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Cardona knew it was a terrible idea. Shortly before he left Fort Bragg, N.C., for the Middle East, he told a close friend and family members that he was returning against his wishes but felt dutybound to accept the deployment. The friend said Cardona described trying to attach another soldier's name tags to his uniform in hopes of concealing his identity from Iraqis but was told by a superior to desist. According to this friend, Cardona said he had told at least one of his superiors that he feared for his safety in Iraq. Cardona's name...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Whose Idea Was This? | 11/5/2006 | See Source »

DAWKINS: I accept that there may be things far grander and more incomprehensible than we can possibly imagine. What I can't understand is why you invoke improbability and yet you will not admit that you're shooting yourself in the foot by postulating something just as improbable, magicking into existence the word...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: God vs. Science | 11/5/2006 | See Source »

...then there's nothing inconsistent with God on rare occasions choosing to invade the natural world in a way that appears miraculous. If God made the natural laws, why could he not violate them when it was a particularly significant moment for him to do so? And if you accept the idea that Christ was also divine, which I do, then his Resurrection is not in itself a great logical leap...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: God vs. Science | 11/5/2006 | See Source »

COLLINS: I just would like to say that over more than a quarter-century as a scientist and a believer, I find absolutely nothing in conflict between agreeing with Richard in practically all of his conclusions about the natural world, and also saying that I am still able to accept and embrace the possibility that there are answers that science isn't able to provide about the natural world--the questions about why instead of the questions about how. I'm interested in the whys. I find many of those answers in the spiritual realm. That in no way compromises...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: God vs. Science | 11/5/2006 | See Source »

...talks] because it is no more than a state of the U.S." NORTH KOREA'S FOREIGN MINISTRY, suggesting Japan be excluded from six-party talks over the North's nuclear-weapons program. Pyongyang agreed to return to negotiations last week, but lashed out over Japan's refusal to accept the North as a nuclear power...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verbatim | 11/5/2006 | See Source »

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