Stories Collection

  1. Read the sentences below. In each pair, which sentence gives you more exact informat...
  2. * Who is going up? Who is going down? * Who is having fun? Who looks frightened...
  3. Gyotaku is the Japanese art of making fish prints. Long ago, people began making fis...
  4. "Look in the meadow," Dad told Sam early one morning. "We have visito...
  5. "You're going to bring me a chameleon?" Kyle asks. He thinks the news is t...
  6. 1. Wash a half-gallon milk carton. With an adult's help, cut it in half from top to ...
  7. Uncle Gus: Happy Thanksgiving, cubs. Need any help in the kitchen? Woozy: Sure,...
  8. A little wooden family lived in a little house deep in the woods. They worked and pl...
  9. "I don't want to go to school anymore," announced Ani. Her book bag slid o...
  10. Railroad Pals In this big picture find the crescent moon, book, goblet, horses...
  11. Five plump turkeys are we. (Wave open hand with fingers apart.) We slept ...
  12. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Tanya Lancaster, Age 7 Atlanta, Georgia When paleo...
  13. You five missed the flock flying south. What can you find to eat in all t...
  14. Three days we had, feasting, praying, singing. Three days outdoors at woode...
  15. 1. If you eat two-thirds of a pie, what do you have? Rebecca Bernstein Livingst...
  16. The only way was to beat him. "Come on, short stuff. Get in my face."...
  17. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Jason Byrge, Age 9 Lebanon, Ohio Grandma and Grand...
  18. For many summers, people visited Mount St. Helens in the southwest part of Washingto...
  19. When I'm sick I have to stay in bed. My sister can't come in. My father b...
  20. Sophie's granddad owned Golightly's, "the best cake shop in town." He boas...
  21. Say each of these three times fast. The sun shines on shop signs. Nadine ...
  22. 1. Place paper on an upside-down leaf. Rub a crayon over the paper to make a leaf ru...
  23. Competition Jitters Shortly I am going to take part in a vocal-music competitio...
  24. Start at the beginning and see how far you can go, thinking of good answers from you...
  25. Here's an easy way to make a magnetic compass. The only things you need that may not...
  26. Can you stand on your tiptoes? At first this may sound like a simple action--but try...
  27. Boy: Your tail is flat and wide. Do you use it to spread mud when you build your dam...
  28. 1. Cut out two ear-of-corn shapes from yellow paper. Cut out two cornhusk shapes fro...
  29. "I found the escaped leopard," the park ranger reported by two-way radio. ...
  30. A Recipe from a Reader HIGHLIGHTS chefs say ... 1. Wash hands. 2. G...
  31. Byline: DREW WINTER "Creed is right. Greed works. Greed, in all its forms - gr...
  32. Ford Motor Co. has developed its own all-wheel-drive system for several upcoming seda...
  33. Chrysler Group's Brampton, Ont., Canada, plant is the logical site to build the all-n...
  34. The Acadia marks the first car-based cross/utility vehicle for General Motors Corp.'s...
  35. China's Nanjing Automobile Corp. selects a plant site in Ardmore, OK, to build MG veh...
  36. The timing of Ford Motor Co.'s announcement that it would back away from plans to put...
  37. Byline: Steve Finlay Bob Pietroske is our 2006 Ward's Dealer of the Year, and he's ...
  38. Byline: Byron Pope Ford Motor Co. confirms it is seeking to reduce the number of de...
  39. Byline: David E. Zoia General Motors Corp. is ratcheting down the number of models ...
  40. Byline: Mac Gordon Publicly owned dealership chains boosted their sales of new vehi...
  41. North Carolina auto dealers want the state legislature to repeal a new state law aime...
  42. The National Automobile Dealers Assn.'s book of used-car values is now available at s...
  43. Use this box to hold your special treasures, or use it for tiny gifts like candy, fl...
  44. A Cherokee Legend Long ago the Cherokee people lived in a dark world. They had ...
  45. Sparkly sun catchers are easy to make 1. Cut off the bottom of a plastic berry ...
  46. "It's chilly in here!" Pa checked the windows. Tommy checked th...
