The James Logan Courier

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ACTIVITIES:
Swimmers, would you like to have Athletic PE second semester? If so, sign up with Mr. Lockwood in Room 75 today.

Interested in track & field? See Coach Webb after school in the Weight Room MWF.

By Judy Peres
Chicago Tribune (MCT)

SAN ANTONIO, Texas — Women who get lumpectomies for breast cancer may one day have a simple option involving stem cells for reconstructing the affected breast, researchers reported Saturday.

Doctors in Japan used stem cells derived from liposuctioned fat to repair the craters left in 21 women's breasts when cancerous lumps were cut out.

By Carol Polsky
Newsday (MCT)

MELVILLE, N.Y. — It's official: The White House Christmas tree is "green." So is the tree at Rockefeller Center.

Those trees will glow with light-emitting diodes — or LEDs — rather than the traditional bulbs of incandescent lights. Like driving a hybrid car and using recycling paper, stringing up LED Christmas lights is becoming a de rigueur gesture of eco-friendliness and environmental responsibility.

Retailers from high-end specialty shops to Home Depot and Target said the lights are also selling steadily. This year, customers have more LED offerings to choose from, and many seem willing to pay their extra cost in exchange for their energy efficiencies, vivid colors and longer lifespan.

By Billy O'Keefe
McClatchy-Tribune News Service (MCT)

`UNREAL TOURNAMENT III'
For: Playstation 3
From: Epic/Midway
ESRB Rating: Mature (blood and gore, intense violence, strong language)

The mad rush of groundbreaking games has come and gone, but 2007 still has one last fantastic trick up its sleeve.

That, initially, wouldn't seem to be the case — at least not if the game in question essentially is a technologically revved-up version of its predecessor, which is what "Unreal Tournament III" is. If you've played a "UT" game before, you know what to expect here: a high-speed, mostly-multiplayer, first-person shooter with lots of maps, gametypes, weaponry and eye candy.

From wikipedia:
Sir Joseph John “J.J.” Thomson, OM, FRS (18 December 1856 – 30 August 1940) was a British physicist and Nobel laureate, credited for the discovery of the electron and of isotopes, and the invention of the mass spectrometer. He was awarded the 1906 Nobel Prize in Physics for the discovery of the electron.

J.J. Thomson was born in 1856 in Cheetham Hill, Manchester in England, of Scottish parentage. In 1870 he studied engineering at University of Manchester known as Owens College at that time, and moved on to Trinity College, Cambridge in 1876. In 1880, he obtained his BA in mathematics (Second Wrangler and 2nd Smith's prize) and MA (with Adams Prize) in 1883. In 1884 he became Cavendish Professor of Physics. One of his students was Ernest Rutherford, who would later succeed him in the post. He rejected his suitor Rachel Love which left her heartbroken, but in 1890 he married Rose Elisabeth Paget, daughter of Sir George Edward Paget, KCB, a physician and then Regius Professor of Physic at Cambridge. He fathered one son, George Paget Thomson, and one daughter, Joan Paget Thomson, with her. His son became a noted physicist in his own right, winning the Nobel Prize himself for proving the wavelike properties of electrons.

Read J.J. Thompson's Nobel Prize lecture, free from Nobelprize.org.