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...VENEZUELA ... Jurassic Pet Scientists announced the discovery of a giant guinea pig weighing 300 kg that roamed South America 8 million years ago. Goya, as it was nicknamed by paleontologists who excavated its 3-m long skeleton, is the largest rodent ever found - 700 times heavier than its fluffy modern-day cousin. Experts speculated that Goya died out because it was too slow to escape predators and was too big to dive into burrows like its more petite relatives...
Like most other prosecutors, Earle often sees himself as an advocate--for his constituents, for the state, for crime victims. Because of their role, prosecutors tend to be portrayed in popular culture as modern-day knights. But Earle has come to prefer another metaphor. "I'm the gatekeeper," he says. "I don't dare ask my boss, the public, to sit in judgment of somebody that I don't think deserves to die. That's why they elect me, to exercise that judgment and not bother them." Buried in that philosophy is something radical--the notion that the jury system...
BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY The author's journey through a modern-day South still obsessed with the Civil...
...evils of homosexuality, (b) the merits of democracy, (c) family-friendly tax cuts or (d) the danger of riches? It turns out Christ said nothing about the first three and a lot about the last one. But you would never know it based on the rhetoric of many modern-day Christians--particularly politically active ones." Wehner recounted some of the most famous New Testament parables in which Jesus castigates the wealthy, and he concluded, "It's unwise for Christians to keep averting our gaze from warnings that Christ placed in bright neon lights...
...other words, what worked for a middle-aged academic white male in the 1950s, whose apron-clad wife ran his household, raised 2.5 children and had a martini waiting when he arrived home, does not necessarily work for the modern-day intellectual—male or female...