High school libraries offer coffee shops
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Even before the bell rings each morning, students at Centennial High School are lined up to get into the library. But they aren't necessarily looking for books.
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By Maria Baran, Belleville News-Democrat, Ill.  Jun. 15--EDWARDSVILLE -- College students in need of a new laptop or iPod need look no farther than their on-campus bookstore at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville.
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By Elinor J. BrecherAbout 8 every morning, Max Habermann walks a couple of blocks north from his condo in the South Pointe neighborhood to a nearby market for coffee. He passes Big Pink, the restaurant at 157 Collins Ave. He spots the dumpsters out back.
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Alicia Sacramone is sipping coffee, her indispensable fuel, at a shop on Thayer Street in the middle of a Tuesday afternoon on College Hill. As always, she's on the run, shuttling between her college classes and her twice-a-day workouts in Burlington, Mass. She may just have turned professional, but her cram-jammed, high-speed schedule hasn't changed much.
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T.C. Williams High School is handing out laptops to make sure students of all backgrounds have the latest equipment in an increasingly computerized world.
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Starbucks is opening a series of &quot;music bars,&quot; where customers can listen to digital recordings and burn their own CDs. The &quot;Hear Music&quot; coffeehouses will open in 15 Starbucks stores in Seattle starting Monday.
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A novel idea has been introduced by Mount Nittany Middle School that allows students to pick up bagel, muffin, cold cereal and fresh fruit from âgrab-and-goâ food cart parked near the principal&#39;s office.
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By Jennifer Schanaberger Daily Herald Correspondent  Have questions about computers?  Whether you're a technology whiz, or just have an interest in computers and not sure how they work, a local computer club right here in Lake County has the answers.
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Philadelphia on Thursday opened a   public high school where students work on wireless laptops,   teachers eschew traditional subjects for real-world topics and   parents can track their child's work on the Internet.
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At the corner of Eighth Street SE near Pennsylvania Avenue, just steps from the busy Eastern Market Metro station and not far from a pet store called Pawticulars, there is a Starbucks, naturally. Lots of foot traffic. People walking their dogs. Going to work. Coming home. Stopping for tall lattes.
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Philadelphia on Thursday opened a  public high school where students work on wireless laptops,  teachers eschew traditional subjects for real-world topics and  parents can track their child's work on the Internet.
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The ballroom is decorated with floor-to-ceiling paintings of shiny soda fountains, classic cars and the old store windows downtown. A stoop juts out from a rendering of the high school facade, so graduates can sit and talk &#151; just like in the old days. And just like in the old days, not everyone in town is invited.
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By Mark Guydish, Wilkes-Barre, Pa., Times Leader  Sep. 22--UNION TWP. -- Northwest Area High School students will have access to more computers, and teachers will have more high-tech "smart boards," thanks to a $67,000 state grant.
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EL SEGUNDO, Calif.  - Standing in line to order coffee, Alex Nocifera was bored beyond belief. &quot;Wouldn&#39;t it be cool if there was something for me to look at while I was waiting, like the Internet on a big-screen TV?&quot; he recalls thinking in 2004 at a Coffee Bean &amp; Tea Leaf outlet in Manhattan Beach, Calif.
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A district confronts the shortage by recruiting teens to train.
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By Kevin Graman, The Spokesman-Review, Spokane, Wash.  Feb. 6--Sarah Bradburn admits she's not that Internet savvy. Still, she thought it strange when she couldn't find information about teenage smoking on the computer at her public library in Republic, Wash.
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By Dave Dewitte, The Gazette, Cedar Rapids, Iowa  Sep. 10--HIAWATHA -- Sean Taylor remembers the startled reaction when he  asked his school-age son why he'd purchased six Sunny Delight orange drinks  from the school's cafeteria in one day.