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Attention TAs: TA passes are ready for periods 0 through 4. Please pick yours up from Mrs. Whitaker during your TA period only.

Need Driver’s Ed? Your place is at the Adult School. Cost is $125. Monday-Tuesday-Wednesday; April 4, 5 & 6, 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. Applications are now available in your house office or see Mr. Caruso in Room 77 for both an application and details.

DeVry University is offering a FREE SAT prep class on February 26th from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. To register for this event, read your Logan e-mail or see Mrs. Hart in the Career Center.

By Eric Carpenter
The Orange County Register (MCT)

ANAHEIM, Calif. — Frustrated by students habitually skipping class, police and school officials in Anaheim, Calif., are turning to GPS tracking to ensure they come to class.

The Anaheim Union High School District is the first in California to test Global Positioning System technology as part of a six-week pilot program that began last week, officials said.

By Marcus Thompson II
Contra Costa Times (MCT)

OAKLAND, Calif. — Some say point guards are born and not bred. The position is too dependent on intangibles, too innate to teach. The great ones have something extra, something God-given.

And then there's the Warriors' Stephen Curry, among the bred.

"I'm a natural point guard," Utah's Deron Williams said. "I think I was born to play point guard. But some guys can make the adjustment. Since he's gotten to the NBA, I think Steph's done a great job. He balances his scoring and gets his assists. He can pass. He just has a great knack for the game."

By Billy O'Keefe
McClatchy-Tribune (MCT)

Few games deserve a second chance as much as "Dead Space Extraction," which sold miserably on the Wii despite continuing one of the generation's best new fictions and outclassing just about every on-rails shooter that ever came before it.

Though it also works (and with surprisingly decent results) with a regular Playstation 3 controller, "Extraction's" chemistry with the Wii's remote makes it a perfect fit for the Playstation Move controller as well, and its flawless (and, on some levels, enhanced) migration immediately positions it as perhaps the best Move-enabled game out there until "Killzone 3" arrives later this month.

Ishmael Scott Reed (b. February 22, 1938) is an American poet, essayist and novelist. Reed is one of the best-known African American writers of his generation, and along with Amiri Baraka is one of the most controversial (and politically left-wing). His work consistently satirizes the American right-wing (and often the left as well), highlighting domestic political and cultural oppression. While some have found Reed's work a vivid, comic depiction of non-white America, others have criticized it as incoherent or muddled.

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