The James Logan Courier

ACTIVITIES:
ID cards will be handed out today at lunch in Colt Court.

Homecoming is coming up! Make your nominations for Homecoming court in Colt Court starting Monday, 10/2 through 10/3!

Last call for joining Cross Country! Each day at the Track at 3 pm.

Interested in Track & Field: Sign up in the Weight Room Tuesday & Thursday after school.

Aloha!! Logan Football is having a Luau on Saturday, 10/7, to help raise money for the program. Come have fun in the islands! See any football player for tickets, or call 566-8465.

The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell (259 pages) reviewed by Jessica Stewart

“The tipping point is the biography of an idea, and the idea is very simple. It is that the best way to understand the emergence of fashion trends, the ebb and flow of crime waves, or, for that matter, the transformation of unknown books into bestsellers, or the rise of teenage smoking, or the phenomena of word of mouth, or any number
of other mysterious changes that mark everyday life is to think of them as epidemics. Ideas and products and messages and behaviors spread just like viruses do.”

With this basic summary of his book and ideas, Gladwell gives you a whiff of the freshly baked cookies, the scents of which tantalize your nose and cause embarrassing salivation. As he goes on to describe in detail his thoughts a proof for his theory, it is sometimes tedious, but, more often than not, very interesting.


Gladwell uses the word "people" 367 times in the book.

By Matt DiPietro, Courier Staff Writer

Matt DiPietro, #5 for the James Logan Varsity football team,is one of the team captains, and the team's quarterback. He's writing a weekly diary of his experiences, exclusively for The Courier

Being a quarterback is the toughest job in football. Critics says that quarterbacks are insubstantial, but not in our offense. I scramble when I get the chance and make the most of bad situations. I am a leader of the team and the players look up to me to make things happen. The players listen to me when I tell them that no matter who the team plays, we still have a chance. I am supposed to stay positive during the games, but those changes when plays aren't going the right way. When I do get into the players face, I do it not to put them down, but to let them know what they re doing wrong.


Matt DiPietro

By Trenton Daniel
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)

MIAMI _ A plan in the early 1970s to create a massive artificial reef off Fort Lauderdale, Fla., has turned into an environmental mess with the U.S. Navy, Broward County and others trying to figure out how to remove about two million tires covering 36 acres of ocean floor.


Tires being placed in an array to determine their effectiveness as habitat for fish of the island of Oahu in this National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration photo from 1969

By Kristin Tillotson
Minneapolis Star Tribune (MCT)

MINNEAPOLIS — What's that book next to you on the beach towel, the one spattered with waterproof SPF 45 and iced tea?

Chances are it's a memoir, biography or political screed by someone who thinks the way you do. It used to be assumed that "beach read" meant novel, but not anymore. Fiction may not be dying, but it's certainly getting sand kicked in its face by the truth.

McClatchy-Tribune News Service (MCT)

Here are the best-sellers for the week that ended Saturday, Sept. 16, compiled from data from independent and chain bookstores, book wholesalers and independent distributors nationwide.

(Reprinted from Publishers Weekly, published by Cahners Publishing Co., a division of Reed Elsevier, USA. (c) 2006 by Reed Elsevier, USA)

HARDCOVER FICTION
1. The Thirteenth Tale. Diane Setterfield. Atria, $26
Last Week: -; Weeks on List: 1
2. The Book of Fate. Brad Meltzer. Warner, $25.99
Last Week: 1; Weeks on List: 2
3. Rise and Shine. Anna Quindlen. Random House, $24.95
Last Week: 3; Weeks on List: 3
4. Dark Celebration. Christine Feehan. Berkley, $23.95
Last Week: 2; Weeks on List: 2
5. Judge & Jury. James Patterson and Andrew Gross. Little, Brown, $27.99
Last Week: 4; Weeks on List: 7