A common toothpaste and mouthwash ingredient may prevent skin cancer, according to an Oct. 19 announcement by a UW-Madison professor-led research team at the American Association for Cancer Research meeting in Seattle. '
Everyone has seen Joe Rosenthal's photograph of six American servicemen raising the American flag at Iwo Jima. But contrary to popular belief, the flag was raised at the start of the brutal weeks-long battle. After the Americans had taken the island and Rosenthal's picture had become a great patriotic symbol, three of those immortalized had been killed. The remaining three—Navy Corpsman John Bradley (Ryan Phillippe) and Marines Rene Gagnon (Jesse Bradford) and Ira Hayes (Adam Beach)—were persuaded (perhaps intimidated) to return to the United States for a nationwide tour to convince Americans to buy war bonds. Clint Eastwood's ""Flags of Our Fathers,"" based on the bestselling memoir by James Bradley and Ron Powers, is about the emotional toll this took on these three men.
The Wisconsin women's soccer team continued its late-season slump this weekend, losing 3-0 at No. 9 Penn State Friday and 1-0 at UW-Milwaukee Sunday.
As the soccer season heads down the home stretch, every game played inches closer and closer to potentially being the last one. On Sunday, the UW men's soccer team fell 1-0 to Northern Illinois in an overtime match.
Eventually the winning streak had to end, and the same team that Wisconsin began their winning streak against ended it. Wisconsin tied Minnesota 3-3 Sunday after the Badgers beat the Gophers 3-1 Saturday. Now the 19-game winning streak becomes a 20-game unbeaten streak.
The UW Athletics Ticket Office has implemented a waiting list for men's basketball courtside seats, as the tickets priced $10,000 to $12,500 recently sold out, the Wisconsin State Journal reported Saturday.'
In-state politics leading up to the Nov. 7 elections have grown increasingly intense, especially the controversy surrounding the State Elections Board. Critics have called for the reformation of the board, and have proposed the idea of the Secretary of St'
A weekend set against Minnesota-Duluth tallied three points for the Wisconsin Badgers men's hockey team as they tied 2-2 Friday and won 5-2 Saturday.'
This editorial board applauds Reilly and the UW System for taking steps and working with the Legislative Audit Bureau to make UW practices more transparent.'
A lunchroom beating and a woman's threat to stab a 12-year-old Madison middle school student have focused the city's attention on school safety for the second time in less than a week.'
The Wisconsin Supreme Court demanded more information from both gubernatorial candidate Mark Green and the state Elections Board Thursday to decide whether or not the high court will take up Green's case.'
The recent rash of muggings continued Thursday morning when a 23-year-old was held up on the 400 block of South Brooks Street at 1 a.m. '
Executive Director Beth Donley of the WiCell Research Institute, home to the National Stem Cell Bank that holds a majority of the world's federally funded stem cell lines, resigned from her position Thursday.'
A St. Norbert College poll and a Wall Street Journal poll disagreed on the margin of of Gov. Jim Doyle's lead over Republican U.S Rep. Mark Green. The St. Norbert poll showed Doyle with a strong lead of 51 percent to 38 percent. Meanwhile, Doyle holds less than a two percent lead in the Wall Street Journal poll—well within the poll's three-point margin of error.
The Associated Students of Madison Fall 2006 election polls closed Thursday night without any major problems, according to ASM Student Elections Chair and UW-Madison junior Leah Moe.
According to a new study, U.S. Rep. Tammy Baldwin, D-Madison., has garnered more support on Facebook than any other political candidate.'
Members of Madison's Alcohol License Review Committee held an open hearing Wednesday on a plan that would limit alcohol licenses in the downtown area.'
With self-deprecating humor, Lois Lowry expounded on her ""childlike views"" and how they shape her writing Wednesday night to a Memorial Union Theater audience of UW-Madison students and community members.
Although the set is basic and the cast is small, little else is simple about ""The Last Five Years."" Written by Jason Robert Brown and directed by Andrew Abrams, the musical conveys the five-year relationship of a couple who just can't seem to be in the same place at the same time. The play opens with Cathy, played by Amanda Poulson, singing about the end of her relationship. Alternately, the male lead Jaime (David Niles) sings his first song about how excited he is to have met this great new girl, Cathy.
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