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Q: My cat has the sniffles, what’s wrong? If you have questions about your pets (furry, feathered or scaled), ask our local NG KIDS vet, Professor Paws.
A: If it’s not allergies, he’s probably caught a cold just like humans do. Like human colds it will get better by itself, but there are things that you can do to help him feel better. Make sure he has a nice place to sleep, keep him indoors if you can and make sure he has enough to drink. Chicken broth helps as well.
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Dear Fiona I love my pet Storm! He is a golden Labrador and loves to play. His mum’s name was Holly and he was born in a litter of ten. My friend Megan has a golden retriever named Lilly and she is two months older than Storm. Storm’s first birthday will be on 16 July 2013, which is also my aunt’s birthday. We got him in September 2012, so he is still quite young (but he is very big!). I love that you put in a “Pet Friends Forever” page. It just adds something nice to the magazine. I have attached two pictures of Storm to this e-mail. It’s a picture of him in his doggie pool and a picture of him with a bandanna. If you could put this in the July or September issue that would be great!! I hope you get my message! - Erin Coetzee, 11, Cape Town
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ABILENE, TEXAS, AMERICA An Irish wolfhound named Devlin was elected Dog Mayor of Abilene, Texas, beating Douglas the basset hound, Horatio the Chihuahua and Sampson the Akita mix. Mayor Devlin travelled the country to raise awareness of animal rescue and served with a human mayor during his term. Next stop, the White House.
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house OHRIGSTAD, SOUTH AFRICA A giant piece of footwear served as an unusual home for some South Africans. Artist ron van Zyl built the twostorey house, complete with a patchwork quilt bed, to resemble the one from the nursery rhyme “The old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe”. Today the shoe is part of a complex made up of a restaurant, a pool, cave tours and hiking trails. Inside the shoe is a museum featuring ron’s wood carvings. Wonder if there’s a giant sock somewhere to match?
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MAN FALLS FROM SPACE THE EDGE OF OUTER SPACE, EARTH Felix Baumgartner put on a pressurised suit like the one astronauts wear, plunged more than 38 kilometres to Earth and survived. “Fearless Felix” started his journey in the New Mexico desert in a capsule that was lifted to the edge of outer space by a huge helium balloon. He faced dangers like oxygen starvation and his blood boiling as he stepped off his platform 40 kilometres above Earth’s surface. Thanks to him astronauts may soon be wearing his spacesuit to survive the extreme conditions in space. Now that’s one giant leap for mankind.
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OLYMPIC NATIONAL FOREST, WASHINGTON, AMERICA Scientists have discovered a land octopus in the rain forests of the state Washington. The Pacific Northwest tree octopus, or Octopus paxarbolis, spends its first few months in the ocean before moving on to land to mate, absorbing the moisture it needs from the damp rain forests. Logging and growing human neighbourhoods are threatening its habitat, so activists are trying to get the animal on the endangered species list.
LAMBS SOLD AS DOGS
SAPPORO, JAPAN In a scam that may have fooled as many as 2 000 people, hundreds of lambs were sold as poodles to wealthy pet owners. Paying R10 000 or more, people snapped up what they thought was a bargain. Poodles can cost twice as much in some
countries. The con was uncovered after an actress said on a talk show that her “poodle” didn’t bark and refused to eat dog food. Soon there were hundreds of complaints from other people. Officials are trying to decide on the best way to return the lambs. Guess you could say these would-be dog owners were fleeced.
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HELP ARRIVES
A local organisation called the Dolphin Angels hears about the desperate situation and begins a protest campaign. Soon the Born Free Foundation, an animal rights group in England, joins the cause. Once they win custody of Tom and Misha, the rescuers put their plan into action to release the dolphins back into the wild. Wildlife experts carry the two dolphins out of the pool on stretchers and load them into a van. To fight infections and parasites from the bacteria-infested water, the
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animals get strong doses of antibiotics from a vet. The rescuers haul the dolphins out to a large floating pen enclosed by deep nets in the Mediterranean Sea. The rescue group calls in marine mammal rehabilitator Jeff Foster of Seattle in America to prepare the dolphins for the wild.
