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...contribute $6.5 million of astronomical equipment, including the astro-comb, will begin scanning the skies for Earth-like planets in late 2009 or early 2010, according to Szentgyorgyi. But while many say Earth-like planets are the most likely locations of extra-terriestial life, Szentgyorgyi did note that this belief may prove unfounded. “It may turn out that there’s really smart pond scum that eat sulfur somewhere instead,” he chuckled. “But we really see [Earth-like planets] as the first step.” —Staff...
...Part of the tire swing’s appeal comes from a desire to retread against Harvard exceptionalism. Somewhere in the dusty corners of our brains is an unadulterated belief that college is about guitars and colorful blankets on sunny days, about idle conversations under the spreading chestnut tree, about endless hours sacrificed to the furnace of Frisbee. This is what television told us, it is what our older siblings at state schools told us, and it is—to a large extent—what the Harvard viewbooks told us. When we arrived here to find it mostly...
When a German journalist put the issue to the then Cardinal Ratzinger in 2002, he received a surprising answer. The Pontiff-to-be called the issue “very serious,” detailing his theological belief that animals are God’s creatures, deserving of merciful treatment...
...They also exonerated him for supposedly dismembering her body parts, cooking those body parts into soup that he served to the homeless, and for leaving her bleached skull in a bucket of kitty litter at the Port Authority Bus Terminal. Today the story has been mythicized, often extrapolated beyond belief. “Yeah, I tasted the soup,” a homeless man once claimed to me, “and I liked it too.” At the time, however, the event marked what was for many the culmination of the violence and depravity that had plagued...
...this trip, as Benedict repeatedly stresses that it is found only in faith. "While we have sought diligently to engage the intellect of our young, perhaps we have neglected the will," the Pope mused. Because free will, if rightly tutored and exercised, does not involve "an opting-out" of belief, "but an opting...