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  • Students advocate for teachers with pink slips

    Thursday, April 09, 2009 By: Cory Mohn

    With school budget cuts coming into effect and teachers receiving pink slips, students have joined together to raise awareness about the budget cuts that are being implemented at Amador Valley.

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  • Texas fails the grade on smoking

    Friday, April 10, 2009 By: Haley Rush

    Smoking bans across the state of Texas have created a stir between smokers and anti-smokers. About twenty percent of adult Texans smoke and Texas spends $5.8 billion each year in health expenses relat

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  • Teens at risk: choices now affect chances of future cancer

    Friday, April 10, 2009 By: Lawrence Chiou

    It only takes one severely mutated cell to metastasize and cause cancer, and, in most cases, many years may elapse before a tumor grows to an observable size. A cancer during a person’s adult life may

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  • Leftfield Loudmouths take school spirit to a new level

    Friday, April 10, 2009 By: Christen Valcoviak

    “Hey Clear Creek, this is Wildcat Baseball,” is the opening cheer that will be heard at the beginning of every Creek home game. There has been a lot of gossip about a new group called “The Leftfield L

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  • Actors act like “foos” in Vin Diesel epic 4 Fast 4 Furious

    Friday, April 10, 2009 By: Jess Nelson

    What do chimpanzees that can act have in common with humans? If the human is named Vin Diesel, everything. Unlike the ever-so-rare chimpanzee with acting talent, Vin Diesel has an affinity to star in

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  • Survey finds students unaware of tanning dangers

    Wednesday, April 08, 2009 By: Jennifer Pusateri

    Tanning salons seem to offer an easy solution for people with pale, white, winter skin. Tanning to get golden brown is an interest many have loved for decades, but people who consider fake tanning mig

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  • Habitat for Humanity 2009

    Monday, April 06, 2009 By: Andrew Aldrich

    The Biloxi interim was a very moving experience. The gift of giving was truly learned along with some other lessons.

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  • Resident Evil 5: Addicting Like Heroin

    Tuesday, April 07, 2009 By: Connor Burton, Staff Writer

    Like the drug you would never inject into your veins, Resident Evil 5 is very addicting. If you play this game your family may have to stage an intervention. Using the same control scheme and over the

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  • The Story Behind 'Seven Pounds'

    Monday, April 06, 2009 By: Sha Waller

    Seven Pounds stars Will Smith as a man named Ben who acts like someone from the IRS to help people. At the beginning of the movie he calls 911 for a suicide, which threw me off a little bit, but made

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  • Preparation of graduates questioned

    Sunday, April 05, 2009 By: Solvejg Wastvedt

    Academically, Wilmington offers AP and honors classes, as well as the chance to participate in a dual enrollment program with Westminster College; current students, teachers and graduates from the cla

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Issue Date: Sunday, April 12, 2009 Issue: Week of April 12, 2009
 
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Smoking bans across the state of Texas have created a stir between smokers and anti-smokers. About twenty percent of adult Texans smoke and Texas spends $5.8 billion each year in health expenses relat
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Are the good old days of 99-cent itunes now part of history? That's what young listeners are wondering now that the company has boosted the cost of the music it offers customers.
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Credit equals debt. That's the math a U.S. Bankruptcy judge aimed to impart to Newton High students when he visited the school to talk about the economy.
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Its frigid weather and isolated setting make it hard for fuel companies to serve Galena, Alaska. So, Galena City Council took a step in a new direction: nuclear power.
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Climate change and sustainable energy are two topics getting the attention of Galena City Council in the times ahead, as global warming looms larger on Alaska's list of future concerns.
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Police are probing a bloody brawl at Upper Perkiomen High.
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Features
Even though you're young and the odds against it seem astronomical, an authority says the main risk factors for future cancer in teens are tobacco use, sun exposure and sexual activity.
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Relationship abuse -- physical and emotional -- can scar for a lifetime, but its victims can rescue themselves by walking away for good.
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Survey finds students unaware of tanning dangers
You can ignore a lot of dangers when your goal is to achieve that perfect tan. But researchers are taken aback by sun-baskers' widespread dearth of knowledge about the dangers of basking.
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Teachers may wonder if their lessons might be better received if texted to students. After all, texting is how increasingly more students are spending their class time.
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