LEARNING TO EAT
Jeff is hopeful, since Tom and Misha were captured in the wild. But he knows the training will still be difficult. “You almost have to start from the beginning,” he says. After an estimated six years in captivity, the dolphins won’t even eat the frozen fish they’re used to unless someone places it in their mouths. They refuse to eat fish such as anchovies that they’d find in the sea. The caregivers gradually mix different dead fishes into their diet, trying one species at a time. Once Tom and Misha acquire a taste for the local seafood, Jeff tries to figure out a way to interest them in live fish. He decides to take advantage of their ongoing quarrels from the pool, which included fights over food. “What we had going for us, was the competition between the two males,” Foster says. “We wanted them to compete for a fish.” It works. The hunt becomes a fun cat-and-mouse game for the dolphins. They regain a healthy body weight, but they need
muscle to survive in the wild. Tom and Misha begin a challenging exercise regimen that includes fast swims and leaps into the air.
BACK TO THE WILD
After 20 months of rehabilitation the dolphins are ready. Scuba divers remove part of the sea pen’s netting, opening the door to freedom. Twenty minutes pass before Tom cautiously swims through the opening. Misha follows and they’re off. “They took off and never looked back,” Jeff says. The team monitors the animals from a boat. They watch as the dolphins repeatedly splash in and out of the water in a kind of swimming sprint. It’s something Tom and Misha haven’t been able to do as captives. Within 90 minutes of their release, Tom and Misha catch wild fish. The pair travel an astounding 40 kilometres on their first day back at sea. They even mingle with a wild dolphin. “They were excited to be free,” Jeff says. “Returning them to the wild was righting a wrong. Seeing where these animals came from and where they are now makes me feel really good.”
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In the 1930s, only about 30 Amur tigers were left in the wild.
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My th busted! Scientists once thought Amur tigers were the biggest cats in the world . But new data show they’r e the same size as India’s Bengal tigers.
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By KAreN De Seve ilently moving through the trees, a tigress stalks her prey. Deep snow covers the ground and with each step the big cat sinks in to her belly. She knows the snow will muffle any sounds, so she can sneak up on a wild boar that is rooting around for pine nuts. A few metres away, the tiger pauses, crouches and then launches her 125-kilogram body towards her prey. Snow sprays with each leap as her plate-sized paws prepare to pounce on the boar. A powdery cloud fills the air. Then the snow settles, revealing the metre-long tail and orange, black and white body. Now stained red, the tigress grasps the boar in her mouth. She carries her catch behind some larch trees and her two cubs join her from a nearby hill. Camouflaged among the trees, they were watching their mother hunt. They practise their pouncing as they approach their dinner. These yearlings will start hunting for themselves in three to six months. For now, they are content with the meal their mother provided, followed by some snooze time. The cats curl up near their dinner scraps and fall asleep as a night-time chill creeps through the forest. These Siberian or Amur tigers live further north than any other tiger subspecies.
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s In the far eastern reaches of Russia, winter temperatures can drop to minus 40 degrees Celsius. Thick fur insulates their bodies as they sleep in the snow. In summer their coats cloak the cats against the forest, making them nearly impossible to see. One wild boar is a small meal for three tigers. A single tiger can eat up to 40 kilograms of meat in one meal. By morning, the three are on the prowl again. Even though tigers are well adapted as the top predators in this cold climate, each day brings new threats. The greatest danger isn’t other tigers competing against them, but people. Even skilled tigers can have bad luck and scientists are trying to keep the odds in favour of the animals.
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Many Amur tigers have beachfront proper ty – they live in Russian forests on the edge of the Sea of Japan.
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In the snowy, forested arena, finding food is a big part of survival. But that’s not all. Well-hidden snares or trucks speeding along logging roads kill many tigers each year, not to mention armed deer hunters who come across tigers. “In Russia, very few tigers die of old age,” says Dale Miquelle, an Amur tiger researcher with the Wildlife Conservation Society. “Most die at the hands of poachers.” The tiger trio is among about 400 Amur tigers that researchers think are left in the wild. The range of tigers in Russia is about the size of the Eastern Cape and in the southeastern part of the country. As recently as 50 years ago there were plenty of deer and wild boar, the tiger’s favourite food. Prey is harder to find these days. People hunt them, while logging companies and fires destroy the forest where they live. Some tiger habitat is protected, but the cats wander beyond these safe zones in search of prey. tHiS tigER’S SCRAtCHES ON tREES ARE MESSAgES tO OtHER tigERS.
HOW YOU CAN HELP Tigers, leopards, lions and other big cats need protection. Learn more about National Geographic’s Big Cats Initiative online at kids.nationalgeographic.com/kids/big-cats or ngbigcats.org.
