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Pregnant man gives birth to controversy

For the last few weeks, all the rage has been about Thomas Beatie, better known as the Pregnant Man. The story was too good to be true, but it is. Beatie, who used to be a woman, is now legally a man and decided to carry a child instead of his wife, who is no longer able to. What surprised me most was not the media coverage of the story but a reaction I received last week. I had a conversation with a man three times my age and he said he was appalled by Beatie's decision to go through with it and that he owes everyone a glimpse of what he looks like naked (his words, not mine).
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Love is all you need

by Amy Hoover

Spring is finally here. There's Frisbee on the Oval, people soaking up as much Sun as they can, horrible music blaring from the open windows of someone's car and the inevitable spring fever.

For anyone familiar with Disney's "Bambi," spring is that magical time of the year when all species become "twitterpated" and hit the dating scene. It might be the local meat market, one of our humble bars, someone you notice in class or that special someone you had your eye on all winter. The outcomes are inevitable, but for the not so faint of heart, you just might end up ensnared in that mythical trap known as puppy love.
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Dorm living inhibits 'real world' learning

by Richard Poskozim

One of the greatest things I have here at Ohio State is my freedom. I am free to take almost any class I want to fulfill my GECs. I am free to pursue the major of my choice and even the option to create my own major or minor. I have the freedom (thanks to a mandatory fee, ironically) to go to one of the best recreational facilities in the world.
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Reheating climate debate

by Aron Buffen

In Jack Millman's recent opinion piece, "Warming science load of hot air," the author argues that an open debate of global warming evidence has been hindered by "ignorance and bad science." In his column, Millman puts forth several anecdotes in ostensible support of this view. He refers to a story in "Nature," which he calls "research," by Betsy Mason who mentions - without citation - that the glaciers atop Mt. Kilimanjaro are "evaporating" as a result of decreased precipitation related to local deforestation, not warmer temperatures. Mason is not a scientist, but a journalist who was covering efforts to slow retreat atop Kilimanjaro by covering the glaciers with a large, white tarpaulin. This was a news story and not original research, as Millman insinuates.
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