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...such a vision of immortality that led the Egyptians to mummify bodies and stock tombs with worldly belongings. Christians pray for the "resurrection of the body" and have traditionally held that at the Last Judgment the tombs will open and the dead will rise again to life. This age-old belief, combined with new technology, makes it seem prudent to a growing number of Americans that they should arrange to have their bodies frozen upon death just in case they might be resurrected...
...addition, the theory may shed some light on the age-old question of why the sky is black at night, rather than gray or as bright as the sun itself...
...answer a century ago. Even within Christianity, now confidently renewing itself in spirit as well as form, a small band of radical theologians has seriously argued that the churches must accept the fact of God's death, and get along without him. How does the issue differ from the age-old assertion that God does not and never did exist? Nietzsche's thesis was that striving, self-centered man had killed God, and that settled that. The current death-of-God group* believes that God is indeed absolutely dead, but proposes to carry on and write a theology without theos...
...captured from Chinese Communist junks off the South China coast, some probably filched by Chinese Nationalist spies, cover most of 1961-a year when Red China was nursing bruised shins from the disastrous "Great Leap Forward." They reflect nagging discontent in army and peasant ranks, as well as the age-old Chinese belief in the efficacy of numerals as a cure-all for despair. Excerpts...
Beef on the Hoof. The crisis has sparked bitter criticism of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi and her Food Minister, Chidambaram Subramaniam, but much of the problem lies in India's backward agriculture and age-old dietary habits. India's land produces only about half as much per acre as U.S. land, largely because of primitive farming implements and practices, lack of pesticides and fertilizer, soil exhaustion and uncertain water supply. Besides, India's burgeoning population-12 million new mouths per year-has simply outstripped the country's ability to produce enough food to feed...