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The tigress and her two cubs roam a home range that’s about 400 square kilometres, more than the size of Bloemfontein. Soon her son will leave, but her daughter will take over part of this territory. Half of all tiger cubs die young because they are sick, killed by hunters, or orphaned. Cubs that survive leave their mum at about 18 months old, relying on the hunting skills they learned growing up. Sometimes a young male must travel far to find unclaimed land with enough food. But the odds are his journey will take him through areas where people live.
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It is late winter when the male tiger leaves his mother’s care. He wakes up from his nap and sniffs the remains of a meal for any leftovers. Then he leans in to scratch against a tree, but he catches his paw on something. He tries to pull away, making things worse. He has walked into a wire snare and the more he moves, the tighter it gets. A little while later, he hears voices. People. They stay behind the trees and one of them raises a gun. The tiger roars at the sharp pain in his backside. Then he starts to get dizzy, so he lies down and falls asleep. He’s been shot by a researcher with a tranquiliser gun, not a hunter. Unable to find enough food in the snowy forest, this tiger started killing livestock and dogs in a nearby town. Dale and his team are called in to
fix the problem. “Many conflict tigers are young. They have left their mother’s home range and are looking for their own territory,” Dale says. “They are hungry and have not become good hunters yet. Relocation gives them a second chance.” Otherwise, a farmer would track down the tiger and shoot him. The researchers quickly weigh and measure the tranquilised tiger. They fit a collar with a radio transmitter around his neck. This will let Dale and his team keep track of him for at least three years.
New TerriTory
Two hours later the tiger wakes up in a cage bumping along a road in the back of a truck. It stops about 240 kilometres from the town and the cage gate opens. The wild cat is wary but eventually leaps out of the cage, kicking up snow as he bounds towards the trees. Unfamiliar with the territory, he searches for signs of other tigers. He comes across a birch tree with a strong odour. Another male sprayed the tree and left scrape marks and urine on the ground to tell others the area is taken. Dale’s team monitors the tiger from a distance, picking up signals from the radio collar. They hope he can find food, avoid other males, find his own territory and a local female. The tiger spots a deer. Melting snow drips from the trees, masking his footsteps as he ambushes his prey. His odds just got a little better.
amur leopard Living side-by-side with Amur tigers is another big cat, the Amur leopard. Only about 40 of these leopards exist in the wild, on the border of Russia, China and North Korea. Efforts to help Amur leopards bounce back include the new Land of the Leopard National Park, which protects 2 850 square kilometres of forest.
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Austrian mountain climber Gerlinde
Kaltenbrunner, the first woman to climb all fourteen 8 000-metre peaks without the use of supplemental oxygen, talks to NG KIDS about her passion for reaching new heights.
“E WANT TO BE A MOUNTAIN CLIMBER?
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STUDY: Geography, geology and meteorology WATCH: Nat Geo Adventure’s six-part series First Ascent READ: Climbing Everest: Tales of Triumph and Tragedy on the World’s Highest Mountain by Audrey Salkeld
arly one morning while climbing Dhaulagiri I, a mountain in Nepal, my tent was swept down by an avalanche when I was still inside it. I tumbled about 40 metres downhill. I couldn’t tell what was happening and when it stopped, I was buried in the snow and wasn’t even able to tell if I was up or down. Thankfully, after an hour of digging and climbing, I was able to reach the surface and climb out of the snow. “There are many challenges in mountain climbing. But climbing is not all about the danger. When I reach the top of a mountain, it’s always a very calm, quiet moment for me, when I can say ‘thank you’ to the universe for allowing me to have the experience. “If you don’t try new things, you’ll never know if you’re able to accomplish them. Nobody’s perfect from the beginning. You have to be open to receiving help from others and believe in yourself. I started with small mountains before I climbed large ones.”
The NG KIDS series “Dare to Explore” helps celebrate the 125th anniversary of the National Geographic Society, which was founded in 1888. Grab a parent and go to nationalgeographic.com/ 125 for more information. Coming next month: venom collector and medicine maker Zoltan Takacs.
“Your passion doesn’t have to be mountaineering – it could be art or playing an instrument – but it’s important to always feel your passion from the inside.”
