Print edition for November 24, 2007

Editorial: College costs out of control: Society, too, loses when freshmen and sophomores decide against careers such as teaching and nursing.

Letter: Abortion violates basic human rights: Worse, in recent decades this has been expanded by the United States, funding and promoting myriad international contraceptive and abortion plans, including at least benign acceptance of foreign government abuse and, ironically, the denial of human rights.

Despite loose caucus rules, deck unlikely to be stacked: Michael J. Mishak; 2004: The Gephardt campaign sent a letter to the Dean campaign claiming to have uncovered a Dean effort to stack precinct meetings with out-of-state volunteers.

Letter: White House's lack of outrage is outrageous: Indeed, in 2001 Laura Bush said, "All of us have an obligation to speak out. We may come from different backgrounds and faiths - but parents the world over love our children. We respect our mothers, our sisters and daughters. Fighting brutality against women and children is not the expression of a specific culture; it is the acceptance of our common humanity - a commitment shared by people of good will on every continent."

LOOKING IN ON: UNLV BASEBALL: By Brian Hilderbrand; The news that eight College of Southern Nevada baseball players signed with Division I schools during last week's early signing period came as no surprise to those who follow Tim Chambers' successful program.

'Giving back' to voters - at taxpayer expense: Tony Cook, Las Vegas Sun; This year's new Clark County commissioners are significantly outspending their more experienced colleagues, using large chunks of their office budgets on parties and other forms of what they're calling constituent outreach.

Editorial: Controversy not over: The studies that resulted in the breakthroughs, conducted by separate teams of scientists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and in Japan, were published, respectively, in the journals Science and Cell. They are an extension of studies completed in June in which the scientists fashioned pseudo-stem cells from mouse skin cells.

Dollar buys less and less school than it used to: Steve Kanigher and Alex Richards; Dollar buys less and less school than it used to

LOOKING IN ON: HIGHER EDUCATION: By Charlotte Hsu; Higher education funding in Nevada is so complex that even high-ranking officials such as UNLV President David Ashley can't always get it straight.

Editorial: Reveal test results: Officials from Merck-Schering Plough Pharmaceuticals, manufacturer of the two drugs, say they will release some of the test results in March. But doctors told the Times the company should make all its test results public because doctors need to know whether their patients are unnecessarily risking heart attacks by taking drugs that in clinical trials only lowered cholesterol.

Letter: GOP puts politics ahead of world safety: Sean Hannity and Oliver North are leading Fox News media talking dog proponents for a preemptive attack on Iranian nuclear sites. Their discourse continually leads one to believe that they are trying to prepare the public for military action against Iran.

Ron Kantowski pledges his Thanksgiving leftovers to the deserving - and undeserving - at UNLV: That's why I have decided to make room in my refrigerator for a Subway sandwich and a six-pack of Milwaukee's Best - the new breakfast of champions? - by distributing my Thanksgiving leftovers among those making news, for better or worse, at UNLV.