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Your Cosmic Newspaper for Tuesday, June 18, 1996 Volume 1, No. 41 Pages 4-5 CALHOON'S STORY. Orange-eyed bugs are back! L. k. crunchy skins and harden into maturity.

They never eat while above ground; they are too busy reproducing. The adult males begin the mating ritual by emitting a whining song that attracts the females. The chorus from one colony's male insects is so loud that it can drown out the sound of a lawn mower. Once the bugs mate, the females cut slits into tree branches, where they deposit 400 to 600 eggs. The adults quickly die, but the eggs hatch in a few weeks and the young drop to the ground.

The young cicadas dig below the surface Why is there so much interest in the Eastern United States cicadas (sih-KAY-duhs) this year? Use the story to find the answer HAMDEN, Conn. After 17 years in hiding, millions of tiny creatures with bulging orange eyes are digging their way out of the ground from Connecticut to North Carolina The 17-year cicadas are back. The 1 12-inch-long black bugs with iridescent wings have the longest lifespan of any insect but only live above ground as adults for 2 12 weeks before they die. This Eastern group or brood was last sighted anef Kid on Calhoon, the mascot of Planet Kid Yes, I want to join Planet Kid! Name Address City i 0 IL -Zip. Phone Age Name of parent or guardian.

and begin the cycle again. The emergence, of the Connecticut cicadas will be a boon for robins and other birds, which often gorge on the creatures that Remington describes as "the tastiest insects in the world." So tasty, in fact, that Remington and his colleagues are planning to partake. He has created a stir-fry recipe for the rare insects, which are a delicacy in central Japan. Remington recommends boiling the newly hatched adults while they are still soft While being eaten by people is not the biggest threat to the cicada, man is the chief threat to the species, Remington said. Housing developments and shopping malls threaten to destroy the cicada habitat" in iyy; other populations appear in different years.

There is nothing else to approach that in the entire entomological world," Yale University entomologist Charles Remington said Monday while surveying the return of the bugs at Connecticut's aptly named Sleeping Giant State Park. They'll all be dead by the end of June." Found only in the United States east of the Great Plains, 17-year periodical cicadas tunnel into the ground after hatching, some digging as deeply as 8 feet Beneath the surface, the nymphs slowly suck the sap from tree roots for nourishment After 17 years, they burrow to the surface and climb trees and shrubs. There, they shed their My favorite hobbies are A Check for $5 iS endOSed Make check payable to Battle Creek Enquirer. mc Visa AM EXP Please bill my Account Signature Shirt size (Circle one): little kids (Child) big kids (Adult) XL Mail t0: Marketing Department, Battle Creek Enquirer, 155 W. Van Buren Battle Creek, Ml 49017-3093 HOW TO PUT TOGETHER YOUR COSMIC NEWSPAPER For information on advertising sponsorship packages, contact 3.

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to use scissors!) ENQUIRER fgp Esa st-3a ses ggg ess tsm msa mm mm ms ess CUT i msa Baa kh mm ssat mm I Did YOU The world's first three-dor traffic light went up in Detroit in 1 91 9, Did yOU The rescue dog "Rin Tin Tin" was voted the nation's favorite movie star in 1926. "ST Health yourself Mews to tlust Book It 'tff 'r Everybody wants kids to read jjlhore, especially during the i'summer. Teachers do. Parents -tfo. And of course, authors do.

i ii But some children just can't find anything they want to read. Sometimes it takes just one book to turn children into lifetime readers. Several authors name which book (or books) JUST FOR PARENTS For parents of young children, pediculosis capitis more commonly known as head lice can be a common if unpleasant fact of life. Head lice are small, wingless brown insects that can cause severe itching on the head a few weeks after infestation. Fortunately, these parasites are more of a nuisance than a serious health problem, and there are ways to eliminate them.

