I notice at least three yogurt stores on my way to the Korean supermarket as I drive down Wilshire and into the heart of Koreatown. Each has a colorful neon sign, a thinly veiled imitation of the original: Pinkberry. I wonder – could the knock-offs be better than the original?

I decided, selflessly, to taste them first hand. There are at least a dozen different chains of yogurts stores in Los Angeles, according to yellowbook.com. I whittled it down to four: Berry Nutty (formerly

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• UPLIFT: Marlborough's Chimoza Carnival, which raised money for the Chimoza school in Africa, tough to plan but a huge sucsess.
• "THE DUTES":Three alum created own group, "The Dutes" and language, "Coconut Talk" during their time at Marlborough.
• EXPLORER: Cobey re-discovers Galco's Soda Pop Stop in Pasadena, which sells over 500 obscure soft drinks.
• TOWN HALL:Class counsils plan to hold "town hall" meetings to hear student's opinions and their solutions.
• FATHER-DAUGHTER FUN: The 55th annual Father-daughter picnic combines new activities and food with old traditons.
• CHEESE APPRECIATON CLUB:Learn about new Marlborough clubs, including the Indie club, Poetry club, and Chees Appreciation Club in the Ultraviolet's Club Corner!
• SLAGLE BAGEL'S BAKERY:Even with all the bannana bread recipe's out there, this Banana Walnut Bread with coconut is the best.
• MILLAR'S TIES: Their advisory's morning ritual is deciding what tie History instuctor Tom Millar will wear.
• THE SOUND OF SILENCE: Student radio station Marlborough Public Radio (MPR) is no longer broadcasting due to a lack of student participation.

In the time it takes you to read this sentence, sophomore math prodigy Shari ’11 might finish a 3x3 Rubik’s Cube.

Shari’s hands permute the colored cubes hundreds of times in the few seconds it takes her to solve a 3x3.  She stares down at it with relaxed concentration, and her hands move surely over the cube, clicking the squares into place.  Red, yellow, green, yellow, red…to a layman, the moves look impossibly complicated.  But to Shari, a 3x3 is simple.

Shari, who transferred to Malborough in ninth grade from Manhattan Beach Middle School, can finish a 3x3 Rubik’s cube in 28 seconds and a 5x5 (which has been called the “professor cube”) in about 20 minutes. She has also solved the most advanced cube that has been invented so far, the V-Cube 7.  She’s only done it once, and it took her about a day to figure it out.

For the last three years, Shari has attended a highly selective MathCamp at Reed College, where a friend first taught her to solve the “professor cube.”

When Math Camp ended, however, she did not feel she was fast or swift enough, and practiced 45 minutes to an hour a day until that winter to pe

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