  47. Ingredients: 1 can refrigerated biscuits margarine or butter, at room tempera...
  48. In our June 1999 issue, we asked to hear your suggestions for three kids who'd writt...
  49. In all of Lapland there was no boy happier than Mihkal. Today he was going on the re...
  50. The Problem Solver I'm kind of the problem solver of the fourth grade, but I ge...
  51. Patience is a bitter plant, but it has sweet fruit. --German proverb God ...
  52. I wonder if the squirrels and birds Can understand any of the words We hear a...
  53. All summer long, you can see honeybees zipping about their business. But where do be...
  54. Sweden's Father Christmas The Swedish Father Christmas is not at all like the j...
  55. Ethan's mom was making latkes for Hanukkah. "I love latkes," said Ethan. &...
  56. Did You Know? The bobwhite is a quail. Like other kinds of quail, bobwhites travel i...
  57. The box had always been there. It sat on Mother's dressing table, a little black cub...
  58. In each list below, which word doesn't belong with the rest? 1. Mars, Earth, Ve...
  59. She's Cotton the kitten. She's scratching. She's spittin'. She's bitten m...
  60. It's Hanukkah! The dreidel spins Nun, Gimel, Hay, Shin-- "A great mi...
  61. Owl sat at the top of an oak tree. He watched the wind chasing the leaves this way a...
  62. Christmas was only three weeks away, and Sarah and Gordon were busy. One warm ...
  63. Girl: Why do your leaves curl up when the air is really cold? Rhododendron: Tha...
  64. Why an Index? The Index is like the card catalog or the computer catalog in the...
  65. * Which items give energy? Which items use that energy? Which items both give and us...
  66. Squeezing the Air What is dew point? Sarah Ohlemacher, Age 10 San Angelo,...
  67. I have a mysterious striking clock. It is fairly normal in how often it strikes: on ...
  68. Horns blare. Confetti flies. "Happy New Year!" everyone calls. All around ...
  69. A game to play by yourself You can play this game with your issue of HIGHLIGHTS...
  70. Wild animals were eating half the crops! The highest mountain on earth, Mount E...
  71. 1. What's red, white, and blue? Lauren Chroneos--Tempe, Arizona 2. How do...
  72. There may no snow on the ground, but video gamers are already aglow about the 2004 ho...
  73. Intel will kick off its semiannual geekfest on Sept. 17, encouraging developers to ti...
  74. The dazzling Toshiba Portégé R100 notebook is an impressive 2.4-pound u...
  75. NTT DoCoMo to Set Up New Research Center in Beijing Japanese cell phone giant ...
  76. On Thursday, Dell announced its newest multimedia notebook, the Inspiron 8600, which ...
  77. Portable computers are again closing in on and surpassing the 10-pound mark. At a tim...
  78. Intersil announced the industry's first WLAN chip set designed to support the new 802...
  79. China Southern Airlines has joined with China Mobile to develop an all-new slate of c...
  80. SiRF Technology and NEC Electronics (Europe) have announced a licensing agreement to ...
  81. Agilent Technologies announced that Vodafone Australia has selected the Agilent acceS...
  82. Bytemobile has signed a software and hardware supply agreement with Vodafone Limited,...
  83. VoiceGenie Technologies, provider of VoiceXML Gateway solutions, has announced a stra...
  84. Digicel, the fastest growing mobile telecommunications provider in the Caribbean, Mon...
  85. ASC Thursday announced it has sold its new VoIP recording solution, EVOip+ for Cisco,...
  86. InfoSonics Corporation, one of the largest distributors of wireless handsets in the U...
  87. China Life, China's largest life insurance company, selected Optibase's advanced vide...
  88. Iran's Minister of Communications and Information Technology Ahmad Mo'tamedi has said...
  89. Mobile value added service provider Sichuan Yingda has selected CPS's Matrix high acc...
  90. WuXi PharmaTech, Shanghai, China, a provider of the pharmaceutical R&D services i...
  91. PAION AG, Aachen, Germany, a company focusing on the development of treatment opportu...
  92. GNI, an international biopharmaceutical company and leader in the field of integrated...
  93. SAFC Biosciences, a member of the Sigma-Aldrich Group (NASDAQ: SIAL), and Vivalis, ha...
  94. Syngenta, Basel, Switzerland, has announced the launch of a $100m venture fund, LSP B...
  95. Helsinn and Biovitrum enter a license agreement for Nordic marketing of Aloxi, a drug...
  96. Wyse Technology announced today the revealing results of the world's first independen...
  97. There was an almost palpable buzz at the recent LinuxWorld conference about the open ...
  98. Wyse Technology, the domain experts in server-centric computing (SCC), announced toda...
  99. Wyse Technology, the domain experts in server-centric computing (SCC), announced toda...
  100. AMD Geode™ GX Processors to Power Wyse's High Performance, Low Power S Class Thi...
  101. Wyse Technology Inc., Neoware Systems Inc. and Maxspeed Corp. are rolling out hardwar...
  102. The Protagonist Kenny Volk, red-blooded American teenager, fan of freshman hotties, a...
  103. 08.02… Drumroll, please At press time, The Webby Awards [www.webbyawards.com] ...
