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IN THE NEWS! 07/29/10

The world's fastest land mammal is the cheetah,reaching up to 70 miles per hour over short distances! Of the remaining estimated 10,000 cheetahs in the world, most are found in Africa. Cheetahs also are found in parts of the Middle East. The Cheetah, which once roamed India, hasn't been seen in the country since 1967. Extinct from over hunting, the mammal gets its name from the area's ancient Sanskrit word "chitraku" meaning "spots". Cheetahs will once again roam the open grasslands of India with the announcement that 18 cheetahs are being reintroduced to India at three different wildlife sanctuaries in the country. With the return of the cheetah, India will become the only country in the world to have six of the world's eight large cats and the only country in the world to have all the large cats of Asia.

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  • What do you get when a donkey and zebra have a baby? Answer: A cute zedonk! Born at the Chestatee Wildlife Preserve in Georgia, the foal has black stripes on her face and legs. Zedonks are extremely rare as donkeys and zebras don't usually mate. See a picture at this link:

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  • After 128 days, The Plastiki, a 60-foot catamaran, and its six crew, has successfully sailed from San Francisco to Sydney, Australia. It was a journey of about 8000 nautical miles. The boat make almost entirely of 12,500 recycled plastic bottles, was a journey with a message, to raise awareness about the dangers of plastic waste to our environment and to think of creative uses for trash. The journey faced giant ocean waves, 70 mph winds, sizzling hot temperatures and torn sails. Adventure Ecology, the organization responsible for the Plastiki Adventure, wants you to rethink trash accumulating in your recycling bin and hopes you might think of these items as treasures to be used in some imaginative way...like a plastic sailing vessel!

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  • A whopper of a star has been found in our universe. Twice as heavy of any star ever found, astronomers say it may be about 265-320 times bigger than our Sun. The bright ball of burning gas gives of more than 10 million times more light than our sun. The "monster star"called R136a1 amazed British astronomers who discovered it because scientists didn't think a star could be so large. It is located in a star cluster of the Tarantula Nebula, part of the Large Magellanic Cloud, a galaxy 165,000 light-years away from the Milky Way.Read more:

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    About Gail:

    As of June /2006, I have retired from teaching after 33 1/2 years in the classroom. Of that time, I taught Grade 6 Social Studies teacher for 31 1/2 years.I earned my BA in early secondary education with a concentration in social studies from SUNY Oneonta, New York, and my MST in social studies education from Binghamton University in New York. In 1988, I was awarded the Outstanding Elementary Social Studies Classroom Teacher of the Year Award from the New York State Council for the Social Studies. Additionally, in 1988, I was also awarded the Outstanding Elementary Social Studies Teacher of the Year Award by the National Council for the Social Studies.

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