Flu vaccine success should spill over

More kids and adults received the regular flu vaccine this flu season than last year, the CDC reported this week. Forty percent of the population rolled up their sleeves for a shot in the arm late in 2009 and early this year. During the previous flu season, only 33 percent of country was vaccinated.
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Peach

With the way children came in and out of my house, it’s no wonder I believed for the greater portion of my childhood that babies really did get dropped on doorsteps by storks.
She came just like all the other kids.
Instead of a long beaked bird, though, storks came in the form of frumpily dressed social [...]

Shades of Gray

By Natalie Minik

P.S. LOL, BRB

A man sitting in a Kroger parking lot finishes a letter to his wife. It reads:
Dearest Martha,
I regret to tell you I could not obtain the Lean Cuisine Chicken Marsala for which your heart yearns, as it is out of stock. I have secured a packet of Healthy Choice Chicken Marsala, instead. I am ever [...]

My Athens

As part of a semester-long photo project, Rachel Bailey looked at what she loved about Athens, her adopted hometown.

Canopy Studio: A Community Takes Flight

Bright orange walls surround an open space draped with fabrics and ropes, the music soft and the atmosphere welcoming. In the center of the room a group of women twirl slowly upside down, with legs that seem impossibly strong entwined in the rigging of the trapeze. They move deliberately through the air, bodies symmetric, almost [...]

The Vagina Monologues: Celebrating Women Everywhere

I walked into the UGA Chapel with a set of negative expectations weighing down my mind. I had first heard of the Vagina Monologues when I was a freshman, and having been brought up in a Southern town lacking any means for artistic expression, I thought it was wacky and sounded just a bit extreme. [...]

NPR Captures Spirit of Inauguration

Review of NPR’s coverage of the inauguration.

International Inaugural Coverage Hits and Misses

Review of BBC and Al-Jazeera Inaugural Day coverage.

Inauguration day with “the gossip queen”

The “Queen of all Media” gossiped the inauguration day away with updates of the events, mixed among the usual celebrity drama, of course.

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