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...humanist, the ant superorganism is ruthless; biologists see it as efficient and cost-effective. A mechanism of this economy is altruism, which loses its noble meaning when applied to social insects. Ants are selfless only in the sense that they are genetically programmed to sacrifice themselves for the good of the colony. Their fates take startling forms. There are suicidal warriors, for example, that explode in the faces of their enemies, delivering toxic payloads...
...exactly is a "moral relativist?" According to these rambunctious rightists, the campus is literally crawling with them. And yet few on the Harvard campus, either on the left or on the right, would actually claim to be one. A very good reason exists for this discrepancy. Like the "secular humanist" who was so much in vogue a few years ago, the moral relativist is a creature called into being by an overzealous right wing in order to lend itself credibility...
...Gospel Hour. Now antiabortion activists, whom the cable mogul has publicly called "bozos," are furious because Turner's CNN broadcast an early National Park Service estimate of 60,000 supporters at the recent Washington rally, rather than the 500,000 claimed by pro-lifers. And, accepting an award as Humanist of the Year at a convention in Orlando, Turner, who has called Christianity a "religion for losers," had some harsh words for his own upbringing, saying "Religion was pounded into us so much that I was saved seven or eight times...
More to the point, Nicola is an elaborate composition of male sexual / fantasies and fears. In the days of traditional humanist metaphors, she would have been likened to a siren or destructive goddess. Fast-forwarding to the quantum age, Amis associates Ms. Six with -- yes, folks -- a black hole...
Friends of the late Andrei Sakharov held a memorial service for the Nobel laureate earlier this week at Harvard, praising the scientist and humanist for a lifetime that valued ideas above fame...