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VOL. 4 • NO. 5 • MAY/JUNE 2018 5WT18_01_Cover.indd 1 4/13/18 8:29 PM Finish School in Four Years DRON ESRO BOT S ZIPL I NE S Science, Technology, Engineering, & Math experienced like never before! Scholarship offer on teen day camps, overnight camps, and family camps using promo code WORLD18 at: CampInfinity.com 5WT18_02,31,32.indd 2 4/16/18 7:39 AM MAY/JUNE 2018 • VOL. 4 • NO. 5 Growing L.L. boots Poland: No in the abuse 7 11 14 accusations 17 Kenya Amelia’s bones? of returns Catching Chile’s new Sweet tooth Reading to up to national keeping an 20 23 24 26 preemies whale sharks parks eye on you? Lee steadies his hand as he turns this photo . into this coffee art. He prepares and serves co ee. Lee recreated a photo from one couple’s The Art of Coffee bends over a cup at Seoul’s C. Through Niagara Falls vacation. He reproduced Maybe you don’t drink co ee, but co ee shop. He uses a tiny brush, Van Gogh’s Starry Night on another cup you probably know someone who food coloring, spoons, and tools that of Joe. A co ee featuring Lee’s art costs does. How do they take it? Black? With look like miniature ice picks. He draws around 10,000 won—or about $10. But cream? Sugar? How about art on top? people, animals, and landscapes—all in order ahead! It takes about an hour to Lee Kang Bin is a South Korean barista. the foam on the top of cold co ee. Lee make each one. WORLDteen, Issue 5, May, 2018 (ISSN #2372-7349, USPS #754-830) is published 6 times per year—September, November, January, March, May, July for $35.88 per year, by God’s World News, God’s World Publications, 12 All Souls Crescent, Asheville, NC 28803. Periodicals postage paid at Asheville, NC, and additional mailing offi ces. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to WORLDteen, PO Box 20001, Asheville, NC 28802-8201. • PUBLISHER: Howard Brinkman, MANAGING EDITOR: Rich Bishop, EDITOR: Rebecca Cochrane, WRITER: Kim Stegall, Member of Associated Press. Member Services: (800) 951-5437, ADVERTISING SALES: (800) 951-4974 ext. 470, [email protected]. • MAILING ADDRESS: WORLDteen, PO Box 20001, Asheville, NC 28802-8201. Telephone (828) 253-8063. ©2018 God’s World News, God’s World Publications. AP Photos MAY/JUNE 2018 3 know what’s real. 5WT18_03_Contents.indd 3 4/13/18 8:41 PM 6 A mountain guide carries a Clean Mountain Can portable toilet as Alaska: Pack It Out! he ascends Mt. Denali in Alaska. Climbers love the natural beauty of Denali, North America’s tallest mountain. But a natural by-product of human presence is causing a not-so-natural disaster there: mountains of human waste that isn’t decomposing. Alaska is considering regulations that would require climbers to pack out their poop with them. Glacier geologist Michael Loso calculated that more than 200,000 pounds of human feces Plastic-free have been dumped onto Kahiltna Glacier on the way to and from Denali’s summit. grocery aisle Mountaineers were allowed to pitch their waste into deep crevasses on the glacier. But it’s not making it down to the bottom where it would disintegrate. Without decomposing, some runs off with annual snowfall, polluting water sources and potentially infecting people with dangerous E. coli bacteria. Some climbers don’t want to carry the weight of their own waste. But park offi cials hold that it’s individual responsibility to do so, to protect the peak for everyone. Florida: Conch Shells and Wedding Bells A Florida woman blew her heart out and gave her heart away on the same day. Mary Lou Smith, 70, impressed judges in March with long blasts on a fl uted, pink-lined sea shell. She took the top prize in the women’s division of Key West’s annual Conch Shell Blowing Contest. Shortly after she accepted that prize, 73-year-old Rick Race—a male competitor in the event—took the stage beside her and proposed marriage. She accepted, and the two blew a joyous duet on their matching shells. Judges in the contest evaluate entrants from childr en to seniors. They base decisions on the quality, novelty, duration, and volume of their conch playing. Conch shells have been used for centuries in the Keys as signaling devices. Mary Lou Smith reacts to a surprise Native-born islanders are called Conchs, and the marriage proposal from Rick Race. Keys are nicknamed the Conch Republic. Brazil: Yellow Fever Outbreak Brazil has confi rmed more than 846 cases of yellow fever. The current outbreak is the largest one in decades. The potentially fatal disease broke out in large numbers in 2016-2017. But for nearly 10 years before that one, Brazil never recorded more than a handful of cases each year. Yellow fever is spread by mosquitoes that live in forested and mountain areas. It’s rare to fi nd the disease in city centers and coastal areas. But Brazil’s Health Ministry says the current outbreak is infecting people in more populated In Sao Paulo, Bra- areas. The densely popu lated states of Sao Paulo and Minas Gerais have zil, a child reacts been most affected. Brazil is now trying to vaccinate millions against the to a shot to pre- virus, which can cause liver damage. Travelers to the area are also asked to vent yellow fever. be vaccinated against yellow fever as part of their preparation to arrive. 