Kentucky Deaf-Blind Project helps teen master the technology he needs
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BC-TEENS-DEAFBLIND:LX (1506 words)
LEXINGTON, Ky. - Joseph Boggs' vision is so impaired that it is as if he is looking through two straws. The 13-year-old's hearing loss is considered severe to profound, depending upon what sounds he is trying to distinguish. But Joseph's congenital disabilities lessen in significance as he uses a Refreshabraille 18, a small device that connects to his iPad through Bluetooth and allows him to ...

May/23/2013 11:21 AM

Teens get with the volunteer spirit
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BC-TEENS-VOLUNTEERS:QC (600 words)
WATSONVILLE, Calif. - On an overcast afternoon, a group of teenagers cheerfully loaded wheelbarrows with wood chips and manure to help improve the grounds in the Pajaro Community Orchard behind the Lutheran Community Church in Watsonville, Calif. The teens, who were volunteering with YouthServe at the Mesa Verde Community Garden, rolled the full loads down a slope, emptied the material onto ...

May/23/2013 11:20 AM

Students sink or swim in canoe competition
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BC-TEENS-CARDBOARD-CANOES:AK (672 words)
AKRON, Ohio - As the four seventh-graders approached the last leg of the race, Camryn Woodley's paddle slipped into the pool at Firestone High School. Teammate Armon Cook snatched it out of the water and frantically smacked the water, laughing the entire time. Another 5 feet and the four students from Akron's National Inventors Hall of Fame School for Science, Technology, Engineering and ...

May/23/2013 11:20 AM

Pain-free, fashionable ear art for kids
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BC-KIDS-FASH-POPPY-DROPS:MCT (225 words)
To pierce or not to pierce? That's the question many parents ponder when their kids start wanting to wear earrings. But the answer can be "no," while still providing lovely, fashionable art kids can flash from their little earlobes. Poppy Drops are tiny tattoo earrings that kids can wear without pain, and without piercing. The temporary images come in various themed packs, stick with just ...

May/23/2013 11:16 AM

Why do bats use echolocation?
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BC-KIDS-WHY:MCT (276 words)
Bats, which have poor eyesight, use echolocation to keep from slamming into objects, and to detect their favorite meal -- bugs. Bats emit a high frequency sound that humans cannot hear and then wait for the sound to echo off of an nearby objects. Based on how long the echo takes to reach it, bats can determine the distance, location, movement and size of the object. Submarines use sonar in ...

May/23/2013 10:06 AM

Game review: 'Revelations' valiantly returns to survival horror, but is still a little watered down
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BC-TEENS-GAMEREVIEW:MCT (1110 words)
After last year's ridiculously hyper-energetic "Resident Evil 6" (and that's being kind), fans have been clamoring for any sort of return to what made the survival horror series great in the first place - and by that, we mean the actual survival horror. Well, it looks like Capcom was actually...

May/23/2013 10:02 AM

Notable quotables: Brad Pitt, Zoe Saldana, Nicki Minaj
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BC-TEENS-SAYWHAT:MCT (297 words)
"There's constant chatter in our house, whether it's giggling or screaming or crying or banging. I love it. I love it. I love it." -Brad Pitt, on life in the Jolie-Pitt household, to Esquire - "Been there, done that, got the T-shirt." -Zoe Saldana, on dating fellow actors, to Allure - "It can absolutely feel like one big popularity contest, and you know what? I can't be bothered." -Nicki ...

May/23/2013 08:06 AM

Mini ha-has
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BC-KIDS-YUKS:MCT (223 words)
Q: What is purple and goes "hmmm?" A: An electric grape. Q: If you need a loan, who do you see in the bank? A: The Loan Arranger (Lone Ranger). - SOURCE: "The Biggest Riddle Book in the World" Distributed by MCT Information Services -- TO SUBSCRIBE TO KIDS & TEENS ELEMENTS Items in the KIDS & TEENS ELEMENTS package are not included in your MCT News Service subscription. You can subscribe ...

May/23/2013 08:03 AM

It was a cogito ergo sum kind of day at youth math festival
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BC-KIDS-MATH-FESTIVAL:SJ (1134 words)
STANFORD, Calif. - If any of the 246 registered contestants at Saturday's Julia Robinson Mathematics Festival had bothered to Google "famous mathematicians," they would have quickly put two and two together and concluded that higher math is a man's sport. Archimedes, Euclid, Pythagoras - all giants with but one name and one X chromosome. Sitting at the Card Mathemagic table in Stanford's McCaw ...

May/16/2013 08:13 AM

PE class segregated by fitness level stirs vigorous debate
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BC-TEENS-FAT-GYM:TB (1484 words)
CHICAGO - It's known as the "lower" PE class, but some students at one suburban Chicago high school simply call it "fat gym." Sophomore James Farquharson said his peers coined the term after Prospect High School adopted a new physical education curriculum last fall that places students into different sections based on their fitness levels. "It was weird at first - they're separating us," said ...

May/16/2013 08:13 AM