Litterbug project sparks eco awareness in schools
My Weekly Reader launches Earth Patrol to engage 29 million U S elementary students in ecology. In Indianapolis first and second graders create litter bugs from trash, while Madison students tour a landfill and Grand Rapids sixth graders form SWAP to study pollution. Baltimore sixth graders write anti pollution works.
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New York
United States
Earth Patrol
My Weekly Reader
Cedar Rapids
Madison, Conn
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Ry School
Grand Rapids
Mich
SWAP
Students Fight Pollution With Creative School Projects
Fifth graders in Merion Pennsylvania mocked litter by recycling trash into balls for a pollution themed carnival. Across states, pupils rewrite nursery rhymes and stage plays to spotlight environmental issues and urge cleanup with letters, posters, and community actions.
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Steel Industries
Merion
van Buren Elementary
Nashville
Ind
Little fishie in the brook Merion fifth grade tale
A Merion Pennsylvania fifth grade story describes a child finding a rusty old pot in a brook and mistaking it for a fish caught by a parent. The item becomes a humorous local memory from school.
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Papa
First Grid Cheer Origin Traced to Battle Cry
Washington report notes the first football cheer arose from a battle cry. At the 1869 Princeton versus Rutgers game students shouted Siss boom ah, inspired by the rocket yell of New York's Seventh Regiment, per the National Geographic Society.
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Washington
National Geographic Society
Princeton
Rutgers
Industrial Engineers Hear Consultant McBride at Cedar Rapids Meeting
William C. McBride of A. T. Kearney and Co. will speak to the Cedar Rapids area chapter of the American Institute of Industrial Engineers at the Hotel Roosevelt. The talk titled Danger, Promotion Ahead will explore potential pitfalls of advancement with social hour at 5 30 p m and dinner at 6 30 p m.
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William C. McBride
A. T. Kearney and Co., Inc
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Chicago
Cedar Rapids Area
American Institute of Industrial Engineers
Hotel Roosevelt
McBride
Kearney
Expert debunks Thanksgiving myths with Indian image clash
An Indian studies student at the University of Texas argues the classic Thanksgiving scene of Pilgrims meeting feathered Indians is inaccurate. Richard Madaus says war bonnets and beads did not define Plains Indians until the 1800s and beads came with white contact. He seeks library science and media work and has spent a decade studying tribes.
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Austin, Texas
UPI
University of Texas
Richard Madaus
Texas
Madaus
Bank cashes rubber check from plant leaf in Port Elizabeth
A South African bank in Port Elizabeth cashed a five dollar and sixty cent check written on a leaf from a rubber plant. Officials said a client found the leaf on the bank's front steps and used it to make the payment.
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Port Elizabeth
South Africa
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