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...going and why. For many people, the four years of undergraduate life offer the only interlude permitted for unfettered exploration of such fundamental questions. But the search for meaning is a never-ending quest that is always interpreting, always interrupting and redefining the status quo, always looking, never content with what is found. An answer simply yields the next question. This is in fact true of all learning, of the natural and social sciences as well as the humanities, and thus of the very core of what universities are about...
...date, the television industry has used passive viewership as the measure of a television show or network's success. Given our divided attention and the potential to create highly interactive programming, perhaps passive viewership is outdated - Internet stats related to television content gives us an idea as to how engaged we are with what is on TV. And this kind of interaction doesn't always have to involve reality shows, or the Internet for that matter. In a different study conducted by Solutions Research Group, 34% of viewers between the ages of 12-34 were text messaging...
...truly exciting to consider the potential for tying online content together with television programs. As I mention this to my wife, who is switching to the CW reality show Beauty and the Geek, I'm reminded of how, in our household, television - in fact this specific program title - is very reflective of reality...
...information about the structure” of the organization. The VA should be blind regarding the specific structure and tenets of a religion. As Chief Justice Warren E. Burger wrote in Lemon v. Kurtzman, “This kind of state inspection and evaluation of the religious content of a religious organization is fraught with the sort of entanglement that the Constitution forbids.” Rather, the VA should adopt a methodology more similar to that of the IRS, which makes no attempt to evaluate the content of the belief system in its evaluations for religious tax exemptions...
...female. Such was the case with Amanda Beard, who bared all in the July issue of Playboy. Many claimed that she was demeaning herself as a person, not to mention sending the wrong message about her sport. However, I’d venture to guess that Beard was pretty content with her choice: “It’s just a business decision, a career decision,” she said. Since then, she’s taken the 15 minutes of fame that she might never have received, even as an Olympic gold medalist, and turned herself into...