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...gravitation or the speed of light: known facts that inform us about the universe. Science gave us physics and medicine, as well as evolution, which unfortunately has aspects that can be exploited by doubters. But if we left discovery up to the religious right, we might still think the earth is flat...
...harvests organs from executed prisoners for transplants, a practice it has long denied "We may have lost a dear old friend and teacher." michael meyer, NASA scientist, announcing that the Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft had fallen silent after nearly 10 years of beaming data on the planet back to Earth-more than double its expected life "I and senior management agree with the American public that this was an ill-considered project." RUPERT MURDOCH, News Corp. CEO, announcing the cancellation of a TV interview with O.J. Simpson, the former NFL star acquitted in 1995 of murdering his ex-wife...
...When the Earth Moved This year marks the 50th anniversary of the 1956 revolt against Hungary's communist government and its Soviet-imposed policies. What began as a heroic student demonstration ended tragically with a Soviet invasion. TIME's Nov. 5, 1956, story described the hopeful beginnings of the uprising...
...existing in a globalized world in which mankind's selfish quest for wealth has almost certainly destroyed its only habitat. When are we going to grasp how grave our situation is? We should rise up against the real enemies - power-hungry politicians and money-hungry exploiters who rape our earth in the name of development. Johan Van Der Merwe Hilton, South Africa The Dance Of The Veils Re columnist Yasmin Alibhai-Brown's essay "Nothing to Hide" [Oct. 16], on the controversy surrounding former British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw's request that Muslim women remove their veils in his office...
...those who have not seen the movie, the basic conceit of the film is that Borat, a reporter from Kazakh television, is visiting the U.S. in order to make a documentary. His hope is that by learning from America, the greatest country on earth, Kazakhstan might learn to deal with all of its problems—problems that Borat neatly divides into “social, economic...