Word: existance
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...questions list does not mean it has checked them all. What was going on before the Big Bang? Astronomers have some ideas, but little more. What are the most basic subatomic particles? Physicists suggest they're tiny 10-dimensional objects called superstrings, but nobody has shown that these really exist. Horgan claims that such questions are less science than they are philosophy because we can't test them. But that won't necessarily always be so. Aristotle couldn't have conceived of the Hubble Space Telescope; what makes Horgan think we can imagine the scientific equipment of the year...
...dance in Swaziland, Ndebele marriages in South Africa and Tuareg seasonal ceremonies in the Sahara. Says Beckwith: "These ceremonies are some of the most powerful events in these tribes. They promote healing and provide a powerful new sense of identity. Some of the rituals we've photographed no longer exist. And many of those that do have been altered by Western influences. We're trying to document as many...
...baffled by the anguish over the destruction of frozen, fertilized human eggs that have exceeded the five-year storage limit set by English law [ETHICS, Aug. 12]. Why do so many of these fertility clinics even exist? Why do we have clinics devoted to making children in cases of infertility? Instead, why not turn our maternal and paternal feelings toward the millions of abandoned children worldwide who are condemned to suffer lives of abject misery or even slavery? Why aren't the governments of the world attempting to settle on a unified standard law to promote the adoption of these...
...discovery of evidence that life may exist elsewhere in the universe raises that most profound of all human questions: Why does life exist at all? Is it simply that if enough cosmic elements slop together for enough eons, eventually a molecule will form somewhere, or many somewheres, that can replicate itself over and over until it evolves into a creature that can scratch its head? Or did an all-powerful God set in motion an unfathomable process in order to give warmth and meaning to a universe that would otherwise be cold and meaningless? The rock from Mars does...
...local elections that gave a Muslim-led coalition a majority of the city's council. The Muslims have agreed to a Croat mayor; Croatians have agreed to lift their boycott only after a constitutional rules on their challenge of the June elections. The catch is, the court doesn't exist yet. So the two sides have agreed to share power until the court can rule - within the next sixty days. TIME's Alexandra Stiglmayer in Sarajevo says the agreement may not lead to an effective government. "The Croats will boycott the city council in other ways. They simply...