Kicker: The great teddy drop

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MARY REICHARD, HOST: Middle school students in England are swept up in a high-altitude search and rescue! As part of a science experiment, they’d launched a teddy bear into the stratosphere on a weather balloon.

You gotta watch the video! It shows the stuffed toy floating along, up up and away, higher and higher 16 miles up. All is going along just great… well, until—oooph! There’s a sudden jolt and the bear detaches from the balloon and falls to Earth.

MYRNA BROWN, HOST: But where did he land?

REICHARD: That’s the mystery. Now the school asks the public to be on the lookout for a smart-looking bear in a checked shirt, navy blue shorts and matching tie.

We are assured that the bear is very brave and resourceful, so he ought to be okay until found.

BROWN: Well dressed too!

REICHARD: It’s The World and Everything in It.

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