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Company Time  Tournament Tips Take a chance on a No. 12 seed. At least one No. 12 seed has upset a No. 5 seed in the first round of every tournament in the last ten years. Don't take a chance…

Smallest Animal Hall of Fame

Smallest   Follow this slideshow to learn about the smallest creatures on Earth, from the bumblebee bat to the fairyfly. Prev Next Land mammal The bumblebee bat tips the scales at…

DK Space: Rockets

HOW DO ROCKETS WORK? PROPELLANTFIND OUT MORESpacecraft are launched into space by rockets—the only engines powerful enough to overcome Earth’s gravity and lift objects into space. Most spacecraft…

Hiram Rhodes REVELS, Congress, MS (1827-1901)

Senate Years of Service: 1870-1871Party: RepublicanREVELS, Hiram Rhodes, a Senator from Mississippi; born in Fayetteville, Cumberland County, N.C., on September 27, 1827; attended Beech Grove…

Anatomy and
Physiology: When You Gotta Go …

When You Gotta Go …Anatomy and PhysiologyThe Excretory SystemWaterworksWhere It All HappensReabsorptionWhen You Gotta Go … Okay, so you've made the urine. Now what? You can't keep it forever! So…

Roundup of Recent Science Discoveries, 2005

—By Borgna BrunnerOmo Is Oldest In 2003 the dating of an Ethiopian Homo sapiens fossil, “Herto Man,” was hailed as a milestone in paleoanthropology. At 160,000 years old, Herto Man was a full 50…

Anatomy and
Physiology: You've Got Some Nerve!

You've Got Some Nerve!Anatomy and PhysiologyThe Central and Peripheral Nervous SystemsYou've Got Some Nerve!Gyri and SulciThe Control CenterSensory and Motor ControlThalamus: The Switching…

Genocide: How is it Defined?

by Borgna Brunner     genocide: from the Greek genos, meaning race; and the Latin suffix -cidium, meaning killing After learning the extent of Nazi atrocities…