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Mountain View school collects 1 million bottle caps: MOUNTAIN VIEW KIDS GATHER BOTTLE CAPS.

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| September 29, 2007 | COPYRIGHT 2007 San Jose Mercury News. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Byline: Connie Skipitares

Sep. 29--What would you do with a million bottle caps?

First of all, you'd have to find a pretty big space to put them, like a schoolyard. Then, you'd throw a big party around the huge mound of caps, singing goofy songs and celebrating the achievement of gathering so many.

That's exactly what the 545 students at Benjamin Bubb Elementary School in Mountain View did Friday after recently hitting their goal of gathering 1 million bottle caps, some from as far away as Afghanistan and Iraq.

It wasn't just about collecting the colorful caps from the tops of juice and soda bottles that stood in a 5-foot-tall heap and…

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