Recently added articles from Junior Scholastic:
Know Your Netiquette?(Letters to the Editor)(Letter to the editor)
May 12, 2008; De Leon, Gabriel ... What is your idea of proper online behavior? [See JS, 4/28/08, p. 6.) Here are some of the letters we received from students at Park Place Community Middle School in Brooklyn, New York. On the Internet, you can say or do anything. When you are online, thousands of people could ...
Progress in Iraq? The top General says he hasn't seen any "lights at the end of the tunnel".(International)(David H. Petraeus)(Brief article)
May 12, 2008 ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] David H. Petraeus, Commanding General of the Multinational Force in Iraq, returned to Capitol Hill in April. He was there to update Congress on the results of last year's "surge" of 30,000 additional U.S. troops. The news was not as encouraging as many ...
A winning season?(Sports)
May 12, 2008 ... What if you could predict which Major League Baseball [MLB] teams will be big winners this gear? Bruce Bukiet of the New Jersey Institute of Technology sags that he has a wag--with a little help from math! For the past seven seasons, Bukiet, a math professor, has been predicting ...
Out of this world.(Funville, USA)(Brief article)
May 12, 2008 ... Who would want to live in a house that looks like a flying saucer? Apparently, a woman from Cincinnati, Ohio, does. In March, Pearl Johnson bought the Tennessee home shown at right for $135,000. Johnson's new dwelling has six ...
Numbers in the news.(news)(Brief article)
May 12, 2008 ... $12.5 billion Estimated cost of the Iraq war per month. 175,000 Estimated number of whales in the North Atlantic. 578 Number of gallons of gas used, on average, per car in the U.S. in 2007. $208.7 billion ...
What a ride! How one woman blazed a trail--on the planet and off.(News Special)
May 12, 2008 ... It has been 25 gears since astronaut Sally Ride first made history. In 1983, Ride became the first American woman to travel into space. She was a crew member of the Challenger shuttle. "I always dreamed of going into space," Ride recently told JS. "I didn't aim my career goals toward being ...
Make amusement parks safer?(Debate)
May 12, 2008 ... NEWS FACT: Last June, Kaitlyn Lassiter, 13, was at Six Flags Kentucky Kingdom in Louisville. Her day of thrills turned into a nightmare when a ride's cable snapped and severed her feet. The accident prompted Kentucky lawmakers to pass a bill requiring tighter safety regulations for their ...
Scholastic art & writing awards.(Student Awards)
May 12, 2008 ... More than 100,000 students entered the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards competition this year. On these pages, we feature some of the winning entries. To view more great student work or to learn how to enter your own next year, go to www.scholastic.com/artandwritingawards. <Pre> ...
Bosnia the children of war: how has war affected a generation too young to remember it?(World)(Country overview)
May 12, 2008; Woodard, Colin ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Before Reading ABOUT BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA Q. What and where is it? A. Bosnia and Herzegovina [HURT-suh-GOH.vee-nuh] is an independent nation in an Eastern European region known as the Balkans. [See JS 3/31/08, p. 23.] ...
Reading a country map.(MapSearch)(Country overview)(Brief article)
May 12, 2008 ... Map Search [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Bosnia and Herzegovina A small, mountainous country, Bosnia and Herzegovina is in the Balkans region of southeastern Europe. Bosnia (as it is known for short) was once part of a larger country called Yugoslavia (see map) ....
Clash in Chicago: forty years ago, the world watched as a democratic convention came apart at the seams.(American History Play)(Play)
May 12, 2008; Brown, Bryan ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] PROLOGUE Prologue Narrator: It was a year marked by violence and frustration. No issue divided the American public in 1968 more than U.S. military involvement in the Vietnam War. That summer, presidential campaigns were in full swing. President ...
What I love about San Diego, California.(Hometown America Contest)
May 12, 2008; Gabel, Chloe ... What is special about your hometown? That's the question we asked in our Hometown America contest, which appeared in our November 26, 2007, issue. In response, we received essays about unique celebrations, favorite tourist attractions, historic events, and even a local mail. This year's ...
He found Mapman.(GeoSkills)
May 12, 2008 ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Where in the world did Mapman go? That's what we challenged you to figure out in our "Find Mapman" contest. In our February 11 issue, we showed you a map that Mapman followed on a recent trip. Your mission: Answer eight questions about the trip ...
Who am I?(History Mystery)(Brief article)
May 12, 2008 ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] This History Mystery will introduce you to a famous person of the past. First, read his story. Then you'll have two options: (1) See if you can use the facts you are given to track down his name. (2) Ask your teacher for his name--it's in the Teacher's ...
Sudoku.(Some Fun)(Brief article)
May 12, 2008 ... What has 81 squares and is dangerously addictive? It is sudoku, the puzzle that first became a hit in Japan and is now fascinating Americans. How do you play? Each row, column, and section in the grid has nine small ...
Brain twister.(Some Fun)
May 12, 2008 ... The numbers in the triangle follow a certain. Try to figure out that pattern, then replace each of the five question marks with the correct number. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] ...
News IQ.(What Do You Know?)
May 12, 2008 ... Fill in the letter of the correct answer for each question. 1. What did General Petraeus recently tell Congress? (A) Most U.S. troops will leave Iraq in July. (B) Progress in Iraq is real but fragile. (C) The U.S. will be in Iraq for several ...
Cartoon.(What Do You Know)
May 12, 2008 ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] A favorite tool of political cartoonists is symbolism--using simple objects to represent larger, more abstract ideas. This cartoon relates to the news article on p. 4. Study it, then answer the questions. 1. What does the man in the center of ...
Eyewitness.(What Do You Know)(Brief article)
May 12, 2008; Hoffman, Abbie ... Democracy is not something you believe in or hang your hat on, but something you do. You participate. If you stop doing it, democracy crumbles and falls. If you participate, the future is yours. --Abbie Hoffman (1936-1989), political and social activist of the 1960s ...
Quick quiz.(QUIZ)
May 12, 2008 ... NEWS: PROGRESS IN IRAQ? PAGE 4 * Decide whether each sentence is true, false, or an opinion. Write your answer on the blank line provided. -- 1. General David H. Petraeus recently told Congress that last year's "surge" of troops had helped the U.S. "turn a corner" in ...