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NEWS QUIZ.......[This newsletter will help you to answer these questions]:
Why will Bill Gates not leave his wealth to his children?
Which animal can teach a child to obey?
How did a boy in Tennessee, USA, fly in the air?
Why does a new street in India make the news?
Does it make sense to save your old lunchbox?
When is World Children�s Day?
Why are toys not just �child�s play?�
What is a �gilded cage�?
How did the African elephant come to the Ark?
What storm are people eager to see on Nov 18th and 19th?
And- can the Japanese make a solar system?!
Now read on:
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NO BILLIONS FOR BILL GATES� KIDS
November 12, 2002 3:15 PM
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, the world's wealthiest man, says a sizeable portion of his legendary wealth would go to charity and not his three children.
"I don't think it's constructive to grow up having billions of dollars," Gates said of his children at a news conference while on a
four-day trip to India.
But Gates added: "Certainly I'll make sure they are taken care of in a sense that they can live a very comfortable life."
The 47-year-old's wife, Melinda, gave birth to their third child in September. The other two are aged six and three.
http://www.swissinfo.org/sen/Swissinfo.html?siteSect=143&sid=1451877
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PUPPIES TEACH STUDENTS OBEDIENCE
AKRON, Ohio (AP) --In Renee Smith's classroom, attendance is up, trips to the principal's office are down and students are handing in assignments on time.
The Springfield High School teacher says she's seen great progress since adding a few new students to her class -- five Labrador puppies and their father.
The seven human students in Smith's class have a history of discipline problems. But since they've started teaching the dogs obedience, their own behavior has improved, Smith told the Akron Beacon Journal for a Saturday story.
Chuck Reynolds, a dog trainer who owns a kennel in suburban Cuyahoga Falls, teaches the students a new trick each week that they then work on with the puppies.
"It's sort of like a dog biscuit for the kid," said Nancy Dapper, vice president of the Delta Society, a nonprofit organization based in Renton, Washington, that trains pet therapy volunteers. "What you are trying to teach is self-control and that there are consequences for the decisions you make."
http://www.cnn.com/2002/EDUCATION/11/12/class.obedience.ap/index.html
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TORNADO TOOK TENNESSEE BOY �FOR A RIDE� AND PUT FAMILY IN HOSPITAL
By DAVID M. HALBFINGER
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/13/national/nationalspecial/13STOR.html
OSSY GROVE, Tenn., Nov. 12 � Stunned and weary, survivors of the tornadoes that tore a 1,000-mile swath of the country sifted through the shards of 36 lost lives and hundreds of homes today.
Quentin Woody, 11, who was sucked from the shower in his mobile home and blown 300 yards away stark naked, tiptoed through a mud-soaked field here that was smeared with his family's belongings as his mother lay in a hospital with a broken back. He found his 13-year-old sister Sarah's camera. She had broken her arm. His father was in the hospital, too, with badly injured shoulders. But Quentin, somehow, only needed a few stitches, which he was only too eager to show the television photographers who kept asking.
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SESAME STREET IS SET TO BE PAVED IN INDIA
TIMES NEWS NETWORK [ FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 2002 12:08:51 AM ]
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/cms.dll/xml/comp/articleshow?artid=28300895
MUMBAI: What TV buffs call the world�s longest street will now run through India. Local creative directors, artists and technical hands will create programmes for Sesame Street, the muppet show for children which shows in 150 countries. Before India, the show has had 20 locally adopted versions from Russia, South Africa, Egypt and some other nations.
The Indian version of the show will take into account tastes and themes familiar with children here.
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LUNCH BOX EXHIBIT EVOKES NOSTALGIA
Smithsonian Show of Lunch Boxes Recalls Youth of First TV Generation
The Associated Press
http://abcnews.go.com/wire/Entertainment/ap20021114_1515.html
W A S H I N G T O N, Nov. 14 � The Smithsonian Institution has dug out kids' lunch boxes from among its prehistoric bones, Civil War relics and millions of other artifacts and is sending them on a sentimental journey to American museums.
The curator in charge, David H. Shayt of the National Museum of American History, traces the origin of modern lunch boxes to the large cookie containers and tobacco tins that workmen used a century ago.
