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...residents of Dover, PA., are visited with disaster anytime soon--a flood, an earthquake, a hail of fire and brimstone--no one can say Pat Robertson didn't warn them. Doverites voted last week to oust all eight members up for re-election on the school board that had mandated the mention of "intelligent design," or i.d., in biology classrooms. By doing so, the televangelist said on his TV talk show, The 700 Club, "you just voted God out of your city...
...This technology is unstoppable," says Stanford's Rangel. That is precisely what motivated Mazziotta to set up the atlas project in the first place: with the proliferation of scanning, there was a flood of information about the brain but nowhere to put it. "Up to now there has been no way to compare imaging work done in one lab to another, or from one person to another. We needed to have some way to organize all this data." The trick now is to figure out how best...
...China prepares to be host to the Olympics in 2008, officials have begun to acknowledge the need to raise the level of public civility in order to show the world the country's advances after just three decades of economic reform. Once the flood of foreign visitors recedes, bureaucrats hope the manners makeover will stick with Chinese citizens and help make their cities more livable. "We are quite behind when it comes to fundamental etiquette," concedes Chen Zhenmin, deputy director of the Shanghai Spiritual Civilization Office. In Shanghai, China's most cosmopolitan city, local leaders have unveiled a campaign called...
...available—they will marry you and subsequently have homosexual affairs).These three types are merely the most glaring forms of metrosexuality on the Harvard campus. Indeed, almost every Harvard male has incorporated some of the aesthetic. Even some math majors have foregone their Zelda t-shirts and flood pants and embraced the niceties of a crisp white oxford and leather satchels.As a fashion columnist (really, the highest form of modern anthropologist), I regard metrosexuality with mixed feelings. Of course, in many ways it’s a sign of societal progress. According to the well-known mathematical principles...
...fellow clinicians learned that their skills were sorely needed there. Thousands of activists had also fled through the jungle, many staggering into Thailand sick with malaria. To care for them, she set up a makeshift clinic in a nearby barn. As the trickle of evacuees turned into a flood, many of the expats arriving in Thailand headed straight for the clinic...