San Francisco Archives - Teaching Kids News Readable, teachable news. Tue, 19 Nov 2013 18:03:05 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 https://teachingkidsnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/cropped-TKN_square_blk-32x32.jpg San Francisco Archives - Teaching Kids News 32 32 Adorable Batkid Cleans Up Gotham City (San Francisco) https://teachingkidsnews.com/2013/11/18/1-adorable-batkid-cleans-gotham-city-san-francisco/ Tue, 19 Nov 2013 03:38:03 +0000 https://teachingkidsnews.com/?p=11581 The good people of San Francisco, California can sleep a little more soundly.

Last Friday, their city was been made safer by a very special superhero.

Batman and a special Batkid spent the day patrolling the streets and battling crime.

Batkid’s real identity (ssssh, don’t tell anyone!) is five-year-old Miles.

Miles has been winning his own battle, ever since he was just one year old—against a disease called leukemia, which is a form of cancer.

Miles’s leukemia is in “remission,” which means that he is doing very well now. In fact, he started kindergarten this year.

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]]> SF Giants Win The World Series https://teachingkidsnews.com/2012/10/30/1-sf-giants-win-the-world-series/ https://teachingkidsnews.com/2012/10/30/1-sf-giants-win-the-world-series/#comments Wed, 31 Oct 2012 01:06:07 +0000 https://teachingkidsnews.com/?p=7896 For the second time in three years, the San Francisco Giants are baseball’s World Series Champions.

The Giants beat the Detroit Tigers 4-3 in 10 innings. They completed a four-game sweep in the best-of-seven series.

That means they won four games in a row, which gave them the championship.

Former Toronto Blue Jay Marco Scutaro singled home the go ahead run in the 10th inning with two out.

Pablo Sandoval (a.k.a. Kung Fu Panda) was awarded Most Valuable Player (MVP).

That's because in game one of the World Series he hit an amazing three home runs and, overall, he had eight hits in 16 at-bats.

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This year, some new changes made the year even more exciting than usual.

Major League Baseball (MLB) changed the way they choose who gets to be in the playoffs this year.

And with that new system, some teams were battling for a playoff position right down to their last game.

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]]> If You Lose Your Cell Phone The Finder Will Probably Snoop Through It https://teachingkidsnews.com/2012/05/10/if-you-lose-your-cell-phone-the-finder-will-probably-snoop-through-it/ https://teachingkidsnews.com/2012/05/10/if-you-lose-your-cell-phone-the-finder-will-probably-snoop-through-it/#comments Fri, 11 May 2012 02:42:34 +0000 https://teachingkidsnews.com/?p=6472 Some people at a software company wanted to find out what happens when people find a cell phone.

Do they keep it, or return it? What do they do with it?

They found out that half of the people people who find a cell phone returned it. However, in nearly every case, the “finder” first looked through the information on the phone, checking out the owner’s photos, emails and apps.

In his experiment, Scott Wright, who works for Security Perspectives Inc., left 50 cell phones in various places in five cities in Canada and the United States. He left them out so they would look like they had been accidentally lost.

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