by Juliet Samuel | Nov 1, 2007 | News
According to fat pride activist Marilyn Waan, the American medical establishment has lost its head over the nationwide "obesity epidemic," and its prejudice is claiming victims.In one case, Waan says, a doctor told a fat woman complaining of shooting lights...
by our readers | Nov 1, 2007 | News
Old Main RememberedI just finished reading a gutwrenchingly romanticized eulogy of Old Main's demise (”How Not to Save Old Main,” Oct. 25, 2007). Old Main was the central building of the sprawling Northampton State Hospital, closed after over a century...
by Stephanie Kraft | Nov 1, 2007 | News
These Associated Press headlines jumped off the page during the last two weeks: "NASA withholds air safety survey;" "Major editing seen on CDC testimony on climate change." It seems that the president whose promise to protect the American people is...
by Maureen Turner | Nov 7, 2007 | News
Months into a frustrating search for a new home for Springfield's Mason Square library, momentum is building in support of what many see as the perfect site: 765 State Street.If that address sounds familiar, it's because that already was home to the library...
by Stephanie Kraft | Nov 8, 2007 | News
In an age that will see more and more determined resource grabs, Americans must make hard decisions about the morality and practicality of looting the rest of the world for vital commodities. It's just begining to dawn on many of us that "water is the next...
