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...ecstatic that the CEB finally embraced Yardfest’s permanent junior high theme. For once, I don’t want something else. —Kimberly E. Gittleson HATE YOU, THIRD EYE BLIND! I haven’t thought about Third Eye Blind since my eighth-grade formal, when I prayed as I looked down at the top of my date’s head that our slow-dance to “Deep Inside of You” might never end. But, really, even then I knew those halcyon days of ill-fitting retainers and skipping lunch...
...gave the U.S. and Russia a score of 5 out of 10 on making progress in eliminating nuclear materials. He said that as other nations become nuclear capable, the number drops. Progress on rounding up loose, radiological matter - non-weapons-grade material that is the stuff of dirty bombs - is even worse. He said the score drops to 4 out of 10 when it comes to destroying chemical weapons. (He happily noted that Kazakhstan, Ukraine and Belarus all destroyed their stockpiles...
...There was one glimmer, literally, of light amidst all the darkness. The Nunn-Lugar program has dismantled and repurposed so much weapons-grade uranium in the last decade that 50% of the fuel currently consumed by U.S. nuclear power plants is now derived from warheads which once sat atop of Warsaw Pact rockets and missiles. Since about one fifth of all electricity in the U.S. comes from nuclear power plants, Nunn added, "One out of 10 of these light bulbs right here in this room, theoretically, comes from missile material that was aimed at us during the Cold...
...shots of the band standing around lakes and amusement parks. But then The Shins moved on to a number of serious, high-concept tropes, including Communist penguins (“So Says I”), sad origami cows (“Pink Bullets”), and most recently, a grade-school play in which children perform gory historical scenes (“Phantom Limb”). The Shins must have figured they couldn’t make things any more bizarre, because with the video for their new single “Australia,” they?...
...shouts Murrell, referring to the 10,000-word manifesto that the UC passed a couple weeks ago to codify its plan for changing the calendar. “All position papers are terrible because of their genre. It’s like 10 times the length of the third-grade persuasive essay.” Sundquist, at ease finally in boxers and a white T-shirt, does what he can to placate his flustered suitemate. But in reality he is not overly concerned. For one, Murrell’s outburst appears to be half in jest. And that notwithstanding...