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Serving the UMN community since 1900

The Minnesota Daily

Opinion

Local smoke-free policies work

Published August 18, 2003

SBy Isis Stark econdhand smoke kills approximately 65,000 nonsmokers every year and is the third-leading cause of preventable death in the United States. Secondhand smoke causes 300,000 cases of childhood...

Why is Bush protecting Saudi Arabia?

by Karl Noyes
Published August 11, 2003

Not since Lee Harvey Oswald has there been a patsy so easy to pin as Saddam Hussein. No tears will be shed over Saddam's departure. However, if not for the events of Sept. 11, 2001, he would still be in...

The imperative of funding basic science

by Erik Nelson
Published August 11, 2003
Someone who had begun to read geometry with Euclid, when he had learned the first proposition, asked Euclid, "But what shall I get by learning these things?" whereupon Euclid called his slave and said, "Give him three-pence, since he must make gain o

City pages provides no alternative whatsoever

Published August 4, 2003

TBy Pete Wagner he July 16 City Pages' cover story attacks the St. Paul Pioneer Press for being owned by a large, nonlocal corporation. This is the height of hypocrisy considering that City Pages was itself...

Watching out for your butt

Published August 4, 2003

YBy Matthew Schoettmer oung, skinny, wimpy dudes have been taking it from behind for ages. Literally. In 1824, at the conclusion of a prison tour along the East Coast and in the South, Rev. Louis Dwight...

One nation, indivisible under Wal-Mart

Published August 4, 2003

IBy Douglas Voigt t's hardly surprising Wal-Mart has become the epitome of U.S. business and commerce - taught to ambitious young business students as the ideal model of corporate efficiency. With cheap...

Planning the future of Minnesota’s national forests

Published August 4, 2003

IBy Molly Rosenblatt t's not very Minnesotan to boast, but we have some of the most beautiful natural areas in the United States, including the Superior and Chippewa national forests. They are a big part...

Misfiring on the Second Amendment

Published July 28, 2003

IBy Douglas Harding n his July 14 online opinions piece "Ban Concealed Weapons at the U," Earl McDowell asserts "the people" do not have individual rights guaranteed to them by the U.S. Constitution. This...

Liberals need to rise above

Published July 28, 2003

IBy Marty Andrade 've been around enough to know that humans are sexual beings. I know, this revelation was a shock to me too. I have also figured out that sex is a big part of people's lives. Jeez, another...

Be wary of the liberal-conservative trap

by Karl Noyes
Published July 28, 2003

The liberal versus conservative "debate" has ignited talk radio and print for many years now and has inspired the genesis of countless organizations, rants and bumper stickers. The political volleying...

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