Heads and tales: Together we fall
By Wade Kwon
Moving mountains over the mountain: Many Birmingham-area cities not named “Birmingham” are looking at ways to share resources and save money. Do Homewood, Hoover, Mountain Brook and Vestavia Hills need duplicate dispatch centers, jails and garages? The savings could be enormous, and the plan hinges on only one teensy tiny problem: regional governmental cooperation. Look at it this way: Separation from Birmingham for decades does have a price. Are we still willing to pay it?
• Suburbs eye sharing costs [Birmingham News]
Survival of the lamest: Alabama’s evolution disclaimer in textbooks has earned the state an F in a national study on science education standards. Not to worry: If creationists are right, we’re all going to heaven. If evolutionists are right, we’ll be wiped out when the next comet hits. Christ, it’s not like our science teachers have to beg for decent equipment and furniture, forcing them to win some ripoff reality TV contest. Heck, evolution ain’t even on the state graduation exam. Buncha worrywarts …
• New study gives Alabama ‘F’ in science, cites evolution stance [Associated Press]
The nutty professors: A&M professor Hortense Dodo has come up with a clever solution for all those peanut-allergy sufferers: a non-allergenic peanut. First, George Washington Carver invents peanuts finds hundreds of uses for peanuts. Now this. And we owe it all to SCIENCE evolution.
• Scientists at Alabama A&M create non-allergenic peanut [WAFF (Huntsville)]
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