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Calif. school helps students take a load off--no textbooks
MARTHA IRVINE

Something's missing at the new Sun Valley Charter High School in Ramona, Calif. There are no textbooks, only computers. That means students there don't have to lug heavy backpacks--a familiar ritual for many young Americans who carry books from class to class and home at day's end. Growing back pain complaints prompted a new California law limiting textbook weight. But some say assignments drawn from the Internet, ''e-books'' or CD-ROMs will be the real solution. ''It's not the wave of the future; it's the wave of the present,'' says David Tarr, executive director--instead of principal--at Sun Valley High, a public school near San Diego. Officials there used money normally spent on textbooks for computers....


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