ScriptCenter: ATM for Drugs: New ATM-like prescription machines are being rolled out in California and Virginia, where new changes in states’ laws allow medicines to be dispensed without a pharmacist. This new machine, called the ‘ScriptCenter,’ has been installed at a Longs Drug in Del Mar, California, and coughs up as much Furosemide and Metformin […]

The Chronicle: 6/24/2005: Teachers’ Pets: Students who visit the turtles “light up like Christmas trees” when they see them, says Mr. Witz.

Elizabeth Clementson: Down With MFAs : So here’s my advice—if have any aspirations for a place in literary history, don’t attend an MFA program. It won’t inspire you to great literature and you won’t be able to pay back that enormous tuition bill unless you write the carefully crafted plot line that everyone wants, but […]

AlterNet: Life Begins at ‘Want a Cigarette?’: In Christian terms, full humanity has never been associated merely with material substance. Declaring that a human soul comes into being fully formed at the moment of conception is logically at odds with its status as an organ of informed choice and goes against the whole thrust of […]

In-ear Headphone Round-up: Dear readers, we have been wrong. The older folk among us—baby-boomers, cracked former students of the Naval Arts, and other geriatrics—have been underrepresented in our coverage, as evidenced as our hate mail today. Well, old-timers, this one’s for you: Upgrade your iPod: In-Ear Sound-Isolating Earphones [ExtremeTech] —- i use sure e3c’s i […]

Most popular news stories as ranked by readers of Yahoo! News: A divided Supreme Court ruled Thursday that local governments may seize people’s homes and businesses against their will for private development in a decision anxiously awaited in communities where economic growth often is at war with individual property rights. —– this is wrong…

The Chronicle: Daily news: 06/23/2005 — 01: Require students to pay a fee, equal to 1 percent of the amount they have borrowed, to student-loan guarantee agencies. Under federal law, the agencies are already allowed to charge the fee. But few of the guarantors have done so in recent years, for fear of losing business […]

I am a Gauntlet Adventurer. I strive to improve my living conditions by hoarding gold, food, and sometimes keys and potions. I love adventure, fighting, and particularly winning – especially when there’s a prize at stake. I occasionally get lost inside buildings and can’t find the exit. I need food badly. What Video Game Character […]

Open Letter: I am writing you with much concern after I read of your hearing to decide whether the alternative theory of Intelligent Design to be taught along with the theory of Evolution. I think we can all agree that it is important for students to hear multiple viewpoints so they can choose for themselves […]

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