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...Azam Omrani, 63, whose son Amir died in the war. From the CIA-led coup in 1953 that reinstalled the Shah to the millions of dollars Washington spends on covert operations and propaganda against their government today, Iranians believe the U.S. has interfered in Iran's internal affairs. The effect has been to create a siege mentality even among those Iranians who don't support the government. "You go outside in the morning, and the first thing you read is that you may be bombarded," says a woman from an élite family, referring to rumors about U.S. or Israeli...
Koenig is a co-director of Duke's Center for Spirituality, Theology and Health. His latest book on the subject offers an overview of research into faith's effect on mental health, cardiovascular disease and mortality, as well as guidelines for health-care professionals on how they can integrate spirituality into the care they offer patients...
...smaller case of a larger reality. We live in a culture where I think science, the evidence of science, trumps the evidence of faith. If you give a drug that's supposed to work in six months, and three years later you get a remission, that's called delayed effect. And I've said to my oncologist colleagues, Why is that not a miracle? What evidence do you have, because you have no evidence that this is delayed effect--it's just what you're calling it. Tell me that that's not a miracle...
Some researchers argue that many patterns of nature - such as the large number of species in the tropics - cannot be reduced to the effect of natural selection on individuals. They may be following rules of their own. "Which of these ideas is going to actually survive and prove fruitful is anybody's guess," says Pigliucci. "I don't see things coalescing for at least a decade or more...
...professor of Arab studies and director of the Middle East Institute at Columbia University, said that the world powers should focus on building Palestinian political unity rather than delegitimizing Hamas. The panel was moderated by Harvard Kennedy School Professor R. Nicholas Burns. While introducing the speakers, Burns emphasized the effects of the 61-year struggle on the Israeli and Palestinian people. “The Israeli people have not known a single day of peace, and the Palestinian people have not seen a single day of justice,†he said. Khalidi acknowledged the gravity of the situation, especially...