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Columns & Sections

Book Reviews
& Library News
Ta Dah! It's Librarypalooza III
There Once Was a Lady from Ester
public announcements

The Big One
The Bomb: A Life
by Gerard DeGroot

100 Suns
by Michael Light

book reviews

by David A. James

Calendar of Events

Cartoons
"Top of the Hill"
by
Jamie Smith

"(th)ink: global warming"
by Keith Knight

"Salmonella Bears"
by Bill Runkle, Jr.

Editorial
From the Top Down
DNA Testing for All?
Real Crap

Firebreak
Brutus Flambé
by D. Helfferich

Index of the Absurd

Letters to the Editor
W.J. Stringer
Carla Helfferich

Movie Reviews
Video Dreamland
The Departed
Alibis and Lies
This Movie is Not Yet Rated
Broken Bridges
Flags of Our Fathers

Marie Antoinette
Running with Scissors
Lady in the Water

movie reviews
by Thela Clayton

poetry
"On Leaving the Farm"
by Trish Johnson

The Postal News
public announcement
Science Café

Ray's View from the Lump

Winter Wings
the Magpie
courtesy the Alaska Bird Observatory

FEATURES

Live Free, or Die
A History and Analysis of the Bill of Rights in Several Acts
by Kate Billington & Hannah Hill

The Bill of Rights is an important document in our nation's history, conceived and amended to the Constitution early on. Its implications are as relevant today as at America's early Continental Congresses--if not more so.

The Long View: The Heart of Laws and Men
by Ross Coen

Alaska's constitution is a well-written document, making sure that our state is governed by laws, not men. Yet Frank Murkowski's term in office was marked by a constitutional crisis that came about when he was ill--and nobody knew.

The Missionary Position On Biblical Inerrancy
opinion by Neal Matson

Those who say that the Bible is the literal truth may need an arithmetic refresher.

Poker Play in Green
by Tom Sorensen

The Green Movement swept the table with this card player, and a sore tooth and Eddie the Beagle weren't much help.

River Forked Again
by Elzbeth Adams

Tommy is always up for an adventure, and Althea is always up for a run, but this time our snowmachine trip seemed like self-inflicted trouble!

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