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Departments 7 By the Numbers 8 All About Money

9 Wild Vacation

4 Weird But True! 5 Dare to Explore 6 Guinness World Records

10 Bet You Didn’t Know12 Amazing Animals28 Fun Stuff

Cool Things About Air Force OneCheck out seven reasons why the president’s planeis the coolest in the air.

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The Secrets of Stonehenge Could a new discovery help solve this ancient puzzle?

Wacky RestaurantsGet a taste of these odd eateries.

Blue VolcanoAn unusual dazzling light showerupts at night in Indonesia. 22

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Lifestyles of the Rich and FurryPamper your pet with these outrageous ideas.

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In This IssueIn This Issue

Sea Turtle RescueA lost and freezing loggerhead getshelp from warmhearted volunteers.



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RICHARDS’ STUNNING PHOTOGRAPHY

T H E S E A R E

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“Don’t let obstacles discourage you from reaching yo

goals. Anything is possible you put your heart into it.”

One time I was rappelling, or descending by rope, down a seaside cliff in Spain to photo-graph some climbers. Suddenly the rock that my rope was anchored to at the top of thecliff broke away. My stomach lurched as I went into a free fall, plummeting 50 feet into thocean. Once I hit the water, the heavy camera equipment strapped to my body dragged m

under the waves. With my heart hammering, I freed myself from the gear and swam to the surfaceMy cameras were ruined, but I was alive.

“Working as a photographer can be a nonstop adventure. My career has taken me to everyterrain imaginable, from icy peaks in Asia to the vast plains of Africa to coral reefs in the SouthPacific Ocean. I’ve snapped pictures of people scaling mountains, diving, and skiing acrossAntarctica. I love using photography to show the incredible things humans are capable of doing.

“Getting the right shot involves creativity and sometimes danger. As a photographer, you haveto be ready to take chances but also know when to back away in order to stay safe. As long as you’re willing to explore the world around you, you’ll have plenty of opportunities to take greatphotographs. Stay open to new experiences, and you’ll never be disappointed.”

WANT TO BE A

PHOTOGRAPHER?

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Photographer Cory Richards journeys tosome of the most remote and dangerousspots on Earth to snap pictures of people

and places. He chats with NG Kids about what it takes to get a great shot.

BY C.M. TOMLIN

CANADA

RICHARDS SCALES APEAK IN THE ROCKYMOUNTAINS IN CANADAON A PHOTO EXPEDITION.

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JAMES ELLERKER / GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS (CAT); DREW GARDNER / GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS (GOODMAN); KEVIN

RAMOS / GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS (TOOTHPICKS). INFORMATION PROVIDED BY © GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS 2015 L I

It makes sense that the world’s tallest tooth-pick structure looks like the world’s tallestbuilding. Stan Munro used more than 250,000toothpicks and 3 gallons of glue to create a16-foot, 8-inch replica of Burj Khalifa, a 2,717-foot tower in Dubai, United Arab Emirates (acountry in the Middle East). Munro built hiswooden structure in four main pieces, whichtook three people and two ladders to assemble.Hope he keeps it away from any strong breezes.

IT T Y BIT T Y

KITTY

Lillieput may be the world’s shortest cat, but she doesn’t let her other feline friends getin her way—she just runs right under them! Lillieput, which is a breed of cat known as amunchkin, is less than six inches tall at her shoulders. That ’s barely taller than a soda can.

EYE-POPPING RECORD!Your eyes might bulge when you see this. Kim Goodman can popout her eyes almost a half inch beyond her eye sockets. Goodmandiscovered the talent when she was accidentally hit on the head(she wasn’t hurt) and now can pop her peepers any time shewants. This is definitely something you have to see to believe.

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CHRY SLER BUILDING, NEW Y ORK CITY

MORE RECORDS!Go online for more information about

Guinness World Records.natgeo.com/kids/worldrecords



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Psst! Did you notice that the planets seem too close to the sun—and to each other? You’re right! To help show how long it takes eachplanet to fully orbit the sun, we fudged a little and illustrated theplanets as if they were running a race—instead of showing theircorrect distances. To find out their real distances from the sun andeach other, go online to check out a video and get even more scoopon our solar system. natgeo.com/kids/solar-system

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NumbersNumbersB y theB y theB y the

NumbersB y the

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takefor the planets in our solar

systemto race around the sun if they were runnerson a track.

MERCURY

88 DAYS

VENUS

224.7 DAYS

MARS

1.9 YEARS

JUPITER

11.9 YEARSSATURN

29.5 YEARS

URANUS

84 YEARS

NEPTUNE

164.8 YEARS

EARTH

1 YEAR

Temperatures on Mercury can range from aboutminus 280°F at night to 800°F during the day.

A season on Uranus lastsroughly 21 years.

Earth orbits the sun almost 165 timesbefore Neptune orbits it once.

SOLAR S YS TEMSOLAR S YS TEM

BY JULIE BEER AND MICHELLE HARRIS



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BY KRISTIN BAIRD RATTINI

IF YOU SETASIDE ONE DIME

EACH DAY, AT YEAR’S ENDYOU’LL HAVE $36.50.THAT’S ENOUGH TO BUYA VIDEO GAME OR

DOWNLOAD A NEW SONGEACH DAY FOR A MONTH.

BELARUS ISSUED A 20-RUBELCOLLECTOR’S COIN WITH A PICTUREOF POTATO PANCAKES ON ONE SIDE.

