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Intelligent design is just another chapter in the "God of the gaps" saga--if we do not yet fully understand a natural process, then it must be God's work. The church and religious fundamentalists have been at war with science for centuries. They have lost every battle along the way, and they are certain to lose the fight challenging evolution because they cannot stop the accumulation of knowledge or the search for truth...
Subscriber Cherie Hanks, 54, has been a property caretaker since 2001, when she moved to Colorado to be near her four grown children. Her first position came about by chance, after she wandered into something called the P.E.O. Chapter House in Cheyenne Canyon, near Colorado Springs. "I was curious about it," she says, "and discovered it was a retirement home for older members of the Philanthropic Educational Organization, a nonprofit devoted to promoting higher education for women." Though a small staff took care of the grounds and meals, the house manager was looking for someone to live on-site. Hanks...
...Most disappointed audiences don’t get to see a sample of “what might have been.” We, however, are treated to a demonstration of the dream deferred when director Iain Softley throws us a bone in the final chapter of the film and brings us to the edge of our seats. He’s no Hitchcock, but this last third or so leaves us with a fast pulse and an uneasy mind to take home—which is all we can really ask of the horror genre...
...want, which, if it's not clear, is bread. It's not even due to the fact that I think Atkins' high-cholesterol foods are dangerous for your heart, no matter how much weight you lose by gorging yourself on gut-filling fats. No, when Atkins Nutritionals filed for Chapter 11, it was a justification of my entire world view. Life is full of immutable truths, one of which happens to be that if you eat fewer calories than you burn, you'll lose weight. Another is that bacon and pork rinds in mass quantities are not good...
Thomson's style in that chapter doesn't quite match that of the rest of the book. But his afterword about the novel's creation is fascinating. The idea for the work, he says, originated with Brando. But it was Cammell--a rather louche, not untalented fellow (he wrote and co-directed the cultishly admired Mick Jagger movie Performance in 1970)--who did all the heavy lifting on both treatment and novel. Thomson says Brando chatted with Cammell about the story and scratched a few notes in the margins of the evolving manuscript. That is the not entirely surprising...