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A victory to change the world

Never before have I watched an acceptance speech which has moved me to tears.  - Rebecca Baylis

Voting, for real

There is a gap, for many, in becoming politically aware and exercising your legal right to vote. - Louisa McIndoe

Anti-gay bigotry hurts everyone

Gay. Fag. Homo. The most common words said at my school are not kind and intelligent. - Kiernan Majerus-Collins

Spreading peace, one ink blot at a time There’s a word we’re hearing a lot in media coverage: peace. But what is it? - Madeline Slaughter
Rally for peace, not war  The “War on Terror” is a phrase that, unfortunately, is heard all too often. We are in the midst of a war – a war on terrorism. What can our respective governments do? How can anyone possibly put an end to millions of innocent people living in fear?  How long do we have to wait before yet another ‘terrorist threat’ is made?Whenever I hear about a new threat made on society, not only do I cringe but a cold shiver races down my spine.- Rebecca Baylis
Where is this 'free speech' you  promised us? Teenagers find it terribly frustrating to voice their opinions, only to have them put down, or even worse, suppressed, because they’re at odds with an older generation who were taught that homosexuality is an anomaly rather than a natural occurrence.- Louisa McIndoe
Protest peacefully against anti-Muslim cartoons  - Edrees Kakar
Remember Rosa Parks
Sitting on The Bus
Making Detroit proud
We are all Rosa Parks
My double decker bus
Bombers killed hope
Carrying on in London
War starts at home
Carnage in London
Don't forget Africa
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Pope's legacy
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A dark chapter in history

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Bush's illegal war

Can Nader win?

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Ballooning Barry bombs
When school is your home

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The next prom king

Putting Sept. 11 behind

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'I'm not an animal' : A former slave's story of the Sudan What began as any normal day for Sudanese man Francis Bok ended in the hell of being captured into child slavery that would change the rest of his life. -- By Rachel Glogowski

A nightmare in the City of Dreams  It was a peaceful night all over India when suddenly television channels started storming news about something wrong and extraordinary happening in “the city of dreams,” Mumbai. -- By Hashra Mishra

Attack spreads fear in India  Last Thursday at 6 a.m., my father dashed into my bedroom and exclaimed, "Mumbai is undergoing the most terrifying attacks ever. This is India's September 11th."
As I walked into school that day, I saw tears in the eyes of worried-looking students all around me. These were boarding students from Mumbai who either weren't able to contact their family in the disaster-struck city, or worse, knew that some relative was actually at the scene.
-- By Janani Ramachandran

Italian students protest

The shape of jazz to come

Move over, Nathan Hale

Deadly twister leaves Iowa teen homeless  A tornado “sounds like a freight train is running over your house,” said 16-year-old Krista Kannegieter, who huddled with her parents in the basement of their home while the storm raged overhead.

-- By Beth Pond

Wreck-less driving  The parents of two teens killed in a high speed wreck last summer are using their own sorrowful experience to try to stop other young drivers from taking the same deadly risks.

-- By Rachel Glogowski

Obama: 'We can't afford to wait'

Young people rally to Obama

Obama draws a crowd

On the scene at an Obama rally

Hillary takes aim at Bush

An inspirational Hillary

Rock for Rights

Suicide bomber rips apart my city  The rain of sadness dropped in Peshawar last week when a suicide bomber struck a busy market across town from where I live. Twenty seven people were killed in the carnage and many more seriously injured at the scene, where body parts were scattered in a business hub of Peshawar, a city in the northwest part of Pakistan, near the border with Afghanistan.

-- By Edrees Kakar

A newsman's struggle to survive war injuries  Within days of waking from his 36-day coma, ABC anchor Bob Woodruff found himself at a loss for words – literally. Woodruff, the victim of a roadside bomb while on assignment for ABC in Iraq, said that out of all his ailments, he finds his memory loss the most frustrating.  -- By Rachel Glogowski and Beth Pond
Journalism suffers a blow in Indiana When high school sophomore Megan Chase wrote a column for her Indiana school newspaper calling for tolerance of homosexuals, she didn’t think it would be big deal. -- By Zach Brokenrope

Blacksburg, Va. teens react to Virginia Tech killing spree

Meeting the yeti on Disney's Everest coaster Since the highly anticipated opening last spring of the Expedition Everest rollercoaster, Disney’s Animal Kingdom theme park has been attracting a wider variety of visitors, and now thrill-seekers are among them.

-- By Sean Soltys

God Bless you, Mr. Vonnegut “Everyone should have the experience of reading his books once in a lifetime,” said Thea Condaxis, of Calais, Vermont.        -- By Beth Pond


Gifts that keep on giving

-- By Beth Pond

Radio days: looking back on a life in Bristol

-- By Rachel Glogowski

Immigrants in school, through an educator's eyes

-- By Taylor Isenhour

Mystery surrounds dead ducks at Bristol Eastern

Lieberman fights anti-war surge in Connecticut

 

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Tucson students rally for immigrants Thousands of Arizona youth demonstrated peacefully last week against a proposed crackdown on illegal immigrants – and many walked out of their schools to take part in the protests. -- By Alkhansa el-Bedawi

Police seek shelter 'mom' in baby's death

 

Ana Lara said recently she sees herself as “a single mother” to the 24 children from troubled backgrounds who lived with her in a shelter she started because she wanted to help them avoid the abuse she experienced growing up on the streets.

Some of the older children said this month they chose to live in Lara’s small, average-looking home to escape bad situations in their own families.

Now, though, Lara is sought by police after a 7-month-old baby died under mysterious circumstances in her shelter. Neighbors told police that Lara fled in a van with the other children.-- By Oscar Ramirez

Bye Bye Birdie coming soon to Bristol Eastern -- By Rachel Glogowski

Bands to battle at teen day

English youth visit Bristol

Company thinks outside the box

Getting paid for playing around

El Salvador teachers

Hurricane Wilma

Conceiving birth control clock

Terryville teen pens books on high school life

Surviving a killer quake in Pakistan

El Salvador survives triple threat

At 14, she worked in a Bristol clock factory

Hello! Ban lifted

Harmony day appeals to all

Three deaths in Minnesota

Trying to bring tolerance to Terryville

Soldier stunned at hometown school shooting

Teacher leads anti-death penalty fight

Leaving an ancient school

Principal's cell phone hang-ups anger students

Iraq War protesters feel lucky

Terryville High classes shedding students

Fighting hunger with a Second Harvest

ESPN enters digital world

Student-run play gets new direction

On the first baseline at the World Series

Urban Dream capsule

When school is your home

Afghan soccer team wins hearts