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...undermined the judgment of the Newbery Medal committee. Censorship is supposed to protect children from being corrupted by substandard portrayal of important topics and issues. It is not intended to keep children ignorant of the adult world, but to ensure that children learn about adult issues in the correct manner. With the amount of improper and faulty information around, censorship serves a vital role in society, but this case is a clear example of its abuse...
...Putting aside whether Steven Pinker is correct that conscious and unconscious thoughts must be in the brain, the most difficult question remains: Where is a thought, an idea, an inspiration, an intention before it appears in the brain? It is in the collective consciousness, which our world calls by many names: God, Yahweh, Allah, Source, Universe. And that is where the soul resides. (The Rev.) Tim O'Connor Cumming, Georgia...
Like most politically-correct agitations, the protest bordered on the comical. For example, the Washington Square News—NYU’s student newspaper—photographed a particularly incensed protester enthusiastically extending a sign declaring “Immigrant values are family values...
...report, we have not changed the design of our cigarettes with the intention of increasing nicotine yields in order to make the product more addictive.” However, Connolly said that FDA regulation of the tobacco industry is essential to determine whether Philip Morris’ claims are correct. “If we knew that they’re actually lowering nicotine, I’d be the happiest man in medicine,” Connolly said...
...uneasy truce—by segregating themselves, utterly and totally. But a recent article in The New York Times about the case of Marcus R. Ross, a doctoral student in geosciences at the University of Rhode Island (URI), may foreshadow the crumbling of this truce. Ross submitted a scientifically correct thesis about a creature that lived 65 million years ago. His work was deemed scientifically “impeccable” by his dissertation adviser. But Ross is also a believer in “young Earth creationism,” the theory that that the planet is only...