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Unlike the Baptist's stark outlook, however, Kurtz is more optimistic that the fight to preserve a traditional definition of marriage is not doomed - and is actively forming alliances and organizing to shore up the one-man-and-one-woman concept of matrimony. He sent a letter last fall to Thomas Monson, president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, praising Mormon support for Prop 8, the ballot-initiative in California that made gay marriage unconstitutional. That state's Supreme Court is expected to rule on the validity of the amendment soon...
...explanations for the theories of physics, including wave-particle duality. “The theme of seeing, of turning back to see, of interrogating the past for answers keeps coming back through the play,” Radulian wrote in an email. “The physical concept of collapsing the wave function through observation is paralleled with the Orpheus story. If you don’t look, both choices are still possible; ‘yes’ and ‘no’ exist and are valid at the same time. If you look...
...that has been the driving force behind Boyle’s recent popularity. It comes as no surprise then that the most willfully nasty among us—cough, cough, “Got Talent” creator Simon Cowell—seem so drawn to the concept of Susan Boyle. Upon any sort of consideration, however, the idea of “a Susan Boyle” reveals itself to be as artificial as Cowell’s malevolent public persona. Though her story is moving, it has certainly been carefully constructed by the show’s producers...
...students, faculty, and staff to hear her perspective on intersectionality and be able to talk about it from the policy as well as research perspective.” Hankivsky, who is also the founder and co-director of Institute for Critical Studies of Gender and Health, said that the concept of intersectionality should also be applied to health research and social policy, not just the social sciences and the humanities. She spoke about intersectionality as an all-encompassing approach that weaves together factors such as gender, class, race, and other determinants of health to help scholars better understand public health...
...Personal preference,” she says. “I don’t like the concept of signing yourself over to somebody...