Word: ago
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...year-old creator of the comic strip Peanuts announced two days ago that he will be retiring from the comics business after 49 years of drawing Charlie Brown and Snoopy, Linus and Lucy. He decided this after undergoing treatment for colon cancer, realizing he wants to spend more time with his family...
Three years ago, he said, improvements for junior faculty were made, but after surveys taken this summer it was found that salaries were no longer competitive...
...Faculty Council declined to endorse a similar proposal over a year ago, asking that the department spend more time in discussions with other departments about Afro-American Studies Department's interdisciplinary nature...
...habits and rediscover what we've cast off over the years. There was something inspiring about the crummy, faded pages of the "old school" FMs we unearthed. We were smitten with the concept of rediscovering the Fifteen Minutes that attracted rower-jock J.P. and pre-pubescent Aaron long, long ago. We're almost okay calling this issue a "humor magazine," formerly an offensive epithet. And so, as ex-Editor T.J. so pointedly predicted, we find ourselves "in the box" once again...
...Nobody has reported any adverse effects from irradiation," says TIME science writer Frederic Golden. And given the abandon with which America has embraced its microwave ovens, one could be forgiven for underestimating the public outcry that greeted the idea of irradiation several years ago. The meat industry, which will invest huge sums creating the infrastructure necessary for irradiation, is hoping Americans have gotten over their fear of treated meat. "Unlike the so-called Frankenfoods, which involve genetic alterations, irradiation is pretty standard stuff," says Golden. And, he adds, zapping meat is, ostensibly, a public health measure. Issues of safety aside...