Sep 12th, 2008 · Residents of Elkhart, Ind., have a choice. They can start digging holes all over town, or they can accept that their time capsule from 1958 is gone. Fifty years later, the city would like to dig it up, but there's no official record of its location. One resident remembers that it might be on a street corner where, unfortunately, the sidewalk was recently replaced. The city plans a new time capsule with better records of its location.
Sep 3rd, 2008 · Oregon is replacing the infamous mental hospital portrayed in the Academy Award-winning film One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest with a new facility. Dr. Marvin D. Fickle, former superintendent of the Oregon State Hospital, calls it a "fairly gloomy kind of place."
Aug 30th, 2008 · Oberlin English professor Anne Trubek argues that J.D. Salinger's coming-of-age novel Catcher In The Rye should be replaced in high school reading lists. She recently wrote a list of new recommendations for GOOD magazine.
Aug 17th, 2008 · There are certain terms in the sports world that just inspire awe: the hole in one, the no hitter, the perfect 10. Now you can forget about the perfect 10 — at least when it comes to Olympic gymnastics. The score that propelled Nadia Comaneci and Mary Lou Retton to fame is gone — replaced by a new system that scores most gymnasts between a 14 and a 17.
Jul 29th, 2008 · When it comes to kids in this digital age, have email and text messages replaced old-fashioned "thank you" cards? Mocha Moms Jolene Ivey, Asra Nomani, Leslie Morgan Steiner and guest mom Karen Grigsby Bates discuss how social etiquette is evolving with the new generation.
Jul 10th, 2008 · While it may have replaced its trademark organ with a piano, Mates of State's members still crank out some of the finest indie-pop music around. In a session from KUT, the duo explains the need to progress as a band and plays songs from its fifth CD, Re-Arrange Us.
Jun 24th, 2008 · Psychiatrist Rivka Galchen's debut novel, Atmospheric Disturbances, is about a man who thinks his wife has been replaced by a fake.
Jun 12th, 2008 · Youth Radio's Jennifer Marshall says that because young people are so fearful of committment, boyfriends and girlfriends have been replaced by "friends with benefits."