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...criticism of Islam. The trip to Ankara and Istanbul, where Benedict hopes to celebrate the Feast of St. Andrew on Nov. 30 with the Orthodox Patriarch of Constantinople, is now a definite maybe. It's unlikely that Benedict imagined the situation unraveling so rapidly when he sat down to hammer out his academic discourse, which argues that Islam lacks the Christian concept of a rational God and that Europe must defend its Christian identity. Still, says one Vatican insider, the Pope may very well have wanted to stir up the pot - and have it plenty warm just in time...
...blue? How does time work? Are there invisible worlds?Are you dying to impress kindergarteners? Then Science A is for you!Even if you don’t know MC-squared from MC Hammer, logging a semester in the Science Center is inevitable. But if you choose your science dose carefully, you will learn answers to those most basic and burning questions about the universe—and get a decent grade, even if you are a science-phobe.You will have to do a modicum of work—otherwise, you’ll find yourself melting down faster than...
...Neural blockade - control of the various "gateways" through which pain signals reach our brains, is next. There' s no doubt that pain is ultimately a mental phenomenon whose survival value involves some kind of negative re-enforcement; we learn not to hammer our thumbs by punishing experience. There are times when there' s more survival value in not feeling pain though, and at those times, even injured, we often don't have pain. Anyone who has seen an action movie knows we can take quite a beating yet be oblivious to pain. This is neural blockade at the highest level...
...Cool Operator Mickey Spillane, the tough-guy author who became an icon of American pulp fiction, died last month at age 88 [July 31]. Our Oct. 26, 1959, cover story addressed the spate of TV detective dramas whose heroes owed a lot to Spillane's sleuth, Mike Hammer...
...retreat to medieval rack and thumbscrew, and that's what Guantánamo is all about. Haven't the threats changed? These are simply not new problems. Every country has faced its challenges. Look at the way [James] Madison and [Thomas] Jefferson corresponded when they were trying to hammer out what rights a people should have. They had just fought off a tyrant, but in the calm of the aftermath they perceived their own propensity to one day also act tyrannically, so they legislated against themselves. The British government is considering profiling Muslim air passengers in the wake of recent...