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...sometimes the Israelites were happy to live in peace with neighbors who worshipped alien gods. In the Book of Judges, an Israelite military leader proposes a live-and-let-live arrangement with the Ammonites: "Should you not possess what your god Chemosh gives you to possess? And should we not be the ones to possess everything that our god Yahweh has conquered for our benefit?" (See pictures of spiritual healing around the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Decoding God's Changing Moods | 6/15/2009 | See Source »

Surfing, for its part, is not an alien sport to Chicagoans. At Ryan Gerard's Third Coast Surf Shop in New Buffalo, Mich., many of his growing base of customers make the 90-minute drive from Chicago to purchase their gear. "There's no reason we shouldn't be allowed to surf," Gerard says. "We see ourselves as an asset to local communities." But given the risk of being ticketed and fined $500, Chicago surfers have typically gone elsewhere in the Great Lakes, the world's largest body of fresh water. Still, aficionados continued to sneak into the water...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: No Ocean, but Chicago Moves to Legalize Surfing | 6/13/2009 | See Source »

...from. Phil's wife makes no impression, Doug's bride-to-be is a briefly seen figure of increasing anxiety and Stu's longtime girlfriend is a shrew from Shrewsville. She's so stridently castrating that Stu's climactic display of spine - kind of like the chestbuster scene from Alien, only dorsal - is a given from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Hangover: A Bro-Magnon Bromance | 6/5/2009 | See Source »

...meant a tremendous amount to me and my wife,” Sloan said. “It was reassuring to see him, when all of sudden, I’m in the hospital, an alien in a strange land. That’s the kind of thing he does all the time—that’s the kind of person...

Author: By Ahmed N. Mabruk, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Class of 1984: Eliot Spitzer | 6/2/2009 | See Source »

Were some super advanced alien civilization to swoop down to Earth with the definitive explanation of everything in the cosmos, there’d be excitement at first—it would be thrilling to have answers to questions we’ve tussled with through the ages. But in short order, scientists worldwide would be utterly depressed. With no remaining mysteries, the scientific journey would halt...

Author: By Brian Greene | Title: Questions, Not Answers, Make Science the Ultimate Adventure | 6/2/2009 | See Source »

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