  104. FOR OMNIVORES If a doctor has told you that your cholesterol level is high, get more ...
  105. GET INSPIRED Packed with photos of facilities to emulate, American Standard [www.us.a...
  106. RESEARCH & LEARN Aquatic hobbyists represent as fanatic a pet community as dog breede...
  107. MAKE YOUR MOVE Homestead.org asks, Have you ever dreamed of moving to the country and...
  108. IBM has combined several technology initiatives, including Linux, grid computing and ...
  109. This past Monday, 321 Studios shut its doors. Maker of the once popular DVD copying a...
  110. SAN FRANCISCO—Novell Inc. is not, as some had expected, releasing even a beta ve...
  111. LAS VEGAS—No doubt, the attendees at the SCO Forum conference here and at the Li...
  112. LAS VEGAS— On Monday, The SCO Group Inc. will announce the release of the develo...
  113. LAS VEGAS— As SCO opens SCOForum, its annual trade show, reseller partners appea...
  114. It's conventional wisdom that the best productivity in software engineering comes fro...
  115. If finding a software pirate is as simple as walking down the street and looking arou...
  116. Here's a mystery for you. Every week in a certain company, every project manager turn...
  117. Privacy arguments tend to be emotional, often expressed in terms of "security versus ...
  118. Despite three years of attention by lawmaking committees and a steadily increasing ro...
  119. Health information technology can—and should—be designed to prevent fraud. ...
  120.   THEN NOW Reports of Internet fraud (1998 vs. 1999) 7,752 10,660 ...
  121. While most online brokerages offer built-in portfolio trackers, using them for watch-...
  122. A bitter rule of the road: laptops die from mishaps, while handheld PCs more often pe...
  123. HP Digital Entertainment Center de100c and SonicBlue RioCentral Digital music has fi...
  124. Every day, legendary bond trader Christine Downton makes decisions that affect over $...
  125. Travelers who've passed through Israel's Ben Gurion Airport in Tel Aviv are well acqu...
  126. Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. H...
  127. Here's a way to find charges of static electricity without getting shocked: Make an ...
  128. Have you looked at your quarters lately? Examine them closely and you might see some...
  129. Pa was in the workshop. Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Ma was in the kitchen. ...
  130. Start at the beginning and see how far you can go, thinking of good answers from you...
  131. Sam wanted to run, but he had come too far to back down now. The snow squeaked ...
  132. Paul walked slowly toward the huge brick building looming ahead. He wasn't in any hu...
  133. A Story from Paraguay Long ago, Jaguar had a problem. He had strong muscles, sh...
  134. If T. rex and Giganotosaurus got in a fight, who would win? Daniel Grisius, Age...
  135. Save some ribbon spools to make a pencil holder By Debora Sullivan 1. Tra...
  136. Crowds of people shiver on the cold city streets. Some check their watches. Others l...
  137. Jewel I had a kitty that got lost in the woods. Late at night she got worr...
  138. "Hi, Cousin" I attend school with my cousins. I am in second grade. T...
  139. Admiral the bear was lumbering through the forest, thinking about supper, when he sp...
  140. I leaned over the front desk of the Santa Fe Veterinary Clinic, where I worked as a ...
  141. I visited my cousin Andrew in California. We wore sunglasses and swam in the ocean. ...
  142. Lots of times I've looked at that tree on the sandbar across the estuary. It sticks ...
  143. Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky, The flying clouds, the frosty light: T...
  144. 1. Why do rabbits like to bang their heads on pianos? Katie McNeil Albuquerque,...
  145. If you were standing on this ship, you would see how odd-looking it is. It's called ...
  146. Do you have a lucky penny? Maybe you carry a rabbit's foot or a four-leaf clover. Al...
  147. MY QUESTION IS ABOUT A CHILD I KNOW WHO IS VEGETARIAN BUT HAS AVERY LIMITED RANGE OF ...
  148. When I was pregnant with my son six years ago, my husband and I discovered the import...
  149. (On dogs eating a vegetarian diet). "Such a diet would also greatly reduce the risks ...
