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By Alex Tiegen
GAINESVILLE, Fla. - When Nora Spencer heard a year ago that the University of Florida would offer health insurance benefits to partners of gay and lesbian employees, she and her partner thought it was wonderful.

The Specials is a comedy movie about the fifth or sixth most popular super hero team in the world. Rob Lowe, the actor who was playing “the Weevil”, said that the Specials were not meant for everybody. They were meant for the “oddball, the rebel, the outcast, the geek.”

A party of five arrived at the recently opened Cheddar’s restaurant. They came with curiosity to learn about this new establishment for cuisine, and they came with a hunger. After steering through a parking lot loaded with cars like a mall at Christmas time, the party strode up to the glass double doors to encounter [...]

Vaccinations are key for killing germsYou’re on your way to your next class. On the way you open a few doors and perhaps take the stairs, gliding your hand along the rail on the way. You stop to chat with a friend for a moment about your visit home over winter break and cough in [...]

For years now, because children and teenagers are becoming more and more overweight, people have been giving their favorite pastime a bad rep; Nintendo has created a new system that seems to have solved that problem.

Drink kit to help prevent date rape
In college, you’re supposed to have the time of your life. The best four years, where you learn so much, experience a lot and let’s face it, party hard.

Changes will make program more efficient
The department of nursing has proposed a change in the curriculum that will allow students accepted into the program to complete their courses in four semesters rather than five.