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...Palestine Liberation Organization and the leading candidate to succeed Yasser Arafat as President of the Palestinian Authority. "Abbas wants to get workers back to their jobs," says Sharaf. "I don't care about politics with Israel. I need to make a living, because all I'm doing now, by God, is swatting flies...
Gladwell's real genius is as a storyteller. He's like an omniscient, many-armed Hindu god of anecdotes: he plucks them from every imaginable field of human endeavor. The art historian who can instantly spot a forgery that fooled a battery of scientific tests but can't explain why. The ornithologist can identify at 200 yards an exotic bird he's never seen in flight before. The psychologist who has catalogued the 10,000 expressions of which the human face is capable. Gladwell hangs with superstar car salesmen and emergency-room cardiologists, badass battlefield commanders and improv-comedy troupes...
...must be responsible for the body's creation as well as the varying outcomes (good and bad) we see after treatment of seemingly similar diseases. The human body is more complex than the most sophisticated computer. The longer I practice medicine, the more I believe in the greatness of God...
...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...
...God In Our Genese?" was interesting but hardly surprising [Oct. 25]. The answer to the basic question of whether religion was created by man from cues sent from above or a sense of the divine evolved in us has long seemed obvious to Northern Europeans of my generation: man made God out of a need for a God and benefited from the invention. I was, however, surprised by the reverence the story showed toward religion. But then it struck me that this attitude might be a genuine example of the American mind-set--that religion really matters. That goes...