Time | Carolyn Sayre
The beard brigade
Time reports on the renewed popularity of the beard – that, Huntingtown students knew. What is news is the existence of international facial-hair-growing competitions: Beard Team USA finished first in five out of seventeen competitions last year, including freestyle mustache.

US News & World Report | Eddy Ramirez
Before that diploma, one more requirement
High schools are increasingly requiring their students to complete capstone projects – in the case of Maine, all students are required to complete a college application to graduate.  Elsewhere, schools like Denver’s Arrupe Jesuit High School require students to work in a professional setting all four years of high school, working “one day a week in banks, alw firms, veterinarians’ offices, and other businesses.”