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...when we heed the words of Jesus, Luther or Freud, all of whom took up the great truths and agonizing questions set out by Hebrew scribes sometime between the 10th and 4th centuries before the advent of Christianity (and inspired by God, traditionalists believe, centuries earlier). Nobel laureate Isaac Bashevis Singer once told author David Rosenberg, "I am still learning the art of writing from the book of Genesis." The words could have been uttered by Shakespeare, Dostoyevsky or Mario Puzo. Dozens died in Israel last month over boundaries Genesis set forth; yet the same tales appear, in somewhat altered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GENESIS RECONSIDERED | 10/28/1996 | See Source »

...treat the title of John Horgan's The End of Science with a grain of salt [IDEAS, Sept. 9]. Some writers scramble to make "history" when running out of topics, which is hardly the case with science. How about some humility, like the kind Sir Isaac Newton had when he saw himself as "a boy playing on the sea-shore...now and then finding a smoother pebble...whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me." With the inner universe waiting for an Einstein to formulate a unified theory of mind and body, there is much...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 21, 1996 | 10/21/1996 | See Source »

...mixture of Madison Avenue and Pennsylvania Avenue types on her first major international engagement since the royal divorce, an eating, dancing and shopping spree that raised money for breast-cancer research in Washington. Diana, who called the disease "a great dark enemy stalking women," charmed everyone from diva designer Isaac Mizrahi, who said,"Charles really blew it when he dumped her," to solid soldier Colin Powell, who, after scoring the first dance, opined, "She's a lot of fun." Earlier in the day, Diana shared an egg, tomato and crab Napoleon breakfast with HILLARY CLINTON, Washington Post doyenne KATHARINE GRAHAM...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Oct. 7, 1996 | 10/7/1996 | See Source »

...think this a university administrator's fantasy," Government Professor Isaac Kramnick told the sun. "Perhaps someday we'll never have to see students. Faculty could stay in their private offices, which is where they really want to be anyway, and instead of dealing with students, they could get to know their network...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: News at Other Colleges | 9/25/1996 | See Source »

...Newtonian reciprocities. Jones dramatized his ideas in the famous Wile E. Coyote-Road Runner Dynamic: Coyote sets in motion giant boulder A, which whistlingly descends into a canyon to strike seesaw lever B, catapulting giant boulder C into orbit...and so on. Jones' work is a bridge that carries Isaac Newton across into Chaos Theory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MARS AS DIVINE CARTOON | 8/19/1996 | See Source »

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