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ISSUE 64
Feb. 15-22, 2008
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FRONT PAGE  LOCAL NEWS

FRONT PAGE

CAMPUS NEWS:
     SKI
     SEARCH
    MOVIES
    SAFE-RIDES
    FOGEL
    STORM
    CONCERT
    BASEBALL
     SHWA

SPORTS:
     SCORES
    
  
SENIOR PROFILE:
     HANDY
   
A&E:
     STRIKE

BLOG:
     FOOTPRINT

PROF:
      DROGY

 HOMETOWN HERO:
     COTE
    

PAST ISSUES


 


 
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INTERNATIONAL NEWS NATIONAL NEWS

Philippines President assassination plot

 

 

 

 

     Philippine authorities went on high alert Thursday after officials discovered a plot to assassinate President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo.
     One day before planned demonstrations by groups in Manila, demanding her resignation and accusing her of corruption, the chief of the president's security staff announced the supposed threat to the public.
     The plot was planned by the Abu Sayyaf terrorist group and Jemaah Islamiyah, a Southeast Asian extremist group that authorities say has been operating in the southern Philippines, according Brig. Gen. Romeo Prestoza.
     The military declared a "red alert" in the metropolitan area of Manila after intelligence reports that the communist New People's Army was planning to creep into the demonstrations on Friday and launch violent attacks.
     An advisory was issued by the United States Embassy on Thursday warning Americans to "exercise extreme caution." Americans are discouraged to travel to areas of the southern Philippines because of the high threat of terrorism.
    The plot has caused President Arroyo to cancel a trip to the northern city of Baguio, on Friday.

Toxic
fumes
found
in FEMA
trailers    
  

     FEMA provided about 120,000 travel trailers to victims of hurricanes Katrina and Rita. In 2006, some occupants began reporting headaches and nosebleeds. The complaints were linked to formaldehyde.  Formaldehyde  has been classified as a carcinogen by the International Agency for Research on Cancer. The formaldehyde fumes cause burning eyes and breathing problems for people who have asthma or sensitivity to air pollutants.
     The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) are increasing their efforts to move victims out of more than 35,000 trailers that have tested to have high levels of formaldehyde contamination. 
     The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) said fumes from 519 tested trailer and mobile homes in Louisiana and Mississippi were on average five times what people are exposed to in most modern homes, and in some the levels were more than 50 times the normal exposure levels.
     Mike McGeehin, director of a CDC division that focuses on environmental hazards, said, "We do not want people exposed to this for very much longer."
     Last May, FEMA officials dismissed findings by environmentalists that the trailers posed serious health risks. 
     Sen. Barack Obama called for President Bush to "immediately find safe shelter for these families, who have suffered so much."
 

SENIOR PROFILE

 
    Senior Jordan Handy sat down with  Exchange staff and talked about future prospects for law school, Franklin Pierce as his "family" and his passion for meeting new people.

 

PROFS INTO PEOPLE
                      

This self-proclaimed sports nut who loves to vacation in Martha's Vineyard and the White Mountains, first studied geology in college.  Professor Ronald Drogy shares some advice for the graduating class of 2008.
 
SPORTS


     Women's and Men's Basketball took on St. Anselm College and the hockey team skated against UMass Dartmouth. Check out the scores from these games in the box score section.
 

FOOD FOR THOUGHT

 The smarter you are, the better you lie

     Your brains and lying go hand in hand according to new research from Dr. Nancy Darling, from Penn State University.

 Darling and a group of students formed a team that carried out an experiment with high school students using a deck of cards. Each card had a topic that the team found that teens commonly lied about. By the end of the experiment the team found that "98 percent of  teens lied to their parents," and "out of 36 topics, the average teen was lying to his parents about twelve of them." Research also found that even honor students "didn't change these numbers much."

What these students often lied about the most during the experiment was, drinking, drugs, where they spent their time, chaperones, dating, and the clothes they wore.

So what does brains have to do with it? According to an article in the New York Magazine, lying begins at the ages of 2 and 3. Dr. Victoria Talwar, an assistant professor at Montreal's McGill University and also an "expert on children's lying behavior," said,  "Lying is related to intelligence."

Children who lie understand what truth is and "intellectually conceive of an alternate reality, to convincingly sell that new reality to someone else." Ultimately what was concluded was that in order to lie well, it required  cognitive development and social skills.

"If your four year old is a good liar, it's a strong sign she's got brains." And according to Talwar, lying is often something that children grow into.

To read more, you can find the article "Learning to Lie," at http://nymag.com/.


 
CAMPUS NEWS
What's going on around campus:

News Briefs:

  • Professors Benjamin Treat and Jed Donelan are a bringing a group of students to San Antonio next week for the thirteenth annual Ethics Bowl.  The team qualified because of their performance at the regional Ethics Bowl at Villanova in November.  This team of seven students has been preparing 15 cases which present one or more ethical dilemmas.  At the competition, they will face off against one of the 31 other schools who qualified.

OPINION

     Safe Rides could do more good for students if they expanded the program to locations off campus, say two opinion writers.

     Do you know the impact you have on the world? Audra Clark tested her ecological footprint and she didn't like what she found.
   

HEALTH AWARENESS

Dark chocolate is a healthy choice         

On average, Americans consume approximately 11 pounds of chocolate per person, per year. Although perceivably an unhealthy issue, it may not be quite as bad as it appears.

Cocoa found in the dark chocolate is a good source of magnesium and flavonoid content. This means that dark chocolate contains potent antioxidants similar to those found in blueberries, cranberries, green teas, red wine, and cock beans. These antioxidants are known for fighting off heart disease, increasing cardiovascular health, lowering blood pressure, and decreasing LDL (bad cholesterol) levels.

Arrika Knights describes the benefits of chocolate in greater detail.
 
ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT
    
     Are you sick of crummy TV?  At last the end has come. The writers strike that has plagued Hollywood is officially over.
 
WEEKEND'S BEST BETS

  • Keene Lions Club presents: Annie Get Your Gun at the Colonial Theatre.  There are two showings, one at 8 p.m. on Friday the 15th and at 2 p.m. on Saturday the 16th.

  • Saturday February 23, Adventure Recreation is hosting a ski trip to Waterville Valley.  Tickets are $40 or $20 for Nordic Skiing.  Contact Adventure Rec at extension 4382.

  • The Woodbound Inn in Rindge is having a $28 Valentines Day dinner special this weekend.  For more info or to make reservations call  the Inn at 800 688-7770.

NEW!  HOMETOWN HERO  NEW!

      This week’s ‘Hometown Hero’ is junior Tom Cote, from Swanzey, New Hampshire. Cote sat down with Exchange staff and discussed his experience as a student athlete for the Ravens. 
 
                  
  * Thanks to A. Powell Davies
          
THE EXCHANGE: WHO WE ARE


     The Exchange is a student-produced newspaper
       that appears weekly.  This week's managing editor
       is Suzann Kowalski.
                 

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