Young Nation Magazine 30 April 2011

Dear friends,How are you all? Here we have come again to bring interesting and informative articles for you. Don’t forget to read about Amir Atlas, the promising squash player as well as about the discovery of new planet. Enjoy our ac-tivities section. Keep on writing to us!Best, edi

Hey kids, kindly send us letters, stories, poems and events detail on the following

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Dear edi,How are you? I am fine by the grace of Allah. I like Young Na-tion magazine very much. It is very amazing. But I have no-ticed that you are publishing sad and emotional stories from two to three weeks. Please publish adventurous stories. Please publish poet’s corner every week. I sent you a let-ter, some drawings and a story four weeks ago but you did not publish it. Please publish them.

Please publish Winx Club’s post-ers. I am sending you some posters. I like the idea of ‘Art of the Month’.Best regard,Hafsa AhmedThe Educator

Lahore

Hi edi,How are you? Your magazine re-ally is amazing. But nowadays it doesn’t have any thing nice, you should add something interest-ing in your magazine.Zahra NiaziAPSAC Rawalpindi

Hi edi,How are you? I think you are en-joying good health. I am grate-ful that you published my draw-ing and letter. This is my third letter to you. Please publish more puzzles and also increase the pages of your magazine. I

like cover story, story time and Artist’s corner the best. I wish that your magazine goes on and on. Also publish my draw-ing and story. I will be grateful to you.Your biggest fan,Maryam NadeemAPS Garrison Lahore

Dear edi,I am sure your team and you are going good. I am sorry be-cause I could not write letter to you because of my exams. Now papers are finished and I am writing you a letter and sending a drawing. I like to read your magazine and do activities but I don’t like the posters like Spiderman, super man, and Shahid Afridi. Please send posters like Snow White and Cinderella.Regards,From Momina NadeemArmy Public School

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Quote of the week “I’m not upset that you lied to me, I’m upset that from now on I can’t believe you”-

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche was a German philosopher, whose critiques of contem-porary culture, religion, and philosophy cantered on a basic question regarding the

foundation of values and morality

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The LambBy William BlakeLittle lamb, who made thee?Dost thou know who made thee?Gave thee life, and bid thee feedBy the stream and o’er the mead;Gave thee clothing of de-light,Softest clothing, woolly, bright;Gave thee such a tender voice,Making all the vales re-joice?Little lamb, who made thee?Dost thou know who made thee?Little lamb, I’ll tell thee,Little lamb, I’ll tell thee:He is called by thy name,For He calls Himself a lamb.He is meek, and He is mild;He became a little child.

I a child, and thou a lamb,We are called by His name.Little lamb, God bless thee!Little lamb, God bless thee!

Family By Salman ShahidMy family is a StaedtlerI am the wooden part Strong and tallMy brother is the eraserSoft and small,My dad is the metal band That keeps us brothers stuck togetherMy mother is the sharp tipThat pokes us to be perfect!

My DollBy Rabia AbbasI have a naughty dollShe loves dancing ‘rock and roll’New sits in my lapAlways jumps and listens ‘rap’She likes wearing jean and shirtI call her my lovely portHer meals are always ‘happy

meals’Her drinks are always ‘soft drinks’Her checks are like milk and curdHer smile is like a beauti-ful birdHer hair is soft like plush minkHer favourite calm is baby pinkShe always carries an up-date styleMe always bingo for her style

My TeacherBy Aiman NiaziMy sweet teacher,You are so niceI really like you,You keep sitting on the chair,But you are so fair,You are so dear to me,Your everything is so clearYou are so kind to every-one,You never hurt anyone,You are the best teacher


