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...adult, witnesses an adulterous couple stoned to death. It also features a heartbreaking bretrayal, a disappearance into disparate refugee voids by both of them and the inspirational working out of one of those deep family secrets that were the great specialty of Charles Dickens and, for that matter, of American movies in their classic age, when they so often made first-rate entertainments of second-rate popular fiction...
...this case the right thing is also the Christmas thing - the sort of charitable spirit we want kids to absorb from any religious holiday for that matter. In that sense, The House Without a Christmas Tree is also a pleasant reminder of when Christmas was a less neurotic observance, not yet caught in today's tiresome crossfire between the Jesus-is-the-only-reason-for-the-season zealots and the your-Nativity-creche-is-a-symbol-of-Western-oppression cranks. The holiday still belonged to kids: we didn't approach it like Christian fundamentalists and we didn't consider...
Harris says there is no critique of faith hidden somewhere in his brief paper. But his next neurological enterprise may be another matter. He is planning an fMRI run that will concentrate specifically on religious faith, which Harris thinks he now knows how to plumb more deeply. He also plans to set up two different subject groups - the faithful and non-believers. "That way," among other things, he says, "you can ask, 'Do believers believe that Jesus was born of a virgin the same way that nonbelievers believe that Chevrolet makes cars and trucks?'" It may turn out that...
...valuable as tropical forests may be to the world as a carbon sink, however, they matter even more to the people whose lives and livelihoods depend on them. Some environmentalists fear that a rush to cash in on forest conservation could end up hurting the indigenous people - whether the rubber tappers of Brazil or the forest dwellers of Aceh - that it should benefit most. After all, history has not been good to native people in the developing world who dwell on suddenly valuable land. The key will be to manage avoided deforestation projects properly, to make sure they are truly...
...takes a chainsaw to Jamie Foxx’s Hummer, as well as taking other things not mentionable in this publication. I mean, Opera’s been screaming for this stuff.) Plus that Al Pacino pre-game speech would make for a heck of an aria. Heavy subject matter, outrageous scenes, and extremely long? Wagner...