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CU experts note positives, negatives and a plethora of pitfalls Just after the election of Barack Obama as the 44th president of the United States, a wry newspaper headline announced, 鈥淏lack Man Given Nation鈥檚 Worst Job.鈥� 鈥淎merica鈥檚 Finest News Source,鈥� also known as The Onion, was making a joke. But...

For Shakespeare festival, where there鈥檚 a Will, there鈥檚 a way, new leader hopes The Colorado Shakespeare Festival鈥檚 credentials run deep and wide. In 1975, for instance, it became the first American Shakespeare company to perform all 37 plays of the canon. Today, the festival is four plays away from completing...

As the rubble of the World Trade Center in New York was still smoldering, President George W. Bush told the nation that the terrorists came from a small group of religious extremists who 鈥渉ate our freedoms.鈥� That extremism, he said, 鈥減erverts the peaceful teachings of Islam.鈥� Religious tension is as...

Viewing worlds here, near and far, CU scholars seek answers With his usual irreverence, the author Bill Bryson recently ruminated on the origin of life. 鈥淚t is possible that events and conditions that led to the rise of life on Earth are not quite as extraordinary as we like to...

James Balog vividly illustrates the rapid retreat of ice sheets and glaciers on Earth. His work, which has appeared on the cover of National Geographic and on PBS, turns climate-change skeptics into believers, he says. Balog鈥檚 time-lapse photography compresses months of ice retreat into a few minutes of dramatic footage,...

Ruth and Ken Wright have a long history of professional success. The pair also has an abiding passion for the poetry of Shakespeare. Their work and personal interests are as complementary as they are to each other. Ruth is an attorney who spent years as a state legislator and environmental...

They are instructive today, historian says World War I shattered the people and the collective psyche of Great Britain, but the war鈥檚 end did not stop the strife or suffering. Between 1918 and 1931, the shell-shocked people and their nation sought to regain a sense of order through repression and...

Collaborating couple pursues next generation of lasers When the first functioning laser was unveiled in 1960, people had no idea it would be used for surgery, let alone in bar-code readers and CD players. Experts speculated that the new device might be used to peel potatoes or to erase typing...

Genes increasing risk for mental disorders should have been weeded out of the gene pool. Why haven鈥檛 they been? Schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and other mental disorders usually appear by the time the sufferers are in their reproductive prime, and these people typically have fewer offspring (the currency of natural selection)...

Mountain Research Station chief expands understanding of alpine environments Bill Bowman on Niwot Ridge near the Continental Divide. A caption accompanying this picture on Bowman's web site says, "My field office - where work really gets done." Bill Bowman is a Colorado native whose parents graduated from the University of...