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...very accepting atheist and I find the cloud of religion surrounding the American government to be discomforting at best, usually bordering on the offensive. And yet our country's statesmen continue to allow the practice of religion in state settings, presumably in an attempt to increase their favorability. We all know that these representatives don't practice the religious morals preached behind closed doors, the recent sexual tangents of Bill Clinton and Jesse Jackson being the latest examples. Yet, Christian religion continues to permeate the American government. Yes, religion is alive and well in America, but it has no place...
...Gujarat, began to shake like a storm-tossed raft. Toward the end of the 45-second quake, which the U.S. Geological Survey says hit 7.9 on the Richter scale, Patel heard a violent snapping sound. He ran out just as a neighboring four-story house collapsed in a roiling cloud of dust. As their home crumbled, a few residents made desperate leaps to safety from balconies...
Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee declared a state of emergency and ordered thousands of troops to help during the aftermath. "We will rebuild the broken homes," he said. "We will resettle the shattered neighborhoods. And we will pray for those that died." --By John Cloud. Reported by Rukmini Maria Callimachi/Ahmadabad and Meenakshi Ganguly/Bombay
Both groups, one at Harvard's physics department and the private Rowland Institute for Science and the other at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, took advantage of the fact that a beam of light can transform matter--a cloud of rubidium atoms in one case, supercooled sodium in the other--from ordinary opaqueness into temporary transparency. Having done that, they shone a second light on the clouds, and then turned the first...
Tony Blair's closest political ally, Peter Mandelson, has been forced for a second time to resign from Blair's cabinet under the cloud of scandal. How badly will this hurt Blair as Britain prepares for election in the spring...