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© 2010 Universal Uclick release dates: September 18-24 38-1 (10) from The Mini Page © 2010 Universal Uclick Please include all of the appropriate registered trademark symbols and copyright lines in any publication of The Mini Page ® . To order, send $15.99 ($19.99 Canada) plus $5 postage and handling for each copy. Make check or money order (U.S. funds only) payable to Universal Uclick. Send to The Mini Page Book of States, Universal Uclick, P.O. Box 6814, Leawood, KS 66206. Or call toll- free 800-591-2097 or go to www.smartwarehousing.com. Please send ______ copies of The Mini Page Book of States (Item #0-7407-8549-4) at $20.99 each, total cost. (Bulk discount information available upon request.) Name: ________________________________________________________________________ Address: _______________________________________________________________________ City: _________________________________________ State: _________ Zip: ________________ The Mini Page’s popular series of issues about each state is collected here in a 156-page softcover book. Conveniently spiral-bound for ease of use, this invaluable resource contains A-to-Z facts about each state, along with the District of Columbia. Illustrated with colorful photographs and art, and complete with updated information, The Mini Page Book of States will be a favorite in classrooms and homes for years to come. The Mini Page ® Book of States NEW! New Ideas Give Hope Treating Blindness Have you ever imagined what it would be like to lose your sight? Soon, blindness might affect fewer people. Scientists are making exciting progress in treating certain types of blindness. The Mini Page talked with a doctor from the Foundation Fighting Blindness to learn more about eyes and hopeful discoveries about certain types of diseases that cause blindness. The eye The eye is like a camera. The retina (REH-tuh-nuh), at the back of the eye, captures the light. It is like film in older cameras and like the special light sensor in digital cameras. The light comes in through the pupil and lens at the front of the eye (and through the lens in a camera). In both the eye and the camera, light is turned into electrical signals. In the eye, these signals are sent to the part of the brain that translates them into vision. A digital camera runs the electrical signals through a small computer chip. It forms a picture on the camera’s screen. Eye diseases There are several types of diseases that hurt the retina. When people get these diseases, they can go blind. In some types of retinal disease, the retina dies a little at a time. The retina is no longer able to take light and turn it into useful electrical signals. This is what people with a retinal disease called retinitis pigmentosa would see. art courtesy National Eye Institute, National Institutes of Health This diagram shows parts of the eye. The iris (EYE-ris) is the blue, green or brown part. It helps control how much light enters the eye. The pupil (PYU-pul) is the black circle in the middle of the iris. It lets light in. The cornea (KOR-nee- uh) is a clear protective covering over the iris and pupil. photos courtesy National Eye Institute, National Institutes of Health This is what people with normal vision would see. Words that remind us of vision problems are hidden in the block below. Some words are hidden backward or diagonally, and some letters are used twice. See if you can find: BLIND, CAMERA, CURE, DISEASE, DOG, ELECTRICAL, EYE, GENE, HOPE, KID, LENS, LIGHT, PROTEIN, RETINA, SCIENTISTS, SEE, SIGHT, SIGNALS, TESTING, TREATMENT, VISION, WALK. Blindness TRY ’N FIND SEE YOU AT VISIONWALK! W S T S I T N E I C S L G C C V A B L H K A N I T E R O A T P V L L E O E S A E S I D M E R I C K I N P K I D F J L E S O S E U K N S E L I G H T R T T I S Y R L D L S I G H T A I E O E M E E V S L A N G I S N I N E N N T N E M T A E R T G N E N E G L A C I R T C E L E from The Mini Page © 2010 Universal Uclick Basset Brown The News Hound’s TM Ready Resources from The Mini Page © 2010 Universal Uclick The Mini Page provides ideas for websites, books or other resources that will help you learn more about this week’s topics. On the Web: • www.FightBlindness.org • www.VisionWalk.org • http://kidshealth.org/kid/htbw/eyes.html • http://isee.nei.nih.gov At the library: • “Taking Hold: My Journey Into Blindness” by Sally Hobart Alexander • “Living With Blindness” by Patsy Westcott from The Mini Page © 2010 Universal Uclick Finding a Cure Making it work In the last few years, scientists have put together a library of all the human genes. Eye researchers were able to go to that gene library and check out the gene they needed. They needed a way to get the gene to the right place. So