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Germany’s Henrik May prefers to ski on sand rather than snow—and in the Namibian Desert he reached a speed of 57.24 mph (92.12 km/h) while skiing down a 246-ft-high (75-m) dune. He has developed a special type of wax that enables the skis he uses to slide over sand.
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RBI joins Accelerated Reader.
The Accelerated Reader program is used by teachers and librarians in more than 70,000 schools across the country. They will be incorporating our RBI series and creating quizzes based on them.