S t o r y T i m e

Pappu, my friend lived in a sub-urb of Rawalpindi. We were together since childhood, re-ally thick friends and now that he was to leave for Karachi, the worth of his friendship in-creased. Increased, because I knew time we spent together would be reduced. Pappu was leaving for Karachi because he was looking for a job and Kara-chi was a city of opportunities. Nike (which was my name) he said, I shall call you there too, once I am settled. Pappu had a sad childhood. Both his par-ents had died when he was young and often he would have to hold back his tears when he mentioned them. “Nike your mom cooks for you, the tastiest dishes, if

only my mom was alive.” Then I would change the topic, eve-ry time when he mentioned them.Pappu stayed in Karachi with a friend who worked in the circus. One day a clown came to visit him. Pappu told me the whole story later. “I was so inspired by him, Nike, he was always smiling, and made me smile also, seems like my wounds were recovering”. The clown had come again and con-vinced Pappu that the circus was a real fun place to work in. Pappu joined the circus as a trapeze artist. He was a trainee first. Pappu, wear this costume and repeat after me. The other clowns would impress him. Pappu enjoyed the comedy.” I

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feel like I have been relieved of my sorrow,” he wrote to me. He asked me to visit him. I landed in Karachi, very eager to watch then perform. I had visited a circus previously but living in one was going to be an entirely different experience. The lights of the circus and the shine and shimmer of the costumes the performers wore was like the water of a lake, shining with the reflection of the sun on it. The performers entered the ring one by one. There was the trapeze, the tight- rope, the an-imals, the fire-eaters, the acro-bats and those who performed amazing somersaults.Pappu was a ‘trapeze artist. “Come, sit on this VIP chair and watch me”, he beckoned. Pappu perched himself on the trapeze. This act was practiced to perfection and the trampo-line below was removed before it started. Pappu, swung to and fro. In mid- air he was to clutch the hand of a fellow artist. He

missed his grasp and less than 100 yards below was the cold floor which could break bones and render them beyond repair. He was descending very fast. I saw him miss the grasp and fall-ing faster than a cheetah could run.Pappu’s luck must be on his side that day because the man in charge of removing the tram-poline had a watch whose cell’s power had finished. He thought it was still early to remove the trampoline as the time on his watch was incorrect because of the cell. As luck would have it the trampoline had not been removed because of this and Pappu landed safely.After that incident I seemed to enjoy going from one caravan to the other, meeting the vari-ous performers even more. I too enjoyed the company of the clowns, very much. All the performers sat together after the circus closed for the day. “Pappu it’s real fun being here.

I shall miss the entertainment when I go back”. When I went back I told a friend back home, the whole story. He thought that a job in the circus was an easy way out but it was not so for Pappu. Pappu had it in his blood. His fore- father was also in a circus. After a few years Pappu had his own circus and he named it after his mom and dad, then every time I felt sad and wanted to have fun and smile, I vis-ited him.


Can it be? Have astronomers finally discovered a planet suit-able for life? As far as the news goes, they have found a habita-ble planet outside our solar sys-tem which is just right for life; not too hot as Mercury, and not too cold as Neptune. The size of the planet is also nearly the size of the Earth. The newly discovered plant is named as the Goldilocks Planet, situated in the habitable zone (HZ). The habitable zone, however, is the region in space where planets with Earth-like features are found; the ones with the possibil-ity of having liquid water on their surface. The term habitable zone is also often used for those plan-ets which are nearly equivalent to the size of the Earth.The name for the Goldilocks Planet is literally derived from the famous children’s story, Goldilocks and the Three Bears. Goldilocks chose the porridge which was neither too hot nor too cold, but was just perfect to eat. The Goldilocks Principle of astronomy is also based on the same rule, that instead of reaching extremes, something should be within certain lim-its to be deemed acceptable. If the temperature of a planet is either too hot or too cold, it would be incapable of support-ing any such life form. But if the temperature is moderate, then not only it would have signs of life, it would also be compara-ble with Earth as well.

