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The United States Department of Agriculture now estimates that nearly one in four children are food insecure. And now Sesame Street is addressing that crisis with a new child Muppet named Lily whose family has an ongoing struggle with hunger.Lily is slated to appear in an upcoming prime-time special called Growing Hope Against Hunger on Oct. 9 on PBS. Homeless children: The homeless generation Sesame Street adds child Muppet to deal with poverty, hunger issuesOn The Early Show, Dr. Jeanette Betancourt, senior vice president of outreach for Sesame Workshop, the nonprofit educational organization behind Sesame Street, said the show decided to take on the issue because so many children are affected. She said, We knew we had to do something and make a difference. Lily the Muppet told co-anchor Erica Hill that she tho
stanley us ught it was important for her to speak out to help other kids. One of the most important things for me was not feeling like I was alone, Lily said. And the more I got involved with my community and everything, the more I felt like, not only that I was helping other families, but I just fel
stanley website t it was really important to give and reach out to people. For more with Lily and Betancourt on The
stanley uk Early Show, check out the video above. Sesame Street, with support from Walmart, will air Growing Hope Against Hunger nationwide Oct. 9, at 7:00 p.m. ET/PT on PBS. Check your local listings for details. Xfbl Ex-FEMA Chief May Help BP Weather Spill Disaster
In a basement lab at the University of Colorado Boulder, researchers have built the world most accurate atomic clock 鈥?it can keep perfect time for 5 billion years. But the clock is so precise that it run into a problem. Time doesn ;t move at the same rate everywhere in the cosmos, or even on the surface of Earth. The clock is a mess to look at, spread out on a large table amid a tangle of cables wrapped in tinfoil and held together with binder clips. At the heart of the device are strontium atoms, suspended in laser beams, which vibrate at a superfast frequency. As NPR reports, though, the clock is so sensitive that it presents researchers with an unprecedented problem: Right now, on the top of Mount Everest, time is passing just a little bit faster than it is in Death Valley. That because speed at which time passes depends on the strength of gravity. Einstein himself discovered this depen
stanley thermos dence as part of his theory of relativity, and it is a very real effect. The relative nature of time isn ;t just something seen in the extreme. If you take a clock off the floor, and hang it on the wall, says scientists Jun Ye, the time will speed up by about one part in 10^16. That is a sliver of a second. But this isn ;t some effect of gravity on the clock machinery. Time itself
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