Smile Power

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Cynthia Buttons had many talents, but her favorite special gift she told no one about: she could make anyone smile. She especially enjoyed taking frowning people and making them smile.

Her technique was simple. She would find a frowning person and just think, “I can make you smile at me.” Then, she would look at them for a few seconds as a smile would creep up the corners of her mouth. Before she knew it, they were smiling at her. It worked every time.

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Is Life But a Dream?

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Amy Lockhart was about to fall asleep. Her mind wandered to her usual thoughts: bringing back something from her dream and the meaning of life. She promised herself that tonight would be the night she would definitely bring back something from her dream.

She always wanted to be in a dream she could touch. She wondered if her life may already be this dream. Was reality really real? she wondered. Sometimes she felt hurt. Sometimes she was teased. Was that what made her life really real? She knew in her heart something was a little off, missing. The ultimate truth was missing! Where was she really and what was truly going on here on this so-called planet?

All the scientists had measured, looked, analyzed, but they all failed like characters in a frozen dream to prove one small detail: was it all really real to begin with?

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The Achievement List

Achievement List

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“We are approaching a New Year…” Ms. Applewood said. “What would you like to accomplish this year?”

All the Elementrees’s hands went up excitedly as they all wanted to tell her their goals for the future.

Tommy Tomorrow immediately said his goal: “I want to go to the Moon!”

“In your imagination, you can go anywhere,” Ms. Applewood encouraged him.

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Logic Puzzle in the Key of Sea

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Globe courtesy of OpenClipart.org/mese

Brian Glass, Abigail Abacus, and Cleo Redding were hanging out at Cleo’s house one afternoon.

Abigail was experimenting with logic puzzles. Logic is a special way of thinking. She was interested in learning more about logic because math is based on logic and math is her favorite subject.

Her first logic puzzle was if A = B and if B = C, then A = C.

She wondered if logic could help her better understand the Universe. She began to think about the ocean. Then she thought about computers. Computers are based on logic. Some people believe logic can explain everything in the Universe, but she did not believe this.

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