Directions:

• Read the excerpt from Parade Magazine found below.

• Respond to the two prompts.

Imagine you are the editor a newspaper and one of your reporters just handed

you this short article that they wrote about lipstick. In your role as editor, do the

following:

1. Tell your reporter the Headline/TITLE you are going to give to their

story.

2. Create a QUESTION which you will give your reporter as a focus for a

follow-up story. In other words, ask a question which will help them delve

deeper or investigate further.

Reading:

This year, millions of kids' toys were recalled after lead was found in them.

Now a new study shows that more than half of the 33 red lipsticks tested

from drug and department store brands contained detectable levels of lead,

a proven neurotoxin in humans. One-third of them exceeded the Food and

Drug Administration's level for lead in candy. As it turns out, the FDA-

which regulates the beauty industry-has no pre-market approval authority

over cosmetics and can only ask for a product recall, not demand it. And

manufacturers don't have to file data on ingredients or report injuries.

"Nearly 90% of over the 10,000 chemicals used in cosmetics have not been

evaluated for safety" says Stacy Malkan of the Campaign for Safe

Cosmetics, which conducted the study. Critics of the study assert that any

trace amounts lead ingested from red lipsticks would be harmless.

Source: "The Worry Over Lead in Lipsticks," Parade Magazine, pp. 19. Copyright © 2007 by

Parade Publications Inc. Reprinted with permission.