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Show Dinosaur Monument stars in new children's TV series Youngsters across the country will be visiting Utah's Dinosaur National Monument in Vernal via television when 3-2-1 Contact, a major new daily science series from Children's Television Workshop, creators of "Sesame Street," on the nation's 282 PBS stations, began Jan. 14. Liz Moses, one of the show's co-hosts, was filmed in Vernal recently learning about the giant creatures of the past from Park Ranger Denny Davies and his staff, Jim Adams and Tobe Wilkins, fossil preparers and Linda West, park ranger and geologist. Dinosaur National Monument is one of 70 sites selected for the show's mim-magazinc mim-magazinc format, which aims to make science and technology more understandable un-derstandable and Inviting for the nation's 13 million children ages 8 to 12. The Utah segments will be part of the focus on Dig and Little, one of 13 weekly themes of the series. Together, the show's three hosts have logged more than 30,000 miles, discovering Rcience at work In many unexpected placed such as a motorcycle motor-cycle race, the circus or a mountain climbing expedition in Montana, as well as talking to experts In more obvious ob-vious science centers, laboratories, oliscrvaloi ii-it and rinm. |