Earth’s 14 Highest Peaks 1. Mount Everest 2. K2 3. Kanchenjunga 4. Lhotse 5. Makalu I 6. Cho Oyu 7. Dhaulagiri I 8. Manaslu 9. Nanga Parbat 10. Annapurna I 11. Gasherbrum I 12. Broad Peak 13. Gasherbrum II 14. Xixabangma Feng
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Food That SOAPY ORANGE JUICE
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Bubbles in freshly poured juice disappear quickly. To keep this juice looking fresh for the photo shoot, stylists created long-lasting bubbles by mixing two drops of soap with some juice in a separate container. These were dropped on top of the drink with a spoon.
The fruit on top of this stack won’t roll away easily. A pin was pushed through each berry and into the pancakes to hold it in place. Some stylists use toothpicks to help position food such as olives in a salad.
SNIP ’N’ SPRAY
FRUIT COLOURING Sliced strawberries often have bright white insides that don’t photograph well. To make the fruit camera-ready, stylists brush red food colouring over the white areas with a small paintbrush. White spots on a strawberry’s skin can be coloured with dabs of lipstick.
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Your hair isn’t the only thing that sometimes needs a trim. If a pancake isn’t perfectly round, stylists snip it into shape with scissors. A flapjack stack might also be coated with a spray people normally use to protect furniture from stains. The spray keeps the syrup from soaking in.
PhotograPhy / renee Comet, Food Styling / liSa CherkaSky (all)
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WANT MORE? at kids.nationalgeographic.com/stories/
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our tummy may be rumbling, but if you sink your teeth into these treats, you’ll get a surprise. These breakfast items are filled with dish soap, pins, cardboard and other things you would never eat. Even an amazing dish will start to look bad or lose shape if left out for too long. So food stylists and photographers have some pretty unappetising techniques to make food appear tasty for things such as advertisements and cookbooks. A rolled-up wrap might be glued so it doesn’t unfold during a shoot or lemon juice could be added to a banana to keep it from turning brown. Feast your eyes on more secrets of food styling.
GOt GLUe? This bowl isn’t really brimming with cereal. A circular piece of cardboard was fitted inside the dish near the rim. That way cereal pieces couldn’t sink to the bottom. A thin layer of glue and flakes were placed on the cardboard. Why glue? Unlike milk, glue won’t make flakes soggy.
SIZZLING SYRUP
Stylists wanted to make this maple syrup looked really thick. Before it was drizzled on to the pancakes, the syrup was heated in a saucepan to about 130 degrees Celsius. Warm syrup you’d eat is about 50 degrees. As the temperature rose in the pan, water evaporated and the syrup thickened.
SHAPIN’ BACON To give bacon a wavy shape, stylists first mould a sheet of tinfoil into rows of ridges and place the strips of raw meat over the foil. Then they roast the bacon in an oven. As the meat cooks, it hardens in this shape.
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Old-Schoo You’ll be surprised at how much fun you have making and playing these games.
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You will need • Piece of cardboard (40x40 cm) • Red paint and brush • Thick black felt-tip pen • Ruler • Glue • 2 pieces of white paper (17,5x36 cm) • A pair of scissors • 12 purple bottle tops • 12 blue bottle tops
Step by step 1. Paint the cardboard red. Fold the cardboard in half. 2. Use the ruler and felt-tip pen to draw a grid of 4x8 squares on each of the white sheets of paper. The squares should be 4,5x4,5 cm. 3. Colour every other square black using the felt-tip pen. 4. Glue the two pieces of squared paper on to the red cardboard so they meet at the fold in the middle. 5. Use the bottle tops as your draughts.
JAMES GARAGTHY (ALL IMAGES)
How to play Each player takes their turn by moving a piece. Pieces are always moved diagonally and can be moved in the following ways: • Diagonally in the forward direction (towards the opponent) to the next dark square. • If your piece is next to an opponent’s piece with an open space on its other side, you can jump over the piece and take it off the board. You can do multiple jumps as long as you’re moving forward. • Note: if you have a jump, you have no choice but to take it.
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You win the game when the opponent has no more pieces or can’t move (even if he still has pieces). If neither player can move, it is a draw or a tie.
s G a e ol m Pick-up Sticks • 25 kebab sticks •Water-based paint (blue, purple, red, green, maroon)• Thin paintbrush • Ruler and pencil • Old coffee cup
You will need 1. Line up six sticks in a row. Use the pencil and ruler to mark each stick 4 cm from each end. 2. Paint the ends of the six sticks green up to the marks you made. Stand the sticks in an old coffee cup to dry. 3. Make a set of blue, purple and red sticks in the same way. 4. Paint the last stick maroon with purple stripes.
