Monthly Archives: August 1999

Not in Kansas Anymore

The college students return this weekend, high school football teams have been practicing for two weeks. Mornings are cool in New England and summer is nearly over. The school year begins next week or the week after, depending on where you live, and school officials have been busy hatching plans to improve local education systems. […]

Vive la Difference

Maybe you can file this one under “tomorrow’s news today.” As November turns to December, a story prominently displayed in the news will be the meeting of the World Trade Organization in Seattle. In one sense, this is not news. Week in and week out, there is almost always some kind of international trade meeting […]

Apocalypse Now

If you can hear me then the world did not come to an end yesterday when the last solar eclipse of the millennium threw a moonshadow across Europe, supposedly conjoining prophecies by Nostradamus and Malachy of Armagh in an event some said would bring the death of the pope or the Mir space station crashing […]

You Dirty Rat

Did you hear they’re replacing laboratory rats with lawyers? It seems there are some things rats just won’t do. Okay, that’s a joke, and perhaps not a good one. But sometimes truth is stranger than humor and as it turns out, rats are being replaced, not with lawyers, but with plastic.