Cronkite’s Passing: A Death in Everyone’s Family
For anyone who knew him as “Uncle Walter,” his loss must feel like a death in the family. To a younger generation, the very idea of widespread grieving over a TV news anchor may be hard to fathom, as is the concept of a large part of the population being happy to get their news [...]
Cloning Debate Continues in Equine World
Linda Juckette of Cumming, Ia., sees her horses the same way she sees her 14-year-old son, Cole. In her eyes, each individual is different and special. That’s why Juckette is no fan of cloning, a topic that has been seeping through equine circles since the first horse was cloned in 2003. The American Quarter Horse [...]
Federal Judge: Congress Must OK Atlanta Water Use
A federal judge on Friday ordered neighboring states to freeze water sharing at current levels for three years while Congress hammers out how to divvy up the flow from Lake Lanier near Atlanta. Nine weeks after taking testimony in a water war between Florida, Alabama and Georgia, Senior U.S. District Judge Paul Magnuson called on [...]
Video Game All-Stars: Top Picks for 2009 (So Far)
With Major League Baseball taking a break for the All-Star Game this week, we thought it’d be a good chance to take a look at videogaming’s all-star performers for the first half of 2009. These are the games that brought something new and interesting to the table, the games we keep coming back to when [...]
Remembering Famed Newsman Walter Cronkite
From baby boomers to the Greatest Generation, journalist Walter Cronkite will be remembered as a voice of calm and reason whenever the nation was shocked by disaster and instability. The deep-baritone Cronkite died Friday at his New York home at 92. CBS vice president Linda Mason said Cronkite died at 7:42 p.m. after a long [...]
Cronkite Helped Revive Struggling Journalism School
It wasn’t just any name Phoenix-area media executives went after in the early 1980s when trying to bolster the sagging journalism program at Arizona State University. They wanted the dean of journalism himself, the “most trusted man in America.” Walter Cronkite’s decision to let the school take his name was a turning point that jolted [...]
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