Sports
Dropout
rate for kid athletes is very high
Seventy per cent of young athletes will
quit playing sports by the time they are just
15 years old. Many of them start dropping out
by age 11. |
| Animal
Career Choices |
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Chimp
career
A
career helping animals? Think chimps!
If you are considering a career
helping animals, are you thinking about
being a veterinarian? How about working
with tool-making chimpanzees in remote
Africa?
Deer
study
$1
million grant for MU professor to study
deer
As a kid, professor Josh
Millspaugh grew up hunting and fishing
with family and friends. He's now a
principal investigator on a $1 million
grant to study habits of Missouri deer.
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Lewis
and Clark
Learning
value of primary research sources
Two hundred years ago, President Jefferson
asked Lewis and Clark to investigate lands of
the Louisiana Purchase northwest of St. Louis.
The president stressed he wanted them to bring
back real examples of what they found. |
| History
in Cemeteries |
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History
in Cemeteries
Local gravestones tell of area's lively
history
St. Louis author Kevin Amsler has written
a book that's a perfect resource to
help kids plan their own local historical
tours. And you'll go to places you aren't
likely to have seen before-the area's
old cemeteries.
How
to make gravestone rubbings
Author
Kevin Amsler was in lots of cemeteries
while researching his book, "Final Resting
Place: The Lives & Deaths of Famous
St. Louisans."
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Book
Reviews
This month's
book reviews
Books reviewed for July include ones about
(1) an eleven-year-old girl genius who wants
to be normal, (20 a vision-impaired boy who
plays soccer, (3) an orphan girls who seeks
a loving home, and (4) a boy is lost in an
isolated area of Alaska
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Minority
scientists
90-year-old
tells kids joys of science
Dr. Lincoln I. Diuguid is a scientist who turned
90 this month. But, he continues to work at
his laboratory and manufacturing plant in St.
Louis. |
Health
Can't
run at 13; Olympic qualifier at 16
Anne
Audain had reconstructive surgery on both
feet at age 13. Three years later, she qualified
to run for her native New Zealand in the Munich
Olympic Games.
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