For researchers, these Gold-ilocks Planets are of the most interest, as the prime objective of their space studies and deep-space explorations are to dis-cover those planets which can be termed as capable of having any such life form. This Gold-ilocks Planet was discovered on September 29, 2010 by two astronomers, R. Paul Butler and Steven Vogt. Butler searches for planets outside our solar system, also called extrasolar planets, and works at The Carn-egie Institution for Science in Washington, while Vogt is a professor of astronomy and as-trophysics at University of Cali-fornia at Santa Cruz.The newly discovered planet is nearly three times the mass of Earth and is to some extent larger in width as well. As com-pared to Earth, this planet is also much closer to its stars. The solar system from which this Goldilocks Planet belongs too also has a sun, and this Earth-like planet circles its sun every thirty-seven days. This is the reason why one side of the planet is always bright and the other is always dark. Research-ers have guessed that the aver-age surface temperature of this planet can reach a maximum of 71 degree Celsius or drop to -4 degree Celsius. But in the areas having constant light, tempera-tures could be warm. According to Steven Vogt “in the land of constant sunshine, it would be

shirt-sleeve weather.”This Goldilocks Plan-et orbits around a red dwarf star, Gliese 581. The term ‘red’ de-scr ibes t h e color,

while t h e t e r m ‘ d w a r f star’ refers to such low-mass stars which have not more than 40% of the mass of our Sun. The Gliese 581, however, is located nearly 20 million light

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years away from the Earth in the constellation Libra. Accord-ing to observations, Gliese 581 has six planets namely Gliese 581 e, b, c, g, d and f, where Gliese 581g is the one referred to as the Goldilocks Planet. But the Goldilocks Planet is thought to be tidally locked, which means that the gravita-tional pull of the sun it revolves

around always makes one side of the planet face the sun. This is the reason why one side of the Goldilocks Planet is always in constant sunshine and the other in constant darkness.Until now, it is unclear if water does really exist on this planet and astronomers also have to understand the kind of atmos-phere present on this planet.

But according to the research studies, since the conditions of this planet are ideal for liquid water, therefore, Steven Vogt is certain that “personally, given the ubiquity and propensity of life to flourish wherever it can, I would say that the chances for life on this planet are hundred percent. I have almost no doubt about it.” The Goldilocks Planet is 120 trillion miles away from Earth, and in human traveling, it would take a spaceship numer-ous generations to reach there. But according to Vogt, “it may

seem like a long distance, but in the scheme of

the vast universe, this planet is like

right in our face, right

next door to us.”


Point of View

Aamir Atlas Khan is a promising young Pakistani professional squash player. Son of British Amateur Championship runner-up Atlas Khan and a nephew of the record eight-time World Open champion Jansher Khan, Pakistan teenager Aamir Atlas Khan come into Squash with an enviable pedigree. But the 18-year-old from Peshawar car-ries the hopes of his nation on his shoulders as Pakistan looks to him to continue the suc-cess achieved by his uncle and a long line of Pakistani greats before him.Aamir enjoyed a highly success-

ful junior career, winning Brit-ish Junior Open titles at U13

and U15 before going on to win the Asian Junior U19 Champi-

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onship crown in 2005, aged just 14!In recent successes, Amir won a silver medal in the individual event at the 2010 Asian Games in Guangzhou, China. Aamir, who turned pro in 2002 is ranked 14th, his highest ranking, and is the current No. 1 Pakistan squash player.

Profile:Country PAKRanking 29Last Ranking 30Highest Ranking 14 (Sep 2009 )National title successes Current National Senior Champion 2009National Champion 2006 and Winner of Pakistan Open 2007 & 2008Ambitions and aims for next year to get into the top 10 on the world ranking


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I could not believe what I was about to do. Here I was chained to the remains of what once must have been a deep freezer at the local super market and waiting for someone to pass by who had even an ounce of what I wanted; needed is a better word. If I fail, I might as well be dead and I am not talking about dehydration. Ours is a world without water. It has been this way for as long as I can remem-ber. The few reserves of clean drinkable water that the post apocalyptic Earth does have are “owned” by the feudal lords – we call them the Feudals. The rest of us either wait for one of the feudal lords to have mercy on us and share their wealth or we steal it. I do the latter. It was not always like this. Things were good for my family. While we did not have water to waste on bathing or washing clothes, we did have enough water to drink and that was good enough for us. We were a family of sev-en; dad, mom, Amana, Leila, Aahil, Jubair and me – Aalee. Dad was Qais’s right hand man and was paid in terms of food and water for his family. We had a house where we had all the comforts you can expect nowa-days – two furnished rooms, a kitchen and an entire bathroom to ourselves. Of course I do not remember ever taking a bath there. We also had our very own tap in the backyard; cour-

