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Letter: Urine, sunshine keeps us healthy the natural way

Editor, I have had no medical insurance for more than 15 years, and I do not want any. I aim never to go to medical doctors for the rest of my life. Now - at age 60 - I am in better health than I was at 21. I prevent and heal disease naturally. I stopped eating junk food and meat largely in the ...

French play shows greed is timeless

The comedy about a madwoman is as serious as it gets.

Ed Toons

Column: Cheney's poor behavior

by Lucinda Ulrich Daily Lobo columnist By now, unless you live in a cave, you've probably heard that Dick Cheney, the vice president of the United States, shot one of his constituents. Apparently, Dick shot his hunting buddy from 30 yards away, enough distance in hunting circles to determine that ...

Highlighting labor rights

Sometimes a film can be entertaining and enlightening. It's even better when it's free.

Lobos ground Falcons

by Kevin McFarland Daily Lobo Senior Abbie Letz said she wants to make her last moments as a Lobo special. She's certainly playing like it. As the Lobo women's basketball team blew out the Air Force Falcons 79-53 on Wednesday night, Letz provided a memorable effort by netting a game high 18 points ...

Center loyal to indie films

by Caleb Fort Daily Lobo Projectionists are the underappreciated heroes of the movie theater. Moviegoers notice when the film burns, the movie is out of focus or the sound is bad - but they give no credit when the film runs smoothly, said Brian Gillespie, director of the Southwest Film Center. However, ...

Play depicts fame's dysfunction

It's a fact of life - Hollywood will mess you up.

Maximum mischief

Tucker Max is an asshole.

Office of Graduate Studies reorganized

UNM's Office of Graduate Studies may undergo spring cleaning this semester. The recommendations were presented at the Feb. 14 Board of Regents meeting by a task force Interim Provost Reed Dasenbrock formed in November.

UNM regents plot to purchase land

by Katy Knapp Daily Lobo The UNM Board of Regents isn't ready to play its ultimate legal hand as it continues to negotiate with landowners for acquisition of property south of The Pit. At the regents' Feb. 14 meeting, the board rejected Kim Murphy's suggestion that the University make a final ...

Letter: Kendra's Law a straitjacket placed on individual rights

Editor, No government should support harm in the guise of help. Henry David Thoreau said, "For every thousand hacking at the leaves of evil, one is striking at the root." Nowhere is this more evident than in the Legislature's consideration of the bill called Kendra's Law. For those not familiar ...

Letter: Cheney's shot launches media in right direction

Editor, I think it's high time the media got into high gear. Cheney's shooting of an innocent hunter - well, the guy is a lawyer - was criminal on three counts. Cheney was drunk, did not have a proper hunting license and he shot a guy in the face. I lived in Corpus Christi, and am very familiar with ...

Column: Headlining health basics

"Study Finds Low-Fat Diet Won't Stop Cancer or Heart Disease." That was the New York Times front-page headline earlier this month shrieking the results of the largest study ever conducted examining the link between diet and cardiovascular disease. The Women's Health Initiative study included 49,000 subjects over a nine-year period.

Panther tactics debated at panel

by Damon Scott Daily Lobo Mark Rudd said one of his proudest moments in life was being a part of the Vietnam anti-war movement. Rudd, a former member of Students for a Democratic Society and founding member of the Weather Underground, was part of a panel discussion Tuesday at the SUB culminating ...

Writing project allows teachers to get schooled

Albuquerque has joined a national writing revolution. UNM received a $30,000 grant to establish the High Desert Writing Project, a subset of the National Writing Project to improve instructors' abilities to teach writing.

Stellar trio comes to town

In Durango, Colo., John Barker of the band Stellar Interlock pulled his work truck off to the side of the road to do an interview.

Alkaholiks album a musical hangover

When a group's gimmick has run dry, it probably feels like a nasty hangover. Tha Alkaholiks - J-Ro, Tash and E-Swift - arrived in 1993 with 21 and Over which featured "Only When I'm Drunk," one of the best hip-hop songs of all time. The staggering bass line was first used by EPMD and later made famous by Jay-Z.

Column: Gay cowboys sit high in saddle

Now is the golden time of the year in Hollywood when seemingly every group that has anything to do with movies - actor's guilds, writer's guilds, critic's associations, cinematographers, etc. - hand out their awards.