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ACTIVITIES:
Come see the spring musical, “Joseph & the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat”, this Friday & Saturday at 7:30 pm, and Sunday at 2 pm. Tickets can be purchased at lunch or after school in the Theater.

CLUBS:
There is a Leo Club meeting tomorrow in the Reference Room. We will have elections for the 2008-2009 officers.

By Jessie Mangaliman
San Jose Mercury News (MCT)

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Usha Lama is expecting eight or nine people at her home in Fremont, Calif. Jamyang Nordup is ready for up to 50 people at his 3,500 square-foot home in Richmond, Calif., and has been collecting bedding for months. Stanford University graduate Yangchen Lhamo is sharing her small one-bedroom in San Francisco's Sunset District with four cousins from Portland, Ore., and Seattle. Sunnyvale, Calif., resident Tenzin Tethong is expecting a guest or two from New York.

An army of 2,000 exiled Tibetans from across the U.S., bedrolls at the ready, began descending on the San Francisco Bay Area Monday to protest the running of the Beijing Olympic torch in San Francisco on Wednesday.

By Rob Manker
Chicago Tribune (MCT)

CHICAGO — Technology is making us dumber. How else can I explain my willing invitation to anyone with Internet access that they invade my home and take my family's stuff?

See, I finally joined a "social-networking" Web site. OK, Facebook. I once proudly and prudently vowed never to do this, but after the bosses urged us all to join, it soon became clear that resistance was futile.

By Rex Crum
MarketWatch (MCT)

SAN FRANCISCO — Almost since the day Apple Inc. released the iPhone less than a year ago, speculation has surfaced about when the company would release an updated version of the touch-screen phone, iPod and Internet device.

Apple has taken some steps in that direction, rolling out iPhones with more storage than the initial models, as well as unveiling a software kit that allows outside developers to build applications for the iPhone.

By Howard Yang, Courier Staff Writer



Packed full of filthy, blooding violence and dark, mysterious alleys, Condemned 2: Bloodshot for the Playstation 3 is a mix of CSI and Silent Hill that offers up one of the most shocking, intense, and thoroughly disturbing gaming experiences on the market today.

The player takes on the role of Ethan Thomas, a former FBI agent that became a homeless drunk after the events of the first game in the series. After getting recruited back into the Serial Crime Unit by some former colleagues, Ethan takes on the task of hunting down a serial killer responsible for the murder of his mentor. The plot thickens, (and becomes noticeably creepier), as Ethan discovers the source of the violent madness in the city to be a cult called the Oros, who possess a supernatural ability to drive people into committing violent crimes using their voice.

From wikipedia:
David Rittenhouse (April 8, 1732 – June 26, 1796) was a renowned American astronomer, inventor, mathematician, surveyor, scientific instrument craftsman, and public official. Rittenhouse was a member of the American Philosophical Society and the first director of the United States Mint.

Rittenhouse was born near Germantown, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in a small village called RittenhouseTown, located along a stream called Paper Mill Run, the stream itself a tiny tributary of the Wissahickon Creek. He was self-taught and from a young age showed great ability in science and mathematics. At nineteen years old, he started a scientific instrument shop at his father's farm in West Norriton Township, Pennsylvania. His skill with instruments, particularly clocks, led him to construct two orreries, one of which is currently in the library of the University of Pennsylvania and the other is at Peyton Hall of Princeton University. Rittenhouse was one of the first to build a telescope used in the United States.

Read the Memoirs of the Life of David Rittenhouse, by William Barton, free from Google Books.