Thursday August 30, 2001 - The Arizona Daily Wildcat Online

The University of Arizona was one of six schools across the nation to be selected for the Physics Teacher Education Coalition Award. Overall, nine schools were evaluated to receive the award.

"Anyone who takes a look at what's going on in schools will see that there is a problem with science," said Frederick Stein, director of education and outreach for the American Physical Society, told the Arizona Daily Star. "The overwhelming majority of science classes are just boring and we need to change that."

Fast facts:

According to Disney, there were 6,469,952 spots painted on the dogs in the original 101 Dalmatians.

Disney World in Orlando, Fla., covers 30,500 acres, making it twice the size of the island of Manhattan, N.Y.

Disney's animated film "Mulan" did not do well in China. Many Chinese, especially the elderly, complained that the title character looked too Western.

Donald Duck comics were nearly banned years ago in Finland because he didn't wear pants.

On this date: Wednesday August 30th, 2001

Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt committed suicide in 30 B.C. by allowing a poisonous snake to bite her breast.

The crossbow was outlawed in 1146 by a conference of European leaders who hoped that by banning the weapon, wars would eventually end.

The first stereo system was patented by Clement Adler of Germany in 1881, and the vacuum cleaner was patented by Herbert Cecil Booth in 1901.

Kenya banned the hunting of elephants and the trading of ivory in 1973.

Quotable...

''Today, we collected the empty bullets and we played with them.''
-Ten-year-old Beit Jalla resident Shihade Sharabati on violence in the West Bank.