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...company in 1937 that created Dollman and Sheena, Queen of the Jungle. Later he created the Spirit, a witty antihero with no superpowers who roamed back alleys in search of bad guys, and wrote one of the first graphic novels, about a Bronx, N.Y., slumlord, A Contract with God. "My interest is not the superhero," he said, "but the little man who struggles to survive in the city...
...Mississippi Burning. Yet neither Killen, called the "Preacher" by locals, nor other Klansmen ever faced state murder charges. And most, including Killen, beat federal civil rights--violation charges in a 1967 trial in which one member of the all-white jury insisted she could never convict a man of God like the Preacher. One of the men who was convicted, Sam Bowers-- the Neshoba County Klan's Imperial Wizard--later said in a prison interview that he was "quite delighted to have the main instigator of the entire affair," meaning Killen, "walk out of the courtroom a free...
...positive side, religious faith seems to genuinely lift the spirit, though it's tough to tell whether it's the God part or the community aspect that does the heavy lifting. Friends? A giant yes. A 2002 study conducted at the University of Illinois by Diener and Seligman found that the most salient characteristics shared by the 10% of students with the highest levels of happiness and the fewest signs of depression were their strong ties to friends and family and commitment to spending time with them. "Word needs to be spread," concludes Diener. "It is important to work...
...that the Holocaust and subsequent linguistic barriers between the past and the present play a significant role in these Floridians’ feeling alienated from even their very own youths. So that part of the equation will not hold up in my (God willing) old age. But it will likely play a role in the lives of many of my peers who are themselves immigrants to the States. Unfortunately, though, my perhaps precocious observations about the key to happiness in old age is not as clear-cut as encouraging your children to speak to you in your native tongue. Indeed...
...consider it the scientists' job to find the ultimate truth, even if, as your article reported, "most scientists consider appeals to a supernatural designer to be an intellectual dead end." If God truly exists, he will be around in spite of all denials and scientific theories. Eddie M.P. Mak Hong Kong...