How very lucky we are to live in an era of advanced medicine and longer lives. It is incredible to think of how many people are alive today because of the advances in medical technology and treatments that have been made in the past 50 years. In one such example, a friend of my family found out nine years ago she had chronic emphysema, which rapidly depleted her already thin lung tissue.
Having worked here long enough to qualify for tuition assistance, I'm going to be an MSU student again in May.
Ann Coulter couldn't have caused more of a stir if she had showed up to the Conservative Political Action Conference on March 2 buck-naked.
I'm going to assume most of you have already heard of the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps, considering it has seemed a constant news topic since its foundation.
Ordinarily, I try to stay above the fray when it comes to religion. For starters, the topic is an absolute minefield.
John Paul II has been in the express lane to canonization since two months after his death in 2005. At that time, Pope Benedict XVI announced he was waiving the customary five-year waiting period to begin the process. Monday, the second anniversary of John Paul's death, the findings of diocesan investigations were passed on to the Vatican's Congregation for the Causes of Saints.
I went to California a few years ago to visit a college. While I was there, I was fortunate enough to attend a meeting where a panel of women discussed the reasons they had abortions and the difficulty of making such a decision.
I've got a terrible secret. I've never had a favorite team. With the exception of rooting on the Spartans (which comes by default), I have no partisan in the world of sports. This was never a problem in football and basketball.
Do you know what you're eating? Imagine living a life in which you are constantly pumped full of drugs and in total darkness and isolation from the outside world.
Iran just checked off No. 1 on the "things-to-piss-off-the-West" list. After ignoring constant U.N.
America has always had a problem with porn. Some people chalk it up to the fact that our country was settled by the repressed, puritanical dregs of English society.
The discussions surrounding the Joe Carr event have been misinformed and sensationalized to such an extent that Great Issues feels obligated to use this space to respond. Fact: Great Issues co-sponsored an event last year with the Peace Education Center of Lansing, the Michigan Peace Team and the Greater Lansing Network Against War and Injustice.
"This Campaign is About You." Simple words, but sincere, honest and packed full of meaning, promise and hope.
From both sides of the political aisle, and from all across the country, people are speaking out with urgency in support of embryonic stem cell research. Last week, the National Institutes of Health's director, Elias Zerhouni, testified before a Senate appropriations subcommittee, where he was asked if scientists would have a greater opportunity to develop new treatments and cure chronic diseases if President Bush's harsh funding restrictions were lifted.
On an otherwise beautiful afternoon one fateful spring day, thousands of students went about their day-to-day tasks, whether it was listening to a lecture on molecular biology or spending a day in a warm bed. Some students made a personal choice to publicly protest an immoral war, a wrong to be redressed — a right guaranteed to them by the First Amendment to the U.S.
For an election that hasn't even hit the primaries, the 2008 run for the White House has been quite a show. The undisputed stars of that show, getting more press and sparking more speculation than all other candidates combined, are Sens.
Justus is an 8-year-old boy from Florida, with bushy hair and a crooked smile. His bio says he enjoys writing and animals, and in his free time, he likes to go to the movies. Fedeline, 8, and her sister Kettelove, 5, patiently glare upward in a picture.
Global warming is a reality, and there is nothing Philip Cooney or the rest of the blundering executive branch can do to keep it quiet any longer. It turns out that Cooney, the former chief of staff of the Council on Environmental Quality and a one-time oil industry lobbyist, got a little too red-pen happy with some of the federal government's official documents about climate change, including 294 separate edits to one governmental strategic climate change plan. And as Rep.
It stills amazes and disturbs me how often people use historical words of hate in everyday language.
SN podcasting hits Web After my column "SN needs your help, constructive criticism to strengthen, improve" (SN 1/23), a reader in California e-mailed me, astonished that the State News' Web site didn't have podcasting or Internet radio. The reader made a point that almost every newspaper's Web site currently hosts blogs and other forms of multimedia and The State News was "falling behind" with the times, instead of being innovative as a group of young, fresh journalists. That one hurt a little. Better late than never, The State News is in its fourth week of producing podcasts.