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Signs of Spring Everywhere

News Flash: It's the 1st Day of Spring

March 20, 1998
Today is the day. Everywhere on Earth an amazing event is occurring. We are all experiencing the same amount of daylength--12 hours of daylight and 12 hours of darkness!

When your daylength reaches 13 hours, please report to Journey North.

What Next?
Think about this, if everyone in the world is experiencing 12 hours of daylight today, what will happen next? Let's find out...

Please report to Journey North when your local daylength equals reaches 13 hours.

In the meantime, the race for increasing daylength is on. Look into your Equinox crystal ball and try to make this prediction:

Challenge Question # 3
"Where do you predict 13 hours of daylight will occur first? Point Hope, Alaska or Houston, Texas?"

How to Respond to Today's Challenge Question

1. Address an e-mail message to: jn-challenge-spring@learner.org
2. In the Subject Line of your message write: Challenge Question # 3
3. In the body of EACH message, answer the question above.


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