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Souther left the Navy in 1982 to study Russian literature at Virginia's Old Dominion University. He also worked as a reservist at the Atlantic fleet intelligence center in Norfolk. He was assigned to a laboratory processing satellite-reconnaissance photos and also might have been privy to sensitive communications intercepts. The investigation into his ex-wife's allegations was reopened in 1986, and after questioning by the FBI, Souther defected. In spite of his warm reception by the KGB, his marriage to a Russian and the birth of their daughter, he was not happy in Moscow. "I haven't found...
There used to be a debate in the '70s about appropriate technology. Now the question is: Did God choose an appropriate technology when he gave human beings dominion over the earth? The jury is still out. And the answer has to come in our lifetime from the political system...
...Judeo-Christian tradition introduced a radically different concept. The earth was the creation of a monotheistic God, who, after shaping it, ordered its inhabitants, in the words of Genesis: "Be fruitful and multiply, and replenish the earth and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the fowl of the air and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth." The idea of dominion could be interpreted as an invitation to use nature as a convenience. Thus the spread of Christianity, which is generally considered to have paved the way for the development...
HERE in Lima it is still easy to find pirated tapes of Chilean folksinger Victor Jara. Author of lyrics like "Liberate our people from the dominion of the exploiter," he was one of the thousands forced by the Chilean army into the Santiago soccer stadium during the 1973 overthrow of Socialist Salvador Allende. In the stadium with his guitar, Jara began to sing some of his most popular songs; the waiting crowd joined in. The soldiers grabbed him, pulled away his guitar, and chopped off his hands--challenging him to "Try playing now" before killing him. The crowd watched, then...
...other new fellows are Judith Andre of Old Dominion University's Philosophy Department; J. Gregory Dees of the Yale School of Management; Lachlan Forrow, a clinical fellow at Harvard Medical School; Henry S. Richardson, an assistant professor of philosophy at Georgetown University, and South African dissident Andries B. du Toit, a Political Studies professor at Cape Town University...