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When did getting older cease to be cool?
11:13 PM 1/21/2008 — In elementary school, everyone thought the older kids were cooler. They had the nice bikes. They were bigger. They played better basketball. Mom and dad, not to mention teachers, entrusted them with more responsibility. I remember being in first and second grade looking up to the super cool fifth-graders.
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Living the dream of MLK each day
11:10 PM 1/21/2008 — Martin Luther King Jr. Day has come and gone. For most students Monday was like any other day without classes. Some students slept well into the afternoon, nursing their hangover. Other students saw a prime opportunity to go to the Intramural Physical Education building and continue that New Year's resolution of staying in shape.
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America paying a real cost to continue the war on drugs
11:14 PM 1/21/2008 — The United States has the highest incarceration rate in the world. Statistics collected by the Bureau of Justice showed that more than 2.25 million people were in American prisons or jails in 2006. To illustrate the contrast with other nations, consider that 751 out of every 100,000 US residents are incarcerated while 148 out of every 100,000 are incarcerated in the UK.
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