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What’s the good word? Magic square Fill in the squares with numbers from 1 to 16 so that every column, Many words have more than one meaning. row and diagonal add up to 34 Fun facts In the sentences below, write down one word that 1. The missing teeth fits both the descriptions Cows are ruminants (cud­chewing herbivores) and they do not have upper front teeth. They have what is called a hard, leathery 1. A dark mark on the skin; a dental pad in the place of upper incisors. They use their tongue to spy. ______grasp the grass and pinch it o using their dental pad and lower incisors. But they have molars in the upper and lower jaws for grinding 2. Outer layer of a citrus fruit; their food. to be full of life. ______Q: Can you name two other animals that do not have upper front teeth? 3. The back portion of an object; ______to raise young ones. ______hiv Kumar Pushpakar 4. A dish to hold food or water; to S 2. Four in one? throw a ball. ______Answer: The Four Corners is a region in the United States where the

boundaries of the four states of Utah, Arizona, New

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1. Mole, 2. Zest, 3. Rear, nswers: quickly. ______A marked by a monument in granite and brass. It (Content provided by is the only place where you can be in all four Amrita Bharati) states at the same time. A popular tourist attraction, the site is maintained by the Navajo Nation which is the largest Native American territory explained the physical characteristics of this in the U.S. Know the scientist reaction and proposed the term ‘ssion’ to Q. Can you find out refer to the process when an atom separates about other monuments on Lise Meitner (1978 ­ 1968) was an Austrian­ and creates energy. Meitner was oered a the Navajo tribal lands? Swedish physicist, who was part of a team chance to work on the Manhattan Project that discovered nuclear ssion. But she was to develop an atomic bomb. However, she ______overlooked for the Nobel Prize and instead turned down the oer. her research partner Otto Hahn was In 1957, the German President Theodor awarded for the discovery. Heuss awarded her the highest German Lise Meitner was born on November 7, order for scientists, the peace class of the 1878, in Vienna. Austria had restrictions on Pour le Mérite. women education, but Meitner managed Now that you have read about Lise to receive private tutoring in physics. She Meitner, try answering the following went on to receive her doctorate at the questions. PHOTO: WIKIMEDIA COMMONS University of Vienna. Meitner later worked 1. Who was awarded Nobel Prize in with Otto Hahn for around 30 years, uranium. Chemistry for discovery of nuclear ssion?

during which time they discovered several In 1938, as Germany annexed Austria, ......

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isotopes including protactinium­231, Meitner, a Jew, ed to Sweden. She 2. Which bomb development project did 1

nswer studied nuclear isomerism and beta decay. suggested that Hahn and Strassmann Meitner refuse to be part of? A

In the 1930s, the duo was joined by Fritz perform further tests on a uranium product, ......

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Strassmann and the team investigated the which later turned out to be barium. 2

1. Otto Hahn nswers: products of neutron bombardment of Meitner and her nephew Otto Frisch A

Word of the day Picture story Fun with Math Stereotype As a noun, stereotype is the generalised belief or idea Come up with a witty caption for this photo about a person or a group of people. As a verb, it refers to From the list of words given below, the act of typecasting someone or something as “Ten thousand I saw at a circle the word which stands for a representing certain characteristics. The word is often glance...tossing their two-sided polygon. used in the negative sense because these general heads in a sprightly assumptions may or may not reect reality. dance.” These lines of poet Hexagon Origin of the word: The term stereotype is derived William Wordsworth from the Greek words stereos (which means rm) and come to mind when we typos (meaning impression). In 1798, it was used to look at this picture of Duagon describe a printing plate that duplicated typography. In children playing in a 1850, the word referred to an image carried forward poppy eld in Aubigny­ Twogon without change. au­Bac, near Cambrai, Digon Usage: (As a noun): When we give pink toys to girls France. Can you sum and blue toys to boys, we are perpetuating gender up this picture in a few stereotypes. words? Be creative! Megagon (As a verb) The sitcom has come under re as it stereotypes Asians. Activity: Use the word in a sentence of your own

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