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...living in the golden age of puzzles now, and there are a number of reasons for that. The main thing is that puzzles have never been better than they are now. Twenty years ago, crosswords, for example, were just filled with obscurity - words that you never read or saw outside of a crossword, just stuff you don't know. Nowadays, the point of crosswords is to pack the grids with colorful, lively, juicy vocabularly that everyone knows - where the difficulty comes more from the clues, deception, humor and trickery...
...would so many ordinary Americans reject something that is so overwhelmingly accepted by the people who study it? A simple clash between religion and science has often been posited as the answer, but the reality is more complicated, as evidenced by the large number of scientists who believe in both God and in evolution...
Finally, the speed dating began. Each of us had a nametag with a number, and a sheet of paper to write down the names of the people we met and whether we wanted to see them again. I soon discovered that I would need to shout the entire time because the room was so loud. At least I didn’t have anyone take advantage of this as an excuse to invade my personal space. Some girls (see photo) were not so lucky...
...proven particularly attractive for Kerala women, as it is seen as a passport to a foreign post and big bucks - and many youngsters are not up for a lifetime of celibacy and a religious vocation. And though figures have not been collated, activists claim a steady decline in the number of young people taking the vows or, like Raphael, renouncing them altogether...
...Amnesty International, the human rights watchdog, suggested that the tribunal was ?politically selective? and that it should address the enormous number of other serious crimes committed in Lebanon in recent decades, especially during the 1975-1990 civil war. ?The mandate is by far the narrowest of any tribunal of an international nature,? Amnesty said in a statement issued Friday...