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Articles in December, 1994 issue of US Kids

• I am seven years old and would like to know how much calcium I need every day to keep my bones healthy. (a 7-year-old child needs about 800 milligrams of calcium each day)(Ask Doctor Cory)
• School pays. (poem)
  by Jarrah, Sarah
• Kids to the rescue. (Tonya and Tessa Bouyea saved 4-year-old Tony Marra's life with the Heimlich maneuver)
• What a break! (5-year-old Derek Nelson won the Children's Better Health Game Inventors Contest with his game called 'Take a Hike')
• Bumps in the night. (poem)
  by Cella, John David
• My mother made me....(astronaut Wendy Lawrence's mother taught her that learning can be fun)
• I have been getting warts for two years. (information about what causes warts and how to get rid of them)(Ask Doctor Cory)
  by SerVaas, Cory
• Nervousness. (poem)
  by Thomas, Luke
• The mystery of the message on the refrigerator door. (short story)
  by Anderson, Dorothy S.
• Take a whiff! (how the nose smells)
• Lucky 13. (9-year-old Jamie Lanier owns a parakeet named "Lucky")
• Caution: camel crossing. (camels in the Arizona desert; includes information on how camels can live without food or water for a long time)
• Be proud of who you are. (advice for children who are teased because they are different)
• I just love to fly. (11-year-old Vicki Van Meter is the youngest girl to fly a plane across the Atlantic Ocean)(Cover Story)
  by Davis, Charles
• I can be anything.(poem)
  by Demdam, Maeling
• Learn the Heimlich maneuver. (instructions to help a person who is choking)