Pin Lim/The Daily Cougar

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Faster than a speeding bullet: Jason Hildebrand, a senior computer engineering technology major, unscrambles a Rubik's cube. Hildebrand,
the founder and president of the Rubik's Cube Club on campus, averages 45 seconds to unscramble a cube and says anyone can learn the tricks.

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The Daily Cougar will end more than week of uncertainty when the Student Publications Committee elects the next editor in chief of the student newspaper during a specially called meeting at 3 p.m. today in the Mediterranean Room of the University Center Underground.

I am not a Palestinian, nor do I have ancestors from over there. However, I often wonder what it would be like to be a Palestinian today. Many of us, ignorant about their lives and histories, question their actions. Perplexed, we find ourselves asking, "What could possibly fuel a person to be
so desperate as to become a suicide bomber?"

At the age of 21, Vanessa Carlton has a little growing up to do. She has a hit single in "A Thousand Miles" that is garnering plenty of airplay, she has a video to go along with that song with the infectious hook and she has a new album on A&M Records.

With the Conference USA championships only three weeks away, the UH track teams hope to lead the Cougar parade to a C-USA victory.