Weekly Reader, Senior Edition (including Science Spin) articles from April 2004

Weekly Reader, Senior Edition (including Science Spin) archives from April 2004

Eyewitness to History.(Feature Story)
April 23, 2004... Out of the hundreds of submissions Senior Edition received this year to its Eyewitness to History Contest, the four stories here stand out for their unique vision of courage. "Grandma Was a Protester" is the tale of a grandmother who stood up...

The 10th planet?(Brief Article)
April 23, 2004... By now, you know the names of the planets: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune, Uranus, and Pluto. Get ready to memorize another one. Scientists say they have spotted what could be a tenth planet orbiting the sun. Named...

Oh, brother!(The Buzz)
April 23, 2004... How would you like to get paid to be funny? It sounds cool, right? Well, you would love to have Kyle Massey's job. Kyle, 12, plays Cory Baxter on TV's That's So Raven. The show airs weekends on the Disney Channel. On the show, Cory...

Mystery photo.
April 23, 2004... How sweet it is! A spoonful of this will surely make the medicine go down. What is this a mystery photo of? [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] ANSWER KEY Student Edition Mystery Photo: colored sugar

Let's get ready to rumble.(News Shorts)
April 23, 2004... Ladies and gentlemen! In this corner is the challenger, the Democratic party's junior U.S. senator from Massachusetts, John Kerry. In the opposite corner is the reigning champion, the former Republican governor of Texas and current...

Know the news.(Brain Builders)
April 23, 2004... Fill in the oval in front of the correct answer. 1. -- is the name of the Inuit goddess of the sea. (A) Pluto (B) Mars (C) Sedna 2. TV's That's So Raven airs on --. (A) Fox (B) CBS (C) the Disney Channel...

Read the map.(Brain Builders)
April 23, 2004... Fill in the oval in front of the correct answer. 1. From the map, you can conclude that in 1942 Nazi Germany dominated --. (A) Spain (B) most of Europe (C) Ireland and Great Britain 2. Which country was not under Nazi...

At work in the world.
April 23, 2004... You're in Bangkok, Thailand, you've lost your passport and you need to get back to the U.S. by tomorrow. Who do you turn to? What government agency is in charge of working with governments around the world to solve important problems? ...

News quiz.(from the desk of)
April 23, 2004... How well do you remember your Weekly Reader news? The questions below relate to stories in Weekly Reader Senior Edition issues 21 to 23. Circle the letter in front of the correct answer. 1. In which nation has the vulture population...

Star struck.(Feature Story)
April 2, 2004... To prove she had the right stuff, Mary Wallace "Wally" Funk swallowed 3 feet of hose, drank a pint of radioactive water, and spent more than ten hours submerged in an 8-foot-deep tank of warm water unable to see, hear, taste, touch, or smell...

Losing ground.(Cover Story)
April 2, 2004... As Willie Smits, a Dutch scientist, walked through a busy outdoor market in Balikpapan, Indonesia, in 1989, he came across a sickly baby orangutan for sale as a pet. Smits moved on, but he could not shake the image of the small animal's...

Flag flap in Florida.(News Shorts)
April 2, 2004... Late one night, four students at Hudson High School in Florida decided to pull a prank on their classmates. They hoisted a Confederate flag printed with the words "I ain't coming down" above the school. When classes started the next morning,...

For the love of art.(The Buzz)
April 2, 2004... Nine-year-old Akiane (ah-KEE-ah-nah) Kramarik has an amazing gift for painting and poetry. She is only in the fourth grade, but already her paintings have sold for between $7,000 and $30,000 apiece. The young artist often writes a poem to...

You said it!(The Buzz)
April 2, 2004... Dear Senior Edition, After reading "Amazon Under Siege" [issue 18], I think the people who live in the Amazon should have a say about how the oil companies drill for crude oil. The oil companies should clean up the mess they make. We...

Brain teaser.(The Buzz)
April 2, 2004... Jimmy spends $21 on some liquid refreshments. The orange soda costs twice as much as the pineapple juice, which costs twice as much as the chocolate milk. How much was the pineapple juice?

Know the news.
April 2, 2004... Fill in the oval in front of the correct answer. 1. What is the name of the group of women who wanted to become astronauts in 1961? (A) Mercury (B) Mercury 13 (C) Mercury 21 2. In which year did the Soviet Union send...

Read the map.
April 2, 2004... Fill in the oval in front of the word or words that best complete each sentence. 1. Java is part of--. (A) Australia (B) Indonesia (C) Malaysia 2. New Guinea is--of Java and--of the Philippines. (A) west/south ...