In the Highlands Today of March 28, a guest opinion piece was printed concerning opinions about the Oklahoma flag. I would like to enlighten readers about this beautiful flag. ...more

March 31, 2009

THE ORIGIN OF DISHES The Columbian Exchange, sparked by Christopher Columbus' 1492 voyage to America, widened the experience of people in the Old and New Worlds, both for good and ill. One of the benefits was the introduction of new foods to many societies. ...more

September 28, 2008

Randy Pausch, a terminally ill professor whose earnest farewell lecture at Carnegie Mellon University became an Internet phenomenon and best-selling book that turned him into a symbol for living and dying well, died Friday at his home in Chesapeake, Va., of complications from pancreatic cancer. He was 47. ...more

July 26, 2008

Bill Dailey takes a dim view of teaching evolution in his letter of Jan. 15. He cites a 1914 book as evidence that evolution has been taught since then, with little to show for it. If he had bothered to look up evolution in the World Book Encyclopedia he would have found," Few public schoo1s 'included' evolution in the biology curricula for many years after the [Scopes]_trial." ...more

February 6, 2008