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...Satanist priest and a fundamentalist minister whom God cured of being gay. He talks with born-again truckers, and some evangelists who make a plush living off the generous contributions of their cash-strapped communicants. He visits the Creation Museum and an Orlando theme park called the Holy Land Experience, where the actor playing Jesus flunks Maher's quiz on some of Christianity's knottier conundrums. On the plus side, he finds two Catholic priests with liberal takes on evolution and Vatican theology, and a couple of members of a very lonely minority: gay Muslim activists...
...According to a worldwide assessment overseen by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) and published Oct. 6 in Science, an estimated one out of four mammals is threatened with extinction. The populations of about half the 5,487 known species of mammals in the world, on land and in the water, are dwindling each year. "Our results paint a bleak picture of the global status of mammals worldwide," the study's authors wrote in Science. "Within our lifetime, hundreds of species could be lost as a result of our own actions," said Julie Marton-Lefevre, the IUCN...
...also a verb, and the two are really close in meaning, just different grammatical meanings. So, like you cheer, a cheer. It may sound like I’m speaking to five-year olds, not the distinguished Harvard students that we all are. But moving away from the land of books to the land of sports, many of the students are acting like kids. Little kids with braids and lollipop, gumdrop dreams. You know what? Gumdrops don’t exist in football land. Only in Candy Land by Mattel.So when you hear some chants, cheers, “Cheng...
...been three weeks since Hurricane Ike blew ashore on Galveston Island bringing up to 20 feet of Gulf waters over the low-lying land, killing a still yet to be determined number of residents - several hundred remain missing - and inflicting billions of dollars in damage. The television satellite trucks and cable news stars are gone and the nation's collective eye has turned elsewhere. But thousands of area residents now live in a stench-filled world where the incongruous is normal and the dangerous real...
...allies such as France - has taken the lead in providing security in a vital shipping lane leading to and from the Suez Canal. Somalia has been convulsed by civil war since 1991, and as an attendant humanitarian disaster involving millions of refugees has spread chaos and lawlessness across the land, piracy at sea has rocketed. The primary strategic concern of the U.S. in the region appears to be rooting out al-Qaeda, which is why the U.S. military backed an Ethiopian invasion of Somalia to prevent a popular Islamist movement from taking power. But the Islamists remain powerful...