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VOL. 4 NO. 6 ome Ba JULY/AUGUST 2018 elc ck W ! Ha tter nd.. O A sea otter near . On he Monterey, California (AP) t Fishing boats sit idle at a dock in Alaska. 6WK18_01_Cover.indd 1 6/12/18 2:30 PM VOL. 4 NO. 6 JULY/AUGUST 2018 6-7 10-11 14-15 Modeling Real Puerto Rico the Viking gets serious about Mississippi treasure getting ready 18-19 22-25 26-29 Big guesses Aardvark Setting about a tiny milk records on fi gurine and more Everest Can this picture really be real? tourists climb it every day. A 2.5- and gold mining is dangerous. So It is. You can fi nd this colorful mile dirt trail leads to the mountain. new tourism brings in much-needed rock in Peru’s Andes Mountains. Climbers gasp for breath at the top. opportunities to make money. Multicolored sediments were laid They stand 16,404 feet above sea But it comes with a cost too. down there over time. Tectonic level. Stripes of turquoise, lavender, Conservationists fear too much foot plates clashed. The sediment rose up and gold point heavenward. tra c will destroy the landscape. into a mountain—Rainbow Mountain. Many locals who live near Peruvian biologist Dina Farfan says, Five years ago, only 500 locals Rainbow Mountain are alpaca “They are killing the goose that lays knew the spectacular mountain herders. Others mine for gold. But the golden eggs.” existed. Now more than 1,000 prices for alpaca wool are dropping Rainbow Mountain, Peru WORLDkids, Issue 6, July 2018 (ISSN #2372-7357, USPS #700-950) is published 6 times per year—September, November, January, March, May, and 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 R. Bishop offi ces. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to WORLDkids, PO Box 20002, Asheville, NC 28802-8201. • PUBLISHER: Howard Brinkman, MANAGING EDITOR: Rich Bishop, EDITOR: Chelsea Boes. Member of Associated Press. 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If you’re in Illinois, the patient inside the ambulance might just be . a dog. Police dogs have dangerous jobs. A new law in Illinois says am- bulances can pick up dogs injured in the line of duty. The emergency vehicles carry dogs to the nearest veterinary hospital. But the tools inside ambulances are designed for humans. Workers need tools suited to dogs. A veterinary student named Paul Fedyniak wanted to fi x the problem. He started building dog emergency kits. Ambulances and police offi cers will carry the kits. Inside, they’ll fi nd oxygen masks that fi t dogs. They’ll also fi nd muzzles, bandages, and More shorts dog hair clippers. (The clippers clear the way online every day! to access a wound or insert an IV.) And Mr. Fedyniak didn’t forget to include some fun reward toys for a distraction. Legendary Pens kids.wng.org Do you recognize these pens? They serve in the U.S. military. They work for the fed- eral government. They address packages at the post offi ce. The U.S. government buys its pens from a company called Skilcraft. Blind people make Skilcraft pens. In 1938, Pres- ident Franklin D. Roosevelt made a law that the U.S. gov- ernment should buy certain products made by blind people. This provided blind people with jobs. Mops and brooms came fi rst. Then the U.S. gov- ernment started buying Skil- , 2) c, 3) d, 4) b, 5) 5) b, 4) d, 3) c, 2) , craft’s pens in 1968. d 1) What makes a Skilcraft pen God What history. real is Bible the because us surprise shouldn’t This include: may but vary, will Answers 5) b, 4) b, 3) c, 2) , , b 1) a Skilcraft pen? It must be able to detectives, truth be can we read we As gods. made-up about stories are myths Norse that remember must We include: 1) d 1) write a continuous line one mile long. It must work at extreme cold may but vary, will Answers 5) d, 4) b, 3) d, 2) , (40 degrees below zero) and extreme heat (160 degrees above). Rumor QUIZZES: says it must also be able to write upside down. 4 WORLDkids • July/August 2018 AP Photos 6WK18_04-05_Shortsx4.indd 4 6/15/18 4:54 PM Why does this lizard have lime green blood? Scientists have won- dered for almost 50 years. New Guinea lizards have green blood, muscles, bones, and tongues. That’s because their bod- ies contain a lot of bile, the green fl uid made by the liver. Other animals and people would die with that much bile inside. So why can lizards survive it? In people, elevated green bile pigment levels sometimes kill malaria parasites. Scientists think lizards’ bodies may have changed over time to fi ght Green-Blooded malaria. At fi rst, researchers wondered if the green blood made the Lizard lizards taste bad to pred- More shorts ators. But one research- online every day! er ate several of the lizards himself t o test the theory. His ver- dict? “Not bad!” Don’t Look Down! kids.wng.org Astronaut Joe Acaba walks out into outer space. He holds tightly to a railing. Why? Be- cause he’s afraid of heights! Mr. Acaba has traveled to space three times. He installed new cameras on the International Space Station’s arm and truss during his last mission. After returning home, he admitted his fear of heights to a crowd in Mississippi. He said, “It does take a little bit of work while you’re doing a spacewalk to realize, okay, it’s okay. You are not going to fall.” Of course, space has almost no gravity. Mr. Acaba wouldn’t really fall if he came disconnected from the space station. But he could fl oat away. Mr. Acaba has learned: Trust the facts, not your fears. 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