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I'm not the world's luckiest girl. On some days, my life is an illustration of Murphy's Law. Granted, there's a few good days mixed in, enough to give me the false hope my bad luck isn't chronic. Those hopes are dashed when lucky streaks are followed with a week of mishaps as my best-laid plans go wrong. So, you can imagine my surprise recently when I experienced two random acts of kindness during moments when it seemed this crisis prone was bottoming out. I'd spent my weekend finishing assignments that were late coming...
The debate over schools providing contraceptives to students has been around for some time, but the age at which it's happening is on a downswing. You may have heard the recent news of a Portland, Maine, middle school given the OK by its school board to offer both birth control and patches to students at its health center. The students range in age from 11-13, and the vote was 7-2 in favor of the measure. Students getting treatment must first get written parental permission, though state law says such treatment is...
Hey Dad, look at me Think back and talk to me Did I grow up according to plan? And do you think I'm wasting my time doing things I wanna do? But it hurts when you disapprove all along. -- “Perfect,” Simple Plan Lately in the news there's been talk about how “helicopter parents” are enfeebling America's echo-boomer generation. You know the term, “helicopter parent,” right? A person who pays extremely close attention to his or her child or children, often makes decisions (particularly educational ones) for them, prevents ha...
“Goodbye America…you are not the country that I love and I finally realized no matter how much I sacrifice, I can't make you be that country unless you want it.” And so were the parting words of Ms. Cindy Sheehan, notorious activist who became the “face” of America's struggling antiwar movement in 2005 following the death of her son Casey, a U.S. Army specialist killed in Iraq. Sheehan started a grass-roots peace movement with her highly publicized, month-long war protest outside President' Bush's ranch in Crawford, Texas. Ne...
Trout, trout, pretty little trout A lucky fisherman nets a rainbow trout last Saturday at West Medical Lake, which marked the first official day of fishing season....
Leave it to human beings to come up with ever more innovative means of self-destruction for want of vanity. From CNN to The Wall Street Journal, major media networks have recently reported stories about the “new generation” of diet drugs that have spawned trends of off-label prescription drug use for weight loss by Americans (mostly women) as a way to shed pounds without following a traditional diet-and-exercise approach. Apparently it's becoming common for people to take an array of prescription drugs used to treat con...
Top row (from left): Janelle Albright, Blake Andrews, Tim Bryan, Kelsey Collins, Amelia Cook, Brad Dassow, Christian Gaunt, Andrew Gentry. Middle row: Jmie Godoy, Keturah Guidry, David Hall, Alex Haynes, Katelyn Hunt, Alexandra Korzonthowski, Kayleen Oliver, Alex Pankratz, Andria Rainbolt. Bottom row: Cassie Rhodes, Makenzie Rutzer, Travis Schluter, Joshua Stebbins, David Underwood, Jake Wesselman, Whitney Wren. Not pictured: Lawrence Cousino, Danielle Riddle....
