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...failed to address the enormous role the media have in influencing Americans' perception of risk. While a preventable ailment like heart disease kills about 700,000 Americans annually, consumers are bombarded with scary images of terrorism, school violence and pandemics without the benefit of a clear context or information about the absolute risk. We need a citizenry that takes the time to understand risk, but we also need media that refrain from preying on our emotions. BEN BLINK Eau Claire...
...papal view of faith as brought forth in his Regensburg address. Faith is commonly known as a trust not based on logic or reason, but on a transpersonal relationship with a higher power. I would beg His Holiness to enunciate the connection between faith and reason in the context of humanity as a whole. Faith is neither Christian, Islamic, Hindu, Jewish nor Buddhist, nor is it a monopoly of any one segment of the human race. It is also appalling that the 9/11 events-a crude, revengeful act by a few semi-educated individuals-has drawn the battle lines...
...granite and red marble foyer grafted onto the front of the building, the exhibition spaces are much less cluttered. Just as important, says Diane Lees, the museum's director, is the rethinking of its layout. "We wanted it to be much more about seeing the exhibits in context," she says...
...ethical and moral manner, the writer appears to misunderstand the nature of these two pieces of legislation. The op-ed continues to mischaracterize Senator McCain’s record by quoting a New York Times op-ed that uses a McCain spokesman’s quote out of context to imply that Senator McCain opposes abortion in all cases. However, the progressive watchdog group Media Matters points out that although the spokesman said Senator McCain would have signed the South Dakota abortion bill, the spokesman continued to say that the Senator would have taken steps to see that...
...particularly since the committee said the number of courses to count for general education “should be much larger than is the case with the Core.” “There needs to be some real principle for how these courses are shaped in the context of the Core,” religion professor Diana L. Eck, master of Lowell House, said over the phone last night. She added that she might alter one of her Core courses, Foreign Cultures 12, “Sources of Indian Civilization,” to include a focus...