ETHIOPIAN COINS DATED 1977 WERE ACTUALLY ISSUED IN1984. THE COUNTRY FOLLOWS

A CALENDAR THAT’S NEARLY 8 YEARS EARLIER THAN WESTERN ONES.

Coins issuedby the UnitedStates in 1787had the words“MIND YOURBUSINESS” on one side.

SOME OFTHE OLDEST

PIGGY BANKSIN THE WORLD

WERE MADEAROUND THE

15TH CENTURY.

The small TOOTH-SHAPEDdesigns that circle theedges of some coins

are called DENTICLES.

PIKACHUand otherPOKÉMONcharactersappear ondollar coinsIN NIUE, anisland some1,500 milesfrom New

Zealand.

U.S. banknotes areprinted 4 times:

for background images,the back, the front, and

serial numbers and seals.

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COOL THINGSABOUT TURKEY

Early Turkishsettlers once lived

in the caves ofthe Cappadocia

region.

Yogurtwas inventedin Turkey and

is a main ingredi-ent in local food—

from soups todesserts.

Datingfrom A.D. 537,

the famous HagiaSophia was built as achurch, turned into

a mosque, and isnow a museum.

King Midasmay not have really

turned all he touchedinto gold. But he did

rule over the kingdomof Phrygia, in what

is now Turkey, in theeighth century B.C.

YUNAK EVLERI HOTEL

WHERE Cappadocia region, TurkeyHOW MUCH about $180 to $250 a night

WHY IT’S COOL Here’s a hotel that really rocks. The Yunak Evleri is built intocaves left by volcanic activity ten million years ago. Follow narrow passagewaysand stone stairs to rooms that are a cool 57°F. Spend the day hiking rocky terrain,exploring caverns, or hot-air ballooning over “fairy chimneys”—tall rock formationsthat dot the skyline. At night you won’t have to worry about being awakened by erup-tions since the Cappadocia volcanoes are now dormant. So they’re “sleeping,” too!

Ca ve HotelCa ve Hotel

THINGS TO DO

IN TURKE Y

Ride a camel to tour thebizarre rock formationsaround Cappadocia.

Haggle with shopkeepersin the bustling market ofIstanbul’s Grand Bazaar.

Wander the ruins of the Temple ofArtemis, built more than 2,500 yearsago for the Greek goddess of hunting.

Take a boat ride up theBosporus strait to get fromAsia to Europe in 15 minutes.

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BY ALLYSON SHAW

Asound like

popping popcorn is made bysomeradiosignals

coming from

Jupiter.

The longestrecorded

echolasted for

nearly 2 minutes.

Certain sand dunes occasionally hum.

The

western diamondback rattlesnake

canvibrate itsrattle about

60 times

a second.

Hot water andcold water make

different sounds when poured.

An orchestrain the Washington, D.C. area performs only music

fromvideo games.

The Parmawallaby makes

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WHERE Lyon, France

DETAILS No way thisguy is fitting througha mouse hole. It’s 64times bigger than anaverage mouse—andit’s inflatable. The 32-foot-long, 16-foot-widepink mouse floated inthe Rhône River topromote flood aware-ness. Is there a giantpiece of cheese nearby?

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W EIRDNE S SBY KAY BOATNER

WHAT Weird haircuts

WHERE Changsha,China

DETAILS Answer care-fully if you’re everasked if you want afree haircut. A pair ofhairstylists offeredcomplimentary trimsto city residents. Buttheir styling tools werea three-foot-long comband oversize scissors!One brave volunteerhad her hair snippedin front of a crowd.That new ’do definitelywasn’t a don’t.

ATTACK OF THE COMBWHAT Runningsculptures

WHERE Liverpool,England

DETAILS Talk aboutgoing nowhere fast.This athletic-themed

installation, dubbed“The Runner,” was oneof several pieces in acitywide art festival.Positioned above aparking garage, thesprinters honor Liver-pool’s past Olympiccontenders. On yourmark, get set, go!

RUNNERSTURN GREEN

WHAT

City diorama

WHERE Moscow, Russia

DETAILS This guybetter watch wherehe steps. Some 300workers created this60-foot-wide, mostlyplastic model of theRussian capital. Thediorama traveled theworld as part of a roadshow celebrating thecountry’s history. Themini-Moscow even

comes equipped withdaytime and night-time lighting. What,no traffic?

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RICHARD WINDSOR (NORRIS); AFRICA STUDIO / SHUTTERSTOCK (T-SHIRT); HONG VO / SHUTTERSTOCK (PIZZA); AFRICA STUDIO / SHUTTERST

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Portland, OregonSomeone alert the NBA: Eddie the seaotter is ready to go pro. His keepers atthe Oregon Zoo taught the 16-year-oldmarine mammal to play basketball as away to keep his arthritis from gettingworse. Since he learned to shoot hoops,Eddie tosses anything he can get his

paws on—especially his doggie chewtoys—into the basket.“In the wild, sea otters like Eddie

would do a similar behavior we call thespy hop,” says Jenny DeGroot, Eddie’skeeper and trainer. “They come straightup out of the water, above the waves, toget a look around.”

But at the zoo, Eddie’s on the lookoutfor something else. If he scores a baskethe gets a tasty treat, such as shrimp orclams. Swish! —Kitson Jazynka

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norris’S haul

Sea OtterPORTLAND,OREGON

CatBRISTOL,ENGLAND

HorsesDECATUR,TEXAS

Decatur, TexasButterscotch the pony was sleeping in her barn when a heat lamp

malfunctioned, setting the building on fire. Before the two-week-oldpony had time to react, her mother, Bella, backed her into a corner toprotect her from the flames and the falling debris.

