by Nathan Cooper Music surrounds our everyday lives, from our car stereos and iPods, to the ringtones on our cell-phones. It is a part of our lives that I find most enjoyable. The problem with Pensacola is that there just isn’t a good enough venue to support a halfway decent music scene. Sure, there are...
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Gulf Coast Pirates make a splash in Auburn
Dawn Baird Published: February 22, 2006 Pensacola Junior College’s Gulf Coast Pirate Swimmers brought home a trophy after winning first place in the 2006 Auburn Masters Invitational Swim Meet Feb. 11-12. Swimmers, separated into age groups, competed in freestyle, backstroke, breaststroke, butterfly, and IM categories, winning by a whopping 500 points and outdoing last year’s...
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Public’s hopes encourage steroid use
Published: February 22, 2006 The Winter Olympic Games in Turin have been accompanied by the usual controversy over athlete steroid use. Officials say that the Turin games have the most rigorous performance enhancer testing of any Winter Olympics to date. About 1,200 samples are being tested, a 72 percent increase over the number tested at...
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Readers are the losers in magazine advertising game
Yonit Shames Published: February 22, 2006 Women’s magazines cater to a growing consumer base, one that publishers are more than happy to sell to. What they have discovered in the process is the winning formula, and boy, are they sticking to it. As the rest of the magazine market expands and specializes, many women’s magazines...
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MySpace is not to blame for Internet predation
Yonit Shames Published: February 22, 2006 The headline says it all: “Teens at Risk on Web Sites, Experts Say.” The dangerous, predator-magnet that the Internet has allegedly become takes the heat for murders and other heinous crimes. The top Associated Press story hit a few days ago, citing various experts who offer networking websites such...
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Ask Joi…
Published: February 22, 2006 Hello again folks! Before I get to the questions I have a few things I would like to say. Because I am not actually allowed in the Corsair office unescorted (due to an incident involving feathers and jumper cables) I email in my column. I do not see most of my...
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Obama’s Appointment to Head the National Intelligence Council Must Be Removed
by Paul Smith The Obama administration has named Charles “Chas” Freeman as chairman of the National Intelligence Council, the organization responsible for compiling intelligence from 16 different government agencies to produce National Intelligence Estimates. The right-wing is up in arms about Freeman’s appointment due to his previous statements expressing some tepid solidarity with Palestinian issues....
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The Power of the People
by Ben Johnson With millions of people walking the streets every day, strangers that you have never met doing what they like and with no concern for you, it’s an easy thing to feel like your small actions don’t make a difference. Well, let me tell you something: what you do as an individual (low/middle...
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Eating on the Go: Starting Your Day
by Ben Johnson In my previous article, we talked about some basic ideas on what to eat at certain times of the day. In this article, we’ll discuss the reasons why – starting with breakfast. Starting with breakfast, when you wake up in the morning, your body is a little dehydrated. Think about it; if you...
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I Got to Ask Bill Maher a Question
by Paul Smith Recently for The Corsair, I took part in a conference call interview with Bill Maher (stand-up comedian and host of Real Time with Bill Maher on HBO) who is currently promoting the DVD release of his documentary Religulous, which lampoons what Bill sees as the ridiculous beliefs systems of the world’s different...