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With a report out today that University of Cambridge chief Alison F. Richard is among the leading candidates for Harvard's next president, the anthropologist and former Yale leader said she is "unequivocal" in her commitment to remain in the United Kingdom...
...made in the image of God; chimpanzees are not. By understanding genomes, science can neither add to nor take away from this truth. Spiritual realities are not the province of the natural sciences. What is truly different about human beings from even our closest cousins in the animal kingdom is the ability to reason. Even the great apes are not reasoning creatures, which doesn't mean they are unable to "think" in their way. They just aren't able to sit around and pose questions like: What makes us different? Charles Leopardo Santa Monica, California...
...Treb used to work in Special Events (party designing) at Disney theme parks, and the Times Square Alliance has learned a lot about crowd control from the Mouse House. Since an attraction at the Magic Kingdom typically entails standing in line for a half hour or more before four minutes of the ride, Disney keeps the customers from getting too restless and ornery with a "pre-show" of filmed or live infotainment...
...defiance of demands over its uranium enrichment program may be a sign that it is assembling the means to build nuclear weapons. (North Korea, by contrast, walked out of the NPT and tested a nuclear weapon, leaving no doubt over its capacity or intent.) Unlike North Korea's hermit kingdom, Iran is an integral part of the world economy as its fourth-largest supplier of oil - with much of its output consumed by China, India and Japan. Most of the international community will view comprehensive sanctions against Iran as unthinkable in light of the impact they would have on global...
...Last September, Edward Forbes Smiley III, a Massachusetts dealer, was sentenced to 42 months in prison for stealing 98 rare maps from university libraries in the U.S. and the United Kingdom between 1998 and 2005. Howard Harner, a Virginia relics dealer, was sentenced to two years in prison in 2005 for walking off with more than 100 Civil War-era documents during visits over a six-year period to the National Archives' Washington, D.C., facility. (Less than half of them have been recovered.) That same year, former Clinton national security adviser Samuel "Sandy" Berger was fined $50,000 after...