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...Although it did not take Gibbons long to get his name on the stat sheet, logging a goal and an assist in his second game, his numbers this season certainly speak to vast improvement.After 10 games, the rookie boasts the team’s second-highest point total with 17, including eight in the last three contests. Perhaps more impressively, though, Gibbons has shown tremendous maturity, accumulating most of these points through his team-leading 11 assists.This unselfish behavior has endeared the rookie to head coach John Tillman, who has the utmost praise for the budding star...
...renewable resource—oil. But it’s misleading to claim that their use constitutes a crisis. All of America’s annual 100 billion plastic bags are made from 12 million barrels of oil—0.15 percent of the U.S.’s total yearly oil consumption. And a Waste Characterization Study for California in 2004 concluded that the bags account for just 0.4 percent of the total content of landfills...
...Nationwide, about 10 more states, including Illinois, have started reporting mental health information to the federal database since the Virginia Tech tragedy - bringing the total to 32. Other states are considering laws to improve their reporting, but many of those bills are not expected to pass into law. For now, in other words, 18 states still would not report someone like Seung Hui Cho, the Virginia Tech killer, to the federal database...
...here to say that we have to begin to end this war now.” Obama should be reminded that opposing war is very different from ending it. As bad as things in Iraq might now be, anyone can see that a total absence of American troops would have terrible human and strategic consequences: no Iraqi state government, a full-blown ethnic showdown between Sunnis and Shiites, Kurdish independence leading to conflict with Turkey, and the discourse of Islamic extremism would be vindicated. In addition, this ‘Iraq-sized’ no-man’s land...
...them. I have so much sympathy for them.” Timothy M. Garrity, a converted Buddhist who studies with Harvard Buddhist Chaplain Lama Migmar Tseten, recited a Tibetan prayer for the deceased halfway through the vigil. Phunkhang said that the vigils will be held continuously for a total of 49 days and periodically after that. According to Tibetan religion, 49 is the number of days it takes for the spirit to leave the body after death...