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‘Morning-after’ contraceptive approved for over-the-counter use
The Food and Drug Administration decided Aug. 24 to make the “morning-after” contraceptive pill known as Plan B available without a prescription to people 18 and older, ending a three-year impasse that...
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Bearcats gear up for ‘06 season
They’re not worried about putting the ball in the net anymore. All they’re asking for now is for someone to step up and stop some. The Binghamton women’s soccer team had its...
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Playoff hopes rest on final series
A few weeks ago, they were talking about hosting the conference tournament. Now, there’s a legitimate chance that they might miss the playoffs. What went wrong? The Binghamton baseball team has fielded...
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Last, but not least: golf team heads to regionals
Pure ecstasy must be running through the Binghamton golf team. The Bearcats were announced as the final seed in the NCAA Eastern Regional last Monday evening and, in that moment, all their...
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Release Looks Back, Part 3
Junior Year Sick of what I perceived to be a distinct lack of Long Island, I decided that for my junior year I would leave Binghamton for the greener pastures of Stony...
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Damn the man, save the summer!
Let’s start with a conversation I overheard a few weeks ago. Or better yet, let’s discuss a conversation I’ve been overhearing for the past three years. I was sitting at a bar...
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Release Looks Back, Part 1
This is it: the final Release of the year, and the last one with your ugly, balding editor. It’s been a fun run, but like all things, it must end sometime. As...
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Struggle to stay onboard
One day, you finish in the top-15 in hits, home runs and stolen bases in the same league that Manny Ramirez once played in. Three months later, you’re a freshman at Binghamton...
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Offbeat News
Manbearpig exists, we’re super cereal Jim Martell, 65, of Idaho, was hunting in Canada, when he became the first person in recorded history ever to encounter an animal known as the “polargrizz”...
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Editorial: Spring ‘06 news roundup
It’s been a pretty eventful semester here at the Ivy of the SUNYs. A look at our front-page headlines is proof enough: in our first issue of the semester, a philosophy, politics...