Bella was still shielding her foal when firefighters discovered the pair.Though they survived the blaze, both animals were injured. Butterscotchonly had a few minor burns, thanks to her mom’s actions. But Bella’s injurieswere more serious—she had bad burns all over her body and suffered fromsmoke inhalation. “It’s miraculous that Bella survived,” says Whitney Hansonof the Humane Society of North Texas, where the horses are recuperating.“It’s clear that she was fighting to live so she could care for her foal.”

Bella undergoes daily baths and takes medication as part of her recoveryprocess. Butterscotch has fully healed. The pair has been adopted by a

Humane Society volunteer and will move to their new home as soon as Bellais better. “Bella continues to be an ideal mother,” Hanson says. “She never letsButterscotch out of her sight.” —Kay Boatner

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Bristol, EnglandThe sneaky thief breaks into his neighbors’ homes at night, prowling for loot.When his yellow-green eyes spot something he likes, he nabs it before going

out the way he came in—through the pet door. The four-footed crook? Norristhe tabby cat.The furry offender has pinched hundreds of items, dragging his finds into

his owners’ kitchen and meowing as he admires his stash. Among his spoils areT-shirts, a pair of pants, oven mitts, sponges, and even half a pizza.

“We don’t often hear of cats stealing objects from neighbors,” cat behaviorexpert Mikel Delgado says. “The most likely explanation is that this is a form ofhunting behavior, but he’s hunting human objects instead of prey.”

What happens to all the stolen items? Owner Richard Windsor sent a letterto his neighbors, filling them in on the robberies and inviting them to retrievetheir lost goods. “The note just made them giggle,” Windsor says. “Norris nowhas friends all over the neighborhood.” —Kitson Jazynka

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SEA TU

A lost and freezingloggerhead gets help from

warmhearted volunteers.

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he freezing sea turtle can barelymanage another stroke as shestruggles to keep herself warmin the frigid water. Chilly autumnweather has hit Cape Cod Bay off

Massachusetts, and now this reptile is suf-fering from the turtle version of humanhypothermia—when body temperaturefalls below normal levels. Her strength isfading very fast.

BY SCOTT ELDER

Fromhatchling to

adult, this animalincreases its weight

by more than6,000 times.

After one more sweep of herfront limbs, she goes limp. Bob-bing lifelessly on the surface ofthe water, her fate depends onthe direction of the wind. If she

is blown seaward, she won’t sur-vive. Luckily the wind propels hertoward land, and she washes up onCrosby Beach. Sapped of energy, theturtle lies motionless in the sand. She’sstill bitterly cold. If she doesn’t get helpsoon, she won’t have a chance.

LIFEGUARDS ARRIVETaking a morning stroll along the beach,Brian Long spots what appears to be alarge boulder near the water’s edge. Ashe gets closer he realizes that the rock-like object is actually a big turtle. The seacreature is so still, Long can’t tell if she’s

alive. He immediately phones theMassachusetts Audubon Society,a conservation organization.The call reaches director BobPrescott, who rushes to the

beach in a pickup truck.Once at the scene, Prescottidentifies the two-and-a-half-

foot-long creature as a loggerheadsea turtle. An endangered species, theseturtles spend their summers in the northand their winters in warmer southernwaters. “This loggerhead probably gotlost while navigating down the coast andmissed the chance to migrate before coldweather set in,” Prescott says.

The animal’s eyes are closed, and she’s notvisibly breathing. To check if the turtle isstill alive, Prescott gently touches her neck.Slowly the big-beaked reptile raises her

BRIAN J. SKERRY / NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC CREATIVE (BIG IMAGE); NEAQ RESCUE (ARRIVING AT REHAB CENTER); MARTIN WALZ (MAP)

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A coolerloggerhead nest

will produce moremale hatchlings,

while a warmer onewill produce more

females.

TLE

head. She’s hanging on buturgently needs medical care.

The two men hoist the over150-pound animal onto a cartthat Prescott wheeled out to the

shore. Then they pull the cart toPrescott’s truck and place theturtle onto a soft pad in the back.Prescott wants to take the frail logger-head to a turtle rehabilitation centerabout an hour away. But he knows theanimal would be uncomfortable travelingall that way in the open truck bed, whereshe’d be exposed to the cold. So Prescottdrives the turtle to the nearby WellfleetBay Wildlife Sanctuary, where vets give heran initial examination. Then a volunteer withan SUV brings the loggerhead to the NewEngland Aquarium in Boston, Massachusetts,where the turtle can begin her recovery.

Some Pacificloggerheads

migrate over 7,500miles between

nesting beaches.

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Each fall the New England Aquarium’ssea turtle rehab center helps 80

to 100 sea turtles with dangerouslylow body temperatures. Check out thetechniques used at this “turtle hospi-tal” to treat the shelled patients.

AN INSIDE LOOKUpon arrival, turtles are x-rayed andtheir heart rates are measured with aheart monitor.

SOUND HEALTHVets sometimes use an instrument thatsends sound waves into a turtle’s bodyand records data about how the soundsecho off tissue and internal organs. Thedata are used to create images of theturtle’s insides. This is called an ultra-sound, and it helps vets learn if turtleshave internal injuries.

