If I had my youth to live over, I’d do a few things differently - like eating. I’d focus less on peer groups and more on basic food groups. I’d eat more fruits and vegetables and less fat and sugar. In an attempt to help today’s youth eat this way, McDonald’s now offers fruit as dessert and fruit juice as an alternative for soda. It’s McDonald’s attempt to provide healthier - but not as happy - meals.
John Losey, an entomologist at Cornell University, wants to provide America’s youth with an opportunity to be scientists in his “Lost Ladybug Project”. Ladybugs play an important role in agricultural pest control, but some species common 20 years ago seem in danger of extinction. For example, the “nine spot” ladybug, the state insect of New York, hasn’t been seen in New York for 15 years. To help create a national data base, children twelve and under are being asked to take digital pictures of ladybugs they see and e-mail them to Cornell. The project’s Web site suggests refrigerating the ladybugs before taking their pictures to slow their movements. It seems chilling out is a scientific principal.
It seems a “gap year” is a […]

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