they turned a virus into a kind of taxicab. A virus is a tiny organism that can cause diseases such as the flu. Each type of virus has gone to the same place in the body for millions of years. So scientists were able to pick a virus that would go to the eye. Scientists took the dangerous genes out of the virus and loaded the good gene into it. Then they sent the virus carrying the gene into the eye. Their idea worked! The gene told the body to start making the protein again. Animals, and then people in the tests, were able to see again. photo courtesy Foundation Fighting Blindness Lancelot has a type of RP. He and his brothers and sisters were all blind. Scientists tested their cure on Lancelot and other dogs before testing it on humans. It worked, and now Lancelot can see. Treating RP Scientists thought if eyes started getting the missing protein, people with RP could see again. This would be like putting gas into a car to make it start again. That is exactly what has happened in the first tests of this idea. Disease of the retina One eye disease that affects millions of people is called retinitis pigmentosa (reh-tuh-NIE-tus pig- muhn-TOE-suh), or RP. With RP, the outer parts of the retina stop working first. Night vision and vision to the sides, top and bottom fail. People notice they don’t see as well at night. They start bumping into things. RP affects some kids. Over many years, it can cause blindness. The missing ingredient RP is caused by damaged genes. A gene acts like a small map inside a living cell. Genes carry instructions to tell the body what to do or how to look. They pass on information from our ancestors. When a gene is abnormal, it stops sending the right information. In RP, damaged genes turn off the supply of a protein, or chemical mix, that the eyes need. The retina starts dying. It is like a car not getting enough gas. Mini Spy . . . Mini Spy and her friends are participating in a VisionWalk. See if you can find: • ice cream cone • man in the moon • letter B • kite • bell • letter L • pie • eyeglasses • letter W • feather • letter D • carrot • letter A • letter K • fish hook • eye • arrow • number 8 • ring • word MINI • heart from The Mini Page © 2010 Universal Uclick TM Rookie Cookie’s Recipe Broccoli Vegetable Salad You’ll need: • 3 cups fresh broccoli florets • 1 /2 cup chopped red pepper • 1 cup reduced-fat shredded cheese • 6 precooked bacon slices, heated and crumbled What to do: 1. Combine broccoli, red pepper, cheese, bacon and onion in a medium-size bowl. 2. In a smaller bowl, mix mayonnaise, vinegar and sugar until smooth. Pour over broccoli mixture and stir to coat well. 3. Cover and chill for at least an hour. 4. Sprinkle with sunflower seeds before serving. You will need an adult’s help with this recipe. from The Mini Page © 2010 Universal Uclick TM • 1 /4 cup chopped red onion (optional) • 1 /4 cup low-fat mayonnaise • 3 tablespoons white vinegar • 1 tablespoon sugar • 2 tablespoons sunflower seeds from The Mini Page © 2010 Universal Uclick Meet Joe Jonas Joe Jonas stars as Shane in the Disney Channel movie “Camp Rock 2: The Final Jam.” Joe is the lead singer in the Jonas Brothers band. He plays guitar, keyboard and tambourine. He and his brothers have sold more than 8 million copies of their albums. The Jonas Brothers have also starred in their own series on the Disney Channel, “Jonas L.A.” Joe, 21, was born in Casa Grande, Ariz. He grew up in Wyckoff, N.J. He started out wanting to be a comedian, and later switched to music. While growing up, he sang in his church choir. He loves to run and enjoys cooking. Joe, along with his brothers, helps out needy kids through the Jonas Brothers’ Change for the Children Foundation. One of the charities their foundation helps is the Special Olympics. photo © Disney Channel from The Mini Page © 2010 Universal Uclick Stanley: Where do sheep get shorn? Sienna: At the baa-baa shop! Steve: Where do sheep buy their cars? Sven: From a ewes car dealer! TM Solomon: Why did the sheep travel at midnight? Sue: It was sheep-walking! All the following jokes have something in common. Can you guess the common theme or category? from The Mini Page © 2010 Universal Uclick Working for a Cure The Mini Page Staff Betty Debnam - Founding Editor and Editor at Large Lisa Tarry - Managing Editor Lucy Lien - Associate Editor Wendy Daley - Artist Refusing to give up Around 1970, a group got together in Pikesville, Md. Diseases such as RP had affected these people or people they cared about. They had been told there was no cure for their types of blindness. They didn’t let that stop them. They formed a group to find cures for eye diseases that affect the retina. That group was later called Foundation Fighting Blindness. This group, along