STRESS TESTSJust like many other animals (includ-ing humans) turtles produce certainhormones, or chemicals, when they’re

stressed. The hospital measures thesehormones in the bloodstreams of cer-tain cold-stunned turtles to find outtheir stress levels.

LASER THERAPYStaff may beam a special laser into an

injured turtle’s body to help it heal. Thelaser stimulates the animal’s blood flowand prompts its cells to start repairingdamaged areas.

STROKE OF LUCKVery weak cold-stunned patients areinitially kept in comfy crates insteadof water tanks. Every day they take adip in kiddie pools filled with only a fewinches of H2O so they can safely prac-tice their strokes. After several “work-outs” the turtles are usually ready toenter the larger tanks.

SAVE ANIMALS, SAVE THE WORLD

National GeographKids has an initiaticalled Mission: AnRescue to show kihow to save endangered animals sucas loggerhead seaturtles. You can hetoo. Try out these rescue activities.

SHELL-SHOCKEDAt the aquarium’s marine animal rehabilita-tion center, staff give the loggerhead, thoughtto be around 20 years old, a checkup. Theturtle, now named Biscuits, weighs in at 165pounds—normal for an adult humanmale but slightly underweight for aloggerhead of Biscuits’s age. Theexam shows that Biscuits hasseveral other health problems.The freezing seawater dam-aged the turtle’s skin, causingher to develop open wounds.She’s dehydrated, and an x-ray

shows that she has pneumonia.But the rehabbers’ most press-ing concern is that Biscuits has beencold-stunned. This is a condition that affectsreptiles if their temperatures drop too low.As their bodies cool, the animals’ blood cir-culation slows. The limited blood flow causesthe animals to go into shock. They enter acoma-like state, practically unable to move.

Biscuits is one of hundreds of sea turtles

that become cold-stunned in Cape Cod Bayeach year. Now her caretakers’ goal is to raiseher body temperature from an extremely low48°F to between 70°F and 80°F. But it won’tbe easy. “We have to heat up the turtle verygradually,” says Adam Kennedy, a rehabber and

biologist at the aquarium. “Warming hertoo quickly could be just as deadly

as not warming her at all.” A six-person team lifts Biscuits intoa five-foot-long, temperature-controlled pool set to 55°F. Eachday the rehabbers raise thethermostat by five degrees. Asthe temperature rises, Biscuits

begins to move normally again.To help her regain energy, thestaff offer healthy meals of fish and

squid. At first she won’t eat a bite of the grub.But after three days the loggerhead startsnibbling on the food she’s provided. To rehy-drate the animal, the caretakers give her dailyinjections of nutrient-filled fluids. Biscuits alsoreceives antibiotics for her pneumonia and asoothing ointment for her wounded skin. “She

At least30,000 female

loggerheads have beenestimated to nest each year on Masirah Islandin the Middle Eastern

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rganize a turtle-themedake sale to raise moneyr sea turtles. You can

ecorate cookies, cup-kes, and other treatslook like these animals.

form your customersbout the threat to seaurtles.

Check with your localaquarium to see if youcan volunteer. Someaquariums near the coastorganize beach walks tolook for stranded seaturtles. Ask if you can join that effort.

Some sea turtles swimthousands of miles each year. Choose a type of seaturtle, and plot its annualroute on a map. Decoratethe map with picturesand facts, and show it tofriends.

Check out the NationalGeographic Kids bookseries Mission: AnimalRescue. For more infor-mation on the initiativeor to donate to thecause, grab a parent andgo online.

looks much better, and you can tell she feelsbetter too,” Kennedy says.

TURTLE TAKEOFFBy the time the water hits 75°F, Biscuits canbe moved into the larger rehab tank. Soonshe’s swimming slow, graceful laps in her24-foot-long pool. Kennedy is thrilled by herprogress but not that surprised. “We callloggerheads ‘tanks’ because they’re such

tough animals,” he says. “Biscuits shows justhow resilient they are.”But the turtle’s rehab isn’t finished. Now

that she’s stable, caretakers will sendBiscuits to the Georgia Sea TurtleCenter on Jekyll Island, which islocated closer to her releasesite. Here the staff willcontinue to prepare her forreentry into the wild.

Two and a half monthsafter her rescue, aquariumstaff load Biscuits into a cush-ioned crate and place her in aheated van. Then she’s driven with three

other recovering turtles to a small airportwhere they will take off for Georgia. To makethe turtles’ trip as quick and stress free aspossible, a pilot has volunteered to fly themdown in a private jet.

After the nearly three-hour flight,Biscuits and the other turtlesare transported to the cen-ter. Biscuits is placed in aten-by-ten-foot circulartank where shecan continuepracticing

her swimming strokes. The loggerhead is feda steady diet of fish, squid, and shrimp, whichstaff scatter around the tank. Caretakers

also put live blue crabs and horseshoecrabs in her tank so she can get

used to catching prey again. Thesecritters are some of a logger-head’s favorite foods in the wild.Biscuits quickly remembers howto snatch up the tasty treats in

her beak, though she leaves a bit of a messafter a meal. “She’s not exactly a tidy eater,”says Terry Norton, head of the center. “Butshe’s clearly enjoying these familiar snacks.”

