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On Sunday, I went to a religious service for the first time in 22 years. Tired of weeping in front of the television, and troubled by my ability to guide students without having some guidance myself, I went to a church that I had been told was progressive (the Unitarian...
STRESSED OUT Anxiety during pregnancy can double the risk of having a hyperactive child, possibly owing to exposure to the stress hormone cortisol, say researchers at London's Imperial College. Children's behavior is usually attributed to genes or parenting, the researchers say, but this study suggests there is a...
Kim has plenty working against him?starting with the swooning world economy and regional rivalries at home (he doesn't have much support outside his own province of Cholla). But many Koreans place blame for their woes on the man who once stood as a national symbol of hope. Traits...
We generally think of Cleopatra as the cunning sexpot who took the world by storm, spangled herself in gold and bent powerful men to her will. In other words, we think of her as Elizabeth Taylor. "Cleopatra of Egypt: From History to Myth" would have us remember her first as...
It took a good five minutes for Li Changcheng and his wife to locate Mombasa in an atlas. Once they found it, the pair stared at the unprepossessing dot, trying to imagine the riches that lay on Africa's east coast. Six centuries earlier, Admiral Zheng He, with only the...