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...compound, though it is difficult to untangle reality from stories designed to make the defeated sect look bad. The government now says that it found a pool underneath a large tent where sect members engaged in orgies - in the apparent belief that immoral behavior would hasten the advent of the Mahdi...
...Ralph W. Emerson, Class of 1821, noted of the overly-busy man: “His notebooks impair his memory; his libraries overload his wit… A Greenwich nautical almanac he has… but does not know a star in the sky.” Perhaps the advent of the iPhone is a moment for us all to pause and reflect upon the gadgets that rule our lives. After all, combining our highly evolved ability to socialize (phone, Facebook), remember events (photos, video), and work (papers, e-mails) into one dashing unit, the iPhone is set to become...
...cheer you up or brighten your day; they’re trying to pander to you, to make you spend. Tinsel and holly remind shoppers, most of them Christian, that they have gifts to buy, while candelabras succeed at pleasing both the most observant Christians, who interpret them as Advent candles, and the least observant Jews, who misidentify them as menorahs. The message, in each case, is clear: spend now, spend often...
...position of Director of National Intelligence was created as a result of the recommendations of the 9/11 Commission’s Report. Negroponte also spoke about the recruitment needs of the intelligence community, particularly among college students. “With the end of the Cold War and advent of the 1990s, there was a hollowing out, if you will, of the national security community” and Intelligence Community, Negroponte said. “9/11 provoked an effort to try and rebuild those capabilities, and we are still very much ramping up the number of analysts and intelligence collectors...
...number of babies born too early keeps going up--and with all their medical savvy, doctors can't figure out why. Today nearly 13 out of every 100 births are premature, an increase of 30% over the past 20 years. Part of that rise is due to the advent of modern fertility treatments, which caused a sharp jump in the number of twins, triplets and higher multiples--most of whom are born early. But it turns out that 83% of preemies in the U.S. are singletons whose prematurity can be caused by any number of factors, including bacterial infections, ruptured...