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Eleven-year-old enters Open golf tournament

Lucy Li isn't your average 11-year-old– she's the youngest person to qualify for a US Women's Open golf tournament.

She qualified for the US Women's Open in May at a tournament at Half Moon Bay, near San Francisco where she set a new record by seven strokes.

Li doesn't spend all her time golfing; she is home-schooled in an online Stanford University program. Her favourite subjects are mathematics, history and science. She loves to read. She also loves arcades, diving, badminton, dancing, and table tennis. But golf is her favourite sport.

Dottie Pepper, an ESPN analyst, thinks that the most important thing is that Li doesn't think of winning in terms of her scorecard.

“If the definition of success for her this week is not based on score, then I don't think it's too young.

"The important thing for her is to treat the whole experience as a kid on the golf score. Forget expectations,” Dottie said.

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The youngest to fly around the world

Nineteen-year-old
Matt Guthmiller of South Dakota just completed a solo flight around the world, securing his spot as the youngest person in history to do so.

Guthmiller flew 47,000 kilometres (29,000 miles) around the world in a single engine 1981 Beechcraft A36 Bonanza over 44 days, stopping in 14 countries including Italy, Greece, England, Egypt, the United Arab Emirates, India, Australia, American Samoa and the Philippines.

His goal was to return before July 26 to break the previous world record set by 21-year-old Jack Wiegand in 2013 and that he did. Guthmiller posted regular photographs and updates on his travels on social media and called his parents every day by satellite telephone. Upon landing at Gillespie Field in San Diego Guthmiller was all smiles but also exhausted.

“I guess it’s… good to be back,” he said. Guthmiller’s parents and his co-sponsor Mike Borden are extremely proud of him. “This is just one of the many incredible things he’s going to do in his lifetime,” Borden said.

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People develop itches

It turns out the culprit may be iPads! iPads may contain nickel, a very common allergy-inducing metal. Nickel rashes aren’t life-threatening or dangerous, but they can be very uncomfortable and itchy and may need to be treated with antibiotics.

People with nickel allergies have to be careful about what kind of jewellery they wear so that they don’t develop a rash. Stirling silver, 14k yellow gold and titanium are nickel-free.

The connection between the device and the rash was made after an 11-year-old boy was admitted to a San Diego hospital with a body rash that wasn’t responding to usual medication. Doctors tested the boy and found that he has a nickel allergy. They tested the iPad because it contains the boy was using it every day. Sure enough, they found the iPad’s outside coating contained nickel.

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