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then that Akmal told me that the feudal lords had gotten to-gether and decided that there wasn’t water enough for their own families and any other fam-ily getting any favors should be eliminated so that the balance would become better. My fam-ily was just one such victim.I spent many long days and nights walking along with Ak-mal. Since he was not a man of many words, I did not get to know too much about him. He kept murmuring something which I assumed were prayers of finding water but of course we could not be sure. We found several small ponds that con-tained water which made me excited each time. Unfortunate-ly my bubble burst every single time as I was informed that the water contained in these bodies was not potable. By the end of the first day I was very tired and thirsty. My throat was parched and I longed to splash some water on my face but that would have been a pleasure we could not afford. I had no idea how much water Akmal had in his backpack but I guessed not too much so I was careful. I had heard from my parents how bad the water situation was but this getting dark as night ap-

proached and we were all running our respec-tive errands so that we could get into bed be-fore it got too cold. I was in the basement looking for another rug that would serve as insulation to my very cold bed cot when I heard whir-ring sounds outside my house. Before I had time to figure out what was going on I heard shots and then all was silent. Needless to say I was very scared so I hud-

dled up in a corner of the basement and de-

cided to stay there until my twelve year old bones

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out and investigate what had happened. When none of my family came down to explain what was going on, I gathered my wits and climbed the stairs. What I saw was horrific. My entire family was gone – dead shot. I did not know how to re-

act. There was no one I could ask what had happened and

honestly speaking I was in no condition to utter words. In the state of

shock, I felt a huge hand on my shoul-der and someone turned me around. Now I was facing someone I had no idea was friend or foe. This was Akmal – the only person I would call a friend in the days ahead. It turned out that

he was passing by our house when

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he was looking for a place where he could

find some water so that he could take his family there as water supplies had mysteri-ously vanished where his family lived. Akmal said he would take me along on his quest as he and I both figured there really was not much I could do here alone. My grief was in-tense but the in-stinct to survive in a world I did not know too well overcame anything else that I felt. Ak-mal took out his water bottle to re-fill from the tap in our backyard but when he turned the tap nothing came out. Our wa-ter supply was cut off. It was

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w a s really the first time I had a head on with it.The days that I spent with Akmal went by in a blur. The urgency to find water was so great that I could not help but think about all the things I had read about wa-ter when it was not a thing so scarce. I had read about the fact that seventy per-cent of Earth was water. That is a lot considering the fact that only three percent of Earth was water now and not all of it was potable. I had heard of ice – fro-zen water – but I had never seen it as the weather was never cold enough now. At least not where I lived! I had read and heard of seas, lakes, rivers, streams, springs, canals and oceans – all bodies of water that no one had seen for at least two centuries. How beautiful it must all have been! And imagine having so much water you didn’t know what to do with it! Life must have been so much easier than it was now. What exactly did humans do to make Earth like this? Nothing was spelt out in any of the chronicles that I read but from what I could make out was that it wasn’t what they did with water that killed it – it was what they did with every other natural resource that this planet had. And how they abused the environment; so much wastage

and so much pollution! And my fault in all of this is that I was born now. I have noth-ing. The most basic of human

needs is water and my family was killed over one tap of wa-ter. I am twelve years old and

looking for one drink which if I do not get, I will probably not live to be a teenager. Why have I been dealt all this? What is my fault? All these bit-ter thoughts and many others kept making my mind a mud-

dle. For the first time in my life I realized what was truly

important. I may not have if tragedy had not befall-

en me. Is this what hap-pened two centuries

ago? People did not care about what they were doing to their planet

because it was not their problem – they

had it all and it was go-ing to last their lifetime at least! They just didn’t care enough to leave their subsequent genera-tions a living planet! Racking my brain further I re-called Dad talking about agri-culture and marine life. Agri-culture took up a lot of water as irrigation was the key to producing food. No one did that anymore. No water, no ag-riculture and no food produce. What did irrigation canals look like? What were fruits and veg-etables? And what were fish? Surfing, boating and swimming all sounded like so much fun but where was that kind of wa-ter now? Goodness! There were so many things back then that we just do not have now! They are all extinct like we may be very soon.All along Akmal never once asked what I had on my mind. I did not mind really. What was more important now was to find water as supplies were dwindling and all that I could see for miles around me was barren land and no sign of ei-ther water or civilization. One night we approached an oasis of sorts and decided to spend the night there. I was filthy

