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...proponents of teaching creationism and evolution in public schools. The century-old debate, which reached a pinnacle in the media with the 1925 Scopes “Monkey Trial”, has surfaced anew with the emergence of intelligent design.Intelligent design refers to the theory that while evolution can explain some natural phenomena, other aspects of life are too complex to be a result of randomized natural selection, and thus must have come from an “intelligent designer.”And while scientists—who have long been outspoken critics of alternatives to evolution?...
...MOVIE IS BETTER: By skipping the hometown beginnings of the heroine Sayuri and getting briskly to her induction into geisha life, the film announces its theme quickly and smartly. It expresses in winsome or searing glances what the novel took chapters to explain. The movie offers a little sympathy and backstory to the villainess Hatsumomo by giving her a scene with the lover whom geisha rules forbade her to have. And it gives Sayuri a fabulous dance scene that shows off director Rob Marshall's theater background...
...known methods of torture is sleep deprivation. It can make a person desperate. That is why parents of small children, as soon as all the common-sense strategies backfire and a woozy reality sets in, start combing bookshelves for a sleep guru. Someone who will please explain, preferably in three easy-to-follow steps, how to get their baby to sleep...
...challenge convention wisdom and present a new style of responsible business.” Unlike the stereotypical evil business, Patagonia has managed to do “good things and make a profit without losing its soul,” Chouinard writes. This prophet of responsible capitalism promises to explain how he broke the rules and won.And the lessons are there. For instance, Chouinard stresses the importance of constant innovation, and he relates how Patagonia adroitly switched its underwear material from odor-retaining polypropylene to washable polyester to stay ahead of the competition. He emphasizes the importance of quality...
...find out who told Bob Woodward about Joe Wilson?s wife, Woodward himself has told TIME about a related mystery: what made the source finally come forward. When the Washington Post reporter went public with his involvement in the CIA leak case earlier this week, he failed to explain why his source waited silently for two years before coming clean to special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald. In an interview today, Woodward described the sequence of conversations with his source and Post executive editor Leonard Downie, Jr., that led to the latest twist in Fitzgerald?s investigation into the outing...