with others such as the National Institutes of Health, have helped fund research for a cure. Now there is a lot of hope. Scientists have been able to cure blindness in more than 50 animals and more than 20 young people. Corey When Corey was 6, he found out he had childhood RP. By the time he was 8 years old, he couldn’t see at night at all. During school, he had to sit in the back of the room with a big TV screen in front of him. A camera showed pictures of the blackboard on his TV. Corey was one of the first kids to receive gene therapy for his RP. He began to see better one month after treatment. Now he can play Little League, sits in the front row of his class and sees the blackboard, and can ride his bike in his neighborhood. Living rich lives Although people want to find cures for blindness, people who are blind can still have great lives. New technology helps. This ranges from computer programs that read Web pages to special screens to help people who still have some vision. People with serious vision loss ride bikes, run marathons and ski. They might need some help, but they do the things they love. Tests continue Scientists want to test what works in very young kids and in older people. Scientists are worried that older victims of RP may have been starved of the needed protein for so long that their eyes can’t be fixed. This cure is still in its testing stages. It has not yet been approved by the government. But people are very hopeful. There have been no bad side effects. The cure seems to last. The therapy is still working in dogs who were treated nine years ago. Corey’s treatment was two years ago and is still working. photos courtesy Foundation Fighting Blindness People are taking part in a VisionWalk in Atlanta. A VisionWalk is a community celebration. People gather to raise money for the Foundation Fighting Blindness and to tell others about retinal diseases. Since the VisionWalk program started in 2006, participants have raised more than $13 million to fund research into ways to save people’s sight. Corey The Mini Page thanks Dr. Stephen Rose, chief research officer, Foundation Fighting Blindness; and Susan Gloor, National VisionWalk director, Foundation Fighting Blindness, for help with this story. Look through your newspaper for stories about medical problems and solutions. Next week, The Mini Page celebrates Hispanic Heritage Month with some delicious recipes. Chloe (with blond hair) and her twin sister, Elise (also facing camera), perform an Irish step dance at a VisionWalk. Chloe has RP. Her twin sister does not. Both have fun dancing. Supersport: Ricky Dobbs Height: 6-1 Birthdate: 1-31-88 Weight: 203 Hometown: Douglasville, Ga. Navy quarterback Ricky Dobbs knows how to navigate on the football field. He rushed for 1,203 yards and passed for 1,031 last season, helping the Midshipmen achieve a seventh straight winning record (10-4) and earn a seventh bowl trip in a row. What’s more, he played with a broken kneecap in six games! He’s tough, determined and disciplined. Put him at the helm of a ship in a rocky sea, and odds are he’ll guide it safely to shore. Dobbs is an All-America candidate, team captain, vice president of his senior class and a gifted speaker. He gives motivational talks extolling the virtues of the Naval Academy to recruits and their families when they come for campus visits. Dobbs is also ambitious. His Navy bio notes that he wants to be U.S. president in 2040 — following a military career and winning a Super Bowl. But now he’s focused on helping Navy cruise to another winning season and bowl game. TM from The Mini Page © 2010 Universal Uclick
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Please include all of the appropriate registered trademark symbols and copyright lines in any publication of The Mini Page®.
To order, send $15.99 ($19.99 Canada) plus $5 postage and handling for each copy. Make check or money order (U.S. funds only) payable to Universal Uclick. Send to The Mini Page Book of States, Universal Uclick, P.O. Box 6814, Leawood, KS 66206. Or call toll-free 800-591-2097 or go to www.smartwarehousing.com. Please send ______ copies of The Mini Page Book of States (Item #0-7407-8549-4) at $20.99 each, total cost. (Bulk discount information available upon request.)
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The Mini Page’s popular series of issues about each state is collected here in a 156-page softcover book. Conveniently spiral-bound for ease of use, this invaluable resource contains A-to-Z facts about each state, along with the District of Columbia. Illustrated with colorful photographs and art, and complete with updated information, The Mini Page Book of States will be a favorite in classrooms and homes for years to come.
