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  • Pizza Rock: where you can get three courses in one

    Monday, March 14, 2011 By: Mary-Clare Bosco

    Sharing is the norm with Pizza Rock’s Romano style pizzas. These pizzas have three “courses” all served on one long rectangular pizza: appetizer, main course, and "dessert."

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  • Captivating children isn’t as easy as it looks: alumna brings folktale characters to life

    Monday, March 14, 2011 By: Lauren Taylor

    Caroline McAlister, ’78, has created worlds where men battle water beasts, where Ernest Hemingway’s cats can talk, where bears eat fast food and “get fat,” and where Cinderella lives in India.

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  • Geography, the new Sudoku: 'educational" gaming site Sporcle grows popular

    Monday, March 14, 2011 By: Margaret Whitney

    From Word Scrambles and Riddles, to Countries of Europe, Shakespeare plays, and Games by Cupcake, Sporcle has it all.

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  • Meals on wheels: Chef Jeff rates region’s taco trucks

    Monday, March 14, 2011 By: Jeffrey Caves

    While taco trucks have always been a staple of the food scene in areas with large Mexican populations, they are only now registering on the gourmet scene. Columnist Jeffrey Caves tries three of them.

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  • Breakthrough teacher inspires students by dressing like Atticus Finch

    Monday, March 14, 2011 By: Chris Thompson

    It's not uncommon to see Breakthrough teachers and students parading around campus in brightly colored costumes. But seeing a teacher dressed like a lawyer from the 1930s is unusual.

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  • There are tiger mothers at school...and some bears and eagles too

    Monday, March 14, 2011 By: Parul Guliani and Mollie Berg

    The word “tiger” has become synonymous with strict, demanding parenting. We surveyed the high school to gauge how SCDS parents compare to tiger mother Amy Chua.

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  • Three-man swim team, one diver plunge into season

    Monday, March 14, 2011 By: Mary-Clare Bosco

    Two of the three members of the high-school swim team competed in their first meet, the Jesuit Invitational, March 5.

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  • Track team swells from cross-country ‘flow over,’ performs well at Sac State

    Monday, March 14, 2011 By: Case Nichols

    This year’s track and field team’s participation has increased drastically. Twelve runners compete, compared to last year’s four.

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  • New playwriting elective’s labor to bear fruit in spring production, 'The Phantom Limb'

    Monday, March 14, 2011 By: Ryan Ho

    Having trouble remembering the lines is a common problem in drama, but it’s not one for the actors in the upcoming high-school production—since they’re the ones who wrote it.

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  • Mock trial beats out ‘big’ competition, clinches third; 11 members win individual commendations

    Monday, March 14, 2011 By: Garrett Kaighn

    The mock trial team placed third in the Gordon D. Schaber Competition out of a total of 24 teams from the Sacramento area.

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Sharing is the norm with Pizza Rock’s Romano style pizzas. These pizzas have three “courses” all served on one long rectangular pizza: appetizer, main course, and "dessert."
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“That movie totally ruined the book!” is something that often comes up in conversation after seeing a movie based on a book. It's not true for "I am Number Four."
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The senior class convened in the library during lunch for what teacher Patricia Dias described as some “quiet time” on Feb. 14 and 15.
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Singing, playing instruments, cultural and modern dancing, and Rubik’s Cube competitions— these are some of the many acts performed in the annual talent show. But many chose Das German Techno Squad as
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Caroline McAlister, ’78, has created worlds where men battle water beasts, where Ernest Hemingway’s cats can talk, where bears eat fast food and “get fat,” and where Cinderella lives in India.
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From Word Scrambles and Riddles, to Countries of Europe, Shakespeare plays, and Games by Cupcake, Sporcle has it all.
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Among the main free legal online sites, like Fancast, SideReel and CastTV, Hulu is the best. Here's why.
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While taco trucks have always been a staple of the food scene in areas with large Mexican populations, they are only now registering on the gourmet scene. Columnist Jeffrey Caves tries three of them.
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It's not uncommon to see Breakthrough teachers and students parading around campus in brightly colored costumes. But seeing a teacher dressed like a lawyer from the 1930s is unusual.
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Orchids to. . .the students who kept the quad clean and left a good impression on the WASC members during their evaluation. Keep up the fine work!
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