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...book's claim to be a "history of the universe," while not verifiable by the laymen for which Potter writes, at least feels like it might be truer than not. He occasionally gets lost in the weeds - a digression on the many variations of early man (homo ergaster, homo heidelbergansis, etc.) is eye-blurring, and humorously close to tales of Biblical lineage ("...And Isaac begat Jacob, and Jacob begat Judas..."). There's too much in here to internalize on one reading, so - and what more praise does a book need - you're going to have to read it again. Even...
...Rather than try to unpack the dueling economic models and figure out which side had a better claim to truth, Pooley argues that reporters fell into what he calls the stenography model of journalism, simply reporting both sides with equal weight. The problem is, the two sides weren't equal. The skeptics' models tended to assume, quietly, that the pace of technological advance for renewable energy would be sluggish - significantly raising the costs of trying to cap carbon emissions. The models from the green side - led by the Environmental Defense Fund - tended to be fairer, projecting a range of possible...
...hospitals. In Kerala, the Church runs 60% of the private educational institutes. The state's near 100% literacy - a singular case in a country where the average adult literacy rate is just about 60% - is thanks largely to the church's zealous missionary activity. Yet critics claim this gives the church a high degree of political and economic power. Church-reform activists also say the affairs of the Catholic Church - to which 60% of Kerala's Christians belong - should be brought more directly under the control of Indian authorities to make its workings more transparent. As of now, church affairs...
...well-paying jobs - nursing has proven particularly attractive for Kerala women, as it is seen as a passport to a foreign post and big bucks - and many youngsters are not up for a lifetime of celibacy and a religious vocation. And though figures have not been collated, activists claim a steady decline in the number of young people taking the vows or, like Raphael, renouncing them altogether...
...other hostages last summer. The authors describe the married Betancourt as carrying on an affair with a Colombian hostage, acting like a privileged blue-blood - "a frickin' princess" in Stansell's telling - bossing around the other prisoners and hoarding precious books, food and a transistor radio. They even claim that she told the guerrillas that the Americans were CIA agents. Asked to elaborate on Betancourt, Stansell told TIME: "That's an infection I lived with for many years. I'd just like to be inoculated and move on." Betancourt has yet to respond to the Americans' accusations...