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In October - Pink Looks Good on Everyone
by Mikayla Rooney
Contributor
Many know October as a month filled
with excitement and joy as we look
forward to Halloween and other fun
fall activities, but it is also Breast Cancer Awareness Month. October is dedicated to supporting those suffering
from breast cancer, and remembering
those who have lost their lives to this
devastating illness.
Throughout the month of October,
many people come together and create

fundraisers to help find a cure. A common color used to support breast cancer
is pink.

teams show their support by wearing
pink at practices and games. Green
Wave football players wear pink socks
and sweatbands to their games. The
AHS cheerleading squad made pink
cheerleading bows that they wear to
games and also have themed practices
where they drench themselves in pink.
You can even find people dying
strands of their hair pink throughout
the school! Abington High School is a
proud supporter among many for breast
cancer awareness month and will continue to show their support during the
upcoming games and school events.

At Abington High School, many sports

Sorting out Syria’s Chemical Attacks
Russian proposal halts military response
by Ian MacLeod
Associate Editor
On August 21 over 1,000 lives ended
when an artillery rocket hit a rebel controlled Damascus suburb called Ghouta,
releasing a nerve agent called sarin.
This is the latest development in a two
and a half year civil war that, according
to the Syrian Observatory for Human
Rights, has killed at least 110,000 people.
On September 16 the Secretary General
of the United Nations, Ban Ki-Moon,
confirmed that a UN mission in Syria
found evidence that sarin was used.
This evidence included rocket fragments laced with sarin, a number of
interviews with health care workers on
the scene and survivors, and samples
taken from 34 survivors that according
to the report gave “definitive evidence
of exposure to sarin by almost all of the
survivors.” Sarin is a colorless, tasteless, odorless, quickly evaporating liquid that can cause death within 10 minutes after being inhaled.
According to Fox News, these findings
are “the first official confirmation by
scientific experts that chemical weapons
were used in Syria's civil war.” BBC
News also reports that Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon has called the attack
a “war crime,” and that it was “the most
significant confirmed use of chemical
weapons against civilians since Saddam
Hussein used them in Halabja (Iraq) in
1988.”

The Syrian government and its supporters have claimed that it was not behind
the attacks saying that the rebels
launched the chemical weapons in an
attempt to garner international sympathy.