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After English and Spanish what is the next most widely spoken language in the homes across the US? German is the third most spoken language in the homes across America. In my opinion, I think Chinese is the third language most spoken in the US homes. I think this because there are so many Asians in the school and there is a China town in NY.

What iconic toy, also the single best-selling toy of all time, celebrated its 40th birthday this week?

The rubric cube celebrated its 40th birthday this week. What I know about the rubric cube is its a strategic game that requires a lot of concentration. Its a cube puzzle where you have to get all the colors matched up on all four sides of the cube. I have messed with one but have never succeeded in completing it.

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Where is Fukushima? What disasters struck the city three years ago? What does the city look like now? Why are fields that once were full of crops now full of bags of soil? What radioactive poison was released during the nuclear plant meltdown? Why is the professor seen in the video especially worried about the poison's effect on fish? What does the reporter have to do before he enters the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant? What are workers there trying to do to the plant? How long will the cleanup take? According to the video, why will the town continue to sit empty for years?

Fukushima is located in Japan. The disasters that have struck this city are a tsunami, an earthquake, and a nuclear meltdown. The soil is polluted and people have evacuated this entire city. The toxic poison is called cessium 137. They are very concerned about the poisoning of fish since this is Japan's main food supply. The reporter had to put on a hazmat suit to protect him from the radiation. The workers are trying to clean up the plant. Clean up is expected to take decades. The town will stay empty because it will remain contaminated.

We're looking for your feedback about the happenings in Fukushima:

Matt: My opinion is that the fish are going to be polluted, and that if people eat them, that they will either die or have radiation.

Shaheed: My opinion is that if they work really hard, that they will make the town inhabitable again.

Austin: Because of the pollution of the fish, I believe that this will effect future generations causing birth defects and will effect the food chain.

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What was the Cold War? According to the video, how is one Cold War boundary "still dictating lives today"? What did scientists observe when they tracked two groups of red deer, each on one side of a long-gone electrified fence? How do the deer know not to cross the area where the fence used to be?

The Cold War was a war between the United States and Russia. The boundary that used to be the electric fence between Austria, Germany and the Czech Republic. The deer still behave like the electric fence is still there. The parent deer passed along the boundary fear to the children deer.

What biological lessons do you think are illustrated by the behavior of the red deer in the video? Have you ever seen these biological principles at work in other instances? Explain. What lessons, if any, do you think this story holds for humans?

The lesson that the deer teach is that if something is bad once, why would you ever go back. Boundaries are boundaries and they are hard to break. Trust, when broken, is hard to rebuild.

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Watch the 10-minute student news video on CNN at link below.

Copy and paste a fast fact question and a discussion question.

Answer the prompts given. (5 sentence minimum)

Snip and post a picture related to the news you wrote about today.

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