Vargas Llosa wins Nobel: finally, a worthy recipient
Mario Vargas Llosa won the Nobel Prize in Literature on Thursday. It’s about time someone worthy wins the Nobel in Literature.
Mario Vargas Llosa won the Nobel Prize in Literature on Thursday. It’s about time someone worthy wins the Nobel in Literature.
The most-populous city in the U.S. has a liter-sized problem, according to the city’s mayor Michael Bloomberg. Bloomberg’s ongoing campaign to fight obesity, which targets more than half of the adults in New York City, has gone from asking for salt restrictions to proposing a 2-year plan to ban using federally distributed food stamps on sugar-sweetened drinks, like soda. The federal food stamp program, which has been around since the ’60s, currently bans using food stamps for cigarettes, alcohol and prepared foods, like deli and bakery sandwiches. And while there is certainly some merit to thinking Bloomberg has no business doing your Dew or telling you where to spend your stamps, there is some merit to his effort. Over the last 30 years, the consumption of sugary drinks, like soda, have more than doubled, and Bloomberg’s proposed 2-year ban on food stamps for the popular beverages aims to attack the connection between consuming high levels of sugar and the development of type-2 diabetes. The climbing levels of obesity and the resulting health effects are certainly frightening for America’s future.
A bill may soon become law that would require the regulation of volume on commercials.
Last week marked the announcement of this year’s Nobel prizes in medicine, physics, chemistry, literature and peace. Here's what you should know about this year's Nobelists.
Some illegal immigrants rely on human traffickers and drug cartels to get across the border, but a recent report found that this leads to crimes more horrific than illegal immigration.
Elizabeth Gilbert’s bestseller, “Eat, Pray, Love,” has recently come under the criticism of being “priv-lit,” or literature of the privileged. But books like Gilbert's provide an “affordable” opportunity to be transported to a different life through her writing and glean from them what we will.
When it comes to viewing women and men equally, or at least treating them as such, America still has a long way to go.
Anyone who regularly walks past the Memorial Union is sure to have seen lively, if not uncivil, arguments over any number of issues.
ASU’s decision to implement a study abroad program with Ben-Gurion University sends the wrong message about our University’s values.
A Rasmussen telephone survey found more people think race relations are getting better. But in a post-racial presidency, why are there still pessimists?
Bravo to the return of Tempe Town Lake. Boo to the NBA referees at Wednesday’s Toronto Raptors vs. Phoenix Suns game for kicking out two players for excessive butt slapping.
Proposition 100, a temporary 1-cent-per-dollar sales tax increase meant to fund education and public safety, has fallen short. And our education will soon follow.
The syphilis and penicillin experiments performed in Guatemala in the 1940s are unfortunate, but the current generation is not responsible for them.
Going green might not be as hard as you think. Attending ASU is an unrecognized way to go green. The University is one of the leaders in the new green revolution.
Tyler Clementi’s tragic death should be a wake-up call to our web-obsessive cultures potential negative side. His roommate had the gall to stream Clementi because the online community unfortunately does little to discourage this type of practice.
Why aren’t Latino voters mad as hell? At least in Arizona, you’d think an immigration law so racially charged that it prompted the federal government to sue the state would get Latinos to show up on Election Day.
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