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Bill Gates Speaks to Santa Barbara Middle School Teen Press at ECO:nomics Summit 2012

With press lanyards swinging around their necks, and walking with the swagger and confidence of true Wall Street Journalists, three former Santa Barbara Middle School Teen Press (SBMS) alums were the only 16 year olds at the WSJ sponsored ECO:nomics Summit’s high profile conference at the Bacara this week. They were also the only ones to score an interview with world-renowned entrepreneur and philanthropist, Bill Gates. These three journalists are now high school sophomores and juniors at Santa Barbara High School and San Marcos High.

The Hunger Games

Gary Ross’s adaptation of Suzanne Collins’s novel is fun, but it doesn’t pack the book’s moral punch.

I Tell Ya

So, the owners of the New York Mets agreed to pay $162 million to settle claims that they willfully blinded themselves to Bernie Madoff’s epic Ponzi scheme, but Mitt Romney is saying that ignorance to his own profit-making with Bain in China is to be ignored?

Full Stop

Has anyone else noticed that the new cars do not seem to fully stop at stop signs anymore?

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