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...sacred and the secular. A mechanical medium seems inherently irreligious. But through it, I can latch onto - or into - some version of what the Hopi call "the holy something." Religion is interactive by nature. A message is conveyed to a believer, revealed, perhaps, by a Supreme Being, or manifest in one's surroundings, where spirits inhabit the trees, the rocks, the winds. The believer's life, fundamentally, becomes the response. This jibes rather nicely with the form and function of the Internet. I can, in essence, create my own sacred space. I have access to the precepts, texts, rituals...
...Even with repeated contact, the signs of mercury poisoning take time to manifest themselves. But some are already suffering. Almost all of the miners Limbong has tested in the past six months have 25 to 30 times the normal levels of mercury. Some are showing symptoms of the poisoning: muscle weakness, blurred vision, breathing difficulties. But getting the miners to agree to be tested and admit that they are sick is very difficult. "They are scared that if they mention this sickness they will have to stop working," Limbong says...
Whatever happened at the Carpenter Center, it surely counts as a disaster and a catastrophe. The students at Harvard as well as the wider community deserve a rational explanation (not to mention a Visiting Committee report) of this inexplicable failure of what seemed such a manifest success...
...Throughout our consultations, both internal and external, a recurrent theme emerged: a universal recognition of and unswerving confidence in John’s excellence as a candidate for this post. His reputation as a scholar, his manifest love of teaching, his knowledge of the special history and attributes of this institution, his outstanding management skills, and his focus on the building of academic communities marked by genuine intellectual exchange between students and faculty make him an ideal choice,” he said...
...pottery, wheat and barley, pushing aside the hunter-gatherers," says Clive Gamble, an archaeologist at the University of Southampton. Further back, archaeology was harnessed to political ends, subsumed in Nazi Germany to the dogma of Aryan man, and in most other places in Europe to a kind of manifest destiny...