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...black holes, especially, would be of Nobel caliber -- except that the prize committee insists that theoretical work has to be verified by experiment or observation before it is rewarded. None of Hawking's theories will likely be proved during his lifetime, a fact that Hawking claims doesn't bother him. "It is better to go on and make new discoveries than to hope for a prize for work I did years ago." His current interest: trying to determine whether elementary particles that fall into black holes can form new, baby universes, forever cut off from ours...
...view is that if you're at a party andthere's not a lot of noise, and you keep it out ofsight, then I don't think it will bother a lot ofproctors," says Peter F. Rojas...
That snatch of conversation from Black Bible Chronicles is just one of many new attempts to make the Bible get with the program. One-third of American adults today have trouble decoding the King James Version, and 70% of teenagers in a typical week do not even bother to try, according to Barna Research Group, a religious polling firm. So religious publishers, eager to expand a $400 million Bible industry, are out peddling niche-oriented Bibles in a Babel of new interpretations and formats -- or, to paraphrase Shakespeare, quoting Scripture for their own purposes. "In a Baskin-Robbins % society, people...
Movies can, and regularly do, cause us to embrace the wildest fantasies. But they create our suspension of disbelief by getting the familiar little realities of life right. When they don't bother to do that, it feels like an act of contempt. Our attention starts to wander and our temper grows short, the way they do when the home team is down 10-zip in a late inning with the bottom of the order coming up. "Do you believe this?" somebody says. "Nah, let's go," somebody else replies...
...displayed the relic that he said had come from Noah's ark. His appearance was one of the highlights of The Incredible Discovery of Noah's Ark, a two-hour prime-time special that aired on CBS in February. What the network didn't know -- and didn't bother to find out -- was that Jammal was a hoaxer and that large segments of its program were based on blatant and ludicrous pseudo science...