  150. First published in 1992 and now in its fourth printing, Cows are Vegetarians!: A Book...
  151. By Isabelle Koch (Inner Tradition Int'l, Ltd., 1999), 56 pages, $12.95 I have to ...
  152. by Marjorie Hurt Jones (Rodale Press, Rev. Ed. 2001), 432 pages, $16.95 This book...
  153. No Cholesterol Passover Recipes ($9) by Debra Wasserman. Includes 100 eggless and da...
  154. Dean Ornish, MD, is known for his investigations that use a very lowfat near-vegan di...
  155. Made from chickpeas, vegetables, and spices, falafel has long been a popular food amo...
  156. 75 EXCITING VEGETABLES FOR YOUR GARDEN By Jack Staub with illustrations by Ellen Buch...
  157. I am continually reminded of how limited creative vegetarian options at restaurants a...
  158. FOR MORE THAN A THOUSAND YEARS, PEOPLE IN Japan have been making and using miso, a fe...
  159. NUMBER OF YEARS THAT MOTHER'S DAY WAS OFFICIALLY CELEBRATED BEFORE FATHER'S DAY CAME ...
  160. Pumped? Make sure you get the most from your exercise routine: Switch to decaf. Swis...
  161. DOWN THE GARDEN PATH Getting your hands dirty just got a little easier. Oxo's new g...
  162. I love few things more than the experience of the pick-your-own farm. You can dress i...
  163. Informed consumers know by now that the "new car smell"--released by chemic...
  164. If you love to cook as much as we do, you probably like cooking shows. But what do yo...
  165. Dealer focusing on lowest risk, highest yield to continue moving business forward. F...
  166. Where will outdoor power equipment industry growth come from, and who will provide th...
  167. Dealers share thoughts on how they plan to find growth in 2006 as forecasts call for ...
  168. Harley-Davidson is one of the most revered brands in the world. But it wasn't always ...
  169. GREAT DAY'S LAWN PRO LAWN MOWER WORKSTATION With the flip of the flip-n-hold blade-h...
  170. It's happened again -another equipment manufacturer has decided to depart from a deal...
  171. The Grumpy Old Bear Once there lived a grumpy old bear. His name was Friendly, ...
  172. 1. Draw and cut out a shape from a plastic lid, leaving part of the rim attached to ...
  173. 1. With an adult's help, cut a circular band from a flexible plastic container, such...
  174. George Washington spent many hours when he was a boy copying and learning rules of g...
  175. What's full of splashing water ... What's full of splashing water and crashing ...
  176. 1. Use paper to decorate a small box. 2. Cut a 4-foot length of thin ribbon. Ti...
  177. Fighting My friend and I always get into a fight. Sometimes I ignore him when ...
  178. I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives ... and live in it so that ...
  179. It was Valentine's Day. Jenny went to Grandma and Grandpa's apartment. She gave Gran...
  180. Jumping forward is easy, but could you do it while holding your toes? Before you ans...
  181. 1. Trace around a zip-close sandwich bag onto poster board. Cut out the square. ...
  182. * Here are some uses for water and ice. What other uses can you think of? * Wh...
  183. Have you ever tried stroking a cat's fur from its tail toward its head? That's again...
  184. Ole, dole, doff (OH-leh, DOH-leh, doff) Kinke, lane, koff (KING-keh, LAH-n...
  185. At six o'clock in the old hay shed Miss Duck and Mr. Drake were wed. The farm...
  186. Girl: You were fine a second ago. Now you look dead! What happened? Opossum: I'...
  187. "In a Minute, Mon" is Soon enough Or is it? Mom didn't like the idea ...
  188. Motion Sickness Why do people get carsick? Wendy Li, Age 11 Brooklyn, New York ...
  189. Did You Know?. The snowshoe hare's coat changes from brown to white and back again. ...
  190. I was born on February 29. That makes me a twenty-niner. No matter how old I am, whe...
  191. When I have a problem, it helps to shoot a few baskets. When my grandma lived w...
  192. The lady who stopped the young painter on the street was steaming mad. "Are you...
  193. Scott was visiting the neighboring farm and was invited in for a bowl of soup. While...
  194. Once I caught a snowflake inside my mittened hand. Its frosty tablecl...
  195. * M.C. Escher, who created the print at left, was famous for designing complex patte...
  196. Start at the beginning and see how far you can go. thinking of good answers from you...
  197. If an extra day in February confuses you, be glad you didn't live in 46 B.C.! ...
  198. An Old Fable A jay, settling into a yard where peacocks walked, found a number ...
  199. Gina made her bed and went downstairs. "May I help you at the bank today?"...