Teachers compete for feat of science smarts.

Newsday (Melville, NY);  March 28, 2007 ;     481 words ......bin. At one table, a group stared silently at a blown-up pink balloon, pondering what they would construct. A teacher in another...they taped pins. The rocket, pins-first, stood aimed at a pink balloon. At first nothing happened. So they gave the bottle a shake...

Dear Mirror: Kids' Talk.(Letters)

The Mirror (London, England);  September 28, 2005 ;     37 words ...Byline: Kevin Whittingham LAST week my two-year-old daughter was playing with her pink balloon. There was a loud pop as it burst and she asked me: Where did that come from and where has my balloon gone? Kevin Whittingham, Upton, Wirral

`Velvetville' not always smooth, but wears well.(NEWS)

Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN);  April 20, 2001 ;     379 words ......s impervious to a nuclear blast, while Dick Cheney floats in as a pink balloon, held aloft by gentle, nervous hands of doctors. I'm the president, damn it, the pink balloon says before Heston pops it. - Rohan Preston is at rpreston@startribune...

Let us all launch balloons (even if only imaginary)

Chicago Sun-Times;  July 20, 1986 ;     409 words ...The pink balloon was found in the yard the other morning, stuck among some bushes. It was your everyday pink balloon, the kind they fill with helium at carnivals and fairs and parties, and hand on a string to a kid. It was the kind that a youngster...

Free Will Astrology

The Village Voice;  June 9, 2004 ;     700+ words ......But before the child could reply, Elizabeth would whip a pink balloon out of the bunch and wrap its string around his wrist. Then...always get and always give your personal equivalent of the pink balloon. GEMINI [May 21-June 20] From an astrological perspective...

Rope trickster lassos Downtown Alive! crowd

Beacon News, The (Aurora, IL);  July 13, 2002 ;     467 words ......getting the Rope Warrior to jump rope inside an inflated pink balloon. Just before the jump, he made his last call on the microphone...gonna want to get down to the gazebo. I'm the guy in the big pink balloon," Fisher said. With Also Sprach Zarathustra (better known...

CELEBRATIONS - BIRTHDAY - ELLERY JULIETTE ROBERTS

Roanoke Times & World News;  September 8, 2002 ;     61 words ......is turning one. Two big sisters say the time has come. One cake, one candle, let's roll the drum. A little confetti, one pink balloon, We'll sing along to the Happy Birthday tune. We've waited all year for your special day, August 31, hip hip hooray! We love...

Up, up and away...(News)

South Wales Echo (Cardiff, Wales);  October 21, 2006 ;     35 words ...Rhondda Breast Friends is holding a pink balloon race at 2pm today in Tonypandy town centre. Funds raised will be used for patients to continue having therapies at the cash-strapped Community Cancer Services Centre in Tonypandy.

CRAZY WORLD.(News)

Sunday Mercury (Birmingham, England);  July 29, 2007 ;     36 words ...AMSTERDAM: SAFE sex campaigners floated a giant pink balloon shaped like a condom above a rock festival. More than 80,000 revellers were stunned by the unusual display which featured the worlds 'Vrij Velilig' - Dutch for Safe Sex'.

Up... and no way can a beautiful balloon fly; EXCLUSIVE.(News)

Sunday Mirror (London, England);  May 20, 2007 ;     470 words ......planes. Cops took a little girl's seventh birthday present - a pink balloon saying Happy Birthday - and refused to allow it on the flight...Shannon Airport admitted security staff were NOT afraid the pink balloon would be used as a weapon. Instead they feared it might burst...

Having a ball

Naperville Sun, The (IL);  July 22, 2003 ;     37 words ...The Rope Warrior, David L. Fisher, performs a jump-rope stunt inside a large pink balloon during North Central College's Junior/Senior Scholars Program at the North Central campus Monday. Fisher taught the children about physical fitness.

Review Low Jinks

The Scotsman;  August 16, 2002 ;     221 words ...THEATRE: The Bongo Club - out of the blue (venue 143) THE clown stands, barefoot, a pink balloon in one hand. The stage lights slowly fade to black before the audience are bombarded with light. They will soon be encouraged to...

Man's Plea: Bring Home the Bacon

Chicago Sun-Times;  December 31, 1993 ;     98 words ......of his Houston company. The pig, known as "Gertrude," was stolen Wednesday. Thieves cut through chains to abscond with the pink balloon and the air blower that keep her upright. "Who would do something like this to a poor, harmless pig," said Logan, owner of...

There for others.(News)

Evening Chronicle (Newcastle, England);  March 31, 2007 ;     178 words ......from as far away as Devon and Scotland to attend her funeral at St Andrew's Woodland Cemetery, Hexham. Everyone released a pink balloon with her picture attached to represent the release Kate had in death from the torment she suffered in life. Since Kate's...

Football: The Gaffer Tapes - A case of `bad flight stops play' at Old...

The Independent - London;  December 13, 1997 ;     681 words ......film bleu, She Came in a Brown Envelope. Tragically, as they began to descend from the heavens in their curiously shaped pink balloon, a gust of wind swept the Old Cornfield. The balloon stiffened, then went limp as it speared into the floodlights ejecting...