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...economy, especially in the all-important energy sector. "He's one of the smartest people in Russia," says William Browder, founder of a Moscow-based investment fund. But last week Illarionov, 44, abruptly resigned. "When I took the job, we spoke about pursuing a liberal economic policy," he explained. "Now, the state has evolved in quite the opposite direction." In an interview with Time, he implied that he had been under pressure to stop speaking out. "My job assumed the ability to hold free public discussion of ongoing processes," he said. "My willing suspension of this ability would have been...
...There's no stage in KA, but it's great theater. Explain. OK. This martial-arts extravaganza from Cirque du Soleil (playing at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas) is performed on, and above, two revolving platforms. As the artists cavort on a boat, or fight a battle, or swing through a forest scene, the ground is literally moving under their feet. As conceived by Robert Lepage, the innovative Canadian writer-director, the $165 million action musical is unquestionably the most technically complex show ever devised, achieving marvels Broadway is too timid and strapped even to dream of. The first...
...theory of evolution by natural selection. The truth is that the theory is not only an overwhelmingly powerful explanation for how life on Earth manages to come in such a bewildering array of different types, but the only such theory in science. Like any scientific theory, it can't explain how every aspect of every organism came to be, but each time scientists find new evidence-fossils of dinosaurs bearing feathers; fossils of the mammals whose descendants are whales; the molecular structure DNA that carries traits from one generation to the next; the mutations that can alter DNA to introduce...
...That's not to say there isn't a tiny handful of actual scientists who back ID. Yes, evolution explains a lot, they say, but some things-the eye, for example, or the whiplike tails on some bacteria-are just too complex to have evolved. To which the vast majority of biologists say nonsense. We don't have remotely enough information to make such a statement. Moreover, if ID is a valid theory on its own, it has to make testable predictions. "It's too complex to explain" is not a prediction...
...student groups and HoCos. When some members of the UC suggested that Harvard misrepresented its support of student groups to prospective applicants, Summers appeared agitated. “If Harvard misrepresents anything, I’d want to know that,” he said. He went on to explain that much of Harvard’s budget becomes a balancing act since many components of the University would like to have increased funding. While Summers noted that funding for student groups and HoCos comes from the College, not the University, he said his office recently allocated $6.5 million toward...