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Sometimes the Internet seems overwhelming.  Researchers estimate that the World Wide Web is made up of 800 million pages of information and is growing exponentially.  However, according to some research aimed at finding a more efficient way of searching the Web, found that any two Web pages that are randomlychosen are, on average, 19 clicks away from one another.  The researchers feel that their results demonstrated that the Web is not just random and suggested that a new type of search engine could taken advantage of the connectedness of the Web to outperform conventional search engines. 

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Although untitled, this picture surely describes the passage of everything from generation to generation.

A Great Honor

In the spring of 2003, Lauren Leavitt was honored when she placed a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Washington, DC.  Lauren was chosen from among her classmates who toured Washington because of the following poem she wrote on March 13, 2003 when she was 13 years old.  She made us all very proud.

The Chance and the Glory

When this contest was announced, I didn't seem to care,

I was just thinking about who'd be in my group and what I was going to wear.

But I took a glance at my New Year's Resolutions, and as I gazed up and down the list,

My eyes caught some words that explained, "Don't miss an opportunity, without finding out what it is."

I decided to give this contest a chance, and researched some info online,

As I read about the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, it became a favorite topic of mine.

As wars were fought back in the day, nearly all dead bodies were claimed,

Yet, there was one dead man whom no one knew, and no one recovered his name.

"I bet they just got rid of the body," is what I was about to assume,

Until I read more and discovered, this soldier got his very own tomb.

The Arlington National Cemetery has graves and tombs large and small,

But the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier is perhaps the biggest one of them all.

Winning this contest would be a great experience and a fantastic chance for me,

I could reflect on this time knowing that I was involved with American history.

The opportunity would be superb, being the person to lay the wreath,

During a serious ceremony, on top of a tomb with a legend underneath.