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...following sports, professional or amateur, is predicated on the belief that they are fair contests. That the team with the most skill, the most practice, and even, sometimes, the most luck will prevail. Tilting the playing field further to include external, synthetic factors like steroids is damaging to the basic integrity of any athletic contest, which, like it or not, has far reaching repercussions for our culture in general. Baseball is known as “America’s pastime,” and as a result, its players serve as role models to children throughout the country...
...wanted a course that would give students an introduction to the basic concepts of astronomy but to connect it to other disciplines,” Hernquist says...
...attracted to the fact that it was about the spoken word. Dominant aspects of our culture now are hip hop, rap, and poetry.” He goes on to praise the script, which he read for the first time over three years ago, for containing the three basic elements that every great movie requires: “It made you laugh, it made you cry, and it made you cheer.” “Debaters” follows the true story of historically black Wiley College in 1930s Texas. Melvin B. Tolson, a professor at the college...
...engineer any real reconciliation between the majority Shi'ites and the Sunnis. While U.S. troops have battled al-Qaeda in Baghdad, Anbar and Diyala, the Iraqi Parliament has made little progress on critical legislation in more than a year. And partly because of massive government corruption, improvements in basic services like electricity, water and fuel have lagged behind security gains. Baghdad gets an average of eight hours of electricity a day, about half the prewar level. So while there's a trickle of refugees going home, many Iraqis continue to leave Baghdad. Here are four reasons families like the Awadis...
...possible speeding ticket simply makes no sense. But regardless of the possible perverse side effects, programs to distribute naloxone at needle exchanges—which already exist in cities such as Boston, Chicago, New York, and San Francisco, as well as several states—save lives. That basic concern for life should supersede any concerns about drug use or policy...