The Nexus

• Opinion: Longer days + misused funds = success

  October 23, 2009  |  Daniel Edwards
  You can already hear the third-graders pouting— not to mention the high-schoolers.

• Opinion: Jailing of illegal aliens extreme, uneconomical

  October 23, 2009  |  Halie Albertson
  It costs $2.4 billion to jail illegal immigrant detainees every year. Sure, people waiting to be deported have committed the crime of breaking the United States’ immigration laws. But locking these people up is not the answer.

• Hate crimes impose unfair sentences, risks

  October 23, 2009  |  Will Ellis
  Right now, there is great potential for any one of us going to jail for sentences much larger than we deserve.

• Kimberly fulfills passion, teaches dance to toddlers

  October 02, 2009  |  Anna Buckley
  Logan Kimberly (12) switched on the stereo and played her students’ favorite song. She watched over her dancers as they twirled around each other in their pink leotards, tutus and princess tiaras. Every time she paused the song, her students would stop dancing and lie down, pretending they were sleeping like the princess in “Sleeping Beauty.”

• Bringing some Seoul back to San Diego

  October 02, 2009  |  Halie Albertson
  Josh Lee (11) and his friends crammed into the back of a taxi in Seoul, South Korea. Neon lights cast their glow over the city as the cab zoomed along its busy streets. As they headed towards a café in Seoul’s Itaewan district, Lee and his friends chatted on the phone in English.

• Reyes' passion for singing displayed at football games

  October 02, 2009  |  Devon Bohart
  Sunlight cast across the field and the JV football team standing on the sidelines, itching to begin their game against Carlsbad.

• Ballet Boarding School: Caramante's first day of month of school in Massachusetts

  October 02, 2009  |  Devon Bohart
  During the first-day-of-school pep rally, Liz Caramante (11) danced for the last time with the Westview Dance Troupe. She took in every second of it and performed her best.

• Ballet boarding school: Caramante's first month of school in Massachusetts

  October 02, 2009  |  Devon Bohart
  During the first-day-of-school pep rally, Liz Caramante (11) danced for the last time with the Westview Dance Troupe. She took in every second of it and performed her best.

• A Facebook Affair: Exploring why teens love the digital age

  October 02, 2009  |  Daniel Edwards
  Dominique Kirkendile (11) is not your average internet user. She doesn’t stop short of keeping up a modest Facebook following or simply maintaining an email address. Kirkendile spends more than three hours every night perusing all three of her social networking profiles; Facebook, MySpace and Tumblr.

• Ward changes after diagnosis

  October 02, 2009  |  Katelyn Hennes
  When Christian Ward (10) was 12 years old, the doctor gave him news that would change his life forever. It was November of 2007, and Ward sat in a plastic-covered chair at Children’s Hospital, unable to comprehend the news he had just received.

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