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...that they were done quickly, but with incredible precision," says Bredekamp. Galileo's renderings revealed the moon's shadows as craters, hills and valleys. Identifying such Earthlike topography in a heavenly body was an important step toward the conclusion that later put him at odds with the Catholic Church: that Earth was not the center of the universe...
...maintain shorter distances from each other, planes will be able to fly closer together. Blakey insists the planes will be at safe distances, but for air traffic controllers that's not enough. "We have 1100 fewer air traffic controllers working today than we did on Sept. 11," says Doug Church of the National Air Traffic Controllers Association, a union currently in a labor dispute with the FAA. Air traffic controllers are already overworked, Church adds, and NextGen does not address the staffing issue...
...escape back to a time when those in the pew had no clue [Aug. 6]. The allure of Mass is not in language but in the celebration itself. Cullen should savor the fact that she can understand what is being said in English and disagree with it. The church should maintain the common language of the people, because it is their faith that makes the church more of a community than an institution. Josh Steger, GREEN...
...declared Kenneth Roth, executive director of New York-based Human Rights Watch. The New York Times stated that the then-proposed measure would only exacerbate the problems it was meant to resolve. “That was why the West embraced the concept of a separation of church and state to begin with,” the Times argued. “Because every attempt by one religion or ideology to dictate its precepts on others led to only greater problems...
...American critics of the headscarf ban fancied themselves as principled defenders of religious freedom and of the separation of church and state. The law, they claimed, was at best a perversion of basic legal principles, cloaked in republican ideology. Most commentators in the United States lined up in defence of the liberal pluralism in which we North Americans are schooled from birth. But the defensiveness with which Americans reacted to the ban reflects a gulf that goes much deeper than the relative strength of one’s commitment to defending religious freedom...