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Clayton says this unwillingness to consider the coexistence of science and religion can prove “damaging” to both fields, creating extremism on both ends and an unwillingness to find a middle ground...
...become cliché, these days, to bemoan the fact that the American education system, despite its vast expenditures, is constantly losing ground when compared to the rest of the developed world. Nevertheless, when one puts hard numbers to the bromide, it becomes, well, much less of a bromide. According to a report released earlier this week by ACT, the company that is responsible for the eponymous college entrance examination finds that only 26 percent of American students who graduate from high school having taken a college-preparatory curriculum are in fact prepared for college-level work. If these findings...
...says he was suspended from such a hook three times during his five-month stint in U.S. custody at Abu Ghraib. His feet were tied, and his arms were bound behind his back. "They would take a stick and put it through the rope and pull me off the ground," he says. While he was bound and suspended, a military translator stood by him, shouting: "You are a terrorist! You are a terrorist!" But no real questioning took place...
...backed Presidents whose Supreme Court nominees chose to uphold Roe v. Wade rather than overturn it. Even as the bookstores filled with alarmed accounts of the rise of a new American Theocracy, what many conservative Christians saw was that the boardroom, not the sanctuary, remained the real Republican hallowed ground. When the Christians' interests clashed with the G.O.P. business wing, the money talked. Disgust with pornography, distaste for women working outside the home and concerns about religious freedom in China would not translate into policies that might inconvenience corporate America...
...Simple Stretch Take your right hand and touch your right heel. Tilt your head and arch your back slightly. Levitate seven inches off the ground. Fully extend your left arm. Remember to breathe! And to levitate...