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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] How well do you think that you know yourself? For example, about your racial biases – of course, you don’t have any racial biases. You’re color-blind. Really? Take this test – you can be done in around 10 minutes, give or take – and get back to us.
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Story by Theresa Curry AGratefulSeason.com For years Greg Cole, professor at UCLA’s school of medicine and associate director of its Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center, has been on the trail of the relationship between diet and Alzheimer’s Disease. He’s written about the effects of cucurmin (it’s usually called turmeric on the spice jar), and has been…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] “Inga.” It was the big to-do back in 1968 when it was released in America. “Filmed entirely in Sweden,” a snapshot on movietime.com relates, “‘Inga’ brims with a European sensuality and eroticism that shocked American audiences upon its release in 1968.” That about sums it up right there, doesn’t it?…
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Story by Matthew Warner What’s so horrible about porn other than the poor quality of most of it? And why should you care? ‘LITERARY OBSCENITY’ Watch out, you writers and purveyors of erotic horror and explicit romance. The folks here in my Bible Belt city of Staunton, Virginia, care quite a bit. Last summer, when…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Amid a backdrop of men of various sizes and numbers of tattoos alternatively kicking and punching the air and occasionally a trainer wielding oversized protective gloves, the almost preternatural calm of Tyler Moyer stood out to me. At least what I was reading was calm. I soon found out that…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] How do you stop a team that scores 42 points a game and racks up 476 yards a game through the air? “It’s going to be a challenge. And I’ve never shied away from a challenge,” Virginia linebacker Clint Sintim said of the challenge that awaits the Cavaliers next week…
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Column by Bob Goodlatte It has become almost commonplace to turn on the evening news or visit an online news source and see the headlines detailing the latest recall of lead-contaminated products, mostly toys, from China. In 2007 alone, we have had around 77 toy recalls, involving more than 20 million toys. While this represents…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] So there’s this study out there that seems to indicate that women think – well, if you ask them, they know – that they have to work harder at their jobs than men. Now, being a man who thinks himself that he has to work pretty hard, and over the…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] It took a year to get from the first public announcement to the groundbreaking. The question now is, how long does it take to go from groundbreaking at the new SRI International Center for Advanced Drug Research in Rockingham County to the point where we start referring to the Valley…
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Story by Jim Bishop Robert C. Newman, professor emeritus of New Testament and Christian Evidences at Biblical Theological Seminary, Hatfield, Pa., will speak on “Belief and Physics: Some Lessons from the Ancient Greeks” at the final Suter Science Seminar of fall semester at Eastern Mennonite University.
