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...turned up really high on your car stereo. At first I thought it was the hurricane, but I could still hear the hum of the air conditioner and the faint noise of the storm coverage on TV. My mom and I looked out the windows and watched orange flames jump into the dark sky as Brennan's restaurant, a Houston institution, burned down...
...Aquinas "Summa Theologia" reference for good measure. It was that extra flourish that got the attention of the bishops, according to Father Thomas Reese, senior fellow at the Woodstock Theological Center. "Politicians should not do theology," says Reese. "Whenever they start interpreting Catholic teaching, they invite Catholic bishops to jump all over them." Within days, Cardinal Justin Rigali, who heads the USCCB committee on pro-life activities, and Bishop William Lori, who chairs the committee on doctrine, drafted a statement outlining Biden's theological errors that was released on behalf of the entire bishops conference - a rebuke not even Kerry...
...having to coming up with the people, or the town - but the really detailed stuff. You're creating a table, and so you have to say how many glasses are on the table, and you have to build the glasses in your mind. In journalism the details are what jump out at you: the strange way somebody buttons their coat, or a weird way someone has of standing. In fiction those are by far the most difficult things to fabricate because it's hard to make those things seem real...
...result of Barack Obama's groundbreaking candidacy, American attitudes about skin color have been put under a microscope this year. Michigan State University Social Work Professor Ronald Hall had a jump-start on that debate; he has been studying the social consequences of skin color for more than 20 years. He is the editor of a new scholarly book, Racism in the 21st Century: An Empirical Analysis of Skin Color (Springer). TIME senior reporter Andrea Sachs spoke with Hall about race and its impact on the current campaign...
...Broad added. In addition to the gifts from the Broads, the institute has received one other large gift: a $100 million donation in March 2007 from the Stanley Medical Research Institute to create a new center to study psychiatric disease, a move that backers said would jump-start the search for the genetic basis of bipolar disorder and schizophrenia. The Stanley Institute gift was the largest ever given for psychiatric disease research. Since the genomic powerhouse was created several years ago, Broad said that it has grown to include a community of more than 1,200 of scientists from across...