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Friday, June 30, 2006
James Logan High School should be getting more money from the state next year after Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed a bipartisan budget Friday that invests a record $55.1 billion in education - an increase of $3.1 billion this year and $8.3 billion over the last two years - and allocates $4.9 billion to create a budget reserve and to pay down the state's debt early.
California Department of Finance chart
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By Phil Mercer, VOA News
Australia has a vested interest in the U.S. Supreme Court ruling that the military tribunals were illegal under both U.S. and international law.
Australia has a vested interest in the U.S. Supreme Court ruling that the military tribunals were illegal under both U.S. and international law.
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You never know what you'll find at the curb.
While jogging one morning I came upon $500, unclaimed, right there on the sidewalk.
You never know what you'll find at the curb.
While jogging one morning I came upon $500, unclaimed, right there on the sidewalk.
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Thursday, June 29, 2006
By Ted Landphair
VOA News
Fifty years ago today, on June 29, 1956, U.S. President Dwight Eisenhower signed a law that dramatically changed the future of America. It called for the creation of the Interstate Highway System -- a vast network of high-speed expressways, criss-crossing the nation. Later in 1956, the first spade of dirt was turned in rural Missouri. This interconnecting ribbon of concrete is now seen as a blessing by some -- and a curse by others.
The Clay Committee presents its report with recommendations concerning the financing of a national interstate highway network to President Eisenhower on Jan. 11, 1955. Standing behind the president are (from left) Gen. Lucius Clay, Frank Turner, Steve Betchel, Sloan Colt, William Roberts, and Dave Beck.
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Fifty years ago today, on June 29, 1956, U.S. President Dwight Eisenhower signed a law that dramatically changed the future of America. It called for the creation of the Interstate Highway System -- a vast network of high-speed expressways, criss-crossing the nation. Later in 1956, the first spade of dirt was turned in rural Missouri. This interconnecting ribbon of concrete is now seen as a blessing by some -- and a curse by others.
The Clay Committee presents its report with recommendations concerning the financing of a national interstate highway network to President Eisenhower on Jan. 11, 1955. Standing behind the president are (from left) Gen. Lucius Clay, Frank Turner, Steve Betchel, Sloan Colt, William Roberts, and Dave Beck.
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Wednesday, June 28, 2006
By Mary Morningstar
VOA News
On June 20, Geffen Records released the new album by 27-year-old Canadian singer-songwriter Nelly Furtado. She describes Loose as more R&B flavored than her previous two albums. Nelly recorded most of the collection in Miami with producer Timbaland. Its debut single, "Maneater," recently became her first Number One hit on the U.K. download sales chart. Nelly will promote Loose on a 20-date North American club tour, which begins on July 7 in Montreal.
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On June 20, Geffen Records released the new album by 27-year-old Canadian singer-songwriter Nelly Furtado. She describes Loose as more R&B flavored than her previous two albums. Nelly recorded most of the collection in Miami with producer Timbaland. Its debut single, "Maneater," recently became her first Number One hit on the U.K. download sales chart. Nelly will promote Loose on a 20-date North American club tour, which begins on July 7 in Montreal.
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Monday, June 26, 2006
By Barbara Schoetzau
VOA News
The world's second wealthiest person, investor Warren Buffett, has announced he will give the bulk of his $44 billion fortune to a foundation run by the world's richest man, computer tycoon Bill Gates and his wife Melinda.
Photo courtesy the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
Bill and Melinda Gates and Warren Buffett, New York City, June 26
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The world's second wealthiest person, investor Warren Buffett, has announced he will give the bulk of his $44 billion fortune to a foundation run by the world's richest man, computer tycoon Bill Gates and his wife Melinda.
Photo courtesy the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
Bill and Melinda Gates and Warren Buffett, New York City, June 26
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James Logan’s Jeff Bogess and Nathaniel Nguyen are the new national champions in Duo Interpretation and the Logan Forensics team came out on top of the National Forensic League’s Nationals, held last week in Texas.
Nathaniel Nguyen, left, and Jeff Bogess are national champions in Duo.
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Nathaniel Nguyen, left, and Jeff Bogess are national champions in Duo.
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The Hubble Space Telescope's (HST) main camera has ceased to function.
The telescope revolutionized astronomy with its stunning pictures of the universe. It has three separate electronic cameras and a collection of filters and light dispersers that are used to photograph distant celestial objects.
The telescope revolutionized astronomy with its stunning pictures of the universe. It has three separate electronic cameras and a collection of filters and light dispersers that are used to photograph distant celestial objects.
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Sunday, June 25, 2006
By David McAlary
VOA News
Archeologists have identified what might be the world's oldest known jewelry. It consists of 100,000-year-old shells from the Middle East with holes bored in their centers. If the shells were used as beads for personal decoration, it means symbolic human thinking and the first signs of culture are much older than previously thought.
Nassarius gibbosulus shell
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Archeologists have identified what might be the world's oldest known jewelry. It consists of 100,000-year-old shells from the Middle East with holes bored in their centers. If the shells were used as beads for personal decoration, it means symbolic human thinking and the first signs of culture are much older than previously thought.
Nassarius gibbosulus shell
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By VOA News
Monday marks the 30th anniversary of the barcode. Barcodes are the symbols that appear on goods in 155 countries that help clerks speed customer purchases, and help companies keep track of inventory.
Monday marks the 30th anniversary of the barcode. Barcodes are the symbols that appear on goods in 155 countries that help clerks speed customer purchases, and help companies keep track of inventory.
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Saturday, June 24, 2006
By Maura Jane Farrelly
VOA News
Seventeen years old and full of passion, Katie Reed grew up in a highly educated, globally aware community in the state of Oregon, in America's Pacific Northwest. The high school she attends offers students what is known as an "International Baccalaureate Program." That means the curriculum was designed to be acceptable to any university around the world.
Oregon teen philanthropist Katie Reed raised funds to support a sister school program in Uganda
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Seventeen years old and full of passion, Katie Reed grew up in a highly educated, globally aware community in the state of Oregon, in America's Pacific Northwest. The high school she attends offers students what is known as an "International Baccalaureate Program." That means the curriculum was designed to be acceptable to any university around the world.
Oregon teen philanthropist Katie Reed raised funds to support a sister school program in Uganda
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Friday, June 23, 2006
By David McAlary
VOA News
A panel of scientists says evidence of global warming is clear. They say the last few decades have been warmer than any comparable period in the past several hundred years. Scientists believe the warming trend is also to blame for the harsh hurricane season in the North Atlantic last year.
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A panel of scientists says evidence of global warming is clear. They say the last few decades have been warmer than any comparable period in the past several hundred years. Scientists believe the warming trend is also to blame for the harsh hurricane season in the North Atlantic last year.
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By Faiza Elmasry
VOA News
Pop-culture fads come and go. Experts say fads have different shapes and sizes. Yet, they are quite similar in their life cycle. They catch on fast, then quickly fade away. And while some fads are harmless and fun to adopt, others can be costly and even dangerous when they come as the next hot novelty in management, education, science or medicine.
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Pop-culture fads come and go. Experts say fads have different shapes and sizes. Yet, they are quite similar in their life cycle. They catch on fast, then quickly fade away. And while some fads are harmless and fun to adopt, others can be costly and even dangerous when they come as the next hot novelty in management, education, science or medicine.
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Thursday, June 22, 2006
Portugal struck two early and held on to beat Mexico in their final Group D match in Gelsenkirchen, Wednesday.
Ivory Coast beats Serbia and Montenegro 3-2 in Group C
Argentina and Netherlands play 0-0 stalemate in Group C
Angola draw 1-1 with Iran in Group D
Ivory Coast beats Serbia and Montenegro 3-2 in Group C
Argentina and Netherlands play 0-0 stalemate in Group C
Angola draw 1-1 with Iran in Group D
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By Gary Thomas
VOA News
A cable from the U.S. ambassador in Iraq to the State Department says Iraqis employed at the American Embassy in Baghdad live in fear that they will be unmasked as working for Americans. The message was leaked to the Washington Post newspaper. The newspaper says the cable is at odds with the more upbeat public assessments by administration officials.
U.S. forces secure an Iraq street after an improvised explosive device detonated in Baghdad earlier this year. Photo by Air Force Staff Sgt. Reynaldo Ramon
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A cable from the U.S. ambassador in Iraq to the State Department says Iraqis employed at the American Embassy in Baghdad live in fear that they will be unmasked as working for Americans. The message was leaked to the Washington Post newspaper. The newspaper says the cable is at odds with the more upbeat public assessments by administration officials.
U.S. forces secure an Iraq street after an improvised explosive device detonated in Baghdad earlier this year. Photo by Air Force Staff Sgt. Reynaldo Ramon
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Tuesday, June 20, 2006
By Stephanie Ho
VOA News
A heated debate is shaping up in Washington about a concept some activists are calling Internet network neutrality, known more popularly as net neutrality. At issue are calls for the U.S. government to regulate the Internet, and, in effect, opponents say, determine which companies get bigger shares of the profits.
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A heated debate is shaping up in Washington about a concept some activists are calling Internet network neutrality, known more popularly as net neutrality. At issue are calls for the U.S. government to regulate the Internet, and, in effect, opponents say, determine which companies get bigger shares of the profits.
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Monday, June 19, 2006
By Noel King, VOA News
Khartoum
Humanitarian access in Darfur has been severely hindered by fighting among rebel factions in the region, top U.N. humanitarian coordinator Manuel Aranda da Silva said on Monday.
Ardamata Camp - Sorghum Distribution: Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in Ardamata camp outside of Geneina in West Darfur receive sorghum provided by USAID through WFP.Photo credit: USAID
Khartoum
Humanitarian access in Darfur has been severely hindered by fighting among rebel factions in the region, top U.N. humanitarian coordinator Manuel Aranda da Silva said on Monday.
Ardamata Camp - Sorghum Distribution: Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in Ardamata camp outside of Geneina in West Darfur receive sorghum provided by USAID through WFP.Photo credit: USAID
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An anonymous bidder paid nearly $17.4 million on Flag Day for four rare flags from the American Revolution, captured by a British officer in 1779-80 and put up for auction by one of his direct descendants 225 years later.
This painting by Sir Joshua Reynolds shows the British hero Colonel Banastre Tarleton with the captured, and now auctioned, American battle flags heaped at this feet.
An anonymous bidder paid nearly $17.4 million on Flag Day for four rare flags from the American Revolution, captured by a British officer in 1779-80 and put up for auction by one of his direct descendants 225 years later.
This painting by Sir Joshua Reynolds shows the British hero Colonel Banastre Tarleton with the captured, and now auctioned, American battle flags heaped at this feet.
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Sunday, June 18, 2006
The World Cup is not the only international competition going on this summer. With vacation and beach reading season in full swing, American readers find themselves trailing their reading counterparts across the pond.
A Young Girl Reading by Jean-Honoré Fragonard
c. 1776 Oil on canvas, 82 x 65 cm
National Gallery of Art, Washington
A Young Girl Reading by Jean-Honoré Fragonard
c. 1776 Oil on canvas, 82 x 65 cm
National Gallery of Art, Washington
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Saturday, June 17, 2006
A retired biologist from Florida State University has captured photos of a rodent in Laos which scientists thought was extinct for 11 million years. Science education professor emeritus, David Redfield and bird watcher, Uthai Treesucon, were able to catch the rodent, but only after failing to do so four times. They returned it to the wild after they took photos and a video of the rodent.
A rockrat.
A rockrat.
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Friday, June 16, 2006
U.S. President George W. Bush yesterday signed an executive order declaring the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands a U.S. National Monument, creating the largest protected marine area in the world and the largest single conservation area in the history of the United States.
Pennantfish, Pyramid and Milletseed Butterflyfish at Rapture Reef on French Frigate Shoals of the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands
Pennantfish, Pyramid and Milletseed Butterflyfish at Rapture Reef on French Frigate Shoals of the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands
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Thursday, June 15, 2006
In keeping with their motto that the purpose of participating in high school forensics is “not to win tournaments but to win everything else,” all of the members of the James Logan Forensics team who are graduating seniors have been accepted to four-year colleges, the team announced yesterday.
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Monday, June 12, 2006
Titus Lucretius Carus (ca. 94 BC- ca. 49 BC) was a Roman poet and philosopher. His only work that we know of is the philosophical long poem De Rerum Natura, On the Nature of Things. Stylistically, most scholars attribute the full blossoming of Latin hexameter to Virgil. De Rerum Natura however, is of indisputable importance for its influence on Virgil and other later poets.
Click here to read On the Nature of Things, free from Project Gutenberg
Click here to read On the Nature of Things, free from Project Gutenberg
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Friday, June 09, 2006
An informant within Abu Musab al-Zarwaqi's trusted circle told Coalition forces the insurgent leader was going to have a meeting, leading US F-16Cs to bomb a safehouse in the Iraqi town of Hibhid, where the Jordanian, and five others were killed on Wednesday.
![Zarqawi death site\](http://jameslogancourier.org/media/1/20060609-zarqawisite.jpg "Zarqawi death site\")
Soldiers examine the rubble of the house where Zarqawi died.U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Zach Mott, 3rd Heavy Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division Public Affairs Office
Soldiers examine the rubble of the house where Zarqawi died.U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Zach Mott, 3rd Heavy Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division Public Affairs Office
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Twenty-seven thousand pages of documents released by the National Archives on Tuesday reveal that while the United States and West Germany knew the location of Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann two years before his capture, the fact was kept secret.
Adolf Eichmann
Adolf Eichmann
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Thursday, June 08, 2006
By Amandeep Samra, Editor-in-Chief, and Reena Sandhu, Assistant Editor
Over the past year, the number of thefts on campus have reached staggering numbers, with tens of thousands of dollars worth of iPods, digital cameras, cell phones and electronic games such as game boy advance and the play station portable, being favorite targets.
Over the past year, the number of thefts on campus have reached staggering numbers, with tens of thousands of dollars worth of iPods, digital cameras, cell phones and electronic games such as game boy advance and the play station portable, being favorite targets.
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The head of Al Qaeda in Iraq, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, has been killed in an air strike north of Baqubah, according to Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Maliki.
Abu Musab al-Zarqawi
Abu Musab al-Zarqawi
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Wednesday, June 07, 2006
By Rick La Plante, Public Information Officer, New Haven Unified School District
James Logan High School biology teacher Sue Hinojoza has won a $290,000 grant from the California Department of Education to develop a biotechnology academy at the school.
James Logan High School biology teacher Sue Hinojoza has won a $290,000 grant from the California Department of Education to develop a biotechnology academy at the school.
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By Rick La Plante, Public Information Officer, New Haven Unified School District
Linda Chew of Cabello Elementary was named the District's Teacher of the Year and Gina Pacaldo of Emanuele Elementary was named Classified Employee of the Year at Tuesday night's meeting of the Board of Education.
Linda Chew of Cabello Elementary was named the District's Teacher of the Year and Gina Pacaldo of Emanuele Elementary was named Classified Employee of the Year at Tuesday night's meeting of the Board of Education.
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Tuesday, June 06, 2006
In Britain one of the most important watercolors to be put up for sale in half a century has been snapped up for more than $10.9 million, at Christie's.
The Blue Rigi: Lake of Lucerne, Sunrise by Joseph Mallord William Turner
The Blue Rigi: Lake of Lucerne, Sunrise by Joseph Mallord William Turner
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By Reena Sandu, Assistant Editor
The Class of 2006’s final finals finally end Thursday, when seniors who missed the regularly scheduled finals that started off with examinations scheduled in Language Arts, Science, and the Visual and Performing Arts last Thursday complete make-up tests.
The Class of 2006’s final finals finally end Thursday, when seniors who missed the regularly scheduled finals that started off with examinations scheduled in Language Arts, Science, and the Visual and Performing Arts last Thursday complete make-up tests.
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Monday, June 05, 2006
James Logan's Puente Program Friday thanked the school's teachers and staff for their roles in helping students who are in the program succeed at Logan and get into colleges by feeding them.
Art Teacher Peter Kolesnikov receives his meal at the Puente lunch.
Art Teacher Peter Kolesnikov receives his meal at the Puente lunch.
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Saturday, June 03, 2006
By Jezza Pimentel, staff writer
The yearbooks are finally coming out. The seniors will be able to pick up their yearbooks on Monday near the activities office on Colt Court after school, while everyone else can pick up their yearbooks on Tuesday.
More than 100 boxes of yearbooks, which were trucked to Logan on Wednesday, are currently stored in Jerry Ortega's supply room.
The yearbooks are finally coming out. The seniors will be able to pick up their yearbooks on Monday near the activities office on Colt Court after school, while everyone else can pick up their yearbooks on Tuesday.
More than 100 boxes of yearbooks, which were trucked to Logan on Wednesday, are currently stored in Jerry Ortega's supply room.
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Friday, June 02, 2006
Katherine "Kerry" Close, a 13-year-old 8th-grader from Asbury Park, New Jersey, spelled "ursprache", a word for the ancestor of a language or language group, to win the 79th annual Scripps National Spelling Bee on Thursday night. Close beat out 274 other contestants from 9 to 15 years old.
Katherine Close
Katherine Close
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Language Arts Teacher Tim Campbell held his annual "Class Reunion," a get-together for the students in his classes last year, Thursday.
Students lined up for food and fun at Language Arts Teacher Tim Campbell's annual class reunion.
Students lined up for food and fun at Language Arts Teacher Tim Campbell's annual class reunion.
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Thursday, June 01, 2006
By Naweed Zemaryalai and Abdul Nawabi
Photos by Fariel Ali
Outside the James Logan pool complex Wednesday, a pile of soggy cardboard and duct tape paid silent tribute to the foundered plans for victory devised by Logan students, while in the pool more durable boats and their crews battled for supremacy in the annual cardboard boat races.
Eventual winners Jorge Hernandez, Gabriel Leonetti and Ghufran Nawabi paddle for the victory in a semifinal race
Photos by Fariel Ali
Outside the James Logan pool complex Wednesday, a pile of soggy cardboard and duct tape paid silent tribute to the foundered plans for victory devised by Logan students, while in the pool more durable boats and their crews battled for supremacy in the annual cardboard boat races.
Eventual winners Jorge Hernandez, Gabriel Leonetti and Ghufran Nawabi paddle for the victory in a semifinal race
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