Current national and global events.
DATELINE FAYETTEVILLE — Masons working overtime to install the fireplace at the University of Arkansas’ $2.77 million chancellor’s residence suffered singed eyebrows Tuesday night when the gas logs erupted into flame even though the line hadn’t been hooked up yet, and white smoke billowed from the chimney as high as Old Main: A Razorback football […]
Copyright 2007 Ben S. Pollock The athletic department of the University of Arkansas has become its own reality series, one where everyone is trapped in a house or on a desert island, or maybe at the same time one of those talent shows, the one with dancers or the one with singers. Athletic directors moving […]
The medical science report of the hour talks about how many teenagers are teenagers. It’s not a happy statistic, that the number of teenage mothers has increased in the United States. The Associated Press article, though, has an interesting touch on the facts: The teen increase was based on the 15-19 age group, which accounted […]
Where do “they” come up with these numbers. The following made headlines just over a month ago, but something over the weekend brought it back to mind. This time I thought about it. There is a fact here, but the percentage is bunkum. If I’m missing the point, please, someone, set me straight. WASHINGTON — […]
While the news last week has included the strike of the Writers Guild of America that began Monday the 5th, it hasn’t been the most important event. A new attorney general, the same Pakistani dictator, Congress for the first time in George II’s 6 1/2 years overrode one of his vetoes, gasoline is up and […]
It never occurred to me to presume this, probably because I’m not a technophile. But here I sit with a new computer (waiting months for the Apple operating system update as a few pieces of both hardware and software on my blue 7-year-old iBook fail), and it asks if it can take my picture. This […]