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Discovery launches King Tut craze

Emily Teeter said Tut-mania didn't begin until after museums started exploiting ancient Egyptian artifacts with traveling shows.

Kerry botched his joke, doesn't need to apologize

Editor, Let me get this straight - President Bush is demanding an apology from Sen. John Kerry? If anyone deserves an apology, it's the innocent Iraqi citizens, families of brave military personnel and journalists who have sacrificed their lives in an ill-advised crusade to advance the agenda of greedy oppressive profiteers who are in control of the Republican money machine and orchestrated the Iraq debacle in the first place.

UNM strokes its way to 2nd place

UNM swimming head coach Tracy Ljone isn't that disappointed when her team doesn't come in first place. But that's only if it comes in second, like it did for the second week in a row at its home meet Thursday.

daily lobo asks you:

James Hervey Freshman Undecided I think Madrid. Well, I don't know if I'll vote. If I can, I will. I think the main reason will be because I went to her site, and her site was better by the way she presented herself, and she seemed more organized on her site. Even thought I don't watch the TV commercials, ...

Wealthy backers fund Justice For All's free speech

Editor, How would a campus organization, Justice For All, have the incredible resources and the megabucks to put up two-story panels full of disinformation in an attempt to persuade us of its point of view? People on campus should know that Justice For All is based in Wichita, Kan.

Aliens, government breed genetic mutants in suspected underground lair

Dulce is almost in the center of the northern edge of the state, on the Jicarilla Apache Reservation. Dulce is a small town, yet it looms large in the minds of conspiracy theorists worldwide, who believe it's the home of an underground government base - Earth's primary site for alien-human collaboration.

Words afire: 21 plays in 21 days

Move over, Denver. Step aside, Phoenix. Albuquerque is set to host the largest theater festival in the Southwest.

Letter: Good night's sleep better than the best sex, books

Editor, I treasure good sleep. Early to bed and early to rise truly helps to make us healthy and wise. Years ago, I foolishly stayed up late many nights and then felt like crap the next day. Now I like to go to bed between 9 and 10 p.m. and to get up between 6 and 7 a.

Column: Local produce less noxious

by Stephanie Keno Daily Lobo columnist Popeye may have saved the spinach industry from collapse in the 1930s, but a savior for the 21st century has yet to come forward. As our country's agricultural sector becomes dominated by corporate producers, more consumers are becoming increasingly susceptible to noxious diseases such as E.

Haunted by graffiti, robbery

For some people, Halloween is more about the tricks than the treats. UNM had its share of Halloween mischief, with two groups of students threatened with handguns and the 10th-straight day of a graffiti spree that has cost the University $10,000 so far.

College 101

Alumna turned away for being born in Iran

UNM graduate Anna Badiei Rostami was not allowed to take the dental school admissions test at a Thomson Prometric testing center Saturday because she was born in Iran, she said.

Letter: Tax cuts for the wealthy weaken education at UNM

Editor, UNM is an excellent institution of higher learning but is declining simply based on the fact that the neoconservative Republicans are cutting aid for students who are not among the entitled classes. Cuts to education have occurred so that the wealthiest 2 percent of Americans can get tax cuts.

Mentally stimulating games died when focus on superb graphics was born

The video game industry has gotten to the point where any bipedal monkey with a vague amount of programming skill thinks it's a game developer.

Letter: Euphemisms help justify aborting human beings

Editor, It is time to call a spade a spade. An abortion kills a developing human being. Anybody who tells you different is either lying or completely misinformed. At the moment of conception, a new human life has begun. While the destiny of that fertilized egg is unknown, there is no doubt whatsoever that it is a human being.

Picking a president with staying power

Being the president of a university is like standing in a cemetery, said Samuel Schuman, former president of two colleges. "You're on top of everyone, but it's hard to get any of them to move," he said.

Ed toons

Disputed speaker gets to talk

Author Robert Rosen said a history professor invited him to speak at UNM, but the department withdrew the invitation and left him with the bill for his airfare. Vera Norwood, dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, reinstated his invitation on Oct. 17 to honor the commitment made in the original invitation. Noel Pugach, a history professor, invited Rosen to speak at UNM about his book, Saving the Jews, even though Pugach disagrees with the book's argument, Rosen said. Pugach declined to comment. Pugach sent a letter to Rosen on Oct. 9, stating the history department instructed him to withdraw the invitation. The book is controversial because of issues concerning plagiarism, citations and use of sources, Norwood said.

Letter: Archaic views of abortion endanger individual rights

Editor, It mystifies me why an undeveloped fetus is worth more than a 12-year-old girl impregnated by her father, whose physical, mental and emotional development will all be compromised by her being forced to carry a pregnancy to term. When medical abortion was illegal and reliable, birth control was not available, induced abortion was still practiced by nonprofessionals under hazardous conditions, killing or maiming many women, whether they were desperate or not.

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