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...rest of the lecture, Jones expounded on why that construct has proven so persistent throughout human history. “One answer,” Jones said, “lies in the dread of ‘otherness’ … it may be that this alien is our own creation, the imagined antithesis of our own kin.” While that “mythological” construct, as Jones described it, gave the basis for racism, the motivation for racism, he argued, came from the fact that “someone always profits from...
Tarter has been listening for such cosmic drumbeats for a while. She joined the ET hunt in graduate school at the University of California, Berkeley, where she used the school's 85-ft. telescope to search for alien signals. She later became a scientist for NASA's High Resolution Microwave Survey, which conducted similar research. This experience has led her to bring imagination to her work. With the help of a $25 million endowment from Microsoft cofounder Paul Allen, she and the other SETI scientists are developing a new telescope array--a collection of up to 350 steerable dish antennas...
Superintendent Michael D. Giacoppo said last night that Geremias Cruz Ramos, referred to in the police report as an illegal alien from Colombia, will be prosecuted and may face deportation...
...controlled loans to farmers to win loyalty. Now that's changing. Locals worry that the KMT's desire for closer ties with the mainland will mean a flood of cheap imported produce and lower incomes and, more fundamentally, that the KMT will eventually reunify with a country they consider alien. The KMT's Yunlin chief, Huang Shang-wen, knows how his party can regain votes: "For us to win elections, we need to lean toward independence." But that would sacrifice the KMT's core supporters. Hung on the paradox, Huang is drafting his resignation letter...
...Gibson's The Passion of the Christ, that person is John Carmack. The creator of two of the most violent game franchises in computer history, Doom and Quake, is a few months away from releasing Doom 3. It's a remake of the original, in which you play an Alien-esque space marine battling the ghostly spawn of hell down gloomy corridors of a futuristic Mars base. Not that the hokey plot matters much to hard-core gamers. "Doom 3 is just going to terrify the pants off people," says Rob Smith, editor of PC Gamer magazine...