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Forty-five Girl Scouts in Rochester, Minn., spent last Thursday evening solving a crime. Although their three-hour foray into forensics was a bit sugar-coated--the girls, ages 9 to 15, were given cocoa powder to dust for fingerprints and chocolate bars to study teeth imprints--there was also a heavy dose of science and math. The troops measured the "culprit's" footprints to extrapolate how tall he or she might be and used deductive reasoning to eliminate suspects from further investigation. The workshop, organized by IBM for the fifth annual Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day, emphasized another...
...advantages over Deutsche Börse. Euronext already has 25% control of LCH Clearnet, a separate company that the L.S.E. uses to "clear" trades. Euronext in 2002 also bought liffe, a London-based futures and options market that lets investors bet on the future price of commodities like cocoa and coffee...
Nonetheless, as many parents can attest, weaning your kid off Mario can be tougher than confiscating the Cocoa Puffs. When Kathy Gregovich of Roseville, Mich., suggests to her children Jacob, 9, and Ashley, 6, that they put away the Game Boy and play a board game, "they go through withdrawal," she says. "If they had a choice between playing with electronic games and a friend, they would pick the games." --With reporting by Leslie Whitaker/Chicago
...dried blueberries to praline coconut. Customers pay $4 a bowl, then choose and pour their own milk: soy, flavored, skim or whole. At the Tempe, Arizona, flagship "Cereologists"?pajama-clad servers?offer plain old cornflakes as well as such fancy concoctions as Devil Made Me Do It, which combines Cocoa Puffs and Lucky Charms with chocolate milk and malt balls. On Nov. 29, a Philadelphia outpost is set to open. The chain's slogan? "95% of people like cereal; 57% like sex. We have cereal...
...warnings of turmoil on Election Day, most people were on their best behavior. Even at war, there was civility. In New Mexico a law student policing the polls for the Democrats lent her cell phone to her Republican counterpart. In Merrimack, N.H., volunteers from MoveOn.org passed out hot cocoa to activists holding signs outside the polling place--Republicans and Democrats alike. "We might be a battleground state," said voter-protection volunteer Chris L'Estrange in Des Moines, Iowa, "but there's not much of a battle." Florida state troopers suspended safety checkpoints for the day to avoid any accusations...