Gone Date: 3/4/2010 By: David Koon Wilbern Road near Sweet Home is a metaphor for the life of Hannah Grace Dowdie: a short, dead-end roller coaster of pavement, pressed on both sides by dark and murky woods. /more/ Living witness Date: 2/25/2010 By: Leslie Newell Peacock Abrams is herself a walking, talking history book and at age 78, retired from a career in education for 17 years, she's still very much on the scene. /more/ Education by avatar Date: 2/18/2010 By: Gerard Matthews Second Life, a web-based, user-created virtual world where people remake their own identities, is being used by universities in Arkansas and elsewhere as a cost-effective, easy-to-use learning tool. /more/

By the book Date: 3/4/2010 By: David Koon Little Rock District Judge Mark Leverett visited inmates at the Pulaski County Detention Facility at least nine times last year, signing in as "attorney" in a book reserved for lawyers visiting their clients. /more/ Internet at warp speed Date: 3/4/2010 By: Gerard Matthews Imagine if you could download an entire movie in less than five minutes. /more/ Leverett's jail visits Date: 3/4/2010 By: Lindsey Millar Who the judge visited. /more/

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Halter v. Lincoln Date: 3/5/2010 By: Max Brantley Lt. Gov. Bill Halter's decision to challenge U.S. Sen. Blanche Lincoln in the Democratic primary wasn't a big surprise. In recent days, his camp had worked its way into a number of national stories critical of the incumbent senator. Also, liberal voices had predicted his entry for a week or so. /more/

Are liberals smarter? Date: 3/5/2010 By: Ernest Dumas A widely debated study published in the current issue of the scientific journal Social Psychology Quarterly tries to explain why most of us attach ourselves to broad political concepts like liberalism and conservatism and embrace different social and religious values. /more/

A political page-turner Date: 3/5/2010 By: John Brummett "Game Change," the book on the presidential race of 2008 that is all the current rage, manages at once to entertain, comfort and disconcert because, like those best-sellers of Bob Woodward, it recreates lengthy quotes from private conversation based on "background" interview in which the authors use information without attributing it.. /more/

Flashback Date: 3/4/2010 By: Bob Lancaster Do any of you remember the 20th Century? I remember it a little, but the memory is fading fast. It already seems like a dream, and maybe a dream that somebody else dreamt. /more/