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...popular theme in our media. Experts, and the people who write or talk about them, are paid for their knowledge and ability to communicate it,not for being awed by the vast complexity of the machinery of life or shocked by our ignorance of its most basic parts. But I, for one, am amazed that we're here at all. Look at the night sky - absolute zero of space, 200 million degrees of stars - that's what the great, great bulk of the universe is like. Not too conducive to our kind of life...
...goes to show how talented she is, because it’s not autobiographical,” Cohen said, explaining that although the basic premise of the book might have some bearing in Viswanathan’s life, the two girls could not be more different. “All through high school...she was very balanced—she had friends and a social life, she went shopping, she loved going out, and having snowball fights...
...Iranian Students Association (HISA) (primarily graduates) was asked to support the concert. Only when a translator was needed did the organizers bother to contact HISA. The need to defend human rights in Iran is as indisputable as the regime’s long record of torture and suppression of basic freedoms. The rights of women and ethnic and religious minorities are routinely repressed. Prominent activists, such as Akbar Ganji and Roya Toloui, are routinely attacked for dissident opinions. Yet these same human rights activists oppose foreign interference and invasion (including the U.S.’s ongoing economic sanctions), because...
...prices and growing concern over sustainable energy have made them the hottest stocks in the tech-heavy Taiwan Stock Exchange. Motech and E-Ton Solar make photovoltaic (PV) semiconductors, better known as solar cells. Sino-American is in the business of supplying them with silicon wafers, which are the basic PV building blocks. And shares of all three have delivered stellar gains thanks to the world's growing appetite for solar power as a hedge against the high price of crude...
...retain your trust and our credibility, we have to do two things. Most basically, we have to ensure readers trust that what they are reading in our pages is fact, not fiction. I believe our industrious and assiduous reporters, backed by the paper’s 133-year legacy, ensure that most readers do pick up the paper each morning with a basic assumption of truth. But the peaceful slumbers of complacency are never far off, and I hope this column will provide us with a bi-weekly opportunity to recommit ourselves to the truth...