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...gift bearers wending their way through palace walls toward a newborn who would grow up to be the 14th century warrior Tamerlane. In the midst of the busy scene, seven astrologers consult their texts and instruments. Although many of the era's intellectual and religious leaders didn't fully accept the tenets of astronomy, for example, they did allow Arab thinkers to pursue such expressions of free thought. The ruling Muslim caliphs financed scientific endeavors to enhance their own power and prestige. At first, scholars used the support to translate scientific classics from China, Greece, India and Mesopotamia. Soon, however...
...truly important: taking the realistic steps necessary to delay age-related disease. I will read Weil's entire book and recommend this article to my patients. John Kaufmann, M.D. Boca Raton, Florida, U.S. With his baby-bottom complexion and piano-player hands, Weil is unlikely to find his advice accepted by those of us who put up drywall, frame houses, work with horses and repair trucks and cars. By age 60, we are so beat up that eating biscuits and gravy is like consuming the elixir of the gods. Bill Crookham Caldwell, Idaho, U.S. It was nice to have advice...
...have any reason to believe that Judge Alito, once elevated to be Justice Alito, would be likely to accept a constitutional challenge to the Solomon Amendment,” Minow wrote in an e-mail. “The statutory interpretation argument offered in our amicus brief might be appealing to him...but if forced to bet, I’d bet against that prevailing, too,” she added...
...classrooms to see this tragedy unfolding. With even the best lecturers, truth comes across as an inert object in a fixed world. We are turned into empty receptacles for this pre-packaged knowledge, which we are then expected to regurgitate upon command. Implicitly, our curriculum dictates that we passively accept this rigid veritas and, correspondingly, the way the world is. Theoretically, the discussion section that accompanies so many of our lecture courses is the place for this veritas to come alive. It is our chance to challenge “the truth” as given...
...Heated” discussions ensued, and they voted to “accept the resignations of those who resign because of their objections to the principle of The Club...