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The University of Southern California likes broadcast journalist Katie Couric’s pitches, provided that the CBS anchor lobs hardballs at conservatives and softballs at liberals.

We don’t set out to cover the salacious but we’re on the education beat so what they do governs what we get to write about. Moreover, the prurient trend spills out into the popular culture.

Is artwork a portal to the divine or an expression of humankind’s innermost creativity? Catholic artist and teacher Hamilton Reed Armstrong explored these questions at an April 15 lecture on “Beauty in the Eye of the Beholder.”

“Truth is a powerful tool,” Rebecca Hagelin says in her book 30 Ways in 30 Days to Save Your Family.

In our bid to win the USA Today award for best investigative paragraph, we offer up some news items that run about that long.*

In a report posted on enjoybottledwater.org, Angela Logomasini, Ph.D. states, “Bottled water regulation is at least as stringent as tap water regulation.

April 13th was the National Crisis Pregnancy Center Protest Day, an initiative designed by the Feminist Majority Foundation (FMF).

“While some are prepared to write the obituary on capitalism and our movement, I believe we are on the brink of a great American awakening,” said Representative Mike Pence (R-Ind.) at this year’s Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC).

If there is one truism among policy makers and academics it is that the U.S. health-care system is broken. But for scholars speaking at a symposium hosted by Susquehanna University, the answer to these problems was clear: universal coverage.

“Just what exactly is a culture of enterprise?” Dr. Richard Brake asked at a Heritage Foundation event on April 2nd.

It was surprising to hear the word “surplus” on Capitol Hill on April 7th, having grown accustomed to the usual news about deficits. But the Cato Institute pin-pointed one surplus that is, because of the mismanagement of government funding, harming the system. The surplus is in college graduates.

In China there is a serious divide between those that live in urban areas and those that live in rural areas, according to a study by the Rural Development Institute.