Diagnosis of the problem is simple. The insects can generally be seen by examining the scalp with a magnifying glass. It is not unusual to see small and sometimes great numbers of oval grayish-white nits, or egg cases, fixed to hair shafts. Head lice can sometimes be eliminated by using medications that contain lindane or natural pyrethrin, a substance made from chrysanthemum extract These medications are available in shampoo, cream and lotion forms. Extra cleaning may be required to completely eradicate head lice.

them as young readers: I yK Cdhoon's 1 ymhj a-MAZE-ing problem 1 Help Calhoon get through the maze: 1 Start here I 1 You did J-i' Joanna Cole, author of the ryMogic School Bus series, includ-3ng The Magic School Bus Inside 2z Hurricane (Scholastic, "My favorite book FfMvhen I was a child was a book insects called Bugs, In-' serfs and Such. It was given to i4fce by my favorite aunt and unfile because I loved to watch in my back yard. With the 4ook I could find out about the rlugs that I Virginia Hamilton, author of Jihore than 30 children books, When Birds Could Talk Bats Could Sing (Scholas-JJjicBlue Sky Press, "I jf 4oved the Nancy Drew books here was an indepen- 12 inches in height and weighed 2,990 pounds. Hull buried it on a farm near Cardiff, N.Y., where it was "discovered" later by men digging a well. Hull called the unearthed mineral block The Cardiff Giant" and exhibited it around the country as a petrified man or statue dating from prehistoric times.

Thousands paid to see the "giant," which was widely discussed among scholars and scientists. The showman PT. Barnum even offered $60,000 for a three-month lease of the "giant" The hoax eventually was exposed by a professor at Yale, and Hull confessed to his part in it DIG THIS MUSEUM The Children's Museum of Indianapolis the world's largest museum for kids recenbrjy opened a $2.5 million science gallery that follows the museum's hands-on philosophy. In the Science Works gallery in the new Dow Science Center, children can crawl through a giant mound of dirt to encounter underground animals; catch a glimpse of living plants and animals from atop, and under, an Indiana pond, and climb a 20-foot limestone wall. Visitors can got into a back yard, identify and chart fossils in a geological dig, use a video microscope to more closely examine specimens taken from a pond and operate machinery at a construction site.

The new gallery was designed for children ages 6-10, though directors say older kids may enjoy it as well For additional information on ticket prices or registration call (317) 9214000. VERY BRADY FASHION With their neon-bright polyester flower-print shirts, hip-hugging bell bottoms, and platform shoes, there's no doubt that the kids from the upcoming Brady Bunch movie, "A Very Brady Sequel" coming out in July, are the fashion leaders of the retro styles. Tm really into the fashions. Actually, you'd find me wearing the same blast-from-the-past clothes even when I'm off the set" says Jennifer Elise Cox, who plays Jan Brady. "I like a lot of the fabrics and colors the designers are using now.

The pants that are not quite bell bottoms, they're just straight and then flair, are my favorites." The rest of the Brady kids have mixed feelings about the styles they are helping to popularize. "I don't think the clothes today are as wild as they used to be," says Olivia Hack, 12, who plays Cindy. They're really not as hideous as the stuff worn in the 70s. I like the bright colors that I see in all the stores. The bright blues and oranges are my favorites, and wearing them puts me in a happy mood." The off-the-rack nostalgia craze has spilled over to summer beachwear.

The latest in swim-suits are actually copied from the styles from the 1940s and '50s. ONE GIANT HOAX In 1869, George Hull of Bing-hamton, N.Y., came up with one of America's great hoaxes. After visiting the gypsum deposits in Fort Dodge, Iowa, Hull had a huge block of gypsum carved into the rough shape of a human figure. j' The figure measured 10 feet, 4 ueiu wim iici uwu isjt wno solved Katherine Paterson, author of more than 20 books for children and young people including The King's Equal (Harper---Gollins, $17): "When I was 11 (years old, my mother came home from a trip with a present for me, a copy of Marjorie Kin-nan Rawling's The Yearling. We were a book-reading family, but because we had very little money, all five children had to share the family books.

Somehow, however, my mother realized that I would love this particular book and need to have a VIDEOGAMES The latest entry in the maze shooter collection is Wed, a PlayStation creation by Any Channel for Accolade. You're hiding in the kitchen when the first alien bursts in. You take care of him with a frying pan and then set out to reclaim the ship. Wed is a slow starter, but once you get into the more complex levels, it's hard to let go. A memory card is a good idea, so you don't have to wade through the entire game each time you die.

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