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...here at Harvard, groups like BAGELS and Cornerstone are devoted to discussing how homosexuality and religious faith intersect. The gay community does not oppose religion itself--indeed, many gays and lesbians are as faithful as their neighbors. What we do object to are hostile words, actions and policies cloaked in the guise of religious expression...
...murder mystery. Mr. White is a painfully shy salesclerk who photographs showgirls in his room; his alter ego, Wesley Horner, is an anguished cop with unsolved mysteries of his own. As dime-a-dance girls start showing up dead in St. Paul, Minn., in 1939, the men's paths intersect, and a story of guilt and innocence turns into a pulsing tale of redemption and original goodness, pitting God against the devil. If Mr. White's Confession occasionally feels like an old-time movie, at least it's the kind of decent Capraesque affair that used to fill the seats...
Almost as worrisome are the estimated 300,000 asteroids larger than 300 ft. wide that also come perilously near or intersect Earth's orbit; each could inflict Tunguska-like damage over a large region. The number of Earth-crossing asteroids larger than 60 ft. across, says University of Arizona astronomer Tom Gehrels, could be as high as 100 million. A hit by any one of them could destroy a large city...
...faith." No one wants to be a spoilsport and criticize such ecumenism, but you wonder at what point a religion's symbols become so generalized that they lose all meaning. Still, Moore might have created a program that combined wonderful music with a discussion of how different religious traditions intersect at Christmas. Instead, he has provided light, pop-Celtic versions of carols and the most vague and meaningless maunderings--"We may never know what Christmas means, because it is a mystery, but we do know it has something to do with having hope...
Astronomers estimate that about 2,000 objects large enough to cause a global catastrophe are hurtling on paths that either intersect or come close to Earth's orbit. Yet only 200 or so of these have thus far been identified and tracked. Just last year, a previously unknown asteroid some 1,600 ft. across was spotted four days before it whipped by Earth, missing us by only 280,000 miles--a hairbreadth by astronomical standards. Had it struck Earth, scientists say, the explosion would have been in the 3,000-to-12,000-megaton range, roughly equivalent to the explosive...