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Poor old Robert Mitchum – google him – must now be spinning in his grave as the long-running battle on the evils of marijuana seems to be coming to an…

Who’s got it right for teens today, Miley or Taylor?  The one with old-fashioned values or the one that’s in your face, literally. Ewwww, what’s a girl to do. By…

By Sarah Fawcett – Powes Self-suffiency comes in many forms, the most important of which is emotional. But when you’re a serial monogamist, like I used to be, it can…

BY BEATRICE TRAFFORTE It all happened because my roommate was drinking. She gets bold when she’s been drinking, and on Wednesday night, she’d been drinking a lot.  So when the…

By Professor J Halberstam Recently in the New York Times, an op. ed. piece by Ashley Merriman explained why losing is good for children. He explains that mounting pressure to…

By David Waltner-Toews Eating is the most intimate experience we have with other living beings on the planet, more intimate even than sex. When we eat, we are taking parts…

BY Chip Walter It’s sweaty and dusty business extracting clues from the past. Ask any paleoanthropologist. Which may explain why it’s taken scientists the better part of 180 years to…