So that's what a billion is

Highlights , a 60-year-old U.S. kids magazine which has some subscribers in Canada, has reached the milestone of publishing one billion copies. According to editor Christine French Clark, the August issue will explain the concept of a billion this way: ``If Goofus stacked a billion children on his shoulders, they would reach the moon, wrap around the moon 11 times, stretch back to the earth, wrap around the earth five times, and there would be enough kids left over for 34,944 Little League teams."