Stirring ingredients into your vocabulary does not have to be an ordeal. Just follow this route to our glossary. We add new words for each issue.
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Asteroid: © Don Dixon/
cosmographica.com
Panda: Katherine Feng
Maya: Kenneth Garrett/
National Geographic Image Collection
Beetle: David C. Hawks
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Asteroids Rock
Will a giant space rock slam into Earth in 30 years?
Would scientists be able to stop it?
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Project Panda
These lovable black-and-white bears are an endangered species. Scientists are working on ways to help them survive. One way is to raise pandas in zoos and reserves, then release them into the wild. Xiang Xiang, a four-year-old panda, was the first to take on the adventure of going wild.
Read about Xiang Xiang's wild life on page 2 of our September 2006 issue.
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The Amazing Maya
The Maya have lived in Central America for some 3,000 years. They created a great civilization. They built amazing pyramids and cities. They painted beautiful murals. Take to the road with a photographer as he discovers the amazing Maya on page 6 of our September 2006 issue.
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Meet the Beetles
What insects rule the world? Beetles! There are 350,000 different kinds of these crafty critters, and those are only the species that we know about! There could be even more. They come in all kinds of bright colors. They grow in many different shapes and sizes. Join a scientist on the hunt for beetles on page 12 of our September 2006 issue.
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