Today, there was a screening on campus of a film called Forgotten Voices: Women in Bosnia. The woman who filmed the documentary is a mother of four from California who is also a standup comedian that has traveled into war zone areas with the USO for the last decade. After reading about the genocide in Darfur in the newspaper and crying, her teenage
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Okay, I know that Tony Soprano, despite all of his charm, is totally NOT a stand up guy - he's beaten, murdered, embezzled, drank, fornicated, and lied his way through the last six seasons of this show
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World-renowned physicist Stephen Hawking 'very ill', hospitalizedThe rumours are that he's much more ill than the school or his doctors are admitting. He's lived for nearly 40yrs with Lou Gehrig's Disease (ALS), and has survived much longer than many people with the condition. I am not trying to eulogize the man before his time, but the fact that
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"NASA wants your opinion in naming the International Space Station’s Node 3 before the two segments travel to space and are installed on the orbiting laboratory. The name should reflect the spirit of exploration and cooperation embodied by the space station, and follow in the tradition set by Node 1- Unity- and Node 2- Harmony.