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tics club, where he excelled despite missing a leg. He began to think about competing in the upcoming Olympics. • The Olympics were scheduled to be held in Chicago in 1904. It was only the third time the modern-day Olympics had been staged, and the first one to appear in the U.S. However, officials in St. Louis announced they were going to be hosting the World’s Fair in their city in 1904, and also wished to host the Olympics to draw in bigger crowds. When officials in Chicago balked, the officials in St. Louis said they would host their own national athletic competition to draw attention away from Chicago. The (continued in next column)

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A CLAM NAMED MING • In 2006, a team of researchers from Bangor University in North Wales travelled to Iceland to gather clams in order to study the effects of climate change on the local ecosystem. • Because clams can live for a very long time, their calcified shells can provide a historical account on how the surrounding environment has changed over the decades. Clams add a ridge to their shells for every year they live, and by counting those ridges, you can tell how old a clam is. The ring grows in the summer when food is plentiful, and then stops growing in the winter when food is scarce. Just as with tree rings, in summers with lots of food, the ring is wide, whereas a narrow ring indicates a season with less food. • In water that was 262 feet (80 m) deep, researchers pulled up about 200 ocean quahog clams. These clams looked like any typical nondescript clam, with hard shells that are nearly round in shape, held together by a hinge made of ligaments, black in color, and about the size of the palm of your hand. The word “quahog” comes from a Native American term meaning “clam.” At the time, it was thought that these mollusks lived no longer than 100 years at the most. Studying their growth rings would provide a peek into ocean conditions over the past century. • Scientists loaded all 200 clams into large freezers. Clams cannot survive being frozen. When they began examining them, one clam in particular seemed especially old. Researchers counted over 400 growth rings on the outside of the clam shell. They then split the clam open in order to count the rings in the inside of the shell where they were more clearly delineated. And this is when they discovered that the clam was actually 507 years old. It was the oldest living creature (continued on next page)

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