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...think Profet is strongly influenced by modern human sex practices: women receiving sperm without getting pregnant. This very new behavior, in the biological time scale, will have to continue for tens of thousands of years before it affects natural selection. Dan Sandberg, M.D. Uppsala, Sweden
...Yitzhak Rabin toasted a rotund 72-year-old at the table and offered a tribute: ''Mr. Eisenberg opened the doors to China for Israel.'' It was a rare moment in the public spotlight for Israeli tycoon Shoul Eisenberg, but senior officials at the dinner knew exactly what Rabin meant. Modern weaponry is at the heart of the Jerusalem-Beijing relationship, and Eisenberg has been selling Israeli defense technology to the Chinese for more than a decade. Eisenberg is the real-life version of the international power brokers who appear in the pages of popular thrillers, and he is usually described...
...stage-diving mayhem that went with it. "We rip off everyone equally," says Shannon Hoon, lead singer of Blind Melon, which has sold more than 1 million copies of its first album this year. The trick is to sample riffs from somebody who's so long gone that the modern repetition of it sounds fresh and new. Even the theatrical group Kiss -- whose members wore demonic makeup onstage -- is cited as an influence by today's alternative rockers. "I had the worst crush on the God of Thunder, (Kiss bassist) Gene Simmons," says Kat Bjelland, lead singer for the punkette...
...with the balls he helped introduce. Harrington's approach shots to the par-5 15th and 17th holes on Sunday - the latter of which set up an eagle that put him out of reach - were Normanesque in their distance and unwavering accuracy. But even the primary practitioner of modern golf couldn't overcome Harrington's ability to fuse flawless technique with sunny implacability. Sports psychologist Bob Rotella - who reportedly stayed in Harrington's house this whole week of the Open - says the key to golf is to enjoy the journey rather than obsessing over its outcome. Harrington seems to have...
...Pope who had under-30s shouting and weeping for joy is a firm traditionalist who opposes what he calls "the dictatorship of relativism... whose ultimate goal consists solely of one's own ego and desires." At the climactic Mass Sunday morning, he told 300,000 worshipers that the modern world too often marginalized God. The Church "needs your faith, your idealism and your generosity," he said. "Do not be afraid to say yes to Jesus, to find your joy in doing his will, giving yourself completely to the pursuit of holiness, and using all your talents in the service...