BACK TO THE SEAA month later Norton decides Biscuits isready to return to the ocean. She’s heavier,now weighing 180 pounds, and has provenshe can catch live prey. Norton and a team

of rehabbers drive Biscuits about 85miles south to Little Talbot State Park inFlorida. Arriving at the release site, Biscuitsbecomes more active, moving around in hercrate. It’s almost as if she senses that she’sclose to home. “I think she can smell theocean,” Norton says. When the team low-ers her onto the sand at the water’s edge,she immediately crawls into the crashingwaves and swims off. “It’s an amazing sight,”Norton says. “Everything we do is for thismoment—when a rescued animal gets backto the wild.”

These turtlesmay live for 50 years or more

in the wild.

A singleloggerhead’s

shell can be hometo as many asa hundred tiny

plants andanimals.

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FOOD FALLS

San Pablo City, PhilippinesThe Waterfall Restaurant is pretty splashy—this outdooreatery is located at the bottom of Labasin Falls, an artificialwaterfall. The floor of the dining area, which is part of a resort,is covered in several inches of water. Upon arrival, barefoot

guests wade ankle-deep from leaf-covered buffet stations tobamboo tables just a few feet from the surging stream. Aftersampling curries, meats, and rice, you can take a dip in thewaterfall. It’s hard not to gush about this place.

Bananaketchup—a

mix of banana,sugar, vinegar, and

spices—is a popularcondiment in the

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BY APRIL CAPOCHINO MYERSSome restaurants serve up more than just good food—they provide an unforgettable atmosphere. NG Kids gotthe dish on a few of the wackiest eateries on Earth.

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Rangali Island, MaldivesSomething’s fishy about this restaurant, located 16 feetunder the Indian Ocean. Made with a clear material calledacrylic, the tunnel-shaped venue gives diners a close-uplook at manta rays, sharks, and other marine animals asthey swim by. Named Ithaa, the eatery was built on land inthe Southeast Asian country of Singapore and shipped tothe Maldives, an island nation. Then 85 tons of sand wereplaced in the structure to sink it onto steel columns thathad been installed in the seabed. Finally it was securedto the columns with concrete. Diners enter Ithaa froman enclosed staircase that connects to a jetty, then enjoyfood such as caviar with a side of an amazing view.

Wildwood, New JerseyBreakfast is a breeze at this restaurant.Visitors to Breakfast in the Sky travel 150feet in the air on a beachside Ferris wheelwhile devouring gourmet food such asshrimp-and-lobster omelets. Chef Wally

Jurusz and his team cook all the mealsinside a converted funnel cake stand onthe nearby boardwalk, then bring the grubto the Ferris wheel. After guests get settledon the ride, they take off for an hour-long feastoverlooking the Atlantic Ocean. The restaurant isonly open from late July through August, but it sureputs a new spin on the morning meal.

Grown in theMaldives, the

Scotch bonnet chilipepper can be 140times spicier than

some of the mildest jalapeños.

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taffy likelyoriginated iNew Jersey

Salzburg, AustriaGear up for an amazing dining experience. Architect Markus Voglreiter builtthis restaurant to resemble a huge Volkswagen Beetle and named it The Car, DasAuto. Seating over 300 people, the car-like venue includes headlamp-shapedwindows and a giant license plate. Inside, diners can feast in one of the eatery’s“wheels,” which even have fake rims—the circular metal frames that hold acar’s tires. It cost about two million dollars to create the building. Luckily this

auto-shaped restaurant is really going places.

In Japan youcan snack on

sour-and-saltydried fruit called

umeboshi.

Austria’sMoststrasse—

loosely translatedas “Cider Road”—

takes you 124 milethrough pear

orchards.

Okinawa, JapanGuests visiting the Gajumaru dinerare going out on a limb—literally. Therestaurant sits atop an artificial treemade of concrete. Vines wind aroundthe fake tree, and greenery covers theeatery’s roof, adding to the treetopfeel. To get to the dining area, visitors

enter through a door in the trunk andhop on an elevator. At 20 feet in the air,the restaurant offers stunning views ofthe nearby harbor as well as dishes suchas shabu-shabu, or thinly sliced meatcooked in broth. Now that’s taking eatingout to new heights.



Outrageous ways to pamper your petBY PATRICIA J. MURPHY

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rom canine country clubs totabby tiaras, pets today areliving in the lap of luxury.Last year pet owners spentabout $58 billion—almosttwice what they spent in2002—on supplies and ser-vices to pamper their pets.

“Pets improve our lives,”says Bob Vetere of theAmerican Pet ProductsAssociation. “So we wantto improve theirs.” NG Kids

tracks just how far someowners go to give their petsthe royal treatment.

WHAT TO WEAR

When Selena Gomez and AmandaSeyfried need fashion for theirdogs, they don’t have to look far.That’s because many stores now

cater exclusively to the pamperedpet. At Fifi & Romeo (left) in Los

Angeles, California, dogs in hand-made cashmere sweaters and colorful

raincoats are considered fashionable,not funny-looking. Then there’s Enchanted

Home Pet, which designs pet furniture. Fromultra-plush miniature sofas to comfy outdoor

air beds, these doggie resting spots are sure toplease the most finicky pooch.

Will your petbe less happy if

you don’t shower itwith expensive stuff?

Absolutely not! “As long as your pethas food, comfort, and friendship,

that’s what’s most important,”says pet psychologist

John C. Wright.

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IN THE HOUSE

Skeeter the cairn terrierhangs out in a two-storydoghouse with floor-to-ceiling windows, heatedfloors, and air-conditioning.It’s just one of many custom-made cribs owners arebuilding specially for theirpets. “One owner asked for

a cat house with a separatedining room, litter box room,and bedroom,” says MichellePollak of La Petite Maison,which builds luxury pet homes(right). “Some pet owners sparenothing to make sure their petsare comfortable and happy.”

