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...that one need not even take classes that explicitly address the topic in their course titles to acquire perspective about its applicable significance. It is hard to imagine how one could take a class on American government and fail to struggle with religiously-charged political issues such as stem cell research and school prayer or how one could take a class on European history without grappling with clashes of religion in the Crusades or the Reformation. The case could be made that undergrads need to experience a more catholic variety of religious issues outside the Eurocentric tradition, but even with...
...you’re looking for the imprimatur of greatness, try Nature or Harvard—but if you want the real thing, try PLoS One or Berkeley. MICHAEL B. EISEN ’89 San Francisco, Calif. October 12, 2006 The writer is assistant professor of molecular and cell biology at the University of California, Berkeley and co-founder of the Public Library of Science...
...Syria in December 2001 was no ordinary criminal: 42-year-old Mohammad Haydr Zammar, a businessman who had immigrated to Germany and was living in Hamburg, was wanted by U.S. officials on suspicion of helping to recruit some of the 9/11 hijackers, as part of Al Qaeda's Hamburg cell. According to the report, after a U.S. request Zammar was arrested in Morocco by local police. He was questioned in Morocco by CIA officials and then flown to Damascus; the intelligence report does not specify which aircraft transferred...
...cell 2 of the Palestine Branch was Maher Arar, a Syrian-born Canadian telecommunications engineer, whose tale of captivity has since become a cause celebre in Canada. Arar had left Syria at age 17 and married a Tunisian fellow student at McGill University in Montreal. On his way home from a vacation in Tunisia in September 2002, he stopped to change planes at JFK Airport in New York City. There, FBI agents arrested him at an immigration control desk, and ordered him deported to his native Syria - even though he was traveling on a Canadian passport. He was flown...
...Senate candidate in New Jersey challenging the incumbent constantly reinforces the same point: his opponent is corrupt, so voters need to dump him and pick someone with a higher sense of ethics. Increased funding for stem cell research, a ban on offshore oil drilling in Alaska and outlawing gifts from lobbyists to lawmakers are major planks in his campaign platform. He's also been sharply critical of the Bush Administration handling of the war in Iraq, and is pro-choice and liberal on environmental issues. Now, in the wake of the Mark Foley scandal, he's called on House Speaker...