Cotter Junior High Science Fair Puts Student Projects To The Test

It turns out lucre isn't so filthy after all.Cotter eighth-grader Matthew Masyga thought that U.S. currencyin larger denominations likely passes through fewer hands, C-noteswould be cleaner than singles. To test his hypothesis he wet downsample bills pressed them on agar plates " a medium for culturingbacteria " and incubated the plates at body temperature.After three trials " no bacteria grew on any of the plates."It's not what I expected at all," Masyga said.Science, it seems, is full of little surprises, a number ofwhich were on display Wednesday at the Cotter Junior High ScienceFair.Eighty-one seventh- and eighth-graders explored hypothesis,challen

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