• Franz, Chapman and the Minard Hall Collapse Behind the Scene.
• NDSU, however one defines it, hasn't done anything wrong: only two individuals, one, the Fargo Forum's man of the year
• This coming Monday. the mostly unqualified NDSU Presidential Search Committee will announce which of the under qualified candidates it prefers to be NDSU's next president.
• Steve Swiontek , chair of the presidential search committee at NDSU, even though not being formally associated with the University, announced the finalists for the position.
• American's accomplishment should not be belittled. We scored in sports for which the podium had been only viewed from a distance by US athletes.
• Cormac McCarthy(Brokeback Mountain, No Country for Old Men), The Road, is no playing on the off Broadway screen at the Fargo Theatre.
• Obama Pays North Dakota Big in 2009 Healthcare Debate
• This decline has been going on at NDSU for well over thirty years, and I see it as a crisis.
• Condition of NDSU is Bleak....Creeping Meatballism
• Graduation North Dakota State University 2009

Today Most Interesting Topics

BANK BUSTER: President calls for biggest regulatory overhaul since 1930s…
Bloomberg rips; Warns of more lay offs in city…
SPLIT: Geithner has concerns over proposed limits…
Senate Dems Not Sure Enough Votes to Reconfirm Bernanke…
Dow Suffers Worst Week SInce Last Month…
Obama seen as anti-business by 77% of investors…
Europe welcomes bank plan, won’t imitate it…

THRILL IS GONE
Britain’s terror threat level raised to ’severe’…

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UN climate expert says ‘more errors’ in global warming report…

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Entire Arizona Town Underwater Following Overnight Storm…

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HILLARY NOW: Urges Internet freedom!

HILLARY 1998: Warns of no gatekeeping… ‘bad outcomes’

China media hits back at Clinton…

WHERE’S RAHM?

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WAIT: Computers down at all 168 California DMV offices…

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Howard Stern to Return to traditional radio?

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NOONAN: Voters went for Mr. Obama thinking he was not a Nut…

Buchanan asks: Has Obama lost white America?

Zuckerman: The Incredible Deflation of Barack Obama…

Hunt for Earth-Like Worlds Looks in the Mirror

To find Earth-like worlds around other stars, scientists should take a page from our own planet.
— Space.com

The Zone of Silence: Unmuted

Magnetic aberrations make radio communications impossible in area known as the Vertice de Trino.
— Inexplicata

Humans were once an endangered species

1.2 million years ago, there were probably only around 18,500 individuals capable of breeding.
— PhysOrg.com

Death of UFO expert Paul Vigay ‘a mystery’

The 44 year-old, who worked on the 2002 Mel Gibson film Signs, was discovered floating in the sea off the coast of Portsmouth.
— The Telegraph

Slime Mold Beats Humans at Perfecting Traffic Networks

A species of gelatinous amoeba could help urban planners design better road systems.
— LiveScience

There’s a ‘Dark Disk of Material’ Hovering Out in Space

Some kind of obstruction is blocking our view of a star in the constellation Auriga.
— io9.com

Toyota Sees Robotic Nurses in Your Lonely Final Years

Manufacturing robotic workers may be a hot new industry.
— Gadget Lab

NASA wants your Mars photo target ideas

NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter will take public photo suggestions.
— Layer 8

Tomb of the Saxon Queen: Discovered, Alfred’s granddaughter

Crumbling remains have been unearthed more than 1,000 years after her death.
— Daily Mail

Dinosaur ‘Death Pits’ Created by Giant’s Footprints?

Death pits might have been created by the wanderings of a massive sauropod dinosaur.
— National Geographic News

Almost-close encounter: Meteorite hits Lorton doctor’s office

Three chunks of stone on the floor that together formed a rock about the size of a tennis ball.
— Washington Post