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Fox Chapel Area High School and Dorseyville Middle School students won awards as part of the virtual 87th Annual Region 7 Meeting of the Pennsylvania Junior Academy of Science (PJAS).
District first-place winners were seniors Jackson Romero and Sanjay Seshan; juniors Zoe Lakkis and Siddharth Yende; sophomores Lawrence Liu and Arvind Seshan; freshmen Lakshanya Rajaganapathi and Adhitya Thirumala; and eighth graders Anna Delale-O’Connor, Etash Jhanji and Rohit Velankar.
First-place winners qualified for the state PJAS competition which will be held virtually in May.
setting yet another milestone. and cycling dylan green of a can has one stage 7 of the tour de france the dutch rider finished on top after 6 hours and 230 kilometers of grueling racing italy s jute julio ciccone held on to the overall the in today s stage 8 will be on a hilly ride from mccall to. well staying in france it s gearing up for its bus deal day military parade on sunday where all eyes will be on the sky take a look at this the french military due to debut a device they re calling the fly aboard it s a hoverboard capable of carrying a soldier you see him right there up to 2000 meters high it can reach speeds of 200 kilometers an hour it was invented by a former jets the pilot frankie s of the final rehearsals with it were conducted this week. a reminder now the top story we re following for you at this hour the
tea party demanding more cuts in federal spending, a cap on future budgets, and a balanced budget amendment. but at a republican caucus meeting speaker of the house john boehner told everyone in his party, and i quote, get your ass in line. and listen to senator john mccain. what is really amazing about this is that some members are believing that we can pass a balanced budget amendment to the constitution in this body with its present reputation, and that is foolish. that is worse than foolish. that is not fair. that is not fair to the american people. to hold out and say we won t agree to raising the debt limit until we pass a balanced budget amendment to the constitution. it s unfair. it s bizarro. and maybe some people who have only been in this body for six or seven months or so really believe that. others know better. the ground is still shaking in d.c. over this tonight, with no doubt many late-night phone calls going under way right now. we ll cover all of the a