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...miraculous. If God made the natural laws, why could he not violate them when it was a particularly significant moment for him to do so? And if you accept the idea that Christ was also divine, which I do, then his Resurrection is not in itself a great logical leap...
...With the media industry going through tough times in places like the U.S., even a few Western journalists have made the leap. After finishing a master's degree in journalism at Northwestern, Melissa Bell, 27, pondered applying for jobs in the U.S. or returning to India, where she had interned at the Hindustan Times (circulation: 3.85 million). When that paper announced it was launching a new business daily in a content partnership with the Wall Street Journal, she jumped at the chance to be involved, despite her parents' and boyfriend's misgivings...
...former German telephone monopoly Deutsche Telekom took a leap of faith across the Atlantic and bought an upstart U.S. mobile-phone company called VoiceStream Wireless for $46.5 billion. Telekom's management was excoriated for paying an exorbitant price for the smallest operator in a crowded market, dwarfed by giants Cingular, Verizon and Sprint. But the bet paid off. Today, the U.S. arm of T-Mobile, the German mother ship's wireless unit, is still ranked fourth, but it is the fastest-growing part of the $75 billion company and well on its way to becoming Telekom's largest revenue source...
...bassoonist Kara A. LaMoure ’10. Audience members less familiar with classical music perked up upon hearing the opening bars of Barber’s Adagio for Strings, popularized by the movie “Platoon.” Due perhaps to the tough psychological leap from Bach to Barber or the fact that the tempo was a bit too upbeat, the Barber Adagio was the least successful of the three pieces. Originally written as the second movement of Barber’s String Quartet op. 11, the Adagio is often performed by a full string section rather...
...disease transmission occurs by mucus membrane to mucus membrane contact, coughing, food handling by people with infections such as hepatitis, sharing utensils, or sharing needles,” writes Gharib. Popular Science Magazine seconds Gharib, confirming that illnesses like influenza and strep throat can’t make the leap from the seat to your immune system. Your germ-phobe mom wasn’t totally wrong, though. The New York University Medical Center’s website lists “toilet seats” among the risk factors for pediculosis pubis, commonly known as pubic lice. Don?...