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Lessons of Peace and Possibilities Through the Sport of Basketball

Posted by Deborah Stroman, Ph.D. | Aug 14, 2015 | Columns

Although sport media headlines often accentuate the misdeeds and inappropriate actions of athletes, few can doubt the overall national interest in athletic competition and its benefit to America. As a guest of the National...

Worrying About Trump

Posted by D.G. Martin | Aug 10, 2015 | D.G. Martin

What did Hillary Clinton tell Donald Trump when he invited her to his wedding? She said, “I will come to the wedding if you promise to run for president.” This joke from Winston-Salem’s Steve Porter made me laugh, and it...

What Will They Talk About?

Posted by Staff | Aug 5, 2015 | Guest Column, Opinion

By E.B. Phillips: As our pal Bob ‘Palindrome’ Lee chews his cud over at the Cow College hoping the mush in his craw might actually become something other than the fertilizer he’s dropped so far, anxiety mounts among the Canine...

Summer’s Final Reading Assignments

Posted by D.G. Martin | Aug 4, 2015 | D.G. Martin

A classic love story full of mountain music from one of North Carolina’s greatest living balladeers, a loving portrait of a North Carolina beach by a modern prophet of coastal catastrophe, a fictional look into the recent past...

The Science of Hail

Posted by Jeff Danner | Aug 2, 2015 | Common Science

It’s summer here in the Southern Part of Heaven and that means it’s time for hail storms. So I thought a column on the science of hail would be timely. Plus, my wife recently asked me a question about hail and my explanation was...

So They Are All, All Honorable Men

Posted by Staff | Jul 31, 2015 | The Commentators

In the foulness of the ongoing athletic/academic scandal at UNC, former Governor Jim Martin has brought an honorable breath of fresh air. Many were critical of Martin’s December 2012 report of his investigation into “serious...

How Far Have We Really Come?

Posted by The Commentators | Jul 29, 2015 | The Commentators

By Barbara Foushee: I celebrated the Fourth of July by participating in the community reading of Frederick Douglass’ “The Meaning of July Fourth for the Negro”; the speech was given in Rochester, NY, on July 5, 1852 at the...

Hero on the Wrong Side of History

Posted by D.G. Martin | Jul 28, 2015 | D.G. Martin

Can Atticus Finch still be our hero? After Harper Lee, who created the saintly Finch in “To Kill a Mockingbird,” has now given disturbing details about him in her newly released book, “Go Set a Watchman”? We learned through the...

Missing Microbes Part IV: Epilogue

Posted by Jeff Danner | Jul 26, 2015 | Common Science

This is the conclusion of my four-part review of Missing Microbes, How the Overuse of Antibiotics is Fueling our Modern Plagues, by Dr. Martin Blaser, head of the Human Microbiome Research Project at New York University. Part I...

Why We Can’t Take Chapel Hill’s Greenways for Granted

Posted by Staff | Jul 23, 2015 | The Commentators

Recently, WCHL aired a Commentators opinion piece from a Chapel Hill resident upset about a project near her neighborhood. Was it a highway, new McMansions, or some big box store they were building? No. The project that upset...

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