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...Crimson contacted three of the four scientists who won grants from the Gates Foundation (the work of the fourth, Harvard Medical School professor George M. Church, has been profiled in the past) to learn about their “unconventional” research...
...historian James Carroll in his much read book Constantine's Sword. Carroll wrote that Augustine and his followers believed that Jews "must be allowed to survive, but never to thrive" so that their public misery would broadcast their "proper punishments for their refusal to recognize the truth of the Church's claims." And the rest, goes the claim, was bloody history. But in a new book, Augustine and the Jews, Paula Fredriksen, a Boston University religion professor and self-proclaimed "Augustinista," upends the received wisdom. Fredriksen is no coddler of anti-Judaism. A former Catholic who long ago converted...
Many of the mourners gathered on the steps of Memorial Church said they were struck by the diversity and support they saw in the crowd. “We all have our differences, but what ultimately comes down from this is that we must move forward as humans,” said Harvard Dharma co-President Ameya A. Velingker ’10, who also read a poem in Hindi during the vigil. “We are first part of humanity, not Muslims, Hindus, Indians, Pakistanis. I think that’s what this highlighted...
...about 40%.) This latest episode, sparked by protests over local election results, only makes it seem less so. A curfew remained still in place as businesses were trying to recover. Soldiers and police kept vigilant watch on vehicles entering town, hoping to curb any potential reprisals. In every household, church and mosque, people blamed followers of the other religion with planning and executing the attacks with a vitriol that does not bode well for the future of the city or the region. (See here for pictures of the two sides of Nigeria...
...flexibility to use the material's long-lasting, thermal and acoustic properties in everything from pedestrian bridges to bus stations - and, in turn, contributing to big energy and other environmental savings. Some of the innovations are startling: the white concrete used by American architect Richard Meier for the Jubilee Church in Rome contains titanium dioxide, which keeps the concrete clean at the same time as destroying ambient pollutants such as car exhaust...