By Norman Jameson When I was young, the mantra parents and teachers voiced to encourage students that anything was possible with enough work and focus on the task at hand was to say, “You could grow up to be president.”…

By Norman Jameson Remember when you had to duck under your school desk for a nuclear attack drill? It made me wonder what all the fuss a nuclear bomb was about if hiding under my desk would protect me from…

By Norman Jameson No trees adorned with twinkling lights will bless —  or aggravate — visitors to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s two main libraries this year, according to a Dec. 5 story in the Raleigh News…