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Marshall Blown Out by Nation's Number One

Florida quarterback Rex Grossman had 375 yards passing Saturday night as the nation's number one team, the Florida Gators, blew out four-time MAC champion Marshall 49-14.The Thundering Herd, who were without two starters due to suspension, could not match up to the high-powered Gator offense.


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The Original Peculiar Food Compendium

In recent years, we've seen a string of books on insects and other presumably disgusting foods. "The Curiosities of Food: Or the Dainties and Delicacies of Different Nations Obtained From the Animal Kingdom" (Ten Speed Press, Berkeley, 2001: $16.95), originally published in 1859, might have been the first.As Alan Davidson explains in his introduction, the author, Peter Lund Simmonds, was a friend of William Buckland, famous in 19th-century England for being willing to taste literally anything.


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Still the Best Wings Ever?

Buffalo's culinary landmark, the Anchor Bar, off Main Street, seems to still be an excellent choice for a nice, after-work meal or a lively weekend gathering as the food compliments a very pleasant, classic Buffalonian setting.


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Letter To The Editor

On behalf of all who contribute to UB's football program, I want to extend my sincere thanks for the record setting crowd in UB's stadium for the opening game.


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Blithering Idiot Sounds Off

Being a student in a university system I expect to receive an education based on factual information from which I may formulate my own unique opinion.


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Sign Here

On August 9 a suicide bomber entered Sbarro restaurant in Jerusalem and detonated his bomb.It was lunchtime and the restaurant's patrons consisted of small children, mothers and families.


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Provost Commissions Survey to Gauge Grad Student Satisfaction

In an effort to identify and improve lagging areas of UB graduate education, the university hired StudentVoice, a higher education marketing research company, to conduct a survey of 500 incoming graduate students this past summer.The survey is part of UB's plan to comply with a SUNY memorandum last year that outlined the university's need to boost research endeavors and attract graduate students of a higher caliber.According to Katherine Ferguson, associate vice provost and director of graduate enrollment, by conducting the survey, UB is attempting to learn how to identify and recruit better quality students rather than simply a greater number of students.


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Local Artist Decodes Slave Quilts With Mixed Media

In their search for freedom, slaves traveling on the Underground Railroad sometimes found directions to freedom on clotheslines.This method of communication, which allowed runaway slaves and their allies to communicate via symbols sewn into quilt patterns, inspired Cordelia Dohse-Peck's series, "The Underground Railroad Quilt Code," on display until Sept.


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Men's Soccer Takes One of Two

The University at Buffalo men's soccer team opened their season on the road, recording one win and one loss in the Lehigh-Army Soccer Classic held this past weekend at Ronald J.


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Women's Soccer Splits Pair of Weekend Games

UB Rolls Over Local Rival NiagaraWhich team is a stronger unit was evident early in the first half of the University at Buffalo women's soccer game against neighboring rival Niagara University as Buffalo thoroughly dominated play and scored a 4-1 win Friday night at RAC Field."We had a little bit of a slow start, which was expected.


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TA Stipends

Graduate teaching assistants within several departments of the College of Arts and Sciences, including geology, history, and English, are fighting the administration for higher stipends, which have remained static for the past 10 years at $8,400 while the cost of living and national stipend levels have steadily increased.


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Princeton Review Rankings

The Princeton Review has released its annual compilation of "the best" 331 colleges and universities throughout the United States.


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Letter to the Editor

Whatever else he has done or may yet do in office, President Bush made the right decision when he ended federal funding of certain kinds of stem-cell research.In your editorial you pointed out that the U.S.


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Password Safety

Don't pick your initials. Or your birthday. Or your address, or your phone number. Your mother's maiden name is off limits, not to mention the names of your father, brother, sister, pets and favorite sports teams - also out of the question.Hmm.


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"Give a Hoot, Read a Book"

"Honey, put the book away. You've been reading for half an hour already and I don't want you to ruin your eyesight."Does that sound wrong to you?





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