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- Volume 26
- Issue 3
- Publication Date: Summer 2003
Science Starts Early
J. Christine Gould, Valerie Weeks, and Sarah Evans
At the age of 4, Jacob announced to his teacher, “When I grow up, I going to be a oceanographer or . . . a squid . . . ’cause they’re scary and they squirt black ink at everyone! Then I can squirt black ink at you, but you can’t squirt black ink at me!”
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