N.M. school tries to reach students via podcast (AP)
Saturday, 21 June 2008 14:12

Incoming sophomore Kyla Walraven listens to her Zune on the bus ride home in Fort Sumner, N.M., on May 13, 2008. The commute for nearly 50 percent of Fort Sumner High Schools students is about an hour bus ride. This past semester, nearly every one of the roughly 100 students at Fort Sumner High School was outfitted with the Microsoft media player, similar to AppleAP - Students at a rural New Mexico school made a unique pledge last winter: Right hands raised, they promised to take care of their Zunes.


 

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Guantánamo detainees win right to court review (The Christian Science Monitor)

U.S. soldier Vincent Johnson trains at the gym on Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base in Cuba, Thursday, May 15, 2008. The base is the oldest U.S. base overseas, whose community has tripled in size since the U.S. began holding alleged terrorists and men suspected of links to al-Qaida or the Taliban in 2002. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)The Christian Science Monitor - Imprisoned terror suspects at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, won a major legal victory on Thursday when the US Supreme Court ruled that they have the right to petition US courts challenging the legality of their open-ended detention.


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Des Moines levee breach threatens neighborhood (AP)
AP - A levee ruptured early Saturday allowed the Des Moines River to pour into an area near downtown, and a mandatory evacuation was ordered for 270 homes, authorities said.