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No matter what we do, there is almost always some sort of screen involved. Many jobs are computer-oriented. There are online classes and correspondence with professors through e-mail. If it weren’t for texting and social media sites, most of our social lives would be nonexistent. In fact, you could be reading this very article on […]
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Now that we have reached the halfway mark for the summer, many of us start dreading what is looming on the horizon: the new school year. New classes to stress over, new teachers to load up the new work, and new books and supplies. It seems that with every new year, students find new things […]
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The Fourth of July means many things. To any age of student, it means summer is half over. To any soldier, it means an all-out party for the country they proudly defend. To George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and John Hancock, it meant the first day of a new nation. It also means and has meant the declaring […]
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When Valentina Tereshkova rocketed into space aboard Vostok 6 in June 1963, she became an instant icon of female achievement. It was another 20 years before an American woman, Sally Ride, left the pull of earth. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration paraded Ride’s achievement as a testament to its acknowledgment that women have a […]
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This past week, the Utah State Republican Convention voted 833-739 to ask the Utah legislature to repeal HB116, a guest-worker law that is only a few months old. The bill, which won’t take effect till 2013, gives undocumented immigrants the ability to continue working in the state if they submit to a criminal background check […]
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Porn. So much of American society, private and otherwise, seems to revolve around the copulation and faux copulation of human beings. It’s pretty easy to flip on the television and see generally non-clothed people rolling around and having relations of a sexual nature. One would think that a place to find solace from porn would […]
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