The tins gave way to plain black or gray boxes made of sheet steel. Sometimes those boxes, with a domed cover to hold a thermos, swayed high above cities beside workers too busy on the girders to come down for lunch. They remain a favorite model.
Best-remembered are children's lunch boxes that started appearing around 1950 and were tied to the emergence of television. Unlike the old steel boxes that were rounded and opened on top, these were square or oblong and opened on the side.
On one side would be a colorful picture about the size of an early TV screen. The first came from the popular Hopalong Cassidy cowboy series. More than 600,000 sold in its first year.
Allen Woodall, a collector and dealer who runs a museum devoted to lunch boxes in Columbus, Ga., said rare early versions sell for as much as $4,000.
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Yahoo! Teams with Ronald McDonald House Charities To Honor World Children's Day
11/14/02
http://www.stockhouse.com/news/news.asp?tick=YHOO&newsid=1403998
Yahoo! Inc. has joined forces with Ronald McDonald House Charities(R) to provide online resources in support of World Children's Day�, at participating McDonald's Restaurants in more than 100 countries. The marketing program will help to promote the 'Concert for World Children's Day,'a benefit that features Celine Dion, Enrique Iglesias, Nick Carter, David Foster and other top name performers. The concert will air nationally on Nov 14th and then again on the ABC Family Channel at 8 p.m. EST on November 19th.
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TOYS AND GAMES GIVE GIFTS OF LEARNING AS WELL AS FUN
11/14/02
http://www.stockhouse.com/news/news.asp?tick=SLVN&newsid=1403218
Toys and games are among the most popular holiday gifts for children. But many parents may not realize that these gifts can give much more than just fun; they can also contribute to children's educational and learning development.
'Play is how children learn,' says Richard Bavaria PhD., Vice President of Education for Sylvan Learning Centre, the leading provider of supplemental education services to students. 'Right from the first few months of life, children play with the objects around them in order to discover how the world works. As children grow older, the role of play becomes more complex -- stimulating imagination, creativity, logic, social skills, self-confidence and role-playing.
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HAITIAN CHILDREN IN �GILDED CAGE�
Thu Nov 14, 8:21 AM ET
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ibsys/20021114/lo_wplg/1389456
There is concern for the well-being of the Haitian children who made a desperate journey to the United States two weeks ago.
The children and their mothers are staying at a hotel in southwest Miami-Dade County, but advocates for the Haitians claim the conditions aren't much better than the Krome Detention Center.
"It sounds great. They're in a hotel, but it's really a gilded cage. They're locked in their rooms an armed INS guard outside their room. They're not allowed to leave it unless they're going to Krome for their hearings or to see a lawyer," said immigration attorney Cheryl Little.
Some of the children may have family members in South Florida, but the INS will not allow them to be released into custody of local relatives.
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�PAWS� ANIMALS FINALLY MOVE TO NEW DIGS
Thu Nov 14, 8:39 PM ET
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=289&u=/ibsys/20021115/lo_kcra/1390483&printer=1
Ark 2000, a sprawling ranch in Calaveras County, has been in the works for years. Animals are finally moving in to the animal rescue reserve after area neighbors settled legal challenges.
The first two residents of Ark 2000 are "Mara" and "71" -- two 21-year-old elephants who have been living near the city of Galt on property owned by the Performing Animals Welfare Society, or PAWS.
The African elephants moved into the 2,300-acre ranch and are getting used to area. But because it's a gradual process, the elephants' handlers are still sleeping in the barn with them.
Tigers, lions and other animals will arrive later.
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LEONID METEOR SHOWER
http://www.space.com/spacewatch/leonids_fact_021114-1.html
The annual Leonid meteor shower has long been a favorite of serious skywatchers. Last year, when it produced a stupendous storm of shooting stars, it became the doorstep-astronomy darling of the masses.
This year there are serious expectations. We want another Leonid storm!
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COME AGAIN?
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/getarticle.pl5?nb20021115a6.htm
Headline in a Japanese newspaper:
Sharp to make solar systems in U.S.
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