The James Logan Courier

LUNCH
Featured entrée selections include Pasta, Pizza & Spicy Chicken Patty. Lunches include a variety of fruits, veggies and milk.

MISCELLANEOUS
Yearbooks can be purchased after school in Room 44 for $70. Buy yours now before prices go up!

MISSED YOUR PICTURES? Buy your picture package on September 3, 2008.

P.E. clothes will be available for sale today at lunchtime and after school. Location: Colt Court at double doors to Student Services Center.

By Ben Wener
Orange County Register (MCT)

Even if it had been a merely half-hearted performance —which it wasn't, not even close, though who'd have blamed 'em if it were? — Tuesday's inspired show at Staples Center would still linger long in Dave Matthews Band lore.

For this, sadly, was the night the group played a nearly three-hour elegy for its fallen brother, LeRoi Moore.

By Greg Kot
Chicago Tribune (MCT)

Your daughter would rather be grounded for a month than miss a Jonas Brothers concert.

Still pulling your hair out because you paid 10 times what any sane person would consider reasonable so that your kid could attend one of Miley Cyrus' sold-out "Hannah Montana" concerts last year?

Parents may not fully understand, but to a nation of adolescents, Cyrus and the Jonas boys aren't just pop acts. They're 24/7 obsessions. To a legion of businessmen presiding over a slumping industry, they are trend-defying sales juggernauts. And to culture-watchers, they are the latest in a series of teen-pop acts dating back to Ricky Nelson who serve as a generation's musical rite of passage.

By David Lightman
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)

DENVER — On a historic day when Democrats nominated Barack Obama, the first African-American ever chosen by a major party for the presidency, his ticket mate, Joe Biden, on Wednesday launched the new partnership's attack on John McCain by insisting that America needs more than a decorated military veteran as its leader.

"These times require more than a good soldier — they require a wise leader," Biden said.

From wikipedia:
George Hoyt Whipple (August 28, 1878 – February 1, 1976) was an American physician, biomedical researcher, and medical school educator and administrator. Whipple shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1934 with George Richards Minot and William Parry Murphy "for their discoveries concerning liver therapy in cases of anemia."

Whipple was born to Ashley Cooper Whipple and Frances Anna Hoyt in Ashland, New Hampshire. He was the son and grandson of physicians. Whipple attended Phillips Academy and then Yale University from which he graduated with a B.A. degree in 1900. He attended medical school at the Johns Hopkins University. from which he received the M.D. degree in 1905.

Read George Hoyt Whipple's Nobel Lecture of December 12, 1934, free from nobelprize.org.