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...extraordinarily cautious about proclaiming their faith in the public square. Meanwhile, regular church attendance in Western Europe continued to plummet. By the late 1990s, only 15% of Europeans said that they attended a place of worship each week. Despite some last-minute lobbying by Poland, Italy and others, the draft of the E.U. constitution treaty finalized in 2004 omitted any mention of God or Christian values. But the familiar pattern of religion's retreat and secularism's advance now has to be reassessed. The wave of immigration from Muslim countries to Europe has catalyzed a new debate about the place...
...that's rapidly changing. Just a year ago, geneticists announced that they had sequenced a rough draft of the chimpanzee genome, allowing the first side-by-side comparisons of human and chimpanzee DNA. Already, that research has led to important discoveries about the development of the human brain over the past few million years and possibly about our ancestors' mating behavior as well...
...parading him through the yard. The Crimson viewed the Student Council as a bunch of “talkative politicians” with “little discernible reason to continue to exist,” and recommended its abolition. Of course, our overriding governmental concern was the draft system, which offered deferments for college and grad school, and in some cases, for government work...
...This report, from Harvard Medical School, will answer that question,” Douglass responded, brandishing an envelope which ostensibly contained a draft of the report of the investigation that the Medical School had launched in June...
...House” (which millions were upset to learn was actually a clever Geico ad). Unfortunately, a similar, albeit toned-down, version of it just premiered last Thursday on CBS. The new show “Survivor: Cook Islands” is about as politically correct as the first draft of Khatami’s forum speech, before he remembered that lying is sometimes a good rhetorical tool. Although a more offensive show could be conceived (e.g. “Survivor: Gaza Strip”), “Survivor: Cook Islands” is pretty terrible. Contestants are divided...