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...ideologies lose their importance. TIME: What strengths won you the job? Lenoir: I plan on drawing from my years as a negotiator, adviser and partner with people and administrations on the European level. The experience and relationships I gained during that time may be of help in my new function. TIME: Because France's domestic policies will cause trouble? Lenoir: It's too early to predict where problems may arise. This government has programs it plans on putting into place, but it remains a dedicated, pro-European partner. TIME: Yes, but proposed policies are already causing consternation. Your reputation...
...rescue the church from the corruption of priests bequeathing church property to their heirs. Several past Popes have been married. Mandatory celibacy does not exist in the Eastern Orthodox church, which is formally in communion with Rome. Former Anglican priests who have converted to Roman Catholicism are allowed to function as priests while staying married. As with most Catholic administrative matters, exceptions are made. So why cannot one be made now, where the church is faced with the greatest threat to vocations in its history...
Software engineers will tell you that the longer they labor to solve complex problems by manually writing code, the more they respect the reasoning powers of the human brain. For years, artificial-intelligence researchers have gained some of their most useful insights from experts in brain function. And today the biological sciences are making similar contributions to all sorts of technologies useful to business, from software that "grows," "heals" and "reproduces" to tiny carbon tubes that will allow computer transistors to shrink to atomic dimensions even as they grow more powerful...
...While it may be far from inconceivable that bin Laden's network may have the capability to create a dirty bomb, operating a nuclear program would be a Herculean challenge for an organization whose survival depends on its relative invisibility. Even fully-functioning states such as Pakistan have needed decades of research and the assistance of nuclear-capable allies to develop their bomb programs, and they haven't had to hide the extensive scientific and industrial infrastructure required to build nuclear weapons. And given that a dirty bomb's function is primarily to spread terror through contamination, terrorists...
Though both Stanford and Harvard provide an education of similar caliber, Fiske says Stanford’s strengths lies in the sciences and technology—a function of being founded during a time when science was becoming increasingly important and other colleges were adding it to their curriculums...