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...document the Vatican further distances itself from New Age practices, including yoga. Even so, Father Thomas Ryan, a Catholic leader of the Christian yoga movement, says he interprets the church's position not as a denunciation of yoga but as a reminder to "respect Christian logic" in its practice. "And that's what we're doing," he says...
...Logic suggests that for Jews, choosing to live in fortress colonies on captured land packed with 1.3 million Palestinians was always folly. But if you look at Gush Katif through the Hilburgs' eyes, it wasn't like that. When Bryna and Sammy first saw their future home in Gaza, there was nothing there but sand. "Sand, sand, more sand," says Bryna. "I loved it," says Sammy. "I thought he was nuts," she says. "But we needed to eat, to buy shoes for the kids, so I said, O.K., we'll look." As new immigrants in 1972 who wanted to live...
Noisome applause greeted this oration, but even louder salvos, from auditors of both persuasions, greeted the next speaker, Lawyer Malone of the defense. Adopting Bryan's revivalist technique, yet retaining logic in his argument, Malone pleaded for freedom of the mind, chided Bryan for having given the case its large significance and then having refused?by objecting to scientific testimony?to fight out its deepest implications. Lawyer Malone begged His Honor at least to hear the scientists himself, to discover whether or not their testimony was proper for the jurors to hear...
...press that logic further, and you arrive at an uncomfortable place. If nuclear weapons are so great at keeping the peace, why shouldn't everyone have them? And what happens when the Bomb falls into the hands of those who don't remember the legacy of Aug. 6--or simply choose not to? Sixty years after Hiroshima, 14 years after the Soviet Union imploded, the great question facing strategists--facing all of us--is less how a nation might array its nuclear forces and more how to stop the proliferation of nuclear weapons from spinning out of control. The Bush...
...week,” I bragged to people on the streets. To my astonishment, some people didn’t even have an idea of how much a foot was! Instead, they told me about their strange “metric” system, one based on actual logic and good sense. It was simply bizarre. To make things worse, some of them didn’t even speak English! My facial hair was disgusted, and I stayed up many a night musing about...