When a young girl's midnight seance awakens a long-slumbering, malevolent spirit, a band of runaway orphans teams up with an underground collective of saboteurs to rescue friends imprisoned in an industrial wasteland.

"Team Earth is gearing up for the Galaxy Games' oldest and most prestigious event: a game with no real rules. The Gamatron is an ancient test of strength, endurance, agility, and strategy played on the Martian moon Phobos. It's tricky enough to play without clear rules, but their opponents are the dreaded Klaxians, known for being the most skilled cheaters in the universe. How can the Earthlings play a clean game against a team of scoundrels?"--Back...

This year the robot races are just for children, and Jimmy Roberts is entering the robot taxi his genius grandfather has built--but he will have to compete with a racer designed by NASA engineers for the wealthy and unscrupulous Horace Pelly.

"Tells the story of Minamata disease, a debilitating and sometimes fatal condition caused by the Chisso chemical factory's careless release of methylmercury into the waters of the coastal community of Minamata in southern Japan. First identified in 1956, it became a hot topic in Japan in the 1970s and 80s, growing into an iconic struggle between people versus corporations and government agencies. This struggle is relevant today, not simply because...

Text and photographs explore the often adversarial relationship between academics and athletics.

For the third leg of the robot races the contestants must choose between three possible Arctic routes, all of which are dangerous--especially when some of the racers are not playing by the rules.

Describes the events leading up to the 1919 World Series and how eight members of the Chicago White Sox were accused of deliberatly losing the game.