Populism redux.
POPULISM, ACCORDING TO a brief dictionary definition, is political philosophy supporting the rights and power of the people in their struggle against the privileged elite. Populists, as historian Michael Kazin describes them, "conceive of the ordinary people as a noble assemblage not bounded narrowly by class, view their elite...

GOING LONG.
Byline: ROAD TO EUGENE '08 The Register-Guard Breaux Greer is the nation's best javelin thrower. He set the American record at 299 feet, 6 inches last year, breaking his own record; it was the farthest throw in the world last year, first time an American has accomplished...

RUN, LOLO, RUN.
Byline: IN THE SPOTLIGHT The Register-Guard In March, Lolo Jones won the gold medal in the 60-meter hurdles in the IAAF Indoor World Championships in Spain. It was her first gold in international competition - in fact, her first medal. And yet, the...

The life of a ghost town: people may abandon a town, but something of them remains--and then there are those things go bump in the night.
Gaze into one of the ramshackle buildings in Bodie, California, and you might see dust-covered furniture, an old muffin pan, rusty tins, and broken kerosene lamps. Or you might see a fully stocked general store with original wooden boxes and shelves with tin cans. The old gold-mining town, once...

Investigational spinal spacer implanted for first time in USA.
A titanium interspinous spacer for the treatment of lumbar spinal stenosis (LSS), currently holding investigational status, was implanted successfully for the first time in a US patient. The condition LSS is a common and debilitating problem for people over the age of 50. Developers of the device,...

Peonage in New Orleans.
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Sabulal Vijayan wishes he could have turned down the promise of a better life: a job in America, a permanent residency green card, and a way out of pipe-fitting for a pittance in the...

An unnerving environment: <<urban areas provide sanctuary, shielding, recruitment for extremists and provide fertile ground for humanitarian crises,>> General William Wallace, the Commanding General of the US Army Training and Doctrine Command, told delegates at the 2008 Armor Conference at Fort Knox, Kentucky an 5 May. If current trends continue almost 60% (five billion) of population will live in urban areas by 2030.
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The Marine Corps System Command (Marcorsyscom), briefing contenders bidding for the Combined Arms Military Operations in Urban Terrain (Camout) contracts, explained that extensive studies by the Marine Corps Warfighting Laboratory have shown that units trained to operate an integrated combined arms team are more successful...

Giving back; Seniors in encore careers a welcome service.
Byline: Elaine Thompson At 75, Gladys E. Wood vows to never retire again. After 20 years with Worcester Area Cooperating Libraries, a coalition of mostly academic libraries, she retired at 70 to care for three elderly relatives. When the last one died two years ago,...

ADHA Exhibits at the National Conference of State Legislatures Annual Legislative Summit.
For the fourth consecutive year, ADHA participated in the National Conference of State Legislatures' (NCSL) Annual Legislative Summit. NCSL, a bipartisan organization that serves as a resource to state legislators and their staff, hosts the annual meeting, which attracts legislators and staff from all over the country. The Summit,...

Moot Court: Hamdi v Rumsfeld.
Yaser Esam Hamdi was captured when his military unit surrendered in Afghanistan in late 2001. He had an AK-47. The U.S. government believed he had trained with the Taliban and had ties to al Qaeda. He was sent to Guantanamo Bay as an "enemy combatant." Hamdi had been born...