PET TECH

Think you’re tech-savvy? With all the gadgetsowners are buying for their pets, some animals mayhave you beat. Munchkin the Persian cat drinksfrom a never ending water flow from her DrinkwellPet Fountain. Some owners even set up webcamsso their pets can watch them at work. And Petzila,a company dedicated to connecting pets with theirowners, offers a device that allows away-from-homeowners to see, talk to, and surprise a pet with atreat—all through Wi-Fi and the click of an app.

KENNEL—OR VACATION?

Sampson the Yorkshire terrier loves a good massage.His sister, Delilah, likes to get her toenails painted.They can do it all at the Olde Towne Pet Resort inVirginia (below, both), one of many “pet spas” aroundthe country. More like luxury hotels than kennels,these places offer pets private limos, movies suchas Cats and Dogs, and whirlpool-like tubs. Cats alsoare “feline” good as they watch birds from picturewindows. Pet spas are popular with celebs too.

Christina Aguilera takes herpooches to a “ranch”with a bone-shapedswimming pool!


LUXURY SUITE AT PET SPA $110 A NIGHT*

PROFESSIONAL MASSAGE $35

CUSTOM-BUILT DOGHOUSE $10,000

HAND-KNITTED SWEATER $280

GOURMET DOG TREATS $6.99 FOR 13 OUNCE

Pampering your pet could costyou an arm and a paw!

*Prices are approximate

CHOW TIME

Plain old dog chow just won’t do for caninlike Clementine the beagle. Gourmet pet

food has become all the rage. Places likeThree Dog Bakery offer biscuits made ofcarob chips, apples and oatmeal, and peanbutter, and cats munch on Alaskan salmobites. Thirsty? Sammy the German shepheslurps vitamin-enriched, beef-flavoredGutter Water from the K9 Water company



BY RENEE SKELTON

The night is pitch-black. But thedark slopes of a hill inside thecrater of Kawah Ijen volcano in

Indonesia, a country in Asia, are lit uplike a holiday light show. Tourists flockto the volcano to see what look likeglowing blue rivers of lava. But theyaren’t rivers of lava. They’re rivers ofglowing sulfur.

BURNING BLUEGlowing red lava flowing from an eruptingvolcano isn’t unusual. Glowing sulfur is. Hot,

sulfur-rich gases escape constantly fromcracks called fumaroles in Kawah Ijen’scrater. The gases cool when they hit theair. Some condense into liquid sulfur, whichflows down the hillside. When the sulfur andleftover gases ignite, they burn bright blueand light up the night sky.

Scientists were told that sulfur minerson the volcano sometimes use torches toignite the sulfur. The blue flames makeKawah Ijen popular with tourists, who watchfrom a safe distance. Recently scientistsconfirmed that some of the sulfur and gasesalso burn naturally, igniting as hot gasescombine with oxygen in the air.

VOLCANO MINERSSulfur is a common volcanic gas, andits chemical properties are used tomanufacture many things, such as rubber.But it’s so plentiful in Kawah Ijen’s craterthat miners make a dangerous daily trekinto the crater to collect sulfur from afumarole near an acid lake.

“The local people pipe the gases fromthe fumarole through ceramic pipes,” saysJohn Pallister, a geologist with the Cascades

Volcano Observatory in Washington State.He has walked into the crater himself,wearing a gas mask for protection againstthe clouds of acid that rise from the lake.“They spray the pipes with water from aspring,” he says. This cools the gases andcauses them to condense into molten sulfur.The sulfur then cools and hardens into rock.

Using this method, miners get moreusable rock faster than if they justcollected scattered pieces. They smash upthe rock with metal bars, stuff the piecesinto baskets, and carry them out of thecrater on their backs. The loads are heavy—between 100 and 200 pounds apiece.

READING THE DANGER ZONEMiners face another danger: a hugeeruption. Kawah Ijen’s last big eruption wasalmost 200 years ago, but the volcano isstill active. A big eruption could endanger

hundreds of miners and tourists.Indonesian scientists want to find a wayto predict a big eruption in time to keepeveryone safe. But the deep acid lake makesit difficult to pick up the usual signals thatwarn of a coming volcanic eruption.

For example, certain gases are usuallymore abundant right before an eruption.But in this lake, those gases dissolve in thedeep water before they can register on thegeologist’s monitoring equipment.

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How Kawah Ijen Erupts Earth’s outer shell is broken into a jigsawpuzzle of several tectonic plates, or giganticslabs of rock, that move constantly. InIndonesia, the oceanic Australian plate slipsunder the Eurasian plate at a subductionzone. As the Australian plate slides deepdown, heat generated in Earth’s interiormakes the plate superhot, and parts of itmelt. This melted rock, called magma, risestoward Earth’s surface. Pressure on themagma lessens as it rises, allowing gasesinside to expand, which can lead to explosivevolcanic eruptions.

A strange eruption creates adazzling light show.

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When the volcano onthe tiny Indonesianisland of Krakatauerupted in August1883, it could beheard thousands ofmiles away.

The Rafflesia arnoldii, the world’s largest singleflower, grows in Indonesia.The flower smells like rot-ting meat, can measure 3feet across, and weighs upto 24 pounds.

Nearly ten millionpeople live in Jakarta, Indonesia’s city with thelargest population. That’salmost two million morepeople than are living inNew York City.