4 MAY/JUNE 2018 know what’s real. 5WT18_04-05_Map.indd 4 4/13/18 8:58 PM The Netherlands: Plastic-Free Groceries Plastic makes for easy packaging. But with liter- Dutch supermarket. Instead of plastic wraps, bags, ally tons of plastic needing disposal or recycling daily and boxes, the meats, rice, milk, sauces, fruits, and worldwide, its convenience is becoming questionable. vegetables are contained in a biofi lm made from trees For the fi rst time, a grocery store in the Netherlands and plants. This biofi lm is designed to break down has stocked an entire aisle with food items that into organic components in about 12 weeks, making it are completely plastic-free. More than 700 choices perfectly compostable! Ekoplaza plans a plastic-free are arranged on the packed shelves in Ekoplaza, a aisle in all 74 of its stores by year end. Plastic-free grocery aisle India: Pritzker Prize for Architecture The prestigious Pritzker Prize for architecture was Mr. Doshi’s given for the fi rst time to an housing project Indian architect. Balkrishna Doshi received the honor Balkrishna for a lifetime of work as an Doshi architect, urban planner, and educator. The 90-year- old has spent 70 years creating spaces and structures that both respect Eastern cul- ture and enhance quality of life in India, where much of the population is desperately poor. The Hyatt Foundation, which gives the award, called Doshi’s work “po- etic and functional.” Doshi’s achievements include the Aranya low-cost housing project in Indore. It accommodates more than 80,000 people in a system of houses, courtyards, and internal pathways. Doshi says his focus has been to “empower the have-nots, the people who have nothing.” He called the prize an honor both for himself and his nation. to experience the cultural event. “Without tourism, our youth risks falling into idleness and misery,” says Mohamed Houma, the town’s mayor. He Niger: Tuareg Sahara Festival fears those youth will migrate to Europe if not given opportunity to inter- act with people from outside Niger. Hi storically, the Tuareg are nomadic Despite concerns about Islamist extremism in West Africa, Tuareg people. More than two million live in the Sahara Desert area, stretching peoples of Niger hope to draw tourists again. They put on a festival fea- across Niger, Mali, Algeria, and Tunisia. “This festival shows the rest of turing traditional dances, costumes, music, poetry, and camel races in the world that…we live here in peace, sheltered from the upheavals of February. More than 1,000 visitors came to a village in Niger’s far north some of our neighboring countries,” Houma says. In Niger, people in traditional costume race camels and perform dances, music, and poetry in hopes of attracting tourists. Brazil has confi rmed more than 846 cases of yellow fever. The current outbreak is the largest one in decades. The potentially fatal disease broke re that one, Brazil never recorded more than a handful of cases each year. Yellow fever s. It’s rare areas. The densely popu lated states of Sao Paulo and Minas Gerais have against the virus, which can cause liver damage. Travelers to the area are also asked to AP Photos MAY/JUNE 2018 5 know what’s real. 5WT18_04-05_Map.indd 5 4/13/18 8:59 PM Participants in the facial or wisdom. greater kindness, compas- reasons. Muhammad sup- hair trend—hipsters, lum- Certain jobs that require sion, and sensitivity toward posedly urged followers berjacks, and would-be breathing masks—firefight- the world” because they to wear beards and short Santas—all sport beards ers, oil and gas workers, or wear “a divine quality” on mustaches. of varying colors, shapes, pilots—may ban beards for their faces. One wonders if Some Mideast govern- and lengths. Dying, curling, safety reasons. And people that principle doesn’t apply ments shave prisoners’ braiding, and trimming who live where beards are to everyone, however, as all mustaches for humiliation. fads come and go. There unfashionable may view men, women, and children And in Syria, Jordan, and are signs today Lebanon, men that the beard may swear is losing its by their mus- popular appeal.