The James Logan Courier

ACTIVITIES:
Attention Swimmers! There is a mandatory swim meeting right after school tomorrow in Room 475.

Eat at Mexico Lindo tomorrow and support the boys soccer team. See the boys soccer players for more details

Interested in badminton? Come to Room 66 tomorrow to sign up for the Logan badminton team. Everyone is welcome.

Nearly two hundred Logan students spent most of Tuesday morning in the Alfonso Rodriguez Gym taking the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery, better known as the ASVAB, in order to get some insight about what they're good at.

The ASVAB is the most widely used multiple-aptitude test in the world. There are three versions. Approximately 900,000 students take the high school version of ASVAB each year. The test is offered at more than 13,000 high schools and post secondary schools in the United States.


Proctors monitor the 186 juniors and seniors who took the ASVAB Tuesday morning. Courier photo

By Margaret Talev and Ron Hutcheson
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)
WASHINGTON — President Bush set Wednesday night for the unveiling of his new Iraq war plan, an announcement certain to touch off a bruising battle with Congress over his expected proposal to dispatch more U.S. troops to Iraq.

Democrats on Monday reiterated their pledge not to cut off money to ground troops, but they were considering a range of other ideas to counter the Bush plan, including cutting off funding for private contractors profiting from reconstruction efforts.

They also may vote on resolutions recommending that Bush demand measurable progress from the Iraqis or begin redeploying U.S. troops. Such resolutions failed in the previous Congress, but Democrats now have two factors working in their favor: majorities in the House of Representatives and Senate, and more Republicans than a year ago who might be willing to support a phased withdrawal.

At the White House, Bush and his advisers worked on a draft of Wednesday's speech and braced for a fight with Congress. The prime-time speech, expected to last about 25 minutes, will kick off an intensive White House effort intended to shore up support for the war. Recent polls have shown that 72 percent of Americans disapprove of the way Bush has handled Iraq.

By Bill Glauber
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (MCT)

MILWAUKEE — You are an American and you surf the Internet, listen to music, watch television (oh, boy, do you watch TV), play videogames and even read books, magazines and at that old standby called a newspaper.

So, have you ever added up all your media time? Put a price tag on all that spending for cable, books, videogames and other assorted media items?

It turns out that in 2007, American adults and teens will spend an estimated 3,518 hours — or nearly five months each — plus $936.75 per person consuming media.

By Jackie Burrell
Contra Costa Times (MCT)

WALNUT CREEK, Calif. — Hearts hammering, 40 blue-tagged runners raced through the night, darting frenetically through hotel lobbies, weaving down increasingly empty streets and crawling, Ninja-style, through Golden Gate Park to flee an ever-escalating number of pursuers.

The adrenaline rush only subsided when they crested the last hill and caught sight of the roaring bonfire and glistening surf of Ocean Beach, and smelled the unmistakable sweet scent of s'mores.

There was a time when the words "alternate reality" conjured up visions of friendless geeks clutching game controllers. But there's another world of alternate reality where games like SFZero happen in the real world, not on-screen.

Jeanette (Jennie) Jerome, known also as Lady Randolph Churchill (January 9, 1854 – June 9, 1921) was an American society beauty, best known to history as the mother of British prime minister Winston Churchill.

Early life
She was born at 197 Amity Street, in the Cobble Hill section of Brooklyn, New York[2]. She was the middle daughter of financier Leonard Jerome and his wife, Clara Hall.

Leonard Jerome, a man who loved opera almost as much as he loved opera singers, named his second daughter after the Swedish soprano Jenny Lind. Unluckily, her mother didn't discover the motive why Leonard Jerome liked the name so much until it was too late.

Read the My Darling Clementine: The Story of Lady Churchill, by Jack Fishman, free from the Internet Archive.