European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 1, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday March 1. 19bb the stars and stripes Page 7 youngsters be eve eyes the err Fri is Flat Washington a never mind Colu Itibus. Cvet mind the globes in classrooms everywhere. Never mind those pictures from space of Earth As a big Blue Marble. When you ask children in the Early elementary grades what icy really think remt a Tirve what their ryes my them the Earth is Flat. Thai at least is what Harvard Pajti cts  i Glenan and astronomy teacher Philip Sadler say. The to writing in science and Chil Dron Magazine suggest thai educators Are living in a dream world if they As sume Young children understand that the Krafth is round. Nearly 500 years ago Columbus proved that inc Earth was round. To Day s students Mill Don t believe it they write in he february Issue of the Wienec leathers journal. They cite several studies done in the United states Israel and Nepal in the 1970s and Early 1980s in which school children in the Early grades consistently turned out to be Flat tankers. One of the first scientific facts we announce to our children is that the Earth is round. That Flat Fiat ground we walk on. Ride on and play on stretching endless Miles in perfect and reliable flatness actually wraps around on itself to form a giant Ball. I re Posler Ous. I a scientific fact they said. But if we expect Young children to believe this Story we re  Lightman. A research physicist at the smithsonian astrophysical Observatory and lecturer at Harvard and Sadler director of project Star a High school astronomy curriculum recently asked 65 elementary teachers to predict Bow pupils would draw the Earth. The teachers thought 65 percent of kindergarteners knew the Earth was round 85 percent of the first graders 95 percent of inc second graders and everyone in third Grade. However according id past studies Only 5 pert pm of second graders know the Earth is round 30 percent of third graders 55 percent of fourth graders and 75 percent of fifth graders. Even fourth graders who say the Earth is round often picture a Flat part when people live in the Interior of the baft they said. Others draw the Earth As a giant Pancake or As a curved sky covering a Flat  the authors offer a solution for enlightening Junior Flat Enn hrs. They recommend teachers buy a big weather balloon and inflate it to 10 feet. While a child holds her Check against the balloon and looks at its Hori on slowly move a toy ship across the sur face of inc balloon toward the  As the ship comes Over the horizon it is revealed in parti the top Masl first just Asil would be in the Ocean. But on the rial surface of a Large table the child sees the entire ship Al once no matter How faraway in is. Demonstrating this Experiment on the cover of science and children Are Tighlman s own 7-year-old daughter and one of her classmates at Alcott school in Concord. Mass Lightman acknowledged in an inter View thai there Aren t Many fall Earth cars by the fifth or sixth  so Why bother to disabuse them of the notion at an earlier age it s never too Early an age to begin appreciating that the world is not Al ways Asil  said Lightman. Cabbage King in . Tomato tops in . Washington a the Cia and the agriculture a Pannu no have teamed up to report that the cabbage is King in inc soviet Union while americans Bow to the Tomato. The Siudy of food supplies in the United states and the soviet Union says that radish and Carrot tops Are com Mon fare among soviet Consumers but Are rarely found on american grocery lists. But then the United states has the Sweet potato while the soviet Union does t. On i he other hand theol i Al nutrient Levels in the two nations Are not too far apart. On the average the soviet Union supplies about 3,200 calories per Day to each Citi zen compared with 3,500 for the average american. Protein availability at an average of 100 Grams per Day is a tossup. But americans have More fat and cholesterol in their food Supply while soviet people gel More Carboy a acts. The study was conducted jointly by the Cia and he agriculture department s human nutrition information service the report by Cia and hn1s analysts was published in the latest National food review a quarterly Magazine of the department s economic re search service. A 16-year period. 1965 to 198, was used in the study. Information about soviet per capita food use was supplied by the Cia s office of soviet analysis from various published and unpublished sources inc report said. The us a Agency Drew on extensive food statistics kept on Amer icons. The report cautioned that the food use statistics for both countries were derived mathematically from production exports imports year end inventories and other annual figures. But within those limitations analysts said the study reveals some interesting differences and similarities Between the United states and the soviet Union. For instance sources of food Energy differed the report said. Carbohydrate provided most of inc Energy in the soviet food Supply while carbohydrate and fat provided almost equal proportions in the . Supply i Roscin provided the same proportion in both countries. Among inc soviet vegetables cabbage ranked no. I inc report said. Soviet use reached 66 pounds per capita in 1981, compared with 55 pounds 16 years earlier . Use stayed at about 10 or 12  c a Hages accounted for 34 percent of att vegetables used in the soviet Union in 19si, while providing Only 6 percent of the . Vegetable menu. Tomatoes led the . 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