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The Insider
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Volume 1, Issue 23
May 14, 2004 |
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How to tell if
someone is a real Minnesotan By Jairo
Banegas Find out if someone you know is a true-blue Minnesotan by having them take the following quiz. Simply have them answer each of the following twelve questions with a yes or no. ____I can drive 65
mph through 2 feet of snow in a blizzard without
flinching. ____My neighbors
installed security lights on their house and garage and still leave both unlocked. ____My town has
the same amount of bars as churches. ____I have been
offered assistance at a store by someone who doesn’t work there. ____My dad’s
suntan stops in the middle of his forehead and curves around. ____I’ve worn a
parka and shorts at the same time. ____I know people
who have hit a deer more than once with their car. ____My idea of a
traffic jam is 10 cars waiting to pass a tractor on the highway. ____My whole
family wears Viking-purple when attending church. (Continued à) |
____When I design
a kid’s costume for Halloween, it fits over a snowsuit. ____My family’s
snow blower has more miles on it than the family car. ____I think down
south means Iowa. Scoring: If the person you
know scores a perfect 12, he/she is a true-blue, frozen-solid Minnesotan, by
golly, you-betcha. If the person you
know scores 10 or 11, he/she is pretty much a Minnesotan, don’t cha’ know. If the person you
know scores an 8 or 9, he/she isn’t quite a Minnesotan, but sure is close. He/she must be a NoDaker or SoDaker… If the person you know scores 7 or below, then he/she must be some kinda foreigner from Iowa or some other place south-of-the-border. |
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Raise the Age! By Michael Dennison Drinking is lethal and endangers other. My opinion on the drinking age is that it should be raised to like 30 or 40 years old so that people will be more responsible and not drink and drive as much. The facts of drinking and driving are horrible. It has been determined that every 33 minutes someone dies in an alcohol-related car crash. There were 16,000 deaths just last year alone. The scary thing is that three of every ten Americans may die in an alcohol-related car crash. Last year 2,000 young people ages 15-20 died in alcohol-related crashes. During the average weekend, one teenager dies per hour. Alcohol-related crashes are preventable and are not accidents. Impaired driving is a crime. (Continued à) |
Drinking and driving is a dumb idea and many young people do it because they think they are invincible and they will make it home okay. But the truth is that many of them do not make it home. S.A.D.D., or Students Against Destructive Decisions, offers many different programs for kids and teenagers who have problems with drinking. The reason I think the drinking age should be raised is that when people get older they tend to take more responsibility and usually do the right thing. I strongly urge
you not to drink. And if you do
so, I hope that you will not drive. |
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A Plea for Open Lunch By Jon Melendez Other schools have open lunch, so why doesn’t the ALC have it? That question has been asked many times. As many times as the question has been asked, we still don’t have any answers. It doesn’t seem fair that two high schools in the same district should have two different policies for lunch hours and open campus. But that is what’s happening in Worthington. While Worthington High School students enjoy open lunch, students at the ALC are forced to stay at the school or else perform community service to earn an open lunch privilege. Staying in the ALC at lunchtime makes it difficult for students with nicotine or caffeine addictions. It also makes the school day seem longer. All we can do is stand in the halls, play ball, or walk around the halls in a circle. (Continued à)
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I think the answer to the problem is to have open lunch at the ALC. That way students with nicotine and caffeine addictions could go out and do what they have to do. They would return to school in a better mood. They would probably work harder in class. Also, they would have wider food choices because they could eat what they want to eat. It would even be alright if we had open lunch a couple days a week, like Monday, Tuesday, and perhaps Wednesdays. The rest of the week we could stay at school. In conclusion, I think open lunch is needed at the ALC so that students will feel better about being at the ALC. They will have more freedom of choice in how they spend their time and what they eat. I think that if we get enough students to go talk with Mr. Langseth about open lunch, it just might work. |
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Weird News Stories By Alesha Seifert ~ Walter Hallas, a 26-year old store clerk in Leeds, England, was so afraid to go to the dentist that he asked someone he worked with to punch him in the jaw to get rid of his toothache. The punch caused him to fall down and hit his head so hard that he died of a fractured skull.
~ Two men from Germany literally had a head-on collision in the town of Guetersloh. Both of the guys were driving really slow in the middle of the road. When the two men hit each other, each of their heads was out the window and they smacked together. Both of the men were hospitalized and had severe head injuries. Nothing happened to their cars.
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~ A bus in New York hit a man. He managed to get up without being hurt. A bystander asked him to lie back down and pretend he was hurt so he could collect insurance money. The bus then started rolling and crushed the man to death.
~ A man broke out of jail in Washington D.C. to go to his girlfriend’s trial for robbery. His girlfriend paged him while he was out for lunch getting a sandwich. The police recognized his name and arrested him when he drove to the courthouse in a car that he stole while he was eating lunch.
~ At a service station in Michigan
two of the people who were working refused to give a drunk robber who
demanded money. The drunk man
threatened he’d call the police. When
the workers still refused to hand over the money the drunk man called the
police and got himself arrested.
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A Fast Computer… By Adrian Gonzalez Apple and Advanced Micro Devices
have developed 64-bit computers. Is it the fastest computer out there? Will
it be the fastest computer money can buy? The biggest advantage that 64-bit computers have is that they can move a lot of information from one part of the memory to another very quickly. Since it can move information faster, the computers will have larger memories than they did before. The larger the memory, the quicker it will respond to applications. (Continued à)
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If computers of today were able to store the data of programs in the memory of the computer instead of on the hard drive they would be speed demons, but they cannot do that because they are 32-bit computers and don’t have enough memory space. The 64-bit computer will be very good for programs that have very high and complex video data, because the computer will be able to read it faster and better than ever. The only PC out on the market with 64-bits is the Power Mac G5, and these computers do work extremely well. When this computer came out, Intel the company that makes the fastest computer chip, had nothing compared to this computer. The only thing that was close was the Pentium 4 processor. Currently the company decided to pursue its dreams of trying to make a 64-bit chip. Intel has said that when it does develop the 64-bit chip it will not put it on the market until there is a computer that will be able to handle it. |
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Nose picking, booger eating, and your health By Steven Blue Arm, A top doctor in Austria says that picking your nose and eating it is one of the best ways to stay healthy. Dr. Friedrich Bischinger claims that eating the dry remains that you pull out of your nose can actually strengthen your body’s immune system! The good doctor says that society should encourage nose picking. He claims that you can reach a lot more with your fingers than you can with a handkerchief. This, in turn, keeps your nose a lot cleaner. (Continued à)
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And as for eating boogers, it’s just like taking medicine. Because the nose is a filter in which bacteria is collected, when those dead bacteria are eaten in the form of boogers, it acts as an instant boost for your immune system. At least according to Dr. Bischinger |
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