By NIESHA LOFING, Sacramento Bee
Calif. boy, 13, wins awards for child-safety inventions
PLUMAS LAKE, Calif. - Louis Braille was 12 when he began inventing a system of reading and writing by raised dots.
Thomas Alva Edison was a teenager when he invented a telegraphic repeating instrument.
Tharon Trujillo of Plumas Lake was just 10 years old when he invented a safety gate that helps keep children and pets from falling through sliding screen doors.
For the Olympics, foods of Canada
The United States shares the longest non-militarized border in the world with Canada, yet many U.S. citizens haven't a clue what their northern neighbors eat.
That particular realization struck Don Burns as he contemplated hosting a Vancouver 2010 Olympics viewing party.
