Author: Joanna Hofer

With midterms upon us, the ability to store, retain and regurgitate information becomes increasingly important.

The day the first baby boomers began to retire in 2006, aka Boomsday, has sparked a generational struggle in Christopher Buckley’s latest satirical novel.

I don’t know about you, but I’m suffering from a severe lack of enthusiasm for this year’s Earth Day.

Chuck Palahniuk has done it again in Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey.

Jonathan Lethem’s latest novel You Don’t Love Me Yet examines the ideals of love and art while ultimately seeking to degrade them.

Where does pet food come from? It’s the kind of question a child might ask and is hard to answer. Ever since Canadian-based pet food company Menu Foods, Inc. began its massive recall of dog and cat food nearly a month ago, pet owners have scrambled to find something safe to feed Fido and Fluffy.

When ABC News journalist Bob Woodruff began the day of Jan. 29, 2006, he had it all. Married with four children, he was healthy, handsome and successful. Everything was fine until the moment that it wasn’t.

Did you know that plans were under consideration to truck nuclear waste through Oregon, through the Gorge, up to the ailing Hanford Nuclear Reservation?

With finals approaching, many of us are dealing with stress. Now that it’s crunch time, anything that can go wrong, will. This week, there’s a 99 percent chance you will scream, “What’s wrong with my computer!” a 90 percent chance you will lose your keys, an 85 percent chance you’ll miss your bus, an 80 percent chance of several bad hair days, a 70 percent chance that family will visit, a 60 percent chance you’ll gain weight, and a 100 percent chance these statistics were fabricated.

The story of the bald eagle, Haliaeetus leucocephalus, is a story of abundance, hardship and triumph. In the tradition of great American stories, the bald eagle is truly the Comeback Kid of American wildlife. In 1782, the year the United States adopted the bald eagle as its national symbol, there were approximately 500,000 bald eagles living in North America.

Cancer. It’s serious, uncomfortable, potentially fatal and seemingly not funny. And yet, when we are confronted by impossible situations, draw the short straw on health care providers, get screwed over by insurance, run out of money, and face bad odds, we have to laugh.