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...Dover Area School Board improperly introduced religion into the classroom when it required science teachers to read a brief statement during the 9th grade biology class telling students that evolution was ?Just a theory? and inviting them to consider alternatives. The only alternative specifically mentioned was ?intelligent design,? the notion that life is so complex that it could not possibly have been the work of natural selection alone and must have been the work of an unspecified creative intelligence. ?We find that the secular purposes claimed by the Board amount to a pretext for the Board's real purpose, which...
...Members of the school board, and defenders of intelligent design generally, contend that their idea is a legitimate scientific rival to evolution. Since the notion of intelligent design does not specify who or what created life as we know it, they say, it is not an inherently religious idea. Critics, however, say that intelligent design is inherently religious since it relies on a supernatural creative force, which cannot be tested or proven by scientific experiments. This, they said, is tantamount to introducing God into the process, an impermissible injection of religion into the classroom...
...closer to their gods. "The church is packed," he says, beaming, "and I'm building a new one to the south. The youth are with me. To feel closer to the sacrament, people have been leaving personal things--glasses, handkerchiefs--on the altar." Father Ranjeevan is unimpressed by the notion that that might have more to do with him than with his god. He tells the story of how, on the evening after the tsunami, he came across a girl kneeling by her mother's body, laid out with hundreds of others in the corridor of the town hospital...
Twenty years ago, the notion of Bono as a political player was almost unimaginable. In 1985, U2 played Live Aid, the Bob Geldof-- organized concert for African famine relief. At the time, it was hailed as a massive success, and in the sense that it got people to briefly engage with another part of the world while watching Tina Turner dance with Mick Jagger, it was. After the concert, Bono and his wife Ali Hewson spent six weeks working at an orphanage in Wello, Ethiopia. The weight of famine, war and corruption--as well as the resentment many capable Africans...
...tuition dollars. Malandra has helped to enact accountability reforms within the University of Texas System, by monitoring data like graduation rates, licensure exam pass rates, and post-graduation employment rates. Miller argued in his introductory remarks at the conference that federal funding of higher education is grounded in the notion that such education produces a public good. As a result, these institutions “must demonstrate successful efforts to improve productivity and efficiency” in order to justify current and future levels of support. The meeting in Nashville was only the group’s second meeting. Casey...