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Column: Timeline shows all to Facebook users
Facebook never forgets. When I switched from my old Facebook profile to the timeline layout about a month ago, I regretted ever getting a Facebook at all. Everything I had ever done on Facebook was there.
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Column: Colbert a welcome thorn in the side of GOP
Political satirist and pundit Stephen Colbert of "The Colbert Report" announced Thursday his interest in running for "President of the United States of South Carolina.
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Column: Changing your diet can be cheap
Every doctor that’s ever practiced general medicine has used the phrase “diet and exercise.” If you want to lose weight — diet and exercise. If you want to live to 100 — diet and exercise. If you want to leap tall buildings in a single bound, you guessed it — diet and exercise.
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Column: Why eating the rich won’t solve any problems
Liberals, it's often said, pride themselves on being generous with other people's money. With their own money, though, the story can be quite different.
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Column: Personhood amendment lacks logic
Earlier this year, Mexico’s Supreme Court ruled that life begins at conception. Many have coined this ruling as the reverse of Roe v. Wade and in the US we have already begun to feel the effects of this major ruling.
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Column: Facebook Timeline review
Although planning and preparation for the spring semester is in full gear for many students on campus, the most popular social networking site in the United States is asking users to put down the planner and hop in the DeLorean.
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Column: SOPA infringes on free speech
He’s twenty-eight years late, but the fear of Big Brother isn’t over yet. Big Brother is the dictator of George Orwell’s “1984″, but I’m not talking about a generic totalitarian figurehead. I’m talking about a much worse evil that could cripple the Internet.
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Column: More emphasis should be on America’s waste problem
Approximately 263 million pounds of food were thrown away in the United States yesterday, despite the fact a majority of it was perfectly good to eat. Initially, it seems like a grandmother's proverb – "Clean your plate.
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Column: New bill would kill family farm
There is no place like a farm to learn hard work. Anyone who has spent even one summer working for a farm enterprise can attest to the work ethic required to maintain a level of success. Even in this era of technological advancement and mechanization, it is a sun-up-to-sun-down occupation.