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Water Part II: Water, Water Everywhere, Nor Any Drop to Drink

Posted by Jeff Danner | Mar 26, 2012 | Common Science

After last week’s hiatus, I am picking back up with my series on water. If you want to start at the beginning check out “Water Part I: Is God a Mathematician?” Part II was going to be about the desalination of water. As I...

There goes my Britannica status

Posted by D.G. Martin | Mar 19, 2012 | D.G. Martin

It was a great run. You know what I am talking about: since the news about the end of the Encyclopaedia Britannica’s print edition, as Scott Hollifield, editor of the McDowell News, writes: “Writers and commentators have waxed...

Sad Update to the Glen Lennox Saga

Posted by The Commentators | Mar 19, 2012 | The Commentators

Four years ago, in the Ides of March, those of us living in or around the Glen Lennox Apartments were shocked and awed as Grubb Properties presented plans to destroy most of the apartments and trees, build many big-story...

Carrboro Commune is like Donald Trump…

Posted by The Commentators | Mar 19, 2012 | The Commentators

I am a supporter of Occupy. I am a supporter of civil disobedience. But I do not support assault, when it is physical or verbal. And I do not support trespass on private property, which I regard as violence against people and...

Lessons from the Explosion in the iPad Factory in China

Posted by Jeff Danner | Mar 19, 2012 | Common Science

Last week I started a series about water with “Water Part I: Is God a Mathematician”. I started working on Part II, but find I am too saddened by the loss of 59 lives in a dust explosion in an iPad factory in China to write...

A Chapel Hill Soldier's World War II Uniform – Safe in Austria

Posted by D.G. Martin | Mar 17, 2012 | D.G. Martin

In May 1945, the war in Europe was racing towards an end. General George Patton’s Third Army was chasing the broken German forces into Austria. A young North Carolinian, also named Patton, was part of General Patton’s forces. On...

More At Stake Than You Might Think

Posted by The Commentators | Mar 15, 2012 | The Commentators

I’m calling on my fellow Orange County residents to help defeat amendment one, also known as the marriage discrimination amendment, by voting against the amendment on May 8th. You may be aware that all domestic partnerships, for...

Venomous Limbaugh

Posted by The Commentators | Mar 13, 2012 | The Commentators

Cries of protest of Conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh’s vicious attack on a Georgetown law student are echoing across the land — even touching the hallowed halls of the University of North Carolina. A...

Destruction of Trees

Posted by The Commentators | Mar 12, 2012 | The Commentators

To the Town Council: This is a photo of what once was a majestic, stately magnolia on E Rosemary St. It is now a one-sided sad specimen that lines the quiet street in one of Chapel Hill’s historic districts! I am appalled...

Do the lessons of Vietnam still haunt us?

Posted by D.G. Martin | Mar 12, 2012 | D.G. Martin

Afghanistan is not Vietnam. True enough. But does that obvious truth mean that there are no lessons from our experience in Vietnam? Are there no haunting legacies that affect today’s leaders? Does the Vietnam War have an impact...

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