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A couple of weeks before heading off to college for my first year at the University of Minnesota, an old gentleman at the county fair asked a friend and I where we were going to school. My friend said she would be heading to Carleton, while I stated that I would soon be at the U.
To her, he replied, “excellent.” To me, he said, “You’re never …
The Boyfriend List came into our lives in a rather roundabout way, as most hidden gems do. My roommate discovered it over winter break. Abandoned on the floor of a nine-year-old girl’s closet, it had been tossed aside by her thirteen-year-old sister. If Sarah hadn’t been in a cleaning mood that day, Ruby Oliver and her list of boyfriends never would have changed our lives.
The book follows 15-year-old Ruby through her sophomore year at Tate …
I tend to get motion sickness. Well, perhaps “tend” is not the correct way to explain. The sentence needs no auxiliary verb; I get motion sickness. I mean, a person who cannot play “Rainbow Road” on Mario Kart 64 without getting nauseous does not just “tend” to motion sickness.
The first time I became aware of my weakness was on a sixth grade trip to the Science Museum’s Omnitheatre. Before you get all excited and start …
The University of Minnesota announced on Feb. 9 that the graduate school would undergo a reorganization, effective fall of 2010. According to the U, the reorganization is a way to cut costs. With the current economic woes the country is facing and the state’s higher education budget cuts, it may seem like a good idea to cut costs wherever possible. Especially if, as the University claims, this reorganization …
To finally spark the creation of a clean energy economy, we will double the production of alternative energy in the next three years. We will modernize more than 75 percent of federal buildings and improve the energy efficiency of two million American homes, saving consumers and taxpayers billions on our energy bills. In the process, we will put Americans to work in new jobs that pay well and can’t be outsourced – jobs building solar …
When money is in short supply, people tighten their purse strings by avoiding restaurants, vacations, and movie dates.
But, at what point do people decide they can no longer afford to support little Fluffy or Rover?
For many families, that time is now, says Mary Ann Cameron, director of cat adoptions for Pet Haven Inc., a non-profit, foster-based animal rescue organization.
Cameron’s organization and some others …
There are many ways to combat drug use. You can punish the users or you can track down the dealers. You can impose huge fines or force junkies into rehab by threatening them with jail time. You can run sting operations with marked bills and undercover DEA agents. You can do cavity searches at all points of entry and train …
Peacemakers (2003)— As forensic science is becoming a tool in crimefighting in the 1800s, a federal marshal, an ex-Pinkerton agent and a local mortician team up to fight crime in Silver City, Colorado.
Annabelle (2005)— Mortician Henry Spencer falls in love with Annabelle, a corpse in his morgue. Despite the obvious complications, Annabelle is able to teach him that love is not as he thought.
Beverly Hills Bodysnatchers (1989)—Using borrowed money from the mafia, a doctor and …
“[We have funerals] not because it matters to the dead, but because it matters to the living.” – Thomas Lynch
When Levi Hendricks tells people he wants to be a mortician, he usually gets one of two reactions. Younger people generally find his choice of career morbid. Older people often launch off on a description of a wonderful funeral director who helped them, or someone they know, through a difficult time.
The mortuary science junior attributes the …