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...factors in Hindu India in an effort to generalize the study’s findings to other communities. Richard P. Sloan, a professor of behavioral medicine at Columbia University Medical Center, criticized the study for its interpretation of the data collected. Sloan, author of the book, “Blind Faith: The Unholy Alliance of Religion and Medicine,” said there was “probably some other factor” that caused the correlation because subjects did not differ in lung function when they entered the study. Amanda L. Shapiro ’08, president...
...Blind Faith...
...course, one might say a discussion of any text, literature or history or politics, involves moral discussion and judgment. I am, of course, not blind to the moral force of humanistic inquiry, a point that Martha Nussbaum, among others, has made quite well. But the current model of university education seems particularly divorced from human action; its practical dimension seems to have been outsourced to extracurricular groups on campus. Yet mere intellectualism cannot in any way be said to replace the satisfaction of religious instruction...
...shirt, and a blue fall jacket. While playing, Zhou stares transfixed at his jinghu, only breaking his concentration to go to the bathroom or to wash his calloused hands with bottled water. It’s an intense focus that leads some to erroneously conclude that he is blind. He doesn’t even look up when a toddler puts a dollar bill in the empty Kleenex box he keeps on the ground.Most pedestrians rush by, but a few tourists congregate beside him, listening.“I don’t like the sound of it. It?...
...Missing the Target The disabled have lots of buying power and rely heavily on computers and the Internet. So why does it take a court case to get Target to make its website accessible to the blind...