Indonesiais a group ofmore than 17,500islands off the coastof Southeast Asia. It isthe largest country inthe region.

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The president of theUnited States takes alot of work trips as partof the job. But he doesn’tfly business class on aregular plane—he takeshis private jet, Air ForceOne. National GeographicKids went aboard to learnseven reasons why AirForce One is the coolestplane in the air.

JUMBO JET

Most private planes are small. AirForce One is definitely not. Thecustomized 747 airliner, designedto carry up to 102 passengers,has 3 levels, stands as tall as a6-story building, and is longerthan 5 school buses. With a fullload Air Force One can weigh up toa whopping 416 tons, which is theequivalent of more than 80 bigelephants. In the air it’s nimbleenough to cruise at more than 600miles an hour.

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The president doesn’t just get a big seat on AirForce One—he gets his own apartment. Locatedin the nose of the plane under the cockpit, thepresidential suite includes a bedroom, a privatebathroom with a shower, and enough spaceto exercise. The first family even has its ownentrance to the plane. The president also has aprivate office, which explains one of the plane’snicknames, “the Flying White House.”

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Unlike most midair meals, food on AirForce One is fine dining. Among the 26crew members are cooks and several fligattendants who can serve 100 meals at atime from the airplane’s 2 kitchens. Thecommander in chief can place orders 24/for whatever he wants—or doesn’t want.(President George H.W. Bush banned broccoli from his flights on Air Force One.)

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SPARE FORCE ONETwo Air Force One planes actuallyexist. Wherever the commanderin chief flies, a duplicate planelands somewhere nearby, readyto take over in case of mechani-cal problems. Technically, any AirForce plane the president boardsbecomes “Air Force One,” which isa military aircraft identification.

NONSTOP FLIGHTUnlike regular jumbo jets, Air ForceOne doesn’t need to land to refuel.The plane can fill up midair from aflying tanker thanks to a special fuelintake valve built into the plane’snose. Air Force One can travel 7,800miles on a single 53,000-gallon tankof gas. That amount could fill morethan 3,000 cars.

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LIFT TO THE AIRPORTThe president doesn’t have to fight traffic onthe way to the airport. He takes his personalhelicopter from the White House. Called “MarineOne” because it’s operated by the Marine Corps,the chopper lands on the White House lawn andferries him to his flight. When he arrives at hisdestination, the president’s limo and motorcadeare waiting—they’ve been delivered in advanceon cargo planes.

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BY KRISTIN BAIRD RATTINI

D azzling rays from the sun burstthrough a strange ring of stones seton a grassy field. Some of these rocks

rise 20 feet in the air. Others lie scatteredon the ground. This huge monument, calledStonehenge, has towered above England’sSalisbury Plain for thousands of years—butit’s still one of the world’s biggest mysteries.

THE UNEXPLAINEDFor centuries people have tried to unlockStonehenge’s secrets. A legend from the12th century claimed that giants placed themonument on a mountain in Ireland, then awizard named Merlin magically moved thestone circle to England.

Other theories have suggested thatmigrants from continental Europe built thesite as an astronomical observatory or as atemple to the sun and moon gods. No theorieshave been proven. But a new find may providemore information about the builders ofStonehenge and could help explain why themonument was constructed in this region.

HUNTING FOR CLUESMany scientists had guessed that the buildersof Stonehenge were the first to settle thearea some 5,000 years ago, around 3000 B.C., when construction on the site began. A recentexcavation is making people rethink this idea.

While digging around a spring about a mileand a half from Stonehenge, archaeologistDavid Jacques and his team uncoveredhundreds of bones belonging to aurochs—

a species of cattle twice the size of a modern-day bull that thrived in ancient times. In factthe site, known as Vespasian’s Camp, held thelargest collection of auroch bones ever foundin Europe. That suggests that the spring wasa pit stop along an auroch migration routewhere the animals drank water.

The team also unearthed 31,000 flints, astone tool used for hunting. “We started towonder if the area was also a hunting groundand feasting site for ancient people,” Jacquessays. “Just one auroch could’ve fed a hundredpeople, so the place would’ve been a big draw.”One of the excavated flints was made from atype of rock found some 75 miles to the west.“This means people may have traveled from allover to hunt here,” Jacques says.

The animal bones and tools date back to7500 B.C. The age of the artifacts causedJacques to conclude that people moved to theregion around 9,500 years ago—4,500 yearsearlier than what some had thought—to huntauroch. And he thinks descendants of thesesettlers assembled the mysterious stone ring.

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STONEHENGE, THE PREQUEL?The first settlers may have even had theirown early version of Stonehenge. Jacquesthinks they set up a group of wooden posts650 feet from where Stonehenge nowstands. At least 8,500 years old, the postswere found during construction of a parking

lot. This wooden monument may have beena tribute to the settlers’ ancestors.

Jacques and other scientists will keepdigging for more clues that just mightsolve the mysteries of Stonehenge onceand for all. But for now its story isn’twritten in stone.

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Funded in part by the National GeograpSociety, archaeologist Mike Parker Pearson

is studying where the stones originated anhow people moved them to their currentspot without wheeled vehicles. The sarsenswere possibly hauled in on big wooden sledfrom 20 miles away. The bluestones weretraced to rock outcrops 140 miles away inpresent-day Wales, in the United Kingdom.Parker Pearson thinks they could have beedragged on sleds to a waterway and thenfloated on rafts to the building site.

