BALI - Here in Bali, there's a song I hear at least twice a day. The chorus goes like this: Life here is hard since the Bali bombings. Since the Americans stopped coming, life is so hard.

Forget B.C. and A.D.; people describe time here in terms of B.B., before the bombings, and A.B., after the bombings.

The bomb that went off on October 12, 2002, in a nightclub in the island's clubbing district, killed 202 people and has become a watershed moment in Balinese history. [Read article]

Life is one big set of trade-offs. Do you spend the big bucks when you have the opportunity to buy Wildcat basketball tickets even though it means having to work a few extra shifts at work so you can make the rent? Well, maybe that one is a little too obvious. You have to take the basketball tickets no matter what the cost. But hopefully you get my point. College is too busy, and it's not always a matter of how you spend your money but how you spend your time. Is it more worthwhile to get ahead of schedule by taking an extra class or two for your major, or should you take that psychology or astronomy class you've heard great things about? [Read article]