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OKLAHOMA CITY, OK – Feb. 18, 2004 – The late Kyle Seitsinger is the first graduate of Oklahoma Christian University’s Class of 2004. Oklahoma Christian bestowed an honorary Bachelor of Science degree on Seitsinger during a special ceremony following Wednesday’s chapel service. Kyle’s father Dan, mother Jo and sister Karla accepted the diploma from OC president Dr. Mike O’Neal and Vice President of Academic Affairs Dr. Jeanine Varner. Seitsinger, an Army Reserves sergeant, died along with seven other soldiers in Afghanistan on Jan. 29, when a weapons cache expoloded. He enrolled at Oklahoma Christian in the fall of 2000 and...

Play the office politics gameBy Cynthia Broderick • Bankrate.com Let's play Office Politics! All you need are two people and the game begins.Playing the game of office politics is inevitable. Oh, perhaps you believe that you're above such foolishness, but that's really just one more way to play the game. Office politics is simply human nature in the workplace. If you work with humans -- even if they only resemble humans -- then you are dealing with politics. "If there's more than one person, you've got office politics," explains Rob Sarmiento, a Houston psychologist, also known as the CyberPsychologist....

SEATTLE - Seattle tied a record Monday for 49 straight days of temperatures of 70 degrees or higher. Meteorologist Jeff Rood with the National Weather Service says it's "iffy" whether the record will broken. The forecast high for Tuesday is only 71 degrees and a few clouds over Sea-Tac Airport could make all the difference. But if the string holds, the forecast is for warmer weather so those 70s days could run into September. The old record was set in 1958 in roughly the same time period - from July 9 to Aug. 26. Rood says Seattle temperatures have been...

LONDON: To live longer, choose the right degree course. Students of science or engineering have the best chance of living longer, while arts or law students are more likely to have a shorter life, according to research published in the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine. A survey of mortality rates found arts students were 60 per cent more likely to die prematurely than their contemporaries in the sciences. It said that medical students ran the highest risk of succumbing to an alcohol-related death. The research was based on the death rates of over 8,000 male students aged between...

An engineer by any other name Legislature to decide if computer programmers can legally use the title By R.G. RATCLIFFE Copyright 2003 Houston Chronicle Austin Bureau AUSTIN -- One of the oddest battles of the 78th Legislature is pitting Texas' licensed professional engineers against the high-tech industry's software dudes. At issue is just who in Texas can call himself an engineer. "It's one of the silliest issues we're having to deal with this session, but it's also one of the most important," said Steven Kester, legislative director of the American Electronics Association, an organization of computer companies. Texas has one...

HoustonChronicle.com -- http://www.HoustonChronicle.com | Section: Business Jan. 28, 2003, 8:51AM Loan debt, burden hit worse now Student liabilities triple over decade By GREG WINTER New York Times Every so often, when the phones grow quiet and the copiers still, Margot E. Miles glances at the lawyers devouring cases around her and thinks: "I could do that. I would love to do that." A smile overtakes her as she envisions life as a lawyer -- fighting injustice, changing the world -- until the prickly reminder of having $25,000 in undergraduate loans wipes it away. Dreams can wait. As for the need to...