Monthly Archives: July 2010

FRESNO, Calif. — Capping a long-running dispute, a cash-strapped California public university revealed Friday its foundation arm paid Sarah Palin $75,000 to give a 40-minute speech at a recent anniversary dinner for the campus. The former vice presidential candidate’s appearance … Continue reading →

About the time that schools and others quite reasonably became interested in seeing to it that all children, whatever their background, were fairly treated, intelligence testing became unpopular. Some thought it was unfair to minority children. Through the past few … Continue reading →

A ecent poll showed that 40% of Americans loathe (Bt3£) the prac-ice. Consumers acting rationally ought not to pay more than they lave to for a given service. Tips should not exist. So why do they? "he conventional wisdom is … Continue reading →

The ongoing debate over abortion is certainly no exception, a contentious issue that has captured the attention of laymen and medical practitioners alike for decades. With the introduction of the French "abortion pill" RU -486, the situation has become an … Continue reading →

Scientists have only a vague understanding of this remarkable transition, when our sense of time expands beyond this morning’s feeding and last week’s bath, but now they know a bit more: 1) Conor Listen of Harvard University has determined that … Continue reading →

It happened in the late fall of 1939 when, after a Nazi submarine had penetrated the British sea defense around the Firth of Forth and damaged a British cruiser, Reston and a colleagin contrived to get the news past British … Continue reading →

Perhaps it was only during the dawn of the human race that women really stood equal with men. At the beginning, I think both sexes shared equal responsibility for the survival of the race. Men and women shared in the … Continue reading →

"My MIND is big when I look at you and talk to you," Chief Eagle of the Pawnees said to George Bird Grinnellm when, after years of absence, that noble writer appeared at his friend’s tepee. It is very difficult … Continue reading →

ISHMAEL1, was one of that crew; my shouts had gone up with the rest; my oath had been welded with theirs; and stronger I shouted, and more did I hammer and clinch my oath, because of the dread in my … Continue reading →

In all this Cuban business there is one man stands out on the horizon of my memory like Mars at perihelion. When war broke out between Spain and the United States it was very necessary to communicate quickly with the … Continue reading →