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...they find most appealing.Astronomy 110: “Exoplanets” is for those interested in “how astronomers are finding planets and look for life,” Astronomy 130: “Cosmology” should be taken “if you want to learn about the big bang and the age of the universe,” and Astronomy 120: “Stellar Physics” discusses stars and their formation and degeneration, Charbonneau said. In addition, Astronomy 100: “Methods of Observational Astronomy,” will take students...
...Economics lecturer Jeffrey A. Miron thinks the U.S. should legalize drugs, because, as he simply puts it, it's the "only way to reduce violence." Prohibition means underground markets and the concomitant violence and corruption, he argues. Take Ec 1017 to learn more...
...fight the downturn and counter the previous failure, WPS has promised to learn from the mistakes that its predecessor, the WUSA, committed earlier this decade. Riding a euphoria that followed the U.S. victory in the 1999 World Cup (Brandi Chastain, shirt off), the WUSA's spending habits fit those overreaching times. "The churn rate in women's soccer 1.0 was dot.com-like," says Paul Swangard, managing director of the Warsaw Sports Marketing Center at the University of Oregon. The league, which folded in 2003, budgeted $40 million to finance its first five years of operation. It consumed $100 million...
...real place to learn about North Korea is probably China. The country, especially the northeast, has the largest population of North Korean exiles and refugees. That fact was probably not lost on Lee and Ling. Many of the refugees get help from human rights groups. One such activist, Tim Peters, who has visited this region in the past, thinks the two American TV journalists were trying to report on the plight of stateless orphans, the offspring of trafficked North Korean women repatriated back to the North. "It's a mushrooming problem," says Peters, who notes that authorities have been making...
...much political capital this incident will cost China and the U.S. America has extricated its citizens from North Korea in the past, so Ling and Lee should make it home eventually. One thing is for sure: their misadventure will make it an even more daunting task for journalists to learn about the lives of ordinary North Koreans...