Steve Jobs, being considered in 1991 for an appointment under President George H.W. Bush, underwent a thorough background investigation by the FBI, according to newly released files from the agency. The FBI amassed a lengthy and often unflattering file on Apple’s co-founder, with more than 30 interviews of friends, neighbors, family, former business associates and Jobs, that revealed his early drug use and concerns that the then-head of NeXT was neglecting his daughter born out of wedlock with his high school girlfriend. Read full article > >

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FBI’s Steve Jobs file: He will ‘distort reality … to achieve his goals’

The Los Angeles Times has the story of a healthy school lunch policy gone awry. It focuses on the Los Angeles Unified School District’s attempt to bring healthy, fresh options into schools. High school students, perhaps unsurprisingly, would prefer to eat Flamin’ Hot Cheetos. Participation in the school lunch program has dropped by the thousands, a black market for unhealthful contraband is thriving and school officials are thinking about bringing back the exact foods they meant to push out: Read full article > >

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The Los Angeles Times has the story of a healthy school lunch policy gone awry. It focuses on the Los Angeles Unified School District’s attempt to bring healthy, fresh options into schools. High school students, perhaps unsurprisingly, would prefer to eat Flamin’ Hot Cheetos. Participation in the school lunch program has dropped by the thousands, a black market for unhealthful contraband is thriving and school officials are thinking about bringing back the exact foods they meant to push out: Read full article > >

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Building a junk food black market

ARLINGTON, Texas — A runaway electric cart raced unmanned from an end zone to midfield at Cowboys Stadium and plowed into several people after a high school championship game Saturday night, bowling over the winning head coach and several others. An emergency medical technician who declined identification told The Associated Press that one man who was conscious and talking was taken to a hospital with an apparent leg injury. The Arlington medical technician said he had no further information on the man’s condition but several others hit or grazed by the cart were checked out by emergency workers as they sprawled stunned on the field. Read full article > >

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A school pupil is being treated in hospital after falling down a lift shaft at Liberton High School in Edinburgh.

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Francis Kallon Jr., who will attend Georgia Tech, drew the attention of football recruiters before ever playing a game for his Atlanta area high school.

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BALTIMORE — Few American colleges would mark a 15 percent graduation rate as a turning point. But at Coppin State University , 15 percent is two points better than last year’s rate — a first, tentative step out of the graduation gutter. Coppin, a historically black institution founded in 1900 at what was then called Baltimore’s Colored High School, has the lowest graduation rate of any traditional public college in Maryland. Read full article > >

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When Coach Natalie Randolph and the Coolidge High School Colts take the field Thursday for the D.C. Public Schools football championship, her team will be, in many ways, a rarity in DCPS. She will have 45 players invested in a program that’s as much about academics and character-building as it is about football, as much about getting kids off the streets and into classrooms as it is about playing in the Turkey Bowl, the city’s marquee public school event. Read full article > >

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MANCHESTER, N.H. — President Obama was confronted Tuesday by protesters from the Occupy Wall Street movement, prompting him to again offer an endorsement of sorts of the still-nascent movement’s message. Using the “human microphone” that has become common at Occupy Wall Street demonstrations across the country, a group interrupted Obama as he prepared to deliver a speech at a high school here assailing Republicans for inaction on the economy. Read full article > >

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It’s a Saturday afternoon, and “Hairspray” is in rehearsal at Signature Theatre . Robert Aubry Davis, the longtime classical music DJ and face of WETA-TV’s arts roundtable “Around Town,” dances gingerly, practicing moves in a mirror. He is wearing his trademark sweater vest, pinned with the green “S” varsity letter he earned for theatrics back in the day at Springbrook High School in Montgomery County. But in a brazen bit of local celebrity casting, soon he’ll strap on a Size 54 EEE brassiere to play Edna Turnblad — the drag role immortalized by Divine, Harvey Fierstein and John Travolta. Read full article > >

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Robert Aubry Davis, from critic to musical star

The new plays of Broadway-proven writers find many paths to success. But not until Ken Ludwig pulled up to Sideburn Road had anyone thought one such path might be the stage of a public high school in Fairfax. Yet here was Ludwig, author of Broadway musicals like “ Crazy for You ” and farces such as “Moon Over Buffalo” and “Lend Me a Tenor,” sitting with a script in the James Robinson Secondary School auditorium, listening and watching as a brigade of teenage thespians rehearsed the world premiere of his latest comedy, “Midsummer/Jersey.” Read full article > >

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A $100 million civil lawsuit against the District and two D.C. police officers involved in the 2007 fatal shooting of a 14-year-old Southeast boy over a stolen minibike was settled late Thursday for an undisclosed amount. The family of DeOnte Rawlings sued the city and Officers James Haskel and Anthony Clay in connection with the death of the Ballou High School freshman. The officers were off duty when the shooting occurred. Read full article > >

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How do you discover your inner goofball? For Will Ferrell, the eu­reka moment came relatively late, years after the other boys had learned the joys of disrupting class. He was a high school senior, a conscientious student and a jock (basketball captain, baseball player, kicker on the football team), much too popular and well adjusted to crave class-clown validation. But then a friend asked him and a buddy to work up some shtick for the morning P.A. announcements to help sell Class of ’85 T-shirts. Read full article > >

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How do you discover your inner goofball? For Will Ferrell, the eu­reka moment came relatively late, years after the other boys had learned the joys of disrupting class. He was a high school senior, a conscientious student and a jock (basketball captain, baseball player, kicker on the football team), much too popular and well adjusted to crave class-clown validation. But then a friend asked him and a buddy to work up some shtick for the morning P.A. announcements to help sell Class of ’85 T-shirts. Read full article > >

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CLEVELAND — As soon as Brian Joseph graduated from high school he joined the Army, where he was trained in a series of jobs that seem to exist only in the military. He was a multi-channel radio operator. Then he worked as a single-channel radio operator. Later, he worked a psychological operations specialist, tailoring the U.S. war message to residents of Kosovo and, later, Iraq. Read full article > >

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Veterans’ unemployment outpaces civilian rate