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Treating Blindness Have you ever imagined what it would be like to lose your sight? Soon, blindness might affect fewer people. Scientists are making exciting progress in treating certain types of blindness. The Mini Page talked with a doctor from the Foundation Fighting Blindness to learn more about eyes and hopeful discoveries about certain types of diseases that cause blindness.The eye The eye is like a camera. The retina (REH-tuh-nuh), at the back of the eye, captures the light. It is like film in older cameras and like the special light sensor in digital cameras. The light comes in through the pupil and lens at the front of the eye (and through the lens in a camera). In both the eye and the camera, light is turned into electrical signals. In the eye, these signals are sent to the part of the brain that translates them into vision. A digital camera runs the electrical signals through a small computer chip. It forms a picture on the camera’s screen.
Eye diseases There are several types of diseases that hurt the retina. When people get these diseases, they can go blind.
In some types of retinal disease, the retina dies a little at a time. The retina is no longer able to take light and turn it into useful electrical signals.
This is what people with a retinal disease called retinitis pigmentosa would see.
art courtesy National Eye Institute, National Institutes of Health
This diagram shows parts of the eye.The iris (EYE-ris) is the blue, green or brown part. It helps control how much light enters the eye.The pupil (PYU-pul) is the black circle in the middle of the iris. It lets light in.The cornea (KOR-nee-uh) is a clear protective covering over the iris and pupil.
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Words that remind us of vision problems are hidden in the block below. Some words are hidden backward or diagonally, and some letters are used twice. See if you can find: BLIND, CAMERA, CURE, DISEASE, DOG, ELECTRICAL, EYE, GENE, HOPE, KID, LENS, LIGHT, PROTEIN, RETINA, SCIENTISTS, SEE, SIGHT, SIGNALS, TESTING, TREATMENT, VISION, WALK.
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The Mini Page provides ideas for websites, books or other resources that will help you learn more about this week’s topics.On the Web: • www.FightBlindness.org • www.VisionWalk.org • http://kidshealth.org/kid/htbw/eyes.html • http://isee.nei.nih.govAt the library: • “Taking Hold: My Journey Into Blindness” by Sally Hobart Alexander • “Living With Blindness” by Patsy Westcott
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Finding a CureMaking it work In the last few years, scientists have put together a library of all the human genes. Eye researchers were able to go to that gene library and check out the gene they needed. They needed a way to get the gene to the right place. So they turned a virus into a kind of taxicab. A virus is a tiny organism that can cause diseases such as the flu. Each type of virus has gone to the same place in the body for millions of years. So scientists were able to pick a virus that would go to the eye. Scientists took the dangerous genes out of the virus and loaded the good gene into it. Then they sent the virus carrying the gene into the eye. Their idea worked! The gene told the body to start making the protein again. Animals, and then people in the tests, were able to see again.
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Lancelot has a type of RP. He and his brothers and sisters were all blind. Scientists tested their cure on Lancelot and other dogs before testing it on humans. It worked, and now Lancelot can see.
Treating RP Scientists thought if eyes started getting the missing protein, people with RP could see again. This would be like putting gas into a car to make it start again. That is exactly what has happened in the first tests of this idea.
Disease of the retina One eye disease that affects millions of people is called retinitis pigmentosa (reh-tuh-NIE-tus pig-muhn-TOE-suh), or RP. With RP, the outer parts of the retina stop working first. Night vision and vision to the sides, top and bottom fail. People notice they don’t see as well at night. They start bumping into things. RP affects some kids. Over many years, it can cause blindness.The missing ingredient RP is caused by damaged genes. A gene acts like a small map inside a living cell. Genes carry instructions to tell the body what to do or how to look. They pass on information from our ancestors. When a gene is abnormal, it stops sending the right information. In RP, damaged genes turn off the supply of a protein, or chemical mix, that the eyes need. The retina starts dying. It is like a car not getting enough gas.
Mini Spy . . .Mini Spy and her friends are participating in a VisionWalk. See if you can find: • ice cream cone • man in the moon• letter B • kite • bell • letter L• pie • eyeglasses • letter W • feather• letter D • carrot • letter A • letter K• fish hook • eye • arrow • number 8• ring • word MINI • heart
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medium-size bowl.2. In a smaller bowl, mix mayonnaise, vinegar and sugar until
smooth. Pour over broccoli mixture and stir to coat well.3. Cover and chill for at least an hour.4. Sprinkle with sunflower seeds before serving.You will need an adult’s help with this recipe.
