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1. 3-2-1 blast-off! The spacecraft, Dawn took off last week on a 3 billion mile journey through the solar system. The un-manned spacecraft’s purpose is to study an asteroid belt and a dwarf planet between Mars and Jupiter, hopefully reaching the asteroid Vesta in 2011 and the dwarf planet Ceres in 2015.
http://dawn.jpl.nasa.gov/
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2. The space shuttle Discovery moved to the launch pad last Saturday at Florida’s
Kennedy Space Center. Another trip to the International Space Station is scheduled
for October 23rd.
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/main/index.html
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3. On October 4, 1957, the Soviet Union sent the first small satellite into space,
beating the U.S. in the first round of the space race. The launch of Sputnik, which was
about the size of a basketball, shocked the world, and stirred the U.S. to serious
action, leading to both the creation of NASA and the race to the moon.
http://history.nasa.gov/sputnik/
http://www.nasm.si.edu/exhibitions/GAL100/sputnik.html
http://www.nytimes.com/partners/aol/special/sputnik/
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4. President Bush and members of Congress are bumping heads again. An existing child healthcare legislation providing federally-funded, state-run health insurance for children known as SCHIP expired last Sunday. Congress passed a bill last week to continue coverage for 6 million children currently in the program and expand it to another 4 million children for the next five years. President Bush vetoed the bill on Wednesday morning, saying the bill covers families who can afford private health insurance, and goes beyond the bill’s original intent. Demonstrators gathered at the White House earlier this week to try to get the President to change his mind.
http://www.ncsl.org/programs/health/chiphome.htm
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5. Keeping children safe and healthy is important. Rusty Dornin tells us how some parents are reacting to last summer’s scare over lead content in toys. Lisa and Joe Duquette took their children to a free lead testing event in Gainesville, Georgia sponsored by Safe Kids. The parents brought bags of toys to be tested as well, toys not on any recall lists. The toys were safe, but both of the Duquette children tested positive for lead after a quick blood test. Final results showed that they tested below the danger level for lead, but the parents are on the hunt for any objects in the house that might have exposed their children to lead.
http://www.cdc.gov/nceh/lead/
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/leadpoisoning.html
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6. Thunder and lightning rocked the skies over Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota last weekend. Lightning is created in electrically charged storm clouds. Lightning bolts are hotter than the surface of the sun. The heat causes the air surrounding the lightning to expand so quickly, it causes the noise we call thunder.
http://science.howstuffworks.com/lightning.htm
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/lightning/
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7. Kenya is a country located in east Africa, and lies on the equator. It is rich with wildlife, but in recent years as the human population has increased, the wildlife population has decreased. Loss of habitat is one of the main threats to African Wildlife. Conservationists say, since 1970, the animal population has been cut in half, while the human population has tripled. A new initiative called eco-tourism is bringing hope that man and animal can co-exist in the area of the Nairobi National Park.
http://www.kws.org/nairobi.html
http://www.africaguide.com/country/kenya/parks.htm
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8. An eye expert from Pittsburgh made a trip to the Columbus Zoo to perform surgery on a very special patient. Dr. Richard Hertle moved some muscles to correct a condition called lazy eye for Doty, a three-year-old gorilla. The zoo used a specialist in human eye surgery because gorilla and human eyes are similar. Human children with lazy eye are usually treated with an eye patch or glasses – which wouldn’t have worked with an active baby gorilla.
http://www.lazyeye.org/
http://www.allaboutvision.com/conditions/amblyopia.htm
http://www.colszoo.org/animalareas/aforest/gorilla.html
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9. With more than 30 earthquakes occurring in and around Ohio since 2002, the Ohio Department of Natural Resources has published a new map that pinpoints the location and magnitude of recent temblors. More than 200 earthquakes with a magnitude of 2.0 or greater have occurred in the Ohio region since 1776. The new map shows how the quake epicenters are concentrated mostly in Lake County and Shelby County.
http://www.dnr.state.oh.us/ohioseis
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10. Steve Brown, an Ohio State graduate and huge Buckeye fan, lost his varsity class ring four years ago, while he was snorkeling in the Bahamas. The ring fell to the ocean floor, never to be seen again, or so he thought. A scuba diver found his ring, covered in sea salt, several weeks ago. They traced it back to Steve through OSU, making the grad very happy.
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11. Opera fans enjoyed the romantic French opera, “Samson and Delilah,” in an unusual setting last Friday night – San Francisco’s AT & T Park. The opera was simulcast on a high definition screen at the home of the Giants while it was performed live at the War Memorial Opera House. Fifteen thousand people enjoyed the opera.
http://www.sfopera.com/opera.asp?o=250
http://www.sfopera.com/news.asp
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12. Athletic shoe powerhouse Nike is marketing to a special cultural group with a new shoe. Most Native Americans have a particular shape to their feet and Nike tested hundreds of feet to create a new athletic shoe that will fit them comfortably. They even incorporated special colors and symbols on the shoe to make them unique for Native Americans. The new shoe is part of an effort to encourage physical fitness in a population that has high obesity rates and health problems like diabetes.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20980046/
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13. There are people in Pennsylvania who live in a shoe – a shoe house. Originally built in 1948 by the self-proclaimed “Wizard of York,” the five-story boot was an advertising gimmick. Today it’s getting a make-over. Hampton Inn’s Save-A-Landmark program pitched in to paint the shoe and preserve the treasure. Restoration work has also been done to the world’s largest teapot, cuckoo clock and buffalo!
http://www.jarrettsville.org/family/shoehouse.htm
http://www.roadsideamerica.com/attract/PAHALshoe.html
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14. Kids, don’t try this at home! Spectators at the Texas State Fair watched David “The Bullet” Smith fly 150 feet through the air into a safety net. The homemade cannon propels the “Human Cannonball” at nine times the force of gravity.
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/latestnews/
stories/092807dnmetcannonball.375725c.html
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15. A bear in Lake Tahoe, Nevada was frightened into falling of a bridge and was found clinging to the edge. Rescuers hung a net under the bridge, tranquilized the bear, and pushed him into it. The rescuers took the bear back to the wild, and after the tranquilizer wore off, the bear walked away unharmed. What do you think that bear was thinking through all that? Write us and let us know!
http://www.tahoewildbears.org/
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