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There’s A Better Way is a program in Albuquerque New Mexico that employs homeless people to clean up the city. When 16 year-old Kevin Barber heard about the project, he launched a similar program in San Diego California. Wheels of Change transports homeless people to jobs, beautifying the city and giving them dignity.
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Diu, a district in India with 56,000 people, is powered by 100% solar energy, generating more electricity than the district even needs! California’s solar farms have also been producing record amounts of energy. They sometimes send electricity to Arizona and other states so their power lines aren’t overloaded. Sunshine power is amazing!
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The new Apple headquarters in California looks like a spaceship, with lots of glass walls and doors. There may be too much glass, as employees keep walking into them! Squeaky clean glass has caused multiple calls to 9-1-1. Apple employees might also be paying more attention to their iPhones . Look out for that wall!
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12 teenage girls from San Fernando California have created a solar-powered tent that folds into a rolling backpack. They want to give them to the homeless community. The girls joined a group called DIY Girls led by Evelyn Gomez to learn about engineering, science, and applying for grants to develop their great invention!
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California’s Sally Dawley is proud to be known as the “Butt Lady of Auburn.” For the last 3 1/2 years, she’s been counting how many cigarette butts she picks up. She reached 1,000,000 on Valentine’s Day. She wishes people would quit smoking, or at least dispose of the butts properly instead of littering. So do I!
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Glenn Quillin celebrated turning 102 in California by becoming the oldest person to ride a zip line! If he lived in the United Arab Emirates, he could set his world record on another world record: the 1.75 mile Ras Al Khaimah is the world’s longest zip line. You can fly 93 miles per hour in the mountains!
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A neighborhood in Los Angeles California had an unusual group of visitors. A donkey was leading a herd of sheep and goats on a midnight stroll. The police helped round up the animals and return them to a nearby neighborhood, where they’d escaped through an unsecured gate.
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Do you play an instrument? How about 44! 12 year-old Neil Nayyar from California plays instruments from the trumpet to the harp to the bulal tarang. The musical prodigy practices 6 hours a day so that he can play them proficiently. He hopes to learn to play 100 instruments by the time he’s 13!
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Get your forks ready. It’s National Spaghetti Day! Pasta has been around since the 3rd century in Palestine. The largest bowl of spaghetti was served in California when a swimming pool was filled with over 13,000 pounds of pasta. But if you want just one strand of pasta, ask for a spaghetto!
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The Sierra Nevada Mountain range expanded a bit after a prolonged drought. They grew an inch taller! Water weight causes the Earth to sag. The four-year drought in California allowed water to drain through cracks deep into the earth below. Losing water weight causes elastic rebound, when the mountains rise to original elevations.
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