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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...
...been promoting The Contender (previews March 7, 9:30 p.m. E.T., and March 10, 10 p.m. E.T.; regular time, Sundays, 8 p.m. E.T.): as a reality series with high emotional stakes. Executive producer Mark Burnett (Survivor, The Apprentice) says Stallone, whose co-host is boxing legend Sugar Ray Leonard, advised him to watch Rocky again before making the show. "It's not Rocky's story," Burnett says. "It's [Rocky's girlfriend] Adrian's story...
...Frogs Make a Right? When Australians imported cane toads from Venezuela in 1935 to eat the beetles that were destroying sugar cane crops, they didn't count on the poisonous amphibians going after kookaburras, snakes and native cats instead. Now, after decades and millions of dollars spent trying to eradicate the man-made plague, a solution may be at hand: the DAHL'S AQUATIC FROG, native to Australia, can swallow infant and tadpole cane toads without any apparent ill effects?not bad, considering a grown cane toad can kill a dog in 15 minutes
...their economic aid to the North. "That would have to be for each nation to decide [itself]," he said. That message certainly would have played well in Seoul and Beijing. The problem for the U.S. Administration is, it also probably went down pretty well in Pyongyang. Strangulation is out. Sugar, anyone...
What's the hottest destination for 2005? Health resorts, if industry predictions are anything to go by. With 1.7 billion of the planet's 6 billion people classed as overweight or obese by the U.K.-based International Obesity Task Force, the dangers of diets high in fat, sugar and processed foods are more apparent than ever. And spa directors are eager to help. "Most spas initially offered pampering treatments, but with growing competition and a need to differentiate, spas are expanding services to focus on health and fitness," says Naphalai Areesorn, president of the Thai Spa Association. Christine Galle...