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...race to the moon, the study of human origins, the battle against AIDS, the birth of the environmental movement and the crisis of global warming. In the past year, we've frequently looked at science through the increasingly revealing lens of evolutionary biology, exploring what makes us good and evil, the secrets of birth order and why we always seem to worry about the wrong things...
...with a single, well-thrown ninja star.” 8) Physics 191r, “Advanced Laboratory:” “While I thought the time machine we invented would be used only for good, I have reason to believe it will soon be used for evil.” 9) Quantitative Reasoning 50, “Medical Detectives:” “The professor’s frequent threats to ‘Create a new medical mystery when I kill you without leaving a mark’ were slightly unnerving...
Dalia Mogahed, Executive Director of the Gallup Organization's Center for Muslim Studies, says she was encouraged by the many Forum experts' view of religion as a neutral tool, rather than a force inherently good or evil. "People here understand that blaming religion for conflict is like blaming the gun for shooting someone," she says. Mogahed also hailed the initiatives launched by Noor and Sheikha Moza. But she couldn't help wondering about something that might undermine the Alliance's high-minded efforts. "I haven't seen a single American policy-maker here," she says. "Their lack of engagement, their...
...least managed not to screw it up. Composer Alan Menken (with Glenn Slater replacing the late Howard Ashman as lyricist) has added several catchy new songs to his already fine score; the Broadway-razzmatazz number in which the Ursula, the sea witch (a sharp Sherie Renee Scott), celebrates her evil ways, "I Want the Good Times Back," would have made the Devil in Damn Yankees jealous. The young newcomer who plays Ariel, Sierra Boggess, gets to show off a pretty voice and, once she loses it, some pretty good pantomime skills...
...Most horror and monster stories follow a simple format: "What if [insert worst thing you can imagine]...?" In the junky, fitfully frightening, virally marketed new movie Cloverfield, the "if" is the worst thing you can remember. To wit: What if a previously unknown agent of evil were to destroy a world-famous New York City edifice? Not the World Trade Center, this time, but the Statue of Liberty - the Lady's head is tossed like a used beer can onto a lower Manhattan street. And the Statue decapitator is not a team of al-Qaeda operatives but a scaly...