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Meet Joe Jonas Joe Jonas stars as Shane in the Disney Channel movie “Camp Rock 2: The Final Jam.” Joe is the lead singer in the Jonas Brothers band. He plays guitar, keyboard and tambourine. He and his brothers have sold more than 8 million copies of their albums. The Jonas Brothers have also starred in their own series on the Disney Channel, “Jonas L.A.” Joe, 21, was born in Casa Grande, Ariz. He grew up in Wyckoff, N.J. He started out
wanting to be a comedian, and later switched to music. While growing up, he sang in his church choir. He loves to run and enjoys cooking. Joe, along with his brothers, helps out needy kids through the Jonas Brothers’ Change for the Children Foundation. One of the charities their foundation helps is the Special Olympics.
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Stanley: Where do sheep get shorn?Sienna: At the baa-baa shop!
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Solomon: Why did the sheep travel at midnight?
Sue: It was sheep-walking!
All the following jokes have something in common. Can you guess the common theme or category?
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Working for a Cure
The Mini Page StaffBetty Debnam - Founding Editor and Editor at Large Lisa Tarry - Managing Editor Lucy Lien - Associate Editor Wendy Daley - Artist
Refusing to give up Around 1970, a group got together in Pikesville, Md. Diseases such as RP had affected these people or people they cared about. They had been told there was no cure for their types of blindness. They didn’t let that stop them. They formed a group to find cures for eye diseases that affect the retina. That group was later called Foundation Fighting Blindness. This group, along with others such as the National Institutes of Health, have helped fund research for a cure. Now there is a lot of hope. Scientists have been able to cure blindness in more than 50 animals and more than 20 young people.Corey When Corey was 6, he found out he had childhood RP. By the time he was 8 years old, he couldn’t see at night at all. During school, he had to sit in the back of the room with a big TV screen in front of him. A camera showed pictures of the blackboard on his TV. Corey was one of the first kids to receive gene therapy for his RP. He began to see better one month after treatment. Now he can play Little League, sits in the front row of his class and sees the blackboard, and can ride his bike in his neighborhood.
Living rich lives Although people want to find cures for blindness, people who are blind can still have great lives. New technology helps. This ranges from computer programs that read Web pages to special screens to help people who still have some vision. People with serious vision loss ride bikes, run marathons and ski. They might need some help, but they do the things they love.
Tests continue Scientists want to test what works in very young kids and in older people. Scientists are worried that older victims of RP may have been starved of the needed protein for so long that their eyes can’t be fixed. This cure is still in its testing stages. It has not yet been approved by the government. But people are very hopeful. There have been no bad side effects. The cure seems to last. The therapy is still working in dogs who were treated nine years ago. Corey’s treatment was two years ago and is still working.
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People are taking part in a VisionWalk in Atlanta. A VisionWalk is a community celebration. People gather to raise money for the Foundation Fighting Blindness and to tell others about retinal diseases. Since the VisionWalk program started in 2006, participants have raised more than $13 million to fund research into ways to save people’s sight.
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The Mini Page thanks Dr. Stephen Rose, chief research officer, Foundation Fighting Blindness; and Susan Gloor, National VisionWalk director, Foundation Fighting Blindness, for help with this story.
Look through your newspaper for stories about medical problems and solutions.
Next week, The Mini Page celebrates Hispanic Heritage Month with some delicious recipes.
Chloe (with blond hair) and her twin sister, Elise (also facing camera), perform an Irish step dance at a VisionWalk. Chloe has RP. Her twin sister does not. Both have fun dancing.
Supersport: Ricky DobbsHeight: 6-1 Birthdate: 1-31-88Weight: 203 Hometown: Douglasville, Ga. Navy quarterback Ricky Dobbs knows how to navigate on the football field. He rushed for 1,203 yards and passed for 1,031 last season, helping the Midshipmen achieve a seventh straight winning
record (10-4) and earn a seventh bowl trip in a row. What’s more, he played with a broken kneecap in six games! He’s tough, determined and disciplined. Put him at the helm of a ship in a rocky sea, and odds are he’ll guide it safely to shore. Dobbs is an All-America candidate, team captain, vice president of his senior class and a gifted speaker. He gives motivational talks extolling the virtues of the Naval Academy to recruits and their families when they come for campus visits. Dobbs is also ambitious. His Navy bio notes that he wants to be U.S. president in 2040 — following a military career and winning a Super Bowl. But now he’s focused on helping Navy cruise to another winning season and bowl game.
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