For the Week of:

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Lake Zurich High School
News Brief
Current issues in the nation and world

• For the Week of
• 3/10/08 3/16/08

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Brief News for the Week of3/10/08
3/15

• A giant crane, nearly 15
• stories high, collapsed at a
• construction site in New
• York City. The crane fell
• across the street into a
• Manhattan East Side
• skyscraper. This disaster
• killed 4 people and left 3
• missing.

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Brief News for the Week of3/10/08
3/15

• The state of Georgia suffered
• from severe tornados on
• Saturday. One whipped right
• through the heart of Atlanta,
• the states capital, as well as
• killed 2 people. The governor
• of Georgia and the mayor of
• Atlanta have declared this a
• state of emergency.

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Brief News for the Week of3/10/08
3/16
The United Nations Environment Program recently
proclaimed that the Earths glaciers are melting
at record rates. This could cause problems
especially for people who rely on the water that
comes from these glaciers. This could cause
immense problems in places like India. The
Program encourages countries to agree to stricter
targets for emission reductions.
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Brief News for the Week of3/10/2008
3/13
Producers recently announced that the seventh and
final installment of the Harry Potter films will
be cut into two separate movies. This adjustment
was made because nothing could be sufficiently
cut out from the novel. Part 1 and Part 2 of the
movie will be released in November 2010 and May
2011, respectively.
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A Day In History
March 12

• On March 12, 1894 Coca Cola
• is sold in bottles for the first
• time.
• ________________________
• On March 12, 1912 what was then
• called the Girl Guides, later to be
• called the Girl Scouts, were
• founded in the United States

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• Information was located at
• CNN.com and wikipedia.com