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Aries (March 21-April 19) - If you missed the Super Bowl this past Sunday, just watch ESPN for the next month. You should be able to piece the game together during their endless analysis.Taurus (April 20-May 20) - Writing horoscopes is a lot like studying history, except that history deals with the past, and horoscopes […]
Men's basketball rises to second place in UAA
Just one week after beating Emory University and Case Western Reserve University in the Palestra, the Yellowjackets defeated them both on the road to sweep their second consecutive UAA conference weekend. On Friday, UR traveled to Atlanta where they defeated Emory, 81-65. In their second game, they came away with a 67-56 victory over Case […]
Women take two more on the road
The Yellowjackets hit the road last weekend to take on Emory University in Atlanta and Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland. The 'Jackets (17-2) entered the games ranked No. 7 in the nation and were looking to move up the UAA standings. In two close games, the 'Jackets came out on top, defeating Emory, 68-63, […]
Potter piques interest
J.K. Rowling recently announced that the last book in the Harry Potter series, code-named "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows," will be released on July 21, completing a 10-year odyssey that saw Harry become a worldwide phenomenon and a wildly successful movie franchise, making the author a billionaire. In my lifetime, there have been several […]
Biologists featured in top magazine
UR biologist H. Allen Orr and graduate student John Paul Masly have recently published a series of research papers on genetics that has been ranked as the seventh most important scientific breakthrough by Science Magazine, the world's premiere natural sciences research journal.Masly's research, funded predominantly by the National Institute of Health, has taken more than […]
Indiscretions cause chagrin
Of the politicians we care about, 99 percent of them work at the national level. They are our senators, our congressmen and our president. Rarely, if ever, do you hear about anyone at the state level, and almost never at the local level, unless of course it's Michael Bloomberg or political machine Richard Daley. But […]
Music to our ears
There are at least four concerts playing tonight in Rochester, and they are all taking place at the Eastman School of Music, one of the top ranked musical institutions in the nation.Most likely, those who are not enrolled at Eastman have never been to Eastman. Although the school is separated from the River Campus by […]
Warming protocol needs global participation
Recently, The New York Times reported that French President Jacques Chirac is seeking to impose a carbon tax on the United States for its failure to sign the Kyoto Climate Protocol. Then again, this man is so intent on protecting the environment that he restarted nuclear weapons testing when he entered office in the mid-1990s. […]
Civics supported
Because we live on a campus isolated by barriers on three sides, we often forget that we are part of a greater community - the city of Rochester. As members of this community, we have a duty to work with the city residents toward its betterment, and this is something at which we have struggled […]
Possible cancer treatment found
Researchers at the UR Medical Center have purportedly discovered a new way to fight cancers of the esophagus, liver, skin, colon and rectum. The researchers inadvertently discovered that a collection of compounds known as peroxisome-proliferator-activated-receptor-gamma (PPARy) inhibitors have cancer-fighting characteristics (particularly against colorectal cancer cell lines). The team, headed by Katherine Schaefer, Ph.D., recently published […]
