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Does your meat make the grade?

I may have railed about the horrors of saturated and trans fats in processed foods in my last column, but I'm flipping to the other side this week to discuss a topic plentiful in saturated fats -- cuts of meat.


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Veggie Tales

Featuring exhibitors and food vendors, the 11th annual Charlottesville Vegetarian Festival was held Saturday in Lee Park.


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Recipes

Corn & Black Bean Salsa Makes: 5 servings You will need: large bowl Ingredients 1 15 oz. can corn, drained 1 8 oz.


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Riddle me this, interviewee

Each school year, the thoughts on the minds of many upperclassmen are about getting an internship for the summer or a full-time job for their life after college.


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Finding a harmony

Student musicians are just like every other student when it comes to balancing play and work in a way that ensures some degree of satisfaction and sanity.


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Food for the gods (well, not really)

I feel trite and unoriginal writing an article about dining halls. These buildings are inspiration for thousands of polemic columns berating them for volatile nutrients, urine-like odor and, in an unfair attack, their propensity to harbor most every disease listed in the dictionary.


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Awkward 101

OK, how cool would it be if this were actually a class? Much more useful than making English majors take science courses.


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Piping dreams

Amid a pan of frosting, plastic spoons and rolls of paper towels lay an open magazine illustrating various styles of piping.


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Lucky duck

Let's talk about how I got to go to the ballet for free. Friday was simply a bizarre day in general: in the morning, I completed my final registration at the Université de Lyon, so of course I ran all over creation, turning in this form here, paying for health insurance there, making a photocopy in that office there.


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A quest for cleaner air

Some people just talk about environmentalism. You've heard them -- the ones who preach about saving the polar bears but consider recycling too much of a hassle.


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My pal 'Pedia

Oh man, do I ever love Wikipedia. I'm gonna arbitrarily assign old 'Pedia a male gender for the purposes of this rant because, in fact, he's like my pal. Anyway, the guy is amazing.


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Study Time

If college is about one thing, it's about tailgate parties. But if college is about 70 things, one of those must be studying.


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Do the germ

The Sickness is an epidemic on college campuses. By "The Sickness," I am referring to the habitual cough, the stuffed-up nose and the overall tiredness that makes waking up before 1 p.m.

Puzzles
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Latest Podcast

David Leblang, Director of Policy Studies at the Miller Center, analyzes how the Center has remained a nonpartisan institution during a particularly divisive time in politics. He delves into the various programs, events and policy proposals associated with the Center, and how they are making an impact at UVA and beyond.