Step by step • Drop all the sticks except the maroon stick into a big heap. • Each player takes a turn to try to remove sticks from the pile, one by one, using the maroon stick to help. • If any sticks move while you are removing a stick, your turn is over. • The player with the most sticks is the winner. • Another fun way to play the game is to make each colour worth a number of points. The winner is the person with the highest score.
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MYTHS the scoop on 5 totally weird tales
BUSTED!
By Sarah WaSSner Flynn
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myth
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if your ears are Burning, someone’s talking aBout you. how it may have started This idea probably traces back to the ancient Romans, who believed the gods sent physical signals, like sneezes, to warn humans of misfortune.
why it’s not true It’s impossible to know when your name comes up in a conversation you don’t hear. But if you do hear someone talking about you, your ears might get hot. Strong emotions, such as embarrassment or excitement after someone has mentioned your name, cause your veins to expand. That allows warm blood to rush to your head and ears.
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Bad luck comes in threes. how it may have started “When something happens once or twice, we may not notice,” mathematician Rob Eastaway says. “But when it happens a third time, we pay attention.” If people notice a run of bad luck after the third misfortune, they may begin thinking that bad luck always comes in threes.
why it’s not true “If three unlucky events occur in a row, it’s just a coincidence,” Rob says. So next time you forget your lunch and then accidentally delete your phone apps, don’t worry. Your luck is bound to change. tom nick cocotos (ALL imAGEs)
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WIshINg oN a shootINg star WIll make your WIsh come true. hoW It may have started Shooting stars were once considered uncommon and full of power and magic. “People lucky enough to spot a shooting star thought they could capture some of its power by making a wish,” says Martha Barnette, who studies the origins of phrases.
Why It’s Not true Shooting stars aren’t wishmakers or even stars. They’re meteors, which are space rocks that burn up and glow after falling into Earth’s atmosphere, leaving a trail of light. They are also very common. Each August, during the peak of the Perseid meteor shower, 60 shooting stars streak across the sky every hour. If the superstition were true, wishes would be granted often!
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Why It’s Not true You use 100 percent of your brain almost all the time. Everything from whistling to reading a book requires brainpower, because your mind is sending messages to your body. Your brain works so hard that 20 percent of the food you eat is used to fuel it. So when someone asks you if this myth is true, the answer would be a no-brainer!
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sitting in bumper-to-bumper traffic isn’t fun. Too bad flying cars don’t exist, right? not quite. A prototype aircraft called the pAL-V (“personal air and land vehicle”) transforms in about ten minutes from a three-wheeled roadster into a “gyrocopter”, a cross between a plane and a helicopter. Fuelled by ordinary petrol, it handles like a sports car on the ground, then flies over jammed highways and mountains with its pilot and one passenger. As the rotor blades rise, a push of a button extends the tail, readying the vehicle for flight. because it’s a gyrocopter, the pAL-V needs a runway to take off and land. Just hope you don’t run into traffic on the way to the airport.
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Mowing the lawn is a sweaty way to spend a saturday afternoon. imagine if you could get the job done with the flip of a switch. once charged and activated, an electric robot called the Automower quietly trundles across the lawn and cuts the grass. it automatically senses obstacles by gently bumping into them and turns when it reaches a wire buried along the boundary of your yard. The mower can work in rain and will even send an sMs if it gets into trouble. When the battery is low, the mowing robot will return to its recharging station for a top-up before heading back to finish the job.
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pal-v / spark design & innovation (pal-v, both); courtesy of husqvarna group (mow-bot); © liquid image (mask); © jeff bozanic (diver)
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Check out these outrageous facts. A group of
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WANT MORE? Check out the book National Geographic Kids Weird But True 4 and the Weird But True app.
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Brain freeze! people have been wolfing down banana splits since the early 1900s. We just don’t know exactly where it started. three cities in different american states claim they served the dessert first. it doesn’t matter where the dish came from – we’re just glad it exists! scoop up some cool facts about this sweet treat.
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make a BaNaNa SPLIT There’s no right way to make this dessert , so be creative! Get a parent to
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These photographs show views of world landmarks. Unscramble the letters to identify what’s in each picture. Bonus: Use the highlighted letters to solve the puzzle below. answers on page 50
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