The next time your dog � or your neighbor�s dog- barks a lot, what can you do to calm it down?
Have ETs finally been discovered?
And now some feedback: Yashodhara, grade 2, has to present a news item every Tuesday or Wednesday to her class. They have a news anchor for their channel which they call"Channel 87 [because it is in the combined classrooms 7 and 8]. Using last week's newsletter, she gave in the news about the McDonald fight!
Write in to us- did you read the news? Have you a news item to share? Let's hear from you guys!
News for Kids Editorial Team
http://www.angelfire.com/realm2/newsforkids/index.html
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Come Home, Little Squirrel: Parks Have Vacancies
By MICHAEL WINES
When they realized that they have very few squirrels in their parks, officials in Moscow, Russia, decided to do something about it.
"It's an animal everyone likes," said Anastasia V. Kuznetsova, who oversees specially protected lands in Moscow's vast park system. "It's nice looking. It's not a hedgehog, which goes out at night, and it can be easily tamed. Squirrels are not afraid of people, and they're not dangerous to children."
The forresters who look after the park will breed squirrels in specially built cages. Then they have to figure out how to keep them safe from dogs, cats, and crows!
Read more at:
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/05/international/europe/05MOSC.html
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Std IV boy swims for 24 hours in city pool
Sunanda Mehta
When he was 6, Aditya Raut broke his leg- his femur bone. Physiotherapists advised him to swim to strengthen his leg.
Today, as a nine-year-old, Aditya has accomplished a record breaking feat: he entered a swimming pool at 4 p.m. on Sunday- and emerged 24 horus later!
The non-stop 24 hours swimming ordeal that Aditya undertook was just a rehearsal for a bigger event. On November 23, he will attempt the 71 km swimming marathon starting from Gateway of India in Mumbai to Dharamtar and back.
Aditya's coach Marathe sensed his potential when he saw him at age 6, and has been coaching him ever since.
http://cities.expressindia.com/fullstory.php?newsid=34240
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cooltech.iafrica.com
Why dogs love their Bach
Dogs become sweet-tempered and relaxed when they listen to classical music but put up a howl when they listen to heavy metal, according to researchers.
Animal behaviouralists led by Deborah Wells of Queen's University in Belfast, Northern Ireland, exposed 50 canines in a dog shelter to four different types of noise.
The pooches were given either a middle-of-the-road pop compilation that included Britney Spears and Robbie Williams; a "best of classical" CD; a radio programme which only had human conversation; or an album by heavy-metal rockers Metallica.
The dogs became agitated and barked a lot when listening to Metallica but became quiet and lay down more when they listened to the classics. Pop music and the human voice seemed to make little difference to how they behaved.
http://cooltech.iafrica.com/science/178838.htm
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Indian scientists discover ET
Nov. 5
Yes, they look weird�and yes- they may even attack us; but no- the extraterrestrial [ET] life that Indian researchers believe they have discovered, is not huge. It is in theshape of microbes in samples they collected outside the earth's sphere.
And who knows- they may turn out to be friendly bacteria after all!
[Rewritten from reports in: http://tlc.discovery.com/news/afp/20021104/story4.html
http://www.cnn.com/2000/TECH/space/11/24/alien.microbe.claim/
http://cooltech.iafrica.com/science/179932.htm
http://www.rediff.com/news/2002/oct/28isro.htm
http://216.239.39.100/search?q=cache:luYbUV3yR0wC:www.countrywatch.com/%40school/cw_country.asp%3Fvcountry%3D78+indian+scientists+microbial&hl=en&ie=UTF-8
http://www.spacedaily.com/news/life-01zb.html
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