But sleep is the leisure activity:
Americans who log long hours on the job find the time for leisure and other activities by cutting down on sleep, a study reports today.
But sleep is the leisure activity:
Americans who log long hours on the job find the time for leisure and other activities by cutting down on sleep, a study reports today.
We tough-on-criminals types have to answer for people mistakenly convicted -- in capital punishment cases especially, but in all other prosecutions as well. The show-some-compassion crowd, though, has to talk about monsters like this guy, who beat his 3-week-old son to death:
States keep moving up their primary contests:
Wyoming Republicans have jumped to the head of the pack in the nominating process, moving their delegate-selection conventions to Jan. 5 before even Iowa or New Hampshire vote.
Are women really that dumb? "Oooh, what a pretty package! I must have it, so I will start smoking!"
Sleek packaging, pretty colors and rosy images reach out to female consumers from pages of a magazine. Their allure is not unusual for businesses seeking to attract customers. But in this case, the image portrayed is a mirage and the purchases could be deadly to any woman who doesn't read between the lines.
You see, the product advertised is a brand of cigarettes.
Gee, do ya think?
A Muncie city police officer may lose his job after an alleged joy ride with three Ball State University students. It did more than $10,000 worth of damage to his squad car, but it may do even more damage to his law enforcement career.
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Our students suck, not to put too fine a point on it, and they suck the most at writing:
Despite ramped-up efforts to improve high school students' writing skills, the state's average writing SAT score still lags behind the national average by 11 points.
Would you send your kid to play basketball under Bobby Knight?
The best kind of laughter is the self-deprecating kind, when we acknowledge our foibles and limitations and weaknesses and are willing to laugh at ourselves. That brings us closer to an appreciation of the human condition -- we are then able to understand those faults in others. The worst kind of humor is directed at those "others" -- the people who are not like us and are thus deserving of our scorn and derision. We don't have to understand anything, except that we are better than them. Such laughter says more about us than the people we laugh at.
Sometimes, I understand people who just want to get as far away from civilization as they can:
He built a fence, a retaining wall, a patio and a few concrete columns to decorate his driveway, and now Francisco Linares is going to jail for it.
Too many people think we are a pure democracy instead of a republic, that our legislators should just vote the way we want them to vote. As wrong as that is, it would seem a good idea for those in government to at least know what we think. But Florida has a different idea:
TALLAHASSEE - Florida elections officials will begin enforcing a law which changes the state's "rules of political engagement": campaigns can't ask voters about the issues.
Should the drinking age be lowered?
An increasing number of college officials are arguing that current drinking laws have failed. Instead of keeping students away from alcohol, they argue, the laws simply drive underage drinking underground and toward unsafe extremes.
I've died and gone to hell, Part 2:
Former President Clinton will appear on Oprah Winfrey's TV talk show next Tuesday, Sept. 4, his first interview to promote "Giving," a book on philanthropy and civic action coming out the same day.
Clinton's appearance was announced Monday in an e-mail - "The first interview about his new passion!" - sent to members of Winfrey's book club.
Economist Morton Marcus, formerly associated with Indiana University, writes about the "overly simplistic" argument that government consolidation will bring cost saving, using libraries as an example:
Public libraries are often cited as ripe for consolidation. There are 238 of them serving Indiana's 92 counties. Why is it that Huntington County has but one school district but four public libraries? Grant County needs eight libraries to serve its needs?
The first energy crisis in this country was in the 19th century when the supply of whale oil, the chief source of artificial lighting, was, for a numer of reasons, no longer reliable. The problem disappeared with the discovery of petroleum. That's what we tend to do, let necessity drive us to a solution. The current energy crisis will be solved the same way, so maybe we should be trying to find ways to use oil up faster instead of conserving it.
Looks like 10 percent of us aren't holding up our end:
The United States has 90 guns for every 100 citizens, making it the most heavily armed society in the world, a report released on Tuesday said.
Does she think she can get away with this? Why, she must be insane:
Captain Lisa M. Nowak, the former astronaut and naval officer who confronted a romantic rival at the Orlando airport in February, will plead insanity at her trial on assault and kidnapping charges, according to a notice filed on Tuesday in state circuit court in Orlando.
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I presume Rose-Hulman wants to still be thought of as a great institution. But it buried this most relevant information in the seventh paragraph of its news release : "The freshman class' profile includes a 92.6 median class rank percentile, SAT median scores of 670 math/630 critical reading, ACT median scores of 32 math/28 English, 23 perfect math scores on the SAT or ACT, and 72 students ranked first, second or third in their graduating classes." It chose to lead with this:
The U.S. is in decline -- and has been for three centuries:
Hoosiers' "war on the property tax" makes the Los Angeles Times:
But when the bill arrived this summer, Hile's annual taxes were almost 200% higher than before -- an extra $3,000 a year. It's more than she can afford to pay.
