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		<title>Warriors Rally and Defeat Redondo</title>
		<description><![CDATA[   On Tuesday, April 17th, the West High Boys Varsity Tennis team rallied against the Redondo Sea Hawks. The Warriors, who had faced off against the Sea Hawks once before, were worried. With the memory of their defeat just three weeks prior fresh in their minds, the Warriors trudged onto the pavement. However, this time, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Swimming Toward Victory</title>
		<description><![CDATA[   On Thursday April 19th, the West High Swim team engaged in a swim meet at Palos Verdes High School. The event allowed the participating swimmers to not only exercise various events, but to also analyze their respective areas of improvement. Because swim meets do not generally conclude with a ‘winning’ and ‘losing’ team up [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How To Solve Trolling: West High’s Kyptonite</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In today&#8217;s world, any individual regardless or age, race, or credibility, can take to the Internet to voice their opinions eternally hidden by the world-wide-web&#8217;s veil of anonymity. While the freedom of speech has been ever valued by society, a large number of teenagers are taking to social media to express hateful and discriminatory opinions. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Aristocracy Bought a Zoo, Too!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Singing from the heart takes persistence and integrity, which is what Aristocracy does every time they are seen on stage. With passionate singing and expressions, there’s no doubt that Aristocracy is known as the advanced choir on campus. On Friday, April 20th, Aristocracy performed an animal-themed choral concert for friends and family to enjoy. For [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New British Band Sweeps the Nation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One Direction is the world’s newest and hippest boy band. In 2010, Louis Tomlinson, Harry Styles, Liam Payne, Zayn Malik and Niall Horan applied as solo artists for the seventh season of The X Factor UK; however they failed to qualify for the &#8220;Boys&#8221; category. After much consideration, judge Simon Cowell thought that sending them [...]]]></description>
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		<title>West High Track Triumphs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[   Tuesday marked a triumphant return to the season from Spring Break for West High’s track team.  Girls Varsity was victorious at the meet against Palos Verdes and Leuzinger, and Boys Varsity just barely lost 65-67. Despite the fact that Palos Verdes’ track team was especially skilled in distance running, the day was filled with success [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Del Amo&#8217;s Newest Store</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Typo – no, this isn’t referring to those annoying little mistakes you make in an English essay every now and then. Typo is a recently opened stationary store that sells a plethora of handy, efficient room and office supplies including writing tools, interior design kits, photo fames and albums, satchels, book bags, laptop cases, mugs, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kneepkens Bake Sale</title>
		<description><![CDATA[   Between two to four o’clock, on Thursday, March 28th, a delectable assortment of baked goods was sold in front of the library. With prices ranging from around $1-3, cookies, cupcakes, brownies, and other sweet treats were made available to passing Warriors.  All of the proceeds went directly to the Kneepkens family, who recently suffered [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Laura Baumgartner: More Than Meets the Eye</title>
		<description><![CDATA[    For four years, Laura Baumgartner (12) has enjoyed the memories that high school has given her. As the valedictorian of her class, she busied herself with multiple Honors and AP courses, but always used the difficulty of these classes as a motivator to make sure that anything would be possible for her in the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://whssmokesignals.com/feature/2012/04/05/laura-baumgartner-more-than-meets-the-eye/</link>
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		<title>So Close, Yet So Far</title>
		<description><![CDATA[    During this Boys Varsity Baseball season, members have been rigorously practicing for a successful one. Coach Juan Cueva motivates his team to go out to the field and try their best under any circumstances. But on Wednesday March 28, West had a little bit of a downfall against the South High Spartans.   In the [...]]]></description>
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