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By Misha S “Stay in school, and don’t drink!” cautioned a twenty-something homeless man as he received a meal from a UHS student at Glide Memorial Church. But this man wasn’t talking about alcohol. As a high school student, he had fallen prey to an all-too-abused drug: Caffeine. His sleeping cycle was thrown off so
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By Duncan H A baby born in rural El Salvador has a better chance of surviving than a baby born in Detroit, Michigan. How is this possible? In the United States of America, the most prosperous country in the history of the world, more than 40 million lack even the most rudimentary health care. A
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By Jesse B They are everywhere. They walk through the halls. They sit in class with us. They talk, they laugh – on the surface they are like any one of us. They are not. You could know them for your entire life and never know. They look the same and talk the same, but
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By Jonathan Fudem ’12 (Editor-in-Chief) and Colton V ’12 (Editor-at-large) Introduction: “A B is not a bad grade”. Every student at UHS has heard this phrase probably more times than they would have liked to, but its meaning is ever important. When we are faced with difficult challenges, we have to adjust our expectations, and
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By Anna H The Healthcare debate has been a central focus of the Obama administration and has lead to deep-seated partisanship between Democrats and Republicans in Congress. Some teenagers probably feel that all this political mumbo-jumbo just doesn’t pertain to them, so there’s no need to follow the dialogue. If it’s our parents’ job to
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