Photographer: Steve Ringman / The Seattle Times . Mother’s Day is special for the Clark family. David Clark and his son, Cole, want to buy flowers for Cole’s mom, Lynn.
Read Full StoryPhotographer: John Lok / The Seattle Times . Pilots sit in a cockpit to fly the airplanes.
Read Full StoryPhotographer: Mark Harrison / The Seattle Times . Katie Collier is one of the top twenty girls basketball players in the U.S.
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My name is Olga Cucer. I am from Republic of Moldova, small country in Europe. It is located between Romania and Ukraine. Last May I got married and moved with my husband, Veaceslav to the United States. He is a software developer and works in a company in Bellevue for six years.
Photographer: Mark Harrison / The Seattle Times . Katie Collier is 6 feet 3 inches tall and 18 years old. Basketball is her sport. This season, she became the all-time leading scorer for her high school team, the Seattle Christian Warriors. She is among the top 25 high school girls basketball players in the U.S.
Genetically modified organisms can help solve the problem of world hunger, Bill Gates wrote in his 2012 annual letter. These organisms, called GMOs, are created when their genetic material (DNA) is changed. The process is used on crops to help make them stronger. But many people still have concerns about the risks of changing the genetic makeup of plants. Genetically modified (GM) plants do not come from nature.
Photographer: John Lok / The Seattle Times . Don Bateman is an 80-year-old engineer from Redmond, WA, who invented an important airplane warning system. This system prevents airplane crashes. It saves lives every day‑maybe it will save yours someday! When Bateman was 8 years old, he saw the wreckage from an airplane accident.
In Central Oregon, far from any big cities, sits Newberry Volcano. It has not been active for 1,300 years. However, underground heat is close to the surface here. This makes the volcano a “hot spot,” and the perfect place for a new project. This summer, energy developers will pump 24 million gallons of water into Newberry Volcano to produce electricity.
Shark fin soup is a special food in Chinese culture, but it is losing favor among young Chinese people. Fishermen are killing too many sharks. When they catch a shark, they cut the fins off. Then they throw the body back in the water. Without fins, the shark dies. Fishermen can earn between $1,500 and $60,000 for a fin.
Along with the London Olympics this summer, Queen Elizabeth II is going to celebrate her Diamond Jubilee. This is a celebration to mark the 60th anniversary of her reign as Queen of England. Elizabeth II became queen on February 6, 1952, after her father King George VI died.
James Cameron, director of films such as Avatar, Titanic, and The Abyss, recently completed a journey that could have come from one of his movies. On March 26, 2012, he travelled alone by submarine to the deepest part of Earth’s oceans: a place called “Challenger Deep” in the Mariana Trench. Challenger Deep is 7 miles down, 7 miles long and 1 mile wide.
