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High Schoolers, Drugs, and Community Realities

September 28, 2013 | Filed under: Analysis

Ostensibly, my town is composed of two key demographics: cautious and conservative government personnel and their families. Because of its geographical proximity to two separate military posts, plus neighborhood amenities such as middle and high schools and the Jesus Christ Church of Latter-Day Saints, the community presents a reserved attitude that shields it from …

Perspective for Hire

  • Silk Road’s Closure: An Impactful Hit on the Illegal Drug Market
    Silk Road’s Closure: An Impactful Hit on the Illegal Drug Market

    As you have probably already heard, the FBI recently seized and closed down the notorious black market Internet site “Silk Road,” along with its creator, Read more →

  • A Voice for Compromise: Councilwoman Jill Gaebler
    A Voice for Compromise: Councilwoman Jill Gaebler

    I caught Colorado Springs Councilwoman Jill Gaebler rushing from a television interview. Her eyes glinted with excitement and a bit of mischief as she described a Read more →

News

  • The West Nile Virus Remains an Unwelcome Visitor
    The West Nile Virus Remains an Unwelcome Visitor

    Despite its relative obscurity, the West Nile Virus still poses a potential threat to nearly anyone in America, which means its origins and evolution need to be understood. The West Nile Virus is carried by Read more →

  • White Tattoos Are In
    White Tattoos Are In

    Over the past few years, a new style of tattoo has made an appearance in the ink world. Specifically, the artist still creates a shape or design, but instead of using black or various colors Read more →

  • In Memory of Seamus Heaney, 1939-2013
    In Memory of Seamus Heaney, 1939-2013

    Digging Between my finger and my thumb The squat pen rests; snug as a gun. Under my window, a clean rasping sound When the spade sinks into gravelly ground: My father, digging. I look down Read more →

Opinion

  • Time to Hit a Home Run in Downtown Colorado Springs
    Time to Hit a Home Run in Downtown Colorado Springs

    The controversy surrounding the proposal to relocate the Colorado Springs Sky Sox’s stadium has become a misguided battle between perception and reality. The impression many citizens seem to have is that Mayor Steve Bach is a puppet of some very Read more →

  • The Blight of Young Adult Fiction
    The Blight of Young Adult Fiction

    Getting booed by a class of thirteen-year-old girls only required four words from me: “I didn’t like Twilight.” The clamor subsided once I launched into some logical reasons behind the choice: Bella is a poor Read more →

  • Lab-Grown Meat: Your Dinner of the Near Future
    Lab-Grown Meat: Your Dinner of the Near Future

    Modern technology has made food cheaper, more transportable, pathogen resistant, and even amusing. Still, many manufactured foods contain little nutritional value, and produce markets around the globe continue to become increasingly geographically homogeneous. Food industrialization Read more →

Analysis

  • Guessing the Fate of the Cosmos
    Guessing the Fate of the Cosmos

    The hope that humanity will one day expand beyond its solar system, drift in space on self-supporting vessels, and explore other planets is almost universal. The theme occupies a central place in science fiction. We Read more →

  • Meme’s the Word
    Meme’s the Word

    The scientific revolution spawned by The Origin of Species is now morphing in ways Charles Darwin himself might not have expected, as the principles of adaptation and natural selection are manifesting themselves in fields far removed from biology. Most notably, when applied Read more →

  • American Hospitality, Russian Style
    American Hospitality, Russian Style

    A few friends and I show up to a nondescript storefront on the corner of a busy intersection surrounded by food chains and major corporations. Waiting in anticipation for the store to open, we organize Read more →

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