2008 Woodie Awards
Last week, after blizzard-like conditions tore through Tuesday night, temperatures across Northeastern Wisconsin plummeted far below zero. The conditions combined such that high winds created a wind chill of -44 degrees, meaning danger of frostbite within 10 minutes of exposure (source: www.
So I have this feminist dilemma. Well, I have many feminist dilemmas (it's the nature of the beast), but this one has become increasingly pertinent since I became of age ... to drink, that is. OK, so before you can understand the full force of my problem, I have to set the scene for intelligibility.
All of the political bloggers are buzzing on about the housing crisis, and most all of them are pondering one thing, or, more accurately, one man. Who is this man who is rising to fame while the housing market crashes? Hyman Minsky -- an obscure and dead economist whose major theories were all proposed in the 1960s and 70s.
In days when global warming is a buzzword, when more and more oil-guzzling cars are on the roads every day releasing carbon dioxide, the Bush administration last week announced a plan to open 3.4 million acres of the Alaskan Tongass National Forest to logging.
Here's our take on the perennial issue of dressing for your size: KW: Okay. First, I would just like to say that you need to dress for the body you have, not for the body you want. CM: Yes, but dressing to highlight certain features may simply draw more attention to flaws.
My little brothers and sisters are real babies. Even the ones who are in college and should be doing drugs, don't -- or at least that is what I am assuming, since I never call them. Whenever I try to talk my siblings into using drugs or stealing or doing something similarly cool, they protest on legal grounds.
Dear Dr. Z, I recently started this "thing" with a girl, but it's not too serious, yet. Lately the same situation keeps coming up: I'm in my room with her, but so is my roommate! How do I get him to leave without it being weird?! Smoothly, Tongue-Tied Well Mr.
I am writing to offer a counterpoint to James Antony's one-sided portrayal of the case for isosceles trapezoids. I find it shocking that he failed to mention the circle. Each point in the circle sits in a position of ultimate equality. No point has preference when it comes to proximity to the all-important center.
To the editor: I was pleased to read articles online about an increase in youth turnout on February 5 primary day, in some instances a turnout so great that it helped propel Barack Obama to victory in a closely contested Missouri. I read that some states had a quadrupled youth voter turnout compared to four years ago.