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...insane, especially not the locked-up, straight-jacketed kind that Big Nurse just wants to subdue. But the mentally ill are products of society too; they are influenced by culture and they carry the same fears and fascinations as the sane minds that surround them. Craziness may be more normal than we think...
...Dining Services released its biannual online Satisfaction Survey, which focuses more on sustainability than on actual food. Though promoting more environmentally friendly eating habits is commendable, “taking shorter showers” and “turning off the lights” should not be part of normal eating routines... Ever. That would be odd. To rectify a certain lack of student voice in the survey, FM has decided to take matters into our own hands to find out what students really want from their dining experience with a survey...
...voters, or 3.2 million people, are expected today at the polls in Missouri, which has no early voting. Secretary of State Robin Carnahan is warning of long lines and urging people to "come ready to wait it out." Voters casting absentee ballots - the demand has been nearly twice the normal level this year - have had to wait two hours or more in Kansas City and St. Louis. Adding to fears of chaos is the sheer length of the ballot. For instance, in St. Louis County - a key suburban area outside central St. Louis - three sales tax hikes are among...
...over 6 feet tall and is wearing a bright yellow-and-blue African print shirt, Malik towers over the animals and their owners in the center of the market. In the end, he buys two impressive looking animals for 17,000 Kenyan shillings each (around $220), well above the normal price. The implications of Barack Obama's rise will be discussed for years. But for Malik, one lesson is already clear: Don't buy a cow on the day your half-brother is expected to be elected President of the United States...
...allow the conversation to turn to the supernatural and the stereotypical, and the sober-minded Estonian disappears in an instant. "Of course we have a ghost! This is Tallinn!" Anne Orro, a gray-haired receptionist in the medieval capital, exclaimed one rainy October evening recently. "It's not normal not to have a ghost...