Category: Opinion

It might not be strewn across TV screens and newspaper headlines every day like the pictures of Kim Jong-il or Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, but right now poverty is a bigger threat to the health and stability of this world than the “Axis of Evil.” Every day 30,000 people die because they are too poor to afford food or medicine.

Scientists have been trying to warn Americans about the impending doom of climate change since the late 1800s. The paradox is that they cannot decide whether the earth is cooling off or warming up.

An article titled “Fire and Ice,” published by the Business and Media Institute, outlines four major swings in media hysteria concerning global climate change.

To know how to read seems simple enough; I can still remember learning the letters of the alphabet in kindergarten. However, in third grade we had what was called a victory drill book, which I hated with a passion. This book was supposed to teach us to work on our pronunciation of words.

In the last few years, the future of the American energy industry has been a subject of constant discussion. Those with their ears to the ground have probably heard that hydrogen is expected to play an integral role in powering the America of tomorrow. President Bush recently allocated funds for hydrogen fuel cell research.

College is here. You’re busy making new friends, hanging out with old ones, battling large amounts of homework from the first few weeks of classes. The last thing on your mind is your waistline.

Now, it is a few weeks into the quarter, you get up for an early class and pick out a pair of jeans you got back home.

Normally, I would never want to censor myself. I mean who really would? However, it is necessary for me to do so every time I go home to the Bay Area. This censoring isn’t just because I swear constantly, but rather the music that is usually playing in my car.