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Conservative Activist David Horowitz Visits What He Calls the ‘Worst School in America’
There’s a palpable tension in the air, a cocktail of animosity and intrigue generated by students, faculty and community members who are mobbed outside of the one open door leading into Baskin Engineering 101. Signs made from blue and red construction paper on the windows read “No Cameras or Photographs,” and backpacks are searched at the door.
Cell Phone Radiation: The Brain Tumor Debate
In the United States alone, 259,408,423 people use cell phones. Cell phones are still relatively new phenomena, yet they are the most widespread technology in the world. It is still unknown, however, whether there is a definitive link between cell phone radiation and brain tumors. Interphone is a research project based in the UK that studies three different kinds of brain tumors and investigates the tumors’ potential relation to mobile phone use. Various Interphone studies have found that after 10 years or more, there is an increase in certain kinds of brain tumors on the same side of the head the cell phone is used.
From Israel to Iraq, Mideast Policies Spark Debate
Five years of war have led to the deaths of over one million Iraqis and 4,000 U.S. soldiers. Sixty-five percent of Americans are now calling for the war’s end and with the election looming in November, Americans say they want change. Obama lambastes McCain’s call for a continued occupation of Iraq and says he wants to end the war. But Obama’s “phased withdrawal” plan only calls for a fraction of the soldiers to return, and the occupation will almost certainly extend well into the next administration with no end in site.
Secrets and the Man We Tell Them To
PostSecret is a project started by Frank Warren in which people decorate their own postcards, write a secret of theirs on it and mail it to him. He then shares these postcards with the world on his blog, in his books, at art exhibits and by traveling and speaking around the country. City on a Hill Press attended a talk given by Warren on May 6 at Stanford University to try to find out what it is that makes PostSecret so irresistible.