Community gardens are full for the first time in years, seed sales are up and memberships in home gardening groups are gaining -- part of a movement among Americans concerned with food prices, the environment and food safety.

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We seem to have been here before: a young man is shot dead by police, and the next day's papers fall over themselves with lurid headlines accompanied by pictures of armed officers in balaclavas and ballistic vests.

As Dorothy said in "The Wizard of Oz," "People come and go so quickly here." The whole point of being on a campus is to leave, to go somewhere else and have a positive impact. So, I say, get out of here already. For those about to graduate (and please

Bill Burt It seems like months ago when the Boston Celtics barely skimmed past the Atlanta Hawks, leaving doubters at every corner. The Los Angeles Lakers, on the other hand, are the sexy pick. They had no such struggles against three very good teams in