read the printed word on paper.

"There is nothing more beautiful than having a book in your pocket, in your bag or inside your car," he says.

CRITICAL THINKING QUESTION

Why does Jose think "books are the greatest invention and the best thing that can happen to a human being?"

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(AP Photo/Fernando Vergara) Garbage collector creates library from rescued books A second-grade education has not stopped garbage collector Jose Gutierrez from bringing the gift of reading to thousands of Colombian children. Gutierrez started rescuing books from the trash almost 20 years ago. He was driving a garbage truck at night through the country's wealthier neighborhoods.

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Who was boss before the dinosaurs?

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Who was boss before the dinosaurs?

The Jurassic witnessed a world populated by dinosaurs. While giant plant-eaters munched their way through ferns and conifer forests, large carnivores chased them down for lunch.

At the height of the Age of Dinosaurs, they were found on every continent. They thrived in the warm environments of the time.

But, dinosaurs were not always so prominent. Fossil evidence shows that they arose about 230 million years ago during the Triassic period. But they remained scarce as other reptiles took center stage. Many mammal forerunners, such as the large plant-eater Placerias, prospered. Huge crocodile-like animals like Smilosuchus were the top predators of the Triassic.

Paleontologists who study the fossil record have discovered that something big happened 200 million years ago. It radically changed life on land and in the sea. And it paved the way for dinosaur diversification and prominence.

What happened was so important that it caused more than half of all life on Earth to go extinct. The large crocodile-like reptiles that had dominated the landscape were eliminated. So were many of the mammal forerunners.

Find out more about the events that opened the door for the Age of Dinosaurs. Join us on Thursday, October 8, 2015, for a "Smithsonian Science How" live webcast on How Fossils Explain the Rise of Dinosaurs. It is airing at 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. EDT on the Q?rius website. Paleontologist Dr. Hans Sues from the National Museum of Natural History will appear live to discuss and answer questions. Get teaching resources to support your webcast experience.

CRITICAL THINKING QUESTION

To study dinosaurs, why do scientists rely on fossils instead of photographs?

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No brainer: Ending food waste could feed hungry and save money

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No brainer: Ending food waste could feed hungry and save money

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Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack has announced a goal to cut the amount of food that Americans waste by 50 percent. He wants it to happen by 2030.

"The United States enjoys the most productive and abundant food supply on Earth. So too much of this food goes to waste," Vilsack said in New York City. He was joined by food-industry representatives and officials from the Environmental Protection Agency.

Vilsack likened the effort to reduce food waste to the anti-littering campaigns of the 1960s and '70s. Those shamed Americans for tossing trash out car windows.

"This is the logical extension," he said. "This is the next litter campaign."

The U.S. Department of Agriculture estimates that Americans waste 133 billion pounds of food every year. That is 31 percent of Americans' overall food supply.

Vilsack said other nations waste similar amounts. He said the U.S. must lead a global effort to use food more efficiently.

"This is an opportunity for us to make a statement and provide leadership," he said.

EPA officials said the massive waste is a problem not just because the food could feed the hungry but also because it ends up in landfills. That means it affects the environment.

"Twenty-one percent of all the waste in landfills is food," EPA Deputy Administrator Stan Meiburg said. "Once it's there, it produces methane, which is a greenhouse gas."

Leslie Sarasin, president and CEO of the Food Marketing Institute, a food retailers' trade association, said the industry supports cutting food waste. That is because the industry operates on a "razor-thin" margin of 1 or 2 percent.

"Reducing food waste at all levels in the food chain - farm, factory, store and home - is certainly one of those issues with economic and emotional appeal," she said.

The officials spoke at a facility in Long Island City, Queens. It is operated by the nonprofit City Harvest, which started in 1982 as an effort to salvage excess food from restaurants. City Harvest now takes donations from businesses and farmers. Then it delivers it to 500 food banks and soup kitchens.

Vilsack toured the warehouse. It was packed with donated produce like carrots that were too big to sell. Vilsack called it "truly inspiring."

He said the campaign to cut food waste includes educating consumers. One example might be how long food can be kept before it must be thrown out.

He said he recently used the USDA's new mobile FoodKeeper app to determine whether chicken salad in his refrigerator was still good.

It was. And he ate it.

CRITICAL THINKING QUESTION

If it's a no brainer, why do Americans waste so much food?

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Generation Mars
Former astronaut Buzz Aldrin shares his vision for space exploration.

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Former astronaut Buzz Aldrin shares his vision for space exploration.

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A Royal Record
Queen Elizabeth II has become the United Kingdom’s longest-reigning monarch.

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Republican Debate: Take Two
For the second time this year, presidential candidates debate before a nationwide audience.

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Desperate Journeys
Hundreds of thousands of people are fleeing their homelands and risking their lives to get to Europe.

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More Trouble in Greece : The country is Facing New Financial Problems

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The President Visits Africa
President Obama makes history during his visit to Africa

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The President Visits Africa
President Obama makes history during his visit to Africa

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What’s Happening in Europe?
Here’s what you need to know about the crisis in Europe.

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What’s Happening in Europe?
Here’s what you need to know about the crisis in Europe.

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Debate!
Should kids be allowed to take on dangerous challenges?

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Debate!
Should kids be allowed to take on dangerous challenges?

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