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Campaign does little good
Eating You Alive, a new campaign focused on smoking prevention, has developed a new mechanism similar to the programs taught to grade school children. The organization is printing graphic images of the effects of lifelong smoking on the insides of matchbooks.…
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English department: Give graphic novels a chance
The Western Illinois University English department needs a class to study graphic novels. I'm not referring to those thin, monthly superhero comic books that birthed the medium decades ago. These are books that have stories that have a beginning, middle and end.…
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Bring back the gold standard and lose the paper trail
With the recent downturn in America's financial markets, you may be asking yourself why the American dollar is weak. I have come to the conclusion that one of the main reasons is the result of our fiat paper money standard. Instead of letting inflation be dictated by the free market, whose different variables would weigh on rates independently, our nation's rates are dictated by the Federal Reserve, an entity that is held accountable to no one.…
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Make eye contact, you jerk
You're walking through campus at a little after 5 p.m. It's the early evening. Most people are finishing up classes, but there are still a few stragglers.
You see one of the few other people still walking through campus approaching, heading the opposite direction down the sidewalk.…
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