Parker Pearson is also investigating ifthe bluestones were first set up as circulamonuments in Wales, then dismantled andtaken to Salisbury Plain. One thing’s for suThe builders must’ve had rock-hard muscle


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Th is c i t y is f u l l o f nouns, or peop le, p laces, and t h ing

s. Bu t

t we l ve compound nouns —nouns made up o f t wo or more

words, or t wo words comb ined t o make one word —ha ve been

drawn exac t l y as t he y ’re named. Can you guess t he compound

nouns i l lus t ra t ed in each o f t he numbered scenes? Here ’s

a h in t : The answer t o number 1 is “s leep ing bag. ”

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HINT: Why are frogs so happy?

WILD RANGEThese photos show close-up viewsof animals that live in SoutheastAsia, a region covering 11 countriesincluding Malaysia, Indonesia, andVietnam. Unscramble the lettersto identify what’s in each picture.Bonus: Use the highlighted letters

to solve the puzzle below.ANSWERS ON PAGE 35

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HOODED SEALHOOD

In the virtual world of Animal Jam, the land calledKimbara closely resembles environments found on whatreal-world continent?A. AsiaB.

Australia

Before the invention of penicillin, what was oftenused to treat infections?A. soupB. maggots

Which playground item is used to describe video gamesthat allow a player to build things?A. seesawB. slide

About how tall was Brachiosaurus? A. 11 feet—about as tall as a JeepB. 20 feet—about as tall as a two-story buildingC. 40 feet—taller than two giraffesD. 500 feet—almost as tall as the Washington Monument

C. sandboxD. jungle gym

In the movie 101 Dalmatians, who does Cruella de Vilsteal puppies from?A. Roger and AnitaB.John and Margaret

C. Horace and JasperD.Beauty and the Beast

C. EuropeD.

South America

Which of these plants grows in the Grand Canyon?A.palm treeB. redwood tree

When does the hooded seal display its balloon-like “hood”?A. when it’s threatenedB. when it’s hungry

C. when it’s sleepingD.when it’s nursing its pups

An ostrich’s eyeball is about the size of which ofthe following?A. its stomach

B. its beak

C. its heart

D. its brain

What’s another name for a kiwi?A. Chinese gooseberryB. Irish appleC. New Zealand melonD. Chihuahua dog fruit

Second-class passengers of the R.M.S.Titanic had accessto all of the following areas except the .A. libraryB.barber shop

C. deckD. gymnasium

If your parents can’t

answer these questions,

ma ybe the y shou ld go

to schoo l instead of you!

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C.cactus D. cherry blossom

C. aspirinD. worms

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BY BECKY BAINESAsk a friend togive you words tofill in the blanks inthis story withoutshowing it to himor her. Then readout loud for a laugh.

My friends and Ipast-tense verb

a machine that canverb

stuff. But before

we could show it off, we had toverb

it. I put a(n)noun

on a table and

past-tense verb a button. Then there was a(n)

adjective blast. Suddenly I saw green

strips towering above me. It was grass—weadverb ending in -ly

past-tense verb

ourselves!

We heard a noise. I turned and saw a(n)noun

with eight eyes. My friend quickly

scaled a nearbysomething in nature

, while the rest of us tied ourarticle of clothing, plural

together

to make a rope. Our friend pulled us to safety, with the creatureverb ending in -ing

toward us. A(n)

flying animal

picked us up from there, dropping us on top of our machine. We gathered together

andpast-tense verb

on the button. I opened mybody part, plural

. I wasadjective

enough to see into my house! Our big adventure had come to a close.

Funn y F I L L- I N It’s a Jung l

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A sloth was climbing atree when three snailsattacked him. Afterrecovering, he went tothe police. An officer asked, “Can you describethe snails?” The slothreplied, “Not well. It allhappened too fast.”

Why dogiraffes havelong necks?

B e c a u s e t h e y h a v e

s m e l l y f e e t .

Kristin’s sister’sbiscuit mixer

What’s the difference

between Superman andan ordinary man?

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March 20. To participate, upload photosto My Shot of things that make you happyand tag them with #happy by April1. Pharrell will pick his favorites, andsome will be featured in a future issueof NG Kids magazine. So grab a parentand go online! ngkidsmyshot.com

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“ N o u n T o w n ” ( p a g e 2 8 ) : T h e 1 2 c o m p o u n d n o u n s a r e : 1 . s l e e p i n g b a g , 2 . e g g p l a n t , 3 . c a t fi s h ,

4 . b e l l h o p , 5 . l a d y b u g , 6 . h o u s e w o r k ,

7 . b u t t e r fl y , 8 . l i m e l i g h t , 9 . a r r o w h e a d ,

1 0 . f u l l m o o n , 1 1 . s u n fl o w e r , 1 2 . c o f f e e t a b l e .

“ W h a t i n t h e W o r l d ? ” ( p a g e 2 9 ) : T o p r o w : e l e p h a n t , g i b b o n , v i n e s n a k e . M i d d l e r o w : c r o c o d i l e , r e d l o r y , o t t e r . B o t t o m r o w : s u n b e a r ,

r h i n o c e r o s , t a r s i e r .

B o n u s : T h e y e a t w h a t e v e r b u g s t h e m .

“ S t u m p Y o u r P a r e n t s ” ( p a g e 3 0 ) : 1 . A , 2 . C , 3 . D , 4 . A , 5 . B , 6 . A , 7 . D ,

8 . C , 9 . B , 1 0 . C .

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