Hit the slopes

Ski resorts prepare for season, popular retreats

By Jacob McCormick

This past winter, senior David Deering was skiing at Spirit Mountain in Duluth, Minn. when he went off a 60 foot jump and missed the landing by about a foot and a half. "I shattered my heel so I can't really run that much," Deering said. "I'm probably going to switch over to snowboarding … I can still ski but I want to try something new and after that jump my hands get sweaty just thinking about it.

History of the vibrator

By Brian Reisinger

By the 1880s an electromechanical model had emerged, and by 1899 there was a battery-powered vibrator for "self treatment at home."

With Potter over, what are we supposed to do now?

By Scott Hoostal

The essence of being cool is knowing about things before other people do. It's being able to say you've already seen that movie, been to that restaurant or heard that album before any one of your friends have. The essence of cool is not reading the same book as a fifth grader - a fifth grader who probably read the entire book in one night while it took you more than a week to read anyway.