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Male students and workers, undeterred by the afternoon drizzle, waited for signatures, sometimes for more than fifteen minutes. At one point, the line extended past the edge of the newsstand...
...ancestral environment," the one we were designed for. There's no shortage of such maladies to study. Rates of depression have been doubling in some industrial countries roughly every 10 years. Suicide is the second most common cause of death among young adults in North America, after car wrecks. Fifteen percent of Americans have had a clinical anxiety disorder. And, pathological, even murderous alienation is a hallmark of our time. In that sense, the Unabomber is Exhibit A in his own argument...
...personal tragedy that brought Pagels to reflect on Satan. In 1987 her six-year-old son Mark died of a respiratory illness. Fifteen months later, her husband Heinz, a physicist, fell to his death while hiking in Colorado. Eventually, Pagels found herself reflecting on the ways in which an invisible presence, like her missing loved ones, holds power over the living. In that frame of mind she turned to the early church and its invisible enemy...
...panel will decide which finalists will receive a $100,000 grant to help their program. Fifteen of the finalists who were chosen for their unusual creativity in addressing public needs, will receiver the large grants, while the remaining 15 will receive grants...
However, this decision is not less plausible than the arrival of Robert kincaid in town on the only week in fifteen years that her whole family decides to go out of town. Suspending this initial disbelief, the whole story is left to unfold like a fairy tale...