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...ancient Coptic language ... The Nag Hammadi texts are already adding new fuel to a long-standing debate over the relationship between Gnosticism and early Christianity. Scholars have long believed that some New Testament passages attack incipient forms of Gnosticism. The traditional explanation is that Gnosticism matured after the birth of Christianity and became its archenemy ... It was largely the threat posed by the Gnostics that forced the early Christian church to codify its beliefs ... As orthodoxy won out, Gnostic scriptures were destroyed, and for centuries the religion was known chiefly from church attacks against...
...reaches up to a handmade bookshelf and dusts off his 1940 Yale thesis on F.D.R. up until now the retired furniture maker has avoided Lasell writing courses. Kaplan skims his old thesis to remind himself how he used to Polish his prose. Having lived through 11 presidencies and the birth of three grandchildren since he penned that last paper, he reviews his work with a critical eye. Then he sets it aside, closes his laptop and puts pen to page the old-fashioned way. It may be his first paper in 64 years, he says, but that doesn't mean...
...Foam Truths An Italian court ruled a bar illegally used the arrival of the euro to hike the price of its cappuccino, the first time authorities have punished artificial rises since the euro's 2002 birth...
...five states—Alaska, Hawaii, New Mexico, Washington, and California—and in 33 of the 101 countries where it is sold, Plan B is considered safe by FDA medical reviewers, the American Medical Association and the ACOG. The morning-after pill is a high dosage of birth control pills that works by inhibiting ovulation, fertilization or implantation. In this way, the emergency contraceptive differs from the abortion pill RU-486. While Plan B blocks a pregnancy from forming, RU-486 aborts a fertilized egg that’s attached to the uterine wall...
...advisory committee found that the potential for misuse or abuse of the morning-after pill is slim. Opponents charge that easy access to the emergency contraceptive would lead to an over-reliance on the pill as a primary form of birth control. But according to a recent Planned Parenthood study, most women who had used Plan B did not mean to substitute it for more reliable contraceptives like the birth control pill. Nor is it likely that the morning-after pill will replace other contraceptives in the future, considering the high incidence of side effects like nausea and abdominal pain...