Want to live longer? As it turns out, we may have the answer. A report in the last issue of Science showed a dramatic difference between the life span of two different sets of rhesus monkeys in a 20-year study. The results were so shocking that scientists have already begun seeking additional funding for another 20 years of research.
Is it just me, or did we trade the Cold War for a Colder War in the 21st century? We seem to have collected more enemies in the last couple decades, and worse, they seem to be getting more dangerous. Remember when our favorite rancher, George W. Bush, called them the Axis of Evil? We always need a bogeyman (or men) to prop up support for military action.
Editor, On more than one occasion, I stopped by the one-stop system, located in the old Financial Aid office, to take care of my business involving the admissions, financial aid and registrar's offices. While I admit the one-stop system adds speed and accessibility of records in a central location, I also see a larger problem developing: privacy.
Last month, the House passed the American Clean Energy and Security Act, or the Waxman-Markey energy bill, a flawed but progressive piece of legislation aimed at reducing America's carbon emissions in the fight against climate change. Though ACES establishes a weak "carbon trading" plan, it is the first comprehensive anti-global-warming bill that has a chance at successfully passing in both houses of Congress.
Editor, Images of President Obama in Moscow bring to mind the last time I saw a picture of a black man in Moscow. This was an international student from Africa who was murdered in a racially motivated hate crime, as part of a wave of such incidents that have not stopped in Russia.
Editor, Wyking Jones was a fantastic selection by head basketball coach Steve Alford. I am very familiar with Alford and Jones. When I went to high school, as a freshman, my coach showed us a shooting instructional film with Steve Alford - this was back in the late '80s.
Political sex scandals are just about all the same. Man cheats on wife. Man gets caught. Man makes tight-lipped statement at a news conference, suffocated with awkwardness. Wife looks jaded and dead inside. Kids probably take up drugs shortly afterward. It's routine stuff, and we're left to file the adulterers away as pigheaded fellows who assumed their power excused them from the rules - of governance and of matrimony.
The gay marriage debate has evolved from a whisper of discontent to a roaring, mud-slinging brawl. The situation could be mildly called a snafu, and more accurately termed something I can't print in a newspaper. Everyone has an opinion. Not only do people stand on both sides of and astride the metaphorical fence, there are people tunneling underneath and flying overhead.
Editor, Given the content of your opinion page recently, there obviously continues to be a great deal of confusion with regard to the Second Amendment. Nearly all of that confusion is quite intentional, arising from fear spawned in a bed of ignorance by those who seek to disarm Americans entirely.
Editor, I love baseball. It is a refuge, a place where I can go and forget about the cares of the day. Time slows down, and all that matters is my team winning. It's one of the greatest feelings in the world. Manny Ramirez has been one of the best sluggers in baseball for the past several years.
It seems like every year, when the graduation fanfare has subsided and the confetti has reached the floor, graduates turn their eyes to the piece of paper standing in for four years of trial and tuition and ask a rather pressing question: "What did I just put myself through?" It's inevitable even in good times, much less a recession.
Editor, Aimee Schafer, in common with most NRA supporters, is quick to cite part of the Second Amendment in her letter in the June 8 Daily Lobo. She says the amendment is clear, when in fact it is anything but. The full amendment reads: "A well-regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.
The Obama Administration appears increasingly devoted to covering up the worst crimes of the Bush era. CIA chief Leon Panetta objected to Federal Judge Alvin Hellerstein, who was considering releasing detailed information on 92 videotaped CIA torture sessions of detainees.
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