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Stanford University announced that it will eliminate its $36,000 tuition for students with annual family incomes less than $100,000. Do you think other universities will follow suit? Why or why not?
First, I ‘d like to applaud Stanford University for addressing an issue that’s only gotten worse in the past 15-20 years. I’d also [...]

The teaser trailer for Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull premiered Thursday.
The clip opens with a map of the famed Paramount mountain underneath the Lucasfilm Ltd. logo before flashing back to the three previous installments. In Raiders, “he protected the power,” in Temple of Doom “he saved the cradle of civilization,” and [...]

Hmmm.
Folks around here are not too generous with the compliments, lol.
I think what I get thanked for the most with my online friends is coming up with some perspectives that they may not be viewing their situation with. Essentially, they are boxed into a way a looking at a situation and I look at it [...]

What aspect of your personality could use a little work?
Aspect–that’s singular, right? Picking one is very hard to do.
OK. Let’s get on with it. My tunnel vision. Sometimes this works for me but just as often against me. Maybe it’s more a singular vision–when I am determined to accomplish something of import I go [...]

Took a drive up to Crystal Lake today where my friend cuts and colours my hair for about half the cost of what I’d pay at her downtown salon. (Thanks, M!)
I tuned into NPR on the car radio in hopes of getting some world news. Silly me, there was a presidential debate last night so essentially [...]

This is my *new* laptop’s bag.
I got it for one reason but it seems to be working for me in two three ways.
First, when I realized that the so-called laptop case that the computer came in was too flimsy, I went in search of another but I wasn’t in the mood to really look. OK, [...]

One of the many hats I wear is professional heart patient. I’m a pro because I’ve been doing it for a decade. When the heart failure first struck because we didn’t know how I would fare until at least a year in and I was very anxious and at times depressed with great trouble sleeping. [...]

And there’s really no reason anyone should care what I think of it but I like it; it’s a compelling read, study of two young newlyweds on their wedding night in 1962.
I read on the jacket blurb that author Ian McEwan “is the master clockmaster of novelists.”
Nicely said and very high praise from… Oh, no [...]

Awesomeness!
We are having a snowfall unlike one I’ve seen in years, if ever. The snowflakes are huge! They are literally like fluffy cotton balls.
Many of them are sticking together, causing them to appear even larger. I went outside and looked up and it was the most incredible sight. When I extended my arms, with my [...]

“I Should Be Carried on the Chariot-Type Thing!”~ 2/21/2008:

Erik drops Amanda on her head during the reward challenge.

Favorites: Parvati, James, Jonathan, Cirie try for Immunity.

Ozzy is sandwiched between two “fans”-Erik and Alexis
I suppose I should be used to the fact that you are just supposed to love to hate some Survivor players but I just [...]

The number of people visiting Facebook in the U.S. has been leveling off in the past few months. Why do you think this is? How often do you visit Facebook?
Never. I don’t belong to it. I checked once to see if any of my former classmates were on there and there wasn’t a single one–plus [...]

Just took a lovely walk. Temps are up around 30 degrees, the moon through the fluffy clouds is nearly full and has a dream-like quality to it. Then I came home and promptly had a falling out with spouse about younger son missing Scholastic Bowl. Spouse always seems to assume son is guilty and I [...]

A police officer was killed Friday morning in a motorcycle accident as Sen. Hillary Clinton’s motorcade made its way through downtown Dallas, police said.
The Dallas Police Department said Senior Cpl. Victor Lozada-Tirado was traveling southbound on the Houston Street viaduct when he struck a curb, lost control of the motorcycle [...]

It seems spouse is now coming down with the flu. He’s quite cranky feeling run down and worst, there’s flu at his work and myself and youngest son were struck as well. This flu seems to be taking lots of prisoners. And, according to a news report spouse forwarded me, Tamiflu won’t do any good [...]

EDIT!
Michelle, Viewed– in this blog~ 06.26.08
Though we receive both Newsweek and Time magazines in the mail as well as the Chicago Tribune, I rarely read any of them. Instead, I get my news and feature stories from an eclectic mix of sources on the Internet.
Today though I noticed a cover story on [...]

In her second conversation with CNN, on Tuesday,  Jessica Baty said Kazmierczak began seeing (a) psychchiatrist shortly after they transferred from NIU to the University of Illinois in Champaign in June 2007. A psychiatrist not familiar with the details of the case said the three-drug combination was not necessarily either unusual or dangerous.

“It’s not terribly [...]

My heart felt very heavy today.
Last night my big, strapping 15 y.o. son broke down in tears as he recounted taking an Advanced Chemistry exam after a prolonged absence due to the flu mixed with two school snow-closure days and he took it on the same day as two other major exams.
There was an equation [...]

One of the highlights of my day is when my 15 y.o. son gets in from school and we do his “debriefing.” I know that term conjures military-think but I tend to see it in the light of when I first heard it as a child–when the first astronauts came back from the moon and [...]

Lindsay Lohan posed nude as Marilyn Monroe in the spring fashion issue of New York Magazine. Do you think recreating Monroe’s last photo shoot before her 1962 death was a good career move for Lindsay? Lindsay recently paired up with photographer Bert Stein to recreate his legendary 1962 nude shoot with Marilyn Monroe. The photos [...]

My sis-in-law is about to give birth to her second baby and I’m she will again share her joy with the world using photo birth announcements.
The impending birth is in under 30 days so everyone has been put on notice though there’s one person who probably isn’t going to take notice until the baby is [...]

Just got back from taking youngest son to the dentist to have a cavity filled. When It was over I called him a “brave little soldier” for declining Novocaine. He’s 6′ 4″ Not exactly a “little” anything. LOL.
He declined for practical reasons. Novocaine (pain killer) leaves you in a bit of a mess, unable to [...]

Oi. It’s a another single digit night with winds from 15-25 mph! I know it makes my life seem very boring and small–and really I don’t find it boring–but I was so looking forward to being in a routine of a walking each night again after nine long nights of me either being too [...]

Why is it that sometimes family members feel that they do not have to extend the same verbal courtesies to one another as they would to their friends or even strangers?
It’s really starting to gnaw at me that as as much as I love my sibling, he’s incredibly rude to me at times. It’s [...]

People have worn make up for thousands of years but even with all that “experience” when one is attempting to learn to correctly apply makeup to her own face the results can be less than satisfying. Also, certain styles of make-up come and go–and the newer techniques even if you long ago learned [...]

Graphic by Harvard Gazette
Why do we look the way we do? When did we first evolve the features that we have? Why are we still able to do all the different things we do? And, finally, why do we fall ill in the way that we do? Drawing on genetic research and his experience as [...]