from days of walking in the arid weather and had had just enough water to keep me alive. I felt I could sleep for days. It seemed like only a few hours had passed when I was woken up by loud voices. I saw one brigand take hold of Akmal and that was the last I saw of him. I was taken by another and put into an old beaten up truck by which I was transported to a prison of sorts. For days I was given very little food and just enough water to keep me alive. There was no one else in my prison cell so I had absolutely no idea what was going on or what the brigands intended to do with me. It did not take me long to find out though. I was what they called bait. The brigands were going to use me as lure to con the Feudals out of the most cherished of all things in our world – water. The best way they can do this is by catch-ing a Feudal and holding him for ransom – water again. It works every time. It is a cycle that goes on and on. So this is what I was doing chained to a deep freezer; the drill was to yell for help if I see a passerby, tell him or her that I was left here by a brigand and that I needed help. Who could resist a little boy asking for help from so obvious a predicament? The minute someone tried help-ing, they would be attacked by these unsavory characters hid-ing nearby. The rest is anyone’s guess. What do I get out of all this? My life! They will feed me, clothe me and keep me alive. This is the best that I can ask for. I have been doing this for a year now and yes! I do wonder how it all started. And no! I did not start it. I am doing all this for just one glass of water a day because you did not leave me my most basic right – life.

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Sea Mammals spend most of their lives in the sea. There are three groups of sea mammals. Whales and Dolphins are called cetaceans. Seals and walruses are called pinnipeds. Manatees and dugongs are called sireni-ans. A whale’s body is designed for swimming. It has a smooth, streamlined shape for pushing through the water, and blow-holes for breathing on top of its head. The huge Blue Whale is the biggest mammal in the sea. In fact, it’s the biggest mam-mal that has ever lived. It can grow more than 100 feet long and weigh as much as 30 tons. Some whales have long, tough bristles, called baleen, hanging down inside their mouth, instead of teeth. They don’t chew their food, but sieve it from the wa-ter through the baleen. Some whales have tones of tiny shell-fish growing on their backs. The shellfish are called bar-nacles. They need to have a solid surface to glue their shells on to. Any rock, ship or passing whale will do. Strickly speaking, dolphins are small whales with sharp, pointed teeth for catch-

By Faraz Imran Butt

ing food. Dolphins live in seas all over the world. The biggest dolphin is the killer whale. A wal-rus uses its long tusks and break breathing holes in the ice. The males also use their tusks to fight off rivals and attract a mate. To attract a mate or scare off a rival, a male hooded seal blows air into it nose! It can inflate the lining of one of its nostrils so that it looks like a big, red balloon. Weddell seals live in the far south, on ice covered islands off the coasts of freezing Antarctica. Ringed seals live in the arctic, at the other end of the world. They have been found as far north as the North Pole. The fastest sea mammal in the world is the killer whale. With its streamlined body and power-ful tail, it can speed through the water at up to thirty five mph. That is more than six times fast-er than the quickest human

swimmers. The fastest seal in the sea is the California sea lion, with the top speed of twenty five mph. The fastest sea lion on the land is the crab eater seal, reaching twelve mph over snow and ice. Sperm whales dive over a mile af-ter their food. One sperm whale was even found with two deep - sea sharks in its stomach. It must have dived to nearly two miles to catch them.. Hump back whales are very athletic. Even though the whales may weigh sixty five tons, they can leap high into the air and tome crashing down into the water on their backs. They can even turn somersaults in the air. A walrus’s tusk is actually its two upper teeth. They grow up to three feet long. The walrus uses its tusk to pull itself out of the sea and drag itself across the land. Grey whales spend their summers feeding in the Arctic. In winter, they swim to the coast of Mexico to breed. They swim back north again in the spring,

a round trip of about 12,500 miles.

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