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The Kansas skirmish marks the latest episode of a long struggle by religious Fundamentalists and their allies to restrict or eliminate the teaching of evolution in public schools--a misguided effort that our courts have quashed at each stage, and that saddens both scientists and most theologians. No scientific theory...
As a book to be published next month makes clear, neurologists know very little about how the brain develops in the first few years of life. In The Myth of the First Three Years, John Bruer, president of the McDonnell Foundation, based in St. Louis, Mo., argues that much of...
Now the mountains are fighting back--with a little help from their friends. The Colorado Fourteeners Initiative, a coalition of private mountain-loving groups, along with the Forest Service and other public agencies, has targeted 35 of the 54 peaks for restoration. Every weekend a small army of volunteers heads...
These occurrences need not be cataclysmic. They can be something as simple as the sight of a young girl practicing with her Hula Hoop (Lolita). Or a communications goof in the supposedly fail-safe nuclear-defense program (Dr. Strangelove). Or, as in the case of Eyes Wide Shut--which is...
Holbrooke, nominated to Madeleine Albright?s old post of U.N. ambassador exactly one year ago, is safely heterosexual and perhaps the sharpest knife in the U.S. diplomatic drawer. But he faces a roadblock of his own in one of (coincidentally?) Hormel?s fiercest enemies, nomination-killer Jesse Helms. In 1997...