Northeastern University was correct in dropping its football program, which will allow it to put greater resources into academic needs, as well as other sports. (Page A15, 659 words)By: Derrick Z. Jackson|Date: Nov 24, 2009

In the summer, the drug companies offered $8 billion a year over 10 years in drug cost cuts. Big Pharma has taken the savings off the table. A new AARP analysis has found that drug companies raised their prices for prescription drugs by 9.3 percent over the last year, amounting to $10 billion in new revenues. (Page A11, 695 words)By: Derrick Z. Jackson|Date: Nov 21, 2009

President Obama needs to shut down business as usual against climate change at home before he can make progress abroad. (Page A19, 619 words)By: Derrick Z. Jackson|Date: Nov 17, 2009

It is galling to have 25 universities, 23 of them public institutions, willing to pay $2 million or more for football coaches at this nadir of the economy, with soaring tuitions and slashed state budgets for faculty. But if colleges are that crazy to blow this money they should include the players. (Page A9, 694 words)By: Derrick Z. Jackson|Date: Nov 14, 2009

While the Boston area is ranked among the best places for pedestrians in the United States, there is much that could be done to improve safety and the outdoor experience for walkers and bike riders. (Page A15, 644 words)By: Derrick Z. Jackson|Date: Nov 10, 2009

Compensation packages bear no resemblance to the world beneath college presidents. The American Dream is being fogged as parents drown in debt, students spend more time working to pay off campus fees rather than studying, and professors try to feed the brains of students with slashed resources. (Page A11, 684 words)By: Derrick Z. Jackson|Date: Nov 7, 2009

Neglected during the Bush years, National Parks finally found enough allies in Congress, Democratic and Republican, to pass a much necessary funding increase. (Page A11, 607 words)By: Derrick Z. Jackson|Date: Nov 3, 2009

Without a serious change in how the head is used in football, there is no telling what damage we will see tomorrow. In the pros, players have grown so much bigger and faster that what was once a collision between a Volkswagen and a bus is now between an sport utility vehicle and a semitrailer. (Page A11, 717 words)By: Derrick Z. Jackson|Date: Oct 31, 2009

Theodore Sizer and Gerald Bracey, who both passed away last week, would have said a lot worth listening to about the proposal by a state commission to raise the legal school dropout age in Massachusetts from 16 to 18. (Page A11, 695 words)By: Derrick Z. Jackson|Date: Oct 27, 2009

A memorable tour Without cracking a smile, Ntozelizwe Talakumeni said, “You are now the prisoner. I am the prison warden.’’ An hour later, I was in awe of how he did not crack at all. (Page M1, 1592 words)By: Derrick Z. Jackson|Date: Oct 25, 2009

This week, the National Research Council of the National Academies Academy of Sciences released a stunning report saying fossil fuel burning costs Americans at least $120 billion a year in health costs. But the Chamber of Commerce is still trying to kill cleaner air with hot air. (Page A15, 656 words)By: Derrick Z. Jackson|Date: Oct 24, 2009

Despite the return of big bonuses on Wall Street, all that President Obama has done so far is send out his charges to bleat some mild humbugs on the talk shows. (Page A13, 685 words)By: Derrick Z. Jackson|Date: Oct 20, 2009

It would have been tantalizing to see Limbaugh, who rarely displays a heart, let alone love toward the people he pillories, walk the sidelines during pregame warm-ups and interact with NFL players. (Page A11, 736 words)By: Derrick Z. Jackson|Date: Oct 17, 2009

Americans are so obsessed with football that they are not about to strip the pigskin out of their children's hands. It ought to tell us something that sports concussions are studied by the military to help deal with brain trauma in soldiers. (Page A15, 992 words)By: Derrick Z. Jackson|Date: Oct 13, 2009

KEOKUK - This is Alaska south, where no eagle eyes are needed to see eagles. In the first moments of pulling into a parking lot at Victory Park, a juvenile eagle rose from the Mississippi River with a fish in its talons, cut through the blowing snow, and zoomed straight toward me to perch on a tree to begin eating ... (Page M1, 1372 words)By: Derrick Z. Jackson|Date: Oct 11, 2009

Since there is nothing concrete about Obama's accomplishments in office -- like dismantling apartheid or pulling down the curtain of communism -- what this particular award is really about is America's power to inspire, or depress, the world. (Page A15, 697 words)By: Derrick Z. Jackson|Date: Oct 10, 2009

How is the recently approved nonmilitary assistance of $7.5 billion to Pakistan a landmark achievement, when we have no clue where aid to Pakistan goes? (Page A11, 664 words)By: Derrick Z. Jackson|Date: Oct 6, 2009

The costs of discharges and recruiting and training replacements have cost, according to a University of California study, $363 million. (Page A11, 653 words)By: Derrick Z. Jackson|Date: Oct 3, 2009

We need students in the United States to find their ability and power to change education in this nation. They’re doing it now in South Africa. (Page A19, 697 words)By: Derrick Z. Jackson|Date: Sep 29, 2009

It was a good first step by the Food and Drug Administration to ban candy- and fruit-flavored cigarettes this week under its new powers to regulate tobacco. The next and much bigger step is ending Menthol Madness. (Page A11, 692 words)By: Derrick Z. Jackson|Date: Sep 26, 2009

The biggest defeat for the Packers and the Patriots may not be dealt by the Chicago Bears or the New York Jets. The new archrival is global warming. (Page A15, 697 words)By: Derrick Z. Jackson|Date: Sep 22, 2009

Coke wants to double global beverage servings as American teen obesity has tripled. This is now a wanton attack on the health of children. Taxing Coke is not communism. It is common sense. (Page A11, 717 words)By: Derrick Z. Jackson|Date: Sep 19, 2009

It is one thing to disagree with the president. It is another to disrespect the office and delegitimize his citizenship. (Page A15, 696 words)By: Derrick Z. Jackson|Date: Sep 15, 2009

When schools hire coaches to teach children how to play, it shows just how much we've destroyed childhood. (Page A11, 649 words)By: Derrick Z. Jackson|Date: Sep 12, 2009

Puffins are the promise of a restored ocean. Loons, apropos of their haunting night call, warn us how fragile our lakes are. (Page A11, 395 words)By: Derrick Z. Jackson|Date: Sep 5, 2009