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Oct. 2007 School Article #2


Science and Technology: What's happening in the news?

Questions:
1. What country plans on sending a man to the moon by 2025?
2. What was the source of anthrax spores found in a Connecticut home?
3. What is melting faster than expected?
4. Because of tighter border restrictions near Los Angeles, CA, what are farmers considering the use of to pick fruit?
5. What form of communication is now widely used by teens in Vietnam?
6. Even though they are considered an endangered species, where were Kemp’s Ridley sea turtle nests found recently?
7. In Germany, there has been an increase in market demand for what products?
8. Italian scientists have produced a new test for the early diagnosis of what brain dysfunction?
9. What rare meteor shower was visible in the western U.S. in September?
10. The National Institute of Agricultural Biotechnology in Suwon explored the fact that plants may be sensitive to what?

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Answers:
1. Russia
2. Animal hides from Africa
3. The Arctic ice cap
4. Robots
5. Blogs
6. Corpus Christi, Texas
7. Organically grown food
8. Dyslexia
9. Aurigid
10. Sound

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October 2007

Volume 2, Issue 2

In this issue:
1. Why are Primary
    Sources so Valuable
    to the Research
    Process? - A Student
    Activity and Project Plan

2. News Quiz: Science
    & Technology

3. Historically Speaking
4. Helping Students Pick
    a Research Topic

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