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Jan.-Feb. 2002
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Sports Talk
Get the Olympic torch to Salt Lake City for the 2002 Winter Games! How? Just skate and ski through questions about sporting terms.
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Poll Booth
Next time you pick up the sports section, look hard at pictures of male and female athletes. Do you see action shots of both men and women? Do the photos of women show their sports ability or just pretty faces?

Who gets better coverage in the media?
Male athletes?
Female athletes?
E-Postcards
Do you flip over the Olympics? Have a friend who deserves a gold medal? Know anyone who could use a warm penguin hug? Send the latest cards to your friends.
Send a Postcard
Wordwise Glossary
Trek into the world of big words—from adaptation to matriarch to yucca. For each issue, we add more.
Look it Up
Articles
Cool Parents
Cool Parents
Meet the coolest parents on Earth, fly with an air force that doesn’t need planes, and take a new look at female athletes.
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a waterfall
Fantastic Forest
Keep your eyes open as you walk into the woods! How many creatures and features can you spot?
Start Adventure
Contests
kids on ice skates
We Love Our Town
Read the top essays.

Cool Paragraphs
Celebrate the Olympics by telling us about your favorite winter activity.
 Learn More

Cool Links
> >  Salt Lake City 2002
Check out the official website for the 2002 Winter Olympics.
> >  JASON XIII: Frozen Worlds
Head to Antarctica with famous explorer Robert Ballard (the guy who found the Titanic).
> >  Washington Post: Game Face
Come face-to-face with female athletes in this online gallery.
> >  Creature Feature: Emperor Penguins
Watch emperor penguins on video, dive into fun facts about them, and find a cool postcard to send.
> >  Inside the White House
Celebrate Presidents’ Day by moving into the Oval Office!
> >  The Underground Railroad
February is Black History Month. Learn what it was like to escape from slavery.
> >  Book Club for Kids
Find exciting new stuff to read—and write your own book reviews for other students to enjoy. Then rev up the Bookmark Factory to make one-of-a-kind bookmarks.
> >  Forest Resources
Download two color posters that explain the importance of saving our forest resources.
More for Kids
> >  World Magazine
> >  Book Club
> >  Cartoon Factory
> >  Geographic Bee
> >  Kids Web Guide
> >  Map Machine
> >  TV Channel
> >  Xpeditions
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