The James Logan Courier

By Kevin G. Hall
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)

WASHINGTON — Wall Street shook to its foundations Monday after a series of historic events that included the bankruptcy of a major investment bank, the hastily arranged sale of another and the near collapse of one of the most iconic of blue-chip companies.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed down 504 points, or 4.4 percent, to 10,917.51 — its lowest close in two years and its steepest one-day decline in seven years. The S&P 500 fell by 4.7 percent and the technology heavy Nasdaq was down 3.6 percent.

The colossal market drop came on an unprecedented day that featured Wall Street mainstay Lehman Brothers filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection and the sudden, breathtaking sale of investment bank Merrill Lynch to Bank of America for $50 billion.

LUNCH
Featured entrée selections include Pasta, Pizza, Chicken Chow Mein, Beef Teriyaki, Burgers, Spicy Chicken Patty & various Deli items. Lunches include a variety of fruits, veggies and milk.

MISCELLANEOUS
Yearbooks will be going up in price to $80 on October 1st. Buy yours now for $70 in Room 44 after school.

By Jamey Padojino, Courier Staff Writer

The lack of school buses to ferry James Logan High School students to and from the sprawling campus is proving inconvenient for some former riders, and for drivers stuck in traffic on snarled streets around the school at drop-off and pickup times.

"It takes me 30 minutes to get out of the parking lot," said Chris Arboleda, a senior, because of the additional number of cars on the area streets as parents and others fill in for the absent buses. " I get home a lot later."

By Troy Wolverton
San Jose Mercury News (MCT)

SAN JOSE, Calif. — When it comes to surfing the Internet, playing games or watching movies on the road, a laptop can be too big and a smartphone too small. That's why some tech heavyweights have been working on a device that falls in between.

The gadget — essentially a handheld computer — has essentially the same processing power as a laptop but in a considerably smaller size. Like a smartphone, it can connect to the Internet while out on the road, but offers a bigger screen and the ability to display Web sites that most smartphones can't.

By Pamela Yip
The Dallas Morning News (MCT)

DALLAS — The Internet, which has wrought major changes in the way people conduct their lives, is changing the way people manage their finances and borrow money.

What social networking sites like My Space and Facebook have done for online personal interaction, Web sites like finicity.com, Prosper and GreenNote are now doing for personal finance.

"This is the second stage of social networking," said Chris Larsen, chief executive of Prosper. "Social networking started out as communication and entertainment, and now has evolved into more basic things such as business services and finance."

And it shows no sign of letting up.

From wikipedia:
Francis Parkman (September 16, 1823 – November 8, 1893) was an American historian, best known as author of The Oregon Trail: Sketches of Prairie and Rocky-Mountain Life and his monumental seven volume France and England in North America. These works are still valued as history and especially as literature, although the biases of his work have met with criticism. He was also a leading horticulturist, briefly a Professor of Horticulture at Harvard University and the first leader of the Arnold Arboretum, and author of several books on the topic.

Read The Oregon Trail: Sketches of Prairie and Rocky-Mountain Life, by Francis Parkman, free from the University of Virginia.