The James Logan Courier

ACTIVITIES
Any young man interested in playing basketball for the 2009-2010 school year, please see Coach Fortenberry in Room 121 or the Pavilion after school.

Anyone interested in playing boys soccer should see Coach Sills in Room 73 and attend open field after school on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 3:30 – 4:30 p.m.

The Cross Country Team is still looking for more good girls and boys. Come to the tack after school.

By Olivia Guitron, Courier Staff Writer

Not many students would pick up a copy of a news magazine when going through the check-out counter of their favorite store, but they should. News is an important way to learn about our world, and what is going on around us. It can help you become aware of what is going on beyond afterschool programs, math class, and how stressful going back to school can be.

To jumpstart interest in the news, a recent edition of Newsweek magazine, with the help of Kaplan, came out with its report on colleges, made especially for prospective students and students who are still unsure about going to college. This edition of Newsweek is entitled Finding the Right College for You, and is packed with information on colleges, SAT and ACT testing, and links that could help you register for college. Newsweek has also reported its Top 25 colleges, each with a unique reason for why it was chosen.

By Brandie Moore, Courier Book Editor

"I wasn't always a freak. I used to be a normal teen. The kind who went to school dances, had celebrity crushes, and was so vain about my long blond hair I wouldn't dream of scraping it back into a ponytail and hiding beneath a big hooded sweatshirt. I had a mom, a dad, a little sister named Riley, and a sweet yellow lab named buttercup. I lived in a nice house, in a good neighborhood, in Eugene, Oregon. I was popular, happy, and could hardly wait for junior year to begin since I'd just made varsity cheerleader. My life was complete, and the sky was the limit. And even though that last part is total cliché, it's also ironically true. Yet all of that's just hearsay as far as I'm concerned. Because ever since the accident, the only thing I can clearly remember is dying."

It's always hard to hear about kids who lost their parents. The main character in this book, Ever Bloom, knows the feeling, but, not only does she lose her parents, she also gains a whole bunch of psychic abilities. After the crash she and her family were in, she can see people's auras, hear people's thoughts and know their whole life stories with only one touch.

Edward Teller (original Hungarian name Teller Ede) (January 15, 1908 – September 9, 2003) was a Hungarian-born American nuclear physicist, known colloquially as "the father of the hydrogen bomb."

Of Jewish descent, Teller emigrated to the United States in the 1930s, and was an early member of the Manhattan Project charged with developing the first atomic bombs. During this time he made a serious push to develop the first fusion-based weapons as well, but these were deferred until after World War II. After his controversial testimony in the security clearance hearing of his former Los Alamos colleague Robert Oppenheimer, Teller became ostracized by much of the scientific community. He continued to find support from the U.S. government and military research establishment. He was a co-founder of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, and was both its director and associate director for many years.


See video of Edward Teller, father of the hydrogen bomb, free from the People's Archive.