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Ballet Folklorico is having its 18th annual Sabor Latino Dance is this Saturday, 2/23, in the Pavilion. Tickets are $6 in advance at lunch in Colt Court, and $9 at the door. For more info see Mr. Huertas in the counseling office.

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Club SAVE will be meeting in Room 444 today after school. We look forward to seeing you there!

There is a Leo club meeting tomorrow in the Reference Room. We’re going to a carnival!

By Jennifer Torres, Courier Staff Writer

As the new semester begins, the pungent odor of formalin begins to drift from the physiology classes as they start to dissect cats. Fresh off their unit on muscles, the students must apply their knowledge of anatomy and physiology to that of cats.

The dissection of cats is not a newly implemented practice. In fact, Logan physiology classes have been dissecting cats for over 20 years. The tools and procedures may have changed since then, but the students first reactions have remained the same. Emotions typically range from nervousness to excitement on the first day of dissection, but over time the students become more comfortable. However, one aspect may be hard to overcome, the smell.

"I hate the smell, it makes me hungry!" says Shirley Cheung, grade 12.

By Emily Low, Courier Staff Writer

Turn on the television, flip open the newspaper, or walk down the streets without earphones in your ears, and you will inevitably see, read, or hear about the state of the American economy. Recession, you say? A new policy—why, that sounds great for them. Ah, funding for the schools? Grants? Oh no, they can’t cut the budget.

But recently, that is exactly what has happened. Educational funding has suddenly been swept away, leaving superintendents blinking at the disappearance of what was once the thinning lining of money underneath their busy feet. This sudden move has not only caused a whirlwind of problems for recent programs and activities, but also those of old—namely, previous grants that have not yet been acted upon.

By Billy O'Keefe
McClatchy-Tribune News Service (MCT)


Perhaps the best side effect of downloadable games coming to consoles is the second chance it affords niche games that never really had a first chance when $50 was the asking price.

The most textbook example yet may lie with "Rez HD," which resurrects a seven-year-old game in grand fashion while giving it a price tag — $10 — that's far more inviting for those who couldn't justify purchasing the Dreamcast or Playstation 2 versions.

By Stacy Downs
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)

The on-demand world is in demand.

Thousands of movies and TV shows are available for instant viewing online. Just go to a (legal) downloading Web site, click on "Batman" and the tale of the Caped Crusader begins in moments. No schlepping to the video store or waiting for discs to arrive in the mail Kansas City artist Van Sneed prefers paying Apple iTunes to download "Lost" episodes he has missed to watching the free versions on abc.com.

"It's free of ad interruptions," the 24-year-old Sneed said. "And the quality of the picture is better."

By Stephen J. Hedges
Chicago Tribune (MCT)

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced Sunday that a California meat packing company had launched the recall of 135 million pounds of beef — the largest meat recall in U.S. history — following questions about the company